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Minutes 2009-03-05

2009-03-06T00:41:44Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes March 3rd, 2009

Server Status
money for breaker? *shrugs*

Junkyard Wars
in future lock people in the room with junk and tell them to impress us
Not to LFS... takes too long
Extend it for a second day?
First day... pick out hardware
Second day... do nifty stuff
When Next? Fall!!!
pastore still has a pile of computers in his house who wants to install stuff?

Elections
President:
Lego nominates Nor - she declines
Steve noninates Lego - he declines
Christian nominates Tall Matt - he's not here to do anything about it.
seconded by Lego
VP:
lego nominates Nor, seconded by Christian, accepts
Steve nominates EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING

Mirrors
lacking in anything not x86 (or amd64)
Should add PPC and Sparc
Update debian cd mirror

Kuk
died
what to do with hardware?

Website
template is done
http://lug.mtu.edu/nor-sitetest/

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Minutes 2009-03-05

2009-03-06T00:39:57Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes March 3rd, 2009

Server Status
money for breaker? *shrugs*

Junkyard Wars
in future lock people in the room with junk and tell them to impress us
Not to LFS... takes too long
Extend it for a second day?
First day... pick out hardware
Second day... do nifty stuff
When Next? Fall!!!
pastore still has a pile of computers in his house who wants to install stuff?

Elections
President:
Lego nominates Nor - she declines
Steve nominates Lego - he declines
Christian nominates Tall Matt - he's not here to do anything about it.
seconded by Lego

Mirrors
lacking in anything not x86 (or amd64)
Should add PPC and Sparc
Update debian cd mirror

Kuk
died
what to do with hardware?

Website
template is done
http://lug.mtu.edu/nor-sitetest/

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Minutes 2009-03-05

2009-03-06T00:39:40Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes March 3rd, 2009

Server Status
money for breaker? *shrugs*

Junkyard Wars
in future lock people in the room with junk and tell them to impress us
Not to LFS... takes too long
Extend it for a second day?
First day... pick out hardware
Second day... do nifty stuff
When Next? Fall!!!
pastore still has a pile of computers in his house who wants to install stuff?

Elections
President:
Lego nominates Nor - she declines
Steve moninates Lego - he declines
Christian nominates Tall Matt - he's not here to do anything about it.
seconded by Lego

Mirrors
lacking in anything not x86 (or amd64)
Should add PPC and Sparc
Update debian cd mirror

Kuk
died
what to do with hardware?

Website
template is done
http://lug.mtu.edu/nor-sitetest/

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Members

2009-03-06T00:37:05Z

RagingMind:

== Officers ==
'''President''': Steven Vormwald CS Major (2009)

'''Vice President''': Matt Gar... MS Major (2008?)

'''Secretary''': [[User:RagingMind|Christian Jacobsen]] Applied GeoPhysics (2008)

'''Treasurer''': [[User:Byan|Bryan Laur]] CS Major (2010)

'''Server''': [[User:Agmeyer|Andrew Meyer]] CpE/EE Major (2012)

== Current Members ==

Jeff Tyson CS (2008)

Lenore Towne CS (201?)

John Pastore Math (1901)

[[User: Tokyo-18|A'Lisa Krawciw]] CpE/EE Major (2010)

[[User:blcrowle|Brandon Crowley]] CS Major (2011-2012 (maybe...?))

== Alumni ==

[[User:Adamjaskie|Adam Jaskie]] CS (2008)

[[User:Physcofish|Jon Klimowicz]] CS Major (December 2007)

[[User:Freshmen|Andrew Swartzendruber]] CpE Major (2008)

[[User:MrVoids|Andrew Miller]] CpE/EE Major (2008)

[[User:Sgowtham|S Gowtham]] Eng. Physics (Sometime in 2006)

[[User:gzphreak|Dan Clark]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:Jon787|Jon DeVree]] CS Major (2006)

[http://khanbo.com Mary Farmer] EE Major (2005)

[[User:spi|Steven Isaacson]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:rsmudge|Raphael Mudge]] CS Major (2004)

[http://www.dingostick.com Adam Shirey] CS Major (2004)

[[User:base16|Justin TerAvest]] CS Major (2005)

[http://xobes.com Andy Zobro] ME Undergrad, Engineering Masters (2005)

[[User:Chong|Timothy Carmean]] CSY Major (2007)

[[User: Techieb0y|Peter Corbett]] CSY Major (2007)

== Past Members ==
[[User:Rachel|Rachel Pierce]] (2004-2005) transfered to [http://www.stolaf.edu/ St. Olaf]

Members

2009-03-06T00:35:52Z

RagingMind:

== Officers ==
'''President''': Steven Vormwald CS Major (2009)

'''Vice President''': Matt Gar... MS Major (2008?)

'''Secretary''': [[User:RagingMind|Christian Jacobsen]] Applied GeoPhysics (2008)

'''Treasurer''': [[User:Byan|Bryan Laur]] CS Major (2010)

'''Server''': [[User:Agmeyer|Andrew Meyer]] CpE/EE Major (2012)

== Current Members ==

Lenore Towne CS (201?)

John Pastore Math (1901)

[[User: Tokyo-18|A'Lisa Krawciw]] CpE/EE Major (2010)

[[User:blcrowle|Brandon Crowley]] CS Major (2011-2012 (maybe...?))

== Alumni ==

[[User:Adamjaskie|Adam Jaskie]] CS (2008)

[[User:Physcofish|Jon Klimowicz]] CS Major (December 2007)

[[User:Freshmen|Andrew Swartzendruber]] CpE Major (2008)

[[User:MrVoids|Andrew Miller]] CpE/EE Major (2008)

[[User:Sgowtham|S Gowtham]] Eng. Physics (Sometime in 2006)

[[User:gzphreak|Dan Clark]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:Jon787|Jon DeVree]] CS Major (2006)

[http://khanbo.com Mary Farmer] EE Major (2005)

[[User:spi|Steven Isaacson]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:rsmudge|Raphael Mudge]] CS Major (2004)

[http://www.dingostick.com Adam Shirey] CS Major (2004)

[[User:base16|Justin TerAvest]] CS Major (2005)

[http://xobes.com Andy Zobro] ME Undergrad, Engineering Masters (2005)

[[User:Chong|Timothy Carmean]] CSY Major (2007)

[[User: Techieb0y|Peter Corbett]] CSY Major (2007)

== Past Members ==
[[User:Rachel|Rachel Pierce]] (2004-2005) transfered to [http://www.stolaf.edu/ St. Olaf]

Members

2009-03-06T00:33:38Z

RagingMind:

== Officers ==
'''President''': Steven Vormwald CS Major (2009)

'''Vice President''': Matt Gar... MS Major (2008?)

'''Secretary''': [[User:RagingMind|Christian Jacobsen]] Applied GeoPhysics (2008)

'''Treasurer''': [[User:Byan|Bryan Laur]] CS Major (2010)

'''Server''': [[User:Agmeyer|Andrew Meyer]] CpE/EE Major (2012)

== Current Members ==

[[User: Tokyo-18|A'Lisa Krawciw]] CpE/EE Major (2010)

[[User:blcrowle|Brandon Crowley]] CS Major (2011-2012 (maybe...?))

