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CSC W24 Election Nominations
by Computer Science Club 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2024 term in person on Thursday, January 11 at 6:00 PM ET in MC 2034. The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer will be elected, and the Sysadmin will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, present your nomination in-person to the CRO, Tiger Ding, or write your nomination on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Tuesday, January 9 at 6:00 PM ET. Nominees will be reached out to for their platforms. If you are unable to vote in person on election day, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> by Wednesday, January 10 at 6:00 PM ET to request an absentee ballot. You will then receive an email containing further information on the nominee platforms and how to vote. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. --- Tiger Ding W24 Chief Returning Officer | UW Computer Science Club Visit us: Website<http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/uw.computerscienceclub> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/uwcsclub> | Discord<https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg>

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Fall 2023 Elections Nominations
by Computer Science Club 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2023 term in person, on Tuesday, September 12 at 6:00PM ET in MC 2035. The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer will be elected, and the Sysadmin will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, present them in-person to the CRO, Sat Arora, or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on September 11 at 6:00PM ET. Nominees will be reached out to for their platforms. If you are unable to vote in person on election day, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> by September 11 at 11:59PM ET to request an absentee ballot. You will then receive an email containing further information on how to vote and the nominee platforms. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. --- Sat Arora S23 President & F23 Chief Returning Officer | UW Computer Science Club Visit us: Website [1] <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> | Facebook [2] <https://www.facebook.com/uw.computerscienceclub> | Instagram [3] <https://www.instagram.com/uwcsclub> | Discord [4] <https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg>

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CSC machine downtime on August 31
by Computer Science Club 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

Hello everyone, On Thursday August 31, between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM EST, we will be upgrading corn-syrup and caffeine to Debian 12. This will require a reboot so these machines will be offline for a few minutes. To avoid disruption, please use a different machine during that time. The list of general-use machines is here: https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Machine_List A few other non-general use machines will also be rebooted, so some CSC services (e.g. mail, The Lounge) will also be down for a few minutes. If you have any questions or concerns, please email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. -- Max Erenberg Systems Committee Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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CSC Machine downtime - Tomorrow
by Computer Science Club 29 Jul '23

29 Jul '23

Hi all, All CSC general-use machines will be down from 7am to 4pm ET *tomorrow*, Sunday July 30th. We will try to keep CSC mail services (webmail, IMAP, SMTP) and mirror up/unaffected, but we can't guarantee anything. Expect everything else, including the CSC website, TheLounge, Codeybot and CEO, to be down. Please contact the systems committee at syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you have questions. Best, -- Raymond Li | https://raymond.li Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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[Action required] Your CSC password may be compromised
by Computer Science Club 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

Hi, If you reused the same password for your Nexus/WatIAM/Quest/UWaterloo email account for your CSC account, please CHANGE YOUR CSC PASSWORD NOW. As you know, the University's Nexus/WatIAM passwords have been compromised. Although CSC accounts were not directly affected, if you reused any password for your CSC password, then it is now also compromised, and requires a password change. To reset your password, simply SSH into any CSC machine and run the `passwd` command. --- Best, Raymond Li | https://raymond.li CSC Systems Administrator

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Spring 2023 Election Nominations
by Computer Science Club 03 May '23

03 May '23

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2023 term in person, on Wednesday, May 10 at 6:00PM EDT in a location on campus (TBA). The president, vice-president, assistant vice-president, and treasurer will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed. Furthermore, we will vote on some changes to our constitution, which are outlined here: https://csclub.ca/constitutionChanges. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person to the CRO, Ivy Lei, or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on May 9 at 6:00PM. Nominees will be reached out to for their platforms. If you are unable to vote in person on election day, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca by May 9 at 11:59PM to request an absentee ballot. You will then receive an email containing further information on how to vote and the nominee platforms. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. --- Ivy Lei Chief Returning Officer | UW Computer Science Club Visit us: Website [1]<http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> | Facebook [2]<https://www.facebook.com/uw.computerscienceclub> | Instagram [3]<https://www.instagram.com/uwcsclub> | Discord [4]<https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg>

