Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 06/27/2005 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by kchen. In attendance were Voting members: arolfe kchen merolish Associate members: asedeno jweiss mycroft | jhawk jmorzins ocschwar Prospectives: tabbott yoz Guests: Treasurer's Report: arolfe: The fiscal week ends next week. This means that next week we have more money, and I'll tell you how much next week. Chairman's Report: Office Report: asedeno: The office is a swamp. arolfe: I sent mail about things we wanted to get rid of. And now the office is flooded, reducing dissent. We're going to have a rolling white ballot. - MSDN CDs Ask fustflum. - CAE spec - SIPB programmer cards jbarnold wants them. - NeXT docs (did someone want these from last time?) Somebody's claimed them. - various old NeXT disks - boombox - all non-archival exabyte and 1/4" backup tapes - scribe docs jhawk: I object. I occasionally come across Scribe files. <3-1-5, motion passes> - SVR4.0 docs from intel (1990) - docs for IBM model 200/400 disc unit - radio clock - PL/1 RDMS docs - Project Athena unix docs (printed man pages) - The Last Whole XPG Font catalog - Vax/Decstation 3100 docs jweiss objects. - Xerox 9700 printer docs - BLOX Graphics Builder docs - old userlog and PDP11 manual - Intro to PL/1 Programming - PR1ME PDP 3621-172P reference guide - RDE users manual - EIS source - AIX docs - Mac docs - various early 90s HP manuals and such (bottom shelf) - old snork - 2 CRTs - Pentium 3 1GHz CPU - yaz-pistachio (DECstation 5000) <3-1-3, motion passes> - 4 1GB sticks of SDRAM - NAG FORTRAN mini-manual, mark 9. jhawk: At approximately 12:20pm, a chilled water pipe burst a 1" diameter hole because of rust. Water flowed out at a firehose-type rate, flooding the office to 1" depth throughout in minutes. Principal casualties were many books on the bookshelves, the entire office carpet, and some machines on the south side, most likely including milquetoast, lnitp and portnoy, and their monitors. They may be salvageable, but they should be rinsed in distilled water and dried before attempting to turn them on. Note that this water contains ethylene glycol. Several members' drawers and their contents were also affected. Apparently MIT insurance will be by within the week to evaluate what they'll pay for. Also, Facilities responded extremely rapidly and were here within like three minutes. Secondary effects will felt by third and fourth floor inhabitants, as shit flows downhill. arolfe: If there's stuff that's been damaged, don't throw it out yet. I'll deal with Eileen and Jane and whatever. We should have a list of what needs to be replaced. jhawk: Does anybody know when Chris Laas gets back? His drawer was heavily affected. asedeno: Through Aletta and Richard. jhawk: Some candy was also damaged. mycroft: I'm currently making a list of damaged books. jweiss: Report any damaged property to arolfe. jhawk: Deciding to store valuables that couldn't survive being waterlogged was probably a bad idea on my part. jhawk: We will have the carpet replaced. Everything will have to be moved out of the office. jweiss: If anyone is interested in any of the hardware that we moved to get rid of today, send me email. mycroft: If anyone is here when the insurance people get here, they should pester them to replace any book that got wet because they will mold. Office Cleaning Report: MIT Computing Report: jmorzins: PO quotas have gone up to 512000 kB. jmorzins: For those who use WinAthena, home directories were moved to a new network file system from AFS to Microsoft DFS. The OLCs have more information. DFS is more robust for WinAthena logins than AFS was. jweiss: Take 3 at upgrading the software on the file servers in the athena AFS cell is scheduled for July 3rd at 6am. jhawk: Prior to this upgrade succeeding, you may notice a user with a 1KB quota. jweiss: That's one of many things you may notice. The upgrade should improve the stability of the athena cell considerably. We expect opt-in for a new Windows AFS client to be available later this week. Anything but the newest AFS client will have many bugs tripped by the server upgrade. Computer Services: jhawk: multics and other servers in the rack lost power. It's really cool when you reach for a power switch and feel 60 Hz in your hand but not 120 V. jweiss: I am planning to migrate the SIPB DNS service from thornhump to charon. jweiss: The SIPB machine room is jettisoning a lot of old hardware. Specifically, we are getting rid of a number of SPARC 20s, a number of SCSI disks 18GB and smaller, a number of SCSI enclosures, and old charon the PC which is similar to old snork. If you are interested in keeping any of this hardware, you should send me email. Also on the list is the Alpha known as antisnork, which I am still confirming. Publications Report: kchen: We have more Emacs reference cards. jhawk: These are the FSF Emacs reference cards and not the Athena reference cards, which are superior. We should get the latter. jmorzins and I will deal. Orientation Report: IAP Report: CokeComm Report: jhawk: Again, candy was damaged in the flood. Other: merolish: I submitted my master's thesis. Other Other: asedeno: I got a cell phone. I can zephyr from it. merolish: The Supreme Court ruled today on the Grokster case. jmorzins: The carpet squishes when I walk. The meeting was adjourned at 20:09. Minutes taken and submitted by merolish.