Public Labs
When I was an undergrad, prior to my junior year[1] and having better access to computers in the physics building, I pretty much lived in the public labs in the basement of Fellows Hall. That was also where the Dino Pen was, and it was always better to be closer to the VAX and the RS6000 that I eventually fought to get access to.
Anyway, a lot has changed in the world of public labs since then. I’m typing this at one of the few public labs at GMU where I am currently taking classes. It’s friday morning and there are only two other poeple in here. One of them I think is the lab monitor. So many people have laptops and/or have their own computers that public labs are, I suspect, a dying thing. Couple that with the extensive WiFi coverage on campus and there is really very little reason to have public labs.
Hell, the only reason I’m here is that I left my 15lbs laptop at home to spare my aging back.
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Ah, I remember the good old days of computer clusters (as we called them at my alma mater). Most of my time there was spent on the SPARC machines we had for the CS classes.
Comment by Joe — February 24, 2006 @ 4:57 pm