Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Ariel Biener]

> Can we please stop this thread? The sort of apologetics I read on this thread
> might be suited to discussion of religious dogma, but not Linux.
>   
That's your opinion. I often find the way Linux users behave to be very
similar to the way
religious people would, that is, they are zealots.
> Ariel, to an outsider like me, what you're saying sounds like: TAU is making
> every effort to support Linux users, but for some applications there was a
> political/financial reason to NOT support them, and in those cases Linux users
> are kindly requested to keep quiet, and not try to find workarounds for these
> applications to work on Linux. To prevent Linux users from looking for such
> workarounds, such workarounds are branded illegal or immoral (I have to admit
> I couldn't even follow the reasoning why).
>   
Certainly you know perfectly well that I didn't say that. Also I didn't
mention politics
anywhere. I said that we're doing the best we can with what we have,
which is the truth.
Even if sometimes we lack the funding to do this or that, it is not
dropped, only delayed
till it can be funded.
I also asked TAU people to NOT keep quiet, but instead to talk to our
HelpDesk, and
escalate the tickets if required.
> Please keep these sort of arguments on internal TAU mailing lists, and
> let people who actually want technical advice (how to view certain kinds
> of videos on Linux) get it here.
>   
Unless you want to unsubscribe me, you will allow me to say what I deem
necessary,
unless you think shutting me up is your best choice.
> It sounds like everyone claimed that for the application at hand (video
> viewing) nothing changed and it still doesn't work on Linux. You didn't claim
> it changed (i.e., works on Linux) either. So I don't understand your argument.
>   
The remnants of the discussion didn't speak of the Video issues at all,
but discussed the
quality of TAU web team and helpdesk, and our e-learning systems. I
agree they are
completely irrelevant to the original topic.

The original topic was already escalated internally, and it's being
worked on as we speak.

Sometimes the solution to a technical problem is not technical at all. I
wont make the mistake
of trying to provide someone with a solution that works next time.

-- Ariel
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 Ariel Biener
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