Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 11/1/93


	The meeting was called to order at 19:39 by bert.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: bert
		Associate members: eichin jtkohl mhpower proven 
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: sipb6 wildman cat ark3
		Guests: 

	Treasurer's Report:

Not here.

	Chairman's Report:

Not here either. (<bert> is playing with the gavel)

	Office Report:

People are here.  It's a pit.  Put your cans away.

	MIT Computing Report:

The afs.athena AFS volume was down for a day because <probe> used the
wrong compiler options on something.  It has been repaired.

        Computer Services:

Quiche is running XFree86 2.0.  It is a Good Thing (tm).  Monitor cable?
<gamadrid> volunteered, but hasn't dealt yet.

<jtkohl> and <eichin> may set up a Charon server (<warlord>'s BS thesis
creating a Kerberos tunnel to home machines to avoid passwords over
dialup lines) on Charon.

News: load spikes are still continuing and aren't understood yet.
picayune keeps running out of mbufs.  Is there a new kernel to fix it?
maybe (we'll find out in due time).

new plexus server?  not running in production yet. 

Motion to terminate, seconded.  <bert> realizes he's the only active full
SIPB member, but neglects to vote.


        SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report:

Still in progress.   vault swapping of tapes?  not needed at the moment
to keep sequential sets of tapes here in the office.

	Publications Report:

well stocked today.

	R/O Report:

'()

	IAP Report:

IAP planning happened last month.  <rjbarbal> not here to give updated
status.  Show up at the events and help out!

	CokeComm Report:

Jerk not here.  We have coke (but we're running low).  Please take cans
to LaVerde's.  Take 4 flats down, bring the money back to the money can,
and take a soda as reward.

<sipb6> is willing to sell the Jerk a box of fla-vor-ice.

	Other:

Nov 1st NYT (by John Markhoff, p. D1) and WSJ talk about a cracker
getting in to panix.com, running some variety of sniffer.  Word has been
spreading on the net, CERT has been tight-lipped about it.  NYT article
quoted flames directed at the CERT for not providing useful information.

[<bert> accidentally attempts to gavel the meeting to death, but fails]

Nov 2 1993 (tomorrow) is the 5th anniversary of the rtm Internet worm
launch.

The UNIX timestamp epoch/6 passed last week, and the "term" program
broke (overflowing arithmetic provoked a bug).

	Other Other:

<proven> started a new job at The Hewlett-Packard Company.
The gavel is a fun toy.  Everybody should have a gavel at a meeting
sometime (sez <bert>).
The author of "Using Discuss" is in town for two weeks.

Scott Adams is about to lecture, so the rest of the SIPB is away being
professional nerds.

	The meeting was adjourned at 19:58.


	Minutes taken and submitted by jtkohl.