Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.
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 removing MS Office and giving them Ed. I want to be clear on one thing - everything I said I said under the assumption is that we're talking about students whose goal is to learn *software development* - programming, operating systems, and so on. For these students, I explained why I believe that Linux is a great educational device, and also a very useful and practical tool. I never said that people for whom the main use of a computer is to run a specific engineering tool available only for Windows will benefit from Linux, any more than a doctor will benefit if the computer he types patient records on will be switched from Windows with doctor-specific software, to Linux with Emacs. Sure, even students whose main needs are programming have secondary needs like viewing movies (of lectures? really? :-)), reading Internet sites, and writing documents, and these needs should be met, and there is no reason for Linux not to be able to. But students that have a completely different main need? Students whose basic premise is that only one specific Windows-only software can meet that need? Well, sorry, Linux is not for you. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 9 Shevat 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx] http://nadav.harel.org.il |sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Bookcrossing tomorrow
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 it next can contact me. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] The Higher Education Need Education on Linux?
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 you haven't read it yet, I urge you and if you have, what are your thoughts on the matter? And from the people higher then me on the food chain (probably everybody here) what is the situation in the Technion/Haifa U? Are many people in the know? Are many people completely against? I see some labs here that run Linux, some that run only Linux and some that oppose it. Frankly, where I work, besides the windows-only specific environments, people don't take transition to FOSS lightly. -- 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 ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] The Higher Education Need Education on Linux?
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 allowed to open (and the warranty void sticker helps with that). So while some people consider Linux as yuck and others like it, and most normal people haven't heard about it, at least I don't believe you'll find someone thinking that installing free software on your computer is illegal. Or maybe the question is if anyone here cares about it at all. Eli Eran Arbel wrote: I've read this thing on Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F29%2F0819207from=rss 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 you haven't read it yet, I urge you and if you have, what are your thoughts on the matter? And from the people higher then me on the food chain (probably everybody here) what is the situation in the Technion/Haifa U? Are many people in the know? Are many people completely against? I see some labs here that run Linux, some that run only Linux and some that oppose it. Frankly, where I work, besides the windows-only specific environments, people don't take transition to FOSS lightly. -- 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 ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Linux + Hebrew?
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 unintelligible combination of Engrish and Hebrish, but that is another thing. I also think that English is not stressed enough as an important thing here in the Technion. Although Mathematics is the only completely universal language, English is the language of commerce and the language of science and those who presume to be scientists should know it top to bottom, back and forth, up side down and during the witching hour. So students should also be exposed to a lot of English, like during highly science laden presentations or documents. It actually saddens me every week a new that the people in my SF in Cinema course complain that there are no subtitles and they even complain more if the subtitles are in English. -- 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 ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.
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 unsupported by it. Note that some distros (e.g: Fedora) do not distribute these by default due to specific legal problems (US patents on algorithms). In less bizarre countries this is easily solvable by installing the missing pieces from non-US repositories (e.g: rpmfusion.org for Fedora). Me (non-lawyer) thinks that Israel has no software patents yet so this should be safe (Naive? Don't know). 2. Web sites trying to obfuscate the links from their page to the video stream so people would have to see it interactively instead of (e.g) reaping it to their computer/mp4-player/other-device for off-line viewing at their own leisure. This can usually worked around using Mazrim by Ilan Shavit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mazrim/ Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron It's almost like we're doing Windows users a favor by charging them money for something they could get for free, because they get confused otherwise. - Larry Wall. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
