Lousy Lynx

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Sep 20 07:57:41 UTC 2010


Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Sun, September 19, 2010 19:40, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:02:21 -0700
>> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I teach computer science in university...
>>> ...I'm not sure how to restore the MS MBR...
>> It seems so completely unlikely that you don't know how to restore a
>> Microsoft Master Boot Record /and/ aren't able to lay your hands on the
>> info in seconds that I have trouble believing your first statement.
>>
>> If true, I pity the youth of today.
> 
> He wrote a PhD dissertation "On Tuning and Optimization for Multiple
> Queries in Databases". I have not read it, but if he teaches computer
> *science* and it's about databases, it could be that he takes a very
> scientific and mathematical approach. In that case he doesn't have to be
> an internet wizard per se.
> 
> 

Translation: Getting a doctorate does not mean you know everything.
Self-interpretation: Those who are out to show up doctorates as not 
knowing everything need to get a life.

/me tries vigorously to pry fingers from keyboard...




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