Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/4/97


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: kretch, jmorzins, yoav, amsmith, sit, nygren,
		jered | elliot
	Associate members: danw, yandros, jweiss, kcr,
		jemorris, eichin, nocturne, rjbarbal, mhpower, tlyu,
		mcmullan, mwhitson
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: sepherke, jewell, sjens, jdaniel
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	'()

Chairman's Report:
	'()

Office Report:
	amsmith: I discovered through an informal poll to sipb-office
		that a large number of members are allergic to the
		office. I was interested in seeing if something could
		be done about it.
	kretch: the new carpet is one way we're dealing.
	kcr: it appears that the office floor hasn't been vacuumed in
		quite some time, this may be contributing to the
		problem. Maybe we should get the frequency of
		vacuuming increased.
	kretch: will do.
	
	sepherke: Move to allocate $30 to purchase 2nd edition of
		"Java in a Nutshell" which covers Java 1.1. [second,
		white-ballot, she will deal]

	kcr: I move to allocated up to $200 to buy shelves for the
		rack. [second] 
	jweiss: what are you planning to use the rack for? where are
		you going to put it?
	kcr: In this room... I'll defer to yandros.
	yandros: It would be premature to specify a location in the
		office.
	mhpower: what evidence do we have that its stable enough?
	jweiss: I've done chin-ups on it.
	kretch: That rack is designed to be bolted into the floor, but
		we're not going to do that, obviously...
	kcr: ...but it's also designed to hold really heavy stuff...
	nocturne: I think its a bad idea unless we bolt it down.
	kcr: Ok... I withdraw the motion. I move to have Alex remove
		it then. [not-seconded.]
	[some random discussion ensues, we punt]

	jdaniel: MacOS 8 is out or will be out soon. Should we get it?
	yandros: MIT has a site license. I'll see if I can get it.

MIT Computing Report:
	jweiss: There will be an 8.1 patch release for Sun and SGI
		tonight. It fixes a bunch of bugs.
	kretch: Notably, it fixes the Sun xterm bug.

	mwhitson: The printer ajax is now being served from the test
		print server hobbes. (See mail to sipb-office.) If
		users come in with questions about ajax in particular,
		send information to me. The changes to the print
		spooling software include numerous bug fixes, plus the
		added capabilities to reject spooled PDF and
		FrameMaker files, and to forward mis-spooled print
		jobs to the proper print server (for non-kerberized
		queues).

Computer Services:
	'()

SIPB Backup Report:
	tlyu: There was a metric buttload of dust in the DLT
		drive. We also tried the drive on portnoy which didn't
		seem to help.

	sit: There was some error condition on
		penguin-lust. anxiety-closet didn't happen. I don't
		know about the rest.

Publications Report:
	'()

R/O Report:
	jewell: I appear to have been volunteered to be the SIPB tours
		sucker. So, I need to have a date. I'd like to suggest
		the 28th of August? Unless there are objections, I
		will send out mail with that as "the date".
	sit: I believe that regular returns are after that; maybe we
		should wait until after that.
	jweiss: it may also be hard to get enough shepards before
		people get back.
	jewell: I'll send mail. If anyone has a UROP or lab that
		they'd like to show off, or if anyone wants to be a
		tour guide, let me know.

IAP Report:
	'()

CokeComm Report:
	'()

Other:
	mhpower: Someone sent mail to sipb about 10 days ago about
		hard drive recovery. The data has been recovered.
	
	mhpower: There is a new book out titled "At large" about
		computer break-ins originating from Oregon in the
		early 1990s. It mentions 4 sipb members.
	kretch: One of which was mycroft as being on the FreeBSD
		board...

	danw: carla had a baby. It's a boy.

	kretch: I tried building lpquota.  It builds it's own cpp.

Other Other:
	jered: One; much to my surprise, my room didn't completely
		melt down while I was gone for 2 weeks. Two; Simson
		Gar...oh nevermind, I don't want that in the
		minutes.

	amsmith: The ATIC lab wants to hire people who are clueful
		about NT. If you fall into this category, contact
		Kathy Cahill.

	eichin: rec.humor.funny is ten years old this week.

	nygren: I have a place to live. Yay.
	
	danw: I went on vacation and bad things happened as a
		result. I feel so important!

The meeting was adjourned at 19:45.


	Minutes taken and submitted by sit.