- cool stuff from the summer
    - president doesn't know about them
    - let's do officer reports for that
    - who did it?
        - mostly mdille3 and areese
    - lots of new machine interrupts
        - dk08 surprised when we ask about machines
    - some old machines thrown out
        - weasels, alphas
        - left some weasel parts (for demo machine)
    - rack juggling
        - lots of PE2650s instead of scary alphas
        - mkasick questions reliable of said machines' RAID
    - what_xen!
        - random machine complains to gripe every day
    - mstevens disappointed about discontinued NTP service
        - it was running on thallium and neon
        - peer synchronization causes synchronized clock drift
            - Xen wallclock problem came back =-(
    - de0u walks in with Amiga
- Event Thursday
    - flyers went out to freshmen
    - de0u will announce in class
    - will collect email addresses at the event
- kbare
    - It's hard to take minutes and talk
- mdille3
    - inventorying of machines
    - cleaned-up B6 a bit
    - our KDC does not have any CPUs
    - got a lot of jetstors
        - they have 160 disk slots in aggregate
    - framed poster
    - played secretary
    - played social chair
    - mdille3, event presentation
        - kbare and awesie should give real comments
        - wait, the social director!
            - mdille3 will email him a quiznos cup
            - ahem
        - $1, for AYCE pizza
            - try to balance between free, and complete purchase
            - not free, but subsidized
            - about $150 left of food permitted money
            - will avoid "exotic" pizza
                - less $$$
                - people like to eat pepperoni, cheese, ...
            - come up with toppings list in advance
            - de0u has pizza data
        - maybe ice cream?
        - stuff in B6, needs to be taken to event
            - soda
            - should get drunk
- mkasick
    - seems to be unable to speak
    - still thinking about Wargames 2 (apparently horribly terrible)
    - wiki-old is actually doing things
        - will be rectified
- rlane
    - rich didn't anything over the summer
    - VMWare time bomb
    - basic VMWare hypervisor is now free
- de0u
    - ordering something from small, not-so-organized company overseas that
      might contain...
    - biggest threat facing the United States is Korean DRAM
    - leads to lots of phone calls from FedEx, and most things are wrong
    - didn't send in form claiming the Amiga lacked Korean DRAM, showed up
      anyway...?
    - it's ok if not removed from motherboard?
    - this is ridiculous...
    - look at the RAM, was it made in PA?
    - Korean DRAM is no longer a threat?
- mkasick
    - census fun
    - lots of mail saying mail will be sent
- projects, were already mentioned
- NNTP
    - awesie: no idea what's going on with NNTP
    - old feeder failed
    - reinstalled
    - need to replace indium
    - bboard feeding is not working, rbraun claims he'll do it
        - will probably happen eventually, who knows when
- nobody knows how to build a machine anymore
    - mkasick can install Debian, clueless about RAID
    - mdille3 knows about RAID, needs mkasick to set up serial BIOS
      redirection
    - should make documentation
- jetstors
    - massive space for AFS
    - massive space for other stuff
    - mkasick: massive amounts of beeping
    - massive space for freshman projects
- OpenID
    - database thingy with form thing
    - works, (scary certificate mumble)
    - documentation on the wiki
- load balancing (LVS)
    - test web server
    - changes mac address, resends package, with some efficiency (as long as
      in same subnet)
    - documentation on the wiki

Meeting Minutes/2008-08-26 (last edited 2009-12-21 05:02:49 by localhost)