Seems to be the reason givem by a lot of people who are not moving away from Windows when they want to... "If Photoshop were available on Linux, I'd ditch Windows for good" seems to be a recurring theme.

Its not as if we have RMS on speed-dial.

The fact that the university is known for Computer Science should have no bearing on the Operating Systems used on the terminals of other faculties. As for the Math & CS faculty, they do have Linux terminals

It seems that this time, yours is the ignorant comment. I never suggested that stickers were neat swag, I suggested that you were upset that there wasn't any neat swag -- that stickers were all that there was. Moreover, I fail to see what relevence the CSC's RMS talk has. if Theo de Raadt gave a talk, would you expect the IT department to run around installing a bunch of OpenBSD terminals? All of which is beside the main point, which was that there are Linux labs in the MC, contrary to your claim. From what I've seen, the linux labs aren't usually filled to capacity, so I see no reason why there would need to be more of them, either.

Waterloo also has Linux labs in MC -- thin clients running X sessions with what appears to be a customized version of Kubuntu. I believe that there is also a bare-bones Solaris X session option, too, which sounds like what you are descriping.

IIRC, We (the CSC) asked him to come give a talk. RMS and the FSF are not a corporation trying to woo you with lots of swag, nor, I suspect, do they have the budget to pretend to be. If you went to see RMS talk just to get neat swag, you were there for the wrong reason.

So, I delete a file off of a drive such that the Filesystem no longer holds any references to the given data, and the firmware moves in and performs operations to improve the performance of the device. Its not really rearranging files in to contiguous sections like defragmentation does, its restoring unused sections to an empty state, probably using an algorithm similar to many garbage collectors -- sounds like garbage collection to me.

How big of a price-cut do OEMs get for Windows XP on netbooks again?

I believe the other name to which you refer is the Canadian Reform Aliance Party, or C.R.A.P.

Something about this doesn't smell right.

It's too bad that there is no way to look for the answer on the internet

I was under the impression that canvas tag was going to allow people to create those kinds of whiz-bang interfaces that are currently done in flash.