[plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

[Christian]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:34:22PM +0800, Steve Vertigan wrote:
> > Regarding lecture notes, you have a right to complain if you can't view
> > these but you can actually view these under Linux pretty reliably so I
> > don't see that there's really a huge problem with this (PowerPoint is
> > another matter though).  
> Depends on what you mean by reliably.  I was able to view the first 2
> weeks lecture notes for the introductory course B102 in Abiword but the
> third one kept crashing it.  Eventually I gave in to the dark side and
> installed the monstrous Star Office 5.2.  My maths lecturer on the other
> hand posts her lecture notes as pdf.  Now if she can manage a
> non-proprietary format why haven't the so-called technologists from the
> computer department gotten a clue?

StarOffice works pretty reliably and runs under Linux so that's what I
meant. :)

As for your maths lecturer posting PDFs, that might be because she might
be using LaTeX...  otherwise maybe her exposure to that and PS/PDF has
given her insight on the advantages of portable file formats.  Either
way, my lecture notes will be in PDF. :)

> > The three Unix-based units I know of, off the top of my head are B338,
> > B310 and B228 -- the latter being mine.  Not sure if I know you or not
> > but, if not, you can add another Murdoch-based Unix user to your list.
> 
> Sounds like there's almost enough Murdoch people here to make an MLUG
> :).  Speaking of which does anyone know what the 'linux room' is used
> for?  I assume it's a lab full of PCs running linux but the door's shut
> every time I walk past it.

The ones on this list I know of are Danny Toohey (if he's still here),
Bill Kenworthy, Trevor Phillips and I believe I even saw a post from
mikeg the other day...

By 'linux room' I assume you mean the dual-boot machines in the S&C
building?  They're used, surprisingly enough, for teaching (mainly)
Linux/Unix-related units! :-)

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