Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX

2005-02-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:15:37 +0100 (MET) Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:58:40 + > >>From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > >>Subject: Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX > >> > >>On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:45:37 -0800 (PST),

Re: [OT] Python code is not Pseudocode [was Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching ]

2005-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:14 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I once talked about it with people in the IRC, and someone mentioned he has > written a 200-lines Python program and had to make only 20 changes to get it > to compile and run. I told him they were 20 changes too many, because in > Pseudoc

Re: [OT] Python code is not Pseudocode [was Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching ]

2005-02-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Wed, 09 Feb: > > > > all these fail the simple test of real-world usefulness. with Python > > you write psuedocode and it just RUNS. > > Many Pythoneers rave about how Python is runnable Pseudocode. However, of course it's not. it's an interpreter, not a hum

[OT] Python code is not Pseudocode [was Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching ]

2005-02-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:41, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Yishay Mor, from the post of Wed, 09 Feb: > > Here's a few more: > > > > http://www.squeak.org/ > > http://toontalk.com/ (which we use in WebLabs - > > http://www.weblabs.eu.com) http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/karel.html and > > http:/

Wierdest reason not to set up a mirror

2005-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, As part of Lingnu's operations, we are setting up a server, connected to the internet via colocation. The machine is an IBM xSeries, with 6 SCSI hot-swap bays. It's a 64bit machine, running Debian. A friend has an old server with hot-swap disks, and he gave me two SCSI hot-swap 17GB disk

Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching [was Re: Looking for a viable alternative to MS access.]

2005-02-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yishay Mor, from the post of Wed, 09 Feb: > Here's a few more: > > http://www.squeak.org/ > http://toontalk.com/ (which we use in WebLabs - http://www.weblabs.eu.com) > http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/karel.html and > http://xkarel.sourceforge.net/eng/ > And of course, the queen mother of ed

Re: Linux-supporting laptop

2005-02-09 Thread Lior Kesos
How about an X series thinkpad? http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=2072542&storeId=1&catalogId=-840&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 The only issue I'm not sure about is the TV/out . On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:48:20 +0200, Arnon Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'

Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching [was Re: Looking for a viable alternative to MS access.]

2005-02-09 Thread Yishay Mor
Here's a few more: http://www.squeak.org/ http://toontalk.com/ (which we use in WebLabs - http://www.weblabs.eu.com) http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/karel.html and http://xkarel.sourceforge.net/eng/ And of course, the queen mother of educational languages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_programmi