12 February 01
I’ve been reading some of the web logs John links to (under diversions on his site). Mainly ooooooner and sa/leanne. It hurts my brain to think how they can type so much and not have their arms sheared off from too much air friction.
I dislike my Operating Systems teacher. I told myself I’d do the best possible - sit in front of the class, listen well, take notes, do work ahead of time. Bah, humbug. I do the projects as I should, but this homework is killing me. The grammar in this assignment screams “English as a second language.”
Most of modern operating systems are layer-structured and are based on the client/server model.
What major advantages that these characteristics, along with the client/server concept, can provide in helping the design of an operating system?
In what way that TCP/IP is fundamentally different from OSI?
I find the only way to understand the questions is to just read them really quickly, skipping over all articles, prepositions, and pronouns, and just guessing what the writer’s intent was. I don’t want to sound xenophobic, but one would think that a college professor in a state-run university would be able to speak English. Not true. I’m beginning to think that any software company could train me in what I need to know in under a year, straight out of high school. It’ll take me five years total (knock on wood) to get my Master’s degree. This is much faster than the average time to get a Master’s degree, but I don’t feel that I’m going to be any better off. I’m still going to somehow get a job, show up to the first day of work, look at what I need to do and not have any idea how to do that typey programmey computador thing-a-ma-jig. Me smartey Master degree happy guy. Me not lern nothing in school.
[insert insane screaming; more ranting here]