From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 29 07:35:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14022 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dilbert.hq.functional.com (grail@dilbert.hq.functional.com [128.173.245.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA14016 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grail@localhost) by dilbert.hq.functional.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17838; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:35:29 GMT Message-ID: <19970929133529.58334@functional.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:35:29 +0000 From: Giao Nguyen To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Annelise Anderson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) References: <199709291321.JAA22447@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199709291321.JAA22447@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 09:24:04AM -0400 X-Saying: Maniacal laughter is the best medicine. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamie Bowden said: > off somedays). When I worked for a CS dept., I ran into this attitude > there among students. How the hell does a CS student plan on getting a > degree in a computer field without actually learning about a computer? I ask myself the same question. The CS students that I deal with give me a good scare when I think that they'll be graduating in a year or so. A young gentlement was asking me about how to implement a queue. Now mind, you, for a lower level student this should not be a difficult concept. For a junior in computer science (and one of the brighter ones I might add), it's a difficult concept for me to fathom this. Of course, the department is standardizing on NT. Why? Probably parental pressure about how their children a) can't play any games or b) can't find a word processor for Unix. Though I usually find it amusing to discuss concepts of operating systems. When I mention processes, I usually get blank stares ..... > What's worse is that some of them manage. The grad students were worse > than the undergrads. Anyway, enough ranting for now. Agreed. Scary isn't it? Blind leading the blind. -- Giao Nguyen