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Due to recent events involving the Freenode IRC network, the #csc channel on Freenode has been migrated to libera.chat. If you are in the #csc channel on Freenode, please migrate to libera.chat as soon as possible. The two networks are currently being bridged temporarily to ease the transition.

Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable on Saturday, May 15 due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics and Computer Building (MC) from 7am to 11am.

The CSC will begin shutting down machines at 6am in preparation of the outage.

Please prepare for the outage by:

If you have any questions/concerns, please email the Systems Committee.

Hello everyone! CSC and DSC are teaming up to bring you all a side-project event next term! Our goal with this event is to help you plan and execute an amazing side project over the course of several weeks, and we'll be releasing more details about this soon

Right now, we are looking for mentors that are interested in participating! This is an amazing opportunity to gain project management, mentorship and leadership experience, all while giving back to the community of students at UW.

As a mentor, you'll be tasked with helping teams of students create roadmaps of their project, setting milestones, and making sure that everyone stays on task. Additionally, if you'd like to share your technical experience and expertise, we have optional office hours where mentors can help teams debug their code!

If you're interested, please sign up! You won't immediately be committing to the role; and we'll have a secondary check-in to ensure that you're familiar with the responsibilities.

Sign up at http://bit.ly/uwcsc-uwdsc-mentor-signup! Alternatively, you can email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with a short description about yourself, your experience, as well as what technical fields you're comfortable mentoring.

Deadline to Sign Up: Wednesday, May 7th at 11:59pm EDT

Thank you to all the people that were able to attend our Get Involved event! As promised, we are excited to announce that we are officially accepting applications for CSC's Executive committee.

The positions available for Spring 2021 term are:

If you're passionate about making a positive change in our community, we'd love for you to apply! You can find more information about each role at this link: http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-roles!

Application Deadline: Friday, April 23rd at 11:59pm EDT

Apply at http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-apply! Alternatively, you can email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UW email with an introduction of yourself, which positions you're interested in and any questions you might have.

Looking forward to reading your applications!

As part of an ongoing series to upgrade our email services, there will be some downtime for our email system over the course of the next few weeks. This affects mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca. The downtime periods will only occur late at night (EDT) and should last no more than an hour at a time.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please email syscom at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca.

The CSC has updated its SpamAssassin configuration to use a site-wide Bayesian learner instead of per-user. This will hopefully reduce duplicate efforts to keep spam out of our inboxes. Unfortunately this may lead to increased false positives. See the instructions on our wiki on how to revert to the old behaviour if you wish to do so.

Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable on Saturday, Mar. 20 due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics and Computer Building (MC) from 7am to 5pm.

The CSC will begin shutting down machines at 6am in preparation of the outage.

Please prepare for the outage by:

If you have any questions/concerns, please email the Systems Committee.

We're gathering info about the CSC website in order to prep for a redesign.

Help us out by filling out this form https://forms.gle/NNG1p4ZFHQJ4ssfc7 and giving us your opinion.

We want to make sure the site is functional and useful for everyone.

Alternatively, you can also email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the answers to your questions, available here.

CSC now hosts its own instance of BigBlueButton at https://bbb.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, freely available for all members.

BigBlueButton is a free and open source video conferencing platform. It runs directly in the browser, and includes many useful features such as multi-user whiteboards, embedded videos, and interactive polls.

To get the most out of BBB, there are some tutorial videos you can watch here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email syscom.

Happy video calling!

Join Computer Science Club for Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series presented by students. Alt-Tab consists of 10 to 15-minute talks about anything related to tech. They can be about cool new features, a fun project you made or really anything that you are excited about! We will be hosting it virtually this term late March.

We are currently looking for speakers! If you're passionate about a technical topic and interested in public speaking, apply by filling out the form below. We'd LOVE to hear from you. Speakers don't need to have prior experience and Alt-Tab is a great way to get started with giving talks!

Here are some topics that past talks have covered:

You can apply here: https://forms.gle/JpEsGTZK9WRbFUw46. Alternatively, you can also email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca to introduce yourself, as well as an outline of your proposed 10-15 minute talk.

