On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:21, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Everyone who joins the contest described above (had you cared to read > more than the subject line) should be a "geek", or at the very least > know who the hell Linus Torvalds is and his great contribution to > computer science and the software industry. The fact that few of our > nation's computer science majors (who are "geeks" by definition) seem to > know him and what he and his compatriots have managed to begin--nothing > less than a total seismic shift in the software industry that has even > giants like Microsoft reeling--is a troubling observation that does not > speak at all well about the state of computer science education in the > Philippines.
uh. does AMA (the best computer something school in the philippines according to some advertisements from a year ago, i think) teach linux? AFAIK (and i would be *happy* to be shown just how wrong i am) AMA doesn't. probably because of that settlement with microsoft after the piracy thing. man, i just had an interview with an AMA graduate. i asked her to create one textbox and a button, everytime the button was clicked, the text alignment in the textbox should increment (0,1,2 are legal, left, right, center or maybe it was left, center, right) and if the counter is greater than the highest valid number then the counter should be reset to zero. she couldn't do it. dammit. what is this world coming to! tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
