2008-04-17

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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