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Archive date: March 2002

Email downtime

Posted on 28th March 2002

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.

Minnits - 11 March 2002

Posted on 11th March 2002


h3. Compsoc Exec Minnits

h4. 11 March 2002

h4. Present

* Dave de la Motte
* Henry Southgate
* Tom Cropper
* Chris Fanning (belatedly)
* Jake Staines
* Tom Ward
* Richard Colfer
* A Lexus Burke Hill (or something amusing and original)
* Chris Smith
* James Ross
* Adam Bowen
* Phil Stoneman

h4. ITS

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 gam...

Fun, Games and Security

Posted on 8th March 2002

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.

As you may well be aware, security is a big concern for any publicly visible server, such as Molotov, and our new technical "dude", Phil Stoneman, has been keeping Molotov up to date with all the latest security relases for Linux. However, we would...

Minnits - 4 March 2002

Posted on 4th March 2002


h3. Compsoc Exec Minnits

h4. 4 March 2002

h4. Present

* Dave de la Motte
* Henry Southgate
* Tom Cropper
* Chris Fanning
* Jake Staines
* Tom Ward
* Richard Colfer
* Alexis Birkill
* Chris Smith
* James Ross
* Adam Bowen

h4. Budget

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.

h4. Gamesoc

A few friendlies were played on Fr...

Downtime

Posted on 1st March 2002

Molotov is going down from 10pm Sunday, 3rd March, for routine maintenance. We expect Molotov to be up and running again well before 11pm, but this depends on any difficulties we may encounter. Services affected: all those on Molotov, including the website, IRC and games servers. The exec e-mail address will continue to function as normal.