It’s that time of the year folks! Sydney University IT Society held its fourth Annual General Meeting tonight to elect the executive team for the period from the rest of the year to roughly the same time next year. This is the night that decides the future of SUITS.
So it means I’ll be retiring from my current position as Industry Liaison, and I won’t be running for another position this year. Why? I would like to see more participation from the fresh recruits, and one way is to give a sense of ownership. I’ve been an executive of the Computer Science Undergraduate Society (CSUS), which in 2007 unified and merged with two other societies, and have been an executive since.
Anyway, I’m going to reveal the newly elected executives before it even gets out onto their website!
- President: Stephen Merity
- Vice President: Aaron Cowie
- Treasurer: Adam Petrovic
- Secretary: Karmen Chong
- Events coordinator: James Alexander
- Public relations: Simon Mattes
- Industry Liaison: Adam Gawronski
- Undergraduate representative: Luke Anderson
- Postgraduate Rep:
- IT Officer: Greg Darke
Yes, the IT society actually needs IT infrastructure support. That’s why there’s a dedicated position just to take care of servers and all things technical.
If you’ve recently accessed Sydney University IT Society’s website, you might have noticed that it loaded rather slowly. About an hour later, I received an HTTP 500 while trying to get to the website, and it won’t even come up.
Later today, our IT guy sent an email with the subject “The death of suitsbetaâ€:
At approximately 1445 today, suitsbeta shut itself down, never to wake up again. Attempts were made to revive it by powering it up, but alas it failed to POST. Our thoughts go out to its family and friends.
Tim
So it turns out that our trusty server that hosted our website has kicked the bucket after its dedicated service to the society. Even though it has graduated from ‘beta’ so that the internal DNS name of ‘suits’ pointed to it, it will always be remembered as ‘suitsbeta’.
It was Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, with only 768MB of memory and less hard disk space than your average laptop.
I was fortunate enough to be with it in its final moments, and watched while it booted into the linux 2.6 kernel. It took minutes upon minutes to check even a few megabytes of the kernel image to see if it is initramfs.
Anyway, we are currently in search of a new server, and let’s look forward to a newer and better machine. Maybe even virtualise the server so disaster recovery is a bit less painful.
Added some new uni notes to the Sydney Uni page:
- ELEC4505 Digital Communication Systems taught by Hon. Assoc. Prof. Iain Collings
- ELEC3506 Data Communications and the Internet taught by Dr. Kyle Zhou and Dr. Lavy Libman
- COMP3609 Algorithms and Complexity (Advanced) taught by Dr. Taso Viglas
- It’s now a second year course, called COMP2007.
That’s it for now, enjoy.
In response to the mounting questions about the new hosted Exchange services, a new website has been launched at http://outlookliveanswers.com/ to support your everyday email.
Already, it answers a range of questions from “What is Outlook Live?†all the way to synchronising contacts with other Live services. I think this site will be welcomed by many students, especially those who are a little more technically inclined. It even tells you how not to use the Outlook Live web interface, and fall back to POP and IMAP mail access.
It looks like that this website is intended to be a specialised community revolving around solving issues and problems with Outlook Live. A feature many would find welcome is the service availability status, which we hope would remain green most of the time.
I’ve just uploaded my 3rd year notes onto my blog. This includes:
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Events, USYD | Edmund Tse | 
17 Sep 2009 18:58 | 
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