Posted on 01/26/2005 5:22:19 PM PST by Vermonter
Really? This might be news to the vast majority of engineering and computer science students the world over... While not every college works directly with "real" unix source code for their CS students in OS System Design or Compiler Design classes, you can be that they do use "unix-ish" OS's like Andy Tanenbaum's "Minix," or Linux.
And I remember being an EE TA (I was a CS major) and working with EE juniors and seniors, helping them to learn the System V commands and utilities they needed to work on the AT&T 3B2 and 3B20 systems they used for graphics design classes, and the 4.2BSD commands and utilites on the VAX 8600 systems they used as well.
Mark
It would have been nice to buy some Apple stock that cheap. And I'm a very small investor, only buying a few shares at a time (it's all I can afford).
I bought 15 shares of Dell at about $37. Of course, with all the 2:1 splits, I now have 240 shares, so I guess I've done pretty well with that too.
Mark
And remember, that there are a lot of people who are responsible for computers and networks even though their job title has nothing to do with them.
A friend and former co-worker had the job title "Missile Repair Technician" while he was a Sr Airman stationed at Whiteman AFB. However, he never actually worked on missiles. He was too busy running amd maintaining their networks! He was responsible for both Novell networks as well as UNIX networks where the servers were a bunch of big HP-9000 systems.
Mark
We started with a small money pot, which was designated as our "gambling" money. After doing well on a couple of small dels, I bought xerox and Apple. Both did well, but the xerox kept fluctuating. I sold after doubling the first time, repeated, rinsed, then repeated again. I put it all into the apple stock, and held on... which has proven to be my best ever stock purchase. I am thinking of bailing, if it drops below 70, or gets to 80...
I also have owned Macs since 1984... and would not trade for any Wintel made... OSX rocks!
"It's wrong to claim that "those dumb Mac users can't do anything on their own!" I'd like to see how productive you are on a system that you've never used before"
If you followed the thread, my point was regarding the teaching and use of MACs in schools, where most of the students will have to re-learn when they get out. I believe this is not a good use of our educational money, a disservice to the students AND the businesses that will hire them.
"Really? This might be news to the vast majority of engineering and computer science students the world over... "
It may surprise you, but the vast majority of schools are NOT "engineering and computer science".
That happened to me in the Army too. I was a missile jockey and one day the first sergeant came down to the motor pool to say "I heard you know computers a bit." I said yes, and the next thing you know I'm working at battalion HQ. Next station I'm supposed to be an executive admin assistant (don't ask), but then I find myself programming database applications and WordPerfect macros to keep the headquarters running.
You can use third party external drives with iDVD now! Could you post a link to where you found that?
BURN DVDS TO AN EXTERNAL BURNER OR A DISK IMAGE WITH iDVD
The disk image technique is especially useful if you need to burn multiple copies of a DVD. Just create the disk image file, then use the Disk Utility program to burn each copy.
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