Re: [MLUG] what happened to Igor?

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

/"I'll bet that Igor could get into the Ivy League schools (but they 
probably don't give you a good bang for your buck)." /

Oh, yes. My brother is just finishing up summer school at Harvard (he's 
taking organic 1, 2, and the lab.) He hates it up there- the food is 
awful, his dorms not air-conditioned, and the interior of the buildings 
makes the Physics auditoriums look good. And it cost him over a year's 
worth of tuition here. He's glad to be done with organic, but he has a 
newfound appreciation for MU. Frankly, I was a little surprised. Harvard 
is supposed to be excellent and it turns out that it at least to him, 
it's subpar. The meatloaf served three times a week and their 
high-school-gym-sized rec center clinched it for him!

Oh, and their wireless is crappy- I know this. We'd chat over IM and 
he'd drop on and off constantly (it might be the fact that he uses 
Windows, but their APs might suck.) They do not even use WEP- fully 
unencrypted.

I tried to get him to switch to Linux but he isn't that hot to the idea. 
He does envy my computer which is more or less similar to his running 
faster and more stably, but he has also seen me write scripts for 
wireless config (fairly simple stuff) and compile apps from source (also 
simple). That kind of scared him off- it looks rather imposing. Ditto 
for my girlfriend, but recent problems with a wireless card driver 
causing BSODs has made her inquire a bit about it. (It is a new 
Atheros-based card and might work with madwifi drivers, else ndiswrapper 
might be called for.) That and the fact that she has used my computer 
for Web browsing and e-mail and found it little different from hers as 
Firefox on XP is the same as Firefox on Linux.

Phillip

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> > > Google turns this up:
> > >
> > > http://campus.umr.edu/ugs/URDAwards.pdf
> > >
> > > Looks like he's attenting my alma mater.  And doing well too.
>
> I'll say.  He must have been a freshman and he placed third in the 
> school. UMR is a good school, but Igor I'll bet that Igor could get 
> into the Ivy League schools (but they probably don't give you a good 
> bang for your buck).
>
>
> > OK, I found an email address from UMR's student search, which I'm 
> > CC'ing.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike
>
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