Face It Tiger, There is a Jackpot

I'm writing this in Morals Bar : no it hasnt got wireless. Thats confined for members of staff such as maybe those hard working boffins in Computer Services. If your hard drive has fallen out of your laptop, they'll fix it. If your flat-mate swallowed your usb stick they'll call an ambulance. Local service at reasonable prices, care for the community. The wireless is not finding a signal, despite its existence on all five campuses. "In a testing phase prior to final deployment" by Eduroam, a company managing wireless across Europe, Japan and Australia. There is a registration point but sending them my student academic email hasn't merited a response. Staff email accounts are differentiated in the primary stages by having letters before the number. Its not all Patrick McGoohan, but the lack of Wandernet access around Brookes is abysmal, particularly given the lack of power sockets and damage to connection points in JBs Cafe. Thats the Gipsy Lane Fairtrade one, newbies. They make a beautiful deviant ice cream of a coffee if you ask nicely.

Motorists off Marston Road, Foot Passengers more likely Via Pullens Lane, or through the Helena Kennedy Centre and at the bottom of a winding path with a slanted roof : Morals Bar is 1/5 Twin Peaks' Great Northern Hotel, with its wooden blinds, comfortable seating, and token warm African art. 4/5 replenished with a big sports screen, Subway sandwich bar, Outrun (an outstanding two-player in-cockpits arcade game), dance floor, and pool tables. Its the opening night and as most students take the insular road of leaving campus, we're enjoying the England-South African game in relative quiet. Clive Booth Halls are empty, Graduated Students who paid 35 pounds a night, all departed after their handshakes and rekindled into-the-night reunions. The recently hired Hall Warden I'm drinking with is a rational, balanced, spade-is-a-spade sort. However in twelve hours time, he and another fourteen are to become jammed Traffic Wardens, at war with their smooth heads, fighting back the lines of age as they prepare for an avalanche of 1200 students at the bottom of the hill.

Morrel Halls with its Centreparcs exteriors (forestry, woodland lodge, slanted roofs) are also looked after by the brave Clive Booth administration. On the whole the Clive Booth campus is for my karma among the best Brookes has in accommodating. The interiors are an alright size, and the kitchens appear well laid out. As good as you're going to get living on campus, unless you're a 'ra'(1) or can just plain afford Cheney Village. An ascended graduate pal, he pointed out the nearby functional computer rooms, which are right beside the laundry) If you've moved to Clive Booth Halls, you've hit the jackpot at the bottom of the slide.

By way of reference, newbie, don't even try to get online without a student number. Youre wasting your time ! as one oul drinker yelled to others. Enrolement Day will clear things up. Which by the way, is hella confusing and like being thrown in the deep end, until you realise you're swimming) Lecture notes may be kept on Brookes Virtual or on the U-Drive, depending upon your tutors preferences. Dave Nolan and Steve Burholt of Computer Services wrote me to tell of a handy link for getting into the U-Drive. This used to involve downloading an Acrobat document and copying a complicated address by sight. However you can go direct to the in-browser log-in for U-drive by taking this link >> ftp://pcdata.brookes.ac.uk/ and this one if you need the H-Drive, https://www2.brookes.ac.uk/services/cs/tips/u_h_drive.html

This works fine with Mozilla Firefox too.
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Todays tip for students wishing to establish links in the virtual community at Brookes : Join Facebook. Of Course.

(1) 'Ra', not a reference to the Sun God or IRA, 'ra'ther, the higher income students at Brookes with bouffants, and accents probably reminiscent of time at daddy's horse-riding expenditure, who will inevitably whine about not being allowed a car in a cyclist's town.