Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/22/2007 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tabbott. In attendance were Voting members: tabbott jhawk arolfe nelhage presbrey kchen andersk k_lai | tilia Associate members: jemorris asedeno mitchb proven dmaze | fustflum Prospectives: jwalden quentin mathmike | geofft Guests: arn Treasurer's Report: jhawk: Buy stuff. Chairman's Report: tabbott: The chairman's in Taiwan, so I'm the chairman. MIT Computing Report: mitchb: The scheduled power outage to fix problems in the machine room in W92 failed because the backup power failed. It is scheduled to happen later this week. mathmike: I went to the Stellar town meeting. It was not all that exciting, but they seemed to not know a better way to solicit feedback other than a town meeting. They didn't tell us what email to send feedback to. jhawk: Stellar people got reorg-ed. They're now part of ISDA which is part of IS&T. jhawk: When the dialups moved, the last remaining pasta pad did not have its access-list updated, and can no longer access the new dialup addresses. When this was reported to netops today, they busied out the phone lines and claimed to not remember the password necessary to update the access lists. arolfe: I did usability testing for MIT's new web portal, InsideMIT. It will replace some of the top-level SAPWeb and "self service stuff." It wasn't bad, and it included some of the ideas that SIPB talked about using for a student-oriented portal a few years ago. SIPB Projects Report: arolfe: There was a non-noticeable AFS outage when one of the disks on ronald-ann died. quentin: DEFCON sign is now network-enabled. Almost Web 2.0 enabled--it has Javascript but not AJAX.. arolfe: There was a bloom-beacon outage where it dropped into single-user mode for some reason. It took 6 hours to notice this. presbrey: We are moving scripts to new server based on FC6, which has SELinux enforcing enabled. I've been developing tester scripts to make sure they still run, etc. The SQL server has 740 users now. tabbott: I worked on making scripts distribution more platform-independent. I made a half-functional debian versions of our packages. Apache doesn't work yet because of configuration issues, but AFS etc. do. Yay for becoming less Fedora-dependent now. Office Report: jhawk: I got RJ45 connectors for the office, both stranded and solid core. tabbott: And power strips! Office Cleaning Report: tabbott: There's lots of junk on the central table. I also see a bunch of paper strewn about, so people should go through it and recycle the scrap paper. jhawk: Where's the iPhone? nelhage: (holds it up) Don't you mean the jesus phone? Publications Report: CokeComm Report: Orientation Report: IAP Report: geofft: IAP is sooner than you think! tabbott: IAP 2008? geofft: No. tabbott: I disagree with you. I think that IAP 2007 is now. Other: proven: My company, DataDomain, is hiring interns, recent grads, and people with experience. It is a storage technology company. Speak to me if you're interested or email me at proven@datadomain.com. kchen: On that note, Akamai Technologies is also hiring. They are holding an event on Tuesday 4-6PM at the company with free food and a NOCC tour. Talk to me for more information. Other Other: quentin: I set up a HDTV card and can watch cable from my room. It actually doesn't suck. tabbott: Can you watch LAMP with it? quentin: Yes. jhawk: Edward Tufte is giving his one-day course (on Presenting Information) in Boston from Feb. 21-23 at the Park Plaza. He's really good, you should all go. You get copies of all 4 books, which are ~$40 each, and the course costs $180 for students. Check out the flyer on the bulletin board. jhawk: You can register the day of, but it is probably better to do it earlier. tabbott: What's up with the projector cable issue in the reading room mentioned on the Chairman's whiteboard? jemorris: Someone came and asked for one because it was missing. quentin: Half of the projectors have cables. jemorris: We should bug CAC about possibly getting a supply and becoming a distributor of them. tabbott: Volunteers? (tilia volunteers) tabbott: The whiteboard material came in a couple days ago--tempered glass that ike obtained. Kip transported it here. Kip was going to deal with mounting it. mathmike: Anything special about next week's meeting? tabbott: We are using Robert's Rules of Order next week to test our parliamentary skills, except we're going to ignore the rule that says you're not supposed to be unecessarily parliamentary. There's a copy in SIPB's bookshelf in case you want to study up. Hopefully it will be short. (much laughter) The meeting was adjourned at 19:42. Minutes taken and submitted by k_lai.