22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
1:27 p.m.
Anurag anurag@hbcse.tifr.res.in writes:
For that matter, I'd like to point out the infrastructure that is available at C-DAC Mumbai (formely NCST). They have something like 75 computers with Windows 2000 installed. Now the irony is that, for writing programs and compiling them, students are supposed to connect to a GNU/Linux server using a proprietary SSH client and write/compile programs there... This is called higher education!
Been there (at NCST, Bangalore)! Felt the same frustration! Never was able to figure out who decides what OS to use in the lab. Many of the projects they work on doesn't need Windows at all.
But that cannot be an excuse for using Windows (or promoting a proprietary document format) at IISc!
Rgds, anna