I've made my mark

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 suitsbeta”:
At approximately [...]

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I have been thinking about the different computing undergraduate degrees offered at Sydney University: software engineering (SE), computer science (CS) and information technology (IT). Each of these are offered by a different department: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Science, and School of IT respectively.
So here’s what I think are the difference between [...]

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One question that sometimes gets asked is, “How easy is it to upgrade a computer?” The answer is that it’s often quite simple (for someone who knows how to take apart a computer and replace parts). For others, just let your techie friends do the work.
Upgrading a computer can be a matter of less than [...]

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