Hardware and Computer Knowledge Society

Tonight! April 2nd 2008 in ECE Rm. 232 . Be there or somewhere else.

Wed. Feb. 6th 2008 ECE208a 5:30p

Same bat time, same bat channel. We talk about stuff, and things and it's going to be awesome. Come with ideas.

SSL is really neat. What sucks is that SSL certs cost monies and self-signed certs aren't respected by browsers. Enter Shawn and I concocting a master plan where we create a CA for HACKS. Now, this does NOT mean you get free SSL certificates that validate in browsers out of the box. What it means is, you have a CA cert you can import into your browser and THEN when you use a HACKS issued SSL cert, you won't get any "untrusted cert" alerts.

While I know this is pretty much non-news, I run some stuff under cover of SSL and I'm pretty stoked. I've attached the HACKS CA certificate to this post (strip the txt extension, Drupal is retarded). You download this file and then in your browser's preferences (not going into detail here, be clever) you import it as a trusted CA, bingo bango, valid certificates fall from the heavens, or whatever.

Anyone who is in town should turn out tomorrow for our last work day of
2007. ~1pm in the HACKS room.

I can honestly say that 2007 was the most successful year we've had
since the club was resurrected. As a sign of my appreciation, I am
ordering pizza and bringing drinks.

Shoot me a line (off-list) if you think you'll be able to make it so I
have a rough count.

Stop by for the last HACKS meeting of the fall 2007 semester. Wed. Dec. 5th: Meet at the HACKS room (ECE208a) @ 6:00pm. We'll take it from there.

To login you'll need to visit http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/user . I also made recent comments visible on the homepage to make them easier to find at a glance. Peace out, Shawn

In order to ensure continued reliability for the LDAP directory server. I have configured the DNS cluster with a new service IP served by all the machines. Kiyo and Bahamut are now read-only slave servers to Smaug.

If the master fails, the others will answer read request and allow auth to continue to function. All machines and the main website have been updated to use the new dns entry ldap.hacks.arizona.edu->150.135.84.4 . Please update any applications that use Smaug directly to query the service address to take advantage of the new fault tolerance.

Wyvern is dead. Long live Wyvern. Except without the forums. We moved the forums over to Onyxia, but the bbs.hacks.arizona.edu url is still the preferred nomenclature. DNS is still propogating around the world in its fashion, but over the course of the next few days, if you go to bbs.hacks at some point, you'll get shiny new forums.

And I, for one, welcome our new upgraded forum overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted HACKS personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground internet tubes.

there is a monitor in the window now. Shoop da wool.

It's the first Wed. of the month... it's time for a hacks meeting!
5:30p in room 208a in the ECE building. Hopefully we'll move into the
lounge again, as it worked out well last time.

Bring a friend!.