I don't think universities are designed to teach you practical things, thats what polytechs are for, however they do teach you how to think which is more important, I've used very little of my cosc degree since I left in 97, but also I only ever thought about it as a foot in the door, pretty much everything I learnt in my own time was more valuable, they never taught us anything at uni about windows terminal server (sorry to swear at you guys, but I have to make a living somehow!! ;-).
JeremyB. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Hausler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 2:34 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: firewall/routers > 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
