Official bitch about daily life in UL

procstar wrote: »

u cud always walk; or get the lift

And you could sit at a normal desk

Smell of education in here...:eek:

procstar wrote: »

nothing against the use of laptops there, but only if they use them in the ground floor place. so bloody annoying trying to study when the person beside u comes in with a laptop and click clicks there way through "interesting sites" like bebo when other folks want place to study. :mad:

added to that being asked to keep an eye on it whilst they go for a 2 hour lunch. like ya!

One thing that really annoys me is nosy people who look at what other people are doing on the internet.

Also would be handy if the library would open 24hrs during december for exams. They do that in a few colleges around ireland.

Library will be open 24 hours at some stage in the future, so sez the librarians anyway. Good to see the plaza open late too, gives a bit of life to the canopy area in the evenings.

Funkstard wrote: »

Library will be open 24 hours at some stage in the future, so sez the librarians anyway. Good to see the plaza open late too, gives a bit of life to the canopy area in the evenings.

Ya 24hr library would be great especially during exam times, it would make cramming a hell of a lot easier

Out of curiosity, anyone know anything about the socialist youth group in UL?
They sound like a bunch of tards

ninty9er wrote: »

Incidentally someone came in to me at work yesterday to know how to send an email to all students because she got one.

I told her, and I quote:

"you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"

One of my colleagues thought it was harsh, but she won't go sending an email, will she!!

About 20 people came into me last year asking either how or asking me to send one (having been sent to me by lecturers). Only one of two answers was ever given: one was almost exactly like yours above and the other was "I can but I won't and here's why..."

Realised during the week that I can't set up a server-side Outlook filter with an automatic response for the allstudents address as it's not in the address book list. Bit annoying that, while if there's a workaround I'll eventually find it, if anyone knows how to add a server-side filter for a hidden distribution list, please let me know by PM.

dyl10 wrote: »

Out of curiosity, anyone know anything about the socialist youth group in UL?
They sound like a bunch of tards

Well, they're exuberant young kids who kick doors occasionally at building openings and put up lots of posters.

Side note: I was told by someone the other night (someone being some guy in my class that I didn't realise till then suffered from myopia) that I had been the one that (and I quote) "went mental" at the psudo-protest outside the ICO building the day Martin Cullen came to town. It took me a few minutes to realise that his bad eye-witness of a friend must have noticed me going to the door that was blocked by security guards, failed to notice me getting in and, not having noticed my disappearance, assumed that I was the socialist youth kid taking a sugar-fuelled jump at the door. Obviously I wasn't, indeed I was nice and dry from the rain inside at the time, giggling both at the footlaunchers outside and inside at the egos of a small number of the ICO crowd, specifically the woman on the internal door who thought she was controlling access to the Oval Office.

I wouldn't say that the SY crowd are a bunch of tards, though I find it hard, even using their own logic, to reconcile their stated views on the introduction of college fees (a hard no) with the views you'd expect of a group that professes to be on the side of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses and so on. Even a fuzzy socialist like me finds it hard to believe at times that they're any more than a group of middle-class kids rebelling against their parents.

ninty9er wrote: »

I told her, and I quote:

"you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"

rmacm wrote: »

Why do people have to be uncivil to others? Ok I'm no angel myself but most of the time I try to be nice...rather than telling someone that they're a "pain in the hole" could you not have explained why you wouldn't do it for her and why she couldn't do it herself?

You see, I didn't call her a pain in the hole, but did imply I would if she did send the email.

Oh and 2 idiots sent me an "I have 2 rooms free next semester" email today.

ITD has been notified and the offenders have a 1mb email to collect tomorrow:mad::mad:

How does one notify ITD about these lovely emails and do they do anything about it? I've gotten three this morning and it's really getting on my nerves as I'm waiting on an email from one of my lecturers, not that I need an excuse to be annoyed by it.

For me, it's not receiving the spam that is annoying, it's the fact that students can send it. I'm a Class Rep and I can't even email my course, all 5 of them, but then idiots can send an email about a room for rent to all students. ITD should be stopping students from sending an email to more than 5 persons, and anyone who sends out spam should be blocked from emailing anyone but lecturers. IMO anyway.

Edit: Before anyone says it, I know I can get permission to email them but I manage fine, it's the principle that matters.

