Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 05/12/97 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by kretch. In attendance were Voting members: foley hartmans jmorzins gutnik fubob amu emhavens amsmith kretch danw fastcart rjbarbal Associate members: mhpower marc eichin ghudson tlyu kcr jweiss Non-voting members: Prospectives: jhbrown justom jdaniel mwp sjens gbartels Guests: Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: '() Office Report: fastcart: People should make sure that cords and such are set up so that mice can be moved to the left side of the keyboard. zsr in particular has a problem with this. hartmans: There was some discussion yesterday of ways to make the office nicer. People should consider bringing those up on mailing lists. kretch: People were interested in ventilation and possibly a new carpet. That requires finding storage for everything in the office (maybe the reading room?). Discussion should go to sipb-discussion. amu: Move to allocate up to $50 to purchase one copy of _The LaTeX Companion_. jweiss seconds. jweiss: What is this book? amu: It documents add-on packages. White balloted. amu volunteers to get the book. kretch: We got two shelves to replace the missing shelf (we have a spare now). We have more books than shelf space, which I'll look into this summer. MIT Computing Report: jweiss: On a number of public workstations there is a DES challenge program running in the background. This is inappropriate unless you're running it while you're logged in. If you find this, and can investigate it and find out who's responsible, please do so. Then send mail to hacked-ws. mhpower: Kill the process or not? jweiss: If you've gotten all the relevant information, yes; otherwise, exercise discretion (killing it will make it harder to investigate, but will make the machine more usable; don't feel guilty). ghudson: Beta is happening tonight. This will affect bobbi-harlow, bart-savagewood, and opus if we take the update. kcr: ops has hired a new person starting in the June 12 time frame. There may or may not be a question as to his qualifications. [It's kcr.] Computer Services: '() SIPB Backup Report: foley: All of the non-AFS stuff was done this week on time. hartmans: AFS was done last week, not sure if it was done this week. Publications Report: kretch: Seem to be fine except for Installing NetBSD. R/O Report: kretch: The deadline for early returns is the 19th. I think we get at most two and two people have asked; if you want one, you should talk to me right away or you will lose. hartmans: Do we need an R/O sucker? kretch: Not yet, maybe in a bit. IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: kretch: We have... no Coke, but lots of other stuff. amsmith: BJs sucks. kcr: People should stock the fridge with caffeinated drinks. Other: mhpower: Progress towards Internet security may be better over the next two weeks in that Eric Allman has gone off river rafting. Other Other: hartmans: The US Congress is not making progress on cryptography very easy. Read f-c for details. sjens: All hail Deep Blue. mhpower: People should congratulate Elliot on his membership in Tau Beta Pi. amu: Only 27% of this year's freshman are Course 6 so far. kretch: Today is May 12, which makes it Emily's birthday. kcr: When driving from North Carolina to Boston, it is best to get some sleep the day before. jweiss: The weather is beautiful. You want to play ultimate. You want your friends to play ultimate. The meeting was adjourned at 19:40. Minutes taken and submitted by ghudson.