[tech] TLA, ETLA, SSHD, was Re: [ucc] Minutes of Meeting on Friday, 15th July 2016

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 02:24:54PM +0800, Oscar Hermoso wrote:
> UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2016-07-15
[...]
> Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting
> - [CHS]: I heard second hand that someone was complaining UCC minutes were too hard to read
>   - Next week I plan to implement some minor changes to make the minutes more readable
>     - Eg. Include committee members full names with their TLA in attendees
>   - Will discuss with Secretary [BLZ] aka Cain Nixey this week

I'm sure we can update /usr/local/bin/tla to have a minutes-friendly
output along the lines of:
https://www.ucc.asn.au/infobase/committee/1998/1998-07.txt
https://www.ucc.asn.au/infobase/committee/1999/1999-SGM2.txt

> ###Guild/SOC
> - Saturday 30th of July
>   - Busy bee and Tennancy meeting
>   - Busy bee to be called by [CHS]

Time to do a clearup of the shelves, consolidate some boxes.
Unless someone has a better idea, I plan to bring some of these along
- if they're useful, UCC can buy however many we use.
https://www.masters.com.au/product/100020113/rolling-shock-resistant-storage-box-55l-black.jsp
$10.95 each, a bit more resiliant than the current ones.
Unfortunately not translucent.

[...]
> - AoC to look into purchases for desktop machines [...]
>     - [AMS]: 3x Harddrives
>       - 2TB drives
>         - Blacks are ~$175 each
>         - Seagate [SSHD] with 8GB flash are ~$130
>         - Seagate [HDD] without flash are ~$100
>         - All 7200 speeds
>     - Email to be sent to tech@ today or tomorrow by [CHS] with info from committee

The SSHD does seem like it's worth it for typical Windows use, bootup
and shutdown speed... (thanks for the link, [CMD]!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jOLL3FBYw
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Seagate-Desktop-SSHD-4TB-Review-Big-Hybrid-Little-Cache/Boot-Times-Game-Loads-Cache-

Nick.

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