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Planet-Black0psWhere's James?
Im here again, after quite an eventful week. Been offered a job i'll fully enjoy, and it feels like i've come back from a small holiday, and i've also worked out that this computer is the source of all my problems. Well, a category of them.
Since as far back as I can remember, i've non-stop worked - either it is college assignments, or coding new bits for the site, or adventuring into other programming languages. It has just gotten far too monotonos. There was a time where I associated computers with entertainment, but recently (as in, the pre-seeable past) i've looked upon it as work-related.
College is the biggest downer of all. Honestly, if you ever hear anyone mention "National Diploma IT", I urge you to use whatever means necassary to change their mind, unless you absolutely hate them. College somehow translates "programming" into making a powerful database system out of Excel, recording macro's to copy and paste data from the "form" (just a grid bordered up on "worksheet 1"), followed by listening to the tutor kiss Microsoft's ass, repeatedly, every lesson. I feel sorry for the caretaker, having to mop up my vomit everytime the tutor does a round of that...
College also feels like a complete, utter, waste of time. Take Web Management for example. Now were onto looking at LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP/Perl) servers. Now, I use Linux everyday. I use Apache, Mysql, and PHP every day. Ive set up LAMP servers from scratch, on many a distro. To have to sit there in silence, for 1 1/2 hours, as the tutor explains the most basic, and sometimes stupid information about the topic, is just un-bearable. I know there are people in the class who still havent yet realised there's another operating system than Windows, but the tutors insist that I absolutely must be there every lesson, or I will miss out on some important information. Its no different than teaching a football player to kick, an athelete to run, or a swimmer to brave completely going under water.
Its because of college that i've been completely put off from computers. My interests lay in programming with proper languages, and not recording macro's in a proprietary, locked down application.
I just have to mention how terrible Nortons Anti-virus is. We updated it and did a full system scan on my aunt's PC. It reported everything as fine. I installed AntiVir, and it found 12 viruses - 6 of them being "dialer.exe's", and others being trojan horses. Dont you just HATE it when you try to convince something to someone, with full proof, just to have them pull an "I know better, read their site, they say theyre awesome so it must be true" attitude. No, that was not my aunt that did that - Nortons is now removed and binned. Its just worrying that someone else is parting with £50 every year for an application that just DOES NOT WORK, then accusing me everytime he gets a virus.
Since as far back as I can remember, i've non-stop worked - either it is college assignments, or coding new bits for the site, or adventuring into other programming languages. It has just gotten far too monotonos. There was a time where I associated computers with entertainment, but recently (as in, the pre-seeable past) i've looked upon it as work-related.
College is the biggest downer of all. Honestly, if you ever hear anyone mention "National Diploma IT", I urge you to use whatever means necassary to change their mind, unless you absolutely hate them. College somehow translates "programming" into making a powerful database system out of Excel, recording macro's to copy and paste data from the "form" (just a grid bordered up on "worksheet 1"), followed by listening to the tutor kiss Microsoft's ass, repeatedly, every lesson. I feel sorry for the caretaker, having to mop up my vomit everytime the tutor does a round of that...
College also feels like a complete, utter, waste of time. Take Web Management for example. Now were onto looking at LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP/Perl) servers. Now, I use Linux everyday. I use Apache, Mysql, and PHP every day. Ive set up LAMP servers from scratch, on many a distro. To have to sit there in silence, for 1 1/2 hours, as the tutor explains the most basic, and sometimes stupid information about the topic, is just un-bearable. I know there are people in the class who still havent yet realised there's another operating system than Windows, but the tutors insist that I absolutely must be there every lesson, or I will miss out on some important information. Its no different than teaching a football player to kick, an athelete to run, or a swimmer to brave completely going under water.
Its because of college that i've been completely put off from computers. My interests lay in programming with proper languages, and not recording macro's in a proprietary, locked down application.
I just have to mention how terrible Nortons Anti-virus is. We updated it and did a full system scan on my aunt's PC. It reported everything as fine. I installed AntiVir, and it found 12 viruses - 6 of them being "dialer.exe's", and others being trojan horses. Dont you just HATE it when you try to convince something to someone, with full proof, just to have them pull an "I know better, read their site, they say theyre awesome so it must be true" attitude. No, that was not my aunt that did that - Nortons is now removed and binned. Its just worrying that someone else is parting with £50 every year for an application that just DOES NOT WORK, then accusing me everytime he gets a virus.