Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009/1/26 Amir Hardon > Hi, > First I'll state that I'm a first year student here. > > About the problems the students mention, it seems like the only real > problem is MS Office compatibility, > I am struggling with this problem daily from the other side - often Word > documents that are sent to

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009, Yossi Gil wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.": > As I promised, I shamelessly copied and edited this text. For lack of a > better tool, I placed it on our Wiki. But of course, I did not tell anyone > about it, so feel free to scream and it will

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Tuesday, 3 בFebruary 2009, Amichai Rotman wrote: > I had the same problem when I tried to play content broadcasted by CastUP (a > popular streaming provider). I encountered two unrelated problems with video streamed from web-sites: 1. Codecs. Easily solved by VLC. I've yet to see a codec un

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

I had the same problem when I tried to play content broadcasted by CastUP (a popular streaming provider). I see two solutions: 1. Convert the streaming server to either VLC Server or Flumotion Streaming Server . 2. Use the Media Player Connectivi

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.": > > CAD/CAM for linux:> http://www.haifux.org/lectures/159/> > Orr, there is nothing that even comes close to competing withSolidworks. > Moving students from Solidworks to anything tha

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

going to mail some of this text to all users of the lab - or at least to the group that complained. Cheers, Yossi On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009, Yossi Gil wrote about "[Haifux] Student complaints.": > > Folks, here is the list of

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Nadav, This is an absolutely amazing reply!!!. I am going to use every precious word at it - even multiple times. Yossi On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009, Yossi Gil wrote about "[Haifux] Student complaints.": > > Folks, here is

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Monday 02 February 2009 15:51:41 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > CAD/CAM for linux: > > http://www.haifux.org/lectures/159/ > > Orr, there is nothing that even comes close to competing with > Solidworks. Moving students from Solidworks to anything that runs on > Linux would be like removing MS Office and

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

>> No Linux video player can play the Technion's video lecture files. > > Err... what format do they use there? > You will need an in-Technion IP address to access the video, but here is a link to a page of videos: http://video.technion.ac.il/Courses/Hedva1M.html -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-w

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

> Err... what format do they use there? > Streaming WMV from a Windows server. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

> PDF may be fine for submitting your work (but then again, you're > probably required to submit a printed copy anyway) but not for real > useful editing. > > I'm not really sure RTF files are more portable. > Most of the documents that the Technion sends do not need to be edited, they are labs, n

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

> CAD/CAM for linux: > http://www.haifux.org/lectures/159/ > Orr, there is nothing that even comes close to competing with Solidworks. Moving students from Solidworks to anything that runs on Linux would be like removing MS Office and giving them Ed. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009/2/2 Ohad Lutzky : > Point of information: VLC can, in fact, play the Technion videos, and > is configured properly to do this at the lab. Ask the advisor > (Tzafrir, last I checked) about this. > Really? Can it fast forward, rewind, skip a few seconds back, jump to a new place, play back fast

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > No Linux video player can play the Technion's video lecture files. Err... what format do they use there? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.or

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On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:31:11PM +0200, Eran Arbel wrote: > 2) With the MS-Office/Other Office issue, there is a simpler solution then > switching to one system or another: Use formats that are cross platform by > themselves like rtf or plain text or even pdf and html. > I know a pdf editor that

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Point of information: VLC can, in fact, play the Technion videos, and is configured properly to do this at the lab. Ask the advisor (Tzafrir, last I checked) about this. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 3. If they choose to use the same OS at home, they can get it absolutely

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:51:51 +0200 > From: "Nadav Har'El" > Subject: Re: [Haifux] Student complaints. > To: Yossi Gil > Cc: haifux@haifux.org > Message-ID: <20090202095151.ga9...@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

> 3. If they choose to use the same OS at home, they can get it absolutely > free. Last time I checked, students always complain about the lack of > money - so I find it hard to understand their desire to pay for Windows > and the outrageously-expensive MS-Office. > The Technion already bough

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009, Yossi Gil wrote about "[Haifux] Student complaints.": > Folks, here is the list of the unedited gripe list of students. As you will > see, some of the problems are educational (MS WORD is sexy), other are > organizational (not enough quota), while o

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Yossi - I meant Adblock plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Dear Amir, Indeed, the problem is MS Office. When I started the transition, I tried ot think of everything. But, I did not think enough about the preparation of the instructors. As it turns out, the problem begins with the fact that the instructors send to the students DOC and even DOCX files. The

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009/1/26 Yossi Gil : > > ספציפית לגבי הפרויקט בשבוע האחרון קרו לנו פעמים תקלות בהעברת קבצים ממחשבי > המעבדה הביתה. לכולנו יש בבית מחשבי windows וכאשר תכננו משימות לשבוע במחשבי > המעבדה בהעברה למחשבים בבית פעמיים היו בעיות התאמת פורמט ומישהו היה צריך > להגיע לטכניון (למחשבי linux) כדי לטפל בבעיה לא

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009/1/26 Amir Hardon : > About Firefox hangs on heavy flash sites - usually the heavy flash stuff is > just ads, and installing Adblocker Plus make those sites fly. > It is really weird to hear that FF crashes on Trac, which generates pretty > light pages. (I would guess another tab with ynet was

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi Yossi, > > Regarding the portable document editing, I suggest introducing the students > to latex at an early stage. In addition to being portable, it is also a > handy (and sometimes mandatory) tool for writing papers. With Beam

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

> > And of course, I side with Eli regarding using a flexible tool chain, such > that everyone may mix and match. An editor can be anything which can > syntax-highlight and indent properly (nano/pico do not count, neither does > textpad) > I somehow feel the need to defend nano: set autoindent

[Haifux] Student complaints.

Hi Yossi, Regarding the portable document editing, I suggest introducing the students to latex at an early stage. In addition to being portable, it is also a handy (and sometimes mandatory) tool for writing papers. >From the other angle, I believe CS staff should be a model regarding open standar

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

I assumed the problems with moving files to windows was the different encoding of new-line characters. unix2dos and dos2unix can be used if that's the case, or their equivalents on windows systems. If eclipse is used, I think it can be changed to use whatever style you like. About eclipse: I've us

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Hi, First I'll state that I'm a first year student here. About the problems the students mention, it seems like the only real problem is MS Office compatibility, I am struggling with this problem daily from the other side - often Word documents that are sent to me are getting scrambled when opened

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

Hello again. Now we're talking! To begin with, I see that students mention problems with transporting files to Windows. I suppose that they use Microsoft's compiler, and run into problems with the back and forth? Which brings me to turn to all Linux evangelists out there: You've maybe missed

[Haifux] Student complaints.

Folks, here is the list of the unedited gripe list of students. As you will see, some of the problems are educational (MS WORD is sexy), other are organizational (not enough quota), while others are technical (Eclipse crashes). I am asking for your help mainly in dealing with the psychological iss