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An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.
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'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.
 
  
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== What do we do? ==
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We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:
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=== Website ===
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We look after the URY website and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.
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| Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas)
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| A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s]
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The main public website is written in Go, and our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server.
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| [[Christmas Endeavours]] in general
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=== Servers ===
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| They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
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We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies.  If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.
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| 'There's no News'  
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| [quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
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Of course, it isn't all about the hardware. We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots.  We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.
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| The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
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Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service.  These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.
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| DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ?
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| From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
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=== Software ===
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Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].
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| At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.  
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==== LoggerNG ====
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[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]
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| How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.  
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LoggerNG is our output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runned on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.
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| Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.  
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LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).
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==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
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This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.
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The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.
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| Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window  will have to suffice.
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It is a computing team joke about people starting BAPS3. Various people have tried this, and the current try is a server called BAPSicle using the WebStudio interface. Let's see if it works.
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| Anthony William's Flute
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| From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
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==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
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[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]
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| Ainsley Harriot
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| A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.  
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Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with. There's also a lot of shouting and arguing with it too. Its a range of emotions.
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This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:
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* Presenter Training
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* Show Scheduling
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* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
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| We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
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* Show Planning
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* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
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* Chart & Playlists
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| When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
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* Central Music Library
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* iTones
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* Mailing Lists
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| We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
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* Webcams (and archives)
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* Show Monitoring
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* Statistics
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| If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging production meeting.
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All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.
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| Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
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This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.
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Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!
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| On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News". Admittedly, the next clip was about chips cheese and gravy.
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2020 happened. Pandemic happened. WebStudio got made, to allow people to present from home. Written in TypeScript, React and Redux, with the server side in Python.
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==== Show Planner (this is pretty much dead now, this is here for the history) ====
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[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]
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Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.
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| The chairs in the studio are '''awful'''. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. Despite discussing it for a year, Engineering team still haven't bought any.
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During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.
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Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More  Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.
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Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.
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| Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
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Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.
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| Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job. (Update: they got a job. Not at the One Show.)
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Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.
 
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Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things.  Here are a few examples:
 
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* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
 
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* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)
 
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Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!
 
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URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.
 
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As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge. We use all of these things, and you'll learn so much more too!
 
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* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
 
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* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
 
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* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
 
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* Network administration (hardware and software)
 
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* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
 
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* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.
 
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== Members (past and present) ==
 
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* ''2021-Present'': [[Isaac Lowe]]
 
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* ''2020-2021'': [[Marks Polakovs]]
 
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* ''2019-2020'': [[Laura Silaja]]
 
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* ''2018-2019'': [[Jordan Cameron]]
 
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* ''2017-2018'': [[Matthew Stratford]]
 
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* ''2017-2017'': [[Charles Pigott]]
 
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* ''2016-2017'': [[Chris Taylor]]
 
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* ''2014-2016'': [[Anthony Williams]]
 
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* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
 
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* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
 
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* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
 
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Revision as of 18:09, 14 August 2021

An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.

Memes
Meme Explanation
Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas) A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [1]
Christmas Endeavours in general They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
'There's no News' [quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
Wives The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ? From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
'Black Christmas' At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.
'News is Happening' How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.
Superb Owl Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.
Alex Light The biggest meme of all
Talkback Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window will have to suffice.
Anthony William's Flute From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
Ainsley Harriot A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.
Biscuit News How did this win an award?
Unbelievable Scenes A phrase constantly said by Joshua Kerr to describe sport, antics and anything happening at all, ever
Other [insert branded item here] are available We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
EWA (Engineers Without Attitude) When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
Michael Eats Kids We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
Alex plugs stuff If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging production meeting.
Kermit the Frog Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
In Other Gravy News On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News". Admittedly, the next clip was about chips cheese and gravy.
Hppenong An end of term special 12 hour show of just absolute chaos. Moving through the night there is often pizza, a need for air-fresheners and an hour of just playing songs called Go.
Rob 's House This is a joke that was filled in on a fill-in-the-blanks. It wasn't that funny, but we couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes.
Let's Buy Chairs The chairs in the studio are awful. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. Despite discussing it for a year, Engineering team still haven't bought any.
Yeah No Station manager Ben Allen can never make up his mind, and always says Yeah-No. We made https://yeahno.xyz
broken - WAT! Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
Colin's Unemployed Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job. (Update: they got a job. Not at the One Show.)
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