Beards and jumpers optional

[venta]

Of interest to some:

Oxford Folk Festival, 16-18 April, 2004.
Line up so far here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0561/folk/

(Eh ? They're using an old-style university account there... aren't they all dead yet ?)

Many fine acts and Steeleye Span.
<ducks and runs>

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Eh ? They're using an old-style university account there... aren't they all dead yet ?

Well, it probably isn't on sable if that's what you mean. :)

Students still get web space though which is all that is unless I am missing the thrust of your question here. Shell accounts are still available to those that want them on (I think) linux.ox.ac.uk or something similar. I *think* you need a shell account for web space but I'm not really too sure, tbh.

[uitlander]

Hah, if it was a real 'old' style uni account, it would have been on black.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

black?

Nah. After my time.

[uitlander]

Befoe the dawn of wimble's history (well 1990ish anyway), undergrads all had accounts on black - the system had its wings clipped in a number of ways, the details of which I don't recall as I never had a black account. The postgrads and staff had accounts on the ?gandalf starmaster vax cluster or somesuch techno-babble. About 1992/3 black was killed off, and replaced by sable [spot the cunning play on words], a few months after the postgrads and staff were migrated to ermine and all our e-mail addresses changed from '[vax login id]@vax.ox.ac.uk' to '[real.name]@[dept/college].ox.ac.uk'.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it all went downhill when they let the hoi-polloi in. Back when I were a lad, they only had departmental accounts. So the computation students and the physicists (to my knowedge) who had computer access.

Then it all started going <AOL/>