That sounds a lot like wakefields bullshit study that was was retracted by the lancet and had his former co authors removing their names from their interpretation of it's results due to his deliberate fabircation of results and fraud

Hell Wakefield lost his medical license for his malpractice in that "research" project

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

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