On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 22:55, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2003-12-07 00:56:23 +0000 Dennis Dryden ddryden@ntlworld.com wrote:
i do remember someone who wrote course outlines and material specified MS Word and MS Access.
I'd love to know what rules that breaks. "Mathematics with Pepsi" is surely forbidden by something. I remember "Tilt" soft drink appearing in some lessons because of those rules.
This is a very good point, but i guess people(regulating body's) just don't know there is an alternative so they let it slide.
Last I heard, some outposts still exist, but the masses definitely don't have access to them and even the computing lot don't do desktop unix for undies any more. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong.
Its a bit sad when a University computer science department does not even have any Tux'en (GNU/Linux Box's) when some high schools are giving Linux it a try. Well for now i have Mingw(win32 gcc) and Scite on a zip disk its slow but i can still mess around with my code. Before i started at the UEA i was under the belief that there were some Sun Solaris box'en in one of the lower floors of CMP(the department formerly known as SYS) but if there are i can't find them and there is no mention of them =(.
- Dennis Dryden