
Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 10/11/1999


The meeting was called to order at Mon Oct 11 19:29:55 1999 by <whom>.

In attendance were 

	Voting members: yak gisele yandros gemery jmorzins lnemzer amu
           sly lgdean kolya | cordelia

	Associate members: marc rls tb nathanw eichin kcr fastcart
           jweiss srz wesommer jdaniel mhpower melbonte | bjaspan raeburn

	Prospectives: ocschwar tivol nemo mwp arolfe jajafm xwxin xela
           gamache jim tibbets cmceniry goodell 

	Guests: rbraum@cstone.net


Treasurer's Report:

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Chairman's Report:

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Office Report:
 
 zacheiss: mwhitson couldn't be here tonight, so I am remaking his
           motion from last week to buy an alpha for the office.  Some
           research on pc hardware for it was done

           I move to allocate up to $6000 to purchas an Alpha for use
           as on office head/hot spare for machine room Alpha.
 yak : seconds
 tb:       Are we sure that it'll work better than zsr?  
 discussion; consensus is `yes'.

 zacheiss: this plus mac plus pc leaves us $2500

 PASSES:     12-1-6+rls 


 sly: apparently jhawk researched and found that there weren't any
           chairs currently on order.
 xela: there's an order in Jane's hands; I should make sure that
           things are ok.


 fastcart: graphics cards for snork and antisnork were supposed to be
           delivered a few weeks ago; has anyone seen them?


 fastcart: the zip drive on steve-dallas failed to work today.

 jweiss: there is some chance that someone will come in to replace
           filters.  Please assist them in any way possible, and
           please send mail when it happens so that I will know.

 tb:     should they use dropcloths?
 jweiss: often it's ok not to; w've had one critical failure, but that
           was an extreme circumstance (caused by failure to be
           changed)

 kcr: the office rj45 crimp tool appears to be missing (I sent mail
           last week and I've heard no followup).  I'm concerned that
           it may have been `borrowed' inappropriately.
 gisele: if anyone does know the whereabouts of said tools, they
           should please return them, even if its done anonymously.


  jweiss: I cleaned up the office rack, installed a KVM siwtch, and
          found some utp drops.  mail was sent.
  sly: the KVM switch may fail on bill-the-cat, according to one
           report.

 
Office Cleaning Report:

 jweiss: office cleaning happened last tuesday, and it was good.

 gisele: I am the current temporary fish.  Unlike the other fish, I
           can come and bite.

MIT Computing Report:

 jweiss: last monday postmaster made some changes to the mail system to
           make it suck less.  It made some some parts suck less (many
           fewer long delivery delays).  However, subsequent new
           suckage, mostly affecting athena workstations, is being
           fixed.  Postmaster says that that the mail system is under
           enough load that backing out the changes made last week is
           not possible.  Problems should be reported to
           postmaster@mit.edu.  If it is also an Athena release
           problem, it should be cc'd to bugs (likely).

 sly: w20 fell down on Friday becuase a machine in w20 was ping
           flooded.  Rumour says that the problem has been ``dealt
           with''.
 

Computer Services:

 yak: I dumped a stupid perl script in the outland locker that tells
           you which locker stuff lives in.  ``whichlocker foo''
 marc: where's the database is uses?
 yak: /mit/outland/share

 zacheiss: I placed the order for the bulk of sipb's machine room
           stuff this friday

SIPB Backup Report:

 zacheiss: done

Publications Report:

 xela: we've run out of `Installing Linux'.  ocschwar is fingered for
           lameness.  He apologizes.
 bjaspan: there is one copy of iMatlab.  We should get more.

 gisele: remember to give blood, even to documents.

 zachiess: the new iLatex is ``bled all to death''; we should use the
           new one.

 jweiss: move to allocate up to $50 for 100 copies of iMatlab
 WHITE BALLOT

Orientation Report:

 kcr: baah

IAP Report:

 xela: IAP planning month.  deadline for planning guide is 2 weeks
           from today.  If you're interested in teaching something,
           contact me.  If you're maybe interested in doing something
           but you're not sure what, contact me.

	   I'll be on vacation; tibbets will channel me while I'm
           gone.

 xela: move to allocate up to $1000 for materials and printouts for
           all classes.
 zacheiss: second.
 jweiss:  isn't that a 
 
 PASSES: 15-0-4


 gisele: you need not be a MEMBER to teach classes; it's a fine, fin
           thing for prospectives to do.

 tb: I've ben told that I should teach a book seminar, but I'll be
           gone for one week.  Godel Escher Bach; send me suggestions.
 
CokeComm Report:

 People should take down redeemable cans and bottles

 fastcart: gif bought new coke last week


Other:

 wesommer: ipv6/ntwork cluedump after the meeting.  find and follow me
           post-meeting.

 yak: Mac OS 9 was released.  It does a very good job of pretending to
           be a multi-user, multi-tasking OS.
 tb: does it suck?
 yak: no.

Other Other:

  ocschwar: I'm a twit.

  jmorzins: it takes the the office drinking bird ~5 hours to stop
           drinking after the water is removed.

  fastcart: my birthday was last friday.
  tb: <encourages singing>

  gamache: According to the packaging, the sipb drinking bird is both
           flammable and non-flammable.

  tb: sly's birthday is tomorrow.  <again with the singing!!>
  gisele: <thwacks tb>
  office: <applauds>

  nathanw: move to add a nail to the gavel.
  gisele: black ballot

  jweiss: It is exciting to have a bike pedal break off of the bike
           while biking across Mass. Ave.  [Ouch!]

  tb: I have a large number of extra jordan almonds.  If people would
           like some, they're welcome to help themselves.

  fastcart: I could use some help moving a couch..

 


The meeting was adjourned at Mon Oct 11 19:55:22 1999.


	Minutes taken and submitted by yandros.
