I second this idea. Favouritism is a bad thing, especially when there are no "better" students than others. This whole method sux. When I used to be at the Technion I saw it, and hated it. I still hate it.
Ez. On Wednesday 05 March 2003 14:13, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
