The main benifit of becoming a CSC member is to get access to our various machines. We offer a large range of hardware, including Alpha, MIPS, UltraSPARC, i386, and x86_64. Our primary development machine, taurine, is a dual AMD Operaton (4 cores in total) with 8 GiB of RAM. Most of our machines are connected via Gigabit ethernet. We offer 2 GiB of disk quota that is accessible across all of our machines. Our wiki contains a full machine list.

Members also receive a username@csclub.uwaterloo.ca email address. Mailboxes are considered as part of your disk quota, so your mailbox may grow up to the amount of disk quota you have. Attachments of any file size or type may be sent. Our mailserver runs a POP3, IMAP, and SMTP server with SSL/TLS enabled. You can also access your mail via a secure web interface.

Many of members take advantage of our web hosting service. Our web server runs on Apache, and has PHP, Python, and Perl modules installed. We also have MySQL and PostgreSQL databases available upon request.

If you are already a member, you can enable your webspace as follows:

  1. Log in to one of the CSC machines (e.g. csclub.uwaterloo.ca) using an SSH client (e.g. PuTTY on Windows or OpenSSH on *nix).
  2. Create a directory called www in your home directory by typing mkdir ~/www.
  3. Put the files you want on your web page in your new www directory. index.html/php/py will be loaded by default. You can upload files using an scp client (e.g. WinSCP on Windows or OpenSSH on *nix).
  4. Visit your snazzy new webpage at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~username/, where username should be replaced by your username.

If you're still having trouble getting your page up, just contact the Webmaster or the Systems Committee.

If you're a club and looking for web space, the CSC is the place go. We offer clubs the same services we offer members (e.g. disk quota, databases). We also offer the following additional services to clubs:

  • club.uwaterloo.ca domain registration.
  • president@club.uwaterloo.ca or similar email addresses.
  • mailing-lists@club.uwaterloo.ca or similar mailing lists.

You can view a list of clubs that we have hosted or still host on our clubs list.

The CSC maintains an extensive collection of Computer Science related books. You browse our library online by going to our library system. CSC members are free to borrow most of the books in the library. Certain books must remain in the club office, and can be read there.