Cool New XOmB Updates!

XOmB is now hosted at GitHub, the main site is here, and the Google Group is here.
XOmB organizational meetings are in SennSq 5712 Thursdays after 6pm and Friday evenings, and Saturday is 1pm Burrito Day.

Catch yinz on da flip side, brotha.

Posted by Joeframbach

PODCAST!

The first podcast is out! Download it and check it out!

You can subscribe to the cast with the following url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PittGeeks.
You can download it directly here.
Lastly you can find it in the iTunes Store podcast list.

Posted by Brian

Hola amigos! Welcome back, welcome first timers, and whatnot!

I hope everyone had a great summer, and hope everyone is settling in to classes well. For those of you new, or even those of you returning this year, Pitt Geeks is going to kick ass more than ever!

We intend to have a rotating meeting schedule that is as follows:

• First Sunday of the month: Half-price, meet in 1500 Posvar at 10:15PM and we'll go from there.
• Second Sunday of the month: General administration meeting, we'll discuss where we want to go for half price the following month, what we want to do on the 3rd sunday (movie, whats hot in tech, pizza and programming, etc).
• Third Sunday of the month: We'll have a fun meeting where we do anything from watch a movie to play video games to learn about new tech or talk about geeky stuff.
• Fourth Sunday of the month: Will be a podcast meeting we will work on a podcast that covers everything from what we've done for the past month to video game reviews, whats coming up in tech, what we'll be doing in the future with Pitt Geeks. Anyone is free to contribute!


All meetings will be at 8:00PM at 1500 Posvar Hall on Sunday night unless otherwise noted (half price for example)!

Thats all for now... Keep an eye out for upcoming LAN parties and other hot and juicy gossip in the forums.


Posted by Brian

Hey everyone... Just a little update, since we haven't posted anything here for a bit. There are a couple of updates, however.

If you didn't already follow everything with the Spike TV Bracket Babes, Lauren placed extremely well but unfortunately didn't make it all the way. Apparently our geek power just wasn't strong enough. I've removed the pictures and everything from the main page because it was taking up a ton of space and making load time a little long.

In other news, if you're at all interested in Operating Systems, Pitt Geeks is currently working on an operating system, so get involved! You can find more information in the forum section by clicking: HERE.

Additionally, Brett and I are putting together a CS:Source team, so if you <3 CS feel free to post in the Gaming Chat forum and get involved. We have some extra team slots so let us know if you want in!

Thats all for now... Keep an eye out for upcoming LAN parties and other hot and juicy gossip in the forums.

Posted by Chris

Hats off to everyone who participated in the 24 Hour Coding Contest! There was a lot of great work done, and a lot of good products came out of that 24 hours!

Unfortunately though there could only be one first place team, though everyone did a great job. Linked below are the games as provided by the authors. Feel free to download, play, and maybe even make some modifications of your own!

First Place Game - Mail Defence a game written in Python using pyGame. Should be multi-platform capable.

Second Place Game - Resident Pancake - Written using D, Photoshop, and a custom level creator. Windows exe included.

Third Place Game - Unnamed Game Written using C++ and the Windows API, Windows only.

Other Creations:

16 Bit Throwback - A space invaders clone written in QBasic by Jordan.

Super RPG Monster Maddness - Not Yet Listed

Awesome Cow RTS - Not Yet Listed

Thanks again to the CS department, the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and everyone who helped with the event!
Happy Gaming!

Posted by Brian

Update: The prizes have been ordered for the coding contest, and there is a lot of sweet stuff up for grabs, including flash drives, keyboards, geek toys, books, and more! The CS department is sponsoring some items as well, though I haven't had a chance to get my hands on them to see what they're providing.

The room has also been confirmed, and we will be holding the contest in room 5712 of Senott Square. There are 14 internet capable computers with most of the tools you should need to code. However if you would like to bring your own PC you are more than welcome. There will be no guarantee on interwebs though!

We need one more team too so if you know anyone that would like to participate, please tell them to sign up NOW!

See ya Friday!

