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: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:15:28 -0400
The Lug Digest
Volume 1 : Issue 374 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
201605/4 : Re: Short Upgrade & RFC regarding Char
Warren Myers <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]>
201605/5 : Re: Short Upgrade & RFC regarding Char
Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
201605/6 : New LUG Website, Apache + Vagrant!
Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
201606/1 : Char has been upgraded
Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
201606/2 : Re: Char has been upgraded
Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 16:59:11 -0400
From: Warren Myers <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]>
To: "lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]" <lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]>
Subject: Re: Short Upgrade & RFC regarding Char
Message-ID: <CAP01zHGDtcFZaGwkQLTrfT4DFQXL28=dJrKSemHPUWN3=LTMqw@mail.gmail.[redacted]>
Neill mentioned he didn't know how much time he'd have in the short term
Which led to my attempt at a pun ... :)
On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Ooh haha. Nice :-)
>
> What do you mean by how much time do we have in the short term?
> On May 5, 2016 4:29 PM, "Warren Myers" <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]');>> wrote:
>
>> I was trying to make a lousy pun off the server names (short and char)
>> related to "short term".
>>
>> It may have worked better in a non-text-only delivery :)
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Warren,
>>>
>>> Could you please clarify what you mean by char term? I don't quite
>>> follow.
>>> Sorry for the response delay, things have been rather hectic for me as
>>> of late.
>>>
>>> Quentin
>>> On Apr 28, 2016 11:28 AM, "Warren Myers" <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How much time do you have in the char term?
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, April 28, 2016, Neill Robson <nlrobson@ncsu.[redacted]
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nlrobson@ncsu.[redacted]');>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> As for administration, I would love to help--but I don't know how much
>>>>> time I will have in the short term, due to
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Warren Myers*
>>>> http://antipaucity.com
>>>> http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
>>>> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
>>>> TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Warren Myers*
>> http://antipaucity.com
>> http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
>> TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
>>
>
--
*Warren Myers*
http://antipaucity.com
http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 17:02:39 -0400
From: Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: Short Upgrade & RFC regarding Char
Message-ID: <CANhSzx1hpZ8FxPQwR4qf4YSVCEUuMfiHeAmXbKX5_HLD1HhBhw@mail.gmail.[redacted]>
Gotcha :-)
On May 5, 2016 4:59 PM, "Warren Myers" <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
> Neill mentioned he didn't know how much time he'd have in the short term
>
> Which led to my attempt at a pun ... :)
>
> On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
>> Ooh haha. Nice :-)
>>
>> What do you mean by how much time do we have in the short term?
>> On May 5, 2016 4:29 PM, "Warren Myers" <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to make a lousy pun off the server names (short and char)
>>> related to "short term".
>>>
>>> It may have worked better in a non-text-only delivery :)
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Warren,
>>>>
>>>> Could you please clarify what you mean by char term? I don't quite
>>>> follow.
>>>> Sorry for the response delay, things have been rather hectic for me as
>>>> of late.
>>>>
>>>> Quentin
>>>> On Apr 28, 2016 11:28 AM, "Warren Myers" <volcimaster@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How much time do you have in the char term?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, April 28, 2016, Neill Robson <nlrobson@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for administration, I would love to help--but I don't know how
>>>>>> much time I will have in the short term, due to
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Warren Myers*
>>>>> http://antipaucity.com
>>>>> http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
>>>>> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
>>>>> TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Warren Myers*
>>> http://antipaucity.com
>>> http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
>>> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
>>> TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
>>>
>>
>
> --
> *Warren Myers*
> http://antipaucity.com
> http://twitter.com/warrenmyers
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=d197a961987a
> TXT WMYERS to 50500 | http://contxts.com
>
>
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 00:54:43 -0400
From: Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: New LUG Website, Apache + Vagrant!
Message-ID: <CANhSzx0JCVvj9ehumpVq1M9hD4+AkHP9VP7enyVFJg8nXxSfCw@mail.gmail.[redacted]>
Hi LUG,
If you've visited the LUG website in the last 24 hours, you may have
noticed that it looks a bit different. Well, that's because it's now a
Jekyll site! Our previous website was written in Django by old members, and
had lots of cool functionality, but it was integrated with LDAP (which we
no longer use) and when char...ah...overflowed! it stopped working. Not
being a web developer or familiar with Django, and no longer seeing a need
for LDAP with our current userload, I made the executive decision to move
the site to something a bit lighter and more maintainable that I've worked
with before, so here we are.
