Welcome to the UCC wiki!

You may have been looking for the main UCC website.

This is a collection of all things UCC. There are guides on using various services at UCC, information about our Network and Machines and several lists such as what has been borrowed from the club. This wiki is open for anyone to read, make new articles or update existing ones. Every little bit of knowledge added helps everyone.

About the Club

• HowToUCC - New to UCC? You'll want to learn about our various services and how to do things.

  • Using dispense or another page at Dispense

  • Fresher guide

  • Nomenclature - why is everything named so weirdly?!

• HowToCommittee - For current and future committee members.

• TheftBook - keep track of things 'borrowed' by UCC members.

• Network - the UCC network in all its overcomplicated glory.

  • Wifi - How to get the UCC wifi working on your laptop.

  • Firewall - need to open a port? Easy! Just ask a Wheel member.

  • Switch Configuration - how to access and change the switch configuration

  • ActiveDirectory and our plans to fix it.

  • Backups - see where your files end up

  • Network services - including DHCP and DNS

  • LDAP - not used in UCC any more

    • Lazy Sysadmin Guide to LDAP

• Machines - an infrequently updated list of our computery things.

  • CokeMachine - feeling thirsty?

  • SnackMachine - or hungry?

  • Hologram - our smaller 3D printer

  • Kalimari - our old (now spare) aircon and Antarctica, its predecessor

  • StandardOperatingEnvironment - most things are configured mostly the same

• MemberServices - services that are available for UCC members to use

  • VersionControl - including GitLab

  • Proxmox - get your own virtual machine (VM) hosted at UCC

  • SSH and SSH - login to the UCC servers remotely, and much more!

  • Web hosting - create and host your own website

  • Tech_Support

  • VPN - connect securely to the UCC from anywhere

• MissionControl - the first stop for Wheel members and interested others.

• Events - UCC runs events during the semester, holidays and more!

• History - what we know about what UCC once was

• MoneyMoneyMoney - as of 2018 we have $56k in the bank

Going further

Nobody really knows what kinds of things have been put on the wiki. Have a look at TitleIndex to see what pages we have, and maybe you can contribute to keep this wiki up to date!

Miscellaneous Outdated Stuff

• Tech Talks - We do tech-talks, come here to find out more.

• Steam - It's built broken; how to fix it on clubroom machines.

• OffTopic - Pages that don't belong on the UCC wiki.

• ClubPurchases - the Club shopping list.

• CleanUp - plans for future clubroom cleanups and rearrangements.

• WebcamArchive - creating movies and archiving the webcam images to DVD.

• StuffToFix - list of things that need fixing.

• Website - keeping track of the always-obsolete website.

• EventPosters - posters from old events.

• MovieNight - Monday Nights at the Movies

• Pizza

The UWA Pirate Handbook

The University Computer Club denies all responsibility for the contents of the following categories. All opinions are expressed are probably those of the page editors.

• How To Write For The Handbook - a general guide on contributing.

• UWA Units - which ones to take, which ones (and lecturers) to avoid like the plague.

• UWA Lecturers - our database of information on UWA Lecturers.

• UWA Phone Numbers - all in one handy place.

• UWA Timetable (with iCal support!)

• You can use uwawhois on martello to query the uwa directory (since tartarus access has gone away).

How to use this site

The UCC relies on voluntary contributions to keep the wiki up to date, anyone can contribute and share.

• What is a wiki?

• Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[words in brackets]]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

Getting Started with Moin Wiki

The UCC wiki is (currently) powered by Moin Wiki. It's horribly slow and badly needs an update, but before that happens here are some handy pages to look at:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• WantedPages: referred pages still to be created

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

• CategoryHomepage