Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/27 Eran Arbel sabrerun...@gmail.com: Some things, like Word, work on a Virtual machine and I've been told to use Cedega but I could also use help on that front. Hebrew Word does not work at all in any wine or wine-based system, so we still need virtualization for that. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-28 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Ohad, Thanks for the tip. I updated the wiki so as to help the students. http://ssdl-linux.cs.technion.ac.il/wiki/index.php/Beginning_SSDL_users#What_if_Firefox_becomes_very_slow tell

Re: [Haifux] The use of SSDL...

2009-01-28 Thread Ohad Lutzky
smlnj is used for ML, last I checked. It works well, expect for not having Readline support (specifically, you can't press up to get previous commands you've typed) On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tzafrir, I am not sure which ML and which Prolog are

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Yotam Medini יותם מדיני
You may use arguments from or simply refer to the article in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html (with Hebrew xlation - among others - linked there). -- yotam On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Please pressure the various bodies at the

Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.

2009-01-28 Thread Eran Arbel
I'd love to come but I'm pretty busy during the noons most days. I can make one available on demand but I prefer thursdays. In all accounts, Feburary 19th is right in the middle between the tests of my two hardest subjects this semester so I can't promise I'll come to that. -- Don't let people

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Eran Arbel
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Yotam Medini יותם מדיני yotam.med...@gmail.com wrote: You may use arguments from or simply refer to the article in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html (with Hebrew xlation - among others - linked there). -- yotam I'd say, take it one step

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi. The Pizza/Softdrinks party will not run formal installation, but there is no decree against installation during that time. The lab has Ubuntu 8.04 distribution CD. If people could bring their other installation disks, perhaps we can help you out. I On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Eran Arbel

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
While that 8.04.1 disk will work, it is probably better to burn a new 8.04.2 disk (released this week), to reduce the amount of post-install updates necessary. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Hi. The Pizza/Softdrinks party will not run formal installation,

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/28 Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com: Hi. The Pizza/Softdrinks party will not run formal installation, but there is no decree against installation during that time. The lab has Ubuntu 8.04 distribution CD. If people could bring their other installation disks, perhaps we can help you out.

Re: [Haifux] Party????

2009-01-28 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi Dotan, On 1/27/09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: However, I see two problems with the date of the party: 1) The Technion will be in exams at the time planned. I suggest that the party wait until April, when people will have less on their heads. Having (another) instaparty is a

[Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Yossi Gil
Ok, I downloaded and installed KDE 4.2 on 8.10. I was impressed with the bells and whistles, but was not converted. For one KOffice did not work (I guess it is a distribution issue, but did not want to spend time on this. Second, the wireless did not work, so I had no connectivity (it was working

[Haifux] Using apt to make a student ubuntu distribution

2009-01-28 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I'm having this idea in my head, of creating an apt repository, which contains a dummy package that depends on all the packages that we recommend students to install right after installing ubuntu. Then all we need to give students is the simple instructions as to how to add that repository to apt

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Sorana Fraier
wifi is not related to kde. It is related to the correct drivers and the kernel configuration. If it worked with older kernel, it should work with this one as well. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I downloaded and installed KDE 4.2 on 8.10. I was

Re: [Haifux] Using apt to make a student ubuntu distribution

2009-01-28 Thread boazg
i think something like this http://uck.sourceforge.net/ is more fitting On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:16, Tzafrir Rehan tzafri...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this idea in my head, of creating an apt repository, which contains a dummy package that depends on all the packages that we recommend

Re: [Haifux] KDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
Another thing that I'd like to mention is that I recommend Open Office instead of Koffice, just for compatibility's sake. They do not interpret ODF the same way. If you want help with the wifi, let us know and we will solve it. First, though, try opening knetworkmanager and see if that will get