Joining the college network?

Sandals

Do I definitely need windows xp professional, is there any otherway around it??

als can you rent ordinary books from the library as in bestsellers and fiction books

Sandals

Sandals wrote:

Do I definitely need windows xp professional, is there any otherway around it??

als can you rent ordinary books from the library as in bestsellers and fiction books

Someone who posts on here remarked (in a previous capacity) about the Shoot Annual being available within the Library. Will probably be in Santry, so you'll be unable to take it out of the library.

And the requirements are below. The "ways around" XP Pro are noted below...

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Minimum Computer Specifications supported by IS Services:

PC running Windows 2000:
At least Pentium II based Desktop or Laptop PC
Minimum of 128MB RAM.
Minimum Hard Disk size of 4GB.
Minimum processor speed of 400 MHz.
CD-Rom Drive required.

PC running Windows XP Professional:
At least Pentium III based Desktop or Laptop PC
Minimum of 128MB RAM.
Minimum Hard Disk size of 4GB.
Minimum processor speed of 500 MHz.
CD-Rom Drive required.

Mac running OS 9:
Power-PC based Macintosh
Minimum of 128MB RAM.
Minimum Hard Disk size of 3GB.
CD-Rom Drive required

Mac running OS X:
G3 processor
Minimum of 128MB RAM.
Minimum Hard Disk size of 3GB.
CD-Rom Drive required
Minimum Software Requirements

PC - Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional* **
Mac - OS 9 or OS X

The preferred language of the Operating System should be English/Irish.

* Machines running Windows XP Home Edition cannot be networked.

XP Pro upgrade is 94 euro last time I checked on the link on http://isservices.tcd.ie

punka

you can use linux to get registered on the network and then use windows xp home for things like itunes etc. i think it's very long and complicated though.

you can also get playboy in the tcd library. someday i WILL order it in from santry just to see the librarian's face (not to, you know, perv etc)

DrIndy

punka wrote:

you can use linux to get registered on the network and then use windows xp home for things like itunes etc. i think it's very long and complicated though.

you can also get playboy in the tcd library. someday i WILL order it in from santry just to see the librarian's face (not to, you know, perv etc)

LOL, its a copyright library goddammnit and I'm sure that there are several members of staff who also request it.

What I would do in your shoes is to order the entire collection...... and then have it delivered to the hamilton library.....

Ron DMC

Myth wrote:

The preferred language of the Operating System should be English/Irish

Should that read 'english irish' or 'english or irish'.
I'm running XP as gaeilge.

punka

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

Should that read 'english irish' or 'english or irish'.
I'm running XP as gaeilge.

they mean hiberno-english. none of your fancy american english, thank you very much. the tcd network is dialect-specific, y'see.

aodh_rua

Glad to hear you were paying attention Myth! The Shoot annuals from 1970 on are classed as periodicals and available via a call-slip.

Ron DMC

Do they have the Beano too?
That'd almost be worth going to the library for.

Chardee MacDennis

yeh my mate got the thunder cats annuals from stacks but he couldnt leave the library with em. if they are on the shelves in the library you can take em out but otherwise no...

Agent Smith

not always, my course has books that you cant take from the Liabary.....

fade

im that certain, but as far as i know, the library has a copy of nearly everything that is available to buy in ireland, so you name it, they got it. the only problem is that if they are keep in stacks then you cant take them out of the library.

i loved the look on that grey haired moany bastard from the hamiltons face when i got in "golden harvest-cannabis cultivation book". its sweet

Crash

not necessarily fade - theres the science books and the science Lend books, for example.

fade

crash_000 wrote:

not necessarily fade - theres the science books and the science Lend books, for example.

yes indeed, but what i meant was that if they arent in the on-campus library, like all the course books etc, then they most likely can be found in stacks, you just have to request them

cuckoo

There's a Dublin City libray on Pearse St, think you need the same kind of id to join a video store to get a card, they have the usual public libary type books. It's a few minutes walk from the dart station. Also, there's loads of second hand bookshops around town, including the SU Bookshop in House 6 in Front Sq that have cheap novels.