CMU Computer Club

News and Announcements

Technical Talk and Movie Night

10/24/2007

Posted by kbare

The club will hold its next fall event, a technical talk by Morgan Stanley followed by a movie, on Thursday 10/25. The talk will be held in NSH 3002 at 6pm. We will likely move to NSH 1507 for the film, sometime around 7pm.

The topic of the talk is how Morgan Stanley uses advanced Remote Computing technology on an extreme scale to securely deliver voice, data and application services to an increasingly mobile workforce. Topics include Wireless technologies, VPN / Terminal Services, Unified Communications and Fixed-Mobile voice convergence.

Food will be provided.

Demo Night!

9/25/2007

Posted by mdille3

This Wednesday, 9/26, we'll be holding our intro event in Wean 7500.

The schedule is:

7:00 Computer club intro presentation (who we are, what we do, how to get involved)

7:30 Demo Night! Come watch some snazzy demos from the late '80s to present. Some on real, ancient hardware, some on emulators.

We'll be ordering pizza somewhere in between. You should arrive by 7:15 to be counted as wanting some.

Yet Another Cyert Hall Power Shutdown

5/24/2007

Posted by mdille3

A total power shutdown will occur tonight in Cyert Hall for equipment testing that occurs every 5 years. We will shutdown all services at approximately 6pm and expect to bring them back up by 10am tomorrow.

Spring Movie Night

2/21/2007

Posted by mdille3

The club will be holding its spring event Thursday 2/22 in Wean 7500. We'll start at 7pm with an hour or so of some fun retro DOS, classic Mac, and maybe Apple II games. At around 8pm, we'll be showing the film.

Another Cyert Hall Power Shutdown

1/2/2007

Posted by Computer Club

Due to a test of the new third campus electrical feed, power will be shutdown to Cyert Hall (housing our machine room) from 5-8am on Thursday, 1/4/2007. We will shutdown all services at approximately 9pm Wednesday 1/3/2007 and expect to bring them back up by 10am Thursday 1/4/2007.

Cyert Hall Power Shutdown

6/21/2006

Posted by mdille3

As part of the Gates Center construction, power will be shutdown to Cyert Hall, which houses our machine room. We will shutdown our machines between 5pm and 9pm on June 27th and plan to have everything back online by 8:30am on June 28th. All club services, including the contributed webserver, will be down. Our tertiary DNS and mail server will remain up, as it is not located in Cyert.

DNS Server Downtime

5/18/2006

Posted by mdille3

Sodium, the primary DNS server exploded earlier today. All hosts failed over to the secondary DNS server, but many accesses were severely delayed by this. Until sodium can be brought back online, we have removed it from the DNS server list of all hosts.

Demo Night!

9/20/2005

Posted by mdille3

This Thursday, 9/22, we'll be holding our intro event in Wean 7500.

The schedule is:

6:30 BONUS! Special OS seminar on Inferno/Plan9

7:30 Computer club intro presentation (who we are, what we do, how to get involved)

8:00 Demo Night! Come watch some snazzy demos from the late '80s to present. Some on real, ancient hardware, some on emulators.

We'll be ordering pizza somewhere in between. You should arrive by 7:15 to be counted as wanting some.

Disk issues and downtime

1/17/2005

Posted by rbraun

Due to a disk failure over the weekend, some club AFS volumes are not currently online. All user and service volumes, along with the club webpages, have been restored. Some software volumes may not be available. Most public services, including www.contrib and the club Usenet server, are online. However, the club FTP mirrors are incomplete, and some directories may not be accessible or updated. All of these issues will be resolved very soon.

Contrib CGI live!

7/9/2004

Posted by Computer Club

CGI execution on www.contrib is now active. Just name your script with a .cgi extension, give it execute permissions (i.e., chmod +x), and you're good to go!

Important notes:

Most common scripting languages are installed (perl, php, sh, etc.)
All scripts must have a pound-bang/shebang (i.e., #!...) invocation at the top of the script, including php (the php apache module is not in use)

Shortly, we will begin offering access to database servers (both postgreSQL and mySQL) as well as more extended documentation on the operation of CGIs on www.contrib.

New website!

7/1/2004

Posted by Computer Club

We have a new website! This one actually has graphics, uses CSS, and will hopefully stay far more up to date than our previous one. And it still looks great in lynx!

Special thanks to Bill Harris for donating the layout.