I helped set up Caterpillar, our new jump server. We were able to close many of our firewall holes. Of course, it something had to go wrong, and Caterpillar stopped booting. After some BIOS troubleshooting, I've got it working again.

After an unsuccessful attempt last year, I was able to set up router advertisements, firewall rules, and routing for IPv6 traffic in the labs. Everyone's device should have an IPv6 address now.
Fun fact: COSI is the only place on the campus network where IPv6 is set up.

I went down to COLO with a few maintainers to set up a copper management/fallback link for the new hypervisors. You can now access them even if the main fiber link is down.

I hosted a workshop focused on network recon, where we looked at tools like nmap, netdiscover, nbtscan, responder, and Wireshark.

How to use a jump server and forward ports with SSH.

How to generate a SSH keypair (RSA or ECC) and add it to your authorized_keys.

Breaking through the cloud hype and approaching containerization as a collection of pre-existing automation and security techniques.

My experience running a Tor relay and how you can get started running your own.

The humble resource monitor (probably already installed on your machine) that has a lot more to offer than what appears at first glance.

A cool python library you can query for information about your system and its performance.

Network UPS Tools! A very full-featured collection of utilities that help sysadmins set up redundant power delivery in datacenters.

A powerful IT automation tool that we once again are using at COSI.

Last semester's Docker talk was a hit - by request, I did it again! I'm flattered that people would want to listen to my ramblings a second time.

The powerful and effective use of virtual memory that carries a lot of misinformation around it.

I helped represent COSI at this semester's career fair kickoff. We talked to employers about the labs and what our students do. IBM's recruiters showed up to that week's COSI meeting too.

I helped represent COSI at this semester's activities fair. I talked to new students about what COSI is like, what projects we have going on, and how new students can get involved.

Cary and I presented about COSI to this semester's CS141 and CS242 classes.

The giant e-waste pile is now gone! Many cables have also been put away.

Meetings, suprise tours, and annoying Maciel working with department administration.
We made a large purchase this semester for repairs, backup parts, stuff for student projects, and quality-of-life items.

I presented about COSI's at Clarkson's open houses this semester, and talked to prospective students 1-on-1 about what we do and what it's like in the labs.

I created a GitHub project where we can track tasks that aren't related to a specific repository. It's had a good bit of use since then.

I helped two students create and manage VMs for classes this semester.

I put the batteries we got into our UPSs and set them up in the server racks. Now our backup power on the hill campus is much more reliable.