question re your comp soc

azezil · 10-03-2003 7:09pm #1

So i see from another thread you have an up and running comp soc, how did you go about it, is it sanctioned by the college and if so how do you get away with playing games!???

just wondering cause was hoping to start one up in TI

TomTom · 10-03-2003 7:14pm

Compsoc is a college society. We are not directly supposed to be using the college hardware for games, but either they don't know or don't care. The SU bought us a PS2 though.

elexes · 11-03-2003 2:53pm

well when i was there we sent a letter to the head of the it dep saying exactly what we wanted to be able to do in the rooms . and he replied no to almost all my requests .

but he did say that we were allowed to do whatever we liked in that room only when the times he appointed .

it did mean that that ppl were allowed to play games chat and doss whenever they wanted .

TomTom · 11-03-2003 8:19pm

Which is exactly what we do.

azezil · 12-03-2003 8:32pm

do u have a mission statement?

what exactly do u say u do?

Redrocket · 12-03-2003 9:33pm

well they seem to let us away with enough.. we make quite a bit of noise in there sometimes.. and we put loads of crap onto the d:\ drives, but they dont seem to mind. we cant mess around with functioning of the pcs as they are all win2k sp3, with no registry access and no c:\ write access. so whatever we can get away with is enough in their opinion. They gave us a seperate account for usage on mondays and wednesdays from 5pm till 10pm. this account has a g:\ drive ( not sure how much space ) and an s:\ drive ( 10gig!) so i think that between the noise ( roaring, shouting, screaming, music, films, yada yada yada) and all the rest they are pretty sound about it all. remember it is a library and the pcs are for educational use

Ivan · 13-03-2003 1:36pm

I wasnt there for the original forming of compsoc (a fact sicnarf never lets me forget) however at the moment we dont have a "mission statement" we simply exist to play games, read up on linux/other networking issues, download family guy/southpark - whatever keeps us entertained at the time.

Its a computer society which entails all things computers, not just games - despite the popular opinion.

Ivan

Redrocket · 13-03-2003 5:38pm

we read up on linux and networking? holy **** i think i missed that meeting... we played five hours of quake3 and return to castle wolfenstein yesterdfay. the quake was fun, a six palyer map? yeah i think six player with 16-20 players on it with weaponrespawn time set to 0 ( insanity/mayhem for a while). It was a lotta fun...

Ivan · 13-03-2003 5:56pm

I wasnt at compsoc. But the meeting I'm talking about was when I got my shell account and wanted to download Family guy/Southpark, re: Point 3, and you guys gave me points. Which counts as linux tutorials. And also I had intended on showing a talk which was given at Dit and was streamed by redbrick.

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