MTU LUG Minutes April 17rd, 2008

Elections Last week
 President - Steve
 VP - Brandon
 Server Admin - Andrew M.
 Secretary - Christian

UPS
 Situation is unstable
 one machine is not on UPS, if it was we'd only have 5 minutes
  not long enough for backup generator
 Asking Alum for donations
 Stuck on 15A circuit
 Picking a UPS that will take extra batteries
  one Dark is looking at would give 39 min run time
  25 minutes then assume generators not coming back on
  gracefully shut down machine and flush disks
 $1270 shipped
  600 back form USG
  400 from base
  Dark has ~300 of LUG's cash on hand
  ~500 in MTU credit union
 old one?
  Sell it off?
  hang onto until next year

8U machine?
 Ad on Craig's list
 Bark boards
 Donate to community lug?

Tuner Cards
 Dark-Fx presentation (not really)
 don't forget to make sure all the module settings are right
  bttv needs to be told that you have the US version of the tuner
 Dark-Fx likes the Hauppauge cards

Summer Meetings
 Steve heading up meetings
 Where?
  Rotating restaurants

Summer projects
 update website
 troubleshoot the GZcase computer

Next meeting
 Old hardware make disappear

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