Friday, March 03, 2006
This is for those of you having trouble finding a computer in the MI block at uni.
I've noticed some observations over the last few weeks, firstly that the MI block is really rammed and very noisey at peak times - but the people in the MI block are not always SCIT or SEBE - this is a way to protect against all computers being taken by other school's students as they have their own PC's in their own buildings, also the IT suite on the third floor of the library.
Protection 1. Simply, just the other day I turned off all the monitors at a particular cluster, to my suprise whilst the rest of the MI was full no -one was on that cluster, and a girl kindly lent over and told me they weren't working so I switched on the monitor and worked away.
Protection 2. Boot into SuSE - it scares people when they see something different, also when the command comes from the AD for the shutdown of the computers at night SuSE machines are exempt :D meaning that they are still in SuSE in the morning!
Protection 3. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK OF ELECTRICUTION! So SuSe and switching off the monitor didn't scare them off - try unplugging the monitor? or as far as the base unit? Also the uni machines are completely useless without a network connection (catch my drift?)
Protection 4. So you bottled protection three, well you can always try swapping the mice over with another pc on the cluster - good for a laugh at least!
I've noticed some observations over the last few weeks, firstly that the MI block is really rammed and very noisey at peak times - but the people in the MI block are not always SCIT or SEBE - this is a way to protect against all computers being taken by other school's students as they have their own PC's in their own buildings, also the IT suite on the third floor of the library.
Protection 1. Simply, just the other day I turned off all the monitors at a particular cluster, to my suprise whilst the rest of the MI was full no -one was on that cluster, and a girl kindly lent over and told me they weren't working so I switched on the monitor and worked away.
Protection 2. Boot into SuSE - it scares people when they see something different, also when the command comes from the AD for the shutdown of the computers at night SuSE machines are exempt :D meaning that they are still in SuSE in the morning!
Protection 3. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK OF ELECTRICUTION! So SuSe and switching off the monitor didn't scare them off - try unplugging the monitor? or as far as the base unit? Also the uni machines are completely useless without a network connection (catch my drift?)
Protection 4. So you bottled protection three, well you can always try swapping the mice over with another pc on the cluster - good for a laugh at least!
// posted by Richard Francis @ 3:33 AM 
