Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2011-10-24


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

In attendance were
        Voting members: ezyang bbaren pquimby kaduk afarrell achernya dwilson

        Associate members: quentin biyeun | jhawk daveg

        Prospectives: lapentab vzh amb ine dlaw goodsont

Administrivia
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kaduk: Waseem's new scanner is a more than adequate [achernya: I made
sure it worked, since outgoing.mit.edu didn't seem to work unless you
set an IP.  How do you set nameservers?] [quentin: It's hidden in a menu
option.  Can we put the scanner physically somewhere less annoying?]

jhawk: We now have a 6.002 textbook thanks to kevinr reuse.

Project Updates
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vzh:  Cluedumps tomorrow, Edward Yang talks about Scripts in 3-133 at 8PM
going until 10PM.  Next week, as of today, I have contact with jis,
and will be talking about CounchDB and its use at MIT.

ine: afarrell and I had a meeting with Anne Hunter.  We would really like
to have an instructor for a C++ class, they would provide TAs and also pay.
They also really wanted someone to do Ruby, although they can't guarantee
pay.

achernya: The short version is, downgrading.  Around 4AM, the servers seemed
to look nice and quiet again. graceful, restart fcgi, Edward then verified
causes the load to drop. We configured FastCGI to kill off with idle much
faster, so we no longer have a monotonically increasing memory usage.  So
now Scripts has reasonable load.

lapentab: I'm trying to write a proxy that will redirect things from scripts-ip
to scripts-test.  I had a working software, but it turned out the package I was
using wasn't open source.  Don't ask me how I didn't notice.

Other
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Other Other
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afarrell: In Turkey, near the Iranian border, there was a category 7.2 earthquake.

daveg: Posted to sipb-jobs: we're doing antivirus and security for smartphones. If anyone
is interested in internships/jobs, talk to me.

meeting adjourned at 19:35.

        Minutes taken and submitted by ezyang.