Tero FAQ

This FAQ lets you peek into my inbox and see what they always ask.

Email is the best method. In many cases it’s the fastest way too.

I try to respond to all email promptly. If it has been more than three working days since you sent your mail, I’ve missed it. Sorry, please send it again.

I reply to all (non-spam, non-list) email. If you don’t get a reply after a couple of emails, your mail did not get trough. In that case, phone me.

My spam filter catches obvious junk. To get trough the filter, write decent looking mail:

• Write plain text. Don’t use HTML email, don’t write a ten line message into a Word .doc attachment
• Use correct case and punctuation. It does not matter if you don’t write perfect English or Finnish, but it’s a problem if an email does not have even a single period “.” in it.
• Only send your message to one of my addressess at a time (not both @iki.fi and @example.com)
• Don’t send me chain mail (like: “Send this to ten of your friends or you die a horrible death”)

Feel free to encrypt any email with my PGP public key.

You can encrypt any email, even if it does not contain top secret information. If you want an encrypted answer, please include your public key.

Have a look at a brief description of my work and background.

Thanks allready! For courses, I’d like to know

• Did you learn something?
• Is it usefull to you?
• How do you plan to use your skills after the course?
• How could the course be improved?
• How was the test?
• Would you recommend this course to your friends or collegues?

and the course code or name. You can also tell me other things that pop into your mind. Your feedback is highly valuable to me.

I hope so. Come to the first class.

The places are given in the first class. Among those who have done the prequisites and are present in the first class, the places are given in the order determined by Winha.

Movable drives are returned at the exam.

If you did not return the drive in the exam, you can return it to my consulting hour or to Juhani Ahlgren. Put your name and student number on a piece of paper on top of the drive.

Make sure that either

• Drive is marked as returned on the receipt you signed when borrowing the drive

or

• You get a receipt for returning the drive

Yes, I’ll be happy to teach you.

For a course in Finnish, read Linux tutustumispäivä yrityksille.

For your booking or more information, contact me.

I try to grade courses as soon as possible.

I’ve designed homeworks to maximize learning and make them as interesting as possible. This can often mean that reading and grading them all is a lot of work, and takes time. For Haaga-Helia courses, evaluations must be in Winha before it has been three weeks after the period has ended (Haaga-Helian Tutkintosääntö 2009, §6).

Yes, all usage is logged. Logging tools include cookies, javascript and web server logs. In addition to my logging, administrators of this web server use server wide logging.

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