Movie Night Fall 2010

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Movie Night Fall 2010

Our Mission The Computer Club was founded in 1978 to: Encourage tinkering Spread appreciation for retro hardware Promote open source software Provide useful services to the campus community

Who are we? Mostly CS and ECE students All majors and interests welcome! Both undergrad and grad students We all have a passion for computers

What do we do? Run an Andrew-like environment AFS servers, kerberos KDCs, shell servers, mail servers, DNS servers… Without the bureaucratic mess Hack on programming projects Most are related to our services We would love to help with new projects Provide services to campus and others Occasionally hold events (like this one)

Infrastructure Machine room in Cyert B6 Fire suppression system Heavy-duty A/C unit 375A of power Run services on Debian GNU/Linux Mostly Dells with Intel Xeon (1.3Ghz ~ 3.2Ghz) ~30 in active use ~10 ready for new projects! UPSes, RAID arrays, KVM units, ...

Services we offer to campus Contributed webserver Serves pages straight out of AFS (no publishing required) Will execute CGIs (perl, php, python, etc.) Also, MySQL and postgreSQL database servers USENET server Open source WWW/FTP/Rsync mirror Hosting for student organizations DNS, WWW, and Wikis Jabber server ... and more! (see our website)

Service philosophy Like to run things Andrew won’t touch Too sensitive, too obscure, too expensive Want to be useful to students and other organizations We don’t do service level agreements (SLAs) Everything’s for fun, on a best-effort basis Nobody is “on call” or carries a pager Frequently better than Andrew!

Retrocomputing Demo Night Wide assortment of hardware: DEC, VAXen AT&T 3B2 Commodore Amiga and C64 Atari plus Apples, Alpha, Suns, and more! A museum of working equipment Come see the Ataris on Friday at MelCon

Current News Working with Student Government to offer more services Upgrading many of our machines Debian Squeeze/Lenny Club CGI rebuilt Come see the Ataris on Friday at MelCon Working closely with the CS department to have more events Possible industry donations! Upcoming PGP/GnuPG key signing party

How to get involved Seriously looking for people Don’t need to be a UNIX or programming whiz Bunch of projects (list on next slide) More information at next meeting Would love to hear new ideas!

How to find us We hold weekly discussion meetings: Tuesdays @ 5:30pm Wean 5312 Can be boring at times We hold machine room hour weekly: Saturdays @ 6:00pm Cyert B6 Come on by, we’ll give you a tour, and create an account for you

Feature Presentation Colossus: The Forbin Project