News 04/05
News from 04/05!
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.
Read more >>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…
Read more >>CompSoc Minutes - 2004/10/08
Fri 08 Oct 2004
Peter Ellis apologised for not posting the minutes from the last meeting to the exec list and thus read the minutes for approval.
Read more >>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…
Read more >>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.
Read more >>Minutes - 2004-10-01
Fri 01 Oct 2004
Peter Ellis stated that this term we are trying to keep the meetings short, and would people please use the exec list for status stuff?
Read more >>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.
Read more >>Campus Firewall
Thu 26 Aug 2004
As part of their new security measures, ITS are blocking a large amount of services. Until we are able to get things unblocked (sometime next week, we hope), you can access irc by connecting to irc.warwickcompsoc.co.uk, port 3389 (SSL IRC is at bermuda.warwickcompsoc.co.uk:3389).
Read more >>Campus network downtime
Thu 26 Aug 2004
Due to a DOS attack being carried out on the campus network, services for the entire campus network are nearly all disabled, with the exception of web access. Further information can be found at the general "Campus Life" news page and at the ITS News page.
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