When I was a student at VUW, the institution this article is about (early 2000s), computer science had its own, separate IT system. With staff. Who were legenda

When I was a student at VUW, the institution this article is about (early 2000s), computer science had its own, separate IT system. With staff. Who were legendary. I see the head sysadmin from back then is still there... No "shadow IT," this was completely official and above board. Everything that could be was NetBSD. Compsci had its own network range within the university's /16. I remember the ease of dealing with them, compared to the battle to get one network port livened so the computer club could expand its nascent WiFi network to the quad. Heck, within compsci land, the computer club managed to get a server with a static IP and even got it exposed to the internet.