2009-01-29

LUG Meeting Minutes January 29th, 2009

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?

Kuk at installathon

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

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