If you have any questions about giving a talk, feel free to reach out to us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca

Applications are due on Friday, March 12th 11:59pm EST

Hope to see you there!

Winter 2021 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:

The unfilled positions this term are:

Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Winter 2021 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be appointed. The librarian and office manager will not be appointed, since the office will be closed for the Fall term.

If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Wednesday, January 20 2021 at midnight EDT.

If you'd like to get involved with CS Club, but don't want to run for an elected position, we are also accepting applications for roles on the Programme Committe! You can apply here: https://forms.gle/d2mTDAhf1D15Yyk27

MathSoc has decided to waive club fees for the Winter 2021 term as well.

If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we continue to use the modified process we put in place in Spring 2020 making remote registrations possible:

Email the CSC Systems Committee at syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UWaterloo email address with the following:

  1. a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,
  2. your WatIAM userid, and
  3. your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and agreeing with our Machine Usage Agreement.

The club office will remained closed until further notice. Have a safe Winter term!

Fall 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:

The unfilled positions this term are:

The CSC Systems Committee announces the availability of the CSC's own installation of the ZNC IRC bouncer for CSC members at znc.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, as the second of several steps it is taking to bring modern user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to CSC members. Please see the notice sent to csc-general for the complete announcement.

MathSoc has decided to waive club fees for the Fall 2020 term as well.

If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we continue to use the modified process we put in place in Spring 2020 making remote registrations possible:

Email the CSC Systems Committee at syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UWaterloo email address with the following:

  1. a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,
  2. your WatIAM userid, and
  3. your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and agreeing with our Machine Usage Agreement.

The club office will remained closed until further notice. Have a safe Fall term!

Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2020 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be ratified. The librarian and office manager will not be appointed, since the office will be closed for the Fall term.

If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Saturday, September 19 2020 at midnight EDT.

The CSC Systems Committee announces the availability of a new web IRC client for CSC members at chat.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, as the first of several steps it is taking to bring modern user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to CSC members. Please see the notice sent to csc-general for the complete announcement.

Spring 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:

The unfilled positions this term are:

The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage in the Math & Computer Building (MC) on Thursday, May 28 from 10am to 12pm (noon) EDT. Club systems and services will be unavialble starting at 8am EDT. See the announcement sent to csc-general for more information.

Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Spring 2020 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be ratified. The librarian and office manager will not be appointed, since the office will be closed for the Spring term.

If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Wednesday, May 20 2020 at midnight EDT.

Due to campus closure, MathSoc has decided not collect fees for the Spring 2020 term.

If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we have put in place a modified process for remote registration.

Email syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UWaterloo email address with the following:

  1. a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,
  2. your WatIAM userid, and
  3. your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and agreeing with our Machine Usage Agreement.

The club office will remained closed until further notice. Have a safe Spring term!

The University has closed all campus buildings, so the club office is now closed until further notice.

Have a safe Spring term, and hopefully we'll see you back in the office soon!

Winter 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.

The remaining appointed positions are

Fall 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.

The remaining appointed positions are

On August 21st, we were informed that sometime before 2:30PM EDT taurine caught fire. As a result, it is currently unavailable and is expected to remain so permanently.

See the Machine List for alternate general use servers.

There will be a power outage on campus from 7:00 am until 9:00 pm on Sunday, August 18th (EDT). To prepare for this outage, all Computer Science Club servers will be down starting at 11:00 PM on Saturday, August 17th. This includes web hosting, CSC Cloud, email, and mirror. Please make sure you save all of your work before then, and we also recommend backing up your files just in case.

See also the notice from Plant Ops.

Spring 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.

The remaining appointed positions are

There will be scheduled downtime for maintenance on many Computer Science Club servers on Thursday, February 21 beginning at 9:45 AM. Machines are expected to be up by 11:30 AM, but issues may arise that require more time to correct.

The list of affected public servers is:

During this time, CSC email will be inaccessible but mail will be queued up and delivered after the maintenance period is over. All websites hosted by CSC will be inaccessible for a short period of time as caffeine is rebooted. CSC Cloud will also be unavailable, and any virtual machines on CSC cloud will have to be manually restarted after the maintenance window.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

The remaining positions have been appointed:

Here are the results from this term's elections:

The rest of the positions will be appointed at a later date.

