Re: fsug

hi sanjeev,

well, this group is sort of like Alcoholics
Anonymous... except that it is to remove CUSATs
addiction to Windows ... so it could be called
W-user's Anonymous ;)

There are no official activities other than the
achievement of complete transfer of all CUSAT's IT
infrastrucutre to the GNU/Linux platform.

You, as a member of the Dept of Physics, could start
by development of domain-specific software (ie, the
physics domain) on the GNU/Linux platform. This would
be a great help. This is assuming that you have no
control over the actual IT infrastructure.

But if you do have such control, then of course a
shift to GNU/Linux for all activities (email, web
broswing, chat, etc) should be done.

Depending on your interests in Physics, there are some
software available. Recently, i saw a piece of
software that allows visualization of surface
properties of molecules/molecular structures or some
such thing.

A cursory look at the cusat.ac.in website shows gross
disregard for web design norms. It also shows how
degraded our academic institutions have become in its
speed of assimilating knowledge on the Information
Superhighway.

One thing that surely can be changed is the status of
the IRM unit of CUSAT, where each and ever member is a
"certified Windows NT Administrator" ... which is
stupid, since Windows NT itself is basically obsolete.
Perhaps someone should train them in GNU/Linux.

Perhaps, before bringing in GNU/Linux itself to the
campus, a technology mindset itself should be
propagated. In my time there, I have not found such a
mindset. I wonder how CUSAT has Science and Technology
in its name.

Rajeev J Sebastian
--- [email protected] wrote:

> sir
> Need to know more about the activities
> Sajeev U S
> Dept of Physics
> CUSAT
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