== Alumni ==

[[User:Adamjaskie|Adam Jaskie]] CS (2008)

[[User:Physcofish|Jon Klimowicz]] CS Major (December 2007)

[[User:Freshmen|Andrew Swartzendruber]] CpE Major (2008)

[[User:MrVoids|Andrew Miller]] CpE/EE Major (2008)

[[User:Sgowtham|S Gowtham]] Eng. Physics (Sometime in 2006)

[[User:gzphreak|Dan Clark]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:Jon787|Jon DeVree]] CS Major (2006)

[http://khanbo.com Mary Farmer] EE Major (2005)

[[User:spi|Steven Isaacson]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:rsmudge|Raphael Mudge]] CS Major (2004)

[http://www.dingostick.com Adam Shirey] CS Major (2004)

[[User:base16|Justin TerAvest]] CS Major (2005)

[http://xobes.com Andy Zobro] ME Undergrad, Engineering Masters (2005)

[[User:Chong|Timothy Carmean]] CSY Major (2007)

[[User: Techieb0y|Peter Corbett]] CSY Major (2007)

== Past Members ==
[[User:Rachel|Rachel Pierce]] (2004-2005) transfered to [http://www.stolaf.edu/ St. Olaf]

Minutes 2009-02-26

2009-03-06T00:25:07Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes

Server Status
Kuk is not booting... nothing is installed on a bootable drive

Installathon Prep
3 weeks away
Advertising? Yes! but the guy is sick
Table Tents denyed they are already full
Complain about lack of availability for table tents...
Full a month in advance is rediculus
Info is already up on web site
Presentations
Noon Intro to Ubuntu
Noon:30 Photoshop running with Wine
1:00 Open Source Games
1:30 Scheeming on the command line (Scsh)
2:00 Installing from a flsh drive (debbootstrap)
2:30 Bash and Fortran
3:00 Installing Linux on Playstation 3
3:30 Installing Linux on Nintendo Wii
pastore contacted Next Century they may help, waiting to hear from the manager
Who do we talk to about advertising in the bull? david miller or dailybull@mtu?
Pastore will put together some "infotainment" for inclusion in the Bull

LFS Junkyard Wars
Junk Transportation?
there is a TON-O-JUNK at the Nerdery
9:30am pick up
Steve has a bunch of stuff
Prize? you get a cookie!

Shirts
$15 for a shirt!

Nominations
who wants to run for office?
bribe your friends into doing it!

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Minutes 2009-02-19

2009-03-06T00:15:28Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes

Server Status
Really rather spend the money on RAM than on cables
Might be cheaper to buy a new MOBO and Processor with ram than just buying DDR (DDR is more expensive)
A quick trip to Pricewatch...
Croush needs to convince Tech to fix our OSHA violation
Special officer meeting to come up with a proposal

Junkyard Wars
Who has Junk?!
only has to vaguely resemble computer parts
broken is fine... that's part of the fun
x86 is okay too
Steve is bringing PC hardware
Extra points for not using GNU Libc
Nothing that would kill people
In 139 Fisher Next Saturday
From 10am to 5pm

Budget
We need to update our budget and turn it in for tomorrow
Marcus has Poster for installathon
will be making table tents tonight

Stuff to include
Installathon x2
Advertising
Network Connection
Junkyard Yars
Advertising
Network Connection
Server Network Connection
Conventions
Penguicon
Notacon
Electric Upgrade
Socials
Educational Speakers
RMS
Randal Monroe
Linus Torvolds
Bruce Schneier
Linux Advocacy
Advertising
CD's for campus distribution

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Minutes 2009-02-12

2009-02-13T07:32:53Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes February 12th, 2009

Server Status
Lego is missing
Has not changed since last time
Still needing to manually update some of our mirrors
Kuk needs hardware
$29.90 IDE cables
$11.30 shipping
$104.97 3G DDR 400
Total 410.45
Cables - yes
Memory - Hold off for now. We're not sure how much it takes

Installathon
March 21
Rooms weren't available so now a new dates
Presentations
Installing linux on game system
Wii
Playstation 3
Introduction to Ubuntu - Steve
Video games in Wine - Dark-Fx
Photoshop in Wine - Lenor
Open Source Gaming - Christian
Bash and Fortran - Pastore

Website
Lenor - Update the CSS for the web page
Is the wiki useful?
Who has admin?
Links back to the home page
` Christian: complete layout redesign
Voted Lenor as website admin

LFS/Junkyard wars rules
Still at same time
2 weeks in our meeting room
Facebook event?
Teams?
number of members effects judging
Rules
what ever is impressive to the judges?
Points
difficult hardware
network
X
clustering application
Number of machines
Time spent working on build
Allow them to have working computers on sight?
Netboot? if they build the server...
Steve is providing a desktop for people to download stuff
they can look stuff up on their own computer, but not connect it to their build (can't use it to download packages)
Judge has discression over music in the room
First one done? total time taken?
Status at the end of the day
Judges
Steve
Christian
Reward?
Thumb drives
Floppy drives
CD Drives
Talk to Next Century
Pastore will talk to Next Century and Computer Mechanix

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Minutes 2009-01-29

2009-02-13T07:30:17Z

RagingMind:

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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

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

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

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

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Minutes 2009-01-15

2009-02-13T07:29:19Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes January 15th, 2009

Server Status
Admin not here

Statue
Who wants to disign it?
Will be WALL-E and Glenda
Pastore is asking questions
Due Wednesday next week
If you want to help e-mail gabby gamyers@mtu.edu

Student Involvement fair
Happening Soon
This coming Tuesday 7-9PM MUB Ballroom
We have a table with power reserved
Projector and screens
Who will sit there? Me, Steve, Byan

USG Budget Allocation Meeting
Two weeks from now 8-9PM

Money Issues
Check was deposited
Byan: How Pay CS department? Take it out in cash and give it to them
Pay Cathy or AJ

Spring Installathon
Yes
Presentations!
Windows exploits from linux
Games
rickroll through SSH
X-forwarding stuff
Scheme? it's evil!
Intro to programming on linux
Figure out who knows what
Visibly mark them so people can tell
(T-shirts with stuff written on them)
E-mail for ubuntu CDs was never sent
Get them for this coming fall?

LFS Junkyard Wars
Lock people in a room with stuff
don't let them out until they SSH out a cry for help
When is there free time?
February 28
Where? *shrugs*
Rheiki 214?
OSX would be illegal
NETBSD is okay
Prizes: Hard Drives, Flash drives, Memory
Contact Next Century?
Advertising?
Posters? Daily Bull?

T-Shirts
We still have extra, bringing to student involvement fair
New shirts this year?
Design? Brandon can resubmit his design from last year
There be interest from members present

Socials
Anyone want to do a social?
*steve skips*

Lecture Series on IP
There is a lecture on IP and will probably run over our meeting

New Officers
Can Huskybot be an officer?
Lots of people leaving...

