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Grex > Backtalk > #1: Welcome to the Backtalk Test conference |  |
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janc
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Welcome to the Backtalk Test conference
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Sep 7 17:45 UTC 1996 |
Hi, this conference, along with the "backtalk2" conference, is for initial
testing of the Backtalk interface to the conferences on Grex. We are limiting
Backtalk to just these two conferences until we are convinced it is in good
order and that it is getting along with Picospan OK. We hope to use it with
all conferences later.
I've entered the first item in "Backtalk" using Picospan. I plan to enter
the first item in "backtalk2" using Backtalk. The idea is to see how well
the two systems read each other's sum files.
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janc
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response 1 of 83:
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Sep 7 18:19 UTC 1996 |
OK, looks like Backtalk reads this item OK, at least with the vanilla
interface. So now I'm using vanilla to post a response. Cross your
figners.
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janc
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response 2 of 83:
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Sep 7 18:20 UTC 1996 |
Well, that seems to have worked.
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janc
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response 3 of 83:
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Sep 7 18:23 UTC 1996 |
Looks OK, so far.
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janc
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response 4 of 83:
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Sep 7 18:44 UTC 1996 |
Picospan just said:
(Fixed item 1 flags 13c->3c)
after I psoted response 3 from pistachio. Guess we'll have to figure out that
flag bit.
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janc
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response 5 of 83:
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Sep 7 18:48 UTC 1996 |
Hmmm.. That bit picospan removed is the linked_item bit. I had just liked
backtalk2, item 1 to backtalk, item 4. But it looks like the linked bit got
set on backtalk, item 1. That's probably a backtalk bug.
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srw
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response 6 of 83:
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Sep 7 19:16 UTC 1996 |
This is my first Backtalk post on Grex. I am using Macintosh
Network
Navigator 2.0.
I wonder if that backtalk bug, setting the linked-item bit on the
wrong item, could have introduce some of the mini-confusion we saw
once on HVCN. Nah, probably, not.
We have actually been close to the point of installing this for
months, except for the authentication detail which Jan finally
resolved with the external authentication module in Apache.
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nephi
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response 7 of 83:
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Sep 8 04:58 UTC 1996 |
This is my first response. I'm wondering if my name will appear
wrong when I hit the little "Post" button. In the "name" window,
it appears as "Michael O'Leary,Write your, Congressthing!", which
is what appears between the ":"s in /etc/passwd. I'm thinking that
if this posts that whole thing, instead of just "Michael O'Leary",
that one might want to make Backtalk parse from the ":" to the
first ",".
What do you think?
(By the way, this was posted using Pistachio via Navigator 3.0 release.)
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remmers
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response 8 of 83:
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Sep 8 10:56 UTC 1996 |
Yo!
(I'm guessing that my name will also appear wrong when I hit
the little "Post" button. You guys have *got* to get this
thing debugged...)
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skezy
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response 9 of 83:
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Sep 8 17:57 UTC 1996 |
Well, Well, GREX has introduced sumpin' new...K00li0
Hope this is actually goin' to work!
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b00zers
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response 10 of 83:
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Sep 8 17:57 UTC 1996 |
OK, this i my first post using netscape.
Seems pretty slow, but it works, and it's faster than
trying to use it with telnet. Good job.
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orinoco
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response 11 of 83:
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Sep 8 22:14 UTC 1996 |
ah....what's a backtalk?
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janc
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response 12 of 83:
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Sep 9 20:22 UTC 1996 |
Check out http://www.izzy.net/~janc/backtalk.html for more info about what
backtalk is.
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ryan1
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response 13 of 83:
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Sep 9 22:33 UTC 1996 |
Woah, neat! You can add HTML tags!
<A HREF="http://fluffy.net.net/users/ryan1/index.html">My Home Page!</A>
heh
<p>
<HR>
<A HREF="mailto:rantkowi@northland.lib.mi.us">My E-Mail addy</a>
<p>
Good Work Jan & Steve!
<hr>
Gee, i wonder If i can mess with colors
<font size=7> is this in huge text??? </font>
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ryan1
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response 14 of 83:
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Sep 9 22:36 UTC 1996 |
Oh darn, I was terribly wrong :)
I just made a big fool of myself :)
oh well, you got to that bug before me :)
BTW, Why does it say "Ryan Antkowiaks Rewt,Mich Net,SUCKS!,." is my
name? That is the extra finger information, Gotta get it to strip the
extra junk from /etc/passwd I guess.
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janc
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response 15 of 83:
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Sep 10 06:30 UTC 1996 |
As ryan discovered, you can't put html in your responses. However,
Backtalk will recognize things that are URLs and make them clickable.
Since Backtalk is going to be sharing the conference items with
Picospan, and Picospan users probably don't want to read html,
Backtalk isn't going to encourage its use.
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popcorn
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response 16 of 83:
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Sep 10 07:24 UTC 1996 |
This response has been erased.
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orinoco
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response 17 of 83:
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Sep 11 00:14 UTC 1996 |
You know, I like this one almost as much as enigma and test...
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janc
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response 18 of 83:
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Sep 13 16:46 UTC 1996 |
Rather slow today. I read three chapters in my book while getting this
far. Grex's net connection is so slow that this is really a bit painful
sometimes.
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remmers
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response 19 of 83:
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Sep 15 17:03 UTC 1996 |
Net connection is perkier today. I was only able to get through
five pages.
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remmers
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response 20 of 83:
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Sep 15 17:13 UTC 1996 |
!who
!finger
!last chelsea
Hmph, this backtalk thing is obviously broken. Doesn't support
any of my favorite commands.
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janc
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response 21 of 83:
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Sep 17 22:04 UTC 1996 |
The first two would be pretty trivial to implement, but why bother?
Real techies don't care what mere humans are doing.
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srw
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response 22 of 83:
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Sep 18 06:02 UTC 1996 |
I wonder why my participation file does not seem to be getting
changed. I last posted on sept 7, and my participation file is dated
then, but everything looks new again. It didn't do that before.
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janc
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response 23 of 83:
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Sep 18 23:16 UTC 1996 |
I have no idea. I haven't seen the problem.
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janc
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response 24 of 83:
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Sep 29 02:20 UTC 1996 |
OK, Backtalk is turned on again. I've installed a new version of the
authentication software that should be both faster and more secure.
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