- 80s club today
- wow, KazooKeylele final countdown video
- dkohlbre: that's amazing
- Sponge Bob final countdown video
- dkohlbre: that was 3 million views
- kbare: is today's theme The Final Countdown then?
- mdille3: no, it isn't
- Saturday
- did stuff
- machine inventory was taken, how much $$$?
- about $25,000 worth of hardware in 2008
- why?
- so JFC doesn't feel bad about giving us $2000
- need to emphasize need to buy more RAM, etc., need to make the
donated hardware work well enough for us
- need this hardware, if we didn't get the donated hardware it, we
would need more money from JFC
- 7 1650s
- ~23 2650s
- 1 2850
- 1 4600
- 9 Jetstors
- Lenny machine
- built a 1650, kbare hasn't done much with it yet
- will be useful for when lenny is released, need packages not in
etch, etc.
- Operations
- news servers will probably be going up and down continuously
- DUBNIUM is now running FreeBSD
- got very mad at Linux
- concoction: ext2, deadline i/o scheduler, writethrough, ...
- still about 100% iowait, should be about 20%
- expire behind, took three hours, were writing new things to disk
faster than they could be deleted
- rlane: ext2 slow at deleting
- not enough i/o left for deleting
- Linux 2.4.31 was the last version with good i/o performance,
switching to FreeBSD
- currently only using about 200 megabits of CMU's bandwidth,
they'll be fine...
- doubled CMU's outgoing bandwidth...
- they said it would be ok
- routes screwed-up, used up all of the commodity Internet link
- perhaps screwing up the network, or confusing people, and
causing them to screw things up...
- today was slow for some reason
- only have done about 800GB so far
- are we being limited in some interesting way?
- upgraded to gigabit switch
- New shells
- NICKEL was built
- jwatzman will update the DNS records to point to the new shells
- Wiki
- have diff printed out between upstream and cclub
- MoinMoin folks have implemented some of our changes =-D
- field trip to github.com
- will go look at the graph every meeting
- there is now a meta wiki
- seems to be a lot of git evangelism
- Social committee
- we should pick a date for the movie night
- what movie again?
- think we moved towards Swordfish
- the action scene blowing up things is better than all the hacking
scenes combined
- anyway, date?
- Wednesday the 28th
- room?
- mdille3 will see about getting 7500
- event for February?
- how about non-movie, non-retro night?
- video games; figure out how to do it
- talk of LAN party
- if there are console games, it's not a LAN party
- rlane: how about older, non-retro games in a [reserved]
cluster
- several Mac games in rlane's home directory
- aij: might have some idea about games for Linux cluster
- dkohlbre: not having to have people bring their computers
is nice, advantage of cluster
- how the heck are clusters reserved these days?
- time for January event, 7:00pm or 7:30pm
- Finance committee
- we have pizza fund money again
- we actually only did use about half of it...
- bohanlon gave us a donation back in October or so, just hit late last
month...
- they still seem to have lost our cash
- should spend it more slowly than we have been
- single topping pizzas are better
- not Pizza Perfecta?
- but it's so good...
- make buy-in more expensive?
- $2, but would it scare away donations?
- $1.50, but change is not fun
- about time to make next year's budget
- should make list of relatively expensive (>= $50) purchases
- ethernet cables
- less than 25ft
- 7, 10, 12ft are good
- especially need a bunch if we want to do remote console
stuff
- more SCSI cables
- like the ones we got before
- VHDCI to HD50 (or something like that)
- short or long?
- short ones are probably long enough
- awesie: four more would be nice
- accelerator for Amiga
- memory for machines
- awesie: especially for 2650s
- kbare: more processors, for machines that aren't
dual-processor yet
- awesie, mdille3: eh...
- mdille3: Acorn, CPC, more Sinclairs, Beta Disk Interface
- 3b2 SCSI card
- need to sell shirts
- try at the event
- kbare: could we have people either buy shirt, or pay for pizza
buy-in?
- $16 for shirt, with pizza
- Aside, VMWare?
- free version of ESX probably does everything we need
- may not have management mumble
- rlane could poke at it, see what stuff's still open in free
version
- other options:
- pretty much most of our machines don't do hardware virtualization
- does somebody want to look at OpenVZ again?
- awesie: we could look at Solaris...
- mdille3: that's how you could really scare away freshmen
- News setup note:
- using 12 disks in one JetStor for binaries
- no redundancy, we lose one, no problem
- using 8 RAID ones in other JetStore for non-binaries
- overview and history information is also on RAID
- Retro
- awesie's comp.3b1 post...
- 50 responses, maybe 2 or 3 relevant
- squeezebox guy
- Cabal
- there is no cabal
- bohanlon, coming, Steelers won
- superbowl, February 1st
- really need to deal with B6 mess
- Need to ask dk08 about the room
- awesie: you need to do it
- mdille3: he thinks I'm psychotic
- Areese:
- my Andrew account expired
- a certain person in this room has several
- areese: can I have one?
- areese22@yahoo.com
- peanut gallery: club mail works...
- sponsoring is harder, now that account doesn't exist
- Kbare:
- blah blah blah
- Mdille3:
- GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
- favorite web browser is now IE 5.0, have it on Desktop
- doesn't explode on slashdot
- fastest browser on system
- awesie: old Firefox is really slow...
- refuses to use 5.5, or anything else newer
- awesome because every site does non-CSS, non-AJAX, scared by
browser-oldness
- Awesie:
- already reported on everything
- permissions issues, some files not owned by news...
- cron scripts that should be ran as news, but are ran as root?
- highly encourage people to use FreeBSD
- News, news, news, news