CSC will be hosting Alt-Tab, a slightly longer version of lightning talks. It will be a night full of friendly talks during the week of November 26.

We need talks! Contact exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, with your tentative talk title and a short abstract if you would like to give a talk. Slides are not required. Please aim for a 10-15 minute talk. I'll send an email with the list of talks closer to the date of the event. Please send titles and abstract by November 19th.

Here are some topics that our members have presented before. The titles make them seem more technical than they actually were.

There will be food.

We have been informed of a planned power outage that will affect CSC equipment on Oct. 9 at 11pm until Oct. 10 at 5am.

During this time, all CSC systems and services will be unavailable. Please ensure that you have saved all work before then and that you have a backup of any important files.

We expect that most services will recover automatically once power is restored, however anything requiring manual intervention will be restored later in the day.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Systems Committee by email at syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.

Here are the results from this term's elections:

Additionally, the following positions were appointed:

Nominations for the Fall 2018 exec are open. You can nominate candidates for President, Vice President, Assistant Vice President, or Treasurer by submitting their name, username, and position to the ballot box in the CSC, or by emailing cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with their name and position(s). Nominations close Monday, September 17th.

Elections will be held Tuesday, September 18th in the Comfy Lounge at 6:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are invited to come by and vote.

Nominations are listed here.

Power has now been restored to the machine room and most CSC systems and services are now available, with the exception of:

If you experience any issues accessing CSC services, please contact the Systems Committee.

While power has been restored to the Math & Computer Building (MC), power is not yet available in the machine room. As a result, most CSC services are still unavailable at this time.

The current estimate for power is Saturday, Sept. 1.

Currently, due to machines located in other buildings and emergency generator power to select machines in MC, the following services are currently available:

Once power is restored to the machine room, the Systems Committee will continue restoring remaining services.

The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage in the Math & Computer Building (MC) Tuesday, August 21 to Thursday, August 30. Systems will be unavailable starting Sunday, August 19 at 12pm EDT and are expected to be restored on Thursday, August 30.

We expect that our Open Source Software mirror be available during the outage.

See the notice sent to csc-general for more information.

Please contact the Systems Committee if you have any questions.

Updated on 2018-07-19 as the outage time was extended.

Updated on 2018-08-02 with additional information and extended outage time.

Here are the results from this term's elections:

Additionally, the following positions were appointed:

Here are the nominations for the Spring 2018 elections:

Additionally, the following people have expressed interest in appointed positions:

The winner of the uncode party is Jennifer Zhou! For a sorting algorithm that works by emailing our VP for each decision.

Again, congratulations on somehow winning an event that even the organizers wouldn't know there was going to be a winner at!

Here are the results from this term's elections:

Additionally, the following positions were appointed:

Here are the results from this term's elections:

Additionally, the following positions were appointed:

We also amended our constitution to revise our Code of Conduct. The updated Code of Conduct can be found at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct.

Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics & Computer Building on Sat. Nov 26 from 7am to 5pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable.

It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF).

The Code of Conduct and the amended version can be found below:

Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics & Computer Building on Sat. Oct 22 from 7am to 11pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable.

It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF).

Here are the results from this term's elections:

Additionally, the following positions were appointed:

Elections for Spring 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected and ratified:

Many of the Computer Science Club's systems and services will be unavailable for maintenance on Wednesday, February 17 from 11am to 5pm.

See the announcement for more information.

The Computer Science Club Mirror is now running on potassium-benzoate, our new server which was purchased with funding from the Mathematics Endowment Fund (MEF). We have also enhanced our mirror's network connectivity, adding IPv6 and 10Gbps.

Running our mirror is made possible with assistance from:

Elections for Winter 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected:

By-Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:

In addition, the following people were appointed to non-elected positions:

Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The Computer Science Club adopted the proposed Code of Conduct (with amendments). The complete code of conduct can be found here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct

There will be a general meeting on March 27th to discuss constitution amendments and the institution of a Code of Conduct.

The full diff can be found here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch, and the proposed Code of Conduct here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct.

Elections for Winter 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The following people were appointed:

We are waxing the office floors on the evening of November 5th. You can come out for 7pm to help move anything on the floor out of the office.

