Thursday, October 21, 2004

New semester

After two weeks of exam, I'm now in the second module of the course. This semester, I will be taking optical communications and Software and Database in Telecommunication. The first subject will be taught by 3 lecturers because the course is divided three parts. Each lecturer is responsible for each part. The first part is already finished which took 8 hours of lecture. We were enlightened with the history how was optical communications came about, the basic concepts, and system overview.

Today, I'm in the second week of the module and will be learning Software and Database in Telecommunication. The lectuer mentioned that we will be using some softwares in learning the subject. One of them is Knoppix. Knoppix is operating system just that is based on Linux. The special thing about is Knoppix which can boot from cd. Application like openOffice is included in the CD. It like in the old days where we have to boot the computer with 5 inch diskettes with operating system called MS-DOS. Back then it was boring because syntax command have to be type in and remember.

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