http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress vandy chapter of international ieee and acm organizations Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:31:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the site upgrade is complete and the back end interface now looks more nifty. Log in to check it out, ping me if something is broken. The coolest new feature is the NEW IPHONE support! I am writing this post on an iPod! To do this yourself, get the ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=52 Currently upgrading the site. Should be back online later tonight. Hamy http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=50 So - iTunes has some problems. If you follow along, I will show you a few nifty tricks/programs to do these things: 1 - get lyrics to almost every song you have on your ipod and in your itunes 2 - do the same for album art work 3 - remove those pesky ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=49 Hey everyone! Don't forget that the IEEE/ACM Spring Picnic will be Thursday, April 10. We will need people there from about 10 through 2:30. Most of all, however, we'll need as many people as possible from 12:15 to 1:10 for the lunch rush - and no one has ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=48 IEEE/ACM has officially had officer changeover, and here are the new officers for 2008-09: Chair: Jared Segal Vice Chair: Ken Hartsook Secretary: Andrew Pitman Treasurer: Haziq Mazlan VP Programming/Internal: Guy Kopsombut VP External: Matt Bernstein AMP http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=47 So, as my first contribution, I would like to describe my on-site interview experience with MSFT for their Program Manager Intern position.  I will provide the questions, but no answers as I am not sure if that is ethical (nor if anyone would want them from me).  Some background information, to begin: I ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=45 Go register your laptop. If it gets lost and someone is nice enough to turn it in, or its found all broken up - vandy police will get it back to you (or metro will get it to them) http://police.vanderbilt.edu/laptopreg.htm good reason to do this - even if its found smashed your ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=42 So it looks like we are finally hitting the top results if someone searches google with 'vandy ieee', 'vandy acm', ect. Yahoo is still a little behind, not quite sure how to fix that one... It seems to get confused if you throw the full 'vanderbilt' in there, but hey ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=41 Guys, Here are the results. We had 44 competitors and the computers were put together over 50 times. I only posted the top ten times, but below that everyone is in order. I didn't include you if it didn't boot. Pictures of the event coming soon. The top table lists ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=40 Computer for fastest geek 1st place is the Dell XPS 1530. Sweet Sweet Sweet! Here are my favorite things, and the link to sign up for fastest geek again. Crimson Red Casing 15.4 in screen 2MP built in webcam 128 NVidia Gforce 8400m (Graphics Card) 120 GB Sata ATA HD DVD +/- RW 2 Gig Ram 1.66 Ghz ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=39 Register for Fastest Geek Here thanks to ben g for work on the registration...we hacked it together quickly from something we had already built. Also, there is a new forum open on recent computer hacks and some ethics stuff associated with using them. check it out, pretty sweet stuff in my ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=38 Here are the results of our meeting on 1/24 meeting. Sorry i have been really busy and not gotten this up yet. Officer Changeover we will be holding elections for officer positions as soon as fastest geek is over. This means the new officers will have time to get settled in ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=36 hey guys, here are the agenda items I have for the upcoming meeting this thursday (Jan 24) at 5 in fgh 110. Hopefully it will not take the full hour Hamy Fastest Geek Stuff Officer Changeover Upcoming Lectures(set and possible) Any other new stuff--open floor come up with second place item for fastest geek, get someone to ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=34 Here are the notes for the last meeting. Remember that they want to open this up to all students, so don't worry if everyone seems to have a title now they do not want that. I thought anyone interested in going might want to see who all from the administration ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=33 Looks like VSG is getting a little mad that vanderbilt is rolling over and letting the RIAA kick us...here is a choice excerpt of a bill they recently passed to admin BE IT RESOLVED THAT The Vanderbilt Student Government urges the Administration to lobby legislative bodies vigorously to relieve college and ... http://ieee.vanderbilt.edu/wordpress/?p=32