Forum Topics
Sanitation
Hunter – we’re gross, clean up after yourself. Don’t leave a mess and keep it fairly nice Jake – lab is a privilege not a right
360 Camera
Hunter – cam for robotics – enable VR robots with 360 view - $100-$150. to be talked about further next week
10G
Jared – switch arrives next Monday, time to test before fiber. Emails on down time to be sent later
Lightning Talk
unix date command. Software from 1972 running in 2017.
Ben – “Ben is pretty”. Date command – v1 in 70’s, date gives date based on timezone. Using it for estimates for Mirror Petabyte date. Monthly average vs remaining = petabyte date. Date -d “97 days” gives info based on arguments; “yesterday”, “next friday”, “n days ago” ddate – “bureaucratic” date
TripleByte
Jake – TripleBytecompany to help find job; good/appropriate programing questions. Questions range from pick an answer, find errors, how do you think. Do really good, get an interview
fish: Shell of the Future!
Jake – Fish Shellbash is not fun. Fish makes it fun. Supports modern terminal stuff, colors, auto suggestions, sane language, web configuration, completes from man pages
Hacktoberfest 2017
Ben – Hacktoberfest During October challenge to support open source community. 4 pulls between Oct 1-31, get a free t-shirt. Talked about / reminded about COSI github Jake – know Git, have stuff on github. Open source is widely used, help support it
BookBookBook
Hunter – github ebooksfoundation List of books, free programing books, view English ←(important), lots of good helpful books
Scoreboard, Now a dumpster fire on a server
Anthony – helps keep track of metrics. Not many on at the moment, can add more. Unofficial board: port 3001
Kiva Donation
Abby – Prof. Mathews gives money to help startups and the like through kiva.org. COSI is taking her place while shes out. Giving to Madagascar woman in need of sheet metal
RAIN
Jared – IT’S (still) NOT RAINING. Postponed until rain
Tor/Onion Routing
Abby – general overview of browsing anonymously on Tor/Onion. How it routes the user, the fact we run a Tor node, and Tors metrics, and that it can be used for malicious purposes Hunter – explains that its secure/FBI has many nodes
LG Airpods
Pan pan – cross breed of LG wireless headset and apple ear pods. Working test models
Project Updates
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Announcements
Open House
Abby – this Saturday, be here before 10 am, fill out Google form for name tag
Robotics this Friday at 7pm
Hunter – better meeting with actual stuff to do this week (promise). VR bots and telepresence turtle bots
COSI Cleaning
Jared – cleaning COSI tonight. Make it safe for humans/remove the hazmats