I helped out with the ITL at first by helping with grunt work, and installing software. That gradually snowballed into administrative access and deploying images. I wrote a script for clonezilla that would automatically the windows image from bacon to client machines, with no user intervention necessary. And it would check to make sure that there was a 500GB hard drive present, and image that one, and only that one.
Ultimately, unicast is particularly slow when there are 26 simultaneous streams to each client. In an effort to speed up sub 1 gb/min speeds I looked into multi-casting the image, and determined the best solution for our purposes was FOG.
I worked on FOG, and helped with deploying clonezilla through bacon.
I implemented FOG for the proposes of imaging the ITL through multicast, theoretically in constant time. For details see fog and bennu, but it involved installing FOG on a server, troubleshooting some issues with the peculiarities of our setup with Graham, and the FOG community, and modifying our infrastructure to optimize multicast traffic. I managed to hand it off to Gabe, with some support from myself, Bobby, and Jared in the upcoming semester.
Also, and interesting tidbit about the initial VM, it was later re purposed for my CS649 taxicab project. (because that project had much more reasonable storage demands for the VM host)
Why you should NOT leave them discharged (sulfation), and noting they self-discharge at a rate of 1%/day, which is what happened to the UPS batteries at the hands of its previous owners.
How CRTs (ie. the one in the space invaders cabinet) can kill you, and what it would take to un-kill you, and what it would take to make sure you didn't suffer brain damage while the people who can un-kill you show up.
This site offers a fairly comprehensive explanation, but it tends to make light of some of the dangers, and the explanation about the skin effect absolving you of any danger is not entirely accurate as when the machine is off, it's simply a high voltage charge stored by capacitance, which IS dangerous, and when it is operating pulling the anode to ground (by it shocking you) will most likely alter the frequency to be lower before any over-current protection kicks in.
I assisted in the process of liquidating the outdated assets in the old GDC rack, and tested the UPS for deficient components, speced out replacement batteries, will install them when they come in, and speced out, installed and tested a longer power chord for it so we can locate it next to the storage array, as well as finding cables for the PDU next to the array.
I successfully printed this file on Thingiverse and was ready to implement control logic on a pi, and install solenoids for it to control, but unfortunately I ran out of personal money to throw at that project.
The Clarkson University Gamers Initiative has had a long, and symbiotic relationship with COSI, whereupon members (previously Christan Mesh, currently myself and hopefully Thomas Withiam in the future after I graduate) assist with large (25-100 people) LAN parties, providing Ethernet, power delivery solutions that do not trip breakers, and traffic monitoring for ass-covering.
I maintained the existing routing box (an old dell briquette loaned to CUGI indefinitely for this purpose) and hope to document the use of this for future generations
Things ranging from cleaning keyboards (some of you people are disgusting ಠ_ಠ ) to hardware maintenance to assistance with lab builds. Also, I was involved in the process of specing out and assembling the ryzen build. And I shampooed the carpet twice and all of the chairs once with some help.
As a corollary to this I got the Roombas we got, along with the space invaders cabinet and some other stuff from Rus, working which involved de-cat pissing them, rebuilding gearboxes, and most painfully troubleshooting some intermittent errors that i suspected was a software/algorithm issue that Thomas suggested (and was correct) may be a dust issue because using optical sensors on a robotic vacuum cleaner operating in a dusty environment is a great idea™
And a few things I have deliberately not added here.
I conducted research on the best thermal paste to use on a server. I researched Innovation Cooling(IC) Diamond , Arctic Silver 5 , and Noctua NT-H1
The results of which (conducted on Phystime, a dual cpu machine from the old GDC research rack) are that IC Diamond tends to run 28 degrees above ambient, whereas Arctic silver tends to run 30 degrees above ambient, a 2 degree difference!
Upon initial application Arctic Silver and Noctua ran at identical temperatures. Arctic silver claims a 200 hour break-in period that was observed in previous testing, and showed up on current testing as well. Ultimately, the results are that arctic silver (n this application) runs at an identical temperature to Noctua (30 degrees above ambient)
When designing the backup server I worked with bobby to upgrade the cooling system on uncle deadly, our backup server on the second floor with a cooler we had in the server room. We used diamond-based thermal paste and made some minor modifications to the case to ensure that they would fit.
I assisted with the assembly and setup of the ryzen build with jared and bobby
I helped with the transportation, restoration and retrofitting of the space invaders cabinet whose fate is uncertain.
