- discussion of our USENET setup
- if you want binaries, connect to NEWS-BIG
- about a third of the binaries are getting there
- MD5(Message-ID) % 3 == 0
- Saturday
- got stuff from aarons (via bohanlon)
- two gigabit switches
- 24 port Cisco
- 48 port Netgear
- two awesome KVM switches w/ LCDs and keyboards
- maybe we want to thank iRobot
- UPS, battery might not be good
- two 240V power controllers
- more going to come, maybe around carnival
- got the stuff from aarons' basement
- other stuff in friend's basement, couldn't contact friend
- broom closet, have broom in closet...
- questionable closet
- JFC
- JFC representative, looked like deer in headlights
- seemed to indicate we were in good shape, budget has been consistent
over the years
- budget was that shown last week, but w/o 2nd gigabit ethernet port
- officially due Friday
- Event!
- about 15 people
- either made money, or broke even on pizza
- one person bought a shirt
- Future Event!
- will involve games
- likely will be in the cluster
- Mac cluster probable
- maybe want to add a gigabit NIC to the machine that doesn't exist?
- do Macs these days run WINE?
- maybe not well enough, acceleration might be lacking in Apple X11
- potential date?
- not at the moment
- probably Friday...?
- do we want to compete with KGB?
- Wednesdays and Fridays probably bad, maybe some Saturdays
too
- Thursday?
- 19th or 26th?
- will we have things ready?
- depends on how many more things need to be done
- okay, probably 19th
- dkohlbre will do the cluster reservation
- Saturday
- didn't last very long
- kbare started rebuilding WEBISO as an etch machine
- Operations
- backports.org mirror, about 41G
- is mkasick going to rebuild MIRROR?
- Rlane
- scary exclamation point next to grade for webapps assignment 2
- that was the one I didn't do in Java...
- maybe that just means it hasn't been graded yet
- Kbare
- perl, much more fun to deal with than Enterprise Java
- homework is not good, been doing realwork instead of homework
- De0u
- still have problematic Scientologist domain name?
- now it's even HUBBARD.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
- should add "questionable domain names" as a standard part of meetings
- Dkohlbre
- OS over the weekend
- had an event
- Superbowl aftermath was scary
- lot of things on fire
- four years ago, didn't do it right, had to come back to do it better
- surprised they brought back the mounted police officers
- Kbare
- thought about learning R, but probably just getting by with
combination of perl, gnuplot, shell, and psutils
- Philosophy professor
- invented new unit, millibyte
- De0u
- dutch is amusingly readable
- very happy email from hosting company in the Netherlands
- should switch languages of Nagios messages