Subject: UCC Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: Mon, 10 June 1996 13:10:00 +0800
X-Venue: loft@cameron-hall.gu.uwa.edu.au
X-Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger - Pres.), [DJL] (David Luyer - Vice
	Pres.), [NTU] (Nick Bannon - Sec.), [SAF] (Simon Fryer - HWO),
	[YAK] (Ian McKellar), [MJH] (Mikolaj Habryn), [MTL] (Mark Tearle),
	[TDH] (David Manchester - HWO).
X-Apologies: [DGC] (David Chinnery - Treas.).
X-Apologies-For-Apologising-Unnecessarily: [DUC] (Duncan Sargeant - OCM),
	[K?Y] (Kim Yeap - Fresher Rep.).

President's report: Appropriate study avoidance programs have been
  initiated by many members.

Treasurer's report: +ve $600?

Incoming mail: Postcard from [POQ] (Shay Telfer).

  Sun SCSI cables arrived from Canada.

Machine reports:
  mackerel: Our most stable machine! The only machine on which dispense
    is operational. Its upgrade boards are being sent and should be with
    us in a few days.

  mulloway: Its memory is not useful in neo-mackerel, it seems. We'll
    therefore soon have two 8MB RAM boards, and our new 32MB one.

  marlin: Not really worth fixing software problems on it - it needs a
    re-install, and the Linux 2.0 kernel is now out.

  mermaid: OK. [BBB] can't take the memory back to CBM today, will do it
    tomorrow.
    [DJL]: 32MB SIMMs are currently about $500 and dropping.
    Mail services should run on a core machine. .forward / .procmailrc
    scripts will need to be disabled or played with.
    /home to be put onto neo-mackerel? but /home and marlin's / are
    currently on the same drive?

  starfish: [DJL] has re-installed it. tcsh would be nice - will we have,
    or can we fix the problem we had with it before? (connection closes
    instantly if you telnet in, but it's happy with rlogin)

    Should be up for general use within a week or so.

General Business:
  Drives: USENET and [COM] seem to agree that Seagates are preferable to
    Quantums. The Seagate Barracuda that's currently for sale looks nice.
    We may be able to work out something to buy it for a tax-exempt price.
    Buy it.
  ACTION: [MTL] to collect donations.

  Fundraising: Currently, buying the drive will mean that the UCC will
    have been loaned $700 for it. We need more donations to reduce this.

  socks: No socksified lynx, yet.
    [DJL]: If we install "runsocks", things will be much simpler - the
      system libraries will be changed to allow SOCKS network connections
      to the world, so we don't have to hack each and every program.
    [YAK]: is adding cokebank operations to one of his programs.
      We could run our own proxy cache on moray, or tunnel requests
      through to proxy.uwa.edu.au, charging if needed on the way. The
      latter sounds like a good plan. The UWA cache is free for us if the
      cached document is in any peered caches at Curtin or Murdoch.

  Coke-authenticated programs: Due to an upgrade of them by [DJL], when
    they say "Network error" and prompt you to press ENTER to try again -
    now they actually _do_ try again when ENTER is pressed. <grin>

  Coke/Snacks/Jolt: [JEB] will have a car and some time available this
    Friday to get some.

  Web site: Undergoing some changes due to a burst of enthusiasm by the
    webmasters.

Meeting closed: 1:43pm