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| Yesterday |
Friday, August 1, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Outstanding
in their field are members of UW's
Free Flight
Glider Team, who competed in Kingston earlier this summer in the
Canadian university championships.
"The goal," their web site explains,
"is to run real fast to get the glider up in the air. Timing starts
when the tow rope comes off the glider and stops when it lands
gracefully (not slams mercilessly) on the ground."
UW placed fifth among seven teams this year:
"Despite our glider not performing as
well as desired, our report was second best and presentation
was well done."
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The various versions of Windows, made by the Microsoft Corporation, are the software that makes most personal computers do their thing. A smallish minority of UW computers use other systems altogether, such as Unix, Linux, or the Macintosh OS, and they aren't affected by today's announcement at all.
![[Windows 95 logo]](http://www.computerhope.com/software/win95.gif)
Says a memo from the information systems and technology
department: "In the past years, most of the Windows 95/98/ME PCs on
campus have been replaced with faster, more secure, and more reliable
Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.
"Windows 95/98/ME systems have become a support and security issue. Many of the newer services that IST provides are not supported by Windows 95/98/ME, and these PCs running the older operating systems remain vulnerable to attacks because they are no longer supported by Microsoft. Therefore, IST will terminate support for Windows 95/98/ME on September 30."
Bob Hicks of IST says there are also a few machines around running yet another version of the software, Windows NT, and work is already in progress to bring them more up to date.
Says IST: "While this decision will primarily affect staff in the academic support departments, it will also affect Faculties who are using IST services with Windows 95/98/ME. Windows 95/98/ME will no longer have access to network storage that is provided using 'samba shares'. This includes access to the 'info' machine to update Web pages and access the Peoplesoft Student Admin PC client."
IST offers this advice for anybody whose computer still runs on Windows 95, 98 or ME:
"If you are concerned about the impact of this change on your department and would like to discuss the implications of this announcement, please contact Bob Hicks at ext. 2194 or Pat Lafranier at ext. 6433 at your earliest convenience."
Electrical and computer engineering. Arash Mirbagheri, "Linear MMSE Receivers for Interference Suppression & Multipath Diversity Combining in Long-code DS-CDMA System." Supervisors, Y. C. Yoon and A. K. Khandani. Oral defence, Monday, August 11, 1:30 p.m., Davis Centre room 1304. Thesis on deposit in the engineering graduate office, Carl Pollock Hall room 4367.
Psychology. Michael Tombu, "A Central Capacity Sharing Model of Dual-Task Performance Theory and Data." Supervisor, Derek Besner. Oral defence, Wednesday, August 20, 1 p.m., PAS room 3026. Thesis on deposit in the arts graduate office, Humanities room 317.
Electrical and computer engineering. Liang Xu, "Radio Link Scheduling for QoS Support in Wideband CDMA Cellular Networks." Supervisors, X. S. Shen and J. W. Mark. Oral defence, Wednesday, August 20, 1:30 p.m., Davis Centre room 1302. Thesis on deposit in the engineering graduate office, Carl Pollock Hall room 4367.
English. Joanne Di Nova, "Spiralling Webs of Relation: Movements Toward and Indigenist Criticism." Supervisor, Linda Warley. Oral defence, Monday, August 25, 10 a.m., Humanities room 373. Thesis on deposit in the arts graduate office, Humanities room 317.
Electrical and computer engineering. Ying Zou, "Techniques and Methodologies for the Migration of Legacy Systems to Object Oriented Platforms." Supervisors, K. Kontogiannis and R. E. Seviora. Oral defence, Friday, August 29, 10 a.m., Davis Centre room 1331. Thesis on deposit in the engineering graduate office, Carl Pollock Hall room 4367.
PhD listings usually appear in the Gazette; these five are shown in the Daily Bulletin instead because there won't be another Gazette issue until after Labour Day.
There are some exams tomorrow, but none on Monday, August 4, which is a holiday -- Ontario's "Civic Holiday" and a day when the university is closed for business. Offices and most services across campus will be closed Monday, giving a three-day weekend.
The UW libraries are providing extended operating hours during exam time: the Dana Porter Library is open until 2 a.m. nightly, and the Davis Centre library until 3 a.m., through August 13. Hours for circulation services are shorter: Monday to Thursday until 10 p.m. in both libraries, Friday until 5 p.m. in both libraries, Saturday and Sunday until 4 p.m. in Porter, 6 p.m. in Davis. On the Monday holiday, however, both libraries will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. only, with service available noon to 4 p.m.
Hundreds of young athletes will be living in Ron Eydt Village this weekend, as the Village conference centre finds room for participants in the Ontario track and field Supermeet, which is being held at Kitchener's Centennial Stadium. More than 1,400 people are expected to be staying at the Village. Supermeet participants are vying for the Ontario championship in their age group in sprints and longer races (up to 5,000 metres), hurdles, long and broad jump, and such miscellaneous events as the hammer-throw, discus, shot-put and javelin. Competition starts late this afternoon and will run all day Saturday and Sunday. (Spectator admission at Centennial Stadium is $5 a day.)
Participants in a couple of other groups are arriving at Ron Eydt Village as well. Some 300 people are expected for the triannual Cadet Rally organized by St. John Ambulance; and another 300 are described as "overflow" from the Devotional Associates of Yogeshwar, holding their conference at Wilfrid Laurier University.
CAR