I studied Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad" in India. Almost on the very first day of classes, we get a mail account and a programming account on locally hosted servers, to which we ssh through putty on Windows machines in the labs. Of course, it was just a matter of weeks before we installed Redhat on all the machines, considering this was 2003. Not that we were the first, we just inherited the prevalent culture. Also, the students were the admins of the labs and some senior students become the student Sys-Admins of the servers and infrastructure.
Also, being a university, only open technologies were part of the curriculum with some rare exceptions. So, Windows didn't make too much sense from a programming perspective. We only used Windows for multi-player gaming in the hostels (Quake, CS-CZ, UT, BF2, Warcraft etc..).. ah.. good ol days!
The other premier institute in India, the IIT's use Solaris instead of Linux as the standard system.
I find it shocking to read about the response of the IT staff in your university. I think you need to start a campaign to modernize/enlighten your university. The first thing you learn after C programming being Computer Architecture, Compilers and OS Internals, it would be wise to use an OS which is open, not a closed source proprietary OS, which is now incidentally targeting your grandma as their new demographic with their latest release.
I hope the companies would just put their efforts in creating a semantic web, instead of trying to hack-patch html by adding random meta-data for the purpose of search. Seriously.. focus people!
Focus!
This has been in the pipeline for a while now and it kinda makes sense. Currently the 2.6.xxx has so many versions, it is no longer clear which is from when. His reasoning for the 3.0 as Linus says is that 2 decades have passed in the linux kernel development (Sounds like he's trying to avoid a conflict by giving a reason which cannot be argued against). But it also feels like the 3rd generation in linux kernels too with all the new hardware nowadays.
I feel somewhat relieved by this move.. its like i have been holding my breath for decades and can let it go now!
Where does the power come from then!?
The government must now determine how it can make up the difference with renewable energy sources, natural gas and coal-fired plants.
I mean, really? That'll end up being 90% coal at the very least. I love sentiment driven politics, It's crappy, but waaay more interesting.
Does anyone remember this?
If just one percent of the Saharan Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the entire world.
Solar Energy from Sahara Will Be Imported To Europe Within 5 Years
LOL, cheers for that troll reply. I put my hand up rather than blurting it out, as the speaker said when they started that if you had a comment or observation to make then you should put your hand up and he'd ask you to share it with the others (if it sounds school-like, it was a schools security conferenec). The 10 second thing has never been true in general - at least not since 1995, which is when I first went online. The only change I've seen over the years is that rather than a single probe at a port you might now get several at once. Note that I'm not saying that security is irrelevant, as it's clearly very important. I just have an issue with that utterly rubbish "A Windows machine gets probed within x seconds/minutes" line. It's simply not true and never has been. (Well, unless x is 604800 or something!)
Dude... get your facts right. Maybe your closet server is on a safe network already. My experience at my university around 2004, before some of the major SP's, was exactly in line with the 10 seconds rule. All you needed was to plug the network in and lo and behold, before you could think about updating your AV definitions! The only way was to make a CD of latest AV. Those were the days, when running a Windows machine was impossible without an AV and a firewall like Zone Alarm. Remember Zone Alarm?
Looks to me like price and of course availability is the problem for the people. It's strange that RadioShack marks the price up in such a ridiculous fashion.. I read about someone complaining about an LED for 3$... In India it costs me 1 Rupee, about 0.02$. An assorted box of 100 resistors costs less than a 1$. The basic multimeter costing less than 2$.
I always remembered wishing components were available in India, as easily as in RadioShack.. but its surprising to hear the current state. Of course, this is a street famous for electronics in my city Hyderabad, where we get most of the simple components you would expect from a DIY shop. The problem is that, they are still not up to date on certain advanced things like microcontrollers, arduinos, development boards, and their knowledge doesn't extend beyond the small components. The Pickaxe is the commonly available dev board, and of course the AVR microcontroller is evergreen. But, the DIY and the ideas and the knowledge comes from the Universities... The students just come to this street to buy their components.
This is so ridiculous that it has to end now. The court rules them guilty of making it possible to share files illegally. Okay.. let me provide a few more examples they should target next according to their logic.
You get the point... So please, MAFIAA, RIAA, RETARDAA, go ahead censor the whole fucking shebang or shut all networks, and you will finally see the dormant reaction of the people you have been trying to provoke for so long.. Pirate Bay is not wrong in its actions, neither is Anonymous in defending the founders.
Yeah, I figured "Towel Day" would be on April 2 (4-2) or, like you said, Feb 11. Any significance to this date?
Unfortunately no... Just thought it was a good straightforward 42! But a Douglas Adams day should relate to 42 in some way.. that should be a rule!
Saw some ladies laying out on towels today, glad to see it's not just the internet nerds who celebrate towel day.
Just my limited perspective.. but a lotta ladies like Douglas Adams' books...
and ya blah blah... @ISP's please take care of this..
Its not my headache as long as I can get an IP to access the internet with..
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