X-Git-Url: http://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/?p=mspang%2Fwww.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=news.xml;h=4b860a825123230ef2bd111564ea8c0c0542b8e1;hp=a95b8885b4f6c54e80c683189441b390da34a5d7;hb=1081c5ac23933faa7c2b41c1623c50efd8a5a890;hpb=a51c0d9a4234a0779cd3b26856c79d54bc71cbe7;ds=inline diff --git a/news.xml b/news.xml index a95b888..4b860a8 100755 --- a/news.xml +++ b/news.xml @@ -2,6 +2,146 @@ + + Audio has been added for the Larry Smith talk: Computing's Next Great + Empires. It is available in OGG + format or in MP3 format. + Thanks to all who came out. The talk was a great success. + + + The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Spring 2004. + + + perpugilliam has been restored, with two new disks courtesy of + MathSoc and MEF. There are now disk quotas for users, with a 250 MB + soft quota and a 500 MB hard quota, with a 14-day grace period. + + + carbonated-water is back up. It now runs as the backup mail + exchange and also serves a a slave LDAP server. What this means is + that if perpugilliam goes down, your mail will not be dropped + and you'll still be able to login to other machines. + + + perpugilliam will be going down for hardware upgrades on + 2004-04-16 to 2004-04-19. We thank MathSoc and MEF for their + generous support in purchasing this hardware, and apologise for + any inconvenience this downtime will cause. + + + Pictures of + CTRL-D + are available in the gallery. + + + glucose-fructose is back on-line. It has a new 120 GB hard disk, + a new power supply, and an nVidia GeForce FX 5900. + + + glucose-fructose will be going down for hardware upgrades on + 2004-04-02 for an indeterminate amount of time. We thank MathSoc and + MEF for their generous support in purchasing this hardware, and + apologise for any inconvenience this downtime will cause. + + + Kernighan came to Waterloo, and the Computer Science Club got our books + signed by him. Not only that, but we took + photographs + of him too. + + + The books that we purchased have arrived. Now we have two books that + can be signed by Kernighan when he comes. + + + We voted 15 to 0 to 0 in favour of changing the + constitution to follow MathSoc + policy. An updated copy of the document is now online. + + + perpugilliam went down over the weekend due to a failing disk. + Please back up all your important data as it is starting to go bad. + We are trying to acquire a replacement. + + + carbonated-water, h2o, is back down. It's awaiting + a new power supply. + + + The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Winter 2004. + + + The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Fall 2003. + + + carbonated-water, h2o, is back up. It's a great machine + for reading mail on. + + + The CSC Procedures manual has been added to the website. Thanks go to + Shannon Mann for reminding us of this document. + + + We've finally gotten around to disabling accounts. If you find your + account has been improperly disabled please email + the executive. We are + keeping a back up of the files and mail for each disabled account for + a short period of time. + + + Jim Elliott gave a great talk for the CSC yesterday and has put his slides + online.
+ + http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events.html + + + We have been notified by the Guelph Computer Club that they are unable + to host our group event. Sorry for the inconvenience. + + + We have a new computer called glucose-fructose, or sugar + for short. As a result, carbonated-water is temporarily out of + service, although it should return within a month. + + + The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Spring 2003. + + + The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Winter 2003. + + + Due to lack of time for preparation, the Romp Through The Linux Kernel talks were cancelled. + Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully these talks will happen next term. + + + The business meeting of 2002-09-30 was concluded and the constitutional + change was approved with a 14:2 majority (and one spoiled + ballot). See the new constitution. + + + The Fall elections have occured and the results are in. + + + We've changed to the new site! Please send your comments to the webmaster. The old site is still available. A few things may not + be working quite right yet, but I'm working on it. + + + Added books! About 2.5 shelves are + there, minus a whole lot that weren't readily accessible from the + Library of Congress. Getting all of the books on there is going to + be a tough job. These are, by the way, managed by good-old (or new?) + CEO. Thanks to Ryan Golbeck and Petio for their hard work getting + ISBN numbers onto disc. + Added a bunch of old events and some documents, including the XML goodness. - \ No newline at end of file +