Today during an ethics lecture at the University of Tasmania for postgraduates, file swapping and using illegal (pirated) software was mentioned in the same context as faking experiment results and experimenting on humans! At least now I know why they mentioned it as they are obviously a little perturbed by the audit...
Given all the bad press about soft marking for paying students and shafting the academic that reported it, hearing some positive things about uow.edu.au makes me feel a bit better about the computer science degree I have from there.
On another note, Wollongong uni circa 1994 had two labs - well they were actually two portable demountable buildings, one on top of the other, called earthlab and skylab. Skylab was a whole heap of floppy only Mac SE machines (I'm not kidding) for the first years. And Earthlab contained a whole bunch of Solaris terminals. So I think it is fair to say that UOW has always looked for the cheapest solution for first year students...
One tends to only hear bad things coming out of telstra - so this is a refreshing change... But one can bet that M$-AU will be hot on the FUD machine tomorrow... Hope it does come off it will do my site www.linuxware.com.au wonders. Hmmm.... 45,000 new users in.au...
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Today during an ethics lecture at the University of Tasmania for postgraduates, file swapping and using illegal (pirated) software was mentioned in the same context as faking experiment results and experimenting on humans! At least now I know why they mentioned it as they are obviously a little perturbed by the audit...
On another note, Wollongong uni circa 1994 had two labs - well they were actually two portable demountable buildings, one on top of the other, called earthlab and skylab. Skylab was a whole heap of floppy only Mac SE machines (I'm not kidding) for the first years. And Earthlab contained a whole bunch of Solaris terminals. So I think it is fair to say that UOW has always looked for the cheapest solution for first year students...
One tends to only hear bad things coming out of telstra - so this is a refreshing change... But one can bet that M$-AU will be hot on the FUD machine tomorrow... Hope it does come off it will do my site www.linuxware.com.au wonders. Hmmm.... 45,000 new users in .au...