some guy comes up with the bright idea of calling the day sysadmin day, now everything is going wrong. any good sysadmin knows not to tempt Murphy by creating a day with dependencies on his/her existence.
Im a computer science major at the University of Southern Mississippi (yes we have computers here;) , and a lot of the students here use linux and unix machines all the time. The thing is they use a windows box to ssh or telnet (god forbid) into a *nix machine and then do their work, check email, submit homework, etc. Most of them don't even know that there are graphical interfaces for *nix. You might consider using vnc to let the students get used to an X environment before you switch them over. Or use something like plex86, wine, vmware, etc to supplement windows addictions.
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some guy comes up with the bright idea of calling the day sysadmin day, now everything is going wrong. any good sysadmin knows not to tempt Murphy by creating a day with dependencies on his/her existence.
Im a computer science major at the University of Southern Mississippi (yes we have computers here ;) , and a lot of the students here use linux and unix machines all the time. The thing is they use a windows box to ssh or telnet (god forbid) into a *nix machine and then do their work, check email, submit homework, etc. Most of them don't even know that there are graphical interfaces for *nix. You might consider using vnc to let the students get used to an X environment before you switch them over. Or use something like plex86, wine, vmware, etc to supplement windows addictions.