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noisy will be unavailable for approximately ten mintues at 11:00 on Friday 3 March to apply a security fix.

We received just one response to the call for Associate Representative nominations for the 2005/6 term.

I am therefore glad to welcome Julian King onto the committee for another year. This year his manifesto is:

"To continue doing what I have been doing. Sniping from the back, bitching, and generally griping."

Welcome back Julian!

MUGSS are performing the world premier of Rock Trial between 24th - 26th November at the RNCM on Oxford Road.

CompSoc has organised trips in the past and a number of members have attended all MUGSS shows for the last few years. Tickets are 5 pounds, available from the RNCM box office on 0161 907 5555 or by visiting www.mugss.org/rocktrial for more details.

If you aren't aware CompSoc have not had a "proper" backup strategy in ages, simply put there is too much data and not enough space to back it up to. For the past 6, or so, months backups have been done simply by taking a copy of the data to a second disk, and while far from ideal it was the only financially feasible plan for backing up 100+ GB of stuff. Last night the situation changed, one of our members donated a tape library with a capacity of about 4TB, more than enough for us.

We are now ready to take nominations for Associate Representative for CompSoc for the academic year 2005/2006.

If you would like to stand for election, please e-mail admin@compsoc.man.ac.uk giving your name, user ID and a short manifesto.
Nominations will close at 23:59 on 11 November 2005.

You must be an associate member and have no outstanding fees owed in order to be eligible.

The election will take place in the week after - more information once the nominations are in.

The Annual General Meeting for 2006/7 will be held this coming Saturday (November 18) at 1PM in Kro bar, opposite the Students' Union.

The official purpose of this meeting is to decide on a new committee to run the society for the coming year. Once this is sorted we'll be having a few drinks, something to eat and most likely a trip to the cinema in the evening.

Welcome to the new CompSoc website!

Running a modified version of the popular Drupal CMS we have a raft of new features, including an admin blog for you to keep updated on what's going on behind the scenes, forums and RSS feeds for almost every section of the website.

We hope the forums will provide an alternative to our discussion mailing list and in the future plan to introduce an online voting system to co-exist with our current email solution.