- web page describing terrorists that the Bush administration thwarted
    - several articles, pretty interesting
    - apparently terrorists in America kind of like it here, don't want to
      bomb our cities
- mkasick has found the wiki
    - lots of doom, edit conflicts
    - rlane also appears to be to blame
- back to terrorists
    - wait, did anybody ever find all of the PS2s that Saddam imported to
      Iraq
    - soldiers probably took them, game playing
- mdille3 didn't create mail keys for any of the accounts he created
    - jwatzman: how do you fix that?
        - need to extract the mail key tab for each user, into /var/keys
        - what are the MXes?
            - MAGNESIUM, CALCIUM, and STRONTIUM
    - back in the sarge days, ridiculous things like "ssh mx1", "ssh mx2"
      worked, but not in etch anymore
    - yeah, ssh sucks
- we need a sergeant at arms
    - should add to our constitution that he must whack people with laptop
    - therefore, should have a Toughbook
- copper
    - not actually a machine
    - rather, in the form of cables
    - hooked up more machines to Jetstors, since we have acquired the
      appropriate SCSI cable
    - more full news feed, at least until throughput dropped off?
        - are the network people adding QOS with the new core infrastructure?
        - suspicious, statistics for our switch haven't been working for the
          last week
- do we want to improve the new accounts script?
    - having it create mail keys would be nice
    - mumble, stuff in AFS, mumble
- management network?
    - somebody was looking at it
    - should see what the progress is
- MONITOR is slow?
    - angry cron job for Munin was sent to /dev/null
- retro
    - true nirvana, even at 60hz
        - schematic reading, it's fine
        - just needs to warm up (?)
    - now, can buy things with impunity, don't care if I actually get them,
      if they actually work
        - everybody goes huh
- we should have a march event
    - awesie: propose we have an event over spring break, because I won't be
      here
    - jwatzman: capture the flag with stuff is the 20th, for reference
    - how about 25th or 26th
        - why didn't we do Wednesday last time?
            - shrug?
    - ok, what should the event be?
        - mdille3: suggest mid-to-late nineties retro
            - rlane: how are we going to run these games?
                - Windows cluster
            - rlane: not sure I actually believe the games will work in
              Windows cluster
                - awesie: tried, seems to work, have done Quake 3, Starcraft
            - Red Alert night then?
                - meh...
        - another cluster thing would probably be good
        - movie night, eh..., not another one yet
        - showing videos from hacking conferences?
            - might have wider appeal, not other things like it, unique
            - would need pre-screening, ... lot of work there
            - C64 hacking videos; probably would be lost on current students
                - wait it seems like people here barely know people who had
                  C64s
                - we were largely of other persuasions; PC or TI
                - funny, was the best selling computer ever...
    - ok will perform controlled experiment, to see if better planning and
      advertising leads to better attendance
    - nothing stopping us from playing videos on projector while people are
      playing games
    - mreiss: should have event for computer club members, (i.e., have
      lurkers, e.g, merichar), want to chair an event, somebody here who is
      an expert on something (i.e., we have graduate students); REDACTED
    - de0u's Plan9 lecture?
        - most of the people who would be interested took OS, already saw it
        - jwatzman: I know people that haven't done OS, would be interested

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