Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/3/2001 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by fyfer. In attendance were Voting members: fyfer tibbetts kolya arolfe ingolia dmaze alex_c | Associate members: belmonte | jhawk Non-voting members: Prospectives: emarcus mwp aatharuv aletta kilroi asedeno tsuen vkm aaarizpe aiba jtwang minilek ddleeds cmaes zamfi arbo | cmak namin skendig zephyrus Guests: Treasurer's Report: aletta: Photocopying for the midway was about $20. We need to allocate money. [aletta allocation: $20 for photocopies] Chairman's Report: fyfer: Elections for a new treasurer and a new EC member at large will be in two weeks. tibbetts: We should member Arun. fyfer: We're voting on the nomination, which means that we'll have a membership vote at a meeting in the future. <7-0-0, motion passes> Office Report: tibbetts: The stereo now has an lprng spool. the queue is sipbmp3. It may soon work for oggs. jered did this yesterday. jhawk: This runs on mkc. Office Cleaning Report: dmaze: If you're going to move documentation off the shelves, please don't place it such that you can't open the monoliths. dmaze: jhawk, tell us about the clock. jhawk: The clock fails to receive signal. It was disassembled for antenna hackery which was unsuccessful. It has been left disassembled and it's about as useful as when it was assembled. MIT Computing Report: jhawk: 9.0.16 goes out tomorrow for suns and should fix the annoying DNS problems in netscape. belmonte: 9.0.15 should release for platforms other than suns. Computer Services: tibbetts: The linux installer still has a locales bug. arolfe: If you want to be a webmaster, talk to me. tibbetts: I installed RT on thornhump. It's a ticket tracking system written by Jesse. It may be useful but it's not a production service now. If you want to use it, talk to me and maybe I'll make it real. thornhump now has apache and postgresql. vkm: How painful was RT to set up? tibbetts: Not that bad. SIPB Backup Report: Publications Report: belmonte: The copy of netnews is gone. alex_c: Lots of software has just changed on Athena. If you want to help out, documenting stuff is a good place to start. fyfer: Working on publications is a good way to get involved. It's a good way to learn about new stuff. Orientation Report: aletta: There was a midway and we have frosh. emarcus: Computer Tours are Thursday night. Meet in Lobby 10. We're going to N42, the W91 server room, and some places in LCS, the Media Lab, and the AI Lab. Afterwords is Jeff Schiller. I'll send mail to the sipb-midway-01 list. If you want to be a tour guide, please talk to me. IAP Report: fyfer: This is IAP planning planning month. Sherri is the IAP sucker. Talk to her if you're interested in teaching a class. tibbetts: There's a list sipb-iap-sucker. Send mail to that. jhawk: Can you poke Sherri to get a more accurate report now. We need to reserve space in the near future. tibbetts: I'd like to teach a class called "How to Break into Computers and Not Get Caught." I need help teaching this class. fyfer: I'd like to have a straw poll about whether we should invite Kevin Mitnick as an IAP speaker. jhawk: A few words of background. First, he was a cracker who definitely did what he was accused of. We should differentiate between asking him to speak and paying him to speak. fyfer: The money would come from outside sources. belmonte: We should mention that his speaker fee is $10,000. alex_c: I bet no one has tried to negotiate a better deal. fyfer: Many people's view is not based on that he did illegal computer things but that he was held without trial for a long time. fyfer: First question: Ignoring money, who thinks it would be worth having him speak during IAP? <8 for, 8 against> fyfer: Second: If he was speaking, is it worth asking MIT to spend money on it? <0 for, many against, jhawk abstains and feels that he needs to point this out> fyfer: It's not too late to suggest other speakers, though it's getting close to the time to ask important people. vkm: Some people mentioned the guy who caught Mitnick. fyfer: I don't know about that. You should talk to the people who suggested that. belmonte: The Crash Course in C is sooner than you think. Send me mail if you'd be interested in teaching or organizing it. CokeComm Report: Other: dmaze: I am building ogg-vorbis 1.0 rc2 for the sipb locker. aatharuv: I already have the libraries in the outland locker. dmaze: I'm willing to maintain it in the sipb locker. vkm: Is there interest in having support for junkbuster on local machines? alex_c: keithw has already set up something like that. If you use junkbuster.mit.edu as a proxy. vkm: Right, but something that allows local configuration. alex_c: I have one that's not ready for production. Other Other: dmaze: I finished my thesis. Yay! kilroi: I proved that I lost the original LaTeX for my phase II paper that I now need to revise. belmonte: Starting with freshmen who are registering tomorrow, phase II won't exist anymore. tibbetts: Random's bathroom server got slashdotted. fyfer: Random's bathrooms have sensors on the doors to see if they're in use. See bathroom.mit.edu. belmonte: Add a webcam? The meeting was adjourned at 20:10. Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.