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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span>The lecturer is here to give you the logics behind whatever you want to study, but ultimately you will have to study it by yourself.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Most lecturers I came across are sort of retarded.. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>kn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> discuss-bounces@lugm.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lugm.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>selven<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> Loganaden Velvindron; LUGM Discuss Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [lugm.org] University of Mauritius Head technician<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>only problem with the car driving example is that this falls under a vocational training and not an academic training. You can't get the instincts to fly a jet plane out of the blue by taking a few car driving lessons.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But if you know the principles of physics and know how to read your way through manuals and how to dig out information and be curious, :p you can have a chance at flying a jet plane out of the blue,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The problem as i see it, seems to be getting the right people to be placed in the right field. The lecturer is here to give you the logics behind whatever you want to study, but ultimately you will have to study it by yourself. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For example, if you take an algorithm class, its not to make you know a particular language, but it is about making you learn different ways to think in solving a problem. nothing more, the lecturer shouldn't be expected to hold you hand and teach you how to actually implement that in say XYZ industry problems. . . if he does that, then he's just being cool.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's not one graduate per house, but in the next decade it will be one frustrated degree holder per house - simply because when there'll be many graduates (BSc, BA, B.Engg holders),<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Amen to that! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>@logan, you are crazy. You are the dude with the more patches around. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>+selven<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <<a href="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting. Even when there were fewer students in UoM, I don't recall many outstanding graduates<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>from that University making any significant contribution to the field of "Computer Science". The only<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>exception is Selven who found bugs in Mac OS X, alerted apple, fixed bugs in GNU Screen, improved phpbb security, etc..<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I still stand by my statement: UoM finds meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Mohammad Nadim Qaadiri Razavi Attari <<a href="mailto:nadim.attari@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadim.attari@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><b>To:</b> LUGM Discuss Mailing List <<a href="mailto:discuss@lugm.org" target="_blank">discuss@lugm.org</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Thursday, 19 April 2012, 14:56<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [<a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">lugm.org</a>] University of Mauritius Head technician<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 19 April 2012 12:52, Jerry Lee <<a href="mailto:arag.mx7@gmail.com" target="_blank">arag.mx7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In regards to educational system that only care about making money, I think that's the same thing around the world. That's not just in Mauritius<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>+1 - Everywhere it's the same : mass-produce for industrialisation.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here in Mauritius, we can see many universities and campus cropping up lately. Are we producing quality or quantity (one graduate per house policy) ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's not one graduate per house, but in the next decade it will be one frustrated degree holder per house - simply because when there'll be many graduates (BSc, BA, B.Engg holders),<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>it will be difficult for firms to choose from them during recruitment. These firms will simply prefer MSc/MA holders... Degree holders will be frustrated, no work with a degree in hand ! Then the same will happend to MSc/MA holders..<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>One graduate per house policy is just bullshit, imho.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#003300'>Mohammad Nadim Attari</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#666666'>Skype: nadimattari</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#666666'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/nadimattari" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/nadimattari</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>__________________________________________________________<br>Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) Discuss mailing list<br>Website: <a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">http://lugm.org</a><br>Mailing list archive: <a href="http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/</a><br>Forum: <a href="http://lugm.org/forum/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/forum/</a><br>IRC: #<a href="http://linux.mu" target="_blank">linux.mu</a> on Freenode<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>__________________________________________________________<br>Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) Discuss mailing list<br>Website: <a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">http://lugm.org</a><br>Mailing list archive: <a href="http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/</a><br>Forum: <a href="http://lugm.org/forum/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/forum/</a><br>IRC: #<a href="http://linux.mu" target="_blank">linux.mu</a> on Freenode<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#262626'>Pirabarlen Cheenaramen </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#262626'>| $3|v3n<b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:#404040'>L'escalier</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#404040'>mobile: +230 49 24 918</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'>email: <a href="mailto:pcthegreat@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcthegreat@gmail.com</a> || <a href="mailto:god@hackers.mu" target="_blank">god@hackers.mu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'>contact: <a href="http://godifiy.me/" target="_blank">http://godifiy.me</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:#1F497D'>/*memory is like prison*/ (user==selven)?free(user):user=malloc(sizeof(brain));</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#336600'>P </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#336600'>Save electricity & disk space. 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