Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/18/95 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by ghudson. In attendance were Voting members: yonah, ghudson, cat, jered, abbe, fubob, hartmans, gsstark, tlyu, nygren Associate members: svalente, mhpower, eichin, jweiss, mcmullan, jhawk | mycroft Non-voting members: Prospectives: sjens, tivol, tap@cs.umb.edu, daveg, katyking, pipa Guests: Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: ghudson: I sent mail about this. The student center will be closed for the next two meetings. I'll try to get a classroom for them. I'll talk to the scheduling office tomorrow, and let people know. Office Report: jhawk: I found the office open at 10am this morning with nobody in it. This shouldn't happen abbe: We broke fire code last night and lit a menorah in the SIPB office. jweiss: I move we allocate up to $10 to buy scotch tape for our dispenser. white ballot passes jered: I move we allocate some amount of money to buy more punches for our hole punch. jhawk: I think we're out of them, but I think that we should get a new hole puncher because this one isn't working well. I move we allocate up to $100 to buy a new hole puncher. jered: I'd rather hear other people's opinions before letting jhawk's motion replace mine... but I'll let jhawk's motion continue. jered: I'm not really certain that we do need a new hole punch. I don't use it enough to know its state, but it has been abused recently. Has anyone else had problems recently? cat: Well, it keeps breaking its hole punch thingies... ghudson: The motion on the floor is to buy up to $100 to buy a new hole puncher. passes 5-3-5 jered: The possible sale of milo has been discussed; possibly unrelated to that is that we have an X terminal. hartmans: I think we should run a term or something on the X terminal. jweiss: The problem with the X terminal is that we can't connect it to the network in the office. ghudson: We can put X windows up on it without routing hartmans: Is it against network policy to connect it to another network? jhawk: Possibly against the spirit. jered: I think that mhbraun said that the routing would be the problem, not separate networks. jhawk: I was wondering if someone had put the red mailbox through a router or otherwise caused it to disappear. If so, please return it. svalente: Someone should come up with specs for the new PC we want to get. ghudson: We already allocated money, and have specs, and kcr should be dealing with it. MIT Computing Report: '() Computer Services: mhpower: The news server ran out of swap space again this afternoon, the same way as last time. It runs out of swap in the afternoon, and is using over 128meg of swap after rebooting. I think we should get more memory. jhawk: I'd like to see someone do various diagnostics before buying new memory. SIPB Backup Report: jweiss: Everything was done last week. Publications Report: jhawk: Sendpubs still hasn't sent us emacs or athena reference cards. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: abbe: Why doesn't have anything to say even though it's real soon now? ghudson: They're mostly personal projects. hartmans: Has NetBSD happened or chosen not to happen yet? jhawk: It's going to happen. I should schedule it. jered: The linux class is scheduled to happen. Nobody's volunteered yet. People should mail me or linux-dev about it. CokeComm Report: jweiss: People should read iRefridgerator Restocking and follow the instructions. cat: There was a cluster of cans on the floor by savage; this is not a better place than on the desk.. abbe: We're out of diet coke again (mentioning it seemed to work last time). Other: jhawk: I finished my first attempt at patches to SunOS to support TOS on TCP packets, but I haven't tested them yet and binutils support for relocs sucks. mhpower: Last week there was a victory for the dark side of the web. The Scientific Computing and Visualization Homepages were moved from http://www.bu.edu/ so that and http://web.bu.edu/ will now both be the official BU homepage. jhawk: Since Saturday, December 16, you can't telnet to NearNet routers without a top level password. Other Other: cat: I don't want MIT to close on Wednesday; I'd miss my plane. abbe: If anyone's going to NJ after Friday, they should tell me. jhawk: It's warmer outside than you might expect. The meeting was adjourned at 19:43. Minutes taken and submitted by yonah.