Meeting Minutes/2009-10-27

Linux kernel bug wrt write/clone/concurrency?
Machine room reorganization
- Even more of a disaster than a week ago?
- Need to get rid of some more machines this Saturday
- Basically finished
- Three shelves "retrieved"
- Put in 8 more machines this coming Saturday
- news happy again
  - Old nntp on the floor of B6
  - Only important thing is old bboard reading code
  - kbare might know something about it too
Got the rest of the Sunfires
Bandwidth exemption renewals went well
Programming competition club has a machine in B6 again
Test user account issue
- Spammers accessed machine
- Used sendmail locally instead of connecting on port 25
- Taken care of
- There is a testuser account in the KDC
  - Secure password which no one remembers
  - When we inevitably reset it, don't set it to "test"
Presentation for next week
- de0u can't be here
- 10th would work
- Nothing next week
Andrew SSL root cert is expiring
- Happens every 10 years
- Will need to re-apply for all of our SSL certs in May of next year
Future presentations
- ipv6
- Storage, i.e. what is SCSI, what is RAID
- Kasick on PAGs, filesystems
- Keith on filesystems
ACM people
- Do we actually know who they are?
- New ACM Communications newsletter
Nearly Free Speech is nice
- Charge by the bit for bandwidth, storage
- Extra for PHP/Python/Ruby etc, and extra for MySQL
- How do they stay in business?
PCS puzzle event
- Rescheduled
- Will send mail to the list
- dltaylor's puzzle competition society event
Constitution
- Has some issues
- We know this
- Rants about our mission statement
  - Retro
  - Open source vs. free
- Statement of assurance -- pointers in our constitution are bad
- Officer's crisis
LAN party
- Will be this week, possibly?
- Details TBD
Retro gaming night -- undecided
Correction: CMU CA expires every 5 years
Sensor dump
- IPMI standard, version 1.5
- Lots of fans
- For someone who has lots of spare time
Dual-CPU machine built Saturday gets unhappy on reboot
- Thinks it's missing CPUs and memory
- Not a heat issue