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{{Outdated}} [[Category:GroupsComputers]] [[Category:ComputersWSO]]
{{Group|
| name = WSO
| image = Poweredges.jpeg
| type = Service
| selective = No way!.
| membership = 12
| meeting-time = 9:00pm Tuesdays 6:30 PM| meeting-place = [[TCL or TPL]] 2032nd floor| office = Jesup BasementTransient| contact -name = [[Evan Miller]]Steve Rubin| listservercontact-url unix = http://ssr2| wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo/-listserver = wso-staff
| website = http://wso.williams.edu/
| established = 1995
'''Williams Students Online''', or WSO, is a student computer group that offers several computer- and internet-related services to members of the [[College community]]. Current projects include a multi-featured [http://wso.williams.edu/ web site], [[Main Page|this Wiki]], [http://wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo listservers], Linux parties, and web hosting for students, student organizations, and alumni.
Many people often confuse WSO with the college -run [[Office for Information Technology]].
===Web Hosting===
WSO lets students and alumni put their web pages on our servers. To apply for an account, email Scott Tamura Richard Oot (stamuraroot@wso). Please supply a williams.edu email address to send the password to. Organizations can also get web pages through WSO.
Our web hosting supports PHP and server-side includes by default. If you want more advanced features, such as CGI, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, contact a [[Root]]Richard Oot (root@wso).
See also: [[How to make a web page on WSO]]
===http://wso.williams.edu===
This is our fancy web site, featuring blogs, a calendar, a campus facebook, photos, floor plans, choose your own adventure, and surveys. We wrote it all ourself with the help of Ruby on Rails and, formerly, Apache PageKit. If you have ideas for it, please come to a meeting (above). Or scribble something on [[Stuff WSO Definitely Should Do]].
===Linux Parties===
A listserver is an email address that distributes messages to a bunch of people. WSO hosts listservers for student groups broadly defined, and other organizations around campus/Williamstown. You can apply for a listserver at http://wso.williams.edu/lists/create, and we'll try to get to the request in a few days. A complete list of WSO listservers is available from http://wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo.
WSO uses Mailman to power its listservers. [[Steven Rubin]] (srubin@wso) is our list admin. Contact him with list administration questions.
===campus@wsoSecure Instant Messaging===This is a listserver WSO users can communicate with basically all students subscribed. It has information about campus happenings. See each other using the [http://wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo/campus[WSO Secure iChat Service] for info about subscribing or unsubscribing, and see [http://wso.williams.edu/lists/campus] about sending messages.
===wso/wiki===
You're reading it now. We host, hack, and prune the wikiWillipedia.
==Servers==
The current roster:
'''UrsulaEmma''' is the latest addition to the cageNancy's replacement. Lean '''Ursula''', lean and sleek, she's is an Xserve with dual G5 processors and 2 gigs of RAM. Don't bump into her, though, unless you're a deaf person in need of a metronome. Ursula runs shell logins, email forwarding, and listserverslists.
[[Image:Ursula.jpeg]]
[[Image:Spiker.jpeg]]
Spiker is currently hosting POP and IMAP connectionstaking up space in the cage, having been Officially Unplugged after a long stint in Non-booting Purgatory. It's quieter in the cage now.
'''Olga and the Firewall''' are nearly identical Dell PowerEdge 300's running at 800 MHz. Olga has much more hard disk space (600 GB), though, because she's (was) our backup server. The Firewall is the only machine in the Cage without a scary aunt name. As you might guess, she acts as a firewall, connecting incoming traffic to the proper machine in the cluser, and protecting the machines from requests on ports that we don't run official services on. Here the are pictured together. The Firewall is on the left, identifiable by the red FreeBSD demon sticker:
[[Image:Poweredges.jpeg]]
[http://wso.williams.edu/about/servers Read about the retired aunts.]
==Choice excerpts from WSO files==
===Self-deprecation=History==