Is it a private university ?
(Anyway, it's out of question for me to go at your Univ :p)
Phil

Le Thursday 29 June 2006 18:10, Youness Alaoui a écrit :
> ouch, at poly (my school) they really fucked us good...
> long story short, they made us pay for a 'special program' where laptops
> were mandatory in classes and the laptops HAD to be the uni's laptops, for
> which we had to pay alot (1500$ a year..) to RENT them (can't buy and we
> had to rent their laptops even if we had one already). And we had a huge
> flamewar with the managers of the program where we isnulted them and
> everything (around 50 emails a day for almost a month, with very furious
> students) and they said the prices were high because of the licenses,
> which in the end was false because we verified the license fees directly
> with the suppliers and they said that the prices the uni gave us were
> wrong and some licenses were a 'one license, unlimited users', so they
> didn't have to pay anything... anyways. Their insurance was that we would
> have the top-notch, latest laptop every year, and everyone would have all
> the softwares installed for the courses...
> 1 - most of the software installed for which we were paying hundreds of
> dollars of licenses were NEVER used because we didn't have any courses
> that needed them
> 2 - after one year, they told us 'fuck you' and they wanted to give us
> again the old pcs.. that's where the riot exploded..
> in the end, we wanted to keep the laptops because the price we paid was
> already the price of a new laptop, and those laptops were so lame, they
> were really crappy ones (and they were celeron 800 iirc, it was 4 years
> ago I think) but they decided to be 'nice' and wanted to SELL them to us
> for an additional 1500$ ...
> in the end, they sold them to first year students, whcih knew nothing of
> the whole thing and bought used, obsolete, half destroyed laptops at the
> price of a new laptop.. (they were celeron 800, and at that time, I had
> just bought a centrino 1.5GHz, so it was still very obsolete)...
>
> the project was renamed "projet arnaque" (project scam) and Polytechnique
> is now known by us as being not a school but a research facility where the
> the money is funded by the students of which the administrations think of
> as "oil facilities" (on nous prends pour des puits de petrole) or cows
> (they're trying to milk us).
>
> just a little OT to tell you how we got screwed...
>
>
> KaKaRoTo
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:54:51 -0400, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> >> at uni, but you don't have access to the CDs to install it on your
> >> laptop
> >> or at home for example, no ?
> >
> > For us here, we just go to somewhere on a M$ website with our univ un/pw,
> > and we can either download everything we like (apart frmo M$ Office) or
> > ask them to put it on a CD for us and go fetch it at the NOC. That's for
> > what you install at home. PCs at the university have their own licenses.
> >
> > And it's what Jerome said, it's a license for all the students at a very
> > reduced price for those who pay it.
> >
> >> KKRT
> >>
> >> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:10:17 -0400, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
> >>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > For us, we have everything free at University, legal.
> >> >
> >> > Visual Studio Full Version .net, Windows XP Pro SP2, and almost all
> >> > Microsoft products.
> >> >
> >> > Le 28 juin 2006 à 12:08, Philippe Valembois - Phil a écrit :
> >> >> I think it's a good idea as I use only VC++6 (official version
> >> >> bought at
> >> >> reduced prices as a student) except for Winflash... (For that
> >> >> please look at
> >> >> my other mail :d)
> >> >> Phil
> >> >>
> >> >> Le Tuesday 27 June 2006 23:22, Youness Alaoui a écrit :
> >> >>> Nah, not stupid, I was about to suggest it (which is why it's not
> >> >>> stupid
> >> >>> ^o) :P)
> >> >>> We already have some project files, but not all.. we have .vcproj
> >> >>> and .sln
> >> >>> for tkcximage I think but that's the .NET project files, I prefer
> >> >>> the .dsp
> >> >>> and .dsw files, anyways, whatever we add, it should be the same
> >> >>> version of
> >> >>> VS for all the projects (I would vote for .dsp/.dsw.. if someone
> >> >>> has .NEt,
> >> >>> then VS will convert the dsp file, if you have only VS6 and we
> >> >>> used .sln
> >> >>> files, it just won't be able to open it).
> >> >>> Also, I dont' want any .opt or .ncb files, only the .dsp + .dsw
> >> >>> files are
> >> >>> needed.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> KKRT
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:09:16 -0400, Sander Hoentjen
> >> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>>> pleased to meet you, I am big brother, and I am watching you :P
> >> >>>> Anyway, isn't it a good idea to keep project files on svn, just
> >> >>>> as we
> >> >>>> have Makefile etc, or is that a stupid thing to say?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:06 +0200, Philippe Valembois - Phil wrote:
> >> >>>>> I said to myself : I hope nobody will ask for this change :p
> >> >>>>> Hehem... :d
> >> >>>>> It's simply because I think we shouldn't have to modify the code
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >> >>>>> decide if
> >> >>>>> we want to compile with stubs or not...
> >> >>>>> I added these defines in the project file (which isn't on the
> >> >>>>> repo) so
> >> >>>>> if I
> >> >>>>> want to disable stubs for any reason, it's only on my project
> >> >>>>> and the
> >> >>>>> code
> >> >>>>> isn't compromised....
> >> >>>>> So don't worry, defines are here but not in the same place...
> >> >>>>> Phil
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Le Tuesday 27 June 2006 22:41, Sander Hoentjen a écrit :
> >> >>>>>> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:11 -0700,
> >> >>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>> Modified: trunk/amsn/utils/windows/winutils/winutils.h
> >>
> >> =================================================================
> >>
> >> >>>>>>> ==
> >> >>>>>>> --- trunk/amsn/utils/windows/winutils/winutils.h   2006-06-27
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> 18:39:50 UTC
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> (rev 6987)
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> +++ trunk/amsn/utils/windows/winutils/winutils.h     2006-06-27
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> 20:11:40 UTC (rev 6988) @@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
> >> >>>>>>>  #ifndef _WINUTILS
> >> >>>>>>>  #define _WINUTILS
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> -#define USE_TCL_STUBS
> >> >>>>>>> -#define USE_TK_STUBS
> >> >>>>>>> -
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Why? I don't know much but in the man pages I read:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Enabling the stubs mechanism for an extension requires the
> >> >>>>>> following
> >> >>>>>> steps:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> 1)
> >> >>>>>>         Call Tcl_InitStubs in the extension before calling any
> >> >>>>>> other
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Tcl
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>         functions.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> 2)
> >> >>>>>>         Define the USE_TCL_STUBS symbol. Typically, you would
> >> >>>>>> include
> >> >>>>>>         the -DUSE_TCL_STUBS flag when compiling the extension.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> 3)
> >> >>>>>>         Link the extension with the Tcl stubs library instead
> >> >>>>>> of the
> >> >>>>>>         standard Tcl library. On Unix platforms, the library
> >> >>>>>> name is
> >> >>>>>>         libtclstub8.1.a; on Windows platforms, the library name
> >>
> >> is
> >>
> >> >>>>>>         tclstub81.lib.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> If the extension also requires the Tk API, it must also call
> >> >>>>>> Tk_InitStubs to initialize the Tk stubs interface and link with
> >> >>>>>> the Tk
> >> >>>>>> stubs libraries. See the Tk_InitStubs page for more information.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> So.. I don't understand why you removed them. I know you will
> >> >>>>>> have a
> >> >>>>>> good reason but I just want to know it too :)
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
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> >> KaKaRoTo
> >>
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> > ---
> >
> > "Where is the life that we have lost in living?
> >  Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge?
> >  Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?"
> >
> > OEO;


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