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Minutes 2009-01-29

2009-01-29

LUG Meeting Minutes January 29th, 2009

We are now ignoring the man behind the curtain

Mandatory budget meeting after the meeting at 8pm

Statue
 Building statue starts next week
 Everyone sign up for hours to build
 design or plans for statue?
  in theory...
 Steve will find out if Gabby Meyers has sent plowing e-mail for site
  he'll send one if need be.

Installathon in 3 weeks
 Flyiers and schedules of events
 table tents
 update old stuff

Server status
 Power? We still don't know what we have
 there is a breaker we could move to, but it's not 120
 our rack is plugged in with an extension cord... OSHA does not like this
 Kraus would have this fixed by now but he wants campus to pay for it
 Kuk needs more memory and new IDE cables
  it's on a new egg wishlist
 Devree is thinking of donating a poweredge server...
  maybe a shell server?
 move to IPv6 internally?

Shell server
 we need to set limits
 what would people do with it?
 at *least* the campus computer use policy
 allow? SETI at home? windows 7?
 computational stuff?
 dist cc?
 home pages?
  forwarded from front end

Wiki
 who has access?
  just officers for now...
 Lego needs to add new people

Mirrors
 Okay so far... nothing added recently
 500G left of our 4TB

Drives
 Spares? Steve has many

Installs
 USB flash drive
 Debian, Ubuntu
 windows repair disk
 Disto for old slow hardware
 Yellow Dog

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 LSF
 Installathon dual boot
 weird stuff? mail us in advance
 PS3? :) Wii?

END

Kuk at installathon
 Use as spare space or local mirror?
 just ubuntu and everything else can come in over the network