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Winter 2023 Election Nominations
by Computer Science Club 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2023 term in person, on Thursday, Jan 12 at 6PM in a location on campus (TBA). The president, vice-president, treasurer, and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed. Furthermore, we will vote on some changes to our constitution, which are outlined here: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/www/www-new/pulls/534/files. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person to the CRO, Shahan Neda, or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Jan 11 at 11:59PM (EST). If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. --- Shahan Neda Chief Returning Officer | UW Computer Science Club Visit us: Website [1] | Facebook [2] | Instagram [3] | Discord [4] Links: ------ [1] http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ [2] https://www.facebook.com/uw.computerscienceclub [3] https://www.instagram.com/uwcsclub [4] https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg

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Sunsetting ZNC
by Computer Science Club 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi all, Syscom is sunsetting ZNC in *one week* due to it no longer being maintained (the last commits were in 2020) and using JQuery v1, which is also no longer being maintained. znc.csclub.uwaterloo.ca will be taken down around November 7th, 2022. If you would like IRC message persistence, you can: - Use chat.csclub.uwaterloo.ca - Spawn a tmux/screen session on a general-use machine and use your preferred commandline IRC client in that session. Additionally, we would like to gauge interest in hosting a CSC Matrix server. Please fill out the following survey if you would like us to host one for CSC use: https://files.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/apps/forms/s/QgnX3r4De3Hg9KYZdsf6qJPA Please email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you have any questions or concerns. Best -- Raymond Li | https://raymond.li Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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CSC Elections Reminder
by Computer Science Club 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Hi all, Friendly reminder that CSC Fall 2022 Elections are happening tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 12 at 7 PM EDT in MC 2017. Best -- Raymond Li | https://raymond.li Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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Fall 2022 Election Nominations + New Services (Nextcloud, Shlink)
by Computer Science Club 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2022 in person, on Monday September 12 at 7PM (location TBD, likely MC/DC). The president, vice-president, treasurer, and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person to the CRO, Juthika Hoque, or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Monday September 12 at 5PM. Another email will be sent out closer to the election date for the specific location. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. --- syscom is pleased to announce the release of two new services: CSC Files and CSC Links. CSC Files is our new Nextcloud instance accessible at https://files.csclub.uwaterloo.ca through CSC's Keycloak SSO. It's basically self-hosted Google Drive, and every member has 50GB of storage available to them. The following notable non-default Nextcloud apps are currently installed (subject to change): - Audio/Video Players, PDF viewers, etc. - Collabora office (with CODE server, self-hosted GSuite/MS Office in the browser) - Cospend (self-hosted Splitwise, a cost-sharing app for friend groups) - Extract (extract zip files) - Forms (self-hosted Google/Microsoft Forms) - Full text search (for files) - Google integration (for migration from Google Drive) - ShareRenamer (custom share URLs) - Transfer/NCDownloader (allows downloading videos, torrents and other files on the internet directly to your CSC Files account without having to download to a local computer and then re-upload it) NOTE: usage of this app (and all of CSC Files) is still covered by the Machine Usage Agreement, you may not do anything illegal with it. If you need more storage or would like another app installed, please email a proposal including a legitimate reason to syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca and we will consider your request. CSC Links is our new Shlink instance, a self-hosted URL shortener. Creating/managing shortlinks is currently limited to execs, but may change in the future. Official CSC shortlinks will now be exclusively served from the domain csclub.ca (i.e. https://csclub.ca/discord) --- syscom is switching over the default PHP version on caffeine from 7.4 (going out of support in November) to 8.2 around midnight between Saturday August 27th and Sunday August 28th. Please update any PHP websites accordingly. --- Best -- Raymond Li | https://raymond.li Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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