Subject: UCC Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:07:00 +0800
X-Venue: loft@cameron-hall.gu.uwa.edu.au
X-Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger - Pres.), David Luyer - VP, [DAS]
	(Duncan Sargeant - OCM), [NTU] (Nick Bannon - Sec.), [SAF]
	(Simon Fryer), [K?Y] (Kym Yeap - Fresher Rep.), [MJH] (Mikolaj
	Habryn), [TDH] (David Manchester), [MTL] (Mark Tearle), Yakk
	(Ian McKellar).

President's report: The club is lacking enthusiasm.

Machine reports:
Marlin: Still slagged due to syslogd, etc.

Mackerel: Reasonably happy. No news about upgrade.
ACTION:	[NTU] will poke Jeff Miller (who was selling the boards).
If that upgrade falls through, we'll see if we can get that spare 8MB
board from Sun Ripened Kernels.

Starfish: Not good. Crashes every so often, locks up, etc.
Put on its own power cord as of last week.

Moray: Happy.

Manta: Down, and may be stagnating a bit. [MTL] and [AJW] (Andrew
Williams) are trying to get it to talk to its serial ports.

Beige: Anonymous FTP doesn't work.
Couldn't connect to and use the SOCKS server using Spiderwoman. [MJH]
doesn't think this could be an identd problem as he tested identd on
Beige as he set it up.
We should get a CD, export it from Beige, and mount it on our FTP site.
Anyone got any suggestions?

Luggable from ECEL: It's 286, with a detachable screen. 40MB HDD, VGA
capable. Has PS/2 comm ports.

General Business:
Coke group: Peter Wilsmore (djinn), Andrew McColl (Skippy) added.
ACTION: Add Leighton Heynes (dayta).

[SAF]: Has printed out the Sun hardware FAQ on triple-play fanfold. It
says that the first memory board of a Sun 3/280 (ie mackerel) should be
in slot 6, which he doesn't think it is...

Identd: Doesn't always seem to work - particularly noticeable when using
Netscape on starfish - which results in lots of error emails sent to the
user and root.

DNS: Happy. We are now responsible for our own DNS.

AppleTalk: Happy. Penguin (Paul Wagland) fixed it this morning.

Coke-credit netusage: Some evil ideas about how to implement it.

Work experience/job ad: A company faxed us wanting two Delphi coders for
work experience leading into a possible job.
ACTION: [NTU] will write them a thankyou note. Two possible applicants
should contact the company personally.

Phone bill: We were charged for three phone lines.
ACTION: Ignore the problem until Shelley Fong returns from holidays at
the end of the month.

UCC Camp: No news on possible accommodation.
ACTION: [SAF] to look into this, as well as [SD:] (Sophie Divliaev).

Muslim Students Association: Have been allocated the Cameron Hall loft.
6-7 people will arrive for a small prayer meeting every Uni. day, every
3 hours. 70 or so will arrive for the main prayer meeting on Friday -
this could get noisy. It shouldn't affect our Friday evening usage.

Campus Services: Should be informed that our mercury vapour light (the
one directly over the clubroom) has failed.
ACTION: [SAF] will phone them. May drop the words "safety hazards" and
"insurance premiums" into his conversation at random.

Purchases: Need a memory chip for the 68HC11 board. Would like a DB50
SCSI plug - [SAF] is willing to do the soldering required.
ACTION: [MTL] will take [NTU] to get SRAM, and check for DB50's.

General Meeting: This Friday, 26th April.

Hardware group: Seems fine. Will initially contain [SAF], Jean-Paul
Blaquiere and [TDH].
May investigate setting up a discless Linux machine.

Meeting closed: 1:33pm