News 2005

MiNDS Junior Admin

We're looking for people with some Unix skills and the ability to read/learn/put time in to become future minds admins. If it goes well you will have responsibility of running the three minds boxes. It's a good way to learn more about how a system like minds works.

If you are interested mail: admins@minds.nuim.ie with your minds username. We can then come up with more concrete plans about a room/time/whatever

New Minds Committee Elected

At our recent AGM the Minds society elected a new Committee for the year 2005-2006. This committee is headed by Stephen Lacy and Caoimhe O Connor. Congratulations go to both of them.

The most positive aspect of this is that for the first time in 5 years the Minds committee consists entirely of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students, which ensures that Minds will be in safe hands for years to come.

Minds accessible from all of Maynooth!

Thanks to the Minds user ektich, Minds users can log in from anywhere on campus without a need to use the proxy. The proxy set up was a hack orchestrated by philb which served us well for this year. From today onwards, Minds users can simply use putty to connect to login.minds.may.ie. See the guide in the help section for information.

Downtime this Friday

There will be some downtime this Friday afternoon, as Minds will be moving to a more suitable, and hopefully more permanent home. We expect that the move should not cause any problems, we will update if the situation changes.

Minds Usage Statistics Released

Minds President Vishal has written a short piece of perl to keep a barchart of our login statistics. It displays all users which have logged in during the month, and the chart shows how many seconds they were connected to the Minds System. For information on how to connect to the Minds system, see our Help Section.
View The Minds Usage Chart

New Addresses for Clubs and Societies

Clubs and Societies can now avail of an alternative url for their website, which is now http://clubs.nuim.ie/ClubOrSociety
For Example...
http://clubs.nuim.ie/golf is the new address for the Golf Club
http://societies.nuim.ie/biosoc is a new address for The Biology Society

In addition the url societies.nuim.ie and clubs.nuim.ie will bring you to pages where you can select from all the Minds hosted clubs and societies.

We apologise for the delay of this service, it was due to circumstances far beyond our control. Extra special thanks go to Vishal, and the good people in the computer centre.

If you wish to host your club or society on the Minds server, you may do so free of charge Assistance is available for developing a website. Please do not hesitate to contact us at http://www.minds.nuim.ie

Minds Branded Clothing

Minds is now taking orders for hoodies, fleeces and polo shirts which have the Minds and NUIM logos. Please add your name to the order list if your interested.

The Minds Library is Launched

Minds has officially started its library now, and we are maintaining a virtual "bookshelf" on the minds site, where you can request and peruse our various titles. The minds library can be seen here.

There are two distinct sections, the minds library, and the books provided by members. If you wish you can also place a request for minds to get a book. To borrow a book simply mail our librarian Andrew Page

Clubs and Societies Board(s)

In light of the recent and temporary decline of mikado, a minds user has set up a temporary boards system where communication of events can still take place. The board is available at the following address http://www.minds.may.ie/~buffy/board