Archive for March, 2007

Google tech talk

Today, for the second time this semester, a Google tech-talk was held here at UNSW. To my surprise the speaker this time was Casey Whitelaw who was my group’s tutor at the 2005 NCSS Summer School. After finishing his PhD at Syd Uni in 2005 he scored a job with Google where he’s [...]

Cool stuff coming up

Tomorrow Night
J-Club (at the Rege) 7.30pm onwards
Next Thursday
Poker Night 6-11pm K17 Seminar Room
SydneyPython meetup at GooglePlex (yes that’s right, Google’s Sydney HQ (nice view)) 6-8pm
Saturday Week Week
Linux installfest (CSE Labs)
For more cool stuff keep up to date with CSESoc (note, for some reason if you view any two DokuWiki sites at the [...]

CSESoc 1st Yr Rep

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the CSESoc 1st yr rep elections, Charissa (aka char*) and I ended up getting the positions. I’ll try and do my best to fulfill the role of 1st yr rep as stated by the CSESoc constitution:

To represent the interests of first year students.

To [...]

Harmony Day

Brad may be able to cancel official ‘Harmony Day’, but that won’t stop us harmonising! Look around K17 and the John Lions Garden today for this merry bunch singing wonderful harmonies.

YouTube link coming soon!

CSESoc Elections

As most of you CSE students would know, the elections for CSESoc 1st year reps are presently running. But in case you didn’t know, this is where you go to vote, make your voice heard and vote for the people who you think would best fill the role!

We’re back online

 
There was a bit of a tragedy this morning. In my haste I typed
rm -R 755 public_html
instead of
chmod -R 755 public_html
this of course had the unwanted effect of removing all files in my public_html directory and all of it’s subdirectories. Since the page had only been up for around 15 hours, the tape [...]

Hello World!

Python
print “Hello World!”
Java
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Hello World!”);
}
}
C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
printf(“Hello World!n”);
}
PHP
<?php
echo “Hello World!”;
?>
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