Unfortunately, Insomnia, one of the computing society servers is currently non-functional. It went down for a scheduled 2-minute reboot for a kernel upgrade, and never came back. As soon as ITS let us into their server room, it will be fixed. However, given that we're not in term time, getting hold of someone with enough security access who can let us in is proving to be fun. We have a call number, we have a support request, no-one has got back to us yet. Unfortunately, mail for domains hosted by CompSoc go...

This year the Compsoc Xmas Dinner will be in the Virgin and Castle in Kenilworth ("oooh suits you" I hear some of you say) at 7.30pm on Wednesday the 1st of December. It is a 3 course set menu, so signup now http://www.uwcs.co.uk/events/details/?id=361 and I look forward to seeing you all there. NeXuS7.

Just a reminder that the LAN is at the end of this week and thus everyone should make sure that they have patches/antivirus software up to date (Zephran, we're watching you :-P) in case ITS fail to get the port patched in time again (We are poking them with sticks but they are busy people).

There will be an academic meeting on Wed at 5pm in union north. We haven't got a meeting room, so we're hoping to hax the lounge, if we're not in there, we'll more than likely have the meeting in rootes reception as its normally pretty quiet in there. The meeting will basically be me going "I'm the new academic officer, what do you want me to do" kind of meeting. Anybody is welcome to come along, we would love some fresh ideas :)

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.

Update: Signups for this event are now closed.

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h3. CompSoc Minutes 15/10/2004

h4. In attendence

* Richard Wilson
* John Smith
* Chris Boyle
* Tim Troy
* Andrew Sully
* Peter Ellis
* Graham Richardson
* Euan Magreggor
* Sadiq Jaffer

h4. Server Downtime

Richard Wilson informed the exec that the server downtime scheduled for this weekend would begin at 1:30 due to the badmintion society having signups for an event this weekend. Richard Wilson then asked if there were any further requests with regards to what time the servers would be taken down, th...

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 before Sunday ev...

Take the IBM Linux Challenge.

IBM has set a new Challenge for University students to make improvements to Linux, create usability tools or enhancements, or design Linux applications. Prizes will be awarded to the top 20 students who will receive an IBM ThinkPad (R) with Linux and will also have the opportunity to qualify for one of three summer 2005 Internships at our Linux Technology Center.

IBM are organising a lecture to explain the competition in L5 this Wednesday (13th) at 2pm. This will be an ideal...

Newsletter 2004/10/09

h3. Newsletter 2004/10/09

Hi everyone and welcome to the new year at Warwick.

# Login Problems
# Welcome to new members
# IBM Linux Challenge
# Socials
# Gaming
# LAN
# LUG
# Network Cable

h4. 0. Login Problems

We are currently experiencing some problems synchronizing our members database with the unions one, this has delayed some of the E-mails to new members. If you have joined the society and can't login to the website then please E-mail the exec (exec@warwickcompsoc.co.uk) ...

h3. CompSoc Minutes 2004/10/08

h4. Present

* Peter Ellis
* Richard Wilson
* Chris Boyle
* Timothy Troy
* Andrew Sully
* Ian Norris
* Paul Broadbridge
* Michelle D'Israeli

Peter Ellis apologised for not posting the minutes from the last meeting to the exec list and thus read the minutes for approval.

h4. Membership

It was commented that the membership was 60 down from the end of last year. Richard Wilson asked the meeting if anybody thought this was a problem but pointed out that we usually get appr...