The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. --Ayn Rand
Xbox/PC Lan Party tonight
We'll be putting on an Xbox and PC gaming night tonight in Maclean.
Look for PC gaming in Muhly lounge on the main floor, and Xboxes in the classrooms on the first floor.
There may be a few extra PCs available, but we can't guarantee a machine for everyone, so bring your laptop if you have one. If you have an Xbox and are willing to bring it, please do, but we already have several that should be available.
We plan to play Starcraft, Unreal Tournament, Halo and Soul Caliber. If you have any other multiplayer games, feel free to bring them.
The ACM's fall semester activities begin this week. On Wednesday, look for us at a table outside MacLean Hall for free lemonade from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm.
Thursday, Sept. 4th is our first meeting of the semester. The meeting will be at 5:30 pm, room TBA MLH. FREE pizza and pop for all who attend. Stick around for after the meeting to learn what it's like to work at Microsoft. Our former President JT and current Vice President Ben will be discussing their internships in Redmond this summer.
Friday - join us for a PC LAN party at 5:00 pm in Muhly Lounge - 3 MLH. Bring your PC or laptop and link up with other members to play some games. FREE food and drinks will be provided.
After six weeks of darkness the ACM website has been restored to full operation. All data remains intact so the forums and all blogs hosted by the server are back online. Power was restored to "non-essential" servers earlier this month which includes this machine. However, there were technical difficulties related to an unclean shutdown (the power was literally just cut) which left the server in a powered-on but dysfunctional state. I was out of town and unable to remotely connect to the machine (it didn't have an IP addr) during this time, so the site wasn't brought back as soon as it could have been. Fortunately, today I was able to finally finish reconfiguring the server for operation and bring it online.
If anyone notices that posts are missing or anything is unusual don't hesitate so send me an email. From what I can tell nothing should be missing or corrupted, but anything in a buffer when the power was cut probably didn't get written to disk.
The University power plant may be shut down today for an undetermined period of time. If this happens our servers will go offline and we will be in the digital dark for a while. If there is any reference information or data that you seriously need on this server (the website) or the ACM office server please contact me on my cellphone today.
Edit: phone number removed
Stay dry and good luck to anyone living near the river or in the flood plane.
Good luck with finals. Congratulations to our graduating members!
The ACM will likely be holding 1-2 informal meetings over the summer. We'll be discussing plans for the fall semester kickoff. Dates/times TBA, but likely July-August.
Our last meeting of the spring semester will be at 5 pm in Muhly Lounge. Stop by for free pizza from The Wedge and we'll discuss some plans for the summer and fall, as well as re-establishing the committees. Hope to see you there.
Come join us on Friday, May 9th from 3-8pm at shelter 8 in City Park. Take some time to relax before finals week and enjoy some free food and games. We'll be doing this potluck style, so please bring a side dish or dessert. We'll provide the brats, burgers, boca burgers, water, and pop. It looks the the weather might actually cooperate for once too.
There is a meeting at 5:00 pm today in Muhly Lounge. We'll be discussing the Hawkeye Challenge, Finals Week Picnic, and some internal changes to the ACM's committees. Hope to see you there.
