Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 06/2/97


The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by kretch.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: foley jmorzins yonah amsmith kretch jered danw elliot
		sit daveg | annmarie
	Associate members: jemorris cordelia mhpower ghudson jhawk
		mycroft jweiss rshah | tlyu eichin marc mwhitson
		yandros tlyu
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: jlwfnord sepherke jjnichol
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

	jweiss: The treasurer found out he has an E40 mailbox.

Chairman's Report:

	jhawk: It sucks when people repeat actions which caused
		complaints to be sent to us (re: rusers and rpcinfo -p
		connections to amoeba.sdsc.edu).

Office Report:

	mycroft: There are random clothing items in the back of the
		office.

	kretch: Kevin Fu sent me mail saying that he's out of the
		state for quite a while and is looking for a volunteer
		to deal with the Pilot cable we allocated money for.

	danw: It's in my SIPB drawer.  We don't have the converter
		thing for it, but you can plug it into any machine
		with the right kind of serial port.

	jhawk: If someone knows where the office rock is, I would like
		to know.

	kretch: I made a volume machine.office and mounted it on
		/afs/sipb.mit.edu/machine/office, populated with a
		flattened directory structure; it will be reorganized
		soon.  A lot of things are way out of date; I'm going
		to try and clean it up soon.  If people know about
		specific undocumented hacks on machines, let me know.

MIT Computing Report:

	ghudson: There will be another patch release to 8.1 going out
		tonight.  Current schedule is that early will go out
		next Monday night, but there's some possibility that
		might slip.

	svalente: Expect there to be a new SIPB locker before the next
		meeting.

Computer Services:

	mycroft: I have a suggestion for the name of the new web
		server: dandelion-patch [stealing the laptop name]
		with a cname of world-wide-weed.

	jweiss: A 4GB disk destined for penguin-lust showed up today.

	ghudson: A second processor for beacon arrived this past week.

	jweiss: Anyone know of any hardware on the server budget which
		has not been ordered or has not arrived?  [No.]  Good.

SIPB Backup Report:

	kretch: AFS backups didn't happen last week because they
		didn't work.  It doesn't appear to be cables.

	tlyu: Don't discount cables.

	foley: Non-AFS backups were all done except for one failed
		partition which I'll redo.

Publications Report:

	jhawk: They seem to all be here.

R/O Report:

	kretch: As far as I know we're all set for R/O.

IAP Report:

	'()

CokeComm Report:

	amsmith: Real soon now.

Other:

	'()

Other Other:

	eichin: It looks like XFree86 3.3 is almost out.

	jered: It's my birthday.  I'm old now.  [How old?]  Nineteen.

	amsmith: If it's Jered birthday, shouldn't we spank him?

	cordelia: I'm here.

	elliot: It's election day in Canada.

	jweiss: We have a new disc, classes are over, you have no
		excuse not to come play Ultimate.

	kretch: Moving can be as much a work out as Patrol.
		And Kat Peters has more stuff than you can possibly
		imagine.


The meeting was adjourned at 19:40:05.


	Minutes taken and submitted by ghudson.