Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 7 April 2003 The meeting was called to order at 19:32 by golem. In attendance were Voting members: nim golem kenta keithw kchen | ike Associate members: jhawk jweiss ocschwar deberg Prospectives: kilroi kareid glasser fustflum Guests: Treasurer's Report: nothing Chairman's Report: nothing Office Report: keithw: move to allocate up to $3000 for a machine without a monitor with 2 gigabytes of RAM jweiss: there are two machines like lola-granola golem: question about use keithw: use for the high-definition TV, Ken's scientific software golemtl: are you going to parallelize the code? keithw: yes, and I have before jhawk: how much money do we have left? golem: about $5000 jhawk: anything else we wanted to buy? golem: table, but only tibbetts and I were interested, and we have failed to do anything jhawk: might want OCR software [keithw allocation: $3000 for a machine without a monitor with 2 gigabytes of RAM] fustflum: move to allocate $150 for two new, fast CD burners, jhawk: how fast, what kind fustflum: >20 speed, internal nim: what about the burners in the Mac? golem: I don't like Macs [fustflum allocation: $150 for two new, fast CD burners] kenta: we have a new scanner golem: I like my scanners small nim: slow because it is USB golem/nim/jhawk: SCSI discussion Office Cleaning Report: keithw: the bot went off golem: the fish went off MIT Computing Report: keithw: there is a new connection to the outside world. MIT is going to bring wireless and 100MBs to EC, Bexley, New, Next golem: keithw's TV thing bring shampoo ads to the SIPB office keithw: in blisterly perfect clarity Computer Services: nothing SIPB Backup Report: nothing Publications Report: jhawk: someone should deal with inessential zephyr Orientation Report: glasser: SIPB doing something for CPW? nim: there is an activity fair this weekend golem: sipb did not sign up for it; I didn't know about this others: read ASA mail more golem: probably nothing we can do about this. Aletta used to do this ike: not really the goal of CPW golem: CPW about getting undesirables not to come to MIT kenta: we're planning to have a prefrosh column in the Tech, and this includes telling them to go to the office. keithw: let's publish the password to sipb9 in the Tech others: no jhawk: how can they log in the library? someone: web browser deberg: athena development should enable running a web browser from the login screen. Also, won't hosts have computers you can use? jhawk: might want to check email at other times jhawk: do we actually want to advertise this? golem: yes keithw: tries to make motions that are unneccessary and second them himself IAP Report: golem: it's sooner than you think CokeComm Report: keithw: how do I pay jenselby: give me a check or cash. Don't be stupid keithw: get paypal jenselby: I'll think about it Other: kchen: will be Ask SIPB meeting after this meeting Other Other: kilroi: I'm going to CalTech in the fall to be a chemist kenta: has good weather kilroi: back to Southern CA golem: I hear math sucks at CalTech kilroi: I am not Thomas Mack Sucks Report: golem: people who look, talk, and act exactly like you but aren't you and suck and are evil keithw: local ABC affiliate, which wastes 60% of its bandwidth kilroi: tendonitis glasser: abiword fustflum: adobe, for charging $200 for photoshop SDK The meeting was adjourned at 19:54. Minutes taken and submitted by jenselby.