Other
Pastore: Um...?
Brandon, netboot server?
X86 laptop
DHCP server
TFTP server

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Minutes 2008-12-11

2009-02-13T07:25:47Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes December 11th, 2008

Order Pizza / Dues
Who what where when how?
Dominoes and a pizza per person
Hawaiian, Pepperoni, Sausage
total: $41.54

Server Status
interesting and Fun News
4 x 1.5T seagate drives from Dark-Fx
PFRC has requested hosting a wiki (just the database)
Kuk waiting until after break
Gentoo Mirror? Huge network outage yesterday

$78 For Spring 08 Server Connection
Bill is still due from the CS department (they're getting charged we pay back)
money coming out of bank account to pay it off

Move server connection to USG account
Steve will move the billing to the USG expense account

Meeting Conduct
Officer positions need full names

Alternative ISP for LUG
getting a Cell modem for the lug server during MTU downtime
IRC not mirrors
Pastynet? it's line of sight to Quincy hill
Alltel? very expensive for our use

Other
Move IRC hub to Dark's box so that it's stable when MTU drops
More USLUG stuff? sure!
agmlego slowly changing config files
Why Fedora break?
*shrugs* Dark fixed it...
One person in CSLC asked us to mirror Slackware
Add if we have space

Winter Carnival

VP Election
We voted Matthew Gardeski as VP by a large margin

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Minutes 2008-12-04

2009-02-13T07:25:07Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes December 4th, 2008

Server Status
? agmlego is not here tonight

New VP
Emergency Election
He has to take time off, won't be an enrolled student
Nominations
The Front row (Alex and Markus)
Tall Matt
Voting Next week (so we can nominate more people)

SOCS (Snow Statue)
Take to Steve after the meeting if you want to work out the design
Nothing due till mid January

501(c) 3
LUG qualifies as a 501(c) 3 organization
Since our funding is less then 5000 a year
There's a special exemption for small groups
No special paper work for us
Special paperwork for people who donate
If people do start making donations to us then we have paperwork
We'd have to go get tax certificates

Credit Union
We now have a savings account

Fedora 10
It destroyed our server...
The script stopped working
Dark cleared our mirror and fetched it
Lots of Security updates

PR Update
Worst time to recruit people...
Sean will create a Flier for us to put up next semester
Maybe Table tents and things
Student Involvement Fair
Big thing in Wads
We'll do something as soon as someone figures out how to

Student Org backup
Think we could backup to Student Org web server
Steve will talk to USG

Budget Hearing
We were given moneys for Installathon network connection
Filmboard ads were donation from Arrakiv
Tuesday at 6 in Fisher 133

End of Semester Social
We have the Pop
What kind of social?
Next weeks meeting will be a movie (technically be post meeting)
Have pizza too
Take Funds from LUG account for Pizza?
6 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain
Markus will go get Pizza after we head-count

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Minutes 2008-11-13

2009-02-13T07:23:28Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes November 13th, 2008

Server Status
Still doing alright. No change
ETA on Kuk? hopefully by the end of thanksgiving

Other
PR Progress?
Nope
Maybe a movie night or other small bet together
Shock Therapy?

WoW thingy came out today

Treasurer Shows up

Snow Statue
When do we have to sign up?
End of November
More Ideas?
Discuss on IRC or E-Mail list

Penguicon
two people pre-registered
e-mail steve

Junk Yard Wars
Too lazy to do it this semester

Broadcasting Meetings?
We have the Equipment but must remember it

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Minutes 2008-11-13

2009-02-13T07:21:48Z

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Minutes 2008-11-20

2009-02-13T07:20:55Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes November 20th, 2008

Server Status
No Change

Food?
We all Love Arby's
Invading it after the meeting

Read Email!
There was an e-mail forwarded to the list it needs reading

Snow Statue Stuff
PFRC would like to help build a giant sphere of death
We'd help if Glenda is on top
They want to make Lens of Ice
They are doing a month long
Glenda still?
How many people to help? 8 counted

Other
Before we descend further into random conversation

VHDL?
What is it?
hardware description language

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Minutes 2008-11-13

2008-11-14T00:22:40Z

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Minutes 2008-11-06

2008-11-14T00:19:34Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes November 6th, 2008

Server status
Hasn't Blown up yet
Kuk still progressing slowly
Having user galleries
We have the software on the server
would be useful for sharing photos on IRC
Should update the Group galleries

SOCS
Meeting yesterday, didn't do anything
reviving ACM
Anyone else that can be a backup person to attend?
Byan isn't really interested... it might overlap with food
Byan will if no one else can

Snow Statue
Still interest?
Join up with the WiCS group
There is a moderate level of interest from people
Monthlong or Overnight? Overnight
Deadlines?

Junkyard wars Event
When? Semester?
Next Semester
Need to find parts
Steve can provide some
Limit to x86? No... that would take the fun out of it
No limits on hardware

Money
Film board? still no news yet.
Byan see steve after the meeting for checking account stuff

Streaming the meetings
Greg doesn't want to walk from campus
would also allow Alum to participate in meetings
anyone have the hardware?
access to the in room camera? probably just goes into the projector thing

Seeding Linux ISO torrents
only max out the connection during ubuntu release
this would be great for people on campus
how would this effect our connection?

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Minutes 2008-11-06

2008-11-14T00:19:24Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes November 6th, 2008

Craig: I'M ANNOYING LISTEN TO ME COMMENT NEGATIVELY ON EVERYTHING

Server status
Hasn't Blown up yet
Kuk still progressing slowly
Having user galleries
We have the software on the server
would be useful for sharing photos on IRC
Should update the Group galleries

SOCS
Meeting yesterday, didn't do anything
reviving ACM
Anyone else that can be a backup person to attend?
Byan isn't really interested... it might overlap with food
Byan will if no one else can

Snow Statue
Still interest?
Join up with the WiCS group
There is a moderate level of interest from people
Monthlong or Overnight? Overnight
Deadlines?

Junkyard wars Event
When? Semester?
Next Semester
Need to find parts
Steve can provide some
Limit to x86? No... that would take the fun out of it
No limits on hardware

Money
Film board? still no news yet.
Byan see steve after the meeting for checking account stuff

Streaming the meetings
Greg doesn't want to walk from campus
would also allow Alum to participate in meetings
anyone have the hardware?
access to the in room camera? probably just goes into the projector thing

Seeding Linux ISO torrents
only max out the connection during ubuntu release
this would be great for people on campus
how would this effect our connection?

