The IEEE 2008 Ski Trip is coming up next Friday. This year, there is no extra charge for non-IEEE members, so there's no reason to not go. Even if you don't ski, the weekend will be a blast. It's a great time to learn skiing or snowboarding and there's even a new tubing hill.

WHERE:

Lodging in Kellogg, ID with Kellogg Vacation Homes
Skiing on Silver Mountain, ID
Map to Get there

Ever thought the generic RedHat Enterprise Linux login screen found on the EECS workstations was kind of boring? Want to do something about it? Now's your chance!

I'm looking for a GDM theme, ideally customized to EECS somehow (because we're that cool!) that includes buttons for "language", "Session", some meaningful phrase for XDMCP (remote host login), and Shutdown, restart, and disconnect (which are dynamically chosen based on need). I would also like the hostname and the time to be on the screen somewhere. A "designed by the LUG" built into the theme would be fine, too.

Saturday night, starting at about 11:30 p.m. an unknown shooter opened fire on the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, ID. When the Moscow Police Department responded, two officers were shot, Sgt. Lee Newbill and Deputy Brannon Jordan. Sgt. Newbill died before reaching Gritman Medical Center, becoming the first police officer in the history of the Moscow Police Department to die in the line of fire. After firing on the police and a man from the neighborhood, the shooter took cover in the First Presbyterian Church of Moscow where he then shot and killed the caretaker, Paul Bauer, before killing himself in the church sanctuary at about 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA is hiring junior and senior linux/unix sys admins. Learn more about our supercomputer: http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/capabs/mscf.shtml. Degree and some experience required.

If you're interested in learning more, contact mariah@pnl.gov (Recruiter).

This year we have some partners in crime with the IEEE for presentations, Up All Nights, and various other activities. More information will hopefully be forthcoming. :)