- Saturday
    - definitely didn't touch BROMINE
    - hovering isn't touching
    - BORON is sarge, should reinstall with etch
        - we will destroy all current data on the machine, since we don't
          need it anymore
    - drywall anchors, this was mostly a note for mdille3
    - rebuilt RAID on NNTP and DUBNIUM, wiki documentation for this
        - NNTP done, DUBNIUM still needs work
        - want to be able to handle disk failures
- Operations
    - bandwidth exceeded notification, because we moved from ASTATINE to
      WWW1
        - exemptions for many machines that don't exist, in addition to the
          ones that do
        - our webservers are being used, not just for contrib
            - probably largely because of the new mirrors
        - field trip to bandwidth.net.cmu.edu
    - there was some sort of hiccup with SMTP
        - kbare saw all connections getting used up
        - stopped happening as soon as he saw that
        - awesie rebooted CALCIUM
    - AWStats
        - awesie did a little more work on it
        - made FTP logging compatible with AWStats
        - stats accessable to people with club accounts
            - not accessable to world, concern over referrer SPAM from
              people trying to raise Google page rank
                - Von Ahn is going to get contrib banned from Google
- Movie night next Wednesday
    - will collect N/M per person for pizza
    - poster
        - date is wrong
        - kbare doesn't like the white rectangle at the bottom right corner
    - printing and postering will happen Thursday or Friday or so
- KGB Gaming thing
    - a long time in the future
    - Atari in pieces
    - will try reserving all the rooms in this corridor of Wean
    - we only have one Australian magic box =-(
        - we should get a Japanese magic box =-)
- We submitted the re-recognition and and JFC application
    - not on Wiki yet
    - should copy the data to all sorts of hard disks, in case student
      activities burns down
- Druvalo made-up a new treasurer for the club
    - makes Michael very sad
    - plan to torture druvalo
- Retro committee
    - ZX Spectrum +2 on card table
    - C64 still in living room
    - Atari in pieces in basement
        - god forsaken 100ohm resistor needs to be replaced by 75ohm
          resistor
- We really kind of need ACL inheritance for the org wikis
    - big ugly patch
    - wiki-old hasn't been touched in forever
    - doesn't exist on the new wiki machine yet
- ZX
    - hasn't been powered on yet
        - RF connector
        - RGB connector
        - need special capture device, since nothing we have speaks PAL RF
        - probably doesn't work if it ends up losing magic smoke...
    - Germans might not like Americans
        - rattling screw when opened
        - looks like there was about 50 lbs sitting on it some time in the
          past
    - probably should've bought a ZX Spectrum 128k
        - integrated tape drive might be a pain
        - the eject button works...
        - +2 was first model with integerated components
    - no customs problems
    - has a more normal keyboard
        - not the scary membrane type
    - didn't have to fill out a form 740
        - 0.4 second form, with lots and lots of fields
- There's a floppy cable in mdille3's office
- 3B2
    - got controllers and a disk
    - full-length controller is funny, looks modern, despite its size
        - made in 1993, out of 1989 chips
        - probably 1993, one of the chips is from 1993
- awesie
    - Shady Oak was a miserable place to be the last couple days
    - lack of water, hot water, heat, jack-hammering
    - laptop hopefully on the way to Pittsburgh
- kbare
    - FreeBSD, I'm giving up on it
    - underclocked desktop, works better that way
- mdille3
    - I might be here
- rlane
    - entire apartment got offers from Amazon to hack on Xen
    - emarinel will likely no longer get work done
- kbare
    - looked at LISP he wrote for Computer Music class a couple years ago
        - was drinking lots of the functional programming Kool-Aid
- dkohlbre
    - water is nice
    - got around water crisis by playing video games
    - awesie brought NES and SNES, productivity dropped massively
    - event is next week, not this week

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