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Cygnet blackout for internet strike day

Cygnet blackoutHi everyone!

Today SCCS is taking part in an internet-wide strike day against SOPA/PIPA by blacking out photos on the Cygnet.  In case you haven’t heard, SOPA/PIPA is anti-piracy intellectual property legislation currently under consideration in Congress that has been widely condemned as internet censorship.

We stand with Wikipedia, Google, WordPress, Facebook, Reddit, and countless other web companies and online communities that care too much about the freedom and openness of the Internet to watch SOPA/PIPA pass without taking action.  And you can help us!  Contact your congresspeople at this site to let them know you oppose the bills:

http://americancensorship.org/

Thank you on behalf of SCCS!

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By Nick – January 18, 2012

Dec. 29-30 planned downtime

Kitteh needz power napThe campus will be turning off power during the evening of Thursday, 12/29/11, around 6pm EST, so SCCS will be going down. Hopefully SCCS will then be going back up once power is restored.  If the servers don’t manage to reboot properly, the downtime may last a bit longer since no SCCS staff are on campus, but we’ll do our best to be back up one way or another by the end of Friday.

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By Nick – December 24, 2011

A tale of two lamps…..

Hear ye, hear ye,

with dread we announceth the downfall of our good lad the Temporary Projector, Esquire.

After a short and intense battle while standing its fallen brother’s ground (the late Sir Original Projector) it fell to weakness of its lamp essence.

 

But, we have called upon the witches and demons of BenQ Support who will use their magic powers to send us a new one post haste.

During these winter months while you are pining away with no audiovisual diversions from your studies, we humbly beg your forgiveness and hope beyond hope that the fixed projector shall return to the front lines ere January.

We bid you adieu,

The Curators of SCCS

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By Alex Burka – December 12, 2011

The Cygnet v3.0 is live!

Everyone’s favorite student directory has been updated to its new version 3.0, with lots of tweaks to the backend and a new theme on the front!

After hard work by the SCCS staff, we have finally managed to get this version online round about 8:43 pm this chilly Monday evening, the 7th of November 2011. We hope you all enjoy the sleek new front-end style, which we will gradually roll out in one way or another in our other services.

Go check it out at cygnet.sccs.swarthmore.edu!

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By Daniel-Elia Feist-Alexandrov – November 7, 2011

Monday downtime

We’re having planned downtime tomorrow (31 October 2011) from 6pm-8pm to try and fix some issues with a not-very-uninterruptible power supply. We expect this downtime to last less than 30 minutes but to be safe you should expect us to be inaccessible (both via the web and SSH) as long as until 8pm.

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By Nick – October 30, 2011

SCCS Party!

THIS Friday at 8:30pm, SCCS Lounge:

* Pizza
* Rock Band
* Keyboard Cat

Come hang out with us and help us fight off Zerg invasion.

all your base are belong to us,
SCCS

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By mhlinder – October 17, 2011

GUTS

We are proud to announce the introduction of our brand new internal task management system, GUTS, or the Grand Unified Task System.

This replaces the older system, Los, as the way to request SCCS accounts, mailing lists, org web pages, source control repositories, and more to come.

We haz GUTS!New features:

  • New interface (hopefully easier to use)
  • Git repositories!
  • Fewer security holes

GUTS is live at guts.sccs. Let us know (staff@sccs.swarthmore.edu) if anything is amiss.


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By Alex Burka – October 10, 2011

FIFA 12 In Video Pit/FIFA 12 Campus League

Hello Everyone!

SCCS has special news for those with an unhealthy/healthy addiction to FIFA.

If you are a FIFA veteran, or someone who has just heard of it, get to the game pit to play the new FIFA 12. I promise you it will be worth your while.

A bit of secondary news, I have been asking around campus to get a FIFA League started for fun. If I gather enough interest, I will create a mailing list, and we can go from there. You can email me at kaka2210@sccs.swarthmore.edu

ENJOY!!!

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By kaka2210 – September 27, 2011

Welcome New Members!

SCCS welcomes its new members for the 2011-2012 year!

Here is the list of the new members:

Rebecca Roelofs (2013 & Engineering/CS)

Allen Welkie (2013 & Engineering)

Sudarshan Gopaladesikan (2014 & Math/CS)

Harris Hoke (2015 & Pass/Fail)

Noah Weinthal (2015 & Pass/Fail)

Daniel Feist-Alexandrov (2015 & Pass/Fail)

Everyone comes with excitement and enthusiasm as SCCS is getting ready to make some big changes. Our biggest project will be to create a new dashboard so everyone can access all of SCCS’s services.

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By kaka2210 – September 23, 2011

SCCS Open House!

We’re kicking off the new school year with an open house tomorrow night (Monday 9/5) in the media lounge (for new-comers, that’s in Tarble basement – head down the stairs just outside Paces).  Drop by between 7:30-9pm, grab some snacks, meet the staff, and find out how to:

  • set up your own SCCS account for personal web hosting and email
  • jump-start your campus group with a mailing list and group website
  • take advantage of the Video Pit’s Xbox, Wii, dozens of games, and cinema-style movie viewing
  • satisfy your media needs with our color printer and DSLR cameras
  • and much more!

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By Nick – September 4, 2011