Minutes of the meeting 19/09/2000 Attendance: [GMB] Grahame Bowland [YAK] Ian McKellar [TAZ] Tracey Brown [TDH] David Manchester [NTU] Nick Bannon [ORU] James Devenish [BRQ] Bryden Quirk [DUC] Duncan Sargeant [MTL] Mark Tearle Absent: [MST] Anil Sharma [DTA] Leighton Haynes [ANT] Anita Mathers [TRS] James Andrewartha Meeting opened 6:00pm President's Report: * [GMB] likes stories. * Haven't done much. * Must put camp deposit down. * Sleep out was a great success. $800 for charity. Cost $0. Lan stuff/games were good. Vice President's Report: * Absent. Treasurer's Report: * VP is lame. * Spent cash, bought rack. * Want to be re-imbursed or [YAK] will set fire to stuff and urinate everywhere. [YAK] moves that comment be stricken from the record. [BRQ] arrives. * Rack is half-height lockable. Cost $60. * Vending machine unhappy. * We have ~$4370, $3600 in account and [GMB] banked $770. Secretary's Report: * Minutes from [DUC] posted to list. * Did stuff. Correspondence Report: * No mail. Machine Report: * mermaid is fscked. Floating point errors. [NTU] downclocked it. Still floating point erroring. Python seems good at prompting it. * Everything else happy. * [YAK] put together a new uccrouter. P90 with 16mb RAM. * DEC Qbus bits (DEC 5400(madvax)) put into cage. Console won't talk without magic cable. [TDH] donates the bits it's in and will make work. General Business: * Bought coke from sleepout. [GMB] moves we give [YAK] $60 for rack. [TAZ] seconds. Passed without dissent. * Machine room - has kicked ass, secure, heat/noise is down. However it takes up space that we could use better. [YAK] thinks we should get rid of the machine room, not necessarily soon, but eventually. We could store core machines in half-height racks. We could get 1 - 2 lockable racks, and 1 - 2 non-lockable racks and a good lockable cupboard. [DUC] raises objections and rants for 5 minutes. * Will be discussed on the list before a decision is made. Let's clean up the machine room first. * We want to buy [NTU] style shelves, and label stuff so people know where to find stuff. Good organisational type stuff. [NTU] to get quotes. * FAL run - [NTU] and [BRQ] to go on an FAL run, [YAK] and [GMB] to go on a coke run. Saturday morning, 11am. [GMB] moves that we spend $400 on an FAL run, and $300 on a coke run. [TAZ] seconds. Passed by apathy. * Air conditioning - Not effective, may need re-gassing. Only 2 - 3 years old, we bought it new. We will get it serviced. * Monitors - We have a dead big mac monitor. We want it fixed. We'll try Video & Visual in Osborne Park, Perth Digital and Apple. [YAK] moves we get a quote, and then assess if it's worth fixing. [GMB] seconds. Passed by apathy. * We'll try Apple first. Monitor on Nautilus needs fixing too. * Got cables for monitor switch at auction for $44, paid $6 for ps adaptors. We need a VGA monitor gender bender for a male-male cable. [YAK] moves that we extend any money given to [NTU]. [TDH] leaves. * Keys - [NTU] wants keys to Cammeron Hall/Club Room to access room at arbitrary times. * We need to fix door. Will try new motherboard on mooneye with onboard serial. Have tried serial cards. Painful. [GMB] People will look at door. [ORU] looks at door. [TAZ] I can look at the door from here. [GMB] Write it down anyway. It's funny. * Quiz Night - discussion about ad. Meeting closed 7:10pm.