All,

Firstly, welcome to the Computing Society - if you're a seasoned veteran of IRC or just a newbie OpenArena player there's lots planned for the next few weeks. A list of everything happening over the next few days is below, keep an eye out for any further updates.

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This week:

- Monday, 18:30, Pub Social, Phantom Coach, a small group will leave from the Department of Computer Science at 18:15 and wander over (directions - see below)
- Tuesday,19:00...

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Hello.
Welcome Freshers to the greatest society at this university. We offer many exciting events including trips to major companies as well as the general social activities of go-karting, bowling, paintballing and many others. We hold weekly gaming sessions as well as going to the pub. For the more academically minded, there is a free software project that anyone can contribute to, a GNU/Linux user group and many programming competitions throughout the year. Join today and receive an account on our main s...

*Present:* Mullet, Si, OddBloke, Fluffeei, Bruce, Brad
Location: Teamspeak

h5. Elections for Exec Positions

Mullet started the meeting by asking which week we will hold an EGM to elect new members of the Exec.

Fluffeei proposed that we hold the EGM in Week 2 but close it to Freshers as they will only just have joined the Society.

Si said that the meeting would need to be open to all members assuming they are members by this point.

*Action* EGM is to be held in Week 2 of Term 1

h5. Exec EGM Q+A

Si p...

Historically the Computing Society has run a "blog":http://uwcs.livejournal.com/ that contains information about planned downtime, updates to society servers etc. This is being revived and should be used to convey any future information about such issues. Thank you for listening.

The migration of molotov to codd is now complete. All user accounts and services have been restored. Unfortunately the migration took a lot longer the anticipated, due to unforeseen circumstances. We sincerely apologies for the delay and any inconveniences caused.

As some of you may be aware, we are planning on expiring all passwords on codd. This is on order to filter out the weak passwords. If you wish to keep the same password as before, you can change it back by using the passwd command, but if your pa...

The Computing Society main server, codd, has been brought online today. Migration is an on-going process, and services will continue to be brought back up this afternoon. If you have identified any problems that you wish to report please email techteam@uwcs.co.uk or ask in #tech on irc.uwcs.co.uk.

Earlier today, Codd (the replacement for Molotov) was brought on-line. Our plan was to migrate all data and services across during the course of the afternoon. Unfortunately, while moving user accounts from Molotov, the /etc/passwd file got removed, thus preventing the use of sudo to fix the situation and also any subsequent attempts to log in to the machine. This cannot be resolved till we can gain physical access to Codd - on Monday.

Let us assure you that all your data are safe in the meanwhile and that...

Unfortunately its been raining heavily this morning rendering the chances of running an effective BBQ in a field nill. It is also likely to continue raining, sometimes heavily, during the day. Consequently we are moving the BBQ to Bucko's house in coventry where we can very easily move to the warm indoors during rainy spells. People on campus will be able to get a lift from Tesco at 12.30. Otherwise there is a "map":http://www.bucko.me.uk/images/maptocrosbie.png, which can be used for direction, as maps h...

The BFL marches steadily closer, and there are a few things to announce before it all kicks off.

h4. Power issues

Due to power constraints we will only be allowing you to bring one out of the following: 2nd monitor, fan, laptop, file server, console. If you do choose to turn up with more than one of them, you will be asked to wait and the power draw of all your equipment for the LAN will be measured. If this is below 360W, you will be allowed to use all your equipment. Otherwise we shall discuss what you ...