Hello all, and welcome to the new academic year. The Computing Society has a wide variety of things planned this year, including our regular LANs, social trips, and academic events.

Signups for the Alton Towers Trip are open for the rest of this week.

Watch this space, and your email inbox, for details of forthcoming events!

Note: If you have joined the Computing Society via the Student Union's website, please be patient. Your password for the CompSoc website will be emailled to you in the evening. If yo...

The exams are over, results are out, the BFL and the end-of-year BBQ all went very well, and now it's time to chill out and relax over summer.

Next year, the exec have all sorts of exciting things planned, including Guest Lectures, tutorials, external trips, LANs, game tournaments, bowling trips, and much more. Watch this space next term for more information.

In the meantime, we hope everyone enjoys their summer and has a chance to relax after the academic year. Some people will be hanging out on IRC over...

This coming Monday, we will be placing an order for official Computing Society clothing. You can order any of the following items:

* Sweatshirt (example) - £11.45
* T Shirt (example) - £7.25
* Polo Shirt (example) - £9.95
* Hoodie (example) - £15.85
* Zip-neck fleece (example) - £19.95

If you would like your name written on the clothing, this will cost an extra £1.76 per item. Our clothing will be black, and an example of how they might look is at http://tinyurl.com/blyup.

Once you have decided wha...

If you can't log in to mysql.uwcs.co.uk (or mysql.warwickcompsoc.co.uk) because it keeps bouncing you back to the login page with no error message, please delete the cookies for that hostname and try again. This is caused by a bug in the previous version of the upstream software, which is now fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The current exec (elected at the AGM) are as follows:

* President: Sadiq Jaffer (Sadiq)
* Treasurer: Ian Norris (icStatic)
* Secretary: Adam Miles (ajmiles)
* Socials Officer: Chloe Dives (Chloe / Bob)
* Technical Officer: Phil Stoneman (DrWatson)
* Gaming Officer: Paul Broadbridge (NeXuS7)
* Linux User Group Officer, elected by the LUG at their meeting 16/02/2005: Tim Retout (Tim)

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-04-14 14:12:04.

Remember guys and gals, Exec meetings are open to all members. If you've got something you want to say, or you think you can make a contribution, feel free to come along to Union North on Friday at 7pm, and join in. Probably a good idea to tell us in #compsoc beforehand though, in case lack of a room means we have to move it somewhere else. Also, this week is the AGM.

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 13:30:41.

The programming competition is now live! With a first prize of a confirmed £250.00 provided by Accenture and large second and third place prizes, there really is no reason not to get involved. Lastest information can be found here.

Update: Thank you to all those who helped organise this, and all those who entered. The winners are listed in the newsletter.

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 13:35:42.

The perl tutorials in conjunction with cs120 are back again!
They're on at 2pm on the 12th, 19th and 26th of January in LIB1.

More information (and lecture handouts) can be found at:
http://davidf.woaf.net/perl

As you may be aware there has been significant server downtime recently. This is due to several factors including powercuts and suspected network problems. As of writing this all the servers except from Insomnia are up and we are talking to ITS to resolve this. Further details will follow in the next newsletter.

IT Services are migrating Warwick Piazza to public IP addresses (announcement), which includes Insomnia. The new IP is 137.205.71.254 and is now active; DNS has been updated accordingly. Most services should be unaffected but, as always, if you have any problems or questions, please contact the tech team (techteam@uwcs.co.uk).

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 12:32:42.