Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/3/2001 ;; Needs to be cleaned up The meeting was called to order at by fyfer. In attendance were Voting members: aatharuv fyfer gif golem emarcus tibbetts alex_c aletta kolya | nim Associate members: ingolia hartmans dmaze rjbarbal yak dbj | tytso Non-voting members: Prospectives: eisenbud jtu Guests: Treasurer's Report: Chairman's Report: fyfer: Today, we're having a memgbership election for Daniel Eisenbud. golem: Do you have a car? eisenbud: Yes hartmans: Why can't we throw things, and how long does that date back? eisenbud: For not hitting computers, and not hitting users, don't know the origin of this. golem: Who is kneeling behind you? eisenbud: tytso dmaze: What has he written? eisenbud: The serial driver?, ext2. (It was ext2) yak: Who was Liana before Liana was Liana? eisenbud: Nathan Williams. yak: Who was Liana before Nathanw was Liana? eisenbud: Gisele. tibbetts: Sometimes people leave pictures in the scanner, and sometimes they're funny. Should we put them in the window? eisenbud: It could be construed as helping them find their pictures, but it could also turn some people away. hartmans: What are some services SIPB provides or has provided in the past? What should sipb start providing that it doesn't already? eisenbud: Helping users, previously ran the main MIT webserver, www.mit.edu . I'm not sure what exactly the situation is? SIPB already is a place to do things that I/S isn't doing (installing software, etc. fyfer: to clarify, we still own www, but we mirror the top level page. fyfer: What have you done for SIPB or around SIPB? - installed mozilla builds until went to appalachian trails, planning on installing it again. improving message threading code in mutt. helping users rjbarbal: say a bear in the appalachian trail asks a computer question. What can only you answer. - The bear started walking through him like a user, he tried walking back, Why does the threading code in mutt suck, and what could be improved? Assuming headers, and references, the new threading algorithm, attaches everything to the message it is referenced to. ingolia: three services/servers - web server - www ; sipb locker -??? ; no fyfer: - afs rosebud reynelda, discuss on charon, news on senator-bedfellow marc: How's your c++ ? - Rustier than in C but exists. MARC: If you have an iterator into a map object, golem: who wears the floppy hat in this outfit? - jhawk wears a funny hat (that's the acorn hat) - Marc Eichin (wrong, Marc Horowitz). eisenbud: dmaze: A user comes in and says: My professor sent me an email, but show didn't help? - mhn , with msword file, use soffice.If in real hurry, use msword on the mac (dmaze - soffice is butt slow and a resource hog. the mh command you're looking for is mhstore. fyfer - show should just use mswordview pipe to lynx -dump golem: If you become a member, what will you do to improve MIT computing... - Work on getting mutt useful on Athena, along with mail filtering. tibbetts: How do I get mail filtering in mutt? - Some hacking with muttrc dmaze: What is gif doing with his armhair? - Something with static electricity? alex_c: What's the dielectric const of gif's armhair? - 1, as I don't know the units fyfer: I move that marc ask the question marc: *asks question* - because I enjoy beeing around sipb members, and being helpful? Meeting closed eisenbud is membered. 9-0-1 Office Report: golem: office supplies research - I have personally been annoyed by the wimpiness of staplers, our most important service. Let's upgrade them. As a summary. For 50 we could upgrade to a "made studly stapler" and for about 200, upgrade a whole bunch. fyfer: do people complain? golem: They get annoyed by their cheapness. Office Cleaning Report: tibbetts: There's an alarming number of cans in the back of the office MIT Computing Report: Computer Services: SIPB Backup Report: hartmans: They happened. Publications Report: golem: We need to backup sipb gif: We only have one Netnews tibbetts: i still say we need to call it iPorn Orientation Report: IAP Report: dmaze: It's a lot closer than you think CokeComm Report: fyfer: approaching short coke supply golem: I saw him come in with a 6 pack gif: 12 pack hartmans: Is he still in "need car mode"? fyfer: I think Other: rjbarbal: blood drive this week, Some people have been interested in getting yapc in the boston area. I tried contacting conference services, but they haven't gotten back. fyfer: Email has gone to sipb-office and sipb-discuss recently yak: Last person who changed the root password on binkley should tell me. (other sutff dmaze: Can we get a sucks report tibbetts: libasic.. hartmans: libasic in it's own special way ingolia: c++ stl Other Other: aletta: The great-grandneice of Rorscach lives on 5e. tytso: Today is my first day at IBM. I report to the assimilation chambers on the 19th, for a course in Armonk, and the name of the course is Becoming One Voice. The meeting was adjourned at 20:01 PM. Minutes taken and submitted by aatharuv.