Ocf minutes 2005 02 24

UC Berkeley Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting 24 February 2005

minutes by elliot@ocf

OPENING - Quorum achieved, meeting opens

NEW STAFF - New Staff: Andrew "Novakyu" - Personal introductions happened

FULLMER will be here next meeting

BUDGET will be ready next meeting (courtesy Frank)

DELL POWER SUPPLIES are being handled by Brando

SSL CERTIFICATES are being looked into by Brando

  • Possibility for free certificiates

  • Jkit: You should check campus SSL requirements

  • Webmail requires SSL certificates

  • Estimate of $100/yr/certificate. Ask for three certificates yearly.

ALIENWARE AND GAMING CENTERS

  • Possible option of being responsible for maintaining gaming systems and servers

  • Fullmer wants to know if we're interested

  • We want to know how long it will be until the gaming computers are released to us for general OCF use. (We'd probably get them, eventually).

  • Will anyone use these machines?

  • jkit: Fullmer told me the machines would get re-imaged nightly, making maintenance much easier.

  • Frank: Fullmer will come to the meeting next week and get the details.

  • Consensus: We're interested in hearing more but don't want to commit yet.

SCREENSAVER ADVERTISEMENTS

  • For local businesses

  • Do we want to do this?

  • (General objections ensue)

  • Aoshi: ASUC won't like it

  • Frank: Is it feasible? Answer: yes

  • Could we advertise for student groups?

  • Taking money in general is bad.

  • Doing stuff for community in general is good.

  • Desktop background vs. screensaver

  • Is desktop background locked? Answer: no

DISK ARRAY SCSI CARD

  • Akop brought SCSI card to lab, but can't work on array until spring break.

NETWORK OUTAGE MORNING OF 2/19/2005

  • geo + dwc fixed it.

  • CNS had something go wrong in Sproul Hall

7TH FLOOR ESCHLEMAN COMPUTERS

  • Dima + Yury + Frank + Matt formatted the machines, installed WinXP SP2, Symantec Client Security, Video Drivers, Firefox

  • These are web browser only stations, as publication wants.

  • mattfong: Kiosk mode is harder than previously thought. Running/booting/installing off CD works.

    • Would knoppix work for this?

  • Networking for these machines is handled by Fullmer(?)

  • General/general is disabled

  • Should we enable it?

  • There is a nonstandard windows admin password.

  • Leftmost system is locked with an unknown masterlock lock

  • Worst case, bring it to jkit with the serial number

WINDOWS DISK IMAGING list of requested software posted on OCF door

PRINTER was wrinkling pages...Dima magically fixed it.

HACKED ACCOUNT

  • user "apa" attacked us with a flood sunday morning

  • dwc fixed it

SPAMILTER

  • Dima told jjlin the spamilter was spitting out error messages

  • jjlin fixed it.

  • No one talked to Luns :(

  • Aoshi will talk to Luns.

DOWNTIME BACKUP SYSTEMS WITH CSUA

  • We want to set up a system where if OCF goes down, CSUA will pick up our traffic, mail, etc. and vice versa.

  • It shouldn't be a problem handling our amount of traffic.

ACCOUNT APPROVAL

  • Make sure the user's middle name is on the account and account form

DUPLICATE ACCOUNT CHECKING

  • Can we use student IDs (SIDs) for this?

  • Are SIDs recycled?

  • Is there a secret CalNet fingerprint beyond just the SID?

  • Can we use hashing, to store a SID hash instead of the SID itself?

  • We don't even need to associate SID (or hashed SID) with an a given account, we just need to keep the (hashed) SIDs in a giant list, and check to see whether the new SID (hash) is already in the list. This will work for duplicate checking.

INTERIOR DECORATING: Do we want posters?

BERKELEY MODEL UNITED NATIONS (BMUN)

  • Frank: They're not getting the final agreement until they sign the wage agreement. $120 for 7.5 hours of service

  • We need to set up the appropriate accounts

  • With arbitrary print quota (they are supplying paper and toner).

TONER

  • mattfong: we're currently getting toner at discount prices via my employee discount. It's only $20 off per unit, but I'll be graduating soon.

BACKUP/REDUNDANT HARDWARE: We don't have any, there will be problems if things fail.

OCF LAPTOP AREA: Do we want one?

LONG TERM DIRECTION FOR OCF

  • What is our mission?

  • What are our priorities?

  • Why are we using Solaris?

  • Most Sun systems use Sparc

  • New Sun stuff uses Opteron

  • FreeBSD theoretically supports Opteron

NEW BOD MEMBERS

  • Novakyu unanimously elected to BOD

CLOSING

  • Kaisenl motions to close

  • Elliot seconds

  • Meeting ends

END