Association for Computing Machinery

Thank you and good night

Richard — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:07:41 +0000

Hello happy people,

Well next week is Thanksgiving therefore there won’t be any ACM meeting next week.

If you get an email that there is an ACM meeting next week, ignore it (even if it’s from the President himself). You deserve a break so don’t let ACM get in the way of your unity and oneness during your vacation time.

Once upon a time there was ASUS….

Richard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:26:15 +0000

Get ready to laugh, cry, and expect the unexpected as we explore ASUS’ dark history and what to expect from it.

Alright I’m not going to lie, we’re just going to talk about the history of ASUS as well as its products and innovations. Nothing dark and nothing to be excited about….sorry.

Well there is one thing that might excite you. We’re holding a drawing to give out one Project Gotham Racing 4 at the end of the meeting. Also we have free food as always.

You still think that’s not good enough? We’re also planning an end of semester party at Professor Ward’s house and if you’re interested in coming to this thing, please show up to the meeting.

Still not satisfied? Well then forget you, I have better things to do than to make you happy you insolent jerk. : -P

When is the meeting?

Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009

VEC 110 at 4:00PM

Engineering Fundraisers

Matt — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:20:47 +0000

Hello readers,

Please take delight in reading about the following fundraisers sponsored by our College of Engineering compatriots!

I smell food!

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Head on over to the Society of Women Engineer’s fund raising event at BJ’s this Wednesday, November 18th from 11am to 11pm! BJ’s Restaurant can be found on 2nd street.
The SWE Office at EN2-102 has more information, so make sure to pay them a visit!

Location:
Bj’s Restaurant & Brewery
5258 E 2nd St
Long Beach, CA 90803

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Join MicroMouse November 19th at Avenue 3 to watch the Lakers vs. Bulls game! The event starts at 5:30pm and ends at 10:30pm. MicroMouse gets 20% of all the orders.
The MicroMouse Office in EN4-124 can help you further if you need it.

Location:
Avenue 3
2226 Palo Verde Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90815
(by the North. 405 freeway going North on Atherton).

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Ruby’s Diner is hosting the E-LIFE (Leaders in Freshmen Engineering) Fundraiser Thursday, December 3rd!

Location:
Ruby’s Diner
6405 E Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach, CA 90803-4201

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Additionally, the VA meeting has concluded with resounding success! Thanks to all those of you who came! Ironically, I myself was unable to make it, but whatever is left of my spirit was with you!

ALERT: VA meeting beings in 201,600 seconds

Richard — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:32:59 +0000

The VA Software Development meeting has been schedule on Friday the 13th…..sucks right? Well anyway it’ll be held this Friday at 2:00PM at VEC 419.

We’ve been awarded additional time…

Richard — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:36:26 +0000

Since school is closed tomorrow, there won’t be an ACM meeting. However if you’ve signed up for the Veterans Affair Software Development Project, please be advise that there will be a meeting on Friday at 2PM. Meeting location is to be announced shortly.

Plus, if you haven’t done so already, please join the software development google group. To join, email Bernandina at treasurer*at*csulb.acm.org .

Upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7 when you have a fingerprint scanner

Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:47:27 +0000

When you first try to upgrade to Windows 7, emotions run high. You can’t wait to see the sleek new design. So you pop the disk in, and run the installation.

Then it tells you it can’t proceed because something like a Security Protect Manager would interfere with Windows 7. The reason this happens is due to errors with driver compatibility, and there are many complaints about it all over the internet. If your fingerprint scanner is giving you trouble, your best bet would be to remove it, then install Windows 7.

If the installation completes successfully, and your fingerprint scanner mattered THAT much to you, you should be able to reinstall it on Windows 7. Just make sure you still have the disk that came with your computer and you should be in the clear!

And don’t forget to download Edgar’s amazing presentation and gaze at its awesomeness!

Getting Started with Web Development

Edgar Ortiz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:42:09 +0000

As promised here is the “Getting Started with Web Development” presentation download here.

Ubuntu 9.10

Richard — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:44:42 +0000

As we celebrated the launch of Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 just reached it’s final release. Now before you go and start upgrading your machines to this beast, please please please see the release notes and make sure that your machine is not affected by the problems mention on the page:
Release Notes

Now for those of you turkeys who have no idea what’s the difference between 9.04 and 9.10, please see the following article from theRegister:

See article

ACM general body meeting this Thursday on Web Development

Edgar Ortiz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:42:51 +0000

It’ll be at 4pm in VEC 110.

The new ACM website

The ACM website has relaunched:
http://csulb.acm.org/

This general body meeting will have a presentation by our webmaster on
the basics of setting up your own webserver.

Windows 7

For now, Windows 7 sign ups are closed. They will open up again by the
end of the month when we hold our Halo 3 ODST tournament.

There are four lights

Richard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:16:09 +0000

Happy Furlough Day everyone. I hope none of you forgot that today was Furlough Day because that would suck.

If you haven’t gotten your copy of Windows 7 yet and still want one, please contact Alex. Please be advise that if you’re using Windows Vista Home Premium or less, you cannot directly upgrade to Windows 7 Professional (you’ll have to do a full installation which will delete all your stuff).