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404: University of Nottingham Not Found
This article is directed towards Information Services at the University of Nottingham, as a partial follow-up to their ongoing dialogue with representatives of the student body. Despite having been...
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How To Out-Earn The PM
Who remembers examination time last summer? Lecturers and sociology students, that's who. When teaching staff nationwide went on strike over pay disputes some courses saw cancelled examinations, and...
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Windows Is Brilliant
Microsoft are once again in the midst of a scandal involving their self-awarded right to access their customers' PCs without permission. El Reg reports that "Windows Update pushed patches on machines –...
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Eight Hundred Grand to Aspire
As the University of Nottingham's new campus project continues to push on, at least a part of it has become more high-profile. BBC News is reporting that "Aspire" — the planned steel girder sculpture...
View ArticleLeaving Democracy Behind Us
Posted on the Nottingham Students Union Facebook Group shortly before the elections last month: Pretentious ethical dilemma! I'm not going to be here next year, so none of the new Exec's policies will...
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Second Invite
Letter from the University of Nottingham's department of "External Relations and Communications" I received in the post this morning: Since graduating from The University of Nottingham no doubt you've...
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Trial By Proxy
I'm sitting on a large University network, over which all HTTP access must be routed through a proxy server. The proxy server performs load balancing, content filtering, virus scan injection on certain...
View ArticleAccommodation Nightmares
Another University term, another accommodation nightmare. The University of Nottingham operates an antiquated system whereby students living in Halls of Residence on Jubilee Campus — the newest and...
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Uni Email Disaster… Premonition?
The University of Warwick (whose IT department is not dissimilar to our own at Nottingham) has suffered a major blow to its email system, The Register reports. A power outage temporarily downed its...
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Uni Tech Team Storms Student Underground
After almost a year of unchallenged operation, a DC++ filesharing hub running within the virtual walls of the University of Nottingham's internal residential network has been scared into closure by the...
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