On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > 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
The idea in the first place (Muli - please correct me if I am wrong), to make the course for CS OS course. I actually pushed it ahead and told them that also other students should arrive, if we already make such a thing. It has nothing to do with discrimination here. Nobody said that CS is "better" (hey, I take EE's course). > 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... *I* don't. I won't be a policeman there. I just tell you what the original plan is, in general. > 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. There's an early registeration. I'll ask that from the EE course as well. About others - there should be a site registeration. > 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. That's what I told the OS staff. I hope that they will be able to get Actcom to sell CDs for cheap price, at the installation place, or after calling them. > 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. If there's going to be a successful installation, and we will install to them everything - they won't need it, or instead it won't bother it if they don't have it now. > > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Adir Abraham Technion's Advisors Group and Public PC Farms Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haifa, Israel ICQ# 1841481 Cel# +972-53-243438, +972-55-481245 KeyID: 0xD8DC85C7 Fingerprint: 138D 8F41 7A06 44A0 3DBB 9DC3 FE8B 2658 ____________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQEPAzLax/sAAAEIAK2bI8utornDYd5LdU+/TABNmqXneiXuLx4j8OKD2GjfS/O8 E6nrX69ot4uU5ryjp5h+7VHBZqCQz+8VC8ly2ANtycejAc82gllVC96fbA+Y6uuN uI9aXkwNqhphmmQZIVaOZDRAo9//1zX9r41xY+8rKSQuNcp+FPD/A5Itng0xhsfS KkCV4tT0mGpiydUHFrugk/bouXPYwUHXSnHp/mPdGsjgqipezHPzCWIn3xcJjk2/ tjd5/ym+arWpKW5nvTuvalcMi2DIcEilSrT5NLwgeuh3eqitYOc9WTiMNMvUiVcP sucJkdxNwjEX9MgD/bLY9wT/13brqxk71tjchccAEQEAAbQnQWRpciBBYnJhaGFt IDxhZGlyQHZpcGUudGVjaG5pb24uYWMuaWw+iQEVAwUQMtrH+6sZO9bY3IXHAQGb 0gf9FwrJBKaTP0yvf3+vwtB+9ftS0woz1TawJwflC5EoHJs7D/5GzkAaRV82RSkH P9fSHmM+LUB0huBBK1qtNyXHWIjQTmYwFYC8Oen4q0Fyze7cloSnpD1rVjI0HoCO UU8bbz0Iseizdjhnl2PTItQ+dkKzLcww1jW5iPXOWd1o8/8s2aebhrpDRO8BfAYg H29jhmDtuVQDPgFfkN/kP+xpHQplMN5Qh1oP22f+Wyg8sVvSv8P7cM+88u46FHi3 zvHpVnZKIBtKhksnH1PYXtz7FvS7vA+MbpM47kgmQGL5Ygig0pUUbBCGlzmg2Hvd 262YCdVYNwpIjQWBLJI8orea0Q== =dgNP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
