[tech] Centre table...

[Grahame Bowland UCC]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:43:51PM +0800, Davyd 'proXy' Madeley wrote:
> Before this gets flamey...
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 15:29, Grahame Bowland (UCC) wrote:
> 
> > Firstly, PC's can have wireless. Please observe the wireless gateway 
> > flying.
> 
> The PC's people bring in don't have wireless. I know they _can_ have
> wireless, but it's not exactly a common occurance.

Yes.

> > Secondly, people bringing in their own PCs and setting them up on the
> > centre table just gets *antisocial*. Sitting around with laptops is
> > fine, but I don't suppose you remember a UCC when we had decent couches
> > and sat on them and talked.
> 
> I know people sit on the couch(es) and talk. However, people also set up
> on the centre table, and do their machines there. People aren't going to
> set up around the room where there is little to no space at all.

Yes.

> > If you want to bring in your own PC, fine. Set it up somewhere but do 
> > not steal the ethernet from or in any way render unusable a UCC
> > terminal.
> 
> This is the problem isn't it. There are about 7 ip's you can DHCP from
> around the clubroom, and very few working ethernet ports. Do you see the
> problem yet?

Yes, but it's not an easily fixable one. Perhaps a sensible way of doing 
it is to make room on the bench outside the clubroom - the terminals 
there aren't used as much as the ones in the clubroom much.