Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/26/2004 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by golem. In attendance were Voting members: arolfe golem jtu Associate members: jhawk lockhart oschwar Prospectives: wjh wdaher jbarnold cporter Guests: Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: golem: Two weeks until officer elections. Office Report: jtu: I bought a book. The other one is being ordered. wjh: I'm interested in a project to create a live linux CD that could access athena services. Is there a machine in the office I could use to work on this. I'd need to be able to reboot it, write CDs, and it needs about 10GB of free space. golem: You can reboot any office head that you're at, though it's polite to see if anyone's logged in first. Office Cleaning Report: golem: It went off yesterday, or maybe it was saturday. MIT Computing Report: Computer Services: cporter: I still haven't sent email about steve-dallas. I'm making backup images of all the VMs on it and will update it next week sometime. I intend to leave all the existing services on it running; the backups are just in case. Publications Report: golem: We'll need more iMatlab soon. Orientation Report: IAP Report: jtu: I suck. A lot. SIPB should get itself a better sucker next year. jtu: There is one person who really wanted to learn C++ today and they were very, very disappointed. merolish decided that taking a final at Harvard was more important. The classes this week are CCCJ, CCCC, Pythong for Perl Hackers, Tools for Software Development, Intro to Zephyr, part II of Security Exploits, 802.11 wireless hacking, and maybe more that I've forgotten. Yeah, like C++ Internals. wdaher: My friends who don't go to MIT loved the slides for the IAP classes. jtu: That LSC girl really rocks for making 7 slides for me in less than 14 hours. CokeComm Report: '() Other: jtu: I scheduled myself for meetings from 6pm-11pm tonight. And I'm sick. Other Other: golem: The SciFi marathon made me feel young again. The meeting was adjourned at 19:40. Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.