Bluetrait

Hey everyone,

Back from the geek camp! Which might I add wasn’t too geeky and was extremely fun.

The first thing about this camp that should be noted was it wasn’t your average crappy school camp. You could do pretty much what ever you liked, everything was optional. For example staying up until 2.30 playing poker, with our camp cash!

Camp cash was pretty cool, the lectures and 2nd year students handed out “Camp Cash” which was used for an auction on the last day (today). I ended up with a really nice Compaq carry bag for my laptop and a cool large blow up Compaq ball. Also they were auctioning off things like x-box games, office XP plus many other things.

Yesterday we spent most of the day canoeing and capsizing people.

Some societies they have at UTS are very funky, for example ProgSoc. For $10 a year we get free web hosting (Dual Opteron 2GHz), and if the storage space isn’t enough for you go and install another hard drive. So cool.

One of the more interesting activities at ProgSoc is the long range wireless project. You see UTS have this tall ugly building with a communications tower on top of it. Perfect for long range wireless. We’re in the planning (I’ve just setup a UTS ProgSoc wireless mailing list) of getting this up and running. So far the equipment for UTS has been purchased and will be installed shortly (after we work out authentication for users). So we’re going to have a massive wireless network for UTS students.

And I have line of sight to the building! Excellent.

I have some photos online, not great as I didn’t really carry my camera around all that much. I’m going to try and get pictures of the fashion parade later, which was very funny.

So yeah it was a great time.