Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 27 Jan — lroop with The Dot Com Bubble
- Next week, 3 Feb — fseidel with Introducing the X68000: Japan's 16-bit Beast
- After that, 10 Feb – aliruu with PGP and Public Key Cryptography
- Treasurer's report
- FY2017 budget submitted
- CoSO Re-recognition for 2016–2017 — due Sun 7 Feb
- Approved purchasing
- SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — $86.85
- arrived and installed
- PAL C64 — ~$100 from retro budget (from UK)
- Waiting on a good auction
New server rack — ~$350 from capital budget
- SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — $86.85
- New purchasing
- SATA interface for storage-4 (or a new storage server altogether)
- Water sensor ADC
- Power transfer switches
- More retro (MSX?)
- grantwu will be acquiring hardware from mjrosenb during Carnival
- Had a 4-pin CPU header plugged in backwards, apparently charred
- 48 GB of RAM
- Cost $75
- Anyone interested? Cheap boxen!
- leee expressed interest in donating boxen
- Fairly new, 18 cores, 96 GB RAM?
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Workshop for this Saturday, 30 Jan
- Send email by Thursday morning!
- Forming a standing Retrocomputing Committee?
- To begin organizing Demosplash 2016
- Also other retro-related events:
- Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
- Retro Game Night — Sat 2 Apr, Kirr Commons
- Also to handle procurement of items approved from retro budget
- Events
TartanHacks — Fri 5 and Sat 6 Feb
- What infrastructure do we need to prepare for this?
- Operations
- Shutting down Zephyr
- Approved announcing shutting off the remaining server on Sat 6 Feb
- If no one complains, decommission it on Sat 5 Mar
- Email hasn't been sent yet
- Approved announcing shutting off the remaining server on Sat 6 Feb
Transitioning SSL certs to Let's Encrypt
- Consensus is we should do this
- Need to ask kbare and/or mdille:
- Are the historical reasons for being our own CA still applicable?
- What technical obstacles stand in the way of transitioning?
- Shibboleth on Contrib
- egarbade and tparenti have been looking into it
- storage-4 build
- Water sensor
- Shutting down Zephyr