Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 07/31/95 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by ghudson. In attendance were Voting members: beaners djib ghudson jered jhawk nocturne rjbarbal rshah tlyu Associate members: eichin jtkohl jweiss marc mhpower mwhitson proven sgw srz Non-voting members: Prospectives: aragorn foley grisha jemorris jhbrown mwp mycroft nathanw ryan@netaxs.com sathy vadim ladyada@gnu.ai.mit.edu Guests: Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: '() Office Report: Someone should volunteer to deal with new tapes and toner cartridges. People came to change the filters for the suspended air conditioners. Richard got us a new chair from the Building 56 salvage. MIT Computing Report: Chimera (one of the 4 db servers) is now a Sparc-20 running SunOS. Another may be upgraded soon. Zephyr servers have been fixed for dialup lossage (losing subs on one server but not all of them). Computer Services: ghudson talked to Lorraine and R-squared trying to swap a Micropolis disk for a Seagate disk. They will get back to him, so he will try to work it out tomorrow. This is the second Micropolis disk that has had problems; it is causing crashes of the SIPB AFS server every week or so. SIPB Backup Report: Jonathan did everything but the Web servers last week. Publications Report: Jhawk was lame. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: Anyone who wants to buy quarters from Rachel should send her mail. Other: Shawn McKay (ECF) died last week. He was a news maintainer for EECS and had dealings with a number of SIPB people. There will be a memorial service at some point at the MIT chapel. Other Other: Stuff is being given away for salvage in building 56. Remember to clean it off a lot, since it was the biology building. The meeting was adjourned at 19:35. Minutes taken and submitted by srz.