Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/17/94 xiphmont and whitson walk into the office... ...wearing identical clothing. They claim it was accidental. The meeting was called to order at 19:29:59 by mkgray. In attendance were Voting members: sorokin ghudson bert yoav abbe mkgray sekullbe shabby warlord yandros fastcart rjbarbal | autumn tlyu Associate members: eichin mhpower jweiss wesommer | svalente mjbauer mhbraun marthag marc Non-voting members: Prospectives: grisha dale bobmacke xiphmont mwhitson aragorn beaners | carib dimon rei winston mjacknis refahrme Guests: swanson#m#a@vf.ge.com Treasurer's Report: He's not here. ghudson moves to approve up to $60 to buy Steven's new networking series. seconded, minorly discussed. many-0-1. passes. GE raised the prices on chips we already allocated money for, so we're buying them from shabby instead (at the original price). rjbarbal wants 10.50 to pay AV for the overhead projector. white-ballot. sorokin move that we allocate $30 for the Learning Perl (llama) book by Schwartz. seconded. many-1-1 bert moved that we allocate $50 (high estimate) for the Programming Perl (camel) book by Wall and Schwartz. seconded. many-0-1 Chairman's Report: mkgray has demonstrated a concrete example of a `SIPB Projects' doc. MAKE SUGGESTIONS. Elections!!!!! xiphmont and mwhitson submit their respective cranial appendaages for examination. yoav: what's RFC #333? xiphmont: can I hit him now? warlord: name the members xiphmont and mwhitson do. mwhitson misses: jweiss, wessomer, eichin, mhbraun xiphmont misses: wesommer name 3 machines or possible names for machines that aren't one of: `oliver, hodge, podge, or dt' they do Name machine and the service that they provide: mwhitson: charon, lots xiphmont: meander, AFS shabby: how many times do the ``Don't walk'' lights blink? They say: 9 RA: 9 1/2 What happens if the machine room alarm goes off? them: nothing? rjbarbal: outlines a 12-step plan for Intelligent Behavior What if the fire alarm goes off? them: GRAB THE FIRE BOX!!! svalente: name projects you are/want to be involved in mwhitson: IAP web stuff, xfishtank (no sun version, though. :-) xiphmont: koosh launcher bert: I move to make ghudson into Barr3y so he can ask The Question. mhpower: what are the differneces between `gwrsat' and `gwrst' mhpower: one is a mailing list and one is a program in net-tools warlord asks the standard MITVMA question. they don't know the answer (thankfully) shabby: make up a good membership election question and answer it. abbe: name something that they (perhaps uniquely) can provide for the sipb xiphmont: an intimate relationship with most digital hardware mwhitson: MS-DOS experience jweiss: name the only prospetive that's been hugged by Marc in a floppy hat and why it is significant mwhitson: it was part of our `kindler gentler SIPB' movement RA: it was harrisj, in harrisj's hat. sorokin: who in _Dykes to Watch Out For_ wears a striped shirt? lots of members: MO!!! shabby: how do you doublespace in ez xiphmont: quit ez, start emacs.. mwhitson: I don't know RA: .ls 2 and FormatNote rjbarbal: where's the circuit breaker box? they: don't know RA: behind the door mkgray: name something that's hung from the ceiling xiphmont: `the light thingie' (Simsong's) mwhitson: I dunno bjaspan (in abstentia): Why do you want to be a SIPB member? mwhitson: I wanted to learn things and I want to help people. Also, there's cool music here. xiphmont: becuase SIPB is such a ``happen'n place'', and there are people here who know more than I do and they like to talk about it. Discussion happens. Voting happens. mwhitson: 13-0-2 xiphmont: 14-1-0 Office Report: There was a (not) hostile takeover. sorokin and abbe are now the Office Czar. eichin is quoted chortling madly. Czar Stickgold-Sarah says ``Drawer allocation will happen RSN.'' podge's keyboard is sunning itself in the back of the office. Move it back to podge sometime. dale did the recycling. Worship Him. MIT Computing Report: There was an electrical fire in building 6, reportedly. Some power east of building 10 (at least as far as GZA and including Royal East) bounced, but not everything. (many servers, few clients) Computer Services: News died. Ghudson attempted numerous fixes. Finally, lowering the delay from 3 seconds to 2 fixed it. We suspect it was simply a usage spike. Forecasts under currenttly expected conditions are dismal. Resnet starts tomorrow! Expect a flood of everything except for free time. rei is pushing the Alumni Accounts stuff. Help her. We need someone to do backups (especially foo and bar server backups). Volunteer. (talk to marthag) There's a Aliant FX/8 super-mini available from the MIT Equipment office. We may be interested in getting it. ghudson's boot-disk works again. People interested in working on/with Linux install should talk to him. The MIT hostable is now in moira. /afs/net/admin/hosts/hstath.txt and company are obsolete. We should get our stuff `fixed', where `fixed' is not yet clearly defined. If people come in and want an IP address or machine name, tell them to talk to their RCC. (there's a list outside) The macintosh SIPB locker is happening. Talk to yandros. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report: The backup will be done tomorrow. Publications Report: The first copy of Inessential Linux Athena is in svalente's hands. Yay! Motion (seconded, approved) to make 25 copies. (it's still changing, which is why the number is small) People should go to m11 Graphic Arts to get our iAthena's. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: Perl class (44 people attended the first one) pthreads class went well. PostScript class: T-F, 4-6pm Mosaic Class: T-W 7-9pm HTML: R 7-9pm CokeComm Report: We have no Diet Coke! (loud cheer, one unhappy voice) We have no more coke; gamadrid is planning a run. Other: Koosh Launcher construction continues. The keycard reader goes down when power does. oops. The hotline meeting bounces mail. The Giants lost, 44-3. (read quotes if you don't understand and want to) ghudson: Officer Elections will be happening in a few weeks. Other Other: There was a 6.6 earthquake in L.A. (4:30am their time). There are 24 known fatalities. Massive damage. AFtershocks are continuing (at least up to 5.5) It's been declared a disaster area. Don't call in; the lines are needed for now. Large parts of L.A. are without power, water, gas, etc. The California Office of Emergency Services is on-line: telnet oes1.oes.ca.gov 5501 for press releases. UCLA and ISI are off the net; CalTech isn't. For up-to-date info: finger earthquake@geophys.washington.edu 94/01/17 12:30 34.0N 118.7W 10 6.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 94/01/17 20:45 34.1N 118.7W 10 0.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. ML 5.1 (GS). 94/01/17 23:33 34.1N 118.8W 10 5.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LSC is probably doing a lecture by Brian Liebowitz on Feb. 3 at 8pm. Ammonium Sulfide and small elevators don't mix. dimon: ``We won the Mystery hunt.'' mkgray: ``Everyone won the Mystery Hunt.'' rjbarbal: ``The Mystery Hunt was disappointing.'' :-( mjbauer and rei (Mike and Eri, Dammit!) are permanently returned to Boston. Yay!!! RichText to EZ (and inverse) converters now work. Talk to ghudson. Zephyr PGP now works. If you're interested, talk to rjbarbal and/or warlord. The meeting was adjourned at 20:39:21. Minutes taken and submitted by yandros.