Netsoc News Announcements of upcoming Netsoc events http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie en-us Wed Apr 30 20:58:58 2008 Wed Apr 30 20:58:58 2008 webmaster@netsoc.tcd.ie Netsoc feed generator 2.000000001 http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/images/nat.jpg Netsoc http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie Announcements of upcoming Netsoc events 224 98 AGM & Nominations Soon 'twill be time to bid you farewell as you welcome the new set of service-wielding overlords, but before we do that, the overlords must be nominated for election. Nomination emails may be sent to secretary at netsoc.tcd.ie. All candidates who are nominated must be seconded.

  • Date: Thursday, 1 May 2008
  • Time: Voting at 7:00pm; Reception at 7:30pm
  • Place: Lloyd Common Room, Lloyd Building
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-04-08-index.php 8th Apr 2008 Havok Talk Marc O'Morain of Havok will be giving a very special talk to Netsoc members on the new Havok products — Cloth and Destruction — and his involvement in working with some of the worlds leading games developers. These two new products will bring a never-before seen level of realism to games. This is sure to be an very interesting talk and we hope to see you there.

  • Date: Wednesday, 5th March
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • Place: MacNeill Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-03-05-index.php 5th Mar 2008 Netsoc LAN Party! Netsoc are hosting a Bring Your Own PC LAN party on Friday the 15th of February! Come along and take part in our tournaments, in games old and new.

  • Date: Friday, 15th February
  • Time: 8:00 Friday - 12:00 Saturday
  • Place: Cafeteria, Trinity Hall, Dartry
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-02-14-index.php 14th Feb 2008 Wii Tournament & Reception Following the great success that was our last Wii Tournament, Netsoc will be hosting another. This time it's in the Eliz Rooms, and will be followed by a reception with refreshments.

  • Date: Wednesday, 13th February
  • Time: 6pm - 10pm
  • Place: Eliz Rooms (House 6)
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-02-12-index.php 12th Feb 2008 Advanced Unix Tutorial Netsoc will be hosting Advanced Unix Tutorials on DNS. These will be particularly useful for those of you who have an eye to becoming a Junior Admin with Netsoc later in the year.

  • Date: Wednesday, 6th February
  • Time: 6pm-7pm
  • Place: Beckett Computer Labs (Arts Block)
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-02-05-index.php 5th Feb 2008 LaTeX Tutorial LaTeX is a great language for formatting documents. It can be extremely beneficial to maths students, and is the typesetting mode of choice for a large number of lecturers. Netsoc will be running a tutorial on this useful language this week, hosted by our admin, Eoin. For an example of what your files can look like, see here.

  • Date: Wednesday, 16th January
  • Time: 7pm
  • Place: Beckett Computer Labs (Arts Block)
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-01-15-index.php 15th Jan 2008 Googlewhacking & EGM Did you ever Google yourself and end up lost in the tubes of the Internet for hours? Dave Gorman is a man who didn't just get lost online, though. He did it in real life. And then decided that that wasn't embarrassing enough, so he made a one man show about it. This was filmed, and became "Dave Gorman's Googlewhacking Adventure."

  • Date: Thursday, 10th January
  • Time: 7pm
  • Place: Goldsmith Hall

Netsoc will be holding an EGM next Monday to elect a new Secretary. Nominations can be sent to council at netsoc.tcd.ie. Voting will be by secret ballot.

  • Date: Monday, 14th January
  • Time: 6pm
  • Place: Room 4018, Arts Block
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2008-01-08-index.php 8th Jan 2008 Netris Tournament The last Netris tournament of term is going ahead tomorrow! To play, just type "tournament" while logged onto Spoon.

  • Date: Tuesday, 4th December
  • Time: 7pm
  • Place: Spoon
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2007-12-03-index.php 3rd Dec 2007 Nethack and Wii Tournaments! More Tournaments! (We like them.) This week we're running a Nethack tournament for 4 hours on Spoon. It starts this Thursday at 7; if you're up for the challenge, type nethack as normal when the time comes, and try to beat our in-house Nethack gods.

  • Date: Thursday, 8th November
  • Time: 7pm

But wait: there's more! (*twitch*) Next week we're running a Wii Tournament! Keep practising your tennis and twister skills. A larger venue and greater number of screens means this will be our greatest Wii tournament yet, so keep your calendar clear.

  • Date: Thursday, 15th November
  • Time: 7pm
  • Place: Goldsmith Hall
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2007-11-06-index.php 6th Nov 2007 Netris Tournaments! The ever-prevalent Netris tournaments begin! The first Netris tournament will be on next Thursday. If you've never played before, don't worry: it's just like Tetris, only more Netsoc...er. Wander over to the support wiki to find out how to start playing. And remember, it's important to practise: beating netsoc council members will make them cry.

  • Date: Thursday, 25th October
  • Time: 7pm
  • Place: The Internet
]]> http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/News/2007-10-22-index.php 22nd Oct 2007