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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:51:51 +0200<br>
From: "Nadav Har'El" <<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.<br>
To: Yossi Gil <<a href="mailto:yossi.gil@gmail.com">yossi.gil@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:haifux@haifux.org">haifux@haifux.org</a><br>
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Here the solution needs to be two two-pronged: First, the system administrator<br>
needs to be responsive and open to requests to install new software that<br>
students need. Second, the users should have enough quota to install new<br>
software on their own directory, if they wish to.<br>
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It appears the quota problem is repeated by almost everyone who commented.<br>
I suggest that you should address this issue *immediately*. Disks are so<br>
cheap today, that there's simply no excuse to be cheap on quota. If you want,<br>
I can eleborate.<br>
This would be, no question about it, the first task I would ask the<br>
sysadmins to take care of.<br>
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Again, did anybody tell them that they can install OpenOffice at home too,<br>
and save hundreds of shekels in the process?<br>
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This was my (pretty long) 2 cents. I hope it helped, even a bit.<br>
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Nadav.<br>
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<br>1) Disks are cheap. Last time I checked with the CS farm downstairs, the quota per student was about 20mb.<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>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.<br clear="all">
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