UC Berkeley Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting 24 February 2005 minutes by elliot@ocf ---------------------------------------- OPENING - Quorum achieved, meeting opens ---------------------------------------- NEW STAFF - New Staff: Andrew "Novakyu" - Personal introductions happened ---------------------------------------- FULLMER will be here next meeting ---------------------------------------- BUDGET will be ready next meeting (courtesy Frank) ---------------------------------------- DELL POWER SUPPLIES are being handled by Brando ---------------------------------------- SSL CERTIFICATES are being looked into by Brando - Possibility for free certificiates - Jkit: You should check campus SSL requirements - Webmail requires SSL certificates - Estimate of $100/yr/certificate. Ask for three certificates yearly. ---------------------------------------- ALIENWARE AND GAMING CENTERS - Possible option of being responsible for maintaining gaming systems and servers - Fullmer wants to know if we're interested - We want to know how long it will be until the gaming computers are released to us for general OCF use. (We'd probably get them, eventually). - Will anyone use these machines? - jkit: Fullmer told me the machines would get re-imaged nightly, making maintenance much easier. - Frank: Fullmer will come to the meeting next week and get the details. - Consensus: We're interested in hearing more but don't want to commit yet. ---------------------------------------- SCREENSAVER ADVERTISEMENTS - For local businesses - Do we want to do this? - (General objections ensue) - Aoshi: ASUC won't like it - Frank: Is it feasible? Answer: yes - Could we advertise for student groups? - Taking money in general is bad. - Doing stuff for community in general is good. - Desktop background vs. screensaver - Is desktop background locked? Answer: no ---------------------------------------- DISK ARRAY SCSI CARD - Akop brought SCSI card to lab, but can't work on array until spring break. ---------------------------------------- NETWORK OUTAGE MORNING OF 2/19/2005 - geo + dwc fixed it. - CNS had something go wrong in Sproul Hall ---------------------------------------- 7TH FLOOR ESCHLEMAN COMPUTERS - Dima + Yury + Frank + Matt formatted the machines, installed WinXP SP2, Symantec Client Security, Video Drivers, Firefox - These are web browser only stations, as publication wants. - mattfong: Kiosk mode is harder than previously thought. Running/booting/installing off CD works. - Would knoppix work for this? - Networking for these machines is handled by Fullmer(?) - General/general is disabled - Should we enable it? - There is a nonstandard windows admin password. - Leftmost system is locked with an unknown masterlock lock - Worst case, bring it to jkit with the serial number ---------------------------------------- WINDOWS DISK IMAGING list of requested software posted on OCF door ---------------------------------------- PRINTER was wrinkling pages...Dima magically fixed it. ---------------------------------------- HACKED ACCOUNT - user "apa" attacked us with a flood sunday morning - dwc fixed it ---------------------------------------- SPAMILTER - Dima told jjlin the spamilter was spitting out error messages - jjlin fixed it. - No one talked to Luns :( - Aoshi will talk to Luns. ---------------------------------------- DOWNTIME BACKUP SYSTEMS WITH CSUA - We want to set up a system where if OCF goes down, CSUA will pick up our traffic, mail, etc. and vice versa. - It shouldn't be a problem handling our amount of traffic. ---------------------------------------- ACCOUNT APPROVAL - Make sure the user's middle name is on the account and account form ---------------------------------------- DUPLICATE ACCOUNT CHECKING - Can we use student IDs (SIDs) for this? - Are SIDs recycled? - Is there a secret CalNet fingerprint beyond just the SID? - Can we use hashing, to store a SID hash instead of the SID itself? - We don't even need to associate SID (or hashed SID) with an a given account, we just need to keep the (hashed) SIDs in a giant list, and check to see whether the new SID (hash) is already in the list. This will work for duplicate checking. ---------------------------------------- INTERIOR DECORATING: Do we want posters? ---------------------------------------- BERKELEY MODEL UNITED NATIONS (BMUN) - Frank: They're not getting the final agreement until they sign the wage agreement. $120 for 7.5 hours of service - We need to set up the appropriate accounts - With arbitrary print quota (they are supplying paper and toner). ---------------------------------------- TONER - mattfong: we're currently getting toner at discount prices via my employee discount. It's only $20 off per unit, but I'll be graduating soon. ---------------------------------------- BACKUP/REDUNDANT HARDWARE: We don't have any, there will be problems if things fail. ---------------------------------------- OCF LAPTOP AREA: Do we want one? ---------------------------------------- LONG TERM DIRECTION FOR OCF - What is our mission? - What are our priorities? - Why are we using Solaris? - Most Sun systems use Sparc - New Sun stuff uses Opteron - FreeBSD theoretically supports Opteron ---------------------------------------- NEW BOD MEMBERS - Novakyu unanimously elected to BOD ---------------------------------------- CLOSING - Kaisenl motions to close - Elliot seconds - Meeting ends ---------------------------------------- END