Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-27 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ohad Lutzky o...@lutzky.net wrote: I also have my personal technical question, which you may be able to help in. I use Linux on a wireless home network, and I would like to do a couple of wireless network mounts, prior to any login screens. Any ideas on how I

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-27 Thread Orr Dunkelman
2009/1/26 Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com: 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)

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Eran, I am glad to hear that you find Linux useful and productive. I have an idea of running a Linux party in the lab, in one of these Wednesday Noon no teaching time at the Technion. This party will include help in installation for people who did not install, and free discussion of installation

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
So, does anyone have a better suggestion? I edited the wiki to help students in this. See http://ssdl-linux.cs.technion.ac.il/wiki/index.php/Beginning_SSDL_users#What_if_Firefox_does_not_start I am not sure this is sufficient. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Haggai Eran haggai.e...@gmail.com

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
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 me what you think. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi Shlomi, Thanks for the tip. I usually use flip, but added a section to our Wiki to reflect you suggestions, see: http://ssdl-linux.cs.technion.ac.il/wiki/index.php/Beginning_SSDL_users#File_Conversion Problems of Windows\Linux compatibility with code files I solved with Notepad++. I

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Sorana, I am not sure what you mean by VirtualBox. So many messages are going on in this list, so I may have missed something. If this is what I thought it was, then I would like to make one thing clear: I will not allow Windows to be run on the machines we have in the lab. This is not so much

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Sorana Fraier
I suggested my help regarding VirtaulBox because one of the students mentioned it here. If I missed the correct thread, please accept my apology. I can help in other things as well. Sorana On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Sorana, I am not sure what you

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:13:19PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 08:59:51 Eran Arbel wrote: Hi, some time reader, first time writer. I'm a second year CS student and had to work with the Linux in the farms for a while now and frankly, I love the idea that someone

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Most files can be either dos or unix, but some (notably shell scripts) must be unix. C source and header files too. For most lines, a new line or a carriage return followed by a line feed are the same in C, so it is not trivial to spot the difference. It does show up

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-27 Thread Eran Arbel
Hello Sorana. I would love a tutorial. Also, if there is kind of install party planned then consider me in... or as much in as I can considering assignment load. Basically, for school work I use MathType and Word because it's the combination I found that works best for me. Besides that, I want to

[Haifux] Linux Installation Party

2009-01-27 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, From time to time I hear voices at the campus, asking me when the next Linux party will be. I usually tell them that we simply have no volunteers, but this time it's different: SSDL and Prof. Yossi Gil will be glad to host the next Instaparty here in the Technion. The day will combine

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-27 Thread Tal Abir
Does andLinux or coLinux fall under the definition of virtual machine? Tal. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eran As far as I know there isn't a install party. If there are a couple of other students that are interested on virtualbox on their

Re: [Haifux] Linux Installation Party

2009-01-27 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello there, I am glad to hear about this initiative! I think a W2L Series in Haifa is long over due. I am willing to donate my time to help with the organization, give lectures (I even have a few ides) and helping with troubleshooting some of the problems mentioned on the post regarding the

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi, Not sure what you mean here (I could google the terms, but for now, I won't). We decided to using Ubuntu 8.04 because it is a distribution that the students should be familiar with. In the past, we had dual boot machines, and the experience was not so good. I would really like Microsoft to

[Haifux] Linux Party

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Dear Amichai, Glad to see that you are willing to help. I would love to run such an event, but take note that it is not just an Installation Party, but also should serve to help students and other solve their difficulties in using Linux. I trust this is not too difficult to do. Will see if we

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
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.

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Sorana, How about it if you helped students installing virtual boxes in their laptops? I would appreciate in help doing this on my own laptop computer. Yossi ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org

Re: [Haifux] Linux Party

2009-01-27 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, To begin with, I find the expressions Insta party and Linux party somewhat, uhhm, wrong. I've been in several such parties and for some reason, it didn't look very jolly, for some reason. More like a lot of pale faces staring on screens. How about meeting the gurus? ;) Anyhow, I

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-27 Thread Amir Hardon
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] Linux Party

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi. I love your idea of Live DOK. In fact, I was going to suggest something similar, but this is perhaps not as good. My idea was that the students will be able to burn an Ubuntu CD right from the lab's computers. The disk on key could be even better I guess, but would not that ruin the student's

Re: [Haifux] Linux Party

2009-01-27 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi, On 1/27/09, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello, To begin with, I find the expressions Insta party and Linux party somewhat, uhhm, wrong. I've been in several such parties and for some reason, it didn't look very jolly, for some reason. More like a lot of pale faces staring

[Haifux] Party????

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
As for the other issues, I can only ask one question: Do you have one Linux geek in the lab's support team? To me it seems like these problems require a few hours each to solve, which is peanuts in terms of employment, but too much to ask someone to volunteer for... The situation is as

Re: [Haifux] Party????

2009-01-27 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi Yossi, On 1/27/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: With regard to the parties. I think it is a good idea to have a gatherving event. I would not have picked the name party myself, but since it was used in the past, why not redo it. The name is chosen due to historical reasons. We

Re: [Haifux] Linux Installation Party

2009-01-27 Thread Sorana Fraier
Hello Everyone I am willing to donate my time for any help needed. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hello there, I am glad to hear about this initiative! I think a W2L Series in Haifa is long over due. I am willing to donate my time to help with

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-27 Thread Eran Arbel
I'm not seeking support for farm computers and I never suggested installing something there. The only time I came to the SSDL was to visit Lutzky with some friends. I'm a CS student and seek Linux for my machines for personal use. I also tried VM and one point or another and got frustrated fairly

Re: [Haifux] Party????

2009-01-27 Thread Amichai Rotman
Yossi, Adir, You can count me in! I have lots of ides, since I was thinking about a similar event for a long time now. Cheers! .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User

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

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:42:31PM +0200, Yossi Gil wrote: Some of the comments I got showed that I did not make as clear as I should have the kind of teaching we do in SSDL. We offer the following courses: Software Design: Java based. Software Engineering: Mostly Java. Object Oriented

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

2009-01-27 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi Tzafrir, I am not sure which ML and which Prolog are used. Also, I do not know which tools are used in verification. I believe Rational Rose / Rhapsody are used for some of the courses. Yossi ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org

Re: [Haifux] Party????

2009-01-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
I see that I am a bit late. I would like to help with the 'party' as well. I have done Linux installs for about 20 people, even some at the Technion, and of course I am the 'go to' person afterwards. So I am familiar with many of the issues new Linux users face, especially Hebrew- and Israeli-