Newsletter - 2004/04/29

h3. Newsletter - 2004/04/29

# LAN
# Academic Stuff
# Tech Stuff
# Social Stuff
# Cat5

h4. 1. LAN

The first LAN of term will be from 8:00PM Friday the 6th of May to Sunday the 8th of May in H0.58 and H0.60. For the many of you who will have never set foot in the humanities building this is the building opposite engineering, go in the front door and turn right and after that it is obvious, or at least will be given Si1entDave will be doing a lot of the setting up. Signups will ...

Update 2004/03/01

h3. Update 2004/03/01

Hi all,

The LAN was had this weekend, and it was a roaring success, with all sorts of fun with hardware, foam "lightsaber" fights, and some excellent games of things like Generals, UT2k4, and Savage.

Two items of lost property were discovered in the process of clearing up the LAN:

# A mobile phone charger
# A set of keys

If you think that either of these belong to you, please contact me (phil@uwcs.co.uk) with a description of the items and we will arrange to ...

Newsletter 2004/02/25

h3. Newsletter 2004/02/25

* 1 CompSoc Annual Elections
* 2 Academic
* 2.1 Steve Matthews Lecture
* 2.2 Bletchley Park Trip
* 2.3 Kevin Warwick Lecture
* 2.4 Careers Presentations
* 3 Socials
* 3.1 LAN Party
* 3.2 Karting
* 4 Technical
* 4.1 Technical Team
* 4.2 Insomnia Downtime
* 5 MMORPG Announcement
* 6 CAT6
* 7 Contact

h4. 1 CompSoc Annual Elections

The Elections were held at the end of Week 6, with the following results:

* President - Richard Wilson (Si1entDave)
* Vice Pr...

Update 2004/02/13

h3. Update 2004/02/13

ISE STUDENTS! (And anyone else who's interested.)

There is going to be a free tutorial on Swing, the popular Java windowing toolkit, given by a member of the Computing Society. It will include suggestions on how to get around the intricacies of Swing's threading that you won't necessarily find in the documentation. All are welcome, whether you are ISE students or not. You don't even have to be a member of the society. The important info is:

* Date: Tuesday 17th ...

h3. CompSoc Newsletter - 6th Febuary 2004

# CompSoc Annual Elections
# 1 Election Details
# 2 Positions Available
# Academic
# 1 Steve Jarvis lecture
# 2 Bletchley Park Trip
# 3 Java Swing Tutorial
# LAN Followup
# Technical
# 1 SQL Downtime
# CAT5
# Contact

h4. 1 CompSoc Annual Elections

h5. 1.1 Election Details

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 th...

h3. Member-wide mail on 27th Jan 2004

h4. Guest lecture tomorrow, Linux help this weekend

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, ...

h3. CompSoc Newsletter for Week 4, Term 2

# Events
# 1 LAN
# 2 InstallFest (Linux Installation Help)
# 3 CompSoc Meal
# Technical
# 1 Molotov Downtime
# 2 Tech Team
# Academic
# 1 Dave Jones Lecture
# 2 Academic Team
# CAT5
# Contact

h4. 1 Events

h5. 1.1 LAN

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 evi...

h3. Members-wide mail on 23rd Jan 2003

h4. Lord of the Rings Day is Cancelled

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control the Lord of the Rings day tomorrow has been cancelled.

We will try to arrange it for a later date. Sorry all.

Chris Bates
Treasurer

h3. Members-wide mail on 20th Jan 2004

h4. Free guest lecture by Jason Clifford tomorrow

The Linux User Group is hosting a free guest lecture tomorrow (Wednesday 21st January) by Jason Clifford of ukfsn.org, an ISP which he runs using Linux and which donates all its profits to free software projects. This will offer a valuable insight into various aspects of the running of a technology-centric business which many LUG and CompSoc members may see as a future career path. If you've ever wondered what goes ...

h3. Members-wide mail on 18th Jan 2004

h4. LAN Signups

Due to technical problems with molotov, LAN signups did not open as expected at 11pm on Saturday evening. To ensure the signups remain fair, member signups have been moved back to 12 midday, Sunday (today), 18/01/2004. Guest signups will remain at 11pm next Saturday.

Finally, if you were running any processes on molotov, you may wish to check if these processes are still active.

Apologies for the inconvenience - this problem should not reoccur.

P...