Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/15/94 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by sorokin. In attendance were Voting members: ghudson yandros yoav shabby abbe nocturne sorokin cat rcaileff mkgray | xiphmont harrisj beaners Associate members: mhpower eichin mcmullan jcb jweiss marc Non-voting members: Prospectives: cordelia dimon dimdim grisha jefreypu yonah baspitz aquaboy@iac.net djib jsod | katzchen aragorn jmmikkel dimon quijote jforbess shadow Guests: Secretary's Gratuitous Pre-meeting Comment: Myst is really nyfty. Treasurer's Report: Not much to report. Chairman's Report: sorokin: I'm back but my luggage isn't. More details later. Office Report: xiphmont: dripping air conditioner. marc called phys plant a lot and finally they sent someone up and removed ~30 gallons from the air conditioner. at least one of our trash can has a hole in it. They should fix it (the AC). mhpower: we have some of the supplies that we approved at previous meetings, including toner. is that stuff gonna stay there or move back? We're gonna move it back. rcaileff: I said I'd check on getting recycling bins and I checked and we could get white-paper recycling bins for this stuff... sorokin: take this under consideration... rcaileff: we could either adopt some smaller bins from some dorm or something, or going to Walmart or some such place. I'm not going to deal if it means liberating bins from dorms. abbe: how about milk cartons? they're small, so we'll have to do stuff early. yoav: check up on the price? jcb: I volunteer to help with transport if that's an issue, since I have a car. mhpower: Move we allocate up to $700 ... blah blah. abbe: I move we allocate up to $50 for a set of recycling bins. seconded and white balloted. MIT Computing Report: ghudson: I'm working on a new design for the zephyr server and people with ideas should talk to me. I have no idea how far this design will go... nocturne: Many ILG's have been offline since Friday night due ot the thunderstorm. nocturne: Clearninghouse will be tested Wednesday. mkgray: According to Neil, it was going to be tested last Wednesday. It was actually demoed, not sure how that went. yandros: New athena release. All LaTeX stuff in the SIPB locker should be removed. Any reasons not to remove it? jweiss: there are still 7.6 machines out there. yandros: 7.7 people will lose... anyway, our stuff is out of date. We can discuss this after the meeting. ghudson: A new zephyr server should go into production later this week; if it breaks it's my fault. yoav: new spiffy tables in W20... mkgray: they're really @i(cute). yandros: notify hotline with your opinions on these things, they'll be glad to...have more mail. Computer Services: shabby: ...but I just... SIPB Backup Report: mhpower: AFS backup is running, about 1/3 of the way. abbe: the Chair doesn't need to be restored from backup anymore, but bert still does. Publications Report: abbe: we should do something about the online housing lottery registration thing. if no one else wants to, I'll deal and write a one-page guide. ghudson: mail was sent to bug-sipb saying people can't read the online documentation because of ... yandros: it's because of the SIPB xdvi which is old. mkgray: any changes to existing publications between now and next week? We want some printed for the activities midway. jmmikkel: fix iLaTeX? abbe: do we want to hand these out at the midway? people will just pick up more of them afterwards anyway. mkgray: We should get 200-300 iathena for it, I think. harrisj: I'm getting off my butt and working on iness. xresources again... yoav: inessential punting? mkgray: for the first time in 5 or 6 years, HowToGamit will reflect the correct state of athena. R/O Report: mkgray: I sent mail. four things. I. Classes, shabby and I will do athena for computer literate. anyone who wants to help, we'll be happy to have assistance. I want to teach a class on web-related stuff. Jake, wanna help me? I think getting volunteers for that should be easy... Any other classes, let me know _NOW_. II. Activities midway. I'd like to bring lola and a linux machine that's not quiche. A linux laptop would be cool. III. Thursday night dinners, pretty trivial, if Mary's isn't open we need to figure out where to go. (xiphmont: New Hampshire) IV. Tours. bean? "They'll happen... they will..." abbe: suggestion: do them after the midway. ghudson: Daily confusion entries due the 17th. mkgray: SPB shirts if we have them at Freshman picnic? jweiss: mkgray has something he wants to say. mkgray: I'd like to move for enough money for 200 copies of iness. athena. second. white ballot. poof. Who wants to deal? sorokin (grumbled): Fine, I'll do it. IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: We are out of coke. We have diet coke and juice, and that's it. Send mail to cokecomm. Other: shabby: there was a thunderstorm this weekend and my system went down. xiphmont: Squish continues. djib: IRIX 5.1 and 5.2 has a nice security hole that gives anyone root access. When we tried to install the patch we couldn't boot the machine up. Other Other: sorokin: So, I went to Europe and it was cool. And I got all the way back to Brussels with bert, and... mcmullan: you LOST him? sorokin: well, yeah. The airline (Sabena) left behind, in ascending order of importance: bert's luggage, my luggage, and bert. We speculate that they sent him back to Vienna. My theory is that bert, and bert's luggage, and my luggage are somewhere in Vienna now... if you get a collect call from bert, say yes. Sabena Airlines sucks. mkgray: Dilbert's tie was flat on Tuesday. harrisj: a new project, the SIPB subway map server. sorokin: I had some maps, but they're in my luggage. abbe: my sister used the term "fall over and die" talking about her 286. jcb: People who are claustrophilic should talk to me about caving Saturday. marc: Only one more approval necessary for Mary's to open. harrisj: get Mary an athena account? sorokin: in the spirit of what abbe was saying. I made a comment to a 14-year-old about how annoying a "56k-line" is, and she responded, "yeah, no kidding, that's what we have at the school." She's writing a MUD. aragorn: I moved into my apartment. abbe: if anyone wants to help me carry stuff up flights of stairs, I'm moving into Senior House Friday. mkgray: I found an apartment. mcmullan: I found an apartment-mate. rcaileff: I helped three SIPB members and one non-SIPB member move yesterday. jsod: There has been some prodding on the part of my parents for me to get out of the country sometime... Probably within the next two weeks. sorokin: Don't fly Sabena. shabby: I was bitten by mosquitos the other night because I was a moron. nocturne: I think my cousin whose name is Eric Mumpower is going to the same place JMike is. Post-Meeting Ultimate Report: ghudson: Move to rename this report the "Everyone Look At Chad Report". Second, white-balloted. jweiss: anyone interested in playing after the meeting. someone: It's wet. sorokin: Ultimate might happen after the meeting. jweiss will bully you. The meeting was adjourned at 20:05:45. Minutes taken and submitted by shabby.