News 03/04
News from 03/04!
h3. CompSoc Minutes - 2004/04/23
Fri 23 Apr 2004
to zx64 for slicing his thumb open within 3 hours of receiving a new tool.
Read more >>Professor Kevin Warwick
Tue 09 Mar 2004
Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University's Cybernetics Department will be giving a guest lecture here on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:00pm in R0.21 (Ramphal Lecture Theatre). Professor Warwick claims to be the world's first cyborg, and had an electronic chip implanted in his arm. If you're going to go to one lecture next term, make it this one!
Read more >>Dr Steve Matthews Lecture
Thu 04 Mar 2004
This week we have scheduled a talk by Dr. Steve Matthews. The talk will be an hour's introduction to "Philosophy for Programmers", Dr. Steve Matthew's research topic. This will be on Tueday of Week 10 at 5pm, in the L4 lecture theatre (beside L3).
Read more >>Karting Details
Tue 17 Feb 2004
Please see http://www.uwcs.co.uk/~nexus7/kartinglocation.JPG and let me know if you want a lift from Leamington to Karting. We need to be there for 3pm so don't be late (Sadiq!). Robo and DrWatson have kindly offered lifts from campus, so please contact them if you require one. I would suggest that you would all need to meet at rootes reception about 2.15pm which then gives us plenty of time to get there for 3pm. I have paid &£10 deposits for everyone so make sure you have &£30 and so…
Read more >>Swing Tutorial
Tue 17 Feb 2004
The Java Swing Tutorial was had, with a good turnout! Thanks to everyone who turned up, I hope you found it informative.
Read more >>CompSoc Elections 2004!
Sat 14 Feb 2004
The Elections were held at the end of Week 6, with the following results:
Read more >>AGM
Thu 12 Feb 2004
The CompSoc AGM will be this Saturday (14th) at 8pm in MR4/5 (Union North - above Costcutter; the door is on the right of Costcutter) all members are encouraged to show up - we'll be voting on the new exec finding out how you thought the society has been going, as well as presenting accounts for the past year.
Read more >>Compsoc Karting Trip
Sat 07 Feb 2004
On the Wednesday afternoon of Week 7 Compsoc will be going Karting at Mr.Karting near Leamington. Signups are now open and further details can be found on the events page.
Read more >>Minutes - 2004-02-06
Fri 06 Feb 2004
Given how the last few meetings have been held on Fridays, it was decided to move meetings permanently to Fridays (until the next time we change it).
Read more >>MySQL Upgrade
Fri 06 Feb 2004
Server Update: The migration from MySQL3 to MySQL4 is now complete. All users, grants and database files have been transferred, MySQL4 is now running on the default port of 3306, and the MySQL3 server has not been restarted. If anyone has any questions, or finds that something has suddenly stopped working, mail techteam@warwickcompsoc.co.uk and we'll get it fixed.
Read more >>Newsletter for 6 February 2004
Fri 06 Feb 2004
The Computing Society Annual General Meeting will be held at 8pm on Saturday 14th February (end of Week 6) in Meeting Room 4 and 5 in Union North. If you don’t know where these are, email the exec and we can help you get there.
Read more >>Newsletter for 27 January 2004
Tue 27 Jan 2004
You may remember last term the Linux User Group was going to host a free guest lecture by Dave Jones, a noted kernel hacker. Unfortunately we had to cancel, but we rescheduled it to tomorrow (Wed 28th Jan), 4pm, L4. Dave Jones has worked on several areas of the Linux kernel, which is not just an extremely widely used piece of software, but also a hugely complex global team development project. The lecture is free, and everyone is welcome.
Read more >>Compsoc Meal (Chinese)
Mon 26 Jan 2004
The Compsoc "all you can eat" Chinese will take place on the Wednesday of week 5 at 7.30pm in the Oriental Star in Leamington. Signups for this event will be open shortly and will close on midnight Sunday at the end of week 4.
Read more >>Dave Jones lecture
Mon 26 Jan 2004
Dave Jones, a coder for the Linux kernel is coming in to give a talk this Wednesday (28th Jan) at 4pm in L4 for the LUG. It's free, and anyone is welcome.
Read more >>Newsletter for 26 January 2004
Mon 26 Jan 2004
This coming weekend (Fri 30th Jan at 8pm to Sun 1st Feb at 8pm) we’ll be holding a LAN party. At the last LAN, as you may or may not know, we’ve had a problem with virii, so at this LAN, before you are plugged into the network, we will require evidence that your machine runs an up to date virus scanner, and has done a full system scan in the last week. If it hasn’t, you’ll be required to install one and run a full system scan before you are allowed to plug in. If you don’t have a scanner, ple…
Read more >>Minutes - 2004-01-23
Fri 23 Jan 2004
Newsletter to be sent to members on Monday. Content to be sent to David by Sunday afternoon.
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