The last thing I want to do is to support AOL/Time Warner, but here they sponsor community events... If i remember correctly they sponsor a music festival here every summer...
When I installed Redhat 6.2 on my SparcStation IPC last year, i did so over a 28.8k line for an entire night! (FTP install of about 150mb, mind you, this sparc only has a 200mb HD)
Primenet isn't *THE* dial-up wing of Frontiernet/Global Crossing. I am currently a Frontiernet Dial-up customer (not primenet), and Frontiernet was not affected, only Primenet. Yes, they were figuratively one service, but they always kept things somewhat seperate (like the fact that frontiernet/primenet customers had access to each other's newsgroup servers until this recent event)
At our school, we don't have an option of taking a summer internship. I had asked about it, hoping to get some full time experience in, but they said during the summer they don't have the staff to administer CS Internships. We don't even really have any plan setup with any companies, all we're told is that there is an internship program, but 9 out of 10 times you have to go find the internship yourself, they don't provide much guidance... I wish more schools had a focused internship/coop program in place, since the experience is one of the most important aspects of CS.
I particularly like the way our CS program is planned out otherwise, they start you off with basic C++, then you move on to Assembly Programming (MIPS) and Data Structures (C++), then you get to go on to classes such as Advanced C (low-level UNIX system programming), and similar classes. Most of the time they've not focused on the language as much as the principals. They stress subjects as different data structures (lists, linked lists, etc), object orientation, stacks, etc. Fundamentals should come first. If you learn fundamentals, you should be able to adapt to almost any language.
I can totally agree with you there... I am currently a senior finishing my undergrad degree, and i have assisted with the intro CS classes over the past few years and it's amazing sometimes how some people don't even try. There was one person once, when given a packet of directions during the lab, asked me what he should do, and i would ask him if he's followed the steps in the instructions, and he said no, and I told him i'll help him ONLY after he's read the instructions and given it a try, he was expecting me to do his lab for him, which i told him was NOT my job. If someone is lost in the class, but trying to do their best, I respect them for trying, but some of these people who don't even try, it frustrates me....
While this is not so much related to combining with net, but alcohol and computers can be a bad combo. My suggestion for anyplace that has terminals available would be to make sure they had some keyboards that could withstand spillage. Who wants to run a bar and worry about having people spilling their beer all over the keyboard, and going thru the expense of cleaning/repairing/replacing keyboards all the time... Or they could make sure they get some of those "skins" for the keyboards. Of course, my one friend did have a keyboard which could have almost anything spilled in it, all he had to do was take the back off and hose the keyboard out in the sink and once it was dry it worked good as new! Also, smoke and computers is a bad combo, as most people already know. NO SMOKING!
The old-school logitech mice were among the best i have ever seen in my time. My family has used an old bus mouse from 1988 (the old boxy mice with the old square/circle logo), and they used it faithfully until last year when it finally died after over a decade of use. I have had similar luck with the newer logitech mice too, I own a Mouseman Cordless 3 (from 1996, the teardrop shaped one) which has been performing steadily since 1996 without much trouble (except for replacing the battries every few months). I have had nothing but good luck with logitech.
At my school, our Computer Services department doesn't officially support Linux, but of course there's only 3 of us on campus that have linux computers on campus in the dorms now. They were supportive of one student who couldn't get his DHCP working in linux, and he got a static IP. Beyond that we don't really seem to care if someone is using linux, except to say that if you have problems connecting that it's not supported. Overall, our campus is fairly open about linux.
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The last thing I want to do is to support AOL/Time Warner, but here they sponsor community events... If i remember correctly they sponsor a music festival here every summer...
When I installed Redhat 6.2 on my SparcStation IPC last year, i did so over a 28.8k line for an entire night! (FTP install of about 150mb, mind you, this sparc only has a 200mb HD)
Primenet isn't *THE* dial-up wing of Frontiernet/Global Crossing. I am currently a Frontiernet Dial-up customer (not primenet), and Frontiernet was not affected, only Primenet. Yes, they were figuratively one service, but they always kept things somewhat seperate (like the fact that frontiernet/primenet customers had access to each other's newsgroup servers until this recent event)
At our school, we don't have an option of taking a summer internship. I had asked about it, hoping to get some full time experience in, but they said during the summer they don't have the staff to administer CS Internships. We don't even really have any plan setup with any companies, all we're told is that there is an internship program, but 9 out of 10 times you have to go find the internship yourself, they don't provide much guidance... I wish more schools had a focused internship/coop program in place, since the experience is one of the most important aspects of CS. I particularly like the way our CS program is planned out otherwise, they start you off with basic C++, then you move on to Assembly Programming (MIPS) and Data Structures (C++), then you get to go on to classes such as Advanced C (low-level UNIX system programming), and similar classes. Most of the time they've not focused on the language as much as the principals. They stress subjects as different data structures (lists, linked lists, etc), object orientation, stacks, etc. Fundamentals should come first. If you learn fundamentals, you should be able to adapt to almost any language.
I can totally agree with you there... I am currently a senior finishing my undergrad degree, and i have assisted with the intro CS classes over the past few years and it's amazing sometimes how some people don't even try. There was one person once, when given a packet of directions during the lab, asked me what he should do, and i would ask him if he's followed the steps in the instructions, and he said no, and I told him i'll help him ONLY after he's read the instructions and given it a try, he was expecting me to do his lab for him, which i told him was NOT my job. If someone is lost in the class, but trying to do their best, I respect them for trying, but some of these people who don't even try, it frustrates me....
While this is not so much related to combining with net, but alcohol and computers can be a bad combo. My suggestion for anyplace that has terminals available would be to make sure they had some keyboards that could withstand spillage. Who wants to run a bar and worry about having people spilling their beer all over the keyboard, and going thru the expense of cleaning/repairing/replacing keyboards all the time... Or they could make sure they get some of those "skins" for the keyboards. Of course, my one friend did have a keyboard which could have almost anything spilled in it, all he had to do was take the back off and hose the keyboard out in the sink and once it was dry it worked good as new! Also, smoke and computers is a bad combo, as most people already know. NO SMOKING!
The old-school logitech mice were among the best i have ever seen in my time. My family has used an old bus mouse from 1988 (the old boxy mice with the old square/circle logo), and they used it faithfully until last year when it finally died after over a decade of use. I have had similar luck with the newer logitech mice too, I own a Mouseman Cordless 3 (from 1996, the teardrop shaped one) which has been performing steadily since 1996 without much trouble (except for replacing the battries every few months). I have had nothing but good luck with logitech.
At my school, our Computer Services department doesn't officially support Linux, but of course there's only 3 of us on campus that have linux computers on campus in the dorms now. They were supportive of one student who couldn't get his DHCP working in linux, and he got a static IP. Beyond that we don't really seem to care if someone is using linux, except to say that if you have problems connecting that it's not supported. Overall, our campus is fairly open about linux.