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  1. Re:Why not ads? by Dlugar · · Score: 1 · on War of Words Over Wikipedia Ads Continues

    God thats horrible. Your son's school gets ad money? So you're allowing corporations to educate your child on which products they should be buying, from an early age?

    Thats sick.

    No kidding. Aim Higher.
  2. Re:Quick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bill Gates Is Coming To A College Near You

    ... and Wilfred Laurier University

  3. Bottom Line by CEHT · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hardware or Software Major?

    In a few years when you are a new grad and in the job market, how you handle problem solving is probably more important than being in a program that concentrate in hardware or software within computer science. You can be a Linux system administrator or application developer with either types of background, but if you cannot handle yourself and to solve problems, it doesn't really matter what your background is... you will just get fired! In other words, doing more math and programming is the best way to go. And to make sure you enjoy doing it! No matter in assembly in CP316, CP460, CP466 or CP468. You got to do good in problem solving as well as in coding!

  4. Minitel by pipingguy · · Score: 1 · on Vint Cerf on the Future of the Net


    Canada (Montreal, at least) had something similar in 1998, "Alex" as well as Videotron's Videoway (which was cable TV-based).

  5. Re:This is just flat out *wrong* by penguin_nipple · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Lineo near Death
    Cripes. People have bills to pay and families to feed. Doesn't anyone have a shred of decency anymore?

    From my experience I can give a resounding 'no' to that. There is no decency unfortunatley. I was a research devloper at a Canadian University in the dept. of physics and computing. Our research group is/was a "Center for Excellence" and we developed two fully functional laser simulators of the Quantum Well and VCSEL variety. Things were progressing for 2 years, and the projects both reached decent beta stage.

    Our entire research group was summarily laid of on a lovely friday afternoon at 5:30. No warning, no heads-up, no consideration.

    Personally I was insulted but I can tell you, I am not the first, nor the last that this has happened to...

    Mind you the educational institution referred to here had no problem highlighting our research group and some of my other research projects in glossy fliers in order to attract attention to new students and the general populace.

    Oh the irony of being highlighted in promo material by the marketroids and concurrently bitchslapped by the accounting dept. in one fell swoop.

  6. Re:Well.. what I DO know is this.. by penguin_nipple · · Score: 2 · on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?
    If you spend some time at most Universities in Canada, you will find a fairly decent amount of leeway in terms of language choices. Granted at the first year level, there is some imposition of language (either C or Java depending on the program), however at my school that is simply due to the sheer numbers of first year students. After the bloody mess that they generally make out of their first year studies ("You mean I'm not gonna be learning how to program Quake 4?") the numbers drop significantly. For instance my first year CS classes has ~190 students, Second year ~70, Third year ~10. Granted WLU is a tiny school in comparison to most, but the relative drop is fairly common across schools.

    Anyhow, back to my point, in my program you generally had the option to approach the prof's and reason out why you wanted to use a different implementation scheme. Since the implementation was generally a smaller portion of the grade, also, it would make the student go a little bit further. There were numerous times I would set up an XSession using XWin32 for the profs to my workstation to login and run my projects (mind you I was a research assistant with my own workstation and static IP so it was easier for me, this could easily be solved at most faculties by setting up a linux box for that purpose).

    So I suppose I should get to my point, many schools in Ontario, that I have seen and been exposed to do exactly what you are talking about, either formally of informally. In my case it was informal.

    I have no clue about the state of Canadian Colleges (for the american audiences, colleges in canada are generally practical institutions which will not grant a BSc, rather a Diploma or Certificate and are not parallel with the American concept of a college), as my exposure was exclusively at the Univerisity level.

  7. Re:SSH Banned by shadowspar · · Score: 2 · on Colleges Urged To Ban Telnet And FTP

    My school refuses to implement SSH as well.

    I'm no BOFH (and so don't know for sure), but is adding SSL to your system a big deal? Once I found the packages, I had openssl and secure replacements for telnet, telnetd, lynx, and w3m installed in (literally) 15 minutes on my linux box. (School runs Solaris(tm) though...)