From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 5 21:32:45 2018 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 21:32:45 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Mailman *really* due for an upgrade Message-ID: Hi All, This is partly me making sure I haven't made the mailing lists explode, and partly reporting on my (non)success with adding recaptcha support to our mailman install. I tried following the instructions at: https://www.dragonsreach.it/2018/02/26/adding-recaptcha-v2-support-mailman/ and hand patched it. I am not a python user, so feel free to laugh at my pain. For those not in the know, our current mailman install was hand-rolled back in about 2006. It runs on python 2.4. This is great, except the recaptcha-client script that has recaptchaV2 support is only supported in python 2.7. So, short of backporting that script - and I mentioned that I don't know python - it isn't happening. I think it's time to install the debian package version and be on our way. Wheel: I put the keys for recaptcha v2 in uccpass. Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.asn.au |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | | ---Peter's Laws | From frekk at ucc.asn.au Thu Jun 7 13:57:31 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 13:57:31 +0800 Subject: [tech] Project "What is this thing?" #2 Message-ID: Dear tech subscribers, As many of you know, there are a lot of old-looking computery things stored around the clubroom, and newer members (such as myself) often don't have any idea what they are or why they are there. I'll try to send out emails on a fairly regular basis, each with photos of items found on shelves or under desks. If you recognise the object in question, or if you know anything about its history, then please reply to this email and contribute to the project by answering any of the following questions: * What is it? Does it have a name? * What vintage is it, when was it made and when was it donated? * Who was involved in using, breaking, fixing or building it? * What was it used for? What can it do? What is its story? * If essential parts are missing from the photos, where might they be? What did they do and what do they look like? * Does it still work? How do you use it? Is there any existing documentation? * Is it worth keeping? Why does the club need it? Would anyone want it if the club is going to throw it out? The information gathered from this project will be made available on the main wiki page . As more items are documented, I will make a new wiki page for each item and add a link to it on the main project page. Thank you for your contributions and I hope that this project will be informative and entertaining for everyone involved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second instalment of this series resulted in what was allegedly part of the "original" Murphy (or murphies) being dragged out from under the desks. After filling a whole carton with 8" disks that were previously stacked inside of the box and a lot of dusting, this was the result. The text on the middle handwritten label on the AM-500 front panel reads "Sealed by [JMJ] Do not open!!!!". The case has a number of ports on the side, a number of scarily large capacitors in the bottom of the case and an empty S-100 backplane. Does anyone know what boards would have been installed in this box and what might have happened to them? Understandably to boot it must have had storage of some kind or some kind of ROM (if it was even a computer on its own). Specifically regarding this blue box, is it worth anything to the club and if it were to be thrown away would anyone want it (or want to sell it for us)? Next to "murphy" under the desk was the computery thing with a wooden case. It seems like the power button needs a key to operate (anyone know where that might be? :P). Fortunately the case is reasonably airtight so everything inside was in a relatively dust-free condition. Talking to [JVP] confirmed that the 8" disk drive in this box was one of the original drives used by Murphy (and uses a voice-coil actuated head and electronic disk ejection), although apparently was not originally used in this particular hardware configuration. Loose inside the case was a single 8" floppy drive, a plastic bag containing a stack of paper documentation including a description of the S-100 bus, a transparent sheet of plastic with what appears to be the original mask/artwork used to create the green-grey circuit board visible at the front of the photo on the left (below) and a loose 50pin cable that looks like it could be used to connect to the floppy drive. The wooden box seems to have a full assortment of boards mounted on its backplane (including what looks like a handmade diagnostics board, two CPU boards (connected by ribbon cable), 4*16K memory boards, a disk controller (complete with ROM to boot from floppy) and an IO board (6 serial ports according to [JVP]). Is this a full Alpha Micro computer and could it be possible to power it on? If one were to test, what steps would be necessary to ensure that any failing/failed components do not cause damage to the rest? When was it last powered on successfully? 