The Harvard Computer Society is a student group dedicated to promoting interest in computing and information technologies among members of the Harvard community, with great wit and panache.

News

Nov 25  New vhosts tool released - The vhosts tool allows you to add your own virtual hosts, or vhosts. These are domains of the form 'example.com' or 'www.example.com' which you want served off of HCS's servers. From your end, you need to set your domains to be CNAMEs for www.hcs.harvard.edu. (Note: do not change the nameservers; HCS does not run any name servers.) A typical vhost entry looks like: Servername gregbrockman.com
ServerAlias www.gregbrockman.com test.hcs.gregbrockman.com
ServerAdmin brockman@hcs.harvard.edu
Nov 10  Computer Science Concentration Cider & Pie - Are you:
- Considering a concentration or secondary in computer science?
- Already concentrating/doing a secondary in computer science?
- A member of the CS faculty? If so (or if you'd like to meet people in at least one of these three
groups), you are cordially invited to a Harvard computer science community event on Friday, November 13th in the lobby of Maxwell-Dworkin from 3-4:30.
Oct 11  The web, the grid, and the cloud: intersecting technologies for computationally intensive science (Tue, Oct 6, 2009) - Thanks to everyone who came to the third installment of the 2009-2010 HCS seminar series. The slides from the talk can be found here. Here are the details of the talk:
Sep 15  Linux Demystified (Tue, Sept 15, 2009) - Thanks to everyone who came to the talk. We had a great turnout, and we hope everyone had as great of a time as we did. Feel free to download our complimentary PDF of the slides. Also, if you'd like to get your own copy of Ubuntu, go ahead and download the free (yep, free as in free beer) Ubuntu desktop CD image. A few reasons you should care about Linux:
Sep 11  Migration and Its Impact on Users - You've heard a lot about HCS's Great Migration, perhaps even witnessed a few of the effects yourself.
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Services

  1. Request an account for your student organization (provides webspace and an email address).
  2. Create a mailing-list for any group of 2+ people you want.

Projects

Ongoing systems work [more info]

  • System maintenance
  • Account services/RT

Emerging projects [more info]

  • hcs-pkg
  • Calendaring
  • Houses@HCS
  • Large scale virtualization
  • Single sign-on, PIN/Kerberos integration

Resources

  1. Tutorials - Follow our tutorials on various HCS account related tasks.
  2. FAQs - Find solutions to the most frequently asked acctserv questions.
  3. Mailman Administration - How to administer a Mailman mailing-list.

Subscribe to Our Mailing Lists

  1. hcs-announce - Our announcement list, for hearing about our events.
  2. hcs-discuss - A discussion list where we debate everything from politics to programming languages.
  3. hcs-jobs - Where we advertise job postings people send us.
  4. hcs-questions - A list intended for newcomers to HCS and technology to ask questions (all questions welcome).

About HCS

Office Hours

We hold "office hours" on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-10pm (see our Events Calendar for up-to-date dates) at our office in the Student Organization Center at Hilles, room 307, where we work on our projects, eat pizza, talk about technology, and help users with questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

Contact Us

Contact with any questions about your account, or with other questions. Visit our contact page for more information.