Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/19/90 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by amgreene. In attendance were Voting members: amgreene jcbourne bjaspan jik leira dougie klee blubaron mlbarrow rfrench amdehon marc jtidwell Associate members: ambar srz jtkohl csmith eichin Non-voting members: Prospectives: jcb erikkay cagoddar cordelia wlcarrol Guests: Treasurer's Report: He's here. Nothing to report. CokeComm Report: Will order more. Send in those requests! Where is the nearest Swim Team recycling box? Alternative to SAVE. Chairman's Report: We have quorum and elections tonight. Now for the questions: Q: Wes, how well do you Scribe? A: I teach the Scribe minicourse. I have been learning LaTeX, though... Q: If I were ask Wes to name the machines in the office, what would he respond? A: Yes, I probably could. Q: Wes, name the EC ... A: They just turned over... Q: Name the old officers. A: rfrench - chairman, amgreene - secretary, jtidwell - vice-chair marc? Q: Current officers? A: amgreene - chair, jcbourne - secretary, jtidwell - vice-chair, leira.... Q: Wes, can you name all the machines in the office? A: Yes. All right... except for the NeXT. Real-A: The NeXT is called Milo. Q: What the name of the printer? A: jcb: lw-sipb Q: What's that? (Pointing to the light thing.) A: wes: Light thingie... jcb: Simson's piece of ****. Q: Wes, what is the SIPB number? A: 3-7788... Q: Why doesn't the phone have automatic line preference? A: Because of 5ESS... Real-A: Can't get money approved. Q: What are koosh balls for? A: jcb: To throw at people (except me) who make bad puns. Q: What is the room number of SIPB? A: jcb: w20-557 Q: Previous room numbers? A: jcb: 11-205, two in 39... Real-A: 39-200, 39-564, 11-205 Q: Red letters on the old blackboard... A: jcb: Old multics account break-up... Q: Old key for the SIPB office? A: The thing that opened the door... Real-A: 62K Q: What have you done for the SIPB as a prospective? Wes-A: Answering questions... LaTeX... SIPB answers. jcb-A: Spicing up meetings with humor.... giving helpful comments... redirecting questions to appropriate people... misc random nonsense. THE QUESTION: Wes: I worked for Athena because it was neat. SIPB showed me the other side of Athena. I want to know what's going on from both sides. jcb: (hack) Disk space. (real) Computing is a hobby. Desire to program in C. Hack postscript. Learn LaTeX. Easy and fun way to learn all this in SIPB. Both get 13 "YES"'s... Unanimous. Office Report: It's hot. Damn hot. Suggestion to follow-up on thermostat. Need high level pressure. Been calling F-IXIT. Athena Report: Athena announced dial-up support... Paul Boutin has established /mit/potluck... where people can put interesting binaries... Suggestions mailing list seems to be useful... Computer Services: We no longer maintain dial-up servers. Need to get machines over here. Dial-up2 has not accepted dial-ins for a couple of days. MOTD on dial-up says go away. What to do with the machines... Put them in the machine room... Take SIPB-staff off bug-dialup... leave on ACL... How to make the machines we now have useful... Make one Charon, and another one a workstation... Preserving software? User directories are links... Full-backup needed... Chaos kernel... Discussion about proposed 9-track tape services... amgreene has begun to hierarchized /mit/postscript. Let him know if he does something wrong. jtidwell has looked into scanner... $2200... will continue to look. News is relatively stable... We need a new machine to run News... because machine runs out of space. More disk space for swap, more physical memory. Machine is basically too small. We will be still pushed for space even with dial-up machines. Need machines from Athena. Clarinet might justify us getting a faster machine. Clarinet: EECS might be willing to help fund. Maybe Media Lab also... Telecommunications Report: PAD is weird, or just losing... Things get munged when emacs sends escape-codes... Sporadic... High-bit not always being set. Anyone find the micro-vax cables? Let's bother qjb... Publications Report: While Jay is working on Inessential AFS... Everything is pretty well-stocked. ansi-C-specs...? Posix? Needs some doing to get... Suggestion to get copy of ansi-C-specs, etc. Jtkohl volunteers to look into it. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: '() Other: sli is not around to update us on the sweatshirts... Other Other: Jittlov made a reference to Pallis Athena and many people snickered. Jittlov is cool. Wlcarrol had Tosci's with him. jtidwell took him on a tour of Media-Lab. Neat guy, a bit weird, but.... Hackers: Sat 3 Mar 7:30 2-390 to talk about ethics of hacking, etc.. The meeting was adjourned at 20:13:48. Minutes taken by jcbourne and submitted by amgreene.