i should point out i'm in the 3rd year of a computing course

[daf]

question in lecture just now

"who here's formatted a windows ntfs drive?"

response from student sitting next to me:

"what's that?"

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in film news: Pride and Predator looks set to be realised.... i can't wait :D

yoinked from ninja_badger

Comments

[mark13.livejournal.com]

"Well in this case it means a Next To Fucking Stupid drive" ;)

appropriate acronym

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

3rd year computing student who doesn't know what ntfs is.... O.O

my mind boggles

Re: appropriate acronym

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally - I'm more or less a total cretin when it comes to computer stuff, but even I know what one is!

[names0fthedead.livejournal.com]

re. the uni thing, that's pretty much horrifying

re. the film thing, fucking hell this better be good, I am salivating here and it's not just because of my manky tongue!

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Back when I first saw Predator and thought it was awesome, I think if you'd come up to me and told me one day there would be a period drama sequel, based loosely on Jane Austen, with music by Elton John, I probably would have backed slowly away to a distance of around ten metres, and then ran like hell!

[names0fthedead.livejournal.com]

I love how the most horrendous and deranged thoughts of diseased brains sometimes become real :D

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, I've *seen* the pics of your new jumper! :)

[names0fthedead.livejournal.com]

I was challenged to make that, it did not come 100% from my own brain. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;)

Did you like my outfit suggestion for you?

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

I'd be seriously concerned about a university CS course that taught how to format disks. It would be like a biology course with an entire term on washing test-tubes.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Not really. CS is algorithms and data structures, not desktop support. I wouldn't expect a CS graduate to know anything vendor-specific, you can pick all that up on the job.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Much of the technology I use day-to-day wasn't even around when I was at university. There was no way anyone could have taught it to me. Similarly much of the fashionable/cutting-edge technology from back then is obsolete now. Learning about it would be pointless. A linked list is still a linked list, tho'.

Still, well done for memorizing all those acronyms! I suppose it helps that they all end in "FS".

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Should I ever work on a project were the choice of filesystem requires more than a minute's thought, I'll be sure to give you a call.

I'm not sure I'd list "formatting disks" as a skill on my CV!

[gommog.livejournal.com]

It doesn't suprise me to be honest, we've interviewed people with degrees as well as MCSA's and they know f*ck all, at least if you're up against people like this when applying for jobs after uni you'll know it'll be plain sailing.