News 01/02
News from 01/02!
BBQ!
Fri 21 Jun
Although it's short notice, there will be a CompSoc BBQ this year - and it's this Sunday! Starting at 5pm, with food from 6pm, and in the same location as last year (head down Health Centre road, towards Gibbet Hill, and stop when you get to the water).
Read more >>Molotov State
Fri 14 Jun
At about 8pm last night (Thursday, 13th) there was a momentary power outage that affected most of campus, including our server Molotov. While Molotov booted up ok after the power came back, it failed to correctly talk to the network, rendering it useless. At about 11:20am today (Friday) James Ross, Mike Smith and Robert Stacey attempted to get Molotov up and working.
Read more >>Minnits - 13 May 2002
Thu 13 Jun
This is now hosting the Ceilidh (or whatever) website and e-mail. Once molotov2 comes online, 107’s function is to remain the same (minus the game servers it is currently running). Phil to remove distributed.net from 107 to reduce its load. Phil to set up pe0ns@ e-mail. Phil to play with the appropriate script to remove incoming junkmail.
Read more >>Minnits - 6 May 2002
Thu 06 Jun
The meeting was commenced with the ritual handover of monies to Phil for the replacement of 107’s power supply. Although Henry did forget to bring the money and hence still owes Phil ?5.
Read more >>Minnits - 3 June 2002
Mon 03 Jun
We are missing a fan promised by Chrispy, and a motherboard and CPU from Fade. Phil to put Molotov2 together by week 9/10 (or during Summer holidays). The naming competition is still in progress.
Read more >>BFL signups
Tue 21 May
Due to a, um... accident, the newsletter sent out earlier today states that the BFL signups will go live today - this is not true. They will be going live at 12 noon Wednesday 22nd May 2002. Apologies for any confusion caused.
Read more >>Minnits - 20 May 2002
Mon 20 May
The equi opps one was attended by Fade (“Compsoc now owes me an hour of my life”). Essentially if we disregard the equi opps policy we can be fined or even shut down, but there’s no specific paperwork that has to be filled in. The Managing your Money course has been postponed, so Chrispy to attend once it is rescheduled, and also to attend Publicity course.
Read more >>~womm~
Tue 07 May
Well, s7 has been and gone, and there was one hell of a lot of ~womm~ing going on... and not just in JK! Expect some good pictures later. While JK2 was certainly the main attraction, other games were played - most notably Dungeon Siege - although there was also lots of Operation Flashpoint action, along with Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Starcraft and even a bit of Grand Prix 3 and Rollcage.
Read more >>Minnits - 29 April 2002
Mon 29 Apr
With the space of the suahu H: drive down to less than 100MB it was agreed that decisive action would be taken and that half-life would be summarily executed….errr deleted from the drive. See item below for details. This fact to be put in the next newsletter.
Read more >>Yay, more downtime!
Sat 27 Apr
Once again, molotov needs some downtime. This is just a simple reboot, so all will (should) go as planned. I will be rebooting molotov at 14:00, on Monday, April 29th. Things should be back to (relatively) normal by 14:10. I will post in the newsgroup (uwarwick.societies.computing) when it's all over.
Read more >>Molotov downtime
Wed 24 Apr
On Wednesday (24th April) morning, from approx 7:15 until 11:45, molotov was not working. This was due to a failed power supply, which has now been replaced. All systems should be back to normal, if not, mail me.
Read more >>S7 Signups!
Wed 24 Apr
In case there's anyone still in confusion, the signups for S7 - the next big LAN - are open, as of 12:00 today. Spaces are running out, so go signup now.
Read more >>The Countdown Begins
Fri 19 Apr
Well, term 3 is almost upon us, Warwick Piazza almost works, and CompSoc are planning more events as usual... this term we're planning: 2 LANs (one of them will be big), possibly a BBQ (if we can arrange it), and the usual quota of 2 gaming sessions and one open source project meeting a week - that's 27 events total. Oh, and while you're trying to work that calculation out, you would be strongly advised to get yourself a shiny website password, which you'll need for signing up to events from …
Read more >>Email downtime
Thu 28 Mar
The email system on Molotov will be going down for upgrades at 10pm on Sunday, 7th April. This only affects you if you have a Molotov account and use it for email. No email should be lost, and all other services will continue without interruption. We expect email to be back up and running by 11pm. If you have any concerns about this, please email me.
Read more >>Minnits - 11 March 2002
Mon 11 Mar
After Saturday’s incident with the wiener..er..whiner…, we decided that although it wasn’t likely to happen again we should get the sign on the door updated to reflect the fact that we have Saturday gaming sessions too.
Read more >>Fun, Games and Security
Fri 08 Mar
Our open source project, Lightbikes 3D is progressing very nicely at the moment, and while it may be hard for coders to join the team at this stage, we would welcome anyone interested in developing levels, playtesting, etc. - just ask on #lb3d on our IRC server.
Read more >>Minnits - 4 March 2002
Mon 04 Mar
Not exactly important so we didn’t discuss it much. Alexis Birkhill to meet Chris Fanning on Wednesday to fill out the forms. Alexis Birkhill to bring the list of items which are being (rather optimistically)claimed for.
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