View source for Saturday 25 March 2023 Termcom Meeting

* money stuff
** CIF: initial proposal rejected due to high cost ($1450), consider alternate choices ($2x460x1.13)
** MEF: MathSoc is still forming a committee. we shall wait
* powernap
** allow audio group to do bluetooth - Edwin
** returned to CSCF
** replace thermal materials? not now
* password manager (bitwarden)
** up and running!
** ask IST to lift firewall restrictions to allow external access - Leo
* cloud cluster
** ginkgo HDD has been failing, high error count reported by SMART
** move some of the old mirror drives to ginkgo, and potentially other cloud machines too?
** we have 15 idle drives. just fill up ginkgo and put all of the rest to biloba
* new mirror page!
** collaboration with webcom?
** add more information to the front page (current sync status, last sync time, etc.)
** add a blog section about recent changes on the mirror
* general mirror renovations (Long Term Project)
** config reload doesn't work (state reset on reload)
** mirror-checker - a Golang rewrite - Nathan
* netapp
** what's next? build our own ZFS cluster?
** build a newer krb5 package with DES backported
* cobalamin - the backup machines in Physics 2
** random shutdowns and reboots
** should be replaced by something else that are slightly newer

== TODOs ==
* Leo: request firewall citric-acid, go to server room to move old mirror drives to cloud clusters
* Edwin: allow audio group to log into powernap and allow all users that can log into powernap to edit bluetooth settings
* Nathan: rewrite mirror-checker in Golang (not Rust, duh)
* Max: backport a newer version of krb5 sutff