Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/2/93 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by mkgray. In attendance were Voting members: warlord ghudson mkgray tlyu abbe marthag autumn sorokin yandros jweiss | bert gsstark mhbraun Associate members: rls jtkohl eichin raeburn mcmullan rjbarbal gamadrid proven cjsmith opus srz ckclark | sidlives bcn svalente Non-voting members: Prospectives: cthomas | lorianne jee_hbm aellwood Guests: Treasurer's Report: He sent mail to sipb about lex/yacc book. Its 29.95 at quantum. should I make the motion? seconded. Anyone think we should not get it? approved. Use cokecomm to launder money? Are there any problems? Or can the jerk and the treasurer just deal? He will set up a line for "sipb".... But DONT FILL IN THE DOTS. Chairman's Report: Chairman got his hair cut and shaved. He has that boyish look to him. Office Report: Its getting pitlier. Keyboard on binkley died. JJ looked at it, rearranged the keys, and called DEC field service. Rearranging the drawers has been postponed by the Office Czar. MIT Computing Report: All public solaris machines are shut down because of an AFS bug. You cannot append two files together that are not in the AFS cache, or you will lose bits! sun4bin will be changed, so that $bindir on solaris and SunOS4 will be different. This won't happen right now, but it will happen in the next major release (7.7?) 18.158 will be down at 7am tomorrow, for a short period. (like 5 minutes). After that, then many servers are going to go up and down to reorganize the machine room. Themis is going up and down because its losing. Paging almost works again. Computer Services: We have a new server, "opus" (well, its up as opus) Anyone who runs a service on charon should speak to rtfm-maintainers, to find out if the service is moving. There may be a problem with the current distribution of services. Postscript locker is now in AFS space. Read the ps-hacks discuss meeting. bloom-beacon is now bloom-beacon, and not enterpoop. A new UUCP map has been sent, so we can reclaim the enterpoop name soon, for another machine. There was a problem with news. People should send mail whenever things get done. Bed is being maintenenced. It is rebuilding the history file, and then its going to get more swap space (30 Meg more). If this doesnt fix the problem, then we will need to limit the number of news readers. W20 cluster and SIPB are moving off of 18.70 at some point. It is possible to keep some things on 18.70 for things tied to an IP address. So, when networks asks, we need to know what to tell them what needs to be kept on 18.70. The w20 cluster is going to change in a week or so when they change the workstation. Other things in this building will change off 18.70. We don't know the details, yet. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report: warlord can do it wednesday. Ptdb is inconsistent. It has been inconsistent since the fiasco, and should probably be fixed. Probe? ckclark: vos releasing volumes is now done automatically for the replicated volumes. The script runs on ronald-ann. AFS admin meeting: we should get a physical meeting of the AFS admins. Anyone who wants to come can. We dont need probe, but people should get notice. Topics: backups, binaries, how to become AFS admins, reliability, and other such topics. After next week's meeting? Yes. Publications Report: If anyone wants to deal with graphics on iAthena, talk to sorokin. Did someone speak to sethf? Supposedly he punted. iLatex: there will be an updated draft later this week. If anyone has done bibliography work, talk to rjbarbal. R/O Report: Its coming. Tours: we have the same number of responses. We need to reserve 6-120. The date is Wed, Sept 1. It is the same time as the athletics midway. Abbe should talk to jdaly to give an "athena" tour. Should we stop at the office? Maybe, if we have time. Midway: we have heard no more suggestions about wiring the midway for ethernet. marc is looking at a radio ethernet (256 kbps) for us to borrow for the midway. SIPB open house: mkgray, sorokin, and abbe are going to discuss it after the meeting. It is a place for prospective prospectives to come and see what the SIPB is about. (i.e., no sleeping on the couch) A presentation of the SIPB. gamadrid: No sleeping with the freshmen (during RO). IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: The jerk is here. We will have coke tomorrow, or as soon as his housemate moves his car. Give the jerk money, since he is going to redo the coke sheets. *this* will be the jerk's first coke in over a year. coke is gross. Drink coke. Other: '() Other Other: Perseus meteor shower next week. (aug 11) talk to mkgray abbe has a room and a roommate. on aug 14, at midnight, there will be a boston by bike at night. See jweiss. autumn collected her bounty. She has matt's ponytail. there is a postcard from Ted in the rmb. We got three OS/2 product info forms. Yoav says hi. Usenix Mobile computing symposium is going at the Cambridge Marriott. Its been good so far. The meeting was adjourned at 20:00. Minutes taken and submitted by warlord.