Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 17 Feb – scunning with Privacy Technology and You
- Next week, 24 Feb – bescott with Authoring Text Adventures
- After that, 2 Mar – jocelynh with What is AI and Why Should I Care?
- Treasurer's report
- Purchasing
- Approved
- Rack rails arrived
- Retro
- Micomsoft XFC-4 video scan converter arrived
- XSIMM-10 RAM adapter – we got outbid, didn't get it
- New requests
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches (~$10 each)
- Each switch has 3 fans; some need to be replaced
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches (~$10 each)
- Deferred
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- Approved
- Retrocomputing Committee report
- Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
Interesting part
- Daemon engines presentation
- Open Hacking Hours
- Operations
- New rack installed, replacing Rack 0
- Got everything set up last Sat, 13 Feb
- Switch disruption after announced downtime window
- What to move to new rack, and when?
- Restoration of disrupted services
- Got everything set up last Sat, 13 Feb
- my-contrib on contrib-cgi
- Nagios reports socket timeout for ~20 minutes every ~2 hours since 19:15 Monday
- New rack installed, replacing Rack 0