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.

Edited by Andrew Sully on 2004-11-01 14:02:50.

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 evening.

More about the upgrades

Any questions or requests should go to the tech team.

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® 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 talk for anyone who is thinking of working for IBM or indeed is just interested in Linux. Even if you don’t plan to enter the competition it will provide insight into Linux in industry and promises to be interesting to all.

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 forthcoming newsletter. Other events are being planned so stay tuned and look at our events page regularly. I look forward to seeing you soon.

NeXuS7 (Social Secretary)

Edited by Paul Broadbridge on 2004-10-05 11:46:27.
Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2004-10-07 01:38:05.

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, bermuda.warwickcompsoc.co.uk port 3389.

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2004-10-05 11:43:25.