Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 07/22/2002 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tibbetts. In attendance were Voting members: tibbetts cana kolya nim arolfe aatharuv alex_c Associate members: yak dbj xela hartmans jhawk eichin Non-voting members: Prospectives: rax kilroi int18 jenselby the_geek Guests: Treasurer's Report: Chairman's Report: arolfe: I'd like to nominate rax for membership. aatharuv: Seconds. tibbetts: Do you accept? yak: I think that means "Yo home fries boo ya". <7-0-0, passes, election probably next week> tibbetts: I'll send mail. Office Report: jhawk: The coprocessor is crooked. tibbetts: So there's this pile of NeXT hardware over by the bookcases. Having talked to dbj about its ownership, can I get anyone to volunteer to talk to mycroft and deberg about the rest of it? dbj: I will. tibbetts: I'd like to, at the discretion of dbj, move to get rid of the two slabs, and peripherals associated with them, and the color monitor. tibbetts: Second, I'd like to move to get rid of, at the discretion of Yak's Ballistic Interior Decorating, the two cubes, the black and white monitor, any peripherals associated with the cube, and any remaining peripherals. dbj: That is among the best NeXT hardware available. tibbetts: Maybe someone wants it other than the dumpster. dbj: There is, in fact, a NeXT Dimension card in one of those. tibbetts: Move to allocate up to $100 for an IDE controller for snorklewacker. eichin: Specify ISA vs PCI tibbetts: I want PCI, but I don't think I need to specify in the motion. [tibbetts allocation: $100 for an IDE controller card] tibbetts: We have this extra set of speakers, that we haven't used the entire time I've been at MIT. Mark, have they been in use in the time you've been at MIT. yak: They've been in use the time I've been at MIT. jhawk: We took them down when we painted, and people have been lame about putting them back up. tibbetts: We had four speakers? jhawk: Yes, the stereo supports that, and in fact, it sounded much better. tibbetts: I'm less inclined to get of them then. Never mind. yak: There's this zip drive that's somewhere near Alex. tibbetts: I don't believe you. yak: Well, there's this zip 100 drive (SCSI or parallel) that used to be near Alex. I move to get rid of it at the discretion of Yak's Ballistic Interior Decorating Service. yak: Also, there is a pile of disks here. Last time I tried to get rid of them, people said we'd already made a motion. At the auction, jweiss said we hadn't. Is anyone attached to this hardware here? These disks, or these things that look more like RAM? dbj: The RAM belongs to the NeXTs. And if there's just one small SCSI drive I could have, that would be useful. yak: Ok. So move to get rid of at the discretion of the Office Czar in Charge of Special Operations, all of the disks on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf that we moved to get rid of four years ago, except the ones that Darrin wants. xela: I'd like to move to get of that bookshelf that we moved to get rid of four years ago. yak: I'm already working on it. jhawk: I think, Alex, that such there are widely varying opinions about the shelf and its destination, you shouldn't try to make a motion about the shelf unless you want to start a flame war. arolfe: I don't think we should get rid of it, because often when hardware or software arrives, we say "Hmm, what should we do with these manuals?" jhawk: With some trepidation I enter this discussion... tibbetts: You talked already! jhawk: This is a separate discussion. The office does not have a large amount of available bookshelf space. The bookshelves increase the amount of available bookshelf space in the office usefully. yak: Maybe we should use the free space on the other bookshelves? arolfe: There isn't any. yak: We can fix that. And people just put crap on free space they see. tibbetts: If people want to make motions, that's good. If people want to continue wanking about the bookshelf, take it offline. Office Cleaning Report: aatharuv: The carpet is clean. tibbetts: The carpet had a cleaner applied to it. MIT Computing Report: yak: 9.1 went public. rax: Apparently freshmen coming in are going to be able to get their hostnames via dhcp and this will be the policy from now on. cana: What?! jhawk: I think rax meant to say IP address. xela: Do the words "Dynamic DNS" appear in this anywhere? hartmans: Do Alex and rax have anything to tell us? rax: Tony Davis went on vacation. Computer Services: arolfe: SCSI drives that have 68 pins and enclosures that have 50 pins don't mix. Hence rtfm won't be upgraded as soon as we'd thought. jhawk: They mix if you have little adapters. arolfe: We don't. hartmans: We're talking about SIPB/Debian after this meeting. arolfe: I recently surpassed fubob as having deleted more webmaster spam than anyone in SIPB history. nim: Can we get a trophy for that, that we can pass around? tibbetts: We should have drawer magnets for that, if we're going to have SIPB recognition items. yak: A magnetized can of spam. nim: Move to spend up to $5 for novelty items for arolfe's drawer. [nim allocation: Up to $5 for novelty items] SIPB Backup Report: Publications Report: tibbetts: I've still been lame and haven't copied iLatex. yak: There was a whole pile of "Installing Linux-Athena" one-sheets. I threw them out, because they were malicious. hartmans: sly mentioned throwing out a bunch of old "welcome to Athena" packets. Do we have new ones? Do they exist yet? jhawk: She said at the same time that she'd deal with getting us new ones. Orientation Report: IAP Report: CokeComm Report: Other: hartmans: Last Friday was May 1st. nim: OggVorbis 1.0 was released. hartmans: On May 1st! Other Other: jhawk: I went through two bicycle tires and three tubes so far in the past seven days. xela: Less elliptically than Sam, NetBSD 1.5.3 released. The meeting was adjourned at 19:55. Minutes taken and submitted by cana.