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
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). Others
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 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
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
* 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 kernel and
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:
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
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 the
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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
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