The perks

[sasKuatch]

Today during one of my programming classes we were led into the EOS Lab. Experimental Operating System Lab. You guessed it; it's the Linux lab, and it rocks.

The university admin came to talk to us; told us that it is the best lab on campus, one of the reasons being that there is no windows (that's what he said). Nice hardware, clean, bunches of games installed, food and drink allowed, talking and noise allowed, etc. There is robotics equipment laying around. This place is THE BOMB! As explained by him, it's essentially a place for CS major to hang out and work on projects, play Unreal Tournament, and meet other CS majors.

All the computer have a sign on them that says "Do not turn off, do not cycle power, do not reset", as opposed to the other labs where it explicity says to reboot if ANYTHING goes wrong as a first measure and then ask for help. The reason for this is that other users are logged in via SSH, meaning that only a part of the lab users are actually IN the lab.

Another major difference is the fact that it's locked. Keycard required. But it's open 24/7.

I was grinning ear to ear like a fool, I was so excited.:D

[MorphiusFaydal]

excellent.... :D:D:D

what university do you go to?

wish my HS had a linux lab..

chris

[Icarus]

Our "Linux Lab" at DeVry was a closet, literlly! It was about 6x10 feet, if that with 2 foot makeshift desks on each side giving us 2x10 feet to occupy.
We would get 10 guys in there and play Quake3 before class, half the computers were Win2000 and the other half was a mix of Red Hat, Gentoo, Debian and even a BSD machine or two.

VNC was our friend, since about half the class rooms there were wired, we could hookup our laptops and VNC to one of the systems to do some "work" ;)

[sasKuatch]

Chris, this is at GVSU, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Oh, this one is bigger. It has about 30 some machines in 2 rooms. One room has 24 machines, not including those used for the robotics and other senior projects. The other room consists of about a dozen dual boots which are for miscellaneous work such as benchmarking, etc. All the machines have brand new LCD panel displays I'm guessing 18" or so. 3ghz and 256mb of RAM.

The only caveat is that the admin will preiodically try to crack our accounts, and if he manages twice we fail the class and are kicked out of the CS program. So I went berzerk and did a whole sentence consisting of misspelled words interlaced with numbers, caps, and symbols. My only concern is remembering it.