hi Wire, On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Wire James wrote: > U r right. In my days i.e 93 - 97, I remember that my facvulty > (Agriculture) and Technology were the only ones that had computer labs. I > think plus a few smatterings in the Computer Science department. Tech guys > were notorious at time time for bringing their virus laden diskettes to > use the "fast" PCs in the Agric Lab.
hmmm..Wire, remember - we were probably in the same year :) i dont remember that happening :) actually, its the reverse :) it was only the agric engineering students doing that :) > time. As I speak now, almost all faculties have up2 date labs with decent > PCs, networks in place and an internet connection not forgetting the > campus wide fibre (damn!!!). DICTS (the IT support body of Makerere > University) now manages all the firewalls for the various labs and > currently implements them on PCs with flach cards. They have even gone > ahead to customise their own "Linux". This is surely progress IMHO. > > Ernest dont u think so ? like i said, there is notable progress on the IT side. From Paul's posting, concern is students developing projects like mobile-phone detectors, this is more of core electronics. The electrical eng labs at MUK (plus the sylabbi) have not changed much for decades. Students can therefore not be blamed for not being witty. ernest. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
