Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/5/88 The meeting was called to order at 19:37 by srz. In attendance were Voting members: rfrench amdehon (left 20:45) jtkohl balamac kerr (left 20:45) nlgilman probe (left 20:45) raeburn chariot srz cheshire eichin hga jik Associate members: jon jis Flash Appearances: drwho Late from LSC: tytso (left 20:45) Late from CA: aaron (left 20:45) Prospectives: qjb, reuven (Reuven Lerner), Pibero K. Djawotho Guests: ens, 2 unnamed randoms Treasurer's Report: Treasurer slogging through a badly scheduled Gilbert & Sullivan interview. It's all opus' fault. CokeComm Report: New coke sheets. Will order when supply is low. Chairman's Report: It's election time for qjb. Interview: What's the phone number? 7788, 7789. What do you yell to find SIPB members? He didn't know. What's the most important office in the SIPB? that's a really difficult question. What's the most important service sipb provides? supplying people's bodily... Do you like Chinese food? yes. What are the dialup numbers? ... How do you give out a multics account. How late is pizza ring open? don't know. How/Why do you give people a VMA account? Go into drawer and pull out form.... How do you give a grad student an athena account? He doesn't know. What are the red letters on the board? It looks like the alphabet. What multics deficiency does that relate to? He has no idea. Question for anyone in the office: What happens when a grad student wants to renew an account? send mail to sipb-grad-archive. IF someone comes into wanting to buy microsoft windows, where should you direct them? Why would anyone want microsoft windows. What if someone asks a scribe question in the office? teach them latex. Name 5 significant things on the poster: cat, wizard, sed/awk/vi, csh/ksh, split, rfs/nfs. Why do you want to become a SIPB member? materialistic answers: access to the office, ability to volunteer to do stuff, sense of belonging to a group (aside of watchmkrs), doesnt want to be the longest prospective member. 15:0:1. Result: He's in. Office Report: Office got waxed but is still a big mess. jik has noticed a congregation of papers to the left of oliver. things are going to be thrown away if they are found there. Athena Report: 6.0C is almost eveywhere. tmdonahu has sped up x-server for microvax (4xfaster than now for some stuff). This should make it into 6.0R as should the nfs null files bug. A new hack in emacs is temporarily patching that and quota overflow stuff. m4-035w is up again but sipb locker is still pointing to chiroptera. jis said that sipb should be a recipient of the new service which will allow a backup locker. All rt executables need to be recompiled. LCS Report: binkley is a bit confused. Computer Services: dialup should become an athena service in the future. In the meantime we have chaosnet access reinstalled. We have one terminal which is "wobbly, Jim" and one dead terminal. Nobody has records of the vt100s (we supposedly have deposits for them somewhere, though). jis wants to replace charon (does sipb need a mainframe?). its a fileserver. it holds accounts for old sipb members. if it's in building 11 machine room, it has limited access. this is a feature and a bug. jis warns that he may not be head of operations forever. jis suggests negotiations with Jim Bruce to get our own machine room in W20. 80meg unformatted eagle drives ofered from hga (size of rd53) but this might void dec contract...? jis might be willing to part with an rd54.... Telecommunications Report: R/O center picked up our modems and seem to be doing ok. Thanks go to eichin for lending them a modem of his own. If new phones not in by the 12th, somebody should call.... Publications Report: We still don't have Essential Guides. We need a master with an update to 6.0 from 5.5. jik will take care of this. nlgilman and or opus are working on the LaTeX guide. R/O Report: Midway is tomorrow. Can you say last minute planning? Parking the heads (shut it off, open it, rotate it, ...) must be done. Do we have enough power? We meet at 6 tomorrow with jis to move snork.... Hopefully we will take Roger Roach's van. Posters, flyers, guides...? We should probably have a few sample guides on hand. We need handouts for the tour then, too. Some discuss documentation would be nice, too. We can bring the posters from outside.... Warm bodies are needed, too. SIPB tour. Volunteers...? So far we found blurbs from last year and thats about it. It will be this Thursday (9/8) at 8. We have video cluster, media lab, lcs, ai, 001 lab. We need someone to reserve room (34-101) and microphone. Tour jobs Person --------- ------ schedule 34-101 nlgilman posters, flyers aaron schedule speaker jon media lab aaron music (The Cube) aaron LCS/AI srz parallax/bldg. 11 rfrench 6.001 lab balamac scheduling of stops kerr IAP Report: '() Other: aaron came back Other Other: aaron: jik, jik, jik, jik, the office is a pit The meeting was adjourned at 20:56. Minutes taken and submitted by kerr (finished by bal).