Forum

ITL 48 Port Switch

Jared is suggesting 2 48-port switches, a switch being used in the itl is dying, but we have some other switches laying about that were switched out for the managed switches. We’ll look into getting new ones when we are getting low on spare switches.

Lab HVAC

Kyle suggested that we could talk to facilities in the future to fix the airflow in COSI.

Lab Cleanliness

There has been fairly minimal table space, so Jared suggested to do some cleaning and Michael suggested that it would be a good idea to be courteous about the lab space.

VM Host Plans

Jared discussed how we should manage our VM infrastructure as we make the new VM Host. If anyone is interested, we’re building the new VM host on Saturday. An email will be sent out with the time.

Metapod Switch

We discussed that FreeBSD isn’t feasible for our setting, so we are planning on switching our Storage / NFS server over to Debian. No one had any issues with it.

Gitlab Migration

Jared discussed that Gitlab has troubles being run as VM, so he suggested moving it to Distance. No one opposed as well.

Logic Analyzer

Graham suggested getting a logic Analyzer. It’s been suggested to wait till the end of the year if we have any remaining budget since no one really had any particular use cases for it.

Lightning Talks

Size of Information

Graham made a SVG on the size of information in the digital and real world scaling from bits to the entire universe.

COSI Summer 2016 Review

Ben and Bobby talked about summer projects, including Mirror updates, CSS changes to Talks, 3-D printer fiascos, Derpy Sayings, and the Internet.

Telnet talk

Baha gave an introduction to Telnet with the well known star wars telnet service.

Intro to COSI

Baha gave a quick talk about COSI and the 3 branches of it: the server side, social side, and academic side. being part of all three will bring you to have a lot of new knowledge and be able to be part of a great community.

RotateVR: The future of RotateJS

Hunter made a virtual reality 3d media cube as the future of RotateJS. He made it using A-Frame.

Formal Verification of Randomized Algorithms

Akanksha Vyas talked about the importance to verify randomized Algorithms without the need of running a program at all. She recieved a CS Masters this week on the topic.

Advantages and limitations of 3D printing

Akanksha also discussed the pros and cons of modern uses of 3D printing.

How to be an expert

Kyle showed us a video on being an “expert”, as people in COSI are experts in many different things and will eventually have to communicate with others that aren’t experts in our field. Link

Do you want to write terrible code?

Michael showed us a python program that forgives all errors. Github Repo.

Project Updates / Announcements

Talks 2.2

Talks updates in realtime thanks to Socket.io

Management 2.0

Jared has been building Management from the ground up. The new website should be functional very soon.

Robogalia

Corey is starting his Rust ecosystem around seL4 again. Website

NYU CSAW Capture the Flag

Gus talked about security based CTF event happening at. NYU at the end of September. Talk to him if interested.

After Meeting Slot

There wasn’t an after meeting slot for this week.