From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 23:02:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13129 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mule1.mindspring.com (mule1.mindspring.com [204.180.128.167]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA13124 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:02:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.39.4]) by mule1.mindspring.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA11652 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 07:01:39 GMT Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961204070145.0097db5c@mail.mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mail.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 02:01:45 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:06 AM 12/3/96 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >> In noting the .edu domain of your address, I originally thought that >> you might be a college student. I now believe that I am addressing the >> janitor in the Computer Science Department. > >Actually, the CS department janitor I know is more clueful than >many of the people graduating with degrees. At the very least, >he has more hands-on experience than they do. He would also be >a better choice for a UNIX system admin than most of the students, >if you were a commercial company looking for someone like that. > >This is not to say that I think Archimedes Plutonium knows what he's >talking about... Hear hear! I had a guy getting his Master's in Computer Science tell me a couple of months ago that people who put RCS Id strings in binaries "don't know what they are doing.". Obviously he's never, uh, worked out in the "real world" (pretty sad statement coming from a So, soon to be Jr, in CSC). I was unimpressed. This was from the guy who writes/supports the m68k assembly simulator package for the Computer Science and Electrical/ Computer Engineering departments. It's used in a 200-level CS class, and a couple of 400-level ECE classes. Sad. (BTW, I had a friend of mine say on USELESSNET that I have too many "back home" stories for my own good. I guess I have too many "here at school" stories for my own good as well ;) -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM "Comments in code are kinda useless, anyway." XCOMM -- Brian Rumple, TA for my OS class, NCSU. November 6,1996