Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/4/2006


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by jbarnold.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: jbarnold tabbott kchen nelhage arolfe mshaw
		k_lai | andersk jhawk keithw yoz aseering
	Associate members: hartmans asedeno jemorris kcr mitchb
	Prospectives: alexmv quentin jwalden | tilia cporter
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

	jhawk: Finances are coming along.  I'm hosed.
	keithw: I would really like that money.  I personally spent
		the money, and my checking account is sad.  I want to
		spend another $1000, and I would like to know when I
		can spend it.
	jhawk: Finboard money is reimbursement-only.  You can get a PO
		if it's PO-able.
	arolfe: Deadline to spend the money is around the 22nd this
		month.
	(further discussion of keithw's money troubles continues past
		the meeting)

Chairman's Report:

	mitchb: I move to allocate $32.52 for the special meeting last
		week.
	jbarnold: jhawk, you're making lots of faces, so do you
		object?
	jhawk: Yes, I believe that meetings should only be reimbursed
		for food if the food was advertised in advance.
	[$32.52 for special meeting food : many-1-1]

	tabbott: We had a special meeting on Tuesday last week.  I
		agreed to do something, which I'll start in about 2
		weeks since I'm hosed right now.  mitchb also agreed
		to do something.
	mitchb: I'll be starting this week.
	keithw: Can somebody give a summary?
	jbarnold: It was sent to sipb-private.

MIT Computing Report:

	jwalden: My afs went down for the 3rd time (referring to
		mnemosyne going down yesterday).
	jbarnold: scripts also had some issues as a result.

	nelhage: Packets were dropping to strawb and other machines in
		building 24.
	kchen: 3down has something about it.

SIPB Projects Report:

	arolfe: I have installed two disks and a motherboard for
		bloom-beacon.  There has been a replacement machine for
		news.mit.edu that has been sitting around for about 4
		years, so I did the minimal amount of software
		frobbing on Saturday at the hackathon.  We should be
		able to switch out the machines in about a month or so
		with minimal loss of service.

	mitchb: Join us in less than an hour for the last installment
		in our Cluedump Series.

	arolfe: The machine room is out of ports so it's kind of annoying.

	nelhage: We had a hackathon last Saturday.  I don't know if
		anything productive happened.  But we came up with a
		lot of bad ideas.  jbarnold is planning to spend time
		in IAP to make it so that you can apply security
		patches to a running Linux kernel without any downtime.

	tabbott: Both scripts and linerva had to reboot last week to
		take a kernel update.
	jhawk: multics now has a higher uptime than linerva.
	nelhage: It turns out reboot was not necessary for linerva.

	jbarnold: We have a new office head now in the front.

	tabbott: I finally got info from jhawk about chairs though I
		haven't done anything else.

	jbarnold: geofft wanted me to move to acquire more big staples
		capable of the load that the big staplers need.
	keithw: I move to allocate $30 for geofft to buy his staples.
	jhawk: What about the standing allocation for office supples?
	keithw: Okay, friendly amendment to $5 and whatever he can get
		out of the standing allocation for geofft to get his
		staples.
	(more objections)
	keithw: Okay, we'll have a compound motion where we get rid of
		the allocation and move to "post-staple world" where
		we don't talk about this anymore.  You can execute it
		or not.
	nelhage: Execute everybody!
	jbarnold: Motion indiscriminately passes.  Only I voted, and
		nobody else did (something about rjbarbal).
	keithw: I move to appoint him special Office Czar of Staples.
	(keithw is shouted down)

	quentin: I tried Micro Center but could not find any of the camera
		cards for less than $25 except as a two-pack that
		would cost more.
	hartmans: I move to up allocation to $75.
	[allocation raised to $75 : white-balloted]

	tabbott: The tables in the middle have remained clean of
		permanent useless crap since the office cleaning.
	keithw: You've (hartmans) been here 8 years.
	hartmans: I've not been here 8 years--I used to be over there
		when the tables were rearranged differently.  And it
		would have been 10 years.

Office Report:

	tilia: I bugged the CAC about vacuuming the office, so they
		know that they won't be bothering people.  And if they
		don't vacuum, tell me about it so that I can bug them
		about it.

Office Cleaning Report:

Publications Report:

CokeComm Report:

Orientation Report:

IAP Report:

	tilia: You might think that IAP is in about a month.  You're
		wrong.  It's sooner than that.  It's sooner than you
		think!  If you want to teach classes, talk to me or
		k_lai.

Other:

	keithw: I got a job.  To be a reporter.  At the Wall Street
		Journal.  In Boston.  Starting January 8.

	tabbott: This is the last full week of term.

	tilia: jhawk is going to be projecting on Friday a free sneak
		preview of "Pursuit of Happyness".

Other Other:

	quentin: You should come to the MTG performance this week.

	nelhage: I ordered and got a new laptop in under a week.  It
		was impressive because they said it would get here
		around Christmas.
	hartmans: Maybe Christmas comes early in China.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:44.


	Minutes taken and submitted by k_lai.