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Minutes 2008-10-30

2008-11-06T03:54:05Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes October 30th, 2008

Server
We're maxing our pipe out and it's fine
Slow Progress on Kuk

LAN Party
Only 28 people
They don't need us or our switches anymore
They didn't like how much logo space we wanted

Penguicon
Want Registration, E-mail Steve

Shirts
Need to think of Ideas
Previously we had competition
Mary designed the old ones
She's not here anymore
A new Design would encourage Alum and people with shirts to get new ones

Spring Installathon
Tentatively the weekend after Career Fair
February 21st
Ideas? Changes? Comments?
Coerse CS classes to offer Extra Credit
SysAdmin class is in Spring
It's a lot easier to install Linux than a few years ago
How do we update Installathon?
Mostly we help with weird hardware and odd laptops
More Distros Present
CRUX? Arch Linux?
Games during install
ET on demo machines
Doom Sysadmin
Free Pie
Merchandising
Shirts
Two Rooms?
Partition to separate Presentations
Table Tents
More Exciting Presentation
Getting Portal to Run in Wine
More Useful presentation
Getting your Laptop to Sleep and Resume
Getting Wireless to work
Actually Give out Official CD's
Someone going to Order them Now?
We're one of the Top Mirrors for Ubuntu we should ask for express delivery
We're requesting 60
Linux From Scratch Marathon!
Junk Yard Wars?
Build the computer from scratch
Then Linux From Scratch
Noon one day to Noon next day
Instead of Installathon

PR Person
It's in the Constitution
People that want it: Sean Bulger, Markus
Vote! almost unanimous for Sean
Sean leaves next semester. Markus when Sean leaves?
Ideas
More Events
LFS Race, Open Source LAN party, Presentations
Posters for Around Campus
Linux Format magazine Discounts?
Like $25 an issue
Cause we're a student group
Giant Paper Mache Penguin in front of EERC Tree?
40 foot Penguin Attacking the EERC?
Carnival events?
Glenda Statue?!
Also Tux, Puffy, BSD Daemon, The Gnu
Linux Advocacy, See Ruckus
Linux is disappearing from most of the Labs on campus
Departments might not want to switch
but might be forced to maintain interoperability

Campus Network update
Most recent network outage was from inside resnet
Possibly one of the network devices
This brought up by network outage during meeting

Where is Byan?
He came this time!
How to set up a checking account?
Get the forms from the credit union
Steve can go up to the credit union
Schedule time in budge hearing
Money for installathon
Need receipt from Film Board

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Minutes 2008-10-16

2008-11-06T03:53:26Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Meeting Minutes October 16th, 2008

Server Status
Andrew not here
server still has two drives lost
will work on after new case comes in mail
*false alert...* it was his own server
Andrew here maybe make sense now
Server is okay, yay!

Installathon Wrapup
It happened... it's over.
Lots of people showed up.
We gave presentations
Money for Pizza was wow
USG reimbursement for Film Board thing
also they'll bug us about the charge for the connection
was only $25

Penguicon
Steve is doing registration this weekend
it's $35 if you do it now
USG will refund at some point...
we get $400 from them
Steve's Yaris is very fuel efficient

Linux Cheat Sheet
CS honor society is putting together a guide for freshmen
Wants us to put together a Linux guide sheet
O'Reilly sheet used to float around

Funding
Money was passed to Byan
Should deposit money into credit union account
Paypal is not a good idea for collecting dues... too many fees

Other Activities
Table at nanocon
Hand out CD's
Weekend after Halloween
Corey could help, but busy with PFRC stuff
Anything for Intrepid release?
it's right before nanocon
mcnairlanparty.cjb.net - SCLC
quake3
Urban terror
counterstrike
Team Fortress 2
$2 a head and limited registration
Also maybe food
November 1st

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Minutes 2008-10-23

2008-11-06T03:52:56Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes october 23rd, 2008

Server
No news
new box still worked on
CSLC will be getting a channel

Budget
Money person is gone

IRC for others
All our services are open to whoever want to use it

Penguicon
Steve hasn't gotten any e-mails

Other
Spring Installathon?
Want to go over the budget since we only had one in there
but we didn't use most of it
Installathon spring '07
We had a network connection that was never paid for
still collecting interest (now about $30)

Installing outdated versions of compilers on limited access hardware
It's not all that hard, just have to know which version you need
The labs have a D compiler

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Minutes 2008-10-23

2008-11-06T03:52:26Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes october 23rd, 2008

Server
No news
new box still worked on
CSLC will be getting a channel

Budget
Money person is gone

IRC for others
All our services are open to whoever want to use it

Penguicon
Steve hasn't gotten any e-mails

Other
Spring Installathon?
Want to go over the budget since we only had one in there
but we didn't use most of it
Installathon spring '07
We had a network connection that was never paid for
still collecting interest (now about $30)

Installing outdated versions of compilers on limited access hardware
It's not all that hard, just have to know which version you need
The labs have a D compiler

END

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Minutes 2008-10-16

2008-11-06T03:51:44Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes October 16th, 2008

Server Status
Andrew not here
server still has two drives lost
will work on after new case comes in mail
*false alert...* it was his own server
Andrew here maybe make sense now
Server is okay, yay!

Installathon Wrapup
It happened... it's over.
Lots of people showed up.
We gave presentations
Money for Pizza was wow
USG reimbursement for Film Board thing
also they'll bug us about the charge for the connection
was only $25

Penguicon
Steve is doing registration this weekend
it's $35 if you do it now
USG will refund at some point...
we get $400 from them
Steve's Yaris is very fuel efficient

Linux Cheat Sheet
CS honor society is putting together a guide for freshmen
Wants us to put together a Linux guide sheet
O'Reilly sheet used to float around

Funding
Money was passed to Byan
Should deposit money into credit union account
Paypal is not a good idea for collecting dues... too many fees

Other Activities
Table at nanocon
Hand out CD's
Weekend after Halloween
Corey could help, but busy with PFRC stuff
Anything for Intrepid release?
it's right before nanocon
mcnairlanparty.cjb.net - SCLC
quake3
Urban terror
counterstrike
Team Fortress 2
$2 a head and limited registration
Also maybe food
November 1st

END

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Minutes 2008-10-09

2008-10-10T01:17:37Z

RagingMind: an update because mary is being grouchy

<pre>
LUG Meeting Minutes October 9th, 2008

Server update
Server is running
GZ box is not running
turns on but no OS
Only 256MB of Memory
Microcenter deal on memory
Requires DDR we want at least 1GB
Also needs a Gigabit NIC for it
Still dont' know where the Breaker is
More ram for Osiris?
has 2GB on it total 56MB free
Andrew: eventually will have all iso's scripted to update

LAN party
Since we're providing the switch
We'll put out our donation jar in a highly visible place

Installathon Presentations
Jon is doing desktop effects
Markus (with funny hat, aka Spambadger on IRC) can do theme customization
10AM for setup
CS1000 getting extra credit for attending presentations

IRC Logs:
What to log? #mtu and #linux
Huskybot keeps all URLs
a warning that it's being logged will go in MOTD
only new logs will be public
Vote passes by some amount
#mtu will be logged and new logs will be available, old will be used for stats
#linux logged and available

Update mail addy in the wiki so things don't come from Kyle

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Minutes 2008-10-09

2008-10-09T23:52:33Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
LUG Meeting Minutes October 9th, 2008

