Wireds Services will be interrupted for a second time due to the second scheduled power cut by Scottish power on the north haugh.

We are going to take this opportunity to start work on replacing one of the servers.

As a result of this and the locking of the computer science buildings overnight for the powercut. Services will be unavailable from approximately 5pm tomorrow until 3pm Saturday.

No services will be available during this time (all the boxes will be switched off)

There will be a short interuption to wireds services this afternoon whilst scottish power carries out some works on the north haugh. It should start from about 13:00. and finish before 15:00.

There will also be a longer powercut on friday evening into saturday.

Well, our first meeting on Tuesday didn't seem to go too badly. Thanks to everyone that turned up and I do hope to see you at more of these events in the future.

As a committee, we now have an idea of what you want from your society. We found it beneficial and hope you did to.

Anyway, these meetings are a regular thing. We run them every week at 1900 on Tuesdays in Salad Bowl 3 (door nearest Venue 2 on the top floor of the union). I do hope to see you all at some point over the next few weeks, even just to say hello.

New equipment has arrived and is currently being configured.

The new box is to replace smoked and the current plan is for smoked to be used at gaming events and other situations where we need equipment to take with us. The switch over will hopefully happen in the next two weeks at which point there will need to be some downtime of all of wired services (except IRC) whilst we move the new kit into smoked's box. A full announcement of when this will happen will be made on IRC and here on the website.

In other news the first meeting of WiredSoc will be on the 29th of September. (Location to be confirmed)

Following the problems with smoked over the last few days email should now be back to normal. Exim (the mail transfer agent) was down for less than 5 hours yesterday evening meaning that any emails sent when it was down would have been (or should have been) resend by the sender.

The actual deliveries to users have resumed delivering all waiting emails (for example I have just got emails sent to me on thursday).

This fix will hopefully hold until we get a new box in.

On slightly related note.
I have implemented a system-wide filter with deletes all emails that the university mailserver this are spam (the precise definition for the filter is Where subject starts with "{Spam?}"). This should dramatically reduce the amount of spam received.

However this is currently only a trial run so if any one has problems with false positives (legitimate emails not received) let me know and I'll investigate.

Update 2: Problem solved (for now). We are going to be getting a new box to replace smoked soon.

We are currently experiencing some issues with our storage server - smoked. This appears to be causing:

• Email not to be delivered to home directories (I believe that the mail is currently being accepted for delivery by the MTA but due to I/O issues is not being written to home directories for delivery - I could not guarantee this. Mail collection (POP3 and IMAP) is functioning as normal.
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Our next meeting will be held Wednesday the 22nd of April (i.e. tomorrow) in the union main bar at 3pm. All members are welcome.

P.S. fragged will be restarted at some point today (Tuesday) during its upgrade to debian lenny. I will post on IRC a few minutes before the reboot. IRC may be affected and BZFlag server will be affected.

Update: Fragged will now be updated at a later date.

The AGM results are as follows.

Update: the minutes are now available.

Note the results are provisional as the meeting was aquorate (i.e. less than 20% of the societies members were present). Therefore the results are provisional as any member of the committee may object to the decisions made within 14 days. If you wish to object please contact the unions societies committee (socs@st-andrews.ac.uk).

The following executive positions were elected:

• President: Marc Steele (steelegbr)
• Treasurer: Ross Moug (rm1563)
• Secretary: Jonathan Ward (jaunty)
• Vice-president: Donald Seaton (dasx199)

The following non-executives were elected:

• Chief systems administrator: Donald Seaton (dasx199)
• Assistant systems administrator: Jonathan Ward (jaunty)
• Events co-ordinator: Jonathan Ward (jaunty)
• Website co-ordinator: Donald Seaton (dasx199)
• Gaming co-ordinator: Jonathan Ward (jaunty)
• Communications officer: Marc Steele (steelegbr)
• Purchasing officer: Christopher Davies (lost_eden)

It was decided that the membership price will remain the same.

No changes were made to the constitution but the operational guidelines were modified to clarify who is allowed root access (more details in the minutes which will be published shortly).

Just to remind everyone that the WiredSoc AGM will be held on Wednesday 25th of March (i.e. next Wednesday) in the Salad Bowl at 6pm. Everyone is encouraged to attend, even if you do not wish to stand for any posts. This is your opportunately to vote and make a difference to wired.

The AGM is not just for electing officers; its also an opportunity to set the membership price for next year; discuss any major issues affecting wired; to put questions to elected members (new and old) and to modify the constitution.