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Name: iogdnicigfjmldlk.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 698344 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20180607/4da4f846/attachment-0010.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: edjjjbbbnbbbbboo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 685492 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20180607/4da4f846/attachment-0011.jpg From frekk at ucc.asn.au Thu Jun 7 14:07:36 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:07:36 +0800 Subject: [tech] [ucc] BeBoxen In-Reply-To: <1527715597.3694654.1391009184.1646211E@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1527715597.3694654.1391009184.1646211E@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: Hi all! The committee has discussed the issue of selling the BeBoxen, and we agree that it is not necessary to sell them. The club is not in any financial crisis and the selling these rare machines would indeed leave the club without some of its most unusual and interesting machines. The focus, in my view, should be more about removing the bulk of relatively ordinary "junk" from the clubroom and preserving what is worth keeping for future generations to be able to play with. Please keep up to date with the series /Project "What is this thing?" /sent to tech at ucc.asn.au if you are interested. As for making such items of interest to current members; we can perhaps try to make them more easily accessible. In any case, getting them out on a regular-ish basis to have a play with them is a good start. Kind regards, Felix von Perger UCC Secretary 2018 On 31/05/18 05:26, Mark Tearle wrote: > I too have similar feelings about this adventure. It does feel like this is a moment of "selling the family silver". What is the crisis that is driving this decision? > > They are a unique item of hardware, unlike some of UCC's other older computers. I still have some regrets about dragging mullet down the stairs.... > > That said, how can we make it of interest to the current generation of members? > > Mark > -- > Mark Tearle > > On Mon, 28 May 2018, at 12:48 PM, Elliot Nunn wrote: >> Fellow UCCans! >> >> I joined this club six years ago, as a very shy but time-rich fresher. >> When I found the clubroom one of the first things I noticed near the >> door was a blue box fronted by a Doric column. "Is that a BeBox?" I >> enquired timidly. "Yes", came the reply. I signed up at once. >> >> A month later: >> >>> Hello fellow UCCers. >>> >>> I have an interest in old computers, so I was duly impressed when I saw a pair of BeBoxen stashed in the corner of the clubroom. I would like to see these up and running! Could someone please indulge this fresher with some idea of the history of the machines, and especially whether they are "broken" or not? I would be most grateful. >>> >>> Regards, >>> elliotnunn. >> You will understand, then, why I was disappointed to hear that these >> irreplaceable computers are soon to be flogged off. >> >> Interesting people, working on interesting computers, combine to make >> this club *work*. Each one attracts the other. Lesser societies become >> defunct not because they are a few bucks short (we certainly are not), >> but because they fail to offer something that their members cannot find >> at home. If we sacrifice our unique birthright for a "mess of pottage", >> then we take a decisive step in this direction. >> >> Contrary to the minuted assertion of one committee member, these >> machines are *not* "rusting away". Members have carefully maintained >> them in working order. Were this not true, I would probably not be an >> UCC member. >> >> Kind regards to all, >> >> Elliot Nunn >> _______________________________________________ >> List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/ucc >> >> Unsubscribe here: >> http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/ucc/mtearle%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au > _______________________________________________ > List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/ucc > > Unsubscribe here: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/ucc/frekk%40ucc.asn.