Server update
Server is running
GZ box is not running
turns on but no OS
Only 256MB of Memory
Microcenter deal on memory
Requires DDR we want at least 1GB
Also needs a Gigabit NIC for it
Still dont' know where the Breaker is
More ram for Osiris?
has 2GB on it total 56MB free
Andrew: eventually will have all iso's scripted to update

LAN party
Since we're providing the switch
We'll put out our donation jar in a highly visible place

Installathon Presentations
Jon is doing desktop effects
Markus (with funny hat, aka Spambadger on IRC) can do theme customization
10AM for setup
CS1000 getting extra credit for attending presentations

IRC Logs:
What to log? #mtu and #linux
Huskybot keeps all URLs
a warning that it's being logged will go in MOTD
only new logs will be public
Vote passes by some amount
#mtu will be logged and new logs will be available, old will be used for stats
#linux logged and available

Update mail addy in the wiki so things don't come from Kyle

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Minutes 2008-10-02

2008-10-09T04:50:07Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Minutes October 2nd, 2008

Server Status
It has not been blown up
MOTD has been updated, contains new rule (about Unicode)
Website has been updated
It's okay if we put the GZ box in the rack
suggests that we don't turn it on until we locate the braker
we only have 15A (we think)
UPS connection issues?
We don't know why
it's loosing data connection to the computer

Installathon
It's next weekend
We can has projector?
Not yet

Penguicon
and other Conventions
who knows for sure? No one...

/dev/random
anon recommendation to Steve
Look into setting up a LUG distributed rendering farm on campus
competition on university level for movie things
if there was already a movie maybe more interested
Advertise that we could provide a server farm if someone comes to us with a movie

Minutes
Send out to List?
sure...
Adviser doesn't know we have a wiki

Wiki
No one can ever seem to be added or logon to it
Byan not sure if he has an account
wiki e-mails "come" from Kyle's gmail addy

SOCS
Student Organizations in Computer Science
meta-organization for CS people
Extra credit for people coming to Installathon
We need a 2nd rep
Send our VP, it's the first wednesday of every month at 5pm
He doesn't know if he's free at the time.
Byan said he could be the backup guy

BonzAI Brawl (a programming competition)
No one knows that's happening
they want to involve more student Orgs
what would we want to do?
The fun things are taken all they need is money and man power

IRC logging?
we haven't been logging for a while
#mtu and #linux should be logged
Update of statistics on webpage (hasn't in a long while)
agmlego needs to figure out how that was being done
Find logs for missing time period
RagingMind, Dark-Fx, NUXI... we've got most of it covered
#linux publicly available for viewing
#mtu not viewable but stats generated for fun

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Minutes 2008-09-25

2008-10-09T04:49:09Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes September 25th, 2008

Server Status
Website
People that said they'd look into it aren't here
Not Changed since last week
Need to move our extra computer (GZ) out of my dining room.
it was suggested that we figure out how to get more power ($$)
We have no idea where our power is coming from.
Mirror ideas? forward to agmeyer@mtu.edu
OpenBSD? we already have an on campus mirror (CEC)
FreeBSD? they don't let people mirror them

Where's Byan?
*Shrugs*

Installathon
Peninsula room reserved from 11am-6pm October 11th.
Advertising
Film Board thingy *almost* done. should be up this weekend (we got extension)
Install linux then not tell them how to use it until they come to meetings?
(Hold them hostage) hehe
Presentations should be done by next week

Penguicon
Who wants to go?
Andrew, Brandon, Marchus, Alex, Fey, Christian, Steve
When is it in relation to exams?
We get $400 from USG for people to go.
Registration is $35 a person
Hotel is $94 a night group rate
$$$ transportation
Registering the week after Installathon

LAN party
Borrow our Switches for LAN party in wads
* in E. Mcnair wants to run LAN party in W.M. Lounge
maybe later run a campus wide one
Borrow our 3 24-port switches
Dr. Merkey, 72port switch in his office
We'll advertise heavily so they know where their fun came from
Put out our donation bin

Unicode on IRC
Random odd characters make managing things on IRC very difficult
Steve and Jon wrote module for Unicode on server
Mostly just rule out non-printing characters
for a Unicode Nick make first character an underscore "_" ?

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Minutes 2008-09-18

2008-10-09T04:47:56Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes September 18th, 2008

Dues?
Byan is here!!!
Everyone hand over your sou^H^H^H 5$

GZ Case
Whenever Agmlego has time
Need to diagnose the unknown hard drive

Server status
Ubuntu mirror is updated and working again
5 days ago stuff stopped
Fedora mirror was broken for a long time
Still updating... taking very long time
Are we a public fedora mirror?
Agmlego: we might be.
We're not listed as an official mirror.
Might change our upstream source (current one cut it's bandwidth)
TOR? I wasn't paying attention...

Installathon
October 11th in the MUB
Advertising
Lode printing costs
Daily Bull would have to pull from other money
Pastore is on the writing thingy, freeness?
Table Tents
Film Board? YAY!
USG funds - Lode, Table Tents, and Flm Board
Presentations
2:00 Desktop effects - Me
1:30 PFsense - agmlego
Times? - No one cares
What do people want to see?
Noon: Basic linux
Nuxi: 1pm
we'll have our area from 10-6
RAID: 3:00
Theme Configuration: 2:30
Spare parts:
Power Cables - Alex (Chewie)
Ethernet cables - Omally (Jace) has super long cable
Monitors - Alex
Keyboard - Steve
Mice -
Projector -
Blank media -
Boat anchors - No bringy!
Power Strips - Ben and Stan and LUG
Which Ubuntu?
Intrepid? NO! just hardy it's LTS

Accounting of Hardware
Agmlego will go through the server room
I will go through the stuff I have at my place
Still owe money for Rack
throw in budget for USG

Other Services on server?
Freenet and TOR node on there but not running
suggestions?
Website suggestions good.

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Minutes 2008-09-11

2008-10-09T04:46:59Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
Meeting Minutes September 11th, 2008

Lost location
E-mail checkage

FREE PIZZA!!!
Steve's Basic Linux

Presentations
+
Virtualization - ?
NUXI: Confidential

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Minutes 2008-09-04

2008-10-09T04:46:13Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Meeting Minutes September 4th, 2008

Installathon
Date?
Anytime...
IRC: October 11th or 12th
Family weekend and Hispanic Heritage night
MUB busy? could be in Rheiki instead
Advertising
Sean Bulger (he's STC)
Presentation Volunteers
Theme Customization - Corey
Basic Linux Command Line - Dark-Fx or Steve
Linux Raid - Dark-Fx
Destop Pretty Things - Jon (the one up here)

Server status
We can has server and it works (no red blinking lights)
there was a slight foobar with a harddrive over the summer
Move to gigabit on the internal network

Student org stuff
Steve went, not much interesting to us
lots of public image stuff
Collections of stuff for recycling
shoes in the fall
electronics in the spring

