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{{Outdated}} [[Category:Computers]] [[Category:WSO]]
{{Group|
| name = WSO
| image = Poweredges.jpeg
| type = Service
| selective = No way!.
| membership = 12
| meeting-time = 9:00pm Tuesdays 10:00 PM| meeting-place = [[TCL or TPL]] 2032nd floor| office = Jesup BasementTransient| contact-name = Evan MillerSteve Rubin| contact-unix = 06emmssr2
| wso-listserver = wso-staff
| website = http://wso.williams.edu/
'''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==
But they were to return. [[Shimon Rura]] led a site re-write in the spring and summer of 2003. One goal of the re-write was to authenticate users, so that their postings and doings could be identified. The site was written with [http://www.pagekit.org Apache PageKit]. Shimon wrote the authentication system and the [[WSO Ride Board]], [[Josh Ain]] wrote a new menu feed, [[Tom White]] re-wrote the WSO Forums, [[Evan Miller]] re-wrote some screen scrapers, and [[Topher Cyll]] re-wrote the WSO Facebook and wrote WSO Blogs from a hole in Scotland. The site went live in July of 2003 and has grown in features and popularity since then.
In January 2004, [[Tom White]] and [[Steve Winslow]] noticed the timestamp on a system file on WSO servers with a shared user base reflected a date and time that was inconsistent with that of the same file on independent WSO servers. Their further investigation showed that WSO had been compromised. They notified the rest of WSO and temporarily took systems off-line. Over the next seventy-two hours, Tom led the response team which rebuilt all WSO machines and services and tightened security. By this time, WSO was supporting thousands of users and over a hundred student organizations. Not a single piece of email was lost. [[Chris Douglas]] reported the incident to the WSO community of users on behalf of WSO; [[Tom White]] and [[Jacob Eisler]] reported the incident to College Council.
Toph, Tom, Brent, Jacob, and Steve graduated in the spring of 2004, and around that time [[Ben Cohen]] and [[Dan Weintraub]] were given [[root]]. During the summer, Evan and Dan converted [[WSO Plans]] from its standalone PHP/MySQL incarnation over to PageKit, so that students could access it from off-campus without [[setting up a proxy server]]. Also, they converted the Postgres database and the website over to UTF-8/Unicode. With the help of [[Masha Lifshin]] and [[Sam Dreeben]], the duo made much-envied but never-imitated Quicktime VRs for their [[Facebook picture]]s.
* [[Media:WSO_Announcement_-_Regress_report_-_3_Oct_2005.txt|Regress report]], posted at 3 AM after a few... mishaps.
* [[Media:WSO Announcement - Migration Party Take 2 - 3 Oct 2005.txt|Post-mortem and admission of failure]] the next morning.
Things actually went smoothly the next time (a week later), with Jason Healy '01 scoring an assist by providing some migration scripts.
===Spring 2006===
[[Ben Wood]], [[James Ritterpusch]], and [[Jessica Chung]] were made [[root]] over WSO dinner at [[Guide to Off-Campus Dining#Coyote Flaco|Coyote Flaco]] in the spring of 2006.
===2011 - 2012===
In the spring of 2011, former root president Steven Rubin '11 passed his title on to Chuan Ji '12 and also made [[Ian Nesbitt]] and Ben Seiler (both '13s) roots. Soon, Chuan Ji '12 also made Qiao Zhang '13 root. In the fall, the root group had a successful bout of recruiting at the Purple Key Fair, convincing a number of promising '15s to sign up for the WSO listserve. Chuan showed off his [http://wso.williams.edu/test/facebook/ new Facebook interface] which is coded in Python and includes instant suggestions and a better search function.
==Former WSOers==
* Josh Ain
* Kashif Akthar
* Francisco Alarcon
* Ben Birney
* Beth Budwig
* Jason Busch
* Jing Cao
* DeWitt Clinton
* Michael Chanin
* Jessica Chung
* Ben Cohen
* Christopher Cyll
* Chris Douglas
* Jacob Eisler
* Matt Garland
* Mike Gnozzio
* Geoff Guile
* Chuck Hagenbuch
* Jason Healy
* Cheng Hu
* Geoff Hutchison
* Brian Hwang
* Ben Isecke
* Ayesha Johnson
* Jason Law
* Mari Lliguicota
* Joe Masters
* Evan Miller
* Steve Moore
* David Ramos
* Jeremy Redburn
* Chris Richards
* James Ritterpusch
* Todd Rogers
* Shimon Rura
* Jess Scott
* Josh Solomon
* Fritz Stabenau
* Kai Steverson
* Robin Stewart
* Mandy Stockley
* Bartley Tablante
* Kate Tan
* Kenric Taylor
* Ken-ichi Ueda
* Iein Valdez
* Dan Weintraub
* Tom White
* Wayne Wight
* Steve Winslow
* Jonah Wittkamper
* Steve Wollkind
* Brent Yorgey
* Ben Wood
* Jon Zeppieri
* Chuan Ji
* Qiao Zhang
* Ben Seiler
* Ian Nesbitt
==See also==
*[[Stuff WSO Definitely Should Do]]
*[http://wso.williams.edu/about/ About WSO] -- documentation, help, policy, etc.
*[https://www.eukhost.com web hosting] -- Student Host your blog.