Our free software mirror is currently down due to maintenance and multiple disk failure on the backup. We are working on bringing up a replacement. We do not have an ETA at this time for when service will be restored. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Elections for Fall 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The following people were appointed:

Elections for Spring 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The Sysadmin and Office Manager were not appointed at the election.

Elections for Winter 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The following people were appointed:

It's been a while since we last ordered shirts for members. As such, we would like to order a new batch, and invite you to supply the design for the shirt! The winning candidate (and possibly some runner-ups) will receive a free shirt in the size of their choice. Please send your submissions to the executive.

The deadline will be Nov. 13 at midnight, and winners will be announced by Friday, Nov. 15. At that point, a signup sheet will be made available.

Bowling has been moved from Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. See the event details for more information.

A number of talks on security and privacy have been planned for this term. Email progcom if you are interested in getting involved. See individual events for more detail.

Is there something that you're particularly passionate about and would like to share with others? Do you want to practice presenting on a topic of interest to the membership? We are accepting proposals for member talks for the Fall 2013 term. Tell us about a project you're really passionate about, or perhaps a theoretical problem you find interesting.

Please send a proposed abstract and some possible talk dates to our programme committee and we will get to work on getting your talk scheduled.

Congratulations to this term's new executive!

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Consider attending the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in Montreal, Quebec this semester, July 10—14. Funding for transportation and accommodations has been generously provided by MEF, MathSoc, and the Dean's Office.

To apply for funding, please fill out this form.

If you have any questions, please contact me directly.

Congratulations to this terms new executive!

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

The position of librarian has not yet been filled.

Welcome to Spring 2013!

Elections for the Spring term have been set; see above.

Elections for Winter 2013 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Due to repeated power failure in the MC building, multiple CSC systems are experiencing critical service interruptions. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Elections for Fall 2012 will be held on September 13 at 4:00 PM. Nominations will begin on September 6th, and will end 24 hours prior to elections. Nominations may be emailed to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. This term's CRO is Owen Smith (omsmith).

To all of our members who are interested in attending CUMC at UBCO this summer, please remember to apply for funding!

The CSC and AMD are running an OpenCL programming contest! If you're interested in winning a laptop or a graphics card, you should read more and register here.

Registration has been reopened for anyone who did not get a chance to register on time, so make sure you sign up!

Recorded talks from 2010 to 2012 have been added to the media page.

Elections for Winter 2012 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Elections for Fall 2011 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are closed. Nominees are as follows:

Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are invited to come by and vote. If you are unable to attend but would like to vote please e-mail your ballot to the CRO. Voting will take place by approval voting, so vote for as many people in each race as you like.

Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are open. You can nominate candidates for President, Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary by writing their name on the office whiteboard under the appropriate heading, or by emailing cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with their name and position(s). Nominations close Sunday, September 18th at 4:30PM.

Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are invited to come by and vote.

The results, including appointments, are:

The election is over. The new executive are The new Office Manager is m4burns. The new Librarian is asbumste. There is a correction in the nominee list. m4burns was nominated for Vice-President, not b4taylor. Apologies. If you cannot attend the meeting, please send a vote to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations have closed at some point. The nominations are as follows: It has come to my attention that some people believe I previously claimed that nominations close at 3:00 PM. This is false. They close, and have always closed, at 4:30. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Nominations for Winter 2011 executive are now open on the CSC whiteboard. They close at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, January 11. Elections will be held at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, January 12 on the brand-new furniture in the Comfy Lounge. You can also nominate someone or ask any other questions or just complain to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. The CSC has been invited to MathSoc's annual Charity Ball. If you are interested in attending with the CSC, please contact Gwynneth Leece gnleece@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. The Charitby Ball costs $20 per person and includes a three-course dinner. It is Saturday November 20th at 6pm. We experienced a recent power outage which caused the RAID array hosting mirror data to need to be rebuilt. As a result, the mirrored data is temporarily read-only. We hope to resume synchronizing as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience. You can view the reconstruction progress on the mirror's index page Elections are over. The results are: Nominations are now closed. The nominations are as follows: Time for the election on September 14th has been decided. It will be held at 16:30 in the MC comfy lounge. Nominations for the fall term executives are now open. They will close on Sunday September 12. The election will be held on Tuesday the 14th. To enter a nomination write the name/position on the CSC office whiteboard or send it to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Elections have concluded, congratulations to the new executive: Nominations for the spring term executive are closed. Nominees are: Elections will occur as listed in the events section for the two contested positions. If you would like to vote absentee, please send your votes (one vote per position) to the Chief Returning Officer before 5:30 PM EDT on May 11, 2010.

