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Project list

2025-10-02T15:51:56Z

Enzoisotton:

This is a list of the various infrastructure/funding/etc projects that need to be done. Priority should range between 0 and 10 (inclusive), where higher is more imporant. Also check out [[dead projects]] and [[finished projects]].

{| class='wikitable' id='sortMe'
!Priority
!Project
!Description
!Leader
!Progress
|-
|10
|[[Infrastructure]]
|Move Part of the infra to McBryde and set up [[Infrastructure:Vesuvius|Vesuvius]] and Cluster.
|[[user:enzoisotton|eri]], [[user:rsk|rsk]], [[user:mikhail|mikhail]]
|Ongoing
|-
|2
|[[Funding]]
|Get SEC/SBB funding
|
|An officer needs to attend SBB orientation, after that, $current_treasurer needs to know what exactly is needed, as we can only request funding for specific items and not general club money.
|-
|4
|[[T-shirts]]
|Decide on a t-shirt design, do a group order
|[[user:marcus|marcusw]]
|Need new candidate designs
|-
|5
|[[Wiki expansion]]
|Update existing content, import content into Gobblerpedia
|[[user:echarlie|echarlie]], $current_secretary
|Evaluating current state of pages
|-
|}

[[Category:VTLUUG:Projects]]

Infrastructure:Vesuvius

2025-10-02T15:28:09Z

Enzoisotton:

Vesuvius is VTLUUG's 4rd(?) generation NFS server donated by [[User:jpo|jpo]]. It replaces [[Infrastructure:Dirtycow|Dirtycow]] and hosts storage for most of our services. It is currently running (?).

== References ==

[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:Hosts]]

Infrastructure:Vesuvius

2025-10-02T15:25:47Z

Enzoisotton: Created page with "Vesuvius is VTLUUG's 4rd(?) generation NFS server donated by jpo. It replaces Dirtycow and hosts storage for most of our services. It..."

Infrastructure:Dirtycow

2025-10-02T15:13:26Z

Enzoisotton:

Dirtycow is VTLUUG's 3rd(?) generation NFS server donated by [[User:jfranklin|jfranklin]]. It replaces [[Infrastructure:Cyberdelia|Cyberdelia]] and hosts storage for our more critical services. It is currently running Ubuntu 24.04.

Dmesg indicates it is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 III with board model of 0NX642<ref>http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_2900_III_spec_sheet.pdf</ref> with 24GB DDR2 RAM clocked at 667MHz.

It has 2 4-core X X5404 @ 2.00GHz<ref>http://ark.intel.com/products/34446/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5450-12M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB</ref><ref>https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5450+%40+3.00GHz&cpuCount=2</ref> and up to 8 hot-swap SCZI(SAS?) hard drives, with an additional 2 SATA ports. The drives are configured with 8 2TB drives and 2 120GB drives. The 8 identical drives are mounted in a ZFS-raidz2 array. The remaining 2 SSDs are configured with raid 1 and have a single root partition.

The ZFS pool has a total capacity of 14.5T, of which 5.15T are allocated (as of Jan 2019).

It resides in the ECE Server Closet in [[Whittemore]].

== Storage ==
The following datasets are configured:
* /cistern/backups - Important backups
* /cistern/nfs/docker/data - Persistent docker data volumes
* /cistern/nfs/files - https://vtluug.org/files
* /cistern/nfs/home - User homedirs for IPA users, available over NFS to VTLUUG hosts
* /cistern/nfs/libvirt - Storage for libvirt hosts
* /cistern/nfs/scratch - Temporary unimportant storage
* /cistern/nfs/share - Permanent user storage
* /cistern/share/srv - Webserver dir for Sczi, but not used since we've migrated everything to docker

== References ==

[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:Hosts]]

Recommended software

2025-03-12T02:25:54Z

Enzoisotton: added dwm and slstatus

Curated list of Libre software by VTLUUG members

==Base system==

== Distributions ==
''See [[Mirrors]] for VT Mirrors containing several of these

* [[Gentoo]] - Compile everything yourself
* [https://www.debian.org/ Debian] - Popular for servers & desktop use
* [[Ubuntu]] - Beginner friendly, based on Debian
* [[Arch|ArchLinux]] - Easier than Gentoo, Harder than Debian; very popular with club members
* [https://theiotlearninginitiative.gitbooks.io/embedded-linux/documentation/Artoo.html Artoo] - Uses btrfs
* [[Fedora]] - Bleeding edge, based on EL
* [[OpenBSD]] - Free, BSD OS
* [https://www.centos.org/ CentOS] - Community EL
* [[SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Desktop]] - More popular overseas
** License available via [https://network.software.vt.edu VT Network Software]

===Shell===
* [[w:zsh|zsh]]
* [https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS Detailed LS_COLORS]

=== Desktop environments ===
* [[feh]] - image viewer + background management

===Window managers===
* [[w:I3_(window_manager)|i3]]
* [https://herbstluftwm.org/ Herbstluftwm]
* [[Xmonad]]
* [[https://dwm.suckless.org/ dwm]]

===Status monitoring (in X)===
* [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3bar-icons/ i3bar-icons]
* [http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Conky]
* An ugly mess of [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40637 Dzen2] and bash scripts
* [[https://tools.suckless.org/slstatus/ slstatus]]

=== Xorg modifications ===
* [[Xrandr]] - cmd line tool to interact with RandR X extensions
* [https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/ Arandr] - "Another RandR GUI"
* [[.xinitrc]] - Tool to start X

=== Other system utilties ===
* [http://htop.sourceforge.net/ htop] - Monitor your system easily
* [https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ncdu] - NCurses Disk Usage

==Internet==

===Web browsing===
* [http://firefox.com Firefox]

