[Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other miracles
Try Bynet Systems Application, 24 Raul Valenberg in Tel Aviv. +972-3-645-5333. I bought from them all of the cables, connectors, etc for our renovated apartment. I also had them install the stuff. (5-6 hours of work as it turned out). Yaacov Alon Altman wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, A

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001, Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other miracles wrote about "[Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network": > Try Bynet Systems Application, 24 Raul Valenberg in Tel Aviv. > +972-3-645-5333. I bought from them all of the cables, connectors, etc > for our

Re: [Haifux] haifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > so i suggest that unless you can show some alternative that you prepared - > don't come up with negative-only suggestions. you were given the source > code of the new design - take it, improve it, and give it back. As for me, I have suggested an alternativ

Re: [Haifux] haifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > If you insist, I have started a new version of the site: > > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/Haifux/ One thing - Yellow text on White background looks awful. Read the recommendations on http://www.anybrowser

Re: [Haifux] haifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Veronica Rozenberg
If you intend to ask so many questions to so many specialists, there will never be a site... One of the shortcomings of the democracy... V. - Original Message - From: "Alon Altman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Haifux]

Re: [Haifux] haifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Alon Altman wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > > If you insist, I have started a new version of the site: > > > > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/Haifux/ > > One thing - Yellow text on White background looks a

Re: [Haifux] haifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Alon Altman wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > > > If you insist, I have started a new version of the site: > > > > > > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/Haifux/

[Haifux] Re: Tzafrir's take on the site

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I have several comments: > > 1. The links on the top are broken. There are two duplicate ones (perl and > newcomers) and many of them don't point anywhere. > > There are two perl links and one of them points to the R2L. Rename the > second one to R2L wi

[Haifux] Tzafrir's take on the site

2001-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
I have several comments: 1. The links on the top are broken. There are two duplicate ones (perl and newcomers) and many of them don't point anywhere. There are two perl links and one of them points to the R2L. Rename the second one to R2L will solve it I think. 2. I'd rather put the perl on a

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Stas Cherkassky
Hi, I know it's a bit off-topic (since you already have the equipment for wired network), but this may be of some interest.. Finally Apple has started selling Airport (their 802-11b Access Point, based on a 486 and a Lucent off-the-shelf PCMCIA card and including DHCP and NAT) in Israel, for $3

[Haifux] Site and logo

2001-09-16 Thread Lital Natan
Orna: Sure, I'll talk with mulix, meanwhile, I change the attitude of the design a bit, I figured the menu wasn't that much of a good idea by comments about it, So I came up with this: http://mighty.linux-site.net/~Devil/main.html yes yes, I know the html code sucks, But: 1) it works fine on

Re: [Haifux] Site and logo

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Lital Natan wrote: > Orna: Sure, I'll talk with mulix, meanwhile, I change the attitude of the design a >bit, I figured the menu wasn't that much of a good idea by comments about it, > So I came up with this: > http://mighty.linux-site.net/~Devil/main.html > yes yes, I know

[Haifux] Re: Site and logo

2001-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Lital Natan wrote: > Orna: Sure, I'll talk with mulix, meanwhile, I change the attitude of the > design a bit, I figured the menu wasn't that much of a good idea by > comments about it, > So I came up with this: > http://mighty.linux-site.net/~Devil/main.html > yes yes, I k

[Haifux] Re: Tzafrir's take on the site

2001-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > 5. I wholeheartedly recommend you to switch from filepp to WML. I never > > found the C preprocessor enlightening, so I don't think a web-site powered > > by something that is based on it can scale well

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread mulix
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Stas Cherkassky wrote: > I know it's a bit off-topic (since you already have the equipment for > wired network), but this may be of some interest.. actually, it is off topic, but it's definitely of interest. i'm looking these days into bulding a (preferably wireless) network

Re: [Haifux] Re: hifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread mulix
first of all, i'd like to say that i *appreciate* ladypine's and smackware's efforts in making a better site. criticism is good, but don't let it discourage you guys - your efforts are appreciated by everyone. [ i'll just snip the attributions from here on ] > Cool. Except that best viewed using

