Personally, I think that the mouse driver on Win2K hung while clicking on the submit button, and each submission from a windows box actually registered a hundred or so clicks.
That's obvious. In 1892, your watchmaker had only 8 years until the century rollover. In 1960, programmers had 40 years. Besides, putting in two extra gears probably isn't as expensive as putting in an extra byte for every instance of a date field to ever come.
Well the problem is that not everyone is good enough to get into IIT, IISc or `good' engineering colleges. OTOH, anyone with a few bucks on him can join a computer institute and become a computer professional. A few years ago - around 1994, some computer institutes had slackware linux installed as a free substitute for UNIX. No idea what happened after that. At least at IIT Bombay, there is just one lab with windows machines. All other labs - 13 in the computer department, not to mention at least two in every other department run some kind of unix. most departments would run on linux, while SunOS is also used. Linux has also in use at several geek homes. Early in 1996, a computer magazine put slackware linux on the CD that came with the mag. That is what started most of us out on linux. The supercomputer is only one more step in a large move of computerisation. - self taught, but now in a `good' engineering college
We do not need to have a separate linux distro, because the other distros around are good enough. We are quite capable of tweaking an existing distro to our own taste. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, but putting it onto a really cool bike - that's a different matter. India has been working on supercomputing technology for quite a few years. We developed the param supercomputer completely indigenously. The reason for choosing linux as an operating system is probably the same as most of ours. - An Indian Geek
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Personally, I think that the mouse driver on Win2K hung while clicking on the submit button, and each submission from a windows box actually registered a hundred or so clicks.
It happens all the time.
Philip
That's obvious. In 1892, your watchmaker had only 8 years until the century rollover. In 1960, programmers had 40 years. Besides, putting in two extra gears probably isn't as expensive as putting in an extra byte for every instance of a date field to ever come.
Well the problem is that not everyone is good enough to get into IIT, IISc or `good' engineering colleges. OTOH, anyone with a few bucks on him can join a computer institute and become a computer professional. A few years ago - around 1994, some computer institutes had slackware linux installed as a free substitute for UNIX. No idea what happened after that.
At least at IIT Bombay, there is just one lab with windows machines. All other labs - 13 in the computer department, not to mention at least two in every other department run some kind of unix. most departments would run on linux, while SunOS is also used.
Linux has also in use at several geek homes. Early in 1996, a computer magazine put slackware linux on the CD that came with the mag. That is what started most of us out on linux. The supercomputer is only one more step in a large move of computerisation.
- self taught, but now in a `good' engineering college
We do not need to have a separate linux distro, because the other distros around are good enough. We are quite capable of tweaking an existing distro to our own taste. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, but putting it onto a really cool bike - that's a different matter. India has been working on supercomputing technology for quite a few years. We developed the param supercomputer completely indigenously. The reason for choosing linux as an operating system is probably the same as most of ours.
- An Indian Geek