Ducky
So today I had the Dutch Guy first thing in the morning. Although this should seem like a good thing (entertainment right from the start), I'd rather have him later on in the day when I'm awake enough to appreciate his eccentricness. But well, it's all goo'.
So the Dutch guy is trying to show us what happens when you try to open an extension in a program that doesn't recognize it. So he opens a .jpeg in notepad to prove his point and starts to tell us what the weird characters are... more or less (whatever "ducky" means...). So then he tries to open that same picture on a browser, so he starts up IE* and opens the file--and it opens in the default MS viewing software. And for some reason the Dutch Guy lets out this "silent" maniac laughter (it wasn't silent because it was clear audiable but it wasn't loud either...) and we're all like "okay... this guy's not right"...
He then goes on talking about the way you go from binary to hexonary to unicode. So he types in the hexonary and presses a couple of keys and comes up with this Arabic character. So he says "so there it is, an arábic charater... or is it arabíc? Well, whatever... here, I'll enlarge it for your viewing pleasure" and we just started laughing. You can't believe the joy we got from looking at that character...
Later on in the lecture someone asks what the difference between Unix and Linux is. So the Dutch Guy starts explaining how Unix was the OS that was used back in the 70's and how it's still used today with servers and that Linux is just a PC version of Unix. So then he concludes "so Unix and Linux are OS's that professionals use. Windows and Mac OS are OS's that grandmas and... students use." Yeah, that's right.
*For your viewing pleasure, use Firefox instead of IE. You won't regret it. Click on the banner on the top of The Black Star.
So the Dutch guy is trying to show us what happens when you try to open an extension in a program that doesn't recognize it. So he opens a .jpeg in notepad to prove his point and starts to tell us what the weird characters are... more or less (whatever "ducky" means...). So then he tries to open that same picture on a browser, so he starts up IE* and opens the file--and it opens in the default MS viewing software. And for some reason the Dutch Guy lets out this "silent" maniac laughter (it wasn't silent because it was clear audiable but it wasn't loud either...) and we're all like "okay... this guy's not right"...
He then goes on talking about the way you go from binary to hexonary to unicode. So he types in the hexonary and presses a couple of keys and comes up with this Arabic character. So he says "so there it is, an arábic charater... or is it arabíc? Well, whatever... here, I'll enlarge it for your viewing pleasure" and we just started laughing. You can't believe the joy we got from looking at that character...
Later on in the lecture someone asks what the difference between Unix and Linux is. So the Dutch Guy starts explaining how Unix was the OS that was used back in the 70's and how it's still used today with servers and that Linux is just a PC version of Unix. So then he concludes "so Unix and Linux are OS's that professionals use. Windows and Mac OS are OS's that grandmas and... students use." Yeah, that's right.
*For your viewing pleasure, use Firefox instead of IE. You won't regret it. Click on the banner on the top of The Black Star.
posted by Jimmie | 5:48 PM
1 Comments:
what decent computing professor would use IE?? james, i would consider a transfer.. UPenn, maybe?
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