UCT LEG

In anticipation of Maverick Meerkat, we will have a Global Jam at the Shuttleworth Lab on Sunday 29 Aug, 14:00 - 18:00.

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This isn’t our week. We’re having memory issues. Hope to have a solution by the end of the day.

We’ve had a RAID failure on our mirror. We’re working to get it up again as soon as possible, but in the meantime the whole LEG mirror is down for maintenance.

We have a temporary Ubuntu mirror here: http://holst.cs.uct.ac.za/ubuntu/

Some Ubuntu ISOs: CDs DVDs

Update: The mirror is back to normal (on temporary storage). We’ll migrate back to the main array when we are confident that it’s stable.

During the weekend of 1-2 May all LEG servers will be powered down, due to electrical work in the Chemical Engineering Building.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

As usual, LEG is taking part in the Cape Town Ubuntu Lucid Release party.

This time, instead of being held at UCT it’s happening in Stellenbosch. We considered getting a Jammie shuttle from UCT, but given the high cost we will instead do car pooling.

Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Time: 10am in P6 until around 5pm.

Please indicate attendance here.

There’ll be a braai and some talks, as well as a chance to socialise with Ubuntu users and UCT Algorithm Circle members.

UCT LEG is a Student Society. We currently charge R40 pa for membership and allow students and staff to join as ordinary members.

To sign up, visit our stand at Plaza Week at the beginning of the year, or contact the admins who’ll get you a signup form.

Thank you very much to our sponsors for buying us a new 5.5TiB (formatted capacity) storage array. We now have a fair amount of free space and can resume responding to mirror requests.

The sponsors of this array were:

• Department of Computer Science: 2 drives
• Klaus Möller, Department of Chemical Engineering: 1 drive
• Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM): 1 drive

LEG has a MacPorts mirror for OSX users. To configure it, install macports (you’ll need XCode installed) and then follow the following configuration instructions: Edit /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf and change the following lines to:

rsync_server        ftp.leg.uct.ac.za
rsync_dir           pub/packages/macports/release/base/

Then edit /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf, comment out the existing source and add the follow

LEG is now officially a UCT Society. (It’s actually been the case for around a year, but somehow we never found out about it)

So, we will have a stand at O-Week and raise some members. Membership will be R40pa (we decided that’s a fair amount to charge and can be adjusted next year according to our needs this year).

As to what membership will mean, we need some help on that.

We now mirror Sage - Open Source Mathematics Software