It's the start of a new academic year so there's several things to mention. Firstly our Linux User Group Meetings have already kicked off, these are every Wednesday at 7.30pm in Xanana's. Next the Freshers' Social is this Saturday in a meeting room in Union North where Food and Drink will be provided. Come along meet fellow members and learn more about our society. Next we have a Cinema Trip planned for the Sunday afternoon at the end of Week 3 and our first LAN the following week, more details in a forth...

A warm welcome to everyone who's just joined us. We look forward to seeing you at our events throughout the term, more about those above.

You can find our IRC server at irc.warwickcompsoc.co.uk port 6668 (6669 for SSL), but if you're off-campus, you'll need to use some alternative ports for the moment. This is due to a network security scare during the holidays which caused IT Services to alter their firewall policy. You can connect to irc.warwickcompsoc.co.uk port 3389, or if you would like to use SSL, ...

h3. CompSoc Minutes 2004/10/01

Peter Ellis stated that this term we are trying to keep the meetings short, and would people please use the exec list for status stuff?

h4. Summaries of work that has been done

The Exec requested that Richard Wilson and Chris Boyle post the state of the tech to the exec list.

The exec requested that Chris Boyle post the state of the new website to the exec list.

The exec requested that Peter Ellis and Michelle D'israeli post the current state of the academic side of th...

We need to bring down our IRC and SQL servers briefly this Saturday (18th September) at 9pm. This will affect IRC (irrespective of which method you use to access it), the main CompSoc website, and any members' websites that use SQL. Normal service should be resumed 5-10 minutes afterwards. For any queries, please contact the tech team.

As part of their new security measures, ITS are blocking a large amount of services. Until we are able to get things unblocked (sometime next week, we hope), you can access irc by connecting to irc.warwickcompsoc.co.uk, port 3389 (SSL IRC is at bermuda.warwickcompsoc.co.uk:3389).

You can log into molotov by SSH, anything else (e.g. email) will require a solution like SSH forwarding. If you're not sure how to do that, ask us on IRC, and we'll be happy to help.

Due to a DOS attack being carried out on the campus network, services for the entire campus network are nearly all disabled, with the exception of web access. Further information can be found at the general "Campus Life" news page and at the ITS News page.

UPDATE: SSH and mail access to campus have been restored, so you can reach our normal IRC service using ssh.

Edited by Euan MacGregor on 2004-08-26 17:19:14.

Update - 2004/08/07

h3. Update - 2004/08/07

Hi folks,

Hope you're all enjoying your holiday. As part of the Technical Team's efforts to maintain a reliable service, we have slightly modified the DNS configuration of the Computing Society's servers. These changes should be transparent, but if you notice any peculiar behaviour with Computing Society domain names, or any domains you may have hosted with CompSoc, please contact us (techteam@warwickcompsoc.co.uk), and we'll sort them out.

For those of you ...

As part of the general server upgrades the IRC server is moving to a new server. To minimise disruption please use irc.warwickcompsoc.co.uk to connect to irc until the move is completed.

Update - 2004/06/20

h3. Update - 2004/06/20

The times for the BFL are as follows:

# pm Monday 21st exec arrive and setup etc.
# pm members can turn up from here onwards.
# pm Thursday 24th End of the Lan.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

NeXuS7.

Update - 2004/06/19

h3. Update - 2004/06/19

Howdy all!

Tomorrow, from 2pm onwards, is the annual CompSoc BBQ!

Before the details of the BBQ, a quick notice. Due to an upgrade to the IRC service, IRC shall be disrupted for about ten minutes at 11pm tonight. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We shall be situated at main campus BBQ site 1. To find it, simply follow Health Centre road down to the Gibbet Hill lake and then turn right - we should be right there.

Paul Broadbridge, our soci...