MUCSA

Weekly Educational Talks

Wed Mar 03, 2010

Hi all, welcome back to the new year at MUCSA! We hope you've all had a relaxing and refreshing break.
For those of you who signed up during O-week and Mega BBQ we said we'd be running an educational talk every week. For those of you who haven't signed up yet, come visit us on level 1 of ICT, or during any event.
These educational talks will be held from 1-2pm in ICT Theatre 2, every Thursday, so without further ado, i present this weeks talk:

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Security with SSL: How It Works And How to Use It Properly

Matt Giuca

An increasing number of web transactions are made over SSL, such as
secure banking and email, yet this technology is not widely understood
and requires a lot of care on the user's part to guard against
exploits. This talk covers theoretical and practical aspects of public
key cryptography including the simple maths behind it, signing and
encryption, and use of SSL on the web. It also includes a discussion
of some SSL exploits, and a practical demo of how to set up a CSSE
server login without a password.

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Graduate Careers Fair

Wed Feb 10, 2010

Graduate Careers Fair
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2010
Time: 12pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens

Careers & Employment’s 2010 Graduate Careers Fair is on Wed 10 March 2010. This exciting event gives you an opportunity to meet employers face to face, ask questions and get a feel for particular firms before applying for graduate positions.

More than 100 employers are expected to attend, so come along to the Royal Exhibition Building and use the Graduate Careers Fair as an opportunity to assist you in your decision making process for planning your career. Regardless of what year you are in, you can start your research here. Get to know more about the organisations you’d like to work for. Use it as a networking occasion to chat with potential employers you have already researched. Or just get an idea of the vast amount of options out there for you!

For further information please see Careers Online.

N.B This event is only open to students of The University of Melbourne.

MSDN-AA Program Expanded and Activation Issues

Wed Oct 28, 2009

We've just got word that the University of Melbourne's MSDN-AA program has been expanded to all Engineering students!

This means that any student who's studying one of the courses below is eligible to software through the program.

• Computer Science
• Information Systems
• Informatics
• Engineering

If you're interested in taking this offer up, as always we're located on level 1 of the ICT Building (turn 120 degrees counter-clockwise just at the top of the second flight of stairs and you should be directly facing us). The best times to stop by are listed on the software page.

Windows 7 Activation Issues

It's come to our attention that a small subset of users are having trouble activating (not during installation where the key will be accepted) their Windows 7 keys through Microsoft. If you receive the error shown below during activation first, don't panic! The issue has been identified and fixed on our end and for all new sales following October 26th.



If you've purchased a key on the 1st September, 09 or between October 9th, 2009 - October 26th, 2009 then you may be affected.

• If you've successfully activated your copy of Windows then no action needs to be taken - you're okay.
• If you've installed and received the error during activation we can fix this - please see instructions for emailing us below
• If you received a Windows 7 key during the above dates and haven't installed yet then you may receive that error when you activate. Unfortunately there's no way to tell until you've actually tried to activate so if you encounter an error then please see instructions for emailing us below.

Windows 7 Key Missing Last Character

If your CD Key is missing the last character then you should have already received an email from us. If you didn't receive it or are still having issues, please email us (see below).

Email Instructions

If you're having any of the problems mentioned above and have been instructed to send us an email, the address is packey at mucsa dot org

Please include the following information

• Description of the problem you're having
• Your Student ID
• You UniMelb username (that you use to login with - not your password)
• A valid email address (we'll send you an email)
• The first 5 (and ONLY the first 5) characters (ie. the first block) of your CD key

We apologise for the inconvenience.

End of Year Drinks and Windows 7 availability

Thu Oct 22, 2009

End of Year Drinks
I'm pleased to announce that we will be running our popular End of Year Drinks event again this year!
We'll be running the event in the upstairs function room of the Prince Alfred Hotel from 7pm on the 6th of November (first friday of swotvac)

Provided will be FREE:

• Beer/wine/spirits
• Finger Food

Tickets are $10 and will be on sale all next week

Windows 7
Due to project work we havent been open to sell software much the last few weeks,
However as most of our projects are due friday night, we will be open again next week to sell software as usual.

Don't forget to join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2502549281

Scott Ritchie
MUCSA President

AGM and Windows 7 Availability

Wed Aug 19, 2009

Two big announcements!

MUCSA's Annual General Meeting (AGM), Tuesday 1st September in ICT Theatre 2 @ 1pm
Come and have your vote or run for a committee position! Free pizza will be provided afterwards to attendees.
Agenda: http://mucsa.org/wiki/index.php?title=AGM_2009_Agenda

Windows 7

We have copies of Windows 7 Professional available for IT students. We will begin selling them for $10 after the AGM, with the first going to students attending the meeting. All other software is still available.

Don't forget to join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2502549281

Leigh Brunner
MUCSA President

Tomorrow is E-Week's IT Start-Ups Day

Sun Aug 09, 2009

Hey everyone,

Agents of Change are another student organisation running an interesting set of events this week, dubbing it 'Entrepreneurs Week'.

Tomorrow, Monday the 10th of August, is IT Start-Ups Day. Some of the talks may interest you, including:

* 12pm - 1pm, The Future of Online Monetisation - Presented by Phillip Kingston at Multi-Purpose Room, Level 1, The Spot.
* 1pm - 2pm, Lessons from Silicon Valley - Presented by Ed Hooper at Multi-Purpose Room, Level 1, The Spot.
* 4.30pm - 6pm, NICTA ICT Start-ups Panel - At eZone Theatre, Level 1 Architecture Building.
* 6pm - 8pm, Mobile Monday - Student Edition: Mobile Live Pitch - presented by Ross Hill (Yabble), Michelle Mathews (Deck of Secrets) at Prince Phillip Theatre, Architecture Building.

Full information on tomorrow's events are available here: http://www.eweek.org.au/ITstartup.php

Tom Greenaway
MUCSA Vice-President

MUCSA/ISSS Free BBQ + Deloitte Case Study

Mon Aug 03, 2009

MUCSA and ISSS are combining forces to bring you a FREE BBQ AND DELOITTE CASE STUDY ACTIVITY

- Thursday, 6th of August @ 12pm onwards
- ICT Building - Lecture Theatre 1

Want the chance to make YOUR name with Deloitte?

Deloitte representatives are running an interactive Business Case scenario, giving you the chance to test your skills at REALLY being a consultant. This is open to all students!

Hear about Deloitte’s Summer Vacation programs, internships and first-year development programs!

Vacation applications are closing in a few weeks, so seize all opportunities!

• Mingle with the representatives at a FREE BBQ afterwards!
• A fantastic Networking Opportunity! Kick-start your career!

SEE YOU THERE!

Also, the MUCSA AGM is coming up soon, you will be notified of the details soon. Keep an eye on your emails!