Steve planning on a Tips and Tricks series

Nvidia 177.68 and screensavers hate eachother

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Minutes 2008-04-24

2008-10-09T04:28:27Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG Minutes April 24rd, 2008

Free Stuff
Old hardware give away

Ubuntu 8.04
We're an official mirror now. yippi
including ISOs
Kyle - updating archive settings to show 100MBit

Bandwidth updates
upgraded bandwidth
unthrottled 100MBit to intarwebz

End Of Year
Updating accounts on LUG
Summer Transition

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Minutes 2008-04-17

2008-10-09T04:27:15Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
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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Main Page

2008-04-04T01:12:06Z

RagingMind: added link to the minutes so people can find them

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Category:MTU Classes

2008-04-04T01:05:48Z

RagingMind:

Information on various classes at MTU

Minutes 2008-04-03

2008-04-04T01:01:19Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Minutes April 3rd, 2008

Mary takes over Lug

Where's Kyle?
No one knows

Upset with USG
Getting proper power equipment for out hardware is a "convenience"
it's a safety issue
Brian: requesting 2TB of storage space on the USG server

Community LUG
Mary intarweb stalked Neal(?)
the one that suggested a community LUG
Invite them to our meeting next week.
Maybe 2 separate orgs that meet at the same place
then 2 presidents... asking for badness

Firefox
3.0 coming out soon
careful with plugins
Doesn't use up as much CPU anymore

Huskybot
is broken, crashes regularly
NUXI's webpage deliberately triggers a bug in him.
Mary nominates Agmlego.
Probably gonna go to Dark or NUXI

Install a thon 2008
Who's gonna be here?
Christian J, Steve V, Brandon C, Andrew M, Matt G, John, Mike, Byan
Presentations!!!
Firefox, Hardy (LTS good for 5 years)
Make reservations

Nominations
Server Admin - Andrew M.
President - Steve V.
VP - Christian, Matt, Brandon
Treas - Byan
Secretary - Christian, John
(not actually a nomination) Adviser - Dr. Merkey
Elections next Thursday.

Meeting Location
People say they can't find the room
First floor Fisher

Webpage
who has experience with PHP?
Trac? subversion + wiki

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Minutes 2008-03-27

2008-04-04T01:00:30Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG march 27th, 2008

Bonzai
April 12th
Programming contest, starts 8am (saturday)
Game AI

Kernel presentation
Dark will present 2 weeks from now

Next week
Brian might not be here
Anything planned? Kyle would be more likely to show up.

Officer Elections
Sometime soon...
Constitution says? *shrugs*

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Minutes 2008-03-20

2008-04-04T00:59:14Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG meeting minutes March 20th, 2008

Seminar next week
Custom kernel tutorial
Mary: Kick out people that can't
Distro specific stuff?
mary rant: LODE + Iraq == ?!
Steve: alternate language input
other ones?
mpa2xx devices/tv tuners

Posters
Specific or not?
Steve: Just meeting times? + "weekly presentations"
Brandon will do one maybe, hopefully soon

Officers next year
Membership low...
STEVE!!!

Steve Language input presentation
Xinput history (xim)
scim

Hardy + madwifi = broken

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Minutes 2008-03-06

2008-04-04T00:57:33Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG meeting minutes March 6th, 2008

Backup Strategies
BackupPC presented by Kyle
http://wildbill.nulldevice.net/presentations/bkuppreso/

Budget
Money for Pcon, network, Installathon
Maybe take donations and that determines Pcon?
Sounds like badness
Attend meeting to see why we got what we did

v4l[12]
camera image size not full

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Minutes 2008-02-28

2008-04-04T00:56:44Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting minutes February 28th, 2008

Install-a-Thon
Went Well
Mac wasn't working :(
Presentation turn out good, except Myth TV

Elections
Nominations (but who?)

Server Space
More space, yay! (GZ case with ~2TB in it)
Taking Dark's server out? who's here over summer for sys-admin stuff?
Need Reliable box
Jon K will be here over summer
Maybe use him for admin stuff? might not be allowed access
kernel.org
Fedora - needs to be cut back
OpenBSD? someone on campus might already (jeff)

RANT (mary)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh!!!

P-Con
Who's going?
Kyle, Christian
It's April 18-20 this year

Discussion Next week?
Backup strategies
Thoughts on how people do it?
Archive.org
Stuff that never works (webcams)

Backup PC on server
never was actually broken, but we couldn't see that it was

Advertising LUG meetings
Cathy send out an E-mail? Dark-Fx
Posters in CS labs
Monies left from installathon

NMU's Unix Users group
Who wants to go?
Dark, Christian

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Minutes 2008-02-07

2008-04-04T00:55:56Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG meeting Minutes February 7th, 2008

Install-a-Thon
Desktop Effects started? Nope
Tents approved for Friday and Saturday
Poster boards? ghetoo rig something

Jon "Security Hole" Devree
Issues with clone mode on his laptop
Dark and Jon argue about what stuff does

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Minutes 2008-01-31

2008-04-04T00:54:18Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting Minutes January 31th, 2008

Install a Thon
Approval of table tent? - passed around room
Switch "Linux Games" to "Gaming In Linux"
Basic UNIX - Steve, not ready yet
Homebrew PVR - Brian (Dark-Fx)
Desktop Effects - Jon Turbo
Linux Applications - No volunteer
Change to Productivity Apps?
Curious if Dining Services will approve
We think we're all adults, Dining might disagree
Week before install a thon (Feb 14th)
Basic outlines Due
Concerns? More Stuff? Ideas?!
Make Discs beforehand? a few of them
Available Distributions
Default to Ubuntu
Update Flier
Timeline? 1 hour for each presentation, but doesn't have to take up whole time
hard copies of the presentation to hand out
Copies also up online (on Lug)
S5 presentations? w/ LUG template
Update Old Slides and redo?
History of Linux would be Nifty

Monies
Who has budget for for this year?
maybe Jon W. pmhad will ask tonight

iptables
info online at
dark-fx.com/iptables.pdf
TARPIT = Nifty

idprom
Ultra 60 NVRAM weirdness

Adviser (Dr. Merkey)
Maybe eventually a History of Beowulf clusters
Either Feb 7th or 14th

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Minutes 2008-01-24

2008-04-04T00:53:06Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
MTU LUG meeting Minutes January 24th, 2008

Installathon
We've got events!
Basic Unix - Steve
List events without set presenters?
Desktop Effects? a running demo machine (too easy to break in config)
Getting X to use less ram? no use gnome or kde (blah) or firefox
Adam being silly

In Meeting Presentations
Non-Existant Samba Presentation by Dark-FX
interest? sure. maybe next time
Firewall - Basic iptables (commandline)
Next week, maybe (write and drive)

Wiki Stuff
Kyle - look at it on monday

Student Involvement Fair
Setup starts soon.
We need to leave for that soon.

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Minutes 2008-01-17

2008-04-04T00:52:23Z

RagingMind:

<pre>
Lug Meeting January 17th, 2008

Cookies!

