Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 10 Feb – aliruu with PGP and Public Key Cryptography
- Next week, 17 Feb – scunning with Privacy Technology and You
- After that, 24 Feb – bescott with Authoring Text Adventures
- Treasurer's report
- Purchasing
- Approved
X68000 hard disk power connector ($0.61 total, Digikey)
- lroop ordered; has arrived
12-bay rackmount server case for storage-4 (~$725, Newegg)
- stroucki ordered; arriving shortly
- New requests
Adjustable shelf rails for the new rack (~$45 ea, DeepSurplus; or $28 Amazon)
- Support 200 lbs
- Need some for the new rack
- How many? 5?
- Deferred
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- Other retro?
- Approved
- Retrocomputing Committee report
- leee's machines
- Updates from grantwu on donation coordination?
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Operations
Status of NNTP peering request from CompServ
- New KVM vm server
- Setting up a documented kvm server install
New rack installation, replacing Rack 0
- This Sat, 13 Feb:
- Move all machines
- backups, tungsten, gadolinium to Rack 4
- wikium to Rack 5 or 6, whichever space allows
- These machines house 2/3 mailservers, 2/3 nameservers, 1/2 web nodes, 1/2 load balancers, IMAP, AFS volumes, Nagios, Jabber, wiki
- Minimal (or no) downtime to each machine should be needed
- This could still affect performance of visible services, so send an announcement anyway
- Move all machines
- Looking forward:
- What to do with switch and power distribution still on the old rack
- How to remove old rack, set up new rack
- Which machines to move to new rack
- This Sat, 13 Feb: