> Ok, labs are in a sorry state but has there been any improvement on how > students spend "faculty allowance" (booze, babes and gadgets)?
This is a different issue al2gether. W > > Besides, fluid mechanics 20 years ago has not changed much anyway! > > Kurup. > > Wire James wrote: > >>Joseph >> >>U r right. In my days i.e 93 - 97, I remember that my facvulty >>(Agriculture) and Technology were the only ones that had computer labs. >> I think plus a few smatterings in the Computer Science department. Tech >> guys were notorious at time time for bringing their virus laden >> diskettes to use the "fast" PCs in the Agric Lab. Dos and Win 3.x was >> the rule at that time. As I speak now, almost all faculties have up2 >> date labs with decent PCs, networks in place and an internet connection >> not forgetting the campus wide fibre (damn!!!). DICTS (the IT support >> body of Makerere University) now manages all the firewalls for the >> various labs and currently implements them on PCs with flach cards. >> They have even gone ahead to customise their own "Linux". This is >> surely progress IMHO. >> >>Ernest dont u think so ? >> >>Wire >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug -- "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." Bill Gates as Quoted by C|Net News.com --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
