Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2016-01-11 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by vasilvv. In attendance were Voting members: asuhl, andersk, csvoss, dzaefn, iannucci, madars, slz, vasilvv Associate members: achernya Prospectives: asra, foner, lvnguyen, srobin Guests: '() Administrivia: vasilvv: [Clunk] Welcome to SIPB meeting! Anything for Administrivia? slz: Secretary halt! slz: Secretary unhalt. achernya: I had to purchase two SSDs over the weekend, and I would like to mention that it is coming out of the emergency disk fund. Project Reports: dzaefn: Horkley isn't here, so I'll say this instead of him: SIPB IAP is happening! achernya: I had to buy emergency SSDs because SQL fell over. The hard disks of primary-primary-key failed, which caused a lot of other things to go wrong. We've resynced MySQL. To our knowledge, no data was lost. There was also an interrupt storm on the network adaptor. vasilvv: It's good that you were able to interrupt the interrupt storm. achernya: They were non-maskable interrupts, and they couldn't be killed. achernya: By the way, SIPB Prospectives, an excellent Bad Ideas project would be to write a kernel shell for Linux! iannucci: Why not SysRq? achernya: SysRq kills processes indiscriminately, which was not what we wanted. vasilvv: Another tool for killing processes is a sledge hammer. Other: iannucci: I'm TAing 6.S??, which is an advanced undergraduate subject with project. It'll be readings and lectures on mobile technology and sensors. I'd be happy if any of you would you be interested to register. csvoss: Hi, I'm csvoss. I'm teaching a IAP class consisting of 5-minutes Python talks on Wednesday at 18:00 in 4-237. I would really appreciate it if you would like to contribute to the class. iannucci: I,I If you encourage users to use good style, would it be a PEP talk? Other Other: achernya: I discovered that is is possible to confuse a Dell server such that it thinks it only has half a network card. vasilvv: . . . What is half a network card? achernya: The card works fine, and registers as a PCI device. The server just doesn't think that there is a network card. The meeting was adjourned at 19:38. Minutes taken and submitted by slz.