Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 4/14/1997


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by kretch.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: yonah, yoav, amu, kretch, emhavens, hartmans,
		amsmith, danw, fastcart
	Associate members: eichin, mcmullan, srz, jtkohl, ghudson, yandros,
		tlyu, jweiss, mhpower, jemorris
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: jmorzins, Martin Peck, cmceniry
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	kretch: The PO for quantum should work now.

	ghudson: sit and I looked over an account statement, and even after
		buying the Sparc4 and the Mac, we have about $3000 (which
		should be enough for a monitor).

Chairman's Report:
	'()

Office Report:
	jweiss: Did we get the toner?
	kretch: Yes

	kretch: We have a new Macintosh.  It's sitting where gene-simmons
		used to be.

	ghudson: I move to allocated $1k to buy a 17" monitor for the new
		Mac.
	[second]
	jweiss: Did anybody look into using a Sun monitor, or did we decide
		we didn't want to?
	ghudson: No action was taken on that, and I think having a 17"
		monitor which would work on PC's wouldn't be a bad thing
		anyway.
	[passes 12-1-2]

MIT Computing Report:
	jweiss: If all goes as planned, two weeks from tomorrow you will no
		longer be able to access the rel-eng cell.

Computer Services:
	ghudson: We sort of lost a disk on reynelda, and had problems with
		the other.  We haven't seen any evidence of damage on the
		disk which had a stopped fan.  The other one was logging
		errors, but spun up again when mycroft played with it.  All
		the data is off of it, and we're not sure what to do with it.
	hartmans: We didn't do anything to make that fan work longer.

	jweiss: We have a dead disk from ronald-ann which should be tested.

	ghudson: Orders are underway for the new Sparc cpu and the new
		Sparc20 for the webserver.

SIPB Backup Report:
	hartmans: The DLT drive still isn't working.  Someone should deal
		with calling falcon and making it disappear.
	tlyu: I didn't deal; I will remove it from the office to E40 for
		shipping tonight.

	jweiss: I have a backup as of last week of all the data except about
		44 volumes which were on the disk which failed.  I will try
		another backup tomorrow.

Publications Report:
	amsmith: I left 25 copies of an ATIC info sheet I wrote in the
		office.

	ghudson: We're out of Installing NetBSD and Installing Linux.

R/O Report:
	hartmans: When do we need to start dealing with R/O?
	kretch: Good point.  I'll deal with making sure we get something into
		the ASA book of activities.  Will find out more.

IAP Report:
	'()

CokeComm Report:
	srz: Two six-packs of coke left.

Other:
	mhpower: I heard that a new small cluster opened in building 36
		today.  I'm told that the cluster was not on any particular
		floor.

	hartmans: There are rumors that an internet draft replacing 1310
		(Kerberos 5) may exist.

	fastcart: Drop date is Thursday.
	jweiss: Next Thursday.

	amsmith: When will the AFS clue dump happen?
	kretch: When jered and hartmans are less hosed (around drop date).

Other Other:
	fastcart: I do remember almost getting hit by fubob.

Post Meeting Ultimate Report:
	jweiss: The weather is nice again.  There will be ultimate.  You will
		enjoy yourself.  My jedi mind tricks will work on you.


The meeting was adjourned at 19:43:12.


Minutes taken and submitted by yonah.