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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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July 2022 Machine Usage Agreement update
by Computer Science Club 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Hi all, The CSC Executive is updating our Machine Usage Agreement, which will go into effect on 18 July 2022. The updates are as follows: - A note was added that CSC Cloud resources fall under the same policies as the rest of CSC's machines and network. - A note was added that the Systems Committee may delete CSC Cloud resources when their CSC account expires. - A directive was added that all club reps read the Wiki page on Club Hosting when they become a club rep and then at least once a term for notices on that page. - MFCF was replaced with CSCF (when the previous 2007 version was published, CSC had relations with MFCF instead of CSCF, which may not even have existed at the time. CSC now has relations with CSCF more than MFCF.) - Various grammatical errors were corrected. The exact wording changes can be found in this pull request: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/www/www-new/pulls/473/files Please email the executive at exec(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 DOWNTIME] Wednesday Server Upgrade
by Computer Science Club 12 Jun '22

12 Jun '22

Hi all, All CSC machines will have their software updated (which requires a reboot), with the exception of sorbitol and neotame (which have already been upgraded), at 6pm EST on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (this coming Wednesday). General-use machines will be offline for a few minutes, and Cloud machines (i.e. CSC Cloud VMs) *may* go offline as well (we'll try our best to keep them up, but no guarantees). Since sorbitol and neotame will not be rebooted, we recommend you move any services you do not want to be disrupted to these machines. We will send a `wall` warning message to all logged-in users on affected general-use machines at 5pm EST, before the upgrade begins. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Systems Committee at: syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Best -- Raymond Li | https://raymond.li Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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