Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/26/2001


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: fyfer ingolia alex_c amu kolya sly arolfe gif 
	Associate members: belmonte jweiss hartmans zacheiss cana jhawk
		| leira
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: aletta int18 and
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

Chairman's Report:

Office Report:

Office Cleaning Report:	
	sly: It looks kinda pit-like.  Is the fish working?
	hartmans: I remember thinking the fish was going off at a stupid
		time (saturday afternoon).  Was anyone here?
	ingolia: In theory, it fingers the office machines and makes
		sure that 5 people are here, but doesn't necessarily
		check that they're logged in on the consoles.

	fyfer: People should bring down the bins of recyclable bottles
		(deposit bottles).  Cans too.

MIT Computing Report:
	jhawk: The network is falling over on a regular basis.  This
		appears to be an internal problem
	zacheiss: The zephyr link to CMU is still down.  It may be back
		later this week.

Computer Services:
	kolya: Our new server almost ran out of swap space earlier
		today, but nothing bad seemed to happen.
	jhawk: Something went wrong with multics, but we don't know what
		it is.
	belmonte: We need a new drinky-bird.
	fyfer: I'll address that in other

	hartmans: What's holding up the sipb-linux installer release?
	sly: We could release it as it is.  We're testing.  There are
		problems with certain 3COM cards and we're trying to
		find a failing card to work with.  But this requires
		taking down snork, which has difficulties of its own,
		like people being logged in and needed to change network
		cards.
 	fyfer: Is there a plan to desupport 5.2 when the installer is
		released?
	jweiss: Yes.  When the installer is released, we can pick a
		desupport date.
	sly: Did the pullups for the 6.2 updates happen?
	zacheiss: No,  this weekend.
	sly: So we're not installing the redhat security updates.

	fyfer: If anyone knows of a perl script to make OED useful, it
		would be cool if we could install it in outland.

SIPB Backup Report:
	zacheiss: AFS happens on its own.  UFS tonight

Publications Report:
	fyfer: I think we have everything.  Is there a linux doc?
	jhawk: No

Orientation Report:

IAP Report:

CokeComm Report:
	fyfer: sucks	
	gif: Dereferencing a null pointer.  I don't know if there will
		be a new one.  marc is lame already.  He said he'd give
		me a decission in 24 hours.  That was 3 weeks ago.
	fyfer: Anyone want to be cokecomm?
	jweiss: Talk to gif if you're interested.

Other:
	hartmans: Move to commend alex_c for his thoughtful murder of
		the drink-birds.	
	<objections and seconds...>
	fyfer: I have a spare, though I haven't heard lots of objections to
		the disappearance.  But we need fungicide to put in its water.
	belmonte: It took a long time for them to get fungus encrusted.
	hartmans: No, it just took a long time for people to deal.  
		The only conditions that I wouldn't object to is if we
		test the fungicide to make sure it doesn't have problems
		of its own and if it's made very clear by the
		maintainers that people could throw away the drinky-bird
		if the maintainers don't do their job.
	fyfer: I'm not sure there's a good solution .
	jhawk: No one's been unlame enough to do an autopsy yet.
	gif: This is so sad.  It is very pathetic 

Other Other:
	jhawk: Ted Johnson is leaving CAC for the president's office.

	fyfer: cana, why do you have a balloon on your head?

	sly: I learned that when take up reels on projectors break, film
		does impressive things

	cana: I have become a citizen of the People's republic of
		cambridge.


The meeting was adjourned at 19:40.


	Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.