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Thu 22 Jan
The mysteries of where we keep our gaming servers has finally been unveiled! We now have a page up at /gaming/servers which lists all of our gaming servers, tells you wether they're up and how long they've been up, what map they're on and how many players are using them. If you click the "info" links, you can also see who's on them.
Read more >>Jason Clifford Lecture
Mon 19 Jan
The LUG is hosting a free guest lecture this Wednesday (21st Jan) at 4pm, in L4, by Jason Clifford of ukfsn.org, an ISP which he runs using Linux. All profits of ukfsn.org are used to fund free software in the UK.
Read more >>LAN Signups
Sun 18 Jan
Signups for the LAN at the end of week 4 are now open. You can sign up here.
Read more >>Slides from Perl Tutorial
Fri 09 Jan
Slides from the CompSoc/RAW Perl Tutorial can be found here.
Read more >>Dave Jones POSTPONED
Tue 25 Nov
The Linux User Group had organised a free guest lecture by Dave Jones, a key developer of the Linux kernel, on Wednesday 26th November. Unfortunately it has had to be postponed due to forces beyond our (and his) control. It will be re-arranged for some future time, and announced on the LUG website.
Read more >>LAN
Mon 24 Nov
And lo LAN was had. And lo it was good!
Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. If you preferred that room then please register your opinion with the exec.
LAN Party
Thu 23 Oct
We have been informed by Senate House that we are actually in Lib 1 for the LAN party. This is the downstairs room, which means you don't need to lug your computers quite so far :)
Read more >>Wireless Hotspots
Tue 21 Oct
Richard Oakham (Zatneichatel) has put together an excellent page in the LUG wiki on how to use the IT Services hotspots around campus, including getting Linux to co-operate with them. Well worth a look: now you too can IRC from Airfare!
Read more >>More Downtime
Fri 17 Oct
Sorry for the yet more downtime. This is once gain due to ITS and the Onion being lame and changing settings/dieing respectively.
An angry mob will be formed shortly to deal with the problem on a permanent basis, just as soon as Draconas can aquire AK-47's for everybody.
Molotov downtime 26/09/03
Fri 26 Sep
Apologies for the Molotov downtime this morning. This was due to the University moving Molotov into a VLAN and not telling us. As a result of this, we had to change Molotov's default gateway within the University network. Things should be back to normal now.
Read more >>POP Errors
Mon 22 Sep
It has come to our notice that a few people have been getting mail errors. This is due to the fact that a weasel stole our POP server. This will be shortly fixed, by virtue of Si1entDave and DrWatson comandeering a Land Rover Defender, and going off-road to steal it back again. As is right and proper, we will be following the lessons learnt from the A-Team, and customising the vehicle. This will include the addition of both CB and UHF radios, increasing of the ground clearance, and adding a l…
Read more >>Holidays
Mon 30 Jun
Molotov appears to be suitably stable once again, after swapping a faulty component. Needless to say, the CompSoc Technical Team will keep an eye on things to make sure everything continues to work.
In other news, the Mega-LAN was had! And lo, there was much Goodness. Photos are here: LAN piccies. Enjoy!
Finally, have a good summer, everyone - see you next year!
Molotov stability
Fri 20 Jun
As many of you will have noticed, Molotov has crashed for the second time in quick succession. Luckily, the Technical Team were able to get in to the server room and restart things within a few hours.
Read more >>Server Upgrades
Tue 10 Jun
Molotov has now been upgraded with the components left over from the Insomnia upgrade. Thus our servers are now:
Molotov
AMD Duron 950
512Megs PC133 RAM
End of term LAN and BBQ
Tue 03 Jun
Hi guys, with exams and the like going on, CompSoc hasn't done much this term, but fear not; there's more to come after the exams!
Read more >>Perl Tutorials
Sun 11 May
Hi! For those of you who didn't know, Perl tutorials are happening on Wednesdays in the Union Meeting Rooms (see the Socials Page for more details on locations).
Read more >>Dr. Solomon lecture
Wed 23 Apr
A big welcome from the new exec for 2003-2004!
As the first event of this term, we are proud to present Dr. Alan Solomon giving a talk about how his AntiVirus software originally came to be written. Come along to the Physics Lecture Theatre on the Science Concourse at 3pm on Wednesday of Week 2!