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20180607/9e61333c/attachment.htm From frekk at ucc.asn.au Sun Jun 10 22:30:33 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 22:30:33 +0800 Subject: [tech] Clubroom cleanup on 2018/06/23: Tech/Wheel needed! Message-ID: <50c13c2d-fa00-a585-c986-531bc5baf3c7@ucc.asn.au> Calling all tech subscribers, old and new! A reminder to all that a tech related clubroom cleanup is scheduled on Saturday 23rd June 2018 (2018/06/23), starting at 10:00 in the clubroom. UCC will be providing pizza for lunch at around 13:00. The focus of the event will be to inspect the items currently stored in the clubroom, decide what must be kept and what can be given away (or thrown out) and sort through the piles of unidentified computery thingamies, adapters, cables and peripherals into appropriately labelled boxes and crates in order to improve their accessibility and usefulness to the club. Following the cleanup, items which are marked for disposal will be posted to the mailing lists and there will be a grace period of a few weeks during which people can take what they want. An e-waste skip will later be ordered to dispose of anything that is left. Any suggestions for new storage related equipment are welcome - we will be purchasing a number of new crates to replace ones which are old or broken, and items stored under desks in cardboard boxes may need to be moved and repackaged due to constantly being kicked and damaged. Since there has not been a SOC/Tenancy cleanup recently, there will be plenty of dust and dirt involved in this process. Please bring gloves and any other accessories that may be useful. For the various unusual and interesting items that the club owns (such as the Alpha Micro system, BeBoxen, Silicon Graphics boxes, the MicroVAX, etc), another objective is to consolidate what items we have which relate to these machines (documentation, manuals, installation / storage media and so on) and store and label them appropriately such that they have an increased chance of surviving future cleanups and are more easily accessible to members who wish to experiment with these machines. If time permits, there may be the possibility of attempting to power on some of these machines and have a play with them :) The committee looks forward to seeing you all there! Best regards, Felix von Perger UCC Secretary 2018 From susie at ucc.asn.au Mon Jun 11 07:29:42 2018 From: susie at ucc.asn.au (Susie Johnston) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:29:42 +0800 Subject: [tech] [wheel] Clubroom cleanup on 2018/06/23: Tech/Wheel needed! In-Reply-To: <50c13c2d-fa00-a585-c986-531bc5baf3c7@ucc.asn.au> References: <50c13c2d-fa00-a585-c986-531bc5baf3c7@ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: <15328010-E9E3-4D1A-845E-82688236001E@ucc.asn.au> Apologies. I?ll be in Uepi. > On 10 Jun 2018, at 10:30 pm, Felix von Perger wrote: > > Calling all tech subscribers, old and new! > > A reminder to all that a tech related clubroom cleanup is scheduled on Saturday 23rd June 2018 (2018/06/23), starting at 10:00 in the clubroom. UCC will be providing pizza for lunch at around 13:00. > > The focus of the event will be to inspect the items currently stored in the clubroom, decide what must be kept and what can be given away (or thrown out) and sort through the piles of unidentified computery thingamies, adapters, cables and peripherals into appropriately labelled boxes and crates in order to improve their accessibility and usefulness to the club. > > Following the cleanup, items which are marked for disposal will be posted to the mailing lists and there will be a grace period of a few weeks during which people can take what they want. An e-waste skip will later be ordered to dispose of anything that is left. > > Any suggestions for new storage related equipment are welcome - we will be purchasing a number of new crates to replace ones which are old or broken, and items stored under desks in cardboard boxes may need to be moved and repackaged due to constantly being kicked and damaged. > > Since there has not been a SOC/Tenancy cleanup recently, there will be plenty of dust and dirt involved in this process. Please bring gloves and any other accessories that may be useful. > > For the various unusual and interesting items that the club owns (such as the Alpha Micro system, BeBoxen, Silicon Graphics boxes, the MicroVAX, etc), another objective is to consolidate what items we have which relate to these machines (documentation, manuals, installation / storage media and so on) and store and label them appropriately such that they have an increased chance of surviving future cleanups and are more easily accessible to members who wish to experiment with these machines. If time permits, there may be the possibility of attempting to power on some of these machines and have a play with them :) > > The committee looks forward to seeing you all there! > > Best regards, > > Felix von Perger > UCC Secretary 2018 From mtearle at ucc.asn.au Mon Jun 11 19:09:39 2018 From: mtearle at ucc.asn.au (Mark Tearle) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:09:39 +0100 Subject: [tech] Project "What is this thing?" #2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1528715379.3940346.1403737736.77AC6F7A@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hi Felix Comments interspersed below ... On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, at 6:57 AM, Felix von Perger wrote: > > The second instalment of this series resulted in what was allegedly > part of the "original" Murphy (or murphies) being dragged out from > under the desks.