SCCS

Scheduled Downtime 2/16/12

sccs — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:36:54 +0000

Sorry about this late notice. We will be taking down the main SCCS server Thursday night for software and hardware upgrades. Be prepared for all SCCS services to be unavailable between 7:30pm and 9:30pm.

Return of the Game Pit!

Alex Burka — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:40:07 +0000

We are pleased to announce that after a long saga of heartbreak and disappointment, we have purchased and installed a brand new projector in the SCCS game pit. The new projector is an Epson 8350.

The pit is now operational again, ready and waiting to serve you in all your gaming needs. Come check it out, and tell us about any issues at staff@sccs.swarthmore.edu.

P.S. We put a lot of work into cleaning the pit during the installation. Please leave it as clean or cleaner than you find it!

Cygnet blackout for internet strike day

Nick — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:54:16 +0000

Hi 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!

Dec. 29-30 planned downtime

Nick — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:02:23 +0000

The 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.

A tale of two lamps…..

Alex Burka — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:31:49 +0000

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

The Cygnet v3.0 is live!

Daniel-Elia Feist-Alexandrov — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:13:41 +0000

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!

Monday downtime

Nick — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:02:45 +0000

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.

SCCS Party!

mhlinder — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:23:18 +0000

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

GUTS

Alex Burka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:42:14 +0000

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.

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.

FIFA 12 In Video Pit/FIFA 12 Campus League

kaka2210 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:02:49 +0000

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!!!