News Archive: Winter 2004

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

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.

mbiggs

Pictures of CTRL-D are available in the gallery.

sfllaw

glucose-fructose is back on-line. It has a new 120 GB hard disk, a new power supply, and an nVidia GeForce FX 5900.

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

The books that we purchased have arrived. Now we have two books that can be signed by Kernighan when he comes.

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

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.

sfllaw

carbonated-water, h2o, is back down. It's awaiting a new power supply.

sfllaw

The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Winter 2004.