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] 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] 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] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-26 Thread Eran Arbel
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 finally forced me to use Linux. I think it's a good thing. I've already had stuff explained to me and had a chance to explain