From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 28 00:35:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08376 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:35:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08368 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:35:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 105mvM-0002L3-00; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:35:41 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01593; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:35:07 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02182; Thu, 28 Jan 99 08:35:04 GMT Message-Id: <36B0211F.E6059DC2@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:34:39 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: James Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Back to school References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James wrote: > > I recently started a new semester as a senior in a computer science > cirricula. I am taking "Intro to Data Communications" which is a > 4400 level course at my school and populated with students most would > assume to be reasonably knowledgeable although a bit green around the > edges. > > As soon as it was announced that UNIX is the preferred platform for > assignments a student announced, "Why can't we use NT?!?!". He also > seemed upset that he would *GASP* have to edit text files for system > configuration. Sounds like a good school to me ;-) An opportunity for you to do a bit of advocacy here methinks. Point out that having all the sys config stuff in text files means that if you cock it up and the system won't boot you can ``boot -s'' and fix it. If they reckon NT can repair a stuffed config then tell them to try disabling ATAPI.SYS on an all-IDE machine, then trying to get it to boot (it'll BSoD with "inaccessible boot device"), even the Repair option from the 3 floppy boot can't fix it....time to re-install (and if you're wondering, yes it happened to me). > > Not to mention that in the sophomore "File Processing" course all students > seem to gripe after being drug away from learning C/C++ in Windows to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Err, is this not a contradiction it terms? > writing for a UNIX machine. > Well, they'll be able to call themselves programmers then, won't they, not just drag 'n' drop GUI builders. > James Higgins > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message