My suggestion for the queueing algorithm is as follows: You register - your in. FCFS.
You're not registered - you get to be installed only if there is an open slot (pan intended). On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003, Adir Abraham wrote about "[Haifux] Some notes regarding the > instaparty": > > The party is there for everybody in general, but the first priority will > > be given to OS course (234120), the 2nd to OS structures course (046209), > > 3rd for other students, and 4th for any other person, so please ask the > > person's name - before you install. There will be a list with names for OS > > course students, at least. Approximately, 200 people should arrive for > > both days. > > Maybe I'm out-of-line questioning this decision (since I won't be there to > help, most likely), but why the 234120 favoritism? Why do EE students > have to come in 2nd place and Mathematics students (like I was) come 3rd? > How will installers who are not students, or students of a non-CS department, > feel of such discrimination of their friends? > In anycase, I don't even understand which "queue algorithm" you plan to > apply to enforce this favoritism and how you plan to avoid "starvation". > I would strongly recommend that you rethink this idea... > > There are other ways to throttle demand, by the way. You can ask for > advanced registration, and you can sell CDs for people to install on their > own instead of waiting in line. > > > CDs in advance, and we might not. Don't count on it too much. Whatsoever - > > the students will get references so they will know where to download ISOs > > from. > > How do typical students (toar rishon, not in dorm) download ISOs? It's not > as easy as you might think. Not everybody has a high bandwidth connection > and (shudder) not everybody has a CD writer. > Anyway, the truth is that after a sucessful installation not everybody will > need the CD-ROMs, so maybe not having them will not be such a huge loss. > > -- Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is the only animal that blushes--or has reason to." --- Mark Twain Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
