- Saturday
    - more machines!
        - TERBIUM
        - DYSPROSIUM
            - very rare
            - used for making lasers
            - was previously RUTHENIUM, DYSPROSIUM is a cooler name, will
              replace GALLIUM eventually, maybe
- Keyboard mischief
    - typically seems to happen with USB keyboards in Linux
        - half the keys stop working, re-plugging seems to fix
        - should just snip cable, use one of the other keyboards already
          plugged-in
- Behavior of space and enter in the Debian installer
    - space is the key you want to use to uncheck boxes, not enter
- Operations fun
    - exemptions for www
        - apparently only the MAC address matters
        - the hostname and IP being wrong doesn't matter
    - Michael may be slightly insane
    - WWW-CONTRIB2 was kicked off the network
        - what happened?
            - somebody had a www directory with rlia permissions
                - Russians put a PHP shell script there
                    - used it to upload SPAM to directory in the
                      athena.mit.edu cell
                    - doesn't make any sense
            - was fixed, but there was another directory with rlidwk
              permissions, same script
                - you didn't fix the problem... *pulls plug*
        - shouldn't serve from directories that are world writable
            - hard to do
            - symlinking script shouldn't recurse into everybody's home
              directories
                - would get stale as well
            - hack on the iscgi.pl script... somewhat nasty
            - Apache module
- Event!
    - N people, everybody pays $/N
    - should be straightforward, just a movie night
- Retro
    - C64
        - Keith rants...
    - ZX
        - Keith rants some more...
    - 3B2
        - low-level formatting not what disk controllers expecting?
    - apparently some people are thinking we do too much retro
- Officers
    - awesie
        - get bandwidth usage, file downloads from the FTP servers
            - FTP uses a lot more bandwidth than HTTP
        - have laptop now
        - FTP not quite retro yet
            - FTP has the interesting server-to-server transfer mode of
              operation
    - kbare
        - broken glasses
        - something else...
    - mdille3
        - one person in vendor database now
        - Lerchey hasn't responded to veal and port yet
        - really hates retro stuff
            - can either put all money in IRA, or buy all the retro 80s
              hardware
            - not being poor in retirement, or not being insane?
            - spent all night reading about mass storage buses on the ZX
                - how mass is mass?
                - mass, 128M or more
                - ZX Beta 128, ...
                - way to avoid tapes...
            - Prince of Persia for ZX
                - doesn't tell you when to push play, stop, pause, etc.
                - README specifically says it doesn't
                - determine tape points using emulator?
            - we may either be fine, or broke, depending on how much of my
              insanity is charged to the club
    - de0u
        - waives report
    - rlane
        - git
            - no more wikis, who needs wikis with you have git?
        - mdille3: git is not a wiki, version control is not documentation
        - need freshman
            - fix all race conditions
            - do WebISO
        - devovles into version control flamewar
        - then discussion of knifes
    - dkohlbre
        - there are posters up for the event
        - kasick has a copy of the DVD

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