ourCNU has been upgraded to MoinMoin 1.7 from version 1.6.3. If you experience any breakages, let me know! I'm currently investigating why "System Pages" are showing up under "Wanted Pages" and hope to have that fixed shortly. Volunteers are also needed to move articles from CNUpedia to ourCNU. I have already moved over a large number of articles myself but there are many more ahead and I need people willing to help out. Let me know if you are interested.

Current ourCNU address: http://www.ourcnu.info

I have just performed some routine maintainence on both the Gauss and Maxwell servers. Among the updates includes a patch for OpenSSL to fix a broken random number generator which had generated SSH keys up to this point. If you have an account on either of these servers, expect a warning the next time you attempt to login via SSH.

I am also in the process of attempting to get ourCNU back in motion. For those still keeping score, ourCNU is a wiki for our campus to record and preserve our school and student history. Look forward to more updates on this subject.

Update: I just reinstalled the MoinMoin software I am considering using; this time with fcgid support. It might run a little faster now. See the work in progress. One of the major changes they've added with the new version is an obvious way to log out. It wasn't very clear how to do that before... I plan, of course, on making the theme more CNU-friendly.

After a semester in planning, the Oil Immersion System project was constructed last night by members of the ACM and IEEE. CNU's PCSE department graciously donated a computer for the project. It was a great success and many people showed up for the event. Check out the gallery for more pictures from the night and look forward to hearing more information about the system in the future! The clubs will plan to stress test the system as well as evaluate its performance when overclocked. Overclocking computers for more power generates excess heat- a problem which the Oil Immersion System should overcome.

The Oil Immersion System demonstrates the use of mineral oil in computer cooling. Through circulating mineral oil around a computer case (a fish tank in this case) instead of air, a computer system can be kept cooler and potentially exhibit a longer lifespan.

See the video. (4.6MB, XviD AVI)