Ahh crapper I had to get involved somewhere.
As a current student of CMP... there are many unix boxes availible to log on from your lots of XP labs, all labs have putty installed, with the logon to stuwebs (for web development (javastuff)) and things like radon and oxygen saved in their quick load bars.
UNIX based work is promoted in certain modules (especially those run by the "better" members of staff ie the nongraphics dudes, and my third year project (work on Taurus) is only in posix enviroment.
the move back to CMP is due to them cutting the Systems courses from their catalogue (or so we like to say)...
J (or alternativly 0162817 as the registry see me)...