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Avalon Linux!!

Thanks to Kate for hearing about it, Jon for helping with the mystery, and Pooj for finding it ! :D you guys rock!

This is for my Pop Arthuriana bibliography for my arthurian legends class. By next monday, I have to have found 20 things having to do with King Arthur and the legends. I'm only allowed 10 internet hits, but this one is a doozy. I'll post the actual assignment in a little bit.

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[erratic0101.livejournal.com]

Your professor is LIMITING your internet research??!@?$

That pisses me off at so many levels.

I don't recall prof's ever limiting how many BOOKS someone can use.

and congrats on finding it =)

in other news, there is a very popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role Player Game (MMORPG) called Dark Age of Camelot.

[nrrrdygirl.livejournal.com]

I believe they are just threatened by technology. But that is just my idea. =P

INTERNET RESEARCH RULES!!!

Computers wrock.

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[erratic0101.livejournal.com]

I personaly believe teachers dispise anything that makes things even the slightest bit easier. They associate ease with laziness, or avoidance of "work".

It only happens to be a coincidence that computer technology is the only thing to ever come around that made education easier (except maybe, what, the trapper keeper?? ;)

Let me recall past teaching indescretions:

-Banning calculators for YEARS

-I wasn't allowed to type (aka wordprocess) my homework/reports for years (god forbid I spell check)

-Even before the internet, I got in trouble for listing a CDROM Encyclopedia as a reference.

-My CS professor got agitated because I wanted to write my code on my machine, in my dorm, using faster better notepad type programs, instead of using the slow command-line based CS department terminals, or having to schlep to a lab.

[nrrrdygirl.livejournal.com]

"My CS professor got agitated because I wanted to write my code on my machine, in my dorm, using faster better notepad type programs, instead of using the slow command-line based CS department terminals, or having to schlep to a lab. "

Interesting. Where do you go to school? I'm a CS major as well. We are made to use Emacs to write our programs and use unix commands to compile and whatnot. Meanwhile, kids I have spoken to who attend RPI and Columbia are allowed to use Visual C++. This is computer science boot camp I tells ya! But really, the cs program here at UAlbany is just...like boot camp.

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[erratic0101.livejournal.com]

I went to University at Buffalo. They wanted us to use Vi or Emacs. I used Editpad and then used pico when i had to use the lab machines, though i would have killed for Visual Java ;) My policy is I either use the simplest program possible, or I use a full IDE program (I use Coldfusion Studio for my coldfusion code and HTML).

Its good to hear that they are teaching you in C++, I wanted to bludgeon the CS department at UB for deciding to switch to Java.