Held Officer's Meeting on Tuesday

Lead Discussions
Pre-Planned, Any member, something interesting to bring people to meeting
Enough Content = won't be turned down

Fund Raising
Need More money for server stuff
Especially UPS, currently 25% capacity but only production machines
Remote Hair Cutting? only if linux powered
Corey did Follow up on Doughnut distribution but person did not get back to him
Fisher Lobby or Dow? both have regular bake sales
What to sell? what ever people are willing to make and bring
Would like to have doughnuts

Events
New Stuff!! New Ideas!! New Designs!!
Mary Poster idea?
Reserve table tent date
In Meeting Table Tent Ideas
On Board, Drawn by Steve, dictated by Mary
Examples of events we might have?
Send people to website
Empty front? get people to open?
Model Table tent on T-Shirts
unzip|strip|touch|finger|mount|fsck|more|yes|umount|sleep
Christian will do table tents :( WHY OH WHY?!
Demo's?
Myth TV, Home brew PVR (it's like TiVo!)
DRM stuff, restricted file formats
Application Tour or Application Equivalents
Compiz/Beryl? Mary doesn't like it...
Getting Steam to run. maybe done by Dark
Student Involvement Fair?
Is it too late? we could burn stuff (CD's)
Bonzai
CS student Orgs party in CS labs
Big banner thing for at tables at events
Andrew will look into it
OLED Ceiling Tiles?
OMG *Feels Sick*

Old Hardware
Not sure... weed out old hardware
Donation Pile
Stuff not claimed? Stick in a dumpster or in front of we support

New Hardware
Brian has donated usage of new machine
NOT TO BE TAKEN APART OR THROWN OUT
Judicial Services?
Couple of Gigs of backup?
They don't want idle stuff on there new spiffy fast stuff

Adviser
Travels a lot that's why not around
A thing he saw
Whole management run through Wiki
Agenda and minutes done through Wiki
Status Reports through Wiki Logs
Does Pictures
Problems... security?

Wiki Stuff
Group from DCS?
Dark, talk to Todd
So stuff can be ISO password
Put all of our stuff up on a Wiki like Adviser guy Saw
Secondary Wiki? no... not enough cause for it yet.

Server Admin Duties?
Will propose update to server admin duties in the next two weeks

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Minutes 2008-01-15 (Officers)

2008-04-04T00:51:01Z

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Services:
Wiki - too many accounts
wasn't protected after reinstall
invintory and delete accounts?
outdated articles
delegate "official" articles
old settings file has other stuff we need, Kyle will check
Forum - Nuked
Data still backed up. to be archived
Mailing list
Brian doesn't want to have to keep adding people
Doesn't care about deleting people
closed list - why? block spam
Kyle: it's actually an open list
Planet
Blog aggragator - not working
Never updated lists of people
no one knows how it's installed (or where configs are)
Keep maintaining? current members/alum
Kyle will update.
RSO database of current members
out of date
update from attendance
cacti - network graph
working? probably not

Meetings:
Set discussion topics? and *people* to do it
e-mail warning (increased attendence)
Wiki page for discussions so people know what it's about
Flyers for extra nifty stuff
Move to new place? room normally half empty
Attendence - secure site archived, not wiki
Meeting Minutes available to everyone
Wiki, but locked so not editable

Official officer meetings
regularly scheduled? na... rather only when needed

Offsite backups?
Todd didn't want to hand out archive space
Kyle can bug p-hopp for space

Mirrors
currently Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu
more? currently 2.1TB of space total
Old ubuntu still hanging around
Old Fedora hanging around
Clean out old stuff
Ubuntu - back to last long term and all in between
Maintain upgrade path
Debian Security - only ~30GB so sure
Debian and Ubuntu CD? kinda messed up right now
GNU.org ? maybe

User Specific:
NIS? probably way over blown, but # of boxes is growing
maybe migrate later, other stuff more important
Home quota's?
central home dirs?

Hardware:
GZ donated rackmount case (no rails)
Chong - a couple mobos, picked up by Dark at wedding
Old hardware in servers:
donated to members if they donate a little $ to LUG
(like $10 and grab what you want from the pile)
Need rails for GZ's case
Maybe get adapters for something?
get more from telcom? Kyle talk to steve clark
Bigger UPS?
currently on 15A circut. maybe get us a 20A circut?
2nd UPS and 2nd circurt?
6U $1100 2800W 30-45 mins
Telcom is ditching old rack mount UPSs - steve clark (kyle will mention)
Dark Server
donated by Dark
if group is disolved Dark would like server back
(avoid what happened to MUG)
List of machines?
YES!!!
Official manual
constitutional ammendment to add documentation to server's offical job description
Lable equipment when bought/donated (and who donated)

Monies:
GZ would donate $200 for a UPS
Still have base money
Another $150 once t-shirts sold
USG - official budget and alcolation
Donations
send out thank you cards, include what it was used for
Fundraising
Doughnuts?
Beg for Money?

Increase membership
Spring Fling
Winter Canival? Probably too late
jerkey
End of semester/year thing in Rheki (posters)
Get a big poster? vinal from print shop? (huge $)
screen printed fabric banner (would be machine washable)

Events:
More events?
Lan party, stuff besides FPS
List of other games (RTS?)
Inviting companies to talk?
Epic... leave for normal meeting
Installathon - need to plan better
New design for tents and stuff (and remember to get approved sooner)
Anyone in SLS? we need more power in MUB
Flyers for Bigger talks (Fisher 13[89] or Dow 6th floor)

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Minutes 2007-12-13

2008-04-04T00:46:52Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG Minutes December 13th, 2007

T-Shirts:
Should come in Next week
Who's leaving early? (Before Wednesday)
We'll be contacted

Server Update:
Still getting stuff in, some problems with drives still
Rails should come in on Monday
setup rack on Tuesday and switch everything over

IRC
IRC services disappeared
DCC re-enabled
Check with Dave Hale - it's flagged in filters
Trivia Bot back?
Jon's toy? it was always kinda broken

Installathon Pre-Planning
Want it to be before or after carnival?
Discussed before? No one is sure
After carnival... Feb 23rd
Anyone want to make Table Tents?
Physco might be able to. cause he's gonna be working up here
Has to be approved early
They only let a certain # of tents out at a time
MUB does not seem to have time frames

Treasurer
He's graduating, so we need a new one. volunteers?

