1. We have a little bit of money, but not very much.
  2. I need to improve how I take minutes.
  3. Bovik
  4. Activities Fair
    1. We hope Adam Jenkins will be agreeable.
    2. We will have a table, we should bring our Ubuntu CDs.
  5. News
    1. News guy says no new messages, but it works.
    2. Unfortunately we don't really notice when it dies because we don't use newsreaders much.
  6. Spammers are terrible.
    1. They apparently DOSed a server mdille3 administers.
      1. This involved blackhole MXes which preoccupy the receiving mailserver.
    2. This was difficult to deal with much like spam is difficult to deal with in Cclub.
    3. In fact, something with this tactic has already hit Cclub before. (Not as massively as mdille3's server though)
  7. We should have a security talk.
    1. Some professors could volunteer.
      • b. Specifically Eckhardt?
    2. Some CIC people could do it.
    3. In fact, some CClub members could have good things to say.
    4. Perhaps we could talk about XSS.
  8. Xen problem
    1. Reported 2 years ago.
    2. Eventually, the bug was acknowledged.
    3. There's a problem with Linux memory allocation in a Xen driver.
      1. Specifically problems with argon and neon.
  9. Debian!
    1. Apparently etch now has a Sunday 1 AM array resync.
      1. Why?? Proactively find issues like corruption?

    2. Also every day at 5 AM debian updates locate indexing.

  10. Authenticated Apache
    1. Awesie made it a module. Yay!
    2. It compiles.
    3. It works with polonium.
    4. It segfaults one in 20 processes.
  11. Natural Languages

    1. ~mjrosenb/public/mit.txt

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