> Hell, yes. I started with knowing nothing. Now I know slightly more than > nothing. It is amusing when final year computer science students start > e-mailing me for advice.
Not really, rather worrying actually. I would say I probably learnt 10 times more about computers from this mailing list than my 3 years of cosc. 100 times more by having part time jobs during my studies. Whats really disturbing is when the departments main lecturer in networking sends the technician up to the post grads and honours students offices asking us to help him ftp a file between his laptop and desktop (windows boxen), wondering how to diagnose a "connection refused" message.... Granted, one would have to take ones nose out of dusty old OSI model textbooks, and get some experience in the real world first, but still... Looking back on uni now, it seems like a big kindy.. No wonder they are leaking lecturers faster than a windows box leaks memory. -- Kurt H�usler GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
