UCI Housing Network and Cable TV Issues

Since Monday, Channel 9 shows just the "nice" DirecTV logo... Of course, with all the school closed, and all Resnet people on vacation, nothing gets fixed, at least until Jan. 3, when UCI reopens. Yet another example why having the university providin… more »

It seems there have been some personnel changes in Resnet management. First, Kevin Ansel, the person responsible for the dual disasters of UCI-operated Cable TV and Resnet's CCA installation, apparently is no longer in UCI Housing. My sources tell me t… more »

Several people have noticed that Resnet apparently hasn't purged the CCA login database this week, so we weren't required to login again this week (so far...) My take on this is that since UCI's Fall Quarter is over, most undergraduates are out of town… more »

I previously had provided a link to my CCA login Perl script here. I had later added a link to a bash script to be runnable from cron. I have now updated this script, to allow the use of a tcp ping, and to provide logging. The file can be run directly… more »

Earlier today, I received an email from a fellow graduate student who has suffered through being disconnected from the network for days only because he followed Resnet's instructions. It also shows the dismal and absolutely unacceptable level of custom… more »