Adam Kimball | MP351[x2] & 352[x1]

Progress this semester:

Lightning Talks:

arandr/xrandr display utilities
The Daily Programmer subreddit
ADUni: A free digital university
Flash Player, and why it's recommended to avoid it on non-Windows platforms
Fresh Player: Pepperflash for Firefox
Elevator Saga: Learn JavaScript the fun way!
File Manager talk (Presentation of a whole bunch of alternative/minimal file managers)
Telnet Antics -- various webpages and responses via telnet and HTTP 1.1
Visual Studio Code: An alternative code editor with gdb integration and extension support!
Microsoft Open Source involvement, and Linux distribution
...and more that got lost along the way!

Server Room:

Maintainer of Comm, which currently runs an XMPP and Mumble server
Various bits of cleanup/organization, particularly involving the file cabinets
Helped set up/troubleshoot aspects of the VM machines on several occasions
Creator/maintainer of the core backup server
Assistance with cable cleanup and routing
General troubleshooting throughout the semester and tracking down/notifying the right people
Question box/guide for some of our newer members who needed help setting things up in the server room

Backup System:

Elephant: Our cobbled-together but entirely viable backup server built from scraps:

A spare i7 and power supply from our previous generation of lab machines
A spare motherboard from a lab machine two generations back
One 120GB HDD pulled from an old lab machine
Five 3TB HDD's pilfered from our generously donated rack-mount NAS devices
A fan from the CAMP technology disposal area
...all mounted in one of the oldest 3U server cases we have, whose LEDs don't work!
Despite all of this, it's actually a pretty robust system. It should go for a while!

Set up the 120gb drive with a basic debian install and setup user accounts
Helped set up DNS resolution to elephant@cslabs
Configured the 3TB drives to work in RAID6 via mdadm
Created a backup user with read/write to only the backup folder at the root of the RAID array
Generated ssh keys for authentication of the backup user, so it doesn't need to be tied in to talos
Worked out rsync commands to pull data over ssh with preserved disk sparsity and resume on fail
Set up a basic cron job on Metapod to backup all user directory files
Created resume and suspend scripts for the machines on our VM hosts
Modified the above to walk through each VM, suspend it, back it up, and resume it[in progress]
Hooked the above into a cron job[in progress]
Still trying to track down Graham to get Talos backups encrypted/stored
Documentation of each step in the process[Still pending formatting/upload to docs]

Workshops:

Ran for the majority of the semester, 3-5PM on Sundays
Participants scored on various criteria: speed, team size, whether or not they'd used the language, etc
Covered a variety of questions -- from the ACM, from the internet, and of my own invention
A variety of topics were covered, from obscure programming language use to speed programming
Had a nice skew of participants: People from Freshmen through to Senior year attended

Misc: