Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/16/1999


The meeting was called to order at 19.30 by foley.

In attendance were
	Voting members: foley mkgray yak
	Associate members: klmitch rjbarbal belmonte kcr dbj mycroft marc
		mhpower jhawk jweiss fastcart | jmmikkel
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: xela fyfer zoz nemo gif gemery arolfe wild_dj
		mwp@mwpnet.com | ingolia cfox
	Guests: dr 

Treasurer's Report:
	foley: I still haven't checked on the roles database.

Chairman's Report:
	'()

Office Report:
	fastcart: I sent mail to janej, she hasn't got back to me yet about
		video cards.  NECX has an ETA of 9 September.
	fastcart: meadow went down but it's back up.
	cfox: Mail was sent.

Office Cleaning Report:

	xela: The last zephyrs in sipbzlog from the tunafish were sent on
		23 July.
	jweiss: Remember, you can tune a filesystem but you can't tune a fish,
		and you can't ping tunafish.

MIT Computing Report:
	kcr: Did the quota raise happen this week?
	jweiss: Yes, the default athena quota is now 30M.

Computer Services:
	mhpower: So there's this information about I/S wanting to have the
		machine name www.mit.edu, and it comes to us via a
		conversation between sly and jis.  It seems that I/S would
		like to have the machine name and to redirect some set of URLs
		to the machine that we maintain.  Comments?  Say them now,
		send mail to webmaster, or talk to people later.
	jhawk: When I saw that, I wondered if it came about by the maintainers
		of www.wmit.edu being lame about the process of making the
		top-level page of www.mit.edu look like the top-level page of
		web.mit.edu, as had been discussed previously.  Did we screw
		ourselves due to lameness?
	mkgray: In short: no.
	belmonte: The beta copies of Microsloth Office on deathtongue have
		  expired.
	dbj: The non-beta copies should be on the MSDN disks.  Upgrade it if
		you want to.
	jhawk: We have two copies of Windows 2000 adddressed to yandros.
	dbj: A copy of Office 2000 appeared in the office a few weeks ago.
	jhawk: This is zacheiss's fault.  It's going away.  You didn't see it.

SIPB Backup Report:
	jweiss: zacheiss did them.

Publications Report:
	jhawk: We're all set.
	kcr: Are we set for R/O?
	jhawk: We're missing a publication that has not yet been issued.

Orientation Report:
	rjbarbal: Someone might want to update the bulletin board in the
		hallway before R/O happens.
	jweiss: I know that there was discussion at some point about maybe
		updating things like the Linux install documentation before
		all the freshman show up.  Our documentation is currently out
		of date.
	jhawk: Even if not much has been changed, the fact that it has a date
		of 1997 discourages some users.

IAP Report:
	xela: It's IAP planning planning planning month.

CokeComm Report:
	jweiss: We have lots of empties.

Other:
	'()

Other Other:
	jhawk: Due to a construction accident in building 33 today, the fire
		alarms are not working in many parts of campus.  If you think
		that fire control systems don't have single points of failure,
		maybe you should think again.
	fastcart: I have a chair and a desk.  I'm still looking for more
		furniture, i.e. couch, kitchen table, and more chairs.
	mkgray: I now have a wife, a house, a car and a job.
	klmitch: Texas is hot.
	kcr: Ha.
	foley: grey17 for a short period has a large portion of its first
		floor in the driveway.
	jweiss: It's a nice day.  People should play Ultimate.

The meeting was adjourned at 19.43.


	Minutes taken and submitted by belmonte.