There are just a few short updates from this week's meeting:

One interesting proposition came up: Our science database, which runs on Informix, is having performance problems, and it was suggested that we consider moving to a different engine. Part of the problem is that NITPKcr hasn’t been able to really run on the Science database. The current solution: We will commission an unpaid undergraduate to do a feasibility study on a potential switch.

Fall weather has finally set in Berkeley CA and the SETI team met this week at the Space Sciences Lab despite the tempestuous rainstorm outside.

Bob reported that last week we accidentally stopped replicating beta, so we have to restart it this week. Other than that everything is going fine.

Sorry to all of you who looked in vain for the meeting notes last week. The meeting last week was rather small, and there was not too much going on— Matt and Eric just spent all day doing server cleanup. And well, to be perfectly honest, the meeting note taker had some Physics homework to attend to.

But here's what happened this week:

Bob reported that we had a weird thing happen in the database world. So we did have to turn off the replication for the week and we hope to restart it by tomorrow. Everything else seems to be going OK

Monday 5 October @ 18:30 (evening talk)
Public lecture at the MTN ScienCenter, Cape Town, South Africa
"Is Anybody Out There? The Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations"

Canal Walk Shopping Centre
Shop 407
Upper level, Entrance 5
GPS: S33°53.656 E18°30.571