[CLUG] Anyone here in the CIT?

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Shamage wrote:
> 
> Im still in CIT for my sins.
> 

'S a great college, despite using NT ;)

> Dullahan is still here in the background.

Hmm.. great, everyone will then think that this Unix stuff is all
command line boring stuff.. *grrr*

> We have a solaris box now running as well + all the computers in the IT
> building dual boot into solaris with CDE. My self and about 5 other students
> use this I dont think anybody else knows about it. also all of the NT boxes
> have the Exceed X server installed

X86 Solaris? That's supposed to be a dog on Intel hardware.. How long
have the dual-boots been active? I was out there last year meeting up
with some friends in 4th year and they never mentioned it. 

> 
> It is a good job thoes AIX boxes are gone, Things were more trouble than
> anything.

Well.. you gotta love CDE (NOT!)

> It was a shame that they got rid of aoife and her dumb terminals. The first
> exposure you now get to Nix is in third year where you are presented with vi
> and told to get on with it !!!.

3rd year.. How's it look to your average student who's used Visual C++
for 2 and a bit years and then they're asked to use an editor like vi?
Not good. (I'd still use Vi myself.. depending on the job, kdevelop is a
rather nice VC++ clone.)

> 
> I must see if I can talk to some people to see if I can get a student run
> nix box up and running here.
> 

You should, I wanted to call up today, but I'm too busy right now,
hopefully next week I can meet a few lecturers for a coffee or something
towards the end of the week.

> I presume the list would be ok in answering a fiew questions should I get
> the go ahead.
> 

No problem, might want to sub to the ILUG list too .. couple of more
bodies on that list than on this one!

> Got to go now. Third year finals ATM

Good luck!

Donncha.