===[[:Category:Mail clients | Mail clients]]===
* [[mutt]]
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ Thunderbird] with Mutterator and Enigmail

====Contact management systems====
* [http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/ lbdb]

===File sharing===
* [http://transmissionbt.com Transmission]
* [[Dtella]]

===Chat===

==== XMPP client ====
* [https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client xmpp-client]
* Gibberbot on Android
* [https://wiki.bitlbee.org/FrontPage BitlBee] for IRC integration

==== [[IRC clients]] ====
* [http://weechat.org weechat]
* [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Irssi Irssi]

=== Relays ===
* [http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ Socat] - "Multipurpose relay"

=== News ===
* [https://codezen.org/canto-ng/ canto] - Atom/RSS feed

==Productivity==

===Programming===
* [[Eclipse]]
* [[Clang Complete]]

===Text editors===
* [[vim]]
* [[Emacs]] (evil mode)
* [https://www.nano-editor.org/ nano]
** [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8623fbf937063dc059f91978b30c874e Cov's] nanorc

===Terminal stuff===
* [[Screen]]
** [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/72775f8063135a81ccb9a0f8c781664c Jagged's .screenrc] - Creates "status bar" on bottom"
* [[w:zsh|zsh]]
* [[tmux]]

===Word processing===
* [[LaTeX]]

===Note-taking===
* [[Keepnote]]
* [[BasKet]]
* [[vimwiki]]
* emacs org-mode

===To-do list===
* [http://taskwarrior.org taskwarrior]

===Document viewing===
* [[evince]] (older versions; newest has gnome-specific optimizations and design features)
* [[atril]]

===Ebooks===
* [[Calibre]]

===File managers===
* [http://ranger.nongnu.org/ ranger]

== Text Parsing tools ==
* [http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html Sed]
* [http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html Awk]

== Group Management ==
* [https://www.zarafa.com/ Zarafa] - groupware server
* [http://z-push.org/ Z-Push] - ActiveSync implementation

==Audio==

===Music players===
* [[mpd]]
* [http://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ pianobar] (pandora client)
* cmus

====MPD clients====
* [[ncmpcpp]]

===Music libraries===

===Audio recording===
* arecord

===Audio Routing===
* [http://jackaudio.org/ JACK]

== Gaming on Linux ==
* [http://wz2100.net/ Warzone 2100]
* [[Frozen Bubble]]

==Virtualization==
* [[qemu]] (with KVM)
* [[virt-manager]]
* [[SPICE]]

== Hardware ==
* [http://www.arduino.cc/ Arduino] (microcontroller)
* [http://beagleboard.org/ BeagleBoard] (single board computer)
* [http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Raspberry Pi] (system on chip)
* Odroid (better raspberry pi)

== See also ==
* [[Harmful]]

[[Category:Featured content]]
[[Category:Needs restoration]]
[[Category:Software]]

LockDown Browser

2025-02-27T16:32:22Z

Enzoisotton:

== Download ==
LockDown Browser's download website shows the download option based on your OS. Since it does not support Linux, it does not let you download it. So, to download this <s>shitty</s> browser, you need to change the OS in your User Agent to Windows.

After you download it, DO NOT change the name of the file. LockDown Browser uses the file as an ID for the browser. It will not work
if you change it to a non-valid ID.

== Install ==
=== Wine ===
This is a solution for running LockDown browser with Wine, provided by [[User:caleb|caleb]].

This solution requires [https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks winetricks]
<pre>
winetricks msftedit allfonts
</pre>

LockDown Browser

2025-02-27T16:25:39Z

Enzoisotton:

== Download ==
LockDown Browser's download website shows the download option based on your OS. Since it does not support Linux, it does not let you download it. So, to download this <s>shitty</s> browser, you need to change the OS in your User ID to Windows.

After you download it, DO NOT change the name of the file. LockDown Browser uses the file as an ID for the browser. It will not work
if you change it to a non-valid ID.

== Install ==
=== Wine ===
This is a solution for running LockDown browser with Wine, provided by [[User:caleb|caleb]].

This solution requires [https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks winetricks]
<pre>
winetricks msftedit allfonts
</pre>

LockDown Browser

2025-02-27T05:33:00Z

Enzoisotton: Created page with "== Wine == This is a solution for running LockDown browser with Wine, provided by caleb"

== Wine ==
This is a solution for running LockDown browser with Wine, provided by [[User:caleb|caleb]]

User:Enzoisotton

2025-02-13T04:53:58Z

Enzoisotton: Created page with "A Linux Supremacist"

A Linux Supremacist

Surplus Feb 25

2025-02-13T04:52:05Z

Enzoisotton: /* Group buy funds per-member */

== Desired Items ==
* [https://www.matthewsauctioneers.com/auctions/29564/lot/273051-1-pallet-of-servers-hd-removed PALLET OF SERVERS (HD REMOVED)]
* [https://www.matthewsauctioneers.com/auctions/29564/lot/273635-1-pallet-of-computers-hd-removed PALLET OF 2010s COMPUTERS (HD REMOVED)]
* [https://www.matthewsauctioneers.com/auctions/29564/lot/273633-1-pallet-of-computers-hd-removed PALLET OF 2000s COMPUTERS (HD REMOVED)]

== Group buy funds per-member ==
* [[User:Rsk]] $100
* [[User:Enzoisotton]] $100

== Max acceptable bid for each item ==
* Server pile:
* Optiplex (2010s) pile:
* Old shit (2000s) pile:

Surplus Feb 25

2025-02-13T04:36:36Z

Enzoisotton: Created page with "== Desired Items == * [https://www.matthewsauctioneers.com/auctions/29564/lot/273051-1-pallet-of-servers-hd-removed PALLET OF SERVERS (HD REMOVED)] * [https://www.matthewsauct..."