Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 11/15/93


	The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by mkgray.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: mkgray bert sorokin tlyu abbe rjbarbal
			warlord shabby
		Associate members: jtkohl mhpower marc marthag 
			jweiss eichin proven cjsmith | srz svalente 
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: jmmikkel djib bobmacke kbrussel 
			drhoads cat | ark3 sgw nalin
		Guests: psyko@csa.bu.edu

	Treasurer's Report:

	Not here.

	marc moves to buy a CRC - $50.  White ballot.  abbe will deal.

	marthag moves to buy a sendmail book.  book on sendmail, Eric
	Allman(sp?) wrote part of it, and wrote every sendmail
	implementation, apparently.  Motion to approve enough money to
	buy it.  White ballot.  We have an account at Quantum, we'll
	use it.  gamadrid will be here after meeting, someone will deal
	with the book.
	($32.95)

	Chairman's Report:

	He's here. big deal.

	waaaay at the end of the meeting: people introduce each other.
	marc's playing mac games.  rjbarbal spins.

	Office Report:

	tlyu sez the deal with Milo is that someone will pay to fix
	our floptical and donate a 2.88M drive for it.  He'll find
	someone to deal.

	The monitor for quiche?  Cable in gamadrid-wait.

	warlord sez someone came in one day with three shrink-wrapped
	tapes.  He had streaming tape, but quiche doesn't handle that.
	QIC something, DAT tape, and TK50.  Apparently we didn't have
	anything that can support any of these three formats, and the
	guy couldn't use it.  We should try get quiche's tape drive up
	for use.  The only viable tape backup we currently have is the
	exabyte.  eichin: The RT has something that could have handled
	it?  There was something to use the tape drive on quiche when
	it was running SVR4.  jtkohl will try something on quiche
	after the meeting.  jweiss: SCSI TK50?  too expensive, ~$2000.
	and TK50 sucks, on top of that.  

	rjbarbal: what ever happened with the 5.25" drive?  

	mkgray (in response): new 486 will be the stable one
	hopefully?  16M RAM, 300M HD, DX-50 or DX2-66 3.5" and 5.25"
	drive...  get a Nice monitor or just expect another VRC-16?
	Let him know if you have a source for that.  one partition
	running Linux, possibly two or one of NetBSD?  marc: "no, no,
	a USEFUL operating system"

	don't leave salt shakers in the office.  

	new office machines?  We're not getting any.  jis says there's
	nothing he/we can do to expedite them, it's waiting for him to
	find somewhere to get them from.  

    	MIT Computing Report:

	nothing.

    	Computer Services:

	jtkohl: If I get the time I'll put sendmail version 8 on
	beacon.  

	warlord: encrypted uucp?  oh, got it.  it's on beacon.  

	mkgray: lots of ftp connections from delphi to rtfm.  What?
	Why?  ask them to make a local mirror of rtfm, or lose access?
	that sounds good.  other reasons rtfm is hosed: nightly jobs
	run all day.  plexus server gets wedged...  

    	SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report:

	mhpower: almost done

    	Publications Report:

	we have pubs.  missing ref cards, send mail to sendpubs.  who?
	jweiss will deal.

	tlyu: We probably want newer documentation for Matlab.  our
	current Matlab documentation we have is for an old version.
	Get new ones?  marc: send mail to f_l.  abbe'll deal. 

    	R/O Report:

	hahahahaha.

    	IAP Report:

	Classes will be taught.  Anyone wants to help out or teach one
	even if it wasn't announced tell mkgray.  there'll be a nifty
	script in sipb to tell about this kind of stuff.

	Fishwrap - pound on fishwrap stuff.  It's personalized
	newspaper in xmosaic.  It doesn't work with the beta version
	of xmosaic.  

	Dunno if SIPB will have its own section in the IAP guide.

    	CokeComm Report:

	Coke is here?  wow.  

	rjbarbal (channeling for gamadrid): clean out your garbage
	from the fridge.  we have coke.
	
    	Other:

	shabby: my computer's dead.  warlord: lemme guess, it was
	OS/2.  shabby: no, it was a HARDWARE problem.

	xzewd has a message. read it.

	Other Other:
	
	umm...  what'd I miss here?  oh. it was a really nice day.

	warlord: certain names coming up at certain MIT vice
	president's meals can be disconcerting.

	The meeting was adjourned at 19:53.


	Minutes taken and submitted by shabby.