[geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits

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Sadly there is not one school in this city that does not do
MS-centric courses. The most I have found is a short 1 month on Linux
and how to make it play nice with Windows. I would love a course
where NT, 98 and 2000 were not 90% of the course, with a little Cisco
and Novell mixed in with a bit of Linux. The excuse they all give is
that the market does not want Unix administrators. 


Dwight Wallbridge, 
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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael A. Turner" <mturner at whro.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:05 AM
Subject: RE: [geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits


> Surprisingly no. Very anti-MS in fact. All the machines in the labs
> are suns (their are some windows labs but on a whole they are
> suns). For all the time I have been going to school I have had a
> telnet account on a sun box (several in fact we are using NSF, not
> sure of what is going on in the background but we have about 15
> doing round robin acceptance of telnet connections.)The rule is, if
> you turn something in and it does not compile on GCC it's YOUR
> fault. Every class I have had they have actively warned against
> using visual c++ because the translation to GCC can be so ruff
> (i.e. compile perfectly on your home windows box. You transfer it
> to the sun machine and compile and it blows up big).
> Their are no classes on windows at all, but so far I have taken a
> Beowulf clustering (elective) class and several class on how to
> program specifically for the Unix environment (not an elective).
> the impression I get is that the whole CS department from the
> professors to the student system administrators are rabidly
> anti-Microsoft. Probably because we are not that large of a school
> so MS has not bothered to attack with ad money (usual freshman CS
> class size ~ 600, graduating class size ~ 40).
> And what made me mention the graduation thing is that I am studying
> for midterms right now and one class needs the html portion of that
> (it's and internet databases class I am not taking a straight web
> development class so don't look down on me), and another needs the
> pattern matching part of that. 
> I must say actually it has been my school that sparked my interest
> in sun gear and unix, before that I was pretty heavily a MS head.
>   Oh and the school is Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA.
> 
> Michael A. Turner
> Systems Engineer
> WHRO
> michael.turner at whro.org
> http://www.whro.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s at avoidant.org [mailto:s at avoidant.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:56 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits
> 
> 
> "Michael A. Turner" wrote:
> 
> > >:s/ples/pals/g
> >
> >  I am not sure what is geekier here , the fact that you posted
> > that or the fact that I just read that and understood it
> > instantly. Must be getting close to graduation for me.....
> 
> 
> Acually, I have to say. no reflection on you, but if understanding
> that means you're close to graduation, I fear the product of a BS
> in CS from today's universities.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, was your coursework mostly MS-centric?
> 
> 
> ---sambo
> _______________________________________________
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