All centralised at RMIT. There is some holdover systems but they are on their way out.
Applied Science and the Maths schools have quite a few Nix boxes (predominately OS X in applied sciences and Linux in maths) elec eng has it's own linux lab but that is primarily run through the IT schools backend
RMIT is hopeless with Linux. Trying to get changes made to make a workable environment for labs or workstations is a never ending battle.
The majority of desktop support staff (in SEH) are incompetent with OS X (let alone something as exotic or magical as Linux (yeah I'm bitter)) and any question you need to ask will have to get escalated to someone with a clue (bit different in DSC and Business I believe) .
CSIT are a special case they kept a lot of their own infrastructure during the centralisation and a lot of it is still there a lot of the big iron in the ITS dept does run on nix but there is a big culture especially in desktop support areas of CBF and we've always done it this way
I think the main blame for the shittyness of RMITs Linux,Unix and etc. support could be blamed on a few things the craptactular novell system (and those staff members who grew up with it) in place, the culture of ignorance and resistance to change that the majority of staff in college relationship ITS (the people who actually interact with staff and students ) and (certainly not finally just all I can be arsed writing about in this post) a failure of middle managers throughout ITS
I think that RMIT will continue to have a "subscription of stupidness and incompetence" due to the hiring (and promotion) policies currently affecting ITS and the Zero training available just pushing anyone with skill or intelligence away from RMIT-ITS. In the words of someone overheard over the partitions in one of the large ITS offices "Would you really recommend someone else come work here"
But maybe stuff will change. the new ED of ITS seems decent (and some of the staff he has been dumping work on) and it's possible that he (and the rest) might be able to change stuff for the better but they have a very long uphill battle and a significant part of the resistance will be internal to the IT department.
P.S. You can connect a nix box to the wireless it's actually less work (in some-ways) than windows machines (no additional shitty secure w2 required) though the proxy settings are completely retarded and hopefully they will put in a transparent proxy soon. The hell desk should be able to assist you with OS X and you can take the PDF for OS X off the stupid wireless website and apply to any decent Linux with ease
Fair chance it wasn't his land. Farmers and wastes of spaces like this guy (yeah i know a few i grew up around them) lease the land as part of a pastoral lease.
You're comparing 2TB 7200rpm SATA drives running in a NAS with 15 and 10 krpm SAS disks running in a SAN ranging from 150USD for 146GB to 999USD for 600GB that's not counting the significantly more expensive card prices and everything else for running it
And the worst thing about online classes are the stupid places using blackboard for it forcing you to read one post at a time failing to work in chrome at all or Firefox 90% of the time
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The speed this year is slower than previous (2005 was faster) ones because they have made the rules significantly harder each time round
The cars are awesome to watch as they go by (i've seen quite a few of the races missed the last 2 and 2003) or even overtake you
oh btw NT is limited to a numeric value these days (130km/hr)
http://onefte.com/2011/07/19/its-not-jargon-if-its-your-job/
I can see a problem with revision numbers though.
if I make a change in my repo, you make one in yours and we both merge to C
which revision gets 101?
which revision then changes its number?
Such an awesome commit :)
My last wallet went through the wash and dryer a number of times
The (au) notes certainly held up significantly better than everything else in the wallet (bloody drivers license and library card)
RMIT has a really horribly done novell system.
and they seem to have a random method of situating home directories.
That stuff would need to be changed before they could do better
All centralised at RMIT.
There is some holdover systems but they are on their way out.
Applied Science and the Maths schools have quite a few Nix boxes (predominately OS X in applied sciences and Linux in maths) elec eng has it's own linux lab but that is primarily run through the IT schools backend
RMIT is hopeless with Linux. Trying to get changes made to make a workable environment for labs or workstations is a never ending battle.
The majority of desktop support staff (in SEH) are incompetent with OS X (let alone something as exotic or magical as Linux (yeah I'm bitter)) and any question you need to ask will have to get escalated to someone with a clue (bit different in DSC and Business I believe) .
CSIT are a special case they kept a lot of their own infrastructure during the centralisation and a lot of it is still there a lot of the big iron in the ITS dept does run on nix but there is a big culture especially in desktop support areas of CBF and we've always done it this way
getting over that is going to be a challange
There are a number of lost causes at RMIT ITS
I think the main blame for the shittyness of RMITs Linux,Unix and etc. support could be blamed on a few things the craptactular novell system (and those staff members who grew up with it) in place, the culture of ignorance and resistance to change that the majority of staff in college relationship ITS (the people who actually interact with staff and students ) and (certainly not finally just all I can be arsed writing about in this post) a failure of middle managers throughout ITS
I think that RMIT will continue to have a "subscription of stupidness and incompetence" due to the hiring (and promotion) policies currently affecting ITS and the Zero training available just pushing anyone with skill or intelligence away from RMIT-ITS. In the words of someone overheard over the partitions in one of the large ITS offices "Would you really recommend someone else come work here"
But maybe stuff will change. the new ED of ITS seems decent (and some of the staff he has been dumping work on) and it's possible that he (and the rest) might be able to change stuff for the better but they have a very long uphill battle and a significant part of the resistance will be internal to the IT department.
P.S.
You can connect a nix box to the wireless it's actually less work (in some-ways) than windows machines (no additional shitty secure w2 required) though the proxy settings are completely retarded and hopefully they will put in a transparent proxy soon. The hell desk should be able to assist you with OS X and you can take the PDF for OS X off the stupid wireless website and apply to any decent Linux with ease
We supported Fedora in the labs and a mix of rhel centos fed and unfortunately opensuse on staff workstations.
Former IT worker at RMIT
I'm convinced there is some monster eating my tape measures and screwdrivers :\
and they shit power cables
Real books don't die after 36 loans
Fair chance it wasn't his land.
Farmers and wastes of spaces like this guy (yeah i know a few i grew up around them) lease the land as part of a pastoral lease.
The modifications made to the forcedeth driver last year as part of the gpxe\etherboot GSOC significantly helped with my workload.
Already have been doing this Just more work to be honest
Forgot to mention that publishers who are not bastards also let me take advantage of the weak us and strong au dollar :)
Plus the "It just works", and the benefits of not having to give a frak about steam copies is awesome
no more where the frak are my disks
the steam community changes are also quite nice
Those who use xbox live or playstation network as well (yay for p2p game serving)
^^ this guy speaks the truth
There was nothing i dreaded more than the smell on my skin after getting off work (the smoke from the casino downstairs came up without any issue)
You also have to take into account his homophobic bigotry
You're comparing 2TB 7200rpm SATA drives running in a NAS with 15 and 10 krpm SAS disks running in a SAN ranging from 150USD for 146GB to 999USD for 600GB that's not counting the significantly more expensive card prices and everything else for running it
No we need http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Fels instead of the current plant from Howard
Well the first amendment prevents banning porn or putting creationism in
And the worst thing about online classes are the stupid places using blackboard for it
forcing you to read one post at a time failing to work in chrome at all or Firefox 90% of the time
Fuck that shit