1. Movie Night
Fall 2010

2. Mailing List Hear about more of our events!

3. Movie Night
Fall 2010

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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, ...

8. 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)

9. 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!

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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!

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

14. Feature Presentation
Colossus:
The Forbin Project