Hi,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:51:00:PM -0700 Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> Well, every high school in north america would have you think that
> without a start button, a computer is completely useless and broken.
I'm pretty sure that the school I went to still has those 286 Siemens
machines with M
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:36:41:AM + Simon White wrote:
> Computer courses should teach about computers, not some proprietary
> software guff. Doesn't have to be programming, but how about file systems,
> and troubleshooting procedures?
Troubleshooting is part of what I think makes most
30-Mar-02 at 10:26, Rocco Rutte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> No! I was writing about schools. At _school_ others were told how to use
> Word and Works. Our teacher really asked us what we want to do the last
> two two years in Computer Science. So we decided _not_ to learn how to
> use MS Office.
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:16:13:PM -0700 Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> Alas! Rocco Rutte spake thus:
> > In Computer Science I spent two terms on creating a website on something
> > dealing with new media (okay, surfing all the time and hacking it
> > together in 1/2 day before deadline). Other
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:16:13PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> Alas! Rocco Rutte spake thus:
> > In Germany there's a campaign running to connect every school to the
> > internet. IIRC, Microsoft and Compaq are involved by contributing
> > hardware and software for free/for low price. So wha
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Alas! Rocco Rutte spake thus:
> In Germany there's a campaign running to connect every school to the
> internet. IIRC, Microsoft and Compaq are involved by contri
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:51:00:PM -0700 Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> Well, every high school in north america would have you think that
> without a start button, a computer is completely useless and broken.
In Germany there's a campaign running to connect every school to the
internet. IIRC,
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Alas! Shawn McMahon spake thus:
> This isn't my opinion, this is basic computer science. What are they
> teaching you kids in those schools these days?
Well, ev
> > No, not really. It's marketing.
>
> The definition of OS isn't marketing, it's Computer Science. It's
> been presented. It agrees with what I said. Get over it.
Okay, i think this argument is finished. I'll summarize:
Some people believe that the Operating System is the kernel plus
* On 2002.03.29, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting what David Champion said on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:58:32PM -0600:
> > No, not really. It's marketing.
>
> The definition of OS isn't marketing, it's Computer Science. It's
> been present
begin quoting what David Champion said on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:58:32PM -0600:
> No, not really. It's marketing.
The definition of OS isn't marketing, it's Computer Science. It's
been presented. It agrees with what I said. Get over it.
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* On 2002.03.29, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> SunOS 5.8 is a component of the Solaris operating environment. Guess
> what OS stands for? SunOS 5.8 is the KERNEL, not the operating
> environment.
That's not actually true. "SunOS" refers to the k
Just to throw a little fuel on the fire:
Look in the Sun training catalog, at how they define the products
themselves.
"Solaris 8 Operating Environment".
Look at their web page:
http://www.sun.com/solaris/
They call it the same thing. Then do a uname -a on a Solaris 8 system:
SunOS chtsjs01
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