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Thanks On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Victor Ben Moshe wrote: > Hello all , I am trying to remove myself from your mailing list but > without any success > Can you please help me , I attached the failure notice > > > Thanks > Victor > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Orr Dunkelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:15 PM > To: guy keren > Cc: Haifa linux club > Subject: [Haifux] Re: The OS course lecture - how was it? > > > > as i understand, the lectuer already took place. yet, i didn't hear > > anything about it (perhaps i missed that?). can you send a summary to > > the list? i am refering to the lecture you gave twice in the intro to > > operating systems course in the technion about 2 weeks back. > > > > thanks, > > Well, I'll start by pointing out that the lecture was ready mostly > becuase your help and comments. So thanks to all who helped me with the > lecture. > > > The first lecture took place on 14:30 (Monday), and after several > technical problems (like not being able to show the slides), we started > the lecture. > > The lecture contained about 20 minutes of telling what Linux and Open > source is. not too many asked questions in this part, and most of them > just seemed shocked that I took the liberty to luagh a little bit about > the lecturer ("Anyone ever wrote a device driver?", the lecturer was the > only one who raised his hand, and well ... I couldn't resist the > temptation of "And see what he became..."). > > Afterwards the technical stuff has started and the inavoidable question > was asked - "Will it be in the exam". the answer btw, is YES. It took > them some time to understand that there are 3 different lilo's (my > mistake, I should have presented them as I did later on wed. that there > are lilo(1), lilo(2), lilo(3)). but all in all they understood the basic > concepts of the bootstrapping process. > > At the end I had some more time to talk about the haifux, and invited > them to join us in our pursuit of Linux. > > I've spoken later with someone I know which was in the audience and she > said that all she remembers from the lecture is the Linux part (which is > fine by me personally, but not by the course's people), but she has to > download the slides and learn this too. > > Wendsday lecture was on 8:30 (I'll never give any serious lecture at > that hour! I swear). People were so tired, they let me finish the > material in half the time, so I had some spare time to speak about INIT > a little bit, and even about fork(). > > The main problem with both lectures was that I assumed that they had > some knowledge which they hadn't possesed at all: What disk geometry is, > how the interrupt vector can be hijacked (apperantly, I was to replace > the tutorial which teaches that), and more stuff. > > All in all: > It was nice. needs better slides. Should have practiced in front of you > guys before the rela lecture. > > Orr. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) > To unsub send an empty message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do, don't need to be done. --Andy Rooney Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]