CompSoc

Welcome to CompSoc, the University of Manchester Computer Society!

CompSoc is a student-run computer society based in Manchester that aims to provide computer-related support and services to its members, including UNIX shell accounts, email, mailing lists, web space, forums, etc. For full service information please visit our services page or contact admin@compsoc.man.ac.uk if you have specific needs or requirements.

Most recent news:

We've been offline for a few days now due to a failed motherboard in our primary server, noisy.

Data has now been migrated to another server and most services should now be back up and running. If you do spot things that aren't working as they should, please drop an email to admin@compsoc.man.ac.uk and we will try our best to have a look at it.

Thanks very much for bearing with us while we were offline. We've already begun looking for replacement hardware and hope to get everything running at full speed very soon.

After an extended period of absence CompSoc webmail has returned in the form of SquirrelMail. Currently it uses the default styles but this will hopefully be customised in the future.

noisy will be offline for up to 24 hours from 03:00 on Friday 12 May. This is to allow us to install an additional 360GB of storage capacity, bringing the total to 540GB.

Twenty-four hours of downtime has been scheduled to allow for full backups to take place to both tape and a remote hard disk storage unit. After the upgrade the data will be restored and verified before noisy is brought back online. We hope to have everything back online by 18:00, although extra time has been allowed for any problems that might occur.

PHP scripts served via Apache were offline between around 17:00 and 19:15 today. This was inadvertently caused by me not reading /usr/ports/UPDATING before upgrading PHP. FreeBSD now stores the CGI binary as php-cgi; previously it was just php. After the update the suPHP settings were not updated to reflect this change.

I'd like to apologise for the downtime this caused.

noisy will be rebooted at 10:00 on Friday 31 March to apply security updates and replace a case fan. Downtime is not expected to last longer than ten minutes.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Apache Tomcat (5.5) is now available on CompSoc. This provides support for JSP and Servlets.

For more information or to arrange for it to be enabled for you contact admin@compsoc.man.ac.uk.

CompSoc are now fully equipped with a digital graphics workstation and printer, which can be used by both members and non-members.

The setup includes photoSoc's Epson scanner and a new Epson 1290 inkjet printed with Lyson CIS system.

An A3+ print will cost members £2.00 or £2.50 for non-members.

For more details see the printing page or contact printing@compsoc.man.ac.uk.

CompSoc will be offline for approximately 30 minutes from 12:00 on Thursday 9 March. This is to allow the installation of a new fibre channel controller.

Apologies for any inconvenience this will cause.

Due to unforseen circumstances the system upgrade continued until 13:25.

MUGSS performs Utopia Limited at the Dancehouse Theatre from 14-18th March -- tickets are £5 for students. We hope you and your members will join us to watch the tale of English customs, progress and musical theatre -- it will make a great social and a chance to see some of your members perform on stage before joining us in the bar afterwards.

A tropical island lives in luxurious laziness, until the ruling Princess decides to introduce the "best" of British culture - Reality TV! What will happen when Utopia is televised?