Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 03/25/2002 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tibbetts. In attendance were Voting members: tibbetts cana alex_c arolfe Associate members: marc yak xela fyfer rjbarbal deberg jhawk jweiss belmonte | zacheiss Unconscious members: golem Non-voting members: Prospectives: | gschmidt Guests: Treasurer's Report: tibbetts: It's spring break, we have no treasurer. Chairman's Report: tibbetts: Nope. Office Report: jhawk: We have a new 440. It's a week late because upper-case W's and lower-case w's are not the same. marc: And we should use upper-case? jhawk: Yes. alex_c: Static discharge probably killed the Kinesis. I've gotten one fixed. alex_c: I want to move zorp to where the NeXT in the back is, to make more desk space. cana: That seems bad for a machine that's almost an office head. alex_c: How about moving oliver then? cana: Oliver is our O2. O2's are still in the clusters. tibbetts: This is why we don't have discussions ahead of time. yak: But since we have, I think it's a bad idea, too. jhawk: I'm not going to move to buy a new CD-ROM for the Mac, because yak found one. marc: Is the CD-RW broken, or does it not work with MacOS? jhawk: Yes. jweiss: Do we have any use for a sparc5? tibbetts: Yes if it's a 170, no if it's a 110. jweiss: It's a 110. jweiss: Move to get rid of one sparc5 at the discretion of the Office Czar in Charge of Special Operations. Office Cleaning Report: MIT Computing Report: jweiss: We have a patch release tonight. tibbetts: Was this the one that exploded in the dev cell? cana: There was a Solaris issue, It got fixed. marc: ihtfp is possessed. Computer Services: alex_c: I've decided doing things with lots of computrons is a bad idea because they depreciate too rapidly. SIPB Backup Report: tibbetts: Ha ha. arolfe: I think it was complaining about not having a tape. jhawk: Garry put one in today. Publications Report: tibbetts: We're out of Matlab? jhawk: $20 for Linux one-sheets? tibbetts: Seconded [jhawk allocation: $20 for linux one-sheets] tibbetts: $30 for iMatlab? jweiss: Seconded. [tibbetts allocation: $30 for iMatlab] Orientation Report: yak: Sooner than you think. IAP Report: jhawk: What he said. CokeComm Report: Other: tibbetts: It's spring break. Other Other: jhawk: Miramax sucks. arolfe: I think we should have a sucks report... fyfer: Guinness ice cream is good. Sucks: jhawk: Miramax! tibbetts: CPAN! The meeting was adjourned at 19:37. Minutes taken and submitted by cana.