Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
Tomorrow, 30 Mar – lroop with Verilog & FPGAs: Programming Hardware
- Next week, 6 Apr – wcrichto with Build a JIT Compiler in 60 Minutes
- After that, 13 Apr – achai with Apple 1985-1997: The Jobless Years
- Treasurer's report
- $1085.82 balance, $546.55 remaining to spend, in Org account as of Wed 23 Mar
- Purchasing
- Purchased
- X68000 mouse ($61.65 by fseidel)
- Spare WD Red 4 TB disk to have on-hand for storage-4 (~$150 by stroucki)
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches ($50 allocated, by ezh)
- Other approved
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap)
- Expires 15 Apr, must be processed by 10 Apr
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap)
- Deferred
- Second new rack, to replace Rack 2 (~$400)
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- Purchased
- Retrocomputing Committee report
Retro Gaming Night this Saturday, 2 Apr, UC Kirr Commons
Was originally 22:00–01:00; moved up to 20:00–23:00 due to scheduled power outage in UC beginning at 24:00
- Move-on beginning in Kirr "between 18:00 and 18:30"
- Loading from CyH should begin ~17:00
- We are being provided with space (2nd floor coat room) to store retro overnight until power is restored
- Posters done; being distributed digitally/physically
- Tournament beginning at 21:00
- What game? Tournament format?
- Food order/coordination with Quiznos
- Demosplash meetings?
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- None this week (2 Apr) due to Retro Gaming Night
- Future events
- Movie night on Tue 3 May? — Start securing Rashid, etc.
- (Deferred) Brainstorming for Fall 2016 OHH programming
- Operations
- engine01
- As of Monday night, still needs to have Jessie installed. Grant will be looking into this during the meeting
- storage-4
Needs rebuild; waiting on retrieval of temporarily stored files for The Tartan
- The OS logical volume should have been reinstalled already, unable to verify --Grant
- transit-2
- Just stick it on what formerly was kvm04 --Grant
- What is going onto the new Rack 0?
- engine01 has been racked in Rack 0
- engine01