[Haifux] Re: Re: hifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, mulix wrote: > [ i'll just snip the attributions from here on ] > > > Cool. Except that best viewed using lynx should be changed to best viewed > > using any browser. > > agreed. a linux site sould support the lowest common denominator, which > is text based browsers. suppo

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Two words: Slow and expensive. Although I like the idea of wireless networking, it has too many disadvantages, one which is the price, and the other is the speed. I will "do" wireless magic anytime, if cabling is too complicated/expensive, but under normal circumstances, cabling is far better, a

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Yep. Anyone who sells 3com products, Cisco products etc. You'll find that Access Point costs about 1800NIS (in Israel, about 260USD), and that any wireless card costs about 1000 NIS (160USD). Expensive. Too expensive. Oh, did I mention slow? What will you do with 11Mb/sec? I find 100Mb/sec hardly

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > Yep. Anyone who sells 3com products, Cisco products etc. > You'll find that Access Point costs about 1800NIS (in Israel, about 260USD), > and that any wireless card costs about 1000 NIS (160USD). > Expensive. Too expensive. > > Oh, did I mention slow?

Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network

2001-09-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
About phone cables, I don't know. Ok, let's say a simple home network. How many computers? Two? Three? Assuming two: Cable-based network: two 10/100 NICs (100NIS both), two plugs (30NIS both), 50 meters cable (200NIS) - Total 330NIS. Wireless Network: Two wireless NICs (2000NIS both). Performanc

[Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I wanted to write a couple of pages intented mainly for students of the course "Matam" in the CS faculty in the Technion. This is the course where most of them meet unix. I pu an initial and partial draft in http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/Haifux/unix_use.html . Comments (possibly in priv

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[Haifux] using unix page: early draft": > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > assignment (right, Alon?) Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already knows my position on csh ;)), but why is the Technion s

Re: [Haifux] Site and logo

2001-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001, Lital Natan wrote about "[Haifux] Site and logo": > http://mighty.linux-site.net/~Devil/main.html > 2) I just want comments about the design from just about anyone I like the logo :) Very nice! [It'll be great if you could make the graphics a little smaller file-size w

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[Haifux] using unix page: early >draft": > > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > > assignment (right, Alon?) > > Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already kno

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I would say that I find 'pine' a powerfull e-mail client. It can do almost anything. It can even call a picture viewer if you're working with X. It can be used, remote or local. It can work with few directories, mail boxes, even methods of reading mail (it can do it all - POP3, IMAP, file parsing

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft": > > Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already knows my position on > > csh ;)), but why is the Technion still teaching csh?? Csh has been considered > I figure that it is enough to get those

Re: [Haifux] Re: Re: hifux site's design

2001-09-16 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Doesn't this look to you as another way to say: "Best viewed with..." !? Emil On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, mulix wrote: > > And let me repeat what I said throughout this thread: > > Netscape 4.7 - die

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > assignment (right, Alon?) > Wrong. Students are supposed to write two assignemnts in C, one assignment in csh and one assignment in C++. The first assignment is more or less about

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already knows myposition on > csh ;)), but why is the Technion still teaching csh?? Csh has been considered > inferior to almost any alternative (ksh, bash, zsh) for at least a decade... > Do they teach c

[Haifux] choo's take on the site

2001-09-16 Thread guy keren
i got annoyed with the general attitude, so i decided to sit down and design a site. you can see the results at http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/ a few notes: 1. i contemplated mostly on what should go on the front page. then i started thinking about usability - who is the target audia

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread mulix
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[Haifux] using unix page: early >draft": > > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > > assignment (right, Alon?) > > Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already kno

Re: [Haifux] using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread mulix
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > I wanted to write a couple of pages intented mainly for students of the > course "Matam" in the CS faculty in the Technion. This is the course where > most of them meet unix. > > I pu an initial and partial draft in > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

[Haifux] Re: using unix page: early draft

2001-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, mulix wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[Haifux] using unix page: early >draft": > > > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > > > assignment (right, Alon?) > > > > Forgive m

Re: [Haifux] choo's take on the site

2001-09-16 Thread mulix
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > > i got annoyed with the general attitude, so i decided to sit down and > design a site. you can see the results at > http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/ me like! clean, simplistic design. great. a nice logo like smackware had on the front page will go