One thing on how you would improve NUI maynooth

GLaDOS

mickstupp wrote: »

A wifi network that just remembers me, logs me on automatically so that I don't have to go through an awful long-winded login process every single time.

Maybe it's not available all over campus (I spend 90% of my time in Callan building ), but I use the eduroam wireless and that logs on automatically.

Compton

mickstupp wrote: »

A wifi network that just remembers me, logs me on automatically so that I don't have to go through an awful long-winded login process every single time.

theres an app on android for that

How so Joe

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Maybe it's not available all over campus (I spend 90% of my time in Callan building ), but I use the eduroam wireless and that logs on automatically.

Eduroam is fantastic - I was over last week and had Internet access with my current college username and password.
Did freak me out a little when I magically had Internet though, was thinking ucl had some pretty strong signal boosters.

I heard a few weeks ago about a university who didn't build any paths when they first built the campus - they just watched to see where students naturally walked and then built the paths in the same places later.
Clever, I thought?

mickstupp

I kind of don't think there should have to be an app in the first place. Whether for android or ios or anything else. It should just work. Login once. Never again. And not require a slow visit to a slow website to input details and hope that it actually manages to connect so as to let us finally get internet access if we're lucky, every single time. All platforms these days are capable of interacting with networks in a normal, standard way. There shouldn't need to be an app.

I've no idea about this Eduroam business though. I'll have to see if I can get onto it.

Jimmy Iovine

Geraldine Moran wrote: »

by releasing a plague of locusts on the local population

How so Joe

Geraldine Moran wrote: »

by releasing a plague of locusts on the local population

The student population or the native population?
Or both?

XxMCRxBabyxX

Thwip! wrote: »

Permanent Sitebanning for multiple breaches of forum charters across boards (not just an nuim issue), ignoring mod instructions for his behaviour, countless reregging and various infractions on here and other forums for trolling and slurs of an uncivil and often racial nature.....In short... NO




Yeah... that'll be nuked... trust me

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

How so Joe

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

I believe that counts as arguing with a mod on-thread!

I think you just connect to eduroam instead of nuim wireless and then just log in with your normal sn/password? Not entirely sure.

banquo

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

A 24-hour computer lab would be a very good addition to the college in my opinion. I'm in college over in Bangor (the one in Wales) and there are multiple 24-hour rooms dotted around the college. You just scan your student card over a sensor and the door opens. You do the exact same when trying to get back out again.

You won't realise how useful it is until you start using it.

I've used many different ones all year and I've yet to experience any drunken people coming in after a night out. And one of those rooms is located 200 yards away from the college nightclub.

I can't see any reason why they can't be introduced in Maynooth.

In the new library soon

Alt_Grrr

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I can't see any reason why they can't be introduced in Maynooth.

Just to comment on that, there might not be a reason other then the institutional inertia of the place.

Its usually the staff of the place who are against making changes which would improve the experience for students, sometimes its selfish reasons (protecting their chushy number), But more often in my experience its the old "Change? ...but we fear change..." line.

Of course things are improving. But sometimes you need to give people a kick up the arse, if they don't think something is wrong, they aren't inclined to fix it.

Thwip!

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

Site banned by Admin, not by category mods or forum mods. It's like asking Doctor Doom to do the job of Galactus


You should be happy though... from the looks of it he's back under a different guise...not for long

TO_ARTHUR!

Thwip! wrote: »

It's like asking Doctor Doom to do the job of Galactus

Class, marvel references.

I agree that the bridge should be brought back.

Thwip!

And another Unclejunior rereg bites the dust

upinthesky

nuim really needs more places to sit, and more places you can eat your own lunch.

Also there is not enough group study areas were you can sit and talk about an assignment.

And were did all the down stairs seating go in the library? nice big black seats over the opposite side of Starbucks, the area was full the first week.

DylanII

The paths are the worst design ever. Im pretty sure it was designed with Americans in mind. i.e. forcing them to exercise by taking the longest possible route.

Callan Hall should be destroyed, or at least the interior refurbished.

You should be able to print from your own laptop in the library.

This one may be completely unrealistic, but, they should buy mannor mills and allow students to park in it.

How so Joe

Students used to be allowed to park in manor mills, but some tits insisted on walking up the ramp instead of going through the centre, so manor mills management revoked the parking access. Unsurprising, really.

banquo

How so Joe wrote: »

Students used to be allowed to park in manor mills, but some tits insisted on walking up the ramp instead of going through the centre, so manor mills management revoked the parking access. Unsurprising, really.

YES. Also, students hardly used it.

Eric Cartman

banquo wrote: »

YES. Also, students hardly used it.

it might also have to do with security taking a dislike to drunk people stumbling in after the roost to sleep in 4x4s .... allegedly

K4t

Sort out the drinking water fountains in the college. Be quicker melting ice than using the one in the library.

Alt_Grrr

I saw a sign in the new library, something along the lines of "Please ensure the door doesn't slam behind you",
Maybe they should get the door closer adjusted to make sure it doesn't slam rather then asking people to work around the obvious flaw...

Turtyturd

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

I saw a sign in the new library, something along the lines of "Please ensure the door doesn't slam behind you",
Maybe they should get the door closer adjusted to make sure it doesn't slam rather then asking people to work around the obvious flaw...

The problem with it is that you open it, and then wait for it to close but it closes so slowly that people either get p*ssed off waiting for it to close, or think that it won't make any noise so they leave it. Then all of a sudden at the end it slams shut. The constant moving of people from the training rooms upstairs is far more distracting.

Eric Cartman

Turtyturd wrote: »

The problem with it is that you open it, and then wait for it to close but it closes so slowly that people either get p*ssed off waiting for it to close, or think that it won't make any noise so they leave it. Then all of a sudden at the end it slams shut. The constant moving of people from the training rooms upstairs is far more distracting.

all those doors have 2 adjusting screws, the swing rate and slam rate , the first is for 90% of the travel of the arm and the 2nd for the last 10% , ive installed doors that would swing closed very quickly yet slow down enough not to make noise at the end, equally ive seen poorly set up doors that take 3-4 minutes to mostly close then slam loudly.

chances are the doors just need to be adjusted.