[ILUG] Linux @ college

[Colm Mac Cárthaigh]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:19:13AM +0100, username wrote:
> The admins dont hate students (unlike the CS dept) and ive heard DCU do
> a great computers course (which of course no one has heard of if you
> want to leave the country and go to America but thats not worryig about
> when you acutally know what your doing and by being on this list the
> odds are good).
>

If you want to get good knoweldge and experience in computing do a 
physics or engineering course, here in DCU physicists and engineers
have Linux labs, are expected to know C and how to use tools such as
gcc and write Makefiles, shell scripting, gnuplot, and also learn about
the internals of how computers work, everything from the QM of transistors
and junctions to DSP. It is an excellent background from which to enter
computing and a common career path.

> Did i say how unhelpful the CS Dept actually are?  I should probably
> fake my address but it is highly unlikely that any of them are either on
> this list or actually care (hey Colm Buckley!).
> 

dont bother

> Netsoc have recently aquirred a mother f**cker of a machine from Sun

yeah, we got an E450 too, pity about solaris being shite (even worse than
RH FFS)

> i manged to con^H^H^Hvince the CS dept to put Cygwin on a bunch of the
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
if your going to talk geek, get it right

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