The Press Democrat had an article about CS340 (Security and Malware) in this morning's paper.

You can read the article on the Pee Dee website.

Barspace, a website by SSU business grads Peter Viviani and Michael Deignan, has been profiled in the Rohnert Park Community Voice. Barspace features live webcam footage of local bars so you can tell how busy they are before you go there. If this works, there might be hope for some of our CS370 projects.

The site has also been featured in the Sonoma State Star. This goes to show the usefulness of press releases and a good pitch in getting a new business some attention.

We are having elections for CS Club officers next meeting. Show up and vote!

yuhasj@sonoma.edu
925-216-3950

Problem: The title started wrapping around after I added the Resources page to the primary links.

Problem: All of our documentation is hidden in a tree of links that resembles a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Solution to both problems: I moved the help to the main navigation menu.

Updated site.

Did not patch event_css.diff because of that niggling firefox issue with the weekends looking funny.

Retired event_jstoggle_ampm.diff and event_pad_minutes since they got merged into mainline.

Did not patch node_nopics because it seems to be redundant with bluemarine_nopics.diff. Each theme has its own code to determine whether to display a user picture by a post so you can't turn it off for all themes at once.

The LAN party has been rescheduled to Feb 27 @ 7:00 PM. This is so we have more time to advertise and raise awareness for the event to ensure as many people show up as possible.

• CS Club meetings will be every other Tuesday in the Darwin basement as usual, with announcements to the contrary going out to the mailing list.

• Ryan is hosting our first Movie Night at his house on Friday, Feb. 6 at 7pm. Movie nights are likely to continue the first Friday of every month, but please get confirmation at a meeting or from the site before you show up at someone's house.

• Our first LAN party is in a couple of weeks. We plan to have them the third Friday of every month, and we'll figure something out for April when that would be during break. Also, the Smash Brothers tournament was popular last year so we plan to do that again.

• The CS Colloquium is hosting a speaker every week. The presentations are listed on the site calendar. Notify the webmaster if there is an error or if another department is hosting a presentation on a CS-related subject.

• The Nerd-A-Thon is a series of competitions between the different schools of sciences in Darwin Hall. More information will be forthcoming about what the events are and when and where they will take place.

• Ryan and Crazy Joe are getting their Wayne's World thing going on with a cable access TV show called Game Time. They'll be reviewing video games and goofing off. The show will be on Access Healdsburg and downloadable through UStream.

• Gina in the CS office is in contact with an elementary school in Santa Rosa that would like the CS Club to give some kind of Computer Science presentation to elementary school students for an hour. They would prefer something about robotics. Talk to Travis if you're interested.

• Saturday, March 21st is Seawolf Day. The labs will be open for next year's freshmen who are considering CS as a possible major.

• Tia Watts will be hosting a programming contest later in the semester.

• George Ledin will be hosting a Computer Science trivia contest. It was fun last year. The trivia questions are contributed by the students, so send him your questions!

• We are still looking for T-Shirt designs. If you have an idea for a Computer Science t-shirt, draw it up and send it to Travis.

• We are also looking for ideas for beginning-of-semester funding to replace the cable making service we used to run. The campus is going fully wireless so cabling is going to become obsolete.

• Our forums need more users. Register an account and post things of interest to share.

• We will be having an end-of-year party, but we'll hold off on planning that for later.

The comment closer has been locking old forum threads. It is not supposed to do that; the module is set to skip the forums when locking down old threads. Maybe it happened before the configuration was set that way. After looking through the module and the node table to see what it did, I fixed the problem with one line of SQL: update node set comment=2 where type='forum';

We'll see if it happens again.

That means it's time to iron out the bugs.

I'm fixing up the patch collection to go along with our modifications page so it will be easier to redeploy our custom modifications.

TODOS: Event module is kinda broken now.

On the off chance that anybody else was using this site and saw the offline maintenance message for the ten minutes or so that it was up, I upgraded Drupal since the latest release fixes a couple of security holes.

Fun story: I accidentally locked myself out of the site after upgrading it. You can't call AAA for that. To get the site out of maintenance mode, you have to go into MySQL and turn off the site_offline Drupal variable:

update variable set value='s:1:"0"' where name = 'site_offline';
delete from cache where cid='variables';

's:1:"0"' is how Drupal stores its variables as strings; that's not SQL syntax, in case anyone was wondering. The second line clears the variable cache or else Drupal is still going to think the variable is set.