> > After filling a whole carton with 8" disks that were previously > stacked inside of the box and a lot of dusting, this was the result. > The text on the middle handwritten label on the AM-500 front panel > reads "Sealed by [JMJ] Do not open!!!!".> > The case has a number of ports on the side, a number of scarily large > capacitors in the bottom of the case and an empty S-100 backplane.> > > > Does anyone know what boards would have been installed in this box > and what might have happened to them? Understandably to boot it must > have had storage of some kind or some kind of ROM (if it was even a > computer on its own). Specifically regarding this blue box, is it > worth anything to the club and if it were to be thrown away would > anyone want it (or want to sell it for us)?> This chassis (and associated) bits came back to the club room from out at Shenton Park. AFAIK this was always referred to as "Murphy" As artifacts go, this is probably the most earliest club related one ("so in a DO NOT DISPOSE category") I've never seen it with cards in though (>1993 onwards) > Next to "murphy" under the desk was the computery thing with a wooden > case. It seems like the power button needs a key to operate (anyone > know where that might be? :P). Fortunately the case is reasonably > airtight so everything inside was in a relatively dust-free > condition.> > Talking to [JVP] confirmed that the 8" disk drive in this box was one > of the original drives used by Murphy (and uses a voice-coil actuated > head and electronic disk ejection), although apparently was not > originally used in this particular hardware configuration.> > > > Loose inside the case was a single 8" floppy drive, a plastic bag > containing a stack of paper documentation including a description of > the S-100 bus, a transparent sheet of plastic with what appears to > be the original mask/artwork used to create the green-grey circuit > board visible at the front of the photo on the left (below) and a > loose 50pin cable that looks like it could be used to connect to the > floppy drive.> > > The wooden box seems to have a full assortment of boards mounted on > its backplane (including what looks like a handmade diagnostics > board, two CPU boards (connected by ribbon cable), 4*16K memory > boards, a disk controller (complete with ROM to boot from floppy) and > an IO board (6 serial ports according to [JVP]).> Okay, this gets more interesting. This machine appeared in the club room sometime in the last decade (around the burst of enthusiasm for hardware things from Craig Williams (aka Reaps)). Harry McNally knew something of the machine ... > Is this a full Alpha Micro computer and could it be possible to power > it on? If one were to test, what steps would be necessary to ensure > that any failing/failed components do not cause damage to the rest? > When was it last powered on successfully? Also, what hardware and > software would be required to get it to boot and produce an output of > some sort?> The point to start would be checking the health of the power supply and working from there. The other place to start would be to gather as much documentation as you can find on the internet. > Hopefully this raises some interesting discussions and I appreciate > any time you may be able to devote to having a look.> There are some links here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Microsystems https://ampm.floodgap.com/ https://ampm.floodgap.com/www/s100.htm http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Alpha%20Micro/AM-100/AM-100.htmhttp://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Alpha%20Micro/AM500%20HDC/AM-500.htm > Thank you for your contributions, > > Felix von Perger > UCC Secretary 2018 > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech > > Unsubscribe here: > http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/mtearle%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au -- Mark Tearle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: edjjjbbbnbbbbboo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 685492 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20180611/c34a4284/attachment-0011.jpg From andrew at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 12 00:05:27 2018 From: andrew at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Williams) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:05:27 +0800 Subject: [tech] Project "What is this thing?" #2 In-Reply-To: <1528715379.3940346.1403737736.77AC6F7A@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1528715379.3940346.1403737736.77AC6F7A@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On 2018-06-11 7:09 PM, Mark Tearle wrote: >> Does anyone know what boards would have been installed in this box and >> what might have happened to them? Understandably to boot it must have >> had storage of some kind or some kind of ROM (if it was even a >> computer on its own). Specifically regarding this blue box, is it >> worth anything to the club and if it were to be thrown away would >> anyone want it (or want to sell it for us)? > > This chassis (and associated) bits came back to the club room from out > at Shenton Park.? ? AFAIK this was always referred to as "Murphy" > > As artifacts go, this is probably the most earliest club related one > ("so in a DO NOT DISPOSE category") > > I've never seen it with cards in though (>1993 onwards) This (the metal chassis with the blue front) is definitely the original 'ACC Murphy' - I used it when I was in first year in 86, but only to play the occasional game on. I remember playing 'UCC, The Adventure', a text adventure game set in and around early 80's UCC and UWA, and a nethack style game that I can't remember the name of. I think I played Trek on there as well. It's also the machine that produced the need for the three-letter acronyms for users, because the multi-user operating system used a 16-bit number to represent the owner of each file, containing three five-bit numbers representing letters (0-31 was enough for A-Z plus five other characters). >> Next to "murphy" under the desk was the computery thing with a wooden >> case. It seems like the power button needs a key to operate (anyone >> know where that might be? :P). Fortunately the case is reasonably >> airtight so everything inside was in a relatively dust-free condition. > Okay, this gets more interesting.? ?This machine appeared in the club > room sometime in the last decade (around the burst of enthusiasm for > hardware things from Craig Williams (aka Reaps)).? ?Harry McNally knew > something of the machine ... I don't recognise this box (the wooden one) - it's possible the cards in there were the original ACC Murphy cards, or that one or more of the original ACC Murphy cards were dead and disposed of, and someone donated that machine to salvage for parts for ACC Murphy. Andrew From frekk at ucc.asn.au Wed Jun 13 12:42:18 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:42:18 +0800 Subject: [tech] RESCHEDULED: Tech/wheel cleanup now on Sunday 2018/06/24 In-Reply-To: <50c13c2d-fa00-a585-c986-531bc5baf3c7@ucc.asn.au> References: <50c13c2d-fa00-a585-c986-531bc5baf3c7@ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: <598882c3-2617-b0d9-26e9-ccbdaf0e6f10@ucc.asn.au> Dear wheel and tech subscribers, There has been some confusion relating to the date of the June SOC/Tenancy busybee, and as a result the tech cleanup was incorrectly scheduled at the same time. As a result it is being rescheduled to Sunday 24th June 2018 (2018-06-24), one day later than the original plan, staring at 11:00 in the clubroom. Pizza will be provided for lunch at around 13.00. The Tenancy busybee will take place the day before, so things may be somewhat cleaner than they would have according to the original plan. Door members are being requested to attend the Tenancy busybee on Saturday and are not expected to attend the tech cleanup on Sunday. If you are both a door and wheel member and wish to attend the tech cleanup instead, you must send apologies for the Tenancy busybee in order to avoid penalty as a door member. Apologies for the inconvenience and the committee looks forward to seeing you there. Best regards, Felix von Perger UCC Secretary 2018 On 10/06/18 22:30, Felix von Perger wrote: > Calling all tech subscribers, old and new! > > A reminder to all that a tech related clubroom cleanup is scheduled on > Saturday 23rd June 2018 (2018/06/23), starting at 10:00 in the > clubroom. UCC will be providing pizza for lunch at around 13:00. > > The focus of the event will be to inspect the items currently stored > in the clubroom, decide what must be kept and what can be given away > (or thrown out) and sort through the piles of unidentified computery > thingamies, adapters, cables and peripherals into appropriately > labelled boxes and crates in order to improve their accessibility and > usefulness to the club. > > Following the cleanup, items which are marked for disposal will be > posted to the mailing lists and there will be a grace period of a few > weeks during which people can take what they want. An e-waste skip > will later be ordered to dispose of anything that is left. > > Any suggestions for new storage related equipment are welcome - we > will be purchasing a number of new crates to replace ones which are > old or broken, and items stored under desks in cardboard boxes may > need to be moved and repackaged due to constantly being kicked and > damaged. > > Since there has not been a SOC/Tenancy cleanup recently, there will be > plenty of dust and dirt involved in this process. Please bring gloves > and any other accessories that may be useful. > > For the various unusual and interesting items that the club owns (such > as the Alpha Micro system, BeBoxen, Silicon Graphics boxes, the > MicroVAX, etc), another objective is to consolidate what items we have > which relate to these machines (documentation, manuals, installation / > storage media and so on) and store and label them appropriately such > that they have an increased chance