begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:39:36PM -0700: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: [snip] > >systems when I can roll out a single virtual machine image and debug it > >once. Since the school can't do that with Windows without paying a nice > > Now THIS is a cool idea. Give the kids vmware or qemu or something and > an image which contains your compiler/interpreter, preferred editing > environment, whatever build tools you like, documentation, syllabus, > course outline, whatever the heck you want them to have, and let them > run it on any machine they want. Very slick.
It is indeed very slick. > Sure beats the bad old days > of having to walk to the computer lab to stare at a green screen serial > terminal! Hey! I *liked* those days! There was a sense of community; if you were stuck, there were people around who might be able to help you. Shoot, I met some of my best friends in the green-screen computer labs. -- I hung out in the labs a lot for a few years. Grand times. I miss 'em. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