Money asking
They don't like people asking for stuff twice

Best kernel version?
The newest one!
2.6.18 can still burn DVDs
No run 2.6.19-21
Wish they would do 2.<odd> = unstable kernel

IRC and NMU
Linking servers with NMU
Try to build a University LUG group network
MSU - ACNS has a server but doesn't want to link (not a LUG group)

Huskymail sucking?
Html front end to IMAP
it's squirrel mail
probably better to use a real IMAP client
ironport attacks e-mail

Late Food in McNair
Open until 9pm M-F
Foodscript working? WAYYYY back in the day

Partner
Friday (tomorrow) food at 7ish
Bring your own beverage
Bring food (or $5)
White Elephant Gift Exchange

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Minutes 2007-12-06

2008-04-04T00:45:26Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting Minutes December 6th, 2007

Package Manager for PCLinuxOS
command? it uses apt but is RPM based

Server Status
Quicksilver has leaking capacators
migrating to new hardware
Maybe spending time after finals are done
hardware back from minerva - but not tested
SCSI backplane might of been loose... now seems fine and is rebuilding

Rack Status
All the stuff to do it except the rails for the drive arrays
Craus wants the rails for drive arrays first
the racks they have aren't sturdy enough
we were donated $500 by a Alumni so we can pay for all this stuff (base_16)
All our us belong to Base_16

New Mirrors
we have crap tons of space
Imhotep - 500G and 218G
Athena - 826G
Suggestions:
OpenBSD - 153G, or as little as 60G
GNU.org 40G
kernel.org 144G
VIM?
Mozilla -all 2.2T -releases 140G
Slackware
DSL?

Wemcab for rtlinux/vxworks
what works?
USB something doesn't automatically work with every OS
rtlinux != vxworks

Shirts?
next week

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Minutes 2007-11-29

2008-04-04T00:43:25Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting Minutes November 29th, 2007

IRC
Dark's connection off campus (irc.fxaffinity.com)
round robin to 3 different ones
connection to NMU
other MI universities?
gonna at least investigate
invite other LUGs to our server

n-cast DNS?
instead of round robin

Free stuff in WECN
Monitors and craptastic video cards

Desert Bus
drive a bus through the desert (real time)
raise money for child's play (penny arcade charity)

Hex Bug
little bug computer thingies, contact agmeyer for info

Server
Lug getting rack in CEC? no news

Kyle has new toy
Nikon D300 (shiny)

Roland
something broke... (oops)
no CS grad students could log in
script went berserk
got to root directory and started doing bad stuff

Why Bit Torrent sucks for QOS
spams pipe
SSH then sucks

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Minutes 2007-11-08

2008-04-04T00:42:29Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting Minutes November 8th, 2007

T-Shirts
Next week a thing with the person that does university tees
Mary suggested something
but Brian is looking for other options
Brian will order them but wont give them to us until we pay
Mary says her company is not Nazi and doesn't spam
Hoping for shirts before X-mas
Make sure silk screened and not printed

Server Updates
Nothing done yet
User ID's irc names or self chosen?
anything long as Real name field is filled in

BackupPC completely stopped working... no explanation
Could try to upgrade to version from Gusty
Major version to go to Gusty instead of Fiesty or Edgy

One more week then bring up vote of no confidence

Backup PC
Not reading config from /etc and not seeing archive
Disk space still open
not showing hosts

Backup space? probably 3G? we're not using that much

Huskybot++
?

There's no place like ~/
Next week, not enough people here

"Social" Activity afterwards? (220.999)

Packet Shaping
iproute

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Minutes 2007-11-01

2008-04-04T00:41:25Z

RagingMind:

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MTU LUG meeting Minutes November 1st, 2007

Shell Access
Problem? Who gets access?
Someone disabled Jon's account?
He removed everyone's shell access as security lock down
Mary: He gave impression that he wouldn't remove access
4 accounts disabled
Mary: He's not attentive to needs of people on server
Active not passive attention
Kyle's sudo taken away (kyle is VP) given back
Brian: Don't remember turning off Jon's account
Maybe disabled your's after turning off mine
Was in the middle of working on mirrors
should of contacted in person

Brian: Only officers should have account
mistake on both sides
Mary: Accounts should have time limit
Brian: Devree over stepped bounds
In channel talking about stuff (#cael)
Jon added v3ritas to channel when unwanted
He removed brian's access to server

Mernerva died?
Stuff still not working
Too busy to maintain server?
where is mirnerva? = Jon's house
Motherboard is dead

Boat-Load of accounts disabled?
Officers have accounts?
by default? yes- then have a fall back
Single account for officers? limited sudo access?
Share account? no... then not accountable
Easy to cover tracks :(
If you have someone smart then it doesn't matter.

Account for each person - limited access

Jon will e-mail what He did to Jon so Jon can fix it
Jon D. proven untrustworthy because he doesn't listen

Jon D. gets reported to public safety if hack back on server

E-mail list of all accounts (and status) to Secritary

Delegation of Duties
Mary: Jon D. claimed to have greater authority then officers
Brian: He's good at what he does
Kyle: Server Op is given explicit control of services
IRC stuff not in constitution and not electable
Kyle: ---
Mary: Process create Bylaws so that there's still a review
Kyle: Has to have time period before hand
ByLaws still need approval of office of student affair
Mary: Need way to decide authorities not just duties
"user authorization" delegate access on server?

Stuff doesn't seem to be getting done

Meeting Minutes need to be up online somewhere
Write protect the wiki pages? (backup to central storage?)

jon <-> dark communication improvements

student access to server only?
Trust of people off campus?
Delegation authority allowed to non students? semi-permanent
Services handled by people at Uni?

Mirror Status
Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo should be working
Brian: Mirrors most important function of server
Huge service to people in the dorms
Never noes what's broken? no one complains
Broken so long no idea what is supposed to be there
We are official mirrors for several things
Makes us look really bad if stuff is constantly down
Telcom hasn't complained about bandwidth recently
Last year we had them cap us to 10Mbit out to off campus
Up out outbound? Maybe once mirrors are working
Talk to Shane
(Distro)-announce sign up?
extra e-mail account to monitor stuff
synthia lug e-mail thingy
keep mirrors up to date

How long to keep releases?
Like to keep a couple versions
(no one updates instantly)

RAID 5 so one drive can die
Drives still under warranty
Front end server is okay, filer SUCKS

New hardware list ready for next meeting

30 Second Administration Tips
cron - 'man cron'
'man 5 crontab'
backups - backup PC, it's kinda nifty
sudo - superuser do!
nfs - not secure

Ad-Hoc networks?
If you're in the middle of a field you can network :)
Not all cards can act as APs

Constitution
Amend to allow by-laws?
Extra stuff is listed in Wiki, but not really official
Need way to react faster?

Treasure
status of money request?
Mary want it? NO!
Never shows up to meetings

Should impeach? to get stuff back and close security hole
Ask him to step down?

Vote to impeach? Kyle
seconded Brandon C.
15 to impeach, 2 abstain Pow! gone.

Nominations for new Treasurer?

Kyle nominates Long haired guy
declines
Mary nominates Andrew
declines
Kyle nominates Jon K.
Accepted

Student Org space
We can put a student usable computer in there.

Backup of server stuff
Config stuff IRCd
~30 Meg in Backup PC?
DCS charging for storage?
Jon W. will take care of it.

Alumni Offering Hardware?
Should try and get anything
maybe wait till USG stuff (and money requests) settle

Boot without CD?
Floppies
debootstrap
netboot

Open Moko
Nifty open source cell phone
Developer price >$400
Base price ~$350
When Wifi added then then ~$450
Mary wouldn't mind one being donated

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