JEDI celebrates Duke's 10th birthday

The JEDI Masters attended this Java Community party last night.

Queuing up for breakfast

Queuing up for breakfast
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Just like in pre-CRS UP, UP delegates to JavaOne '05 queue up for free continental breakfast.

Still working, promise...

Don't bother me
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Yes, believe it or not, this is part of the JEDI project.

Wow!

Wow!
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JP enjoying the Annual Gay and Lesbian Parade.

New Mac Geniuses?

Learning new technology
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Well, it won't take long til one of these folks will be certified as an Apple Genius. Look how they are starting -- using kids software. :) Let's start 'em early.

UP Alliance of Computer Science Organizations (UP CS NETWORK)

Description:

The CS Network serves as an intermediate level between the department and the organizations/students, and a venue to convene and share ideas among organizations. It gives support to activities if what is asked will not exceed the capabilities/limitations of the department. It is open to any organization/student that/who is willing to help the department and/or college in any way.


Objectives:

• To coordinate/mediate the activities of the students/organizations.
• To improve information dissemination.
• To ensure a systematic scheduling delegation of similar activities for department-related events.
• To promote harmonious working relationship.
• To support activities that promotes well-roundedness of the students.
• To document every activity made.

Guidelines:

• All projects of the Department and the ESC shall go through the CS Network if the CS students are the stakeholders.
• An organization is required to present their department-related activities to the CS Network. An activity is department-related if the name “Department of Computer Science” is mentioned in the event or it supports the initiatives of the department.
• An organization is not required to present their non-department-related activities to the CS Network. However, they are requested to submit a post-documentation of their project for the Engineering League of Excellence Merits (ELEM).
• When two (2) or more NEW and same activities are presented in the Network, a First-Come-First-Served Basis is implemented. Established events are considered PROTECTED and are not subject to this rule.
• All activities that will go through the CS Network must submit a pre-documentation and post-documentation. The template for the documentations is uploaded in the CS Network mailing list.
• All minutes of the meeting must be forwarded to each organization’s mailing list unless specified otherwise.

And another switcher!

Welcome Small Dipper! Sorry but I do not know what Florence's iBook's name is nor do I know Riza's powerbook's name. :) Anyway, have fun using your new toy, Joyce. Just be sure that you run Software Update regularly to keep your system secure. However, make sure that you 'Repair Permissions' before and after doing an update.

Some other tips:
1. Use your battery at least once a month. Recondition the battery every few months.
2. Disable automatic user login.
3. Run 'sudo visudo' and add 'Defaults:ALL timestamp_timeout=0' to disable the sudo insecure root grace period. This will require you to enter your password everytime you invoke 'sudo'. By default, it gives you a grace period of x minutes after entering your password.
4. Enable tabbed browsing on Safari and enable pop-up blocking. You may download Firefox or Camino (Mozilla browser for Mac only).

Let's have a Mac Meet one of these days... :)

Our Wikipedia Entry

I just installed a wikipedia dashboard widget on my Mac and fired it up to test it. I tried University of the Philippines and found an entry there with links to different colleges and departments. Then it hit me - there is no entry for our department! Yes, I just spent 10 minutes creating an account and creating an entry for our department. Maybe the others can start filling it up with more useful information. Feel free to change it.

Remember that wikipedia gets a lot of traffic - we should ensure that our information is up-to-date. I know that this is not easy but hey, it is better than not having an entry there, right?