Definitely true. Wish we could tell those drunks to use moderation more often. People can still have a good time having fun and drinking responsibly.
And yup, freshmen are usually the victims in the beginning, then they begin to learn as they become sophs, juniors, then seniors. Of course, some still do get wasted by graduation, heh.
On April 20, 1999, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a bill calling for an investigation into the results of the Yahoo! Internet Life survey that ranked CWRU as the
"most wired" university in the country. The bill urged the university to "investigate the truthfulness of the responses to the survey that resulted in CWRU's number one ranking" as a result of an April 16, 1999 issue of The Observer that "pointed out questionable statistics about CWRU's computing facilities and services that were reported in the survey," the bill read.
You might say that Neff bended the facts of the Wired survey. Listing that 90% of public computers available 24 hours a day does not note the fact that we only have a limited number of machines available in Smith Lab, PDELC, and the Weatherhead Lab. Also, students being guranteed 25 MB of web space (this was before home.cwru.edu) off the server was not totally true. Student groups were able to request web space but not individual students. Several other entries were also called questionable just because student groups and staff didn't believe it was true.
When the 2001 survey came out, CWRU was not even listed. Whether CWRU chose not to submit an entry to Yahoo! or Yahoo! itself felt that the questionable answers given in last year's poll warrant its removal is up to those conspiracy theorists.
and a shame when people go to parties just to get drunk and wasted, seeing them puke, then helping them get back to their bed in the res halls. instead of enjoying a 3-hour party, sitting in front of a toilet after 20 minutes of chugging liquor and beer.
seen that several times. sigh.
LOL! Downloading divx, vcd, svcd movies is competing with porn nowadays. Darth-Scsi is still alive (last time I visited case), but his stuff is getting quite old. heh.
When Yahoo! Most Wired announced that CWRU was #1, the University was thrilled by it. Of course, people had to wonder how we got #1. Some of the answers placed by our former IT VP were indeed questionable, and the result lead to CWRU disappearing from the Most Wired poll the following year.
It was not a surprise that shortly after Neff resigned. Some of us believed that if he didn't resign, Auston would have fired him.
Gotta love those cabletron cards. Had that when I was a freshman. Then to 3-com. Didn't get ATM since my dorm room was not set up for it. Then when it did, the tech refused to let me have one since I was running Win98 Beta but then I moved to a fraternity house which was ethernet only.
I can confirm that too. My time was 1995-2000, and when I first got there, it was INS. Kinda strange when their homepage said CWRUnet Network Services, and the CNS name officially sticked later on. Back to INS...nice cycle.
As an alumni of CWRU (95-00), I believed that at my last visit, there was talk of capping the amount of bandwidth to the Internet. While CWRU did have an OC-3 line (plus several T1's as backups), it was switched from max OC-3 speed to a fraction of it to save costs. If there were heavy usage, CWRU would amend the contract to allow additional bandiwdth.
Didn't use ATM network card...had a 3-COM ethernet, but it was still pretty fast. And at least I avoided those reliability issues (which got mostly fixed later on after 2 years).
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Definitely true. Wish we could tell those drunks to use moderation more often. People can still have a good time having fun and drinking responsibly. And yup, freshmen are usually the victims in the beginning, then they begin to learn as they become sophs, juniors, then seniors. Of course, some still do get wasted by graduation, heh.
Here's the Observer article back in 1999:
On April 20, 1999, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a bill calling for an investigation into the results of the Yahoo! Internet Life survey that ranked CWRU as the "most wired" university in the country. The bill urged the university to "investigate the truthfulness of the responses to the survey that resulted in CWRU's number one ranking" as a result of an April 16, 1999 issue of The Observer that "pointed out questionable statistics about CWRU's computing facilities and services that were reported in the survey," the bill read.
You might say that Neff bended the facts of the Wired survey. Listing that 90% of public computers available 24 hours a day does not note the fact that we only have a limited number of machines available in Smith Lab, PDELC, and the Weatherhead Lab. Also, students being guranteed 25 MB of web space (this was before home.cwru.edu) off the server was not totally true. Student groups were able to request web space but not individual students. Several other entries were also called questionable just because student groups and staff didn't believe it was true.
When the 2001 survey came out, CWRU was not even listed. Whether CWRU chose not to submit an entry to Yahoo! or Yahoo! itself felt that the questionable answers given in last year's poll warrant its removal is up to those conspiracy theorists.
nope, fiber still there. ATM was a Neff idea, which turned out to be a bad decision.
and a shame when people go to parties just to get drunk and wasted, seeing them puke, then helping them get back to their bed in the res halls. instead of enjoying a 3-hour party, sitting in front of a toilet after 20 minutes of chugging liquor and beer. seen that several times. sigh.
LOL! Downloading divx, vcd, svcd movies is competing with porn nowadays. Darth-Scsi is still alive (last time I visited case), but his stuff is getting quite old. heh.
When Yahoo! Most Wired announced that CWRU was #1, the University was thrilled by it. Of course, people had to wonder how we got #1. Some of the answers placed by our former IT VP were indeed questionable, and the result lead to CWRU disappearing from the Most Wired poll the following year. It was not a surprise that shortly after Neff resigned. Some of us believed that if he didn't resign, Auston would have fired him.
Yup, fiber since 1988. Expensive..of course, students living in the residence halls have to pay a $400 technology fee to help pay for this upgrade. :)
Gotta love those cabletron cards. Had that when I was a freshman. Then to 3-com. Didn't get ATM since my dorm room was not set up for it. Then when it did, the tech refused to let me have one since I was running Win98 Beta but then I moved to a fraternity house which was ethernet only.
I can confirm that too. My time was 1995-2000, and when I first got there, it was INS. Kinda strange when their homepage said CWRUnet Network Services, and the CNS name officially sticked later on. Back to INS...nice cycle.
As an alumni of CWRU (95-00), I believed that at my last visit, there was talk of capping the amount of bandwidth to the Internet. While CWRU did have an OC-3 line (plus several T1's as backups), it was switched from max OC-3 speed to a fraction of it to save costs. If there were heavy usage, CWRU would amend the contract to allow additional bandiwdth.
:)
Didn't use ATM network card...had a 3-COM ethernet, but it was still pretty fast. And at least I avoided those reliability issues (which got mostly fixed later on after 2 years).
DARTH-SCSI still alive? The porn server!