Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, 8 April 2004 BoD For This Mtg eleen jkit elliot adrian - 1 absense yehfang - 1 absense rahat - 1 absense hkim phlee - 1 absense kaisenl - 1 absense geo - 1 abense shivab joydip mbh - 1 absense total: 12 quorum: 8 bod present eleen jkit elliot adrian yehfang phlee kaisenl geo shivab rahat quorum achieved bod absent hkim - 1st joydip - 1st mbh - 2nd people present: jkit eleen phlee elliot akamike shivab kaisenl adrian geo yehfang huiran rahat ------ agenda ASUC elections (next week!) printer - kit printer - service hours daily cal ad $ GM Message - Monday chaos - Eshleman comps - passwd patch - $ MEETING OPENS GM Message - The servers were down on Monday - We were applying a kenel patch - Derek found a security hole in passwd, needed to install patch. - Derek installed patch on war - Installed wrong kernel patch, war died. -> mail server died. - Whenever you first log in, it checks your mail. If it can't check your mail, the computers hang. - Akopps and smcc backed out the patch. - Mail services are restored - No mail was lost, it was just queued. - "you got all your spam, don't worry" - A lot of peoples' passwords got out of sync. - Copies of peoples' NIS keys get unsynched among different servers, can't log in - Have to use keylogout (but have to be root to use keylogout) - Root people may have to individually clear NIS+ key cache - if you can log into death but not windows, then try out logging onto hurricane -- it may be a unix<-->windows password sync issue. - Derek: Famine, death and (something else) needs to get patched. - Derek is not going to touch death. - Eshleman computers don't have internet, we don't know why, fairly sure it's not our issue but ASUC's. - $ - 18% cut, so we have $16,000 SM Message - Geo's Account - Somehow geo's account got sorried...we can't fix this b/c to unsorry you need to change password, ... we can't nispasswd for some reason. - When people ask for virtual hosting, tell them to read the policy! That webpage will tell them to e-mail sm! They need to read the website first! - Anybody who has virtual hosting is required by policy to put a "hosted by OCF" link. E-mail sm if people are in violation of this! - Any ideas of what to do with random computers? - What's the deal with the Mac? - We don't know. - Most likely out of warranty - The dells have 3 year extended warranty we think. MONEY $16,000 The money that we need to run the printer, paper, toner and phone, the max is about $10,000 per year, including random $5,000 for emergency funds. That leaves us with about $6000 for stuff. Given the current budget crises, getting more money is doubtful, but we are going to try. We'd need a good reason. Olivia says nothing was really cut from our budget, but everything was downsized. REASONS TO GIVE US MORE MONEY? - CSO guards, extra long hours - RAM for Dells - A big couch - Disk array - Printer maintenance? DISK ARRAY The only major thing that we've thought about is Devin's disk array suggestion, which costs about $10,000. Why do we need a disk array? War is filled to the brim. Do we have more space? It's better to have new hardware RAID BATTERY - We need to replace it. smcc says it's nontrivial. HPUX SYSTEM - Not likely that we'd get it - We'd need a good reason - It's physically huge - No one knows the operating system. - Power line requirements? PRINTER - The printer stopped working. It kept jamming. - The printer is getting confused as to what's wrong with it - It may be that it's time to service the printer. Rollers, fuser? - There are two things we could do. 1) buy a kit and replace the stuff ourselves (eleen hears it's not that hard) 2) get workstation support (branch of tsw) to help us. they say they don't service student groups.they're just supposed to service staff, faculty, students. but we got the apple computer from them...we'd probably have to pay them. they'd probably just clean, instead of replace parts. - who's replaced parts before? - probably luns WE HAVE A SECOND PRINTER? - Where is it? 2nd floor eschleman? - Is there anything wrong with it? - It doesn't ha ----- End of Memo ----- Memo: 27, exported from J-Pilot on 04/15/04 01:16AM Category: Unfiled This memo was marked as: Not Private ----- Start of Memo ----- have a duplexer- no doublesided. LOOK INTO SERVICING OLD PRINTER AND USING IT. If people ask "when's the printer going to get fixed?" answer "it's been worked on." The workstation people can come pick up printers. DAILY CAL AD Cal day is next saturday Since we never do publicity, maybe this would be good. Afraid ASUC will say "no one knows about us" Cost: $20 What should our tagline be? No result. ASUC ELECTIONS Happening next week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday CHECK YOUR E-MAIL We're not getting paid, since we're doing a tech thing...instead of just sitting there. The people who just sit there get money. We get nothing. SET UP Why are we doing this? ...good...name...brownie points. Where are we supposed to be? Unknown. At 6:50am. Eleen needs phone numbers. If the time comes, and you don't know where to be, just go and stand outside the OCF office, cold, shivering. Eleen will come and open the doors. Tuesday: shiva, george, mike that's not here (mbh?) WEDNESDAY: Matt and Elliot Thursday: Elliot MIDDAY Tues: George, Patrick, Kaisen Wednesday: Hugh Thursday: George PACKUP: 8pm tues: George wednesday: phlee, geo, elliot thurs: geo, elliot IF YOU SIGN UP YOU HAVE TO BE THERE Packup on thursday will interfere with BoD meeting. Can we all go out and packup together, and go out and get food? on-call: adrian The downtime that was supposed to happen over spring break didn't happen, we're rescheduling to whenever we kernel patch BOD ELECTIONS akamike elected unaninmously geo and shiva motion to close yeh seconds NEXT WEEK: SHORT BOD MEETING COLLECTIVE TAKE DOWN OF ASUC ELECTIONS FOOD! Eleen bought the game "cranium," a party game. Pictionary + charades + trivia + clay + crisco oil.