TechServ

Hello Everyone,

We have created a quick survey form for Drexel Students regarding event ideas as well as general feedback for TechServ. We hope to have at least one event before the term is over, so please feel free to share your ideas. The form is located here:

 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENTbFl5X1YtZGZJbkpEMEh6MDN3WWc6MA

 

Thank you!

We will be performing maintenance on our server this Saturday, November 14. This maintenance requires downtime, so hosted websites will not be accessible during this period.

The maintenance is scheduled to begin at around 5 PM EST, and should end before 9 PM EST.

This Thursday, Canonical, Ltd. will release Ubuntu Linux 9.10. To celebrate, TechServ will be hosting an Ubuntu 9.10 launch party this Saturday. There will also be some Halloween "frights", so watch out, you might get a BSOD or two...

TechServ's Ubuntu 9.10 launch party will be this Satuday, 2009/10/31, at 6:00 PM in University Crossings 149. We will have free pizza, games, and Ubuntu 9.10 Live CDs! Free as in pizza, free as in software.

Additional notice: We had some issues with our authentication system yesterday, so some passwords were disabled. If you cannot log into hellfire, please contact us at techserv@drexel.edu so we can reset your password.

Welcome to Fall Term 2009 at Drexel University! Over the summer, we participated in New Student Orientation: Late Night Activities, so some of you may remember us from there. (We had the Super Smash Bros. Brawl table.)

Also, we had some changes to the TechServ organization this summer:

• Jack Hill transferred to MIT, so we will be looking for a replacement for the office of Treasurer.
• Most of the old Pentium II systems were disposed of, since they're the worst systems we have and we were running out of space in the room.
• We donated several Dell Precision 530s to The Foundry in Wallingford, PA.
• We received several donations of fairly recent machines, including over 20 Power Macintosh G4s and four Titanium PowerBook G4s from Drexel CoMAD.
• Additionally, we took some SPARC machines that Drexel's ECE department was getting rid of.

Meeting times for Fall Term 2009 will be posted later this week.

TechServ's 2009 elections were held today. Here are the results.

• President: Jawadali Ahmed
• Vice President: David Korth
• Treasurer: Jack Hill
• Head of Refurbishment: David Korth
• Head of Donations: Mike Downing

Tomorrow, Feb. 28, we are holding our second somewhat-annual Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. If you haven't signed up already, go to http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/smash and register.

This year, we're having two retro tournaments in addition to the main tournament:

• Goldeneye 007 (N64)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (MD)

Like last year's tournament, there will be additional systems for non-tournament play, so you won't get bored waiting for your turn.

Doors officially open at 6:00 PM, and the tournament starts at 6:30 PM, so get there early! The tournament is at University Crossings, rooms 149 and 153.

Dan Shick has been elected treasurer of TechServ! He is replacing Nancy, who had to resign due to her out-of-area internship. He will be official just as soon as he completes SOOT.

Recently, we've begun seeding Ubuntu and Gentoo torrents using our new server. This has made us officially the hottest server on campus, as Drexel IRT emailed us saying that we've used up 2 TB of bandwidth in a week, which puts us in the #1 slot for bandwidth usage on Drexel's entire network!

w00t.

We recently upgraded our main server, hellfire, to a brand new custom-built system. You can check out its specifications at http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/sysinfo.

Also, we upgraded our main website from the basic setup to CMS Made Simple. It's still incomplete, but we're working on finishing it up. (The old Joomla CMS is now offline.)