- Oh right, I'm the secretary.
- Saturday
- things got done
- moved shells, cONTRIB-cGI
- looking at making new workstations
- they need video cards
- anybody have extra AGP cards laying around?
- motherboards don't have AGP slots anymore
- Why doesn't Keith's capslock key work with C and E?
- Back to Saturday
- new NEWS, some progress
- need DNS entry for dubnium
- want to physically move machine to a more permanent location
- TODO
- can pull OXYGeN and NITROGeN out of racks
- also, can probably move everything off of cARBON and BORON
- maybe they'd make good workstations
- well, BORON at least, cARBON is doing gates-cam still
- leads to some discussion of fun stuff that could be done with
gates-cam
- panoramic timelapse of awesome
- mkasick: don't touch BROMINe
- replace hot spare disk in ZIRcONIUM
- how do anti-static bags effect RFIDS?
- RFID lock mumble on B6
- people who get cards got cards
- go to card office to get ID printed on it
- discussion on how to keep people from tracking all of us
- Demo Night, last week
- probably started with ~30 people, then about 1/3 left before pizza,
...
- Maybe, a lot left because we aren't an ACM chapter?
- Why aren't we an ACM chapter?
- very strict rules about bylaws, constitution, mumble...
- $88 of money from pizza, raffled off bohanlon's case for $7
- printing the tickets was not worth the effort
- Pennsylvania raffle laws are woeful
- somehow gained money on the way to be deposited
- cost of pizza was $174.70
- spent about half of our pizza fund
- there may be an impending pizza crisis
- druvolo suggested us having a bake sale
- sell computing resources?
- other various (questionable) suggestions
- T-shirts
- blinkenlights, probably could easily sell to KGB/CSLounge
- Next Event
- Movie Night?
- kbare/mdille3 greatly hope it will not involve retro
- end of October, sounds good
- Awesie
- people don't understand difference between Open Source and Free
software
- Kbare
- *waves arms* (hence, making it impossible to take minutes)
- Rlane
- rant about ECE majors...
- EC2 idea... interesting
- team of 4 get ahead for first week, don't do anything for a month,
then you get behind
- Dkohlbre
- people at end of Demo Night who weren't us
- that means it was a success!
- if doing movie night, should have discussion on what we're watching
- Sneakers?
- we're about due for it
- Pirates of Silicon Valley?
- Mdille3
- rant
- don't like student activities
- complaint about mdille3 giving CMU switchboard as phone number
- complaint about using Eckhardt to bypass student activities
purchasing procedure
- What is the procedure?
- They need to approve?
- de0u stormed druvolo's office...
- PRC -- looked like we were doing personal reimbursements
through Eckhardt, really just Tartan Card purchases
- still haven't reimbursed mdille3
- what about AGP cards?
- need a room extension
- we are destroying the wall...
- it's made of styrofoam
- don't think we should buy right now
- hates retro hardware, a lot
- likes connectors, replacing the plastic ones with military grade
crazy connectors
- one of these days, will get svideo out of Atari
- C64, needs a magic svideo cable, shouldn't require circuit board
modding
- we should buy a ZX Spectrum
- we should buy the Soviet clone
- and a TRS-80
- YouTube, related link, related links, hate you (directed at
mkasick?)
- mdille3 has credit card, kind of like having money
- wait, we have Ivan's student ID card...
- but it doesn't get magic bits until he goes to card office
- Mkasick
- uhhh
- no, I don't want to give a report
- Real Reality