Assalam Alaikum wr wb A direct approach is important here. This is a student activity. Stay within these parameters and you could get it done.
I suggest that you organize a demonstration project of something that students and teachers could rally around. Linux installation is very easy nowadays and a demo. although useful, is really banal. How about a cluster setup? Number crunching or graphics rendering? Those old P3s in your university pack a lot of punch under Linux. Demos: for routing , voip, firewall, web servers, online applications, DBs, compilers, user management, email servers and many others could be easily prepared by the students. Maybe a list of possible graduation projects? Anyway, Lets keep this thread dedicated for the Irbid install festival. Please move policy and advocacy to aother thread. We are awaiting your reply. Abdallah On Jan 23, 2008 1:37 AM, Omar The Pythoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As'salamu Alaikom wr wb. > > > >The reason for this is that I'm getting really pissed off watching how > > > these people here idolize Microsoft as if it was the Lord of > > > technology and that nobody can even be close to them in strength and > > > might and quality..!! >< > > > > > Please guys, the people here don't even know what Linux is! > > > One day I was talking to a friend and I told him I'm considering > > > switching from Windows to Linux, and the first expression he made was > > > "Why? You wanna upload shells to you domain?", > > > > I don't understand what that means. > > Mr Abdallah, what I meant in this part was is explained in the example > I stated about the conversation between me and my friend in the > campus. > But let me tell you something else, some people in my university think > that a CS or a CIS student must not even dream about getting a job if > he doesn't master the C#, language. Some of them, like the friend I've > told you about, think that there's no OS on earth can be even close to > Windows in strength and security, as if Microsoft is the Lord of > technology and nobody at all can compete with them.. > Which sounds just like an idolization to Microsoft, whether > intentionally or not. > > I swear to God man, some people around here don't know anything at all > but windows, and lots of these people are graduates! > Even professors don't know anything but Microsoft!! > > If you have just ate your lunch and you feel so fed up that your > stomach is killing you, just take your time to look at our materials. > Poor printing, stupid information, sometimes very bad grammar, some of > the pages are stolen from the internet.... and list goes on. > > They have no single idea what they're teaching us! > > In a course like Object-Oriented Programming, can you imagine they > don't teach us an essential technique like exception handling?? > > > It is a pity that a computer science student in a Jordanian university > is > > not exposed to anything but PC platform. Professors of such > institutions > > must be ashamed of themselves. They are cheating their students because > they > > are very lazy to say the least. > > Let me say this in Arabic: "و الله فتحت لي جروحي يا أخ عبد الله حرام > عليك!" > > > > OK. ok.. You twisted our arm. We accept. :D > > No man, nobody even thinks of twisting your arm and lives to tell the > tale man! :D > > > Kewl. We await your plan. > > Great!, I'll do my best to convince them to accept this, because they > have no other issue at all but sucking money, ya know? > Can you imagine an IT faculty that works on a bunch of historical > PC's, that I bet none of 'em is even pentium 4??? > They even refuse to get the license for Adobe Photoshop, why is that? > Well, they claim it's too "expensive"... Oh God! >< > > Can you even imagine a big huge institution that runs an information > system that's not even documented?? Yup, that's Yarmouk University! > > And the stories never end.. If I'm gonna keep telling you about 'em, > it would take me centuries from now to finish. > > Anyhow, thanks a lot for everything. :) > > > > > > I think we should add some history lessons to our web site. (note to > self) > > > > > and then he claimed that even NASA uses Microsoft, > > > which I have no single idea where he brought that information from, > > > but anyhow... > > > > There are no Microsoft products anywhere in mission critical system any > > where in organizations like NASA. > > > > > > > > > So please people, take your time to think it through, but please do > > > your best to accept this suggestion. > > > > > > > > > > > > You just accept it and leave the "negotiation with the principals" > > > part to me. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for everything. :) > > > > You are very welcome. > > > > Wassalam Alaikum wr wb > > > > Abdallah > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. 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