Contest now open!

This term's programming contest is now open. Check out the website. The problem is Tron, and there will be prizes offered, but if you want details you should really check the website.

Contest Over

Congratulations to amstan for taking first place.

Contest Still Open!

Go to the website now and get to it!

Do you text... do you iPod?

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study on mobile hand held device use and any related health or comfort troubles experienced during their use. As a participant in this study, you would be asked to fill out a 5-8 minute computer-administered confidential questionnaire.

If you would like to participate, please follow this link: http://ithumb.iwh.on.ca/ This study is being conducted by Richard Wells and Sophia Berolo, Department of Kinesiology, and Benjamin Amick, Institute for Work and Health. If you wish more information, please contact Sophia Berolo at sberolo@uwaterloo.ca. The study has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, the office of Research Ethics, University of Waterloo.

Upcoming events: Some of the talks from the Winter term are available on the website in the media section, including the IQC talk and video from the lab tours. Joel Spolsky and Richard Stallman's talks are coming soon. The elections are complete. Your executive for the Spring 2009 term are: Kyle (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date. Elections will be held on Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM in the Comfy Lounge. Nominees and voting policy for the election. CSC Branded Merchindise is now available for purchase here for your owning pleasure. The contest is still open and will be until Saturday. For contest details go to the contest website, and come to the code party friday night for some last minute hacking! Richard Stallman's flight has been delayed and he will be arriving in Waterloo later than expected. As a result, the talk has been moved to the Modern Languages Theatre at 6:30PM. Drop by the CSC for more information! Sorry for the confusion! Holden (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date. Elections will be held on Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM The following people were elected today: The following were appointed: New positions were elected on Tuesday. Check the exec section to see who won. Spring 2008 elections will be held on Tuesday May 13th at 4:30pm in the Comfy Lounge.
Get your nominations in as soon as possible on the CSC whiteboard!
Nominations close 24 hours before the polls open.
You can email your nominations to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Winter 2008 elections are over; click here to see the new executive and other positions. The CSClub mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) is now on the ResNet "don't count" list. This means that downloading software from our mirror will not count against your quota. Click here for a list of Linux distributions and open-source software that we mirror. The Fall 2007 election has been scheduled for Sept 20 at 4:30 pm in the comfy lounge. Nominations are now being accepted for Fall 2007 executive positions. Nominiations close on Sept 19 at 4:30 pm. See uw.csc for details. Our talks our now mirrored on mirror.cs for ResNet and on-campus users. The executive has been elected for the Spring 2007 term. The executive has been elected for the Winter 2007 term. The executive has been elected for the Fall 2006 term. The BeBox lives again. BeOS is a unique operating system from the same era as Windows 95. If you'd like to see it run, port something to it (we have the developement tools!), or just watch the funny lights on the front of it, stop by the office and take a look Larry Smith's talk on Creating Killer applications is now online in our new section (in video :-)). The CSC executive for Summer 2006 term has been elected. The CSC executive for Winter 2006 term has been elected. The F04 CSC Programming Contest is underway. Go to the website for more information. The Fall 2004 elections have occured. We have a new executive. Here is the audio for Professor Buss' talk: Game Complexity Theorists Ponder, in mp3 format. Enjoy! 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 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 constitution. Added the membership list. Old events are working. Event terms, as well as the current term are determined automagically now. Lots of work done. Some more stubs up (office etc.). And I introduce cow - that is, the CSC Ontological Webalizer - which is just a wrapper around libxslt with some extra xpath functions. It is now what is being used to build the site, instead of xsltproc. About/Memberlist stub up. Made the CSC logo gold. Isn't it nifty? XML goodness.