Meeting Minutes/2009-11-17

awesie is dead
- The rack fell on him
- Buried under a dozen rack mounted machines
- Jabbered mdille3 at 3:45
UPSs
- Began using scary cables
- nletwin is awesome, has a multimeter
- Is it stranger to always carry a multimeter or a set of lock picks?
- kbare spent a lot of time trying to find a suitable machine
- Couldn't plug anything into the UPSs, unable to try test load, etc, due to lack of cables
- awesie wants to make a rave controller out of a power switch
mdille3 found out how to make jetstors shut up
- (Long description of algorithm)
- "Clear the fucking beeper option" in the menu
Let a few more minutes elapse before we declare awesie dead
- awesie called, was asleep
- Woke up 5 minutes ago, perhaps in a pool of blood
- We'll know when he walks in with or without a blood stain
gafs
- Lots of data moved onto gafs
- Lots of data eaten in a move onto gafs
- Has gotten happier since then
- Previously existing data is fine
Pseudo budget report
- Spending money seemingly like crazy
- In actuality, only 10% of our budget
- Have a lot of money for RAM and retro we've not spent
- RAM in the form of SSDs...?
- Might fix the news index thingie problem
- Digression on new GHC cluster machines which have 12GB of RAM
Told de0u to buy cables for UPS and jetstors, etc
awesie arrives
- Neither dead nor bleeding
- new rack is awesome, "on fucking wheels"
- No longer any room to walk around in B6, push the rack to one side to slip past
- Might be able to roll rack outside door with extension cables
  - Creating plenty of space to work in on Saturdays
  - Run one Ethernet cable to a switch
  - Even has a UPS, can just unplug and plug back in in the hall
  - Two PDUs, weird plugs, not sure how the PDUs are useful
- Round holes, unfortunately, "but it's on fucking wheels" and "fucking wheels are fucking great"
- But we still don't have any room in the room
- How to plug things into this rack
  - 6 PDUs, 6 plugs into them
  - Put something on the workbench (20A)
  - Rack 0 UPS can go on the workbench
  - Will need more cables?
    - RAM in the shape of cables
    - Retro cables
Need the room clean-ish for a fire inspection on Wed
- Get to detectors to clean and test them
- Don't need to clean up much other than ensuring access to those areas
- No one from club will be around over Thanksgiving
- Clean up and organize on Saturday
dk08 noticed beeping when cleaning under the floor the other day
- On machine saying "fan 4 is ok"
- Actually on the jetstor above that
- Drive replaced
mdille3 and dkozel and finances
- (Silliness and rants)
- mdille3 knows *everyone*
Scheduling de0u
- Nov 24th: significant chance of no one being here
- Dec 15th: significant chance of no one being here
- Other Tuesdays look good for us
KGB Classic Lite
- This Friday, Nov 20
- Mixup with dates, so we're not very much involved
- Send an email to members
Spend money on news
- Needs neither more RAM nor an SSD
- Current issue is bandwidth
- 16x 1TB disk?
Club has its first NFS server, works better than AFS for performance