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As time went on, and the network slowly degraded, repairs became difficult, and in many cases impossible because most of the routes the cables take have been declared off limits due to asbestos. As a result of this, [[Simon Harris]], the network engineer who didn't have much of a network to be engineer of, proposed making use of the actively maintained campus data network. Seeing as we already had a webstream by this point, it was a simple task to set up a second, higher quality stream specifically for on-campus use by these laptops. The name of the laptops? [[Drains]] which, as Simon will explain, is because they are at the end of a stream. As of September 2009, the system has already been used to get YSTV's content to The Courtyard, YUSU's own bar. | As time went on, and the network slowly degraded, repairs became difficult, and in many cases impossible because most of the routes the cables take have been declared off limits due to asbestos. As a result of this, [[Simon Harris]], the network engineer who didn't have much of a network to be engineer of, proposed making use of the actively maintained campus data network. | ||
Seeing as we already had a webstream by this point, it was a simple task to set up a second, higher quality stream specifically for on-campus use by these laptops. The name of the laptops? [[Drains]] which, as Simon will explain, is because they are at the end of a stream. As of September 2009, the system has already been used to get YSTV's content to The Courtyard, YUSU's own bar. | |||
Drains are now mainly comprised of just windows XP , running google chrome, fulscreen. | |||