July 2017 - csc-general

System upgrades: upcoming maintenance window (Sun. July 30)
by Computer Science Club 23 Jul '17

23 Jul '17

Greetings programs, Syscom will be performing Debian system upgrades on most of our stable systems (taurine, mail, caffeine [webserver]) on Sunday, July 30th between the hours of 8am and 8pm EST. During that time, mail and web hosting services may be interrupted briefly. We do not anticipate any system reboots at this time. taurine will be getting irssi and weechat upgrades, so we recommend you restart your IRC sessions once the maintenance is complete to take advantage of the new software. You may have noticed that we already completed upgrades on all our Debian testing systems (sucrose, corn-syrup, hfcs). Please reach out to the Systems Committee if you have any questions, concerns, or deep dark secrets you'd like to share: syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Thanks for flying CSC Air, -- Elana Hashman Systems Committee Computer Science Club University of Waterloo syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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End of Term Party!
by Computer Science Club 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Hi Everyone, Come join CSC for the End of Term party next Monday, July 24 from 6pm - 10pm in MC Comfy! We will be serving Urban Bricks! Events page: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2017-07-24-6:00_pm Regards, Bo

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Alt-Tab S17
by Computer Science Club 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Hi everyone, CSC's Alt-Tab is back! Join us for food and interesting member talks. The current lineup includes: Ifaz Kabir<https://www.facebook.com/ifazk>: "The comment that took Stack Exchange down and the algorithm that could have saved them" Fatema Boxwala<https://www.facebook.com/fatema.boxwala>: "Manic PXE Dream Servers" Charlie Wang<https://www.facebook.com/charliewangg>: TBA (Something About Typed Racket) Sean Harrap: "Register Allocation With Graphs" Bryan Coutts<https://www.facebook.com/bryan.coutts.5>: "Vehicle Routing" Reila Lee: TBA Facebook event page found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/501869783485380/. Secretary, Bo

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Talkers and Hackers and CS, Oh My
by Computer Science Club 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hey you, CS Club member! If you came out to our CSC/WiCS bonfire then we hope you appreciated the marshmallows and samosas as much as we appreciated seeing your faces. Because now we have more events coming up! And this time you get to be part of them. -------- *Alt-TAB:* You talk about something you find interesting CSC will be hosting our Alt-Tab on Jul 17/18 this term and is currently looking for speakers, please email z34wei(a)uwaterloo.ca with the topic you would like to talk about and approximate time needed (preferably within 30 minutes) Before July 14. In past terms, people have talked about train signals in the TTC, writing kernel modules in Rust, and finding the closest pizza shop on a graph if the pizza shop takes negative time to cook your pizza. More details soon, once we get speakers! -------- *Crypto CTF, Solve Security Puzzles:* Get brownie points for doing it! On July 13th between 1800h and 2100h, the University of Waterloo Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) lab will be hosting a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition in STC 0010. For this competition, the CrySP lab has created challenges and puzzles to test your programming, logic, forensics, and other computer science related abilities. The more challenges you solve the more points you get! Winning teams will receive prizes! Even if you don't think you will win, this is a good opportunity to test your skills and gain instant feedback on how well you are doing. We host these competitions so participants can learn new skills, expand on old ones, and understand alternative uses for their knowledge. If you would like to join us, please sign up at ctf.uwaterloo.ca ! (You will need to bring your own laptop to the event.) If you have any questions please email bpostnikoff(a)edu.uwaterloo.ca <bpostnikoff(a)uwaterloo.ca>. -------- Submit your talks, come to the CTF next Thursday! -- Patrick Melanson Computer Science Club University of Waterloo pj2melan(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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