Evolution -> has gaps large enough to drive a truck through, assumes no real design in the universe, that the patterns in nature are all random happenstance, presumes the lack of any driving force, fails to explain DNA properly, pretends that "irreducable complexity" does not exist.

Creationism -> A broad term encompassing those believing in evolution guided by "intelligent design" over vast swaths of time, and the "young earth" crowd espousing a literal 6 * 24hr day creation. (I'm not even getting into a word study on the hebrew word of "yom" and how it can be literal or figurative).

Why can we not teach that we don't have the answer because we are standing at the end looking back and guessing how we got here? We dig through the scrap heat of history and try to put the pieces together. We cannot prove via the scientific process the existence or lack of a driving force, because if it exists, it has intelligence, and if that intelligence far outstrips our own, then it can thwart or avoid our tests.

Rather we could simply teach our kids rational thinking and that truth exists, and they are choosing what they choose to believe.

The separation of Church & State does NOT necessitate the separation of God & Country.

You will often hear of a thesis or non-thesis masters program. The non-thesis is also called the terminal masters because it indicates no desire to continue the education process.

If you intend to get a respected degree go for a thesis program, instead of a coursework only one. It indicates not only a higher grasp of the coursework involve, but that you have aided in some ground breaking research, and have been able to formulate a thesis based on your findings and contributions. This is great preparation for so many things in academia and corporate work such as grant proposals and business justifications.

IMHO if you want to leave the door open for a PhD, go for a research or thesis masters at an accredited university that has a strong graduate program in that area of study. They should have a masters and PhD program, not that you intend to go into that program, but they will prepare you better to pursue a PhD later.

Look at the reality of the math behind software sales. Until you produce something that complex it's hard to grasp, I've been on both sides.

We can't have all software free, it takes motivated talent and dedicated time to produce this stuff and you can't produce much code if you can't afford to eat.

If you produce it in your free time and it isn't related to your work, then the company is unfairly trying to take your work.

If you are simply doing what they ask you to you are doing your job.

The question here is, did the University get the grant or did you? Would you have been able to get the grant if you weren't at the university because of the credentials of the institution? Were you hired as a research associate into an existing area that is managed by someone else?

If so, put your ego aside and accept that you are growing as a professional.

Now if you have the credo to be a principal researcher then find an institution that will provide you the room you want to have more ownership of your IP.

Too often we think we are the only ones who can do what we do when in reality there are many talented developers out there.

We have to accept as a profession that we are driven by business needs at some point.

On the older systems, talk was a great utility.

dd, device duplicator / disk destroyer

mount, what I can't have a desktop icon?

also managing disk volumes and the old conventions of /opt, /u, /usr, /usr/local

This new fangled Linux craze with all of the UI tools is feeding it. Redhat is training admins that are dependent on a given release of their enterprise software (which I am a huge fan of) but not teaching them how it works under the hood.

How about slirp? scp?

The one ray of hope seems to be a new generation hacking their bsd and linux based (iPhone/Android) phones and having fun in a somewhat embedded (but full blown) *nix environment.