Posted by Brian

Hey All... The cumulative .zip file that summarizes the Pizza and Programming: D session is currently available for download in the projects and downloads section. Jarrett put together a very nice tutorial and included all sorts of examples to get you started with D!

Check it out!

Posted by Chris

So I was in the L2L today (an undergrad computer lab) and found Lauren (shown below) sitting here working on a project for one of her CS classes. She is one of Spike TV's Sexiest Bracket Babes, and you should vote for her!

One of the pics is her with me and an the algorithms book used in CS1501. Vote vote vote!

Voting is a little tricky, but you just have to click the link, select our bracket (Awesome East) then fill it out making sure that Lauren is your final vote! Lets win one for the geeks!

Vote for her Here!!

Digg Link!

Posted by Brian

What: Pitt Geeks 24 hour Coding Contest!
Where: To be determined!
When: April 6th-7th 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Why: For fun, and fabulous prizes!
??!! : The first five teams of three to sign up will be able to compete in this 24 hour game coding contest!

Rules:

• All languages / types of games will be accepted, however no prior coding or design will be eligible!
• All work must be done in the allotted time, though gaming APIs/frameworks such as PyGame and SDL are encouraged.
• To enter please sign up on the forums and post your team name, members names, and email addresses in this thread! There will be over $200 in prizes awarded, and free food throughout the event!
• We're not looking for anything super fancy, and all entries will be downloadable on the Pitt Geeks site after! Coders must be willing to open source games as we would like to distribute source with the games!
• There will be category based scoring including, creativity, code, fun factor, game play, and aesthetics!
• All rules will be subject to interpretation of the judges!
• Contest open to Pitt Students only!
• For more information please ask here or email brian@pittgeeks.org!

  Posted by Brian

Check out the website that Lenny put together that contains the lan party information.

http://lenk616.googlepages.com

We will try to integrate this information into the pittgeeks website soon.

Posted by Francesco

Welcome new Ubuntu users, Linux lovers, and Pitt Geeks visitors! If you're looking for the resnet connection script please click here . If you're looking for more information on Ubuntu or Linux in general, please click the forums link and ask questions, or head on over to www.ubuntu.com or search google for Linux.

If you're having any trouble with the script, again, head on over the forums otherwise follow these steps and everything should work :)

• Move the connection script to your desktop
• Open a terminal by going to Applications > Tools > Terminal
• Type "cd Desktop" without the quotes
• Type "chmod +x ubuntu_connect.sh" without the quotes
• Type "sudo ./ubuntu_connect.sh" without the quotes
• Select the option to "Just configure WPA_Supplicant"
• Enter the information you are prompted for
• Enjoy!
  
  Again, if you have ANY problems feel free to post on our forums or email Brian with any questions, comments, or concerns!
  
  

  Posted by Brian

Hola! CSSD has invited Pitt Geeks to join them on their 2nd annual <3 Your Computer Week! We will have a booth there where we will be giving away Ubuntu CDs as well as our Pitt Geeks Toolkit CD! There will also be information available on how to connect Linux to the ResNet!

Along with Pitt Geeks there will be many other vendors and industry giants with tables (read: Microsoft, Apple, Intel, etc, etc), as well as interesting things to do, and prizes to win. It sounds like it'll be a good time, and hey, we'll be there!

More at the meeting on Sunday!

Brian

Posted by Brian

Hey everybody... We're still working on the site here and there, and the forum activity and news feeds are still being redesigned. Also, we're going to be having a lan party in mid March, so make sure to check out the Lan Party Forum.

Also, as a reminder, Pitt Geeks meets every Sunday at 8. We encourage everybody to come, as the more people we have at meetings, the more fun we'll have.

See you all on Sunday,

Chris

Posted by Chris

Yes... We finally did it. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that it took this long because it was hard... I've just been really busy and I finally got some time, and after a few hours of constructing monotonous CSS, the final product has been formed. Its really late, and I'm sure there are some bugs with the website, so please post any comments and notes in the forum link below.

I hope to redo the forum colors as well, because I based them on an older site design and color scheme. Soon it will look more like what you are seeing now.

Let me know any of your comments on the new template via forum: clicky. Hope you like it!

Cheers,

Chris

Posted by Chris