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Twofo Social 10 - 28th/29th November (Week 9)

It's that most wonderful time of the year again. Yes the first twofo social is rapidly approaching, and we are into double figures now. Social number 10! As with past socials, this will take place over the course of the weekend, with the Friday night being spent out and about in Leamington Spa, and the Saturday afternoon/evening on campus.

Pre-Social - Friday 28th November - 7pm, The White Horse

The Friday social will start between 7 and 8pm at the White Horse pub in Leamington (on the bus from campus, get off at Tescos at the top of the parade, walk back up the parade and turn left). We will most likely move on from there after 8 and across various bars/pubs around Leamington.

Main Social - Saturday 29th November - 5pm, Rootes Bar

Saturday's social will officially start at 5pm on the Saturday afternoon in Rootes bar. Later on usually we split up up with some people going to whatever union event is on (in what is left of the union) and the rest to the graduate bar (whatever is left of that these days).

Everybody is welcome to come along either or both of the socials, and bring friends, the more the merrier. We are a friendly bunch of people and it is really good to put names to the nicks of people you have been speaking to/downloading from during the term. For further details, please see this thread on the forums: http://www.twofo.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485

Minimum Share

As of this Sunday (19th October) a new minimum share of 5GiB will be applied on twofo. This means if you are not sharing at least 5GiB of hashed 'stuff' you will not be able to get online, so stock up now.

It is highly recommended that you share the folder you download things into by default. To add new shared folders, go to File -> Settings -> Sharing, and click on Add Folder. Then just navigate to the folder you wish to share and click OK. This can be done for as many folders as you like.

Finally it should be noted that just because the share limit is 5GiB doesn't mean you should only share 5GiB if you have more. The only reason the network survives is because people choose to share with each other, and constant leeching ruins that.

Enough of the nagging though, new faces are of course always welcome. If you can't find enough to share initially then the best bet is to find a friend already online and steal something from them in order to get online.

Welcome new and old students

Another year is upon us and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all users onto twofo, whether they be new or old. Guides on connecting to twofo from both on and off campus can be found at the twofo wiki, along with help on almost all other matters relating to the hub.
Twofo is an online filesharing community aimed for students at the University of Warwick, both current and old. Everybody is welcome on the hub and we are pretty friendly (or we would like to think we are). Towards the end of the term there will be a social where you will hopefully be able to meet some of us and put a name to the faces you may have chatted to throughout the term.

It should be said however that using twofo is against the Resnet AUP. ITS have in the past disconnected users for being on the hub so you are using the hub at your own risk unfortunately. To minimise this you should try to follow the guides to blocking external connections to DC++ on the wiki.

Nevertheless we hope to see you online and enjoy your time on twofo. Any questions you may have can be asked on the twofo forums (for instance if you are having trouble connecting for one reason or another).

Happy twofoing!

Hub fixed

Cocodude has sorted the problems on the server stopping people from logging in, so everything should be back to normal now. Everybody rejoice!

Whoops

Something weird has happened which is preventing people from logging onto the hub. Most likely ETA for a fix for this is tomorrow (10th) morning currently.

Server issues - Hopefully sorted shortly

Cocodude has now hopefully sorted out the new server for twofo (Emohawk) and twofo will be again transferred to this new server soon. We hope to start this process some time today (Monday), so the forum may be disabled on the old server whilst the move is performed. If you find very few people on the hub, you may also need to restart DC++, stunnel or flush your DNS configuration.

Server issues - Cocodude's fed up

I'm afraid the server that twofo is running on will be moving back to the old server (legion), hopefully this Saturday. I'm having trouble diagnosing the issues with the new server and hard drives that seem to constantly die. Thus, there might be a little bit of downtime, or out of date information, while the IP address change happens. The forum will be disabled on the old server this Saturday.

Server downtime (updated)

Sorry for the short notice, but Emohawk's hard drives are being troublesome and the server will be going down for testing from about 6.30pm this evening (30th June) for up to two hours. This will result in the hub and all GigaTux and twofo websites going down.

Update: The drive appears to be dead. I've managed to convince my ISP to test out the drive again as it could well have died due to an outage that occurred on Sunday morning. Twofo will be down from 7.30pm this evening (Tuesday), but I'm not sure yet when it will return.

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