Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-02-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
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 that runs onLinux would be like

Re: [Haifux] Bookcrossing tomorrow

2009-02-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/1 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com: I intend to bring some books to Haifux tomorrow (Tim Lord's lecture on /., reminder). Some Kilograms of fantasy. Ready for the taker (pay it forward style) Thank you Orna! I will be enjoying Dune as soon as this semester ends! Whoever wants

[Haifux] The Higher Education Need Education on Linux?

2009-02-03 Thread Eran Arbel
I've read this thing on Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F29%2F0819207from=rss This is about the third or fourth time it's come up, a story of a texan teacher who was so ignorant of the non-Microsfot world she thought that everything not Microsfot made was criminal. If

Re: [Haifux] The Higher Education Need Education on Linux?

2009-02-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Did you attend attend Cathy Malmrose's lecture about Linux Hardware? http://www.haifux.org/lectures/202/ I suppose not, because we had a discussion about culture differences between the US and Israel. To make a long story short: Many of them see a computer as a package you're not

Re: [Haifux] Linux + Hebrew?

2009-02-03 Thread Eran Arbel
I'd like to agree with both. Hebrew is my native tongue and Israel is my native land. A lot of people fought for both of them and I think it's important to speak this language in this place. I'm also annoyed about the personal e-mails to course mailing lists which are written in an almost

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-02-03 Thread Oron Peled
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