Categories: News Item

Summer Holidays

Thu 30 Jun 2005

The exams are over, results are out, the BFL and the end-of-year BBQ all went very well, and now it's time to chill out and relax over summer.

CompSoc Clothing!

Thu 02 Jun 2005

This coming Monday, we will be placing an order for official Computing Society clothing. You can order any of the following items:

phpMyAdmin upgrade

Sun 24 Apr 2005

If you can't log in to mysql.uwcs.co.uk (or mysql.warwickcompsoc.co.uk) because it keeps bouncing you back to the login page with no error message, please delete the cookies for that hostname and try again. This is caused by a bug in the previous version of the upstream software, which is now fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Election Results

Fri 11 Feb 2005

The current exec (elected at the AGM) are as follows:

Exec Meetings

Sun 23 Jan 2005

Remember guys and gals, Exec meetings are open to all members. If you've got something you want to say, or you think you can make a contribution, feel free to come along to Union North on Friday at 7pm, and join in. Probably a good idea to tell us in #compsoc beforehand though, in case lack of a room means we have to move it somewhere else. Also, this week is the AGM.

Programming Competition

Tue 18 Jan 2005

The programming competition is now live! With a first prize of a confirmed £250.00 provided by Accenture and large second and third place prizes, there really is no reason not to get involved. Lastest information can be found here.

Perl tutorials 2004

Wed 12 Jan 2005

The perl tutorials in conjunction with cs120 are back again!
They're on at 2pm on the 12th, 19th and 26th of January in LIB1.

Server Downtime

Fri 07 Jan 2005

As you may be aware there has been significant server downtime recently. This is due to several factors including powercuts and suspected network problems. As of writing this all the servers except from Insomnia are up and we are talking to ITS to resolve this. Further details will follow in the next newsletter.

Insomnia's new IP

Thu 16 Dec 2004

IT Services are migrating Warwick Piazza to public IP addresses (announcement), which includes Insomnia. The new IP is 137.205.71.254 and is now active; DNS has been updated accordingly. Most services should be unaffected but, as always, if you have any problems or questions, please contact the tech team (techteam@uwcs.co.uk).

Insomnia's Back

Thu 09 Dec 2004

Insomnia has been fixed. We managed to get ITS to let us in (Ta Mark Charlton) and now things are back. There was a glitch with the module for the network interface (specifically it managed to escape being built. Oops.) We built the module with the new compiler, loaded it, all was well. Any mail that has been stacking up on servers should now be getting to its destination. For further info feel free to email the Tech Team at TechTeam@uwcs.co.uk or pop into the IRC server and get hold of me, (…

Insomnia Downtime

Wed 08 Dec 2004

Unfortunately, Insomnia, one of the computing society servers is currently non-functional. It went down for a scheduled 2-minute reboot for a kernel upgrade, and never came back. As soon as ITS let us into their server room, it will be fixed. However, given that we're not in term time, getting hold of someone with enough security access who can let us in is proving to be fun. We have a call number, we have a support request, no-one has got back to us yet. Unfortunately, mail for domains hoste…

Compsoc Xmas Dinner

Wed 24 Nov 2004

This year the Compsoc Xmas Dinner will be in the Virgin and Castle in Kenilworth ("oooh suits you" I hear some of you say) at 7.30pm on Wednesday the 1st of December. It is a 3 course set menu, so signup now http://www.uwcs.co.uk/events/details/?id=361 and I look forward to seeing you all there. NeXuS7.

LAN

Wed 17 Nov 2004

Just a reminder that the LAN is at the end of this week and thus everyone should make sure that they have patches/antivirus software up to date (Zephran, we're watching you :-P) in case ITS fail to get the port patched in time again (We are poking them with sticks but they are busy people).

Academic Meeting

Wed 10 Nov 2004

There will be an academic meeting on Wed at 5pm in union north. We haven't got a meeting room, so we're hoping to hax the lounge, if we're not in there, we'll more than likely have the meeting in rootes reception as its normally pretty quiet in there. The meeting will basically be me going "I'm the new academic officer, what do you want me to do" kind of meeting. Anybody is welcome to come along, we would love some fresh ideas :)

IBM Hursley signups open

Fri 15 Oct 2004

The signups for the CompSoc trip to IBM Hursley are now open. For those of you who don't know, Hursley is the main IBM Research and Development lab for the UK. The trip consists of a tour round the labs and a talk by some of the researchers who work there. This should prove to be interesting to anyone planning on a career in any sort of technical development field and will provide an insight in to how one of the world's major practical research labs works.

Downtime all weekend

Tue 12 Oct 2004

Both of the servers currently known as Molotov will be unavailable this weekend, for major service migrations. This will affect all shell logins, websites, and email provided by the society. IRC should still be available. We aim to start closing services early on Saturday morning. An hour's warning will be given to users logged in and attempting to log in during this time. We aim to have the most important services back up and running on Saturday evening, but nothing should be relied upon bef…

Linux Lecture

Mon 11 Oct 2004

Take the IBM Linux Challenge.

Coming Events

Tue 05 Oct 2004

It's the start of a new academic year so there's several things to mention. Firstly our Linux User Group Meetings have already kicked off, these are every Wednesday at 7.30pm in Xanana's. Next the Freshers' Social is this Saturday in a meeting room in Union North where Food and Drink will be provided. Come along meet fellow members and learn more about our society. Next we have a Cinema Trip planned for the Sunday afternoon at the end of Week 3 and our first LAN the following week, more detai…

Welcome

Tue 05 Oct 2004

A warm welcome to everyone who's just joined us. We look forward to seeing you at our events throughout the term, more about those above.

IRC and SQL downtime

Thu 16 Sep 2004

We need to bring down our IRC and SQL servers briefly this Saturday (18th September) at 9pm. This will affect IRC (irrespective of which method you use to access it), the main CompSoc website, and any members' websites that use SQL. Normal service should be resumed 5-10 minutes afterwards. For any queries, please contact the tech team.