Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:51:51 +0200 > From: "Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > Subject: Re: [Haifux] Student complaints. > To: Yossi Gil <yossi....@gmail.com> > Cc: haifux@haifux.org > Message-ID: <20090202095151.ga9...@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i > > > Here the solution needs to be two two-pronged: First, the system > administrator > needs to be responsive and open to requests to install new software that > students need. Second, the users should have enough quota to install new > software on their own directory, if they wish to. > > It appears the quota problem is repeated by almost everyone who commented. > I suggest that you should address this issue *immediately*. Disks are so > cheap today, that there's simply no excuse to be cheap on quota. If you > want, > I can eleborate. > This would be, no question about it, the first task I would ask the > sysadmins to take care of. > > Again, did anybody tell them that they can install OpenOffice at home too, > and save hundreds of shekels in the process? > > This was my (pretty long) 2 cents. I hope it helped, even a bit. > > Nadav. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Monday, Feb 2 2009, 8 Shevat > 5769 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I have a watch cat! If someone breaks > in, > http://nadav.harel.org.il |she'll watch. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux >
I'd like just to comment on the disk and office files issue. 1) Disks are cheap. Last time I checked with the CS farm downstairs, the quota per student was about 20mb. I work in the HS-DS Lab in EE and here we have 500mb per student, the ability to do a triple backup (at least) and we're in no rush of space. Maybe the student number is lower here but I still think it's a shame. 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 is free and where I frequent (scifi magazines, conventions and the like), people prefer to work with rtf files and some won't accept any other. -- Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance. And no one ever said being a heretic was easy. >>>><<<< May we meet in Less Interesting Times... http://eran.geek.co.il
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