I've also moved all the websites that Short serves into a virtual machine
managed by Vagrant. This should help with some of the config hell that I've
already seen starting to litter the server; all site dependencies, Apache,
Apache modules, et cetera have been compiled into a Vagrantfile and
internalized into the VM. It should also help with security in case any of
the sites gets owned.
If you're curious about how this works, feel free to read the
world-readable README in /home/www, the VM's new home. And if you happen to
find any security issues, I'm always receptive to hearing about them!
Now that that's taken care of, we have a couple other tasks to take care of
before our infrastructure is up to speed. These are:
- Updating Short to the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04 / Xenial Xerus)
- Imaging Char with the same.
Short's upgrade should be fairly painless, I just need to schedule some
downtime. I'm tentatively calling that Friday, May 28th, sometime in the
evening, open to discussion.
Char will require rack console access. If anyone's still in town and is
interested in helping, or wants to learn how to bring up a server from
scratch, shoot out an email saying when you're free and any suggestions for
infrastructure choices. We've decided on Ubuntu 16.04 for the base system,
but what we're actually going to use it for is still up in the air. It's an
older, less powerful system relative to Short, but it's still got a beefy
Xeon from a few years ago and a decent amount of memory to boot.
Finally, we need to be thinking about how to promote the club come Fall
semester. So far we've come up with the following:
- Bus banners
- University digital signage blurbs
- Reaching out to WICS
- Getting involved with TriLUG
I'll be looking into these options in the coming weeks and welcome any
further suggestions.
Yours in technological solidarity,
-
Quentin Young
President, LUG @ NC State
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 03:04:51 -0400
From: Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Char has been upgraded
Message-ID: <CANhSzx1RzvNH7pe3dCOq8q5pDZYrKi2vwmX8YSVyVzrv=jxdZw@mail.gmail.[redacted]>
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that myself and our Vice President, Tony Iskander,
successfully upgraded short to Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) on Friday.
Installation went without a hitch, and you can expect some more details on
our
website soon.
As of now there are no user accounts (except for myself) because we haven't
yet
decided what to do with this particular piece of hardware. Suggestions I
have
heard so far are:
- seti@home
- folding@home
- others that I forgot
I would love to hear suggestions from members as to what we want to use
this
server for. Keep in mind it is an old server and its specs are not quite as
beefy as Short:
- 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon, quadcore
- 3 GB memory (lol)
- 1 TB HDD
My personal vote is for a GitLab instance. I've also been thinking about
whether it might be prudent to simply move all of our hosted services onto
this
lower power server (currently those are the website and ZNC) and keep short
as
a higher performance server for use by club members. Anyway, reply and let
me
know what you think!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
--
Quentin Young
President, LUG @ NC State
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:15:23 -0400
From: Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: Char has been upgraded
Message-ID: <CANhSzx3qie6cep8fbMT2vLnTtUG27uQutNd4uwB5rci19cZ_5w@mail.gmail.[redacted]>
Hi again!
Looks like I made a typo in the last email; we upgraded *char*, not short,
to Xenial.
Still haven't gotten any suggestions about what to use it for though! Let
thy voice be heard!
Yours,
Quentin
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Quentin Young <qlyoung@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to announce that myself and our Vice President, Tony Iskander,
> successfully upgraded short to Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) on Friday.
> Installation went without a hitch, and you can expect some more details on
> our
> website soon.
>
> As of now there are no user accounts (except for myself) because we
> haven't yet
> decided what to do with this particular piece of hardware. Suggestions I
> have
> heard so far are:
>
> - seti@home
> - folding@home
> - others that I forgot
>
> I would love to hear suggestions from members as to what we want to use
> this
> server for. Keep in mind it is an old server and its specs are not quite
> as
> beefy as Short:
>
> - 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon, quadcore
> - 3 GB memory (lol)
> - 1 TB HDD
>
> My personal vote is for a GitLab instance. I've also been thinking about
> whether it might be prudent to simply move all of our hosted services onto
> this
> lower power server (currently those are the website and ZNC) and keep
> short as
> a higher performance server for use by club members. Anyway, reply and let
> me
> know what you think!
>
> Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
> --
> Quentin Young
> President, LUG @ NC State
>
--
Quentin Young
President, LUG @ NC State
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