Meeting Minutes/2009-05-12

bizzare network issues
- ssh has an escape sequence!
cache replacement: add more disks, colo to some gullible sophomore, hope he doesn't commit suicide
jwatzman is the ranking officer, wtf, kbare writes on the chalkboard
replacement disks
- forgot to put replacement disk in wikium, oops
- bohrium got a new disk, has a half-dead disk
  - "wait, that's this machine"
  - "is that why IO on bohrium is so bad?"
    - RAID 5 specifics
- SATA port numberings
- disk spontaneously disappeared -- probably just a connector issue
- take care of this!!!1!
mdille has some fun with rlane's bot
Saturday was two days ago... three days ago?
- awful beeping, awesie made it stop, one Jetstor hates the world
- happy magical creepy insert more adjectives load balancing
  - awesie needs to talk about this
  - does terrible terrible things
  - load balancers have full BGP tables in memory, to redirect to different NNTP servers
NNTP still throttled, no one will apparently talk to awesie
udev
- ... hi adrake
- everything seems to be upgraded
- mdiile: mrrmrmrrmrmrr
- MX's, CGI servers?
rlane got bored
- (redacted)
contrib being in a PAG
- test script is fixed
- "it works now" "did you test it" "yeah"
- authenticated AFS test read from a... world-readable directory, oops
- throw chalk at mdille
- script is "failsafe", only if it really really really really worked could it delcare that it worked
~cl0x, adventure games, etc
lenny -- kasick is not here
sarge
- club-cgi, gallium, old shell servers
  - gallium: console server, needs to be redone entierly
  - club-cgi is mdille's problem, will take care of it this summer
  - old shell machines
    - is debian even still releasing security updates?
    - zephyr works on new machines
    - awesie will complain if the sarge machines are turned off, ask him why
  - we are two debian stable versions behind, this is just sad
meeting with mc4t of ISO
- lunch with new now old good friend who knew mdille when he was like 7 years old, he is much more rabid now
- copyright infringement and student hacking are just minor nusiencnes to ISO, apparently
- spend time on machine vulnerability
  - mostly for faculty/staff machines
  - ridiculous reporting procedures
  - hundreds of manhours per machine
  - thus moving to exchange to snoop on email more efficiently to make this crap easier
  - ooo shiny graphs
- really really hate AFS
- explain world-writable www directories, apparently weren't aware
- not incompetent
- "we're getting really bored hacking andrew infrastructure"
  - piqued interest
  - just trolling
- apparently don't want to burn down computer club
- don't want to get involved in their bureaucracy... unless there's free pizza
- "are you guys on the mumble mumble mumble emergency mumble list"
  - if swine flu breaks out and cyert goes into independent air mode we can't go in if we're not on the list
- reasonable job of establishing communication
  - might become more noticed... is this a good thing?
  - we have a slightly different... working schedule... such that we might get a job suspending machines at 4am
  - have mdille/awesie's contact info, have agreed to contact them before doing anything extreme
- someone has a retro collection larger than mdille's
  - interested in demo nights, could help and offer stuff for them
still have a seat at the thing, will there be food? of course
adrake is still here!
treasurer's report
- dkozel will be a real treasurer someday
- T-shirts
  - sold most of them, but not any smalls, need more girls
  - straiman might be the first girl to attend two consecutive meetings
  - UNIX cabal shirt
- actual budget report on the wiki
- pizza is an expense, not a credit
- put our Atari on the net, cool demo
- have a little bit of money to spend
  - rack shelves?
  - rack sizes
  - rakeararakaelrararaehehraeh
  - crazy Atari software and hardware?
  - round rails?
recounting explosions from last week
/bin/true and /bin/false
- strange ways to write true and false
- executing ELF headers
summer meetings
- who will be here
- apathy
- meetings might move to 5:30pm
dkozel making progress on render farm
- have gibson machines just doing F@H
- can submit, queue, render jobs
- only one machine yet
kbare should be working on a compiler's project
dkozel is selling a server