Just got my 4th one of the day. This one was so big it instantly left my inbox full. I also got a response from Gordon Young who said he can't do anything and I have to go to the Disciplinary Committee. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to hear from me.

As usual, ITD does eff all. Do they actually do ANY work? I remember being in a lecture the other week and the computer wouldn't work. The lecturer got someone from ITD in. They couldn't fix it so lecturer announces the lecture is cancelled, and then one of students notices the computer is unplugged.

I wish I was joking.

there stupid tbh, the ones about a room to rent and people replying to it are the worst.

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Was anyone else here told today they aren't allowed use their laptops in the library, and that it's "Reading only"??!!

Oh, that'll be fun tomorrow given that I'm planning on being there all day with all my notes and books on a screen. A screen that, incidentally, gets read.

Now, on to higher matters.

Firstly the bus service has been restored on Tuesday and Thursday nights (the bus to town that was suspended two weeks ago, not the nitelink, which I assume is running all nights during exams as usual). That's good. Especially given the unlikelihood of trouble from anyone on the buses given that everyone's concerned about exams, not going drinking and students aren't back till the end of January after next week.

Secondly I put something about the spam issue in the Limerick Indo that was out today. It's at the bottom of page 25, the page where December has an extra 'r' in it at the top of the page for some reason. Comments from some people and a reply from ITD included. Balanced and fair, y'see?

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Was anyone else here told today they aren't allowed use their laptops in the library, and that it's "Reading only"??!!

It's bloody ridiculous! People have notes and stuff on their alptops, and we can't use them because apparently typing on the keyboard is such a nuisance??!!

Next time that guy comes up to me and tells me to shut off my laptop, Ill tell him to shut off all the bleeding Leaving Certs who barge in every day!!!

That has got to be the stupidest thing I've heard in a good while. Why not say that laptops must be kept to the one area instead of banning them altogether? If I decide to go in tomorrow and they try and tell me to turn off my laptop, while I'm sitting at a laptop networked desk, they can run and jump. What's the point of having such desks if you can't even use our laptops? It's not our fault if people are idiots and sit at the desks with an internet cable sticking out of it. Go sit somewhere else. :mad:

ergonomics wrote: »

That has got to be the stupidest thing I've heard in a good while. Why not say that laptops must be kept to the one area instead of banning them altogether? If I decide to go in tomorrow and they try and tell me to turn off my laptop, while I'm sitting at a laptop networked desk, they can run and jump. What's the point of having such desks if you can't even use our laptops? It's not our fault if people are idiots and sit at the desks with an internet cable sticking out of it. Go sit somewhere else. :mad:

It's only on the 2nd floor on the left hand side that you're not allowed use its the gluckmans area or something weird like that.. I think its a good idea just to have that section laptop free, its quite then for studying there..

DJCR wrote: »

Oh for f00k sake .... the union spends the last few yeas getting the library to spread internet capability then then then they go shut down another area ................

Wireless coverage is very good (the best in fact) in the EDC. The old EDC, which now doesn't have any desks as it's now short loans. Big sections on floor 1 where bandwidth is 1Mps (compared to 54 in the old EDC) or zero and quality "fair" or "poor" (or non-existent). Feel free to tell the library rep that, especially considering the library was considering putting in for funding with Ulster bank to wireless-enable the main courtyard before I checked and found almost all of it to have excellent coverage already. Better library wireless required.

DJCR wrote: »

Great but demogaphic analysis shows there are now more laptops which leads to greater contention rates ..... slowing down the internet

Oh, you're definitely right there, it's easy to spot in the canteen if you're at the wrong end - usability (and by "usability" I mean opening a simple text page) depends on how many machines are being used in between you and the right side of the canteen.

Library's full of black and grey spots though regardless of contention, they need to put in a few more WAPs to sort the problem. Especially given that ITD are definitely considering the idea of not buying any more public access machines (ever) and assuming that everyone will have their own laptop, most of which will rely on wireless for network and Internet access, for convenience over wired if nothing else. It's probably about two years before they'll have to make that call (and obviously every few years again if they decide to continue buying new machines then) but they're seriously considering it already.

A minor detail, but wireless in the library is shoite.

I would have thought (given the institution we're in, that seems to have a fairly lofty opinion of itself) that it wouldn't be an issue but woah no.... barring a networked desk there is absolutely zero chance of ze interweb.