Trains Suck
I predict that the JCN talk on Monday will be excellent. So excellent in fact, I’d make the trip up to Cambridge to hear it and to catch up on what the SRCF has been doing since the end, just under a year ago, of my three-year involvement with the society.
Sadly, British Rail1 have other ideas. 
With two sets of tracks leading from London to Cambridge, you would think someone would have to be pretty careless for them both to be out of operation on the same bank holiday, but no, the incompetence of British Rail knows no bounds and a bus is the only option. If I hadn’t been to Cambridge for some time I might attempt it, but as I went last weekend, and rail-replacement bus services meant I spent 6 hours travelling for only 5 hours of leisure time in Cambridge, I think I might be forced to miss the talk.
<rant>Will all those people who whine that cars ought to be banned/taxed out of existence, please shut up and make trains a viable alternative? ‘kthxbye</rant>
Talk Details
— A day in the life of an SRCF sysadmin —
Fear and loathing in the CUSU server room.
The SRCF is a University society that is run by students and for students.
Ross Church, one of the system administrators, will talk about some of the
challenges involved in running a computer with over 2000 users and relate
some of the more entertaining incidents from the last few years, …
Monday 1st May, 7.30pm, Coleridge Room (above the bar). All welcome!
- Or, perhaps the organisation formerly-known-as-British-Rail [back]