- Why are the shells still running Sarge
    - Zephyr sucks
    - Package list always needs refinement
- Moving shells to new Dom0 next Saturday
- Example of building a new Xen Dom0 on a 2650
- Demo Night!
    - tomorrow, 7:00pm
    - Mkasick will not order the pizza this time
    - will be testing A/V setup in Weh 7500 tonight
        - maybe run through order, but not going to do a complete rehearsal
- DSPAM
    - SPAM sucks, SPAM really sucks
    - I hate SPAM
    - legitimate mail is starting to look too much like SPAM
    - probabilistic filtering begins to fail
- CARBON
    - can't log-in to it
        - was causing back-ups to fail
            - now, we're not backing up CARBON
- Awesie
    - AFS sucks, really slow on the JetStors
        - somebody should find a better distributed file system...
        - or fix the performance problems in AFS
        - I've heard that there's some fourth generation network file system
          thing
        - maybe turning off fscrypt would help?
        - server in iowait, means there's a storage performance issue
        - Mkasick, dirty-page writeback in linux 2.6.24 is completely
          screwed-up, that's the problem
            - some guy tried to improve it, made it suck, didn't get checked
            - Mkasick gives magic numbers to shove into /proc
                - They don't help
            - Something is messed up about that machine...
            - Mkasick: 3 months of Phd research at Carnegie Mellon
- Kbare
    - Amiga!  Almost can stop working with it in most of my free time.
        - Workbench uses different metaphor than other user interfaces
            - Drawers, tools, gadgets...
    - Aside, Microsoft Bob
    - Windows 3.1, different manufacturers used different shells
        - Compaq tabbed notebook
        - Packard Bell house
    - Running demos, will involve double clicking traffic light icons
- Rlane
    - network manager on laptop again
        - was going to use something scratch-written in Ruby
        - Dbus woes, encryption related stuff sad
    - WPA supplicant, doesn't like the WAP in Cyert basement
- Dkohlbre
    - posters are up, hopefully people have seen them
    - they look good
    - printing experience, involved standing around for ~1:15 minutes
- Mkasick
    - Doesn't know
    - Firefox mumble
        - The buttons being weird feature in Firefox drives Kbare nuts
        - Probably compounded by use of mouse focus
- Treasurer and advisor likely conspiring against us, to spend all of our
  money

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