Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/22/2003


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: ike merolish | golem
	Associate members: jhawk lnemzer ocschwar
	Prospectives: 
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

Chairman's Report:

Office Report:
	jhawk: The building is closing this week, over Christmas.

	ike: The office has a new bell.  It sounds better than the gong.
	ike: Let the minutes state that the new bell is some kind of
		mounting bracket part for the read head assembly of an
		old Fujitsu Eagle hard disk drive, which probably had a
		capacity of 300MB.
	jhawk: Move to commend ike for getting us a better bell.
	<white-ballot>

Office Cleaning Report:

MIT Computing Report:
	ike: Referring to jhawk's comments in Other Other, most clusters
		will be closed this week:

		"Due to scheduled campus electrical work taking place
		over the Christmas holiday, all Athena clusters except
		1-142 and 56-129 will close on Wednesday, 12/24/2003 at
		10am.  The W20-575, 12-182, and E51-075 clusters will
		re-open on Sunday, 12/28/2003.  The remaining clusters
		will re-open on Monday, 1/5/2004, at 10am.

		"Additionally, the W20-575 cluster will re-close at noon
		on Tuesday, 12/30/2003.  It will re-open on Friday,
		1/2/2004, at 10am."
	ocschwar: Are we powering down for this?
	jhawk: We might.

Computer Services:
	golem: The treasurer of the ASA contacted me, and to make a long
		story short, the ASA gave away its office, and they want
		a place to put their computer.  They thought the machine
		room is ours; it's not.  However, we would like to come
		up with a solution for their problem if we can, and they
		are interested in the idea of creating a server room for
		student groups, which would be a good project.  Anyone
		interested should contact me.

Publications Report:

Orientation Report:
	ocschwar: It's sooner than you think.

IAP Report:
	ocschwar: It's sooner than anyone thinks.

CokeComm Report:
	jhawk: CokeComm bought coke.

Other:

Other Other:
	jhawk: On December 26 and 27, MIT's two connections to NSTAR are
		being upgraded from 1200 A capacity to 2000 A capacity,
		representing an upgrade from 29 MW capacity to 48 MW
		capacity.  Also, apparently MIT's cogeneration plant is
		regularly insufficent to meet the electrical demands of
		the MIT campus with its 20 MW limit.

	golem: Ho ho ho, public transportation sucks.

	ocschwar: /. has a frontend to match.com.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:41.


	Minutes taken and submitted by merolish.