of surviving future cleanups and > are more easily accessible to members who wish to experiment with > these machines. If time permits, there may be the possibility of > attempting to power on some of these machines and have a play with > them :) > > The committee looks forward to seeing you all there! > > Best regards, > > Felix von Perger > UCC Secretary 2018 From frekk at ucc.asn.au Sun Jun 17 21:49:34 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:49:34 +0800 Subject: [tech] Wifi Upgrades Message-ID: Dear tech subscribers, The wifi at UCC was upgraded last Monday by [CFE] and myself. The current configuration, using the new device "smallwing" (Ubiquiti Unifi nanoHD) to replace the old "coromandel" relies on the Unifi controller installed on a new VM/container called "salmon". More information is available on the updated wiki page: http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/Wifi Kind regards, [FVP] From frekk at ucc.asn.au Mon Jun 25 15:13:15 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:13:15 +0800 Subject: [tech] Unplanned Downtime Message-ID: <4482c2d4-82b7-fd8e-8248-131fbb65374b@ucc.asn.au> Dear tech subscribers, Due to unknown disk-related issues causing system crashes on the VM host maltair, some services and member VMs may have been affected and data loss may have occurred today between 13:30 and 14:30. I advise anyone who may have had virtual machines hosted on maltair to verify the integrity of their data and migrate to different hosts while the issue is being resolved. Regards, [FVP] From frekk at ucc.asn.au Tue Jun 26 13:55:17 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:55:17 +0800 Subject: [tech] Proxmox Upgrade Message-ID: Dear tech subscribers, I am intending to perform an upgrade of our Proxmox cluster from the old (and soon unsupported) version of 4.4 to the latest 5.1 in the next few days. I'll keep people informed over IRC and Discord about any specific (temporary) outages that may occur. All VMs and containers will be migrated from each host, a disk-level backup of the root volume will be made, packages will be upgraded and the host will be rebooted and upon successful completion of the upgrade the VMs will be migrated back and powered on. Each node will be upgraded individually according to the instructions at https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_4.x_to_5.0 Due to maltair having recently experienced unplanned downtime, it will be the first to be upgraded (and hopefully this will also resolve the stability issues.) Loveday and medico will follow. Let me know if you have any concerns, complaints, questions or want to help out. Following the successful upgrade of the proxmox cluster (and after any resulting issues have been resolved) I will attempt to configure a ceph "luminous" distributed storage cluster using the 500GB SSDs installed in each of maltair, loveday and medico onto which core VMs will eventually be migrated. Further information will be provided following the upgrade. Kind regards, [FVP] From frekk at ucc.asn.au Fri Jun 29 01:37:39 2018 From: frekk at ucc.asn.au (Felix von Perger) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:37:39 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC Busybee Cleaning & Tech - 10am 21/07/2018 In-Reply-To: <33433303-cfa8-40e3-b721-1a73b5c51197@ucc.asn.au> References: <33433303-cfa8-40e3-b721-1a73b5c51197@ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: Dear tech subscribers, Wheel and Door, We will be running a "tech and cleaning busybee" on Saturday 21st July, starting at 10:00 (one week before camp) as a follow-up to the first tech busybee held on Sunday 24/06/2018 which suffered abysmally low attendance and to fulfil the requirements of the Tenancy busybee that is scheduled during camp. To kill two birds with one stone the UCC will using this event as an opportunity to both physically clean the clubroom and finish tidying up the tech-related stuff. What a great idea! :O The committee reminds door members that they are expected to attend all cleaning sessions (including this busybee) or send appropriate apologies via email to the committee prior to the event. Considering the scale of the tidying operation and the lack of attendance at the previous tech busybee, the committee strongly encourages wheel members to attend the busybee if at all possible, or send apologies. The UCC will be ordering an e-waste skip and any and all objects which the club is not keeping or selling will be discarded before camp (within a few days of the busybee). There will be a short lunch break at around 13.00 during which time pizza will be provided. Cleaning shall continue after lunch if necessary. More details will be provided in the leadup to the event, and please stay tuned to the tech mailing list for more information about the results of the tech busybee last Sunday. Both Door and Wheel are invited to the busybee and the committee looks forward to seeing you all there! Best regards, Felix von Perger UCC Secretary 2018