speaking as a student working for the it department at UC, our computers tend to be better than that. they're either dell/some-custom-brand P4s running around 2.4gHz or G4 iMacs**. the school is pretty balanced between macs and pcs.
**additionally, engineers have access to a bunch of sparc boxen. they're fraking old tho.
erm, actually, the powerbook has been the name of the portable macintoshes since the PowerBook 100 back in 1991. it used a motorola 68HC000. basically, it was a MacSE with a faster chip and a better screen. it also adopted the trackball forward of the keyboard design.
not all colleges are PC-centric. i go to the university of cincinnati, and work for the IT department there as well. we have a pretty even mixture of macs and pcs in our labs (of course the pcs are nearly all dells). now, certain schools here eschew macs (engineering, even tho i use a powerbook for my ChE classes), and others use them nearly exclusively (art school and music school). of course, i know that all schools are different, and YMMV.
arguing with the last two, red hat linux 7.1 is oldness, and so is gentoo 1.x. moreover, any good gentoo user does
emerge sync && emerge -uD world
at least once a week (i do, anyway) fixing problems with gentoo. and, since these are older versions of distros, most of these bugs are old news likely fixed ages and agers ago.
agreed. once it gets out that you happen to know a bit about a computer, people from all over begin begging for help. my solution was to start charging them for it (with the exception of my family). it seems to have worked so far, by either cutting down on the number of people asking for my help or by allowing me to make 10 dollars by installing/running spybot and adaware.
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speaking as a student working for the it department at UC, our computers tend to be better than that. they're either dell/some-custom-brand P4s running around 2.4gHz or G4 iMacs**. the school is pretty balanced between macs and pcs.
**additionally, engineers have access to a bunch of sparc boxen. they're fraking old tho.
erm, actually, the powerbook has been the name of the portable macintoshes since the PowerBook 100 back in 1991. it used a motorola 68HC000. basically, it was a MacSE with a faster chip and a better screen. it also adopted the trackball forward of the keyboard design.
not all colleges are PC-centric. i go to the university of cincinnati, and work for the IT department there as well. we have a pretty even mixture of macs and pcs in our labs (of course the pcs are nearly all dells). now, certain schools here eschew macs (engineering, even tho i use a powerbook for my ChE classes), and others use them nearly exclusively (art school and music school). of course, i know that all schools are different, and YMMV.
actually, office 98 and 2004 are for mac. 98 is about the same as office 97 for windows, and office 2004 is the equal to office 2003.
it is sort of like an anal bum cover, only more obscene.
agreed. once it gets out that you happen to know a bit about a computer, people from all over begin begging for help. my solution was to start charging them for it (with the exception of my family). it seems to have worked so far, by either cutting down on the number of people asking for my help or by allowing me to make 10 dollars by installing/running spybot and adaware.