[Haifux] Valid HTML (was: Re: [Haifux] recomendations for free format presentation creators)

2003-10-11 Thread Raindel Shachar
The new-comers site is not valid as well: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haifux.org%2Fnewcomers%2F makes lots of errors. Go ahead and fix them. On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > > > > > I updated http://www.haifux.org/givelectur

Re: [Haifux] recomendations for free format presentation creators

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > > I updated http://www.haifux.org/givelecture.html according to the summary > of the thread so far. > > I also found a nice presentation on the subject, and linked to it: > http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~ebrown/latexpre.pdf > > If anybody has anything to a

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, guy keren wrote: > and if they had a very clear link, at the top of the page, written in > hebrew, that links to the newcomers series, that's all they realy need. > what you're doing now, is fix a bug in the ads, by breaking the web site. > now, didn't the ads contain '/newcome

Re: [Haifux] recomendations for free format presentation creators

2003-10-11 Thread Orna Agmon
I updated http://www.haifux.org/givelecture.html according to the summary of the thread so far. I also found a nice presentation on the subject, and linked to it: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~ebrown/latexpre.pdf If anybody has anything to add, "the page is open and the keyboard is writing". E

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > > > This is the classic paradigm held by Microsoft: The user has no idea > > what he or she wants, let's push our suggestions. That's why you never > > know what happens next when you run Windows. > > > > Why are

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > Alon Altman wrote: > > > This is a temporary measure to help promote the W2L series. > > > This is the classic paradigm held by Microsoft: The user has no idea > what he or she wants, let's push our suggestions. That's why you never > know what happens n

Re: [Haifux] Re: Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > > I have implemented a measure to redirect if and only if the visitor is > > from Israel (due to a few non-Israeli visitors who got lost). This will be > > deployed as soon as Adir changes one line in the server

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > I think that a link in large font, possibly in red, near the top of the > original page is enough to make it clear for any curious surfer that > there is going to be a set of lectures. Don't worry, some of our > potential visitors have the motoric ability

Re: [Haifux] Re: Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > I have implemented a measure to redirect if and only if the visitor is > from Israel (due to a few non-Israeli visitors who got lost). This will be > deployed as soon as Adir changes one line in the server config. > > Alon How do you check where the p

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Alon Altman wrote: This is a temporary measure to help promote the W2L series. This is the classic paradigm held by Microsoft: The user has no idea what he or she wants, let's push our suggestions. That's why you never know what happens next when you run Windows. Why are we imitating?

Re: [Haifux] Re: Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > > I agree with Alon on making the redirection to newcomers as long as we are > running W2L. > > I don't think content negotiation would be in place, as the content is > totally different: one page is haifux, the other is W2L. I think the > purpose of content

[Haifux] A 'PPTP-over-cables-ethernet (with Israeli ISPs)' HOWTO

2003-10-11 Thread Eyal Rozenberg
I've been writing a HOWTO on PPTP VPN access to the internet over the cable infrastructure (as you may recall, the list helped me with this problem, initially, early this year), trying to make my guide a bit more comprehensive and less jerry-rigged than the advice floating around the Israeli Li

Re: [Haifux] Re: Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Orna Agmon
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't think the redirect to newcomers is a good idea. First of all, > > > people who surf to our site internationally, or take the last parts of the > >

[Haifux] A 'PPTP-over-cables-ethernet (with Israeli ISPs)' HOWTO

2003-10-11 Thread Eyal Rozenberg
I've been writing a HOWTO on PPTP VPN access to the internet over the cable infrastructure (if you recall, I used your help with makinh such a connection, initially, early this year), trying to make my guide a bit more comprehensive and less jerry-rigged than the advice floating around the Isra

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
I'll download the CD and have a look. Eli Alon Altman wrote: In that case, could we just ask you to install the very few -hfx compiled packages on the CD that help with Hebrew customization and branding, and try to look in the updates CD for software before checking the WWW? Alon -

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello Alon & list. > > Don't count on me. I consider the laptop "mission-critic", and as such I > don't want to add any piece of software except the minimal necessary to > do what I need. > > If really needed, I'll backup my entire system, and run the CD.

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Alon & list. Don't count on me. I consider the laptop "mission-critic", and as such I don't want to add any piece of software except the minimal necessary to do what I need. If really needed, I'll backup my entire system, and run the CD. I can't do this earlier than at end of this month.

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm in the middle of setting up Red Hat 9.0 on my new Compaq Presario Try out the update CD we are trying to make for the insta-part, we could really use some feed-back. ftp.rifkin/pub/Haifux/HaifuxUpdates-test2.iso There was an email

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Alon Altman
As you have installed a new RH9 system, would you care to try our Haifux updates CD I mentioned in an earlier post? Download it from http://www.haifux.org/newcomers/HaifuxUpdates-test2.iso Alon > Hello All. > > I'm in the middle of setting up Red Hat 9.0 on my new Compaq Presario > 2121EA (e

[Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. I'm in the middle of setting up Red Hat 9.0 on my new Compaq Presario 2121EA (effectively a 2100US), and I think this is the right place to share my impressions: Overall, the distro is great! It's a collection of good taste in several matters. Examples of what I call "good taste":