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Grex > Backtalk > #4: Welcome to the Other Backtalk Test Conference |  |
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janc
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Welcome to the Other Backtalk Test Conference
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Sep 7 18:36 UTC 1996 |
This is the other test conference for backtalk.
This item was entered using the Pistachio Interface of backtalk.
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janc
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response 1 of 24:
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Sep 7 18:37 UTC 1996 |
OK, one Backtalk problem: When it creates a pariticpation file for you,
it sets your name as above, not stripping off the Address stuff from the
password file field. That is easy enough to fix.
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janc
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response 2 of 24:
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Sep 7 18:38 UTC 1996 |
But Picospan seems to be happy enough about all this.
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janc
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response 3 of 24:
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Sep 7 18:42 UTC 1996 |
I've used the Pistachio interface to link item 1 from backtalk2 in to
backtalk as item 4.
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janc
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response 4 of 24:
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Sep 7 18:44 UTC 1996 |
Picospan does not seem to object.
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srw
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response 5 of 24:
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Sep 7 19:19 UTC 1996 |
So far so good. It will be harder to test mutual locking
compatibility. We'll have to round up a posse.
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srw
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response 6 of 24:
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Sep 7 19:24 UTC 1996 |
I am forgetting this item in the Backtalk conf because it is linked to
Backtalk2. I am forgetting using Backtalk. I will come back later and
check with picospan to see if it followed what was going on.
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janc
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response 7 of 24:
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Sep 7 19:34 UTC 1996 |
Good, plan, I hadn't tried that.
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srw
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response 8 of 24:
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Sep 7 19:47 UTC 1996 |
It worked just fine. Picospan understood perfectly.
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janc
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response 9 of 24:
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Sep 8 01:55 UTC 1996 |
One thing seems clear: Backtalk is slow on Grex.
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nephi
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response 10 of 24:
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Sep 8 05:36 UTC 1996 |
Really? I was wondering at its speed. Perhaps we pay more attention to
different things. For example, it drives me bonkers to wait forever
after hitting the spacebar to prompt my pager, since I never know if
Grex has gone away or not . . . I don't too much mind having to wait
between items though, so I probably didn't notice if Backtalk was taking
forever to retrieve this item or not . . .
Then again. There are only 35 people logged on (What happened to all
our users?), and the load average is only 2.5 . . .
Yeah.
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remmers
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response 11 of 24:
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Sep 8 11:07 UTC 1996 |
So what is the purpose of having two test conferences?
Shouldn't they be merged? Or better yet, use the enigma
conference, it doesn't get much action these days.
Oops, almost forgot: :)
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scg
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response 12 of 24:
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Sep 8 20:31 UTC 1996 |
Heh.
(This response is posted with Pistachio, using Netscape 3.0b7 for
Win95).
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orinoco
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response 13 of 24:
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Sep 8 22:16 UTC 1996 |
What's this about pistachioes?
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remmers
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response 14 of 24:
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Sep 9 20:16 UTC 1996 |
That Gibbard guy is obviously nuts.
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janc
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response 15 of 24:
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Sep 9 20:20 UTC 1996 |
We've isolated Backtalk to these two conferences as sort of a quaranteen
thing, like the astronauts who came back from the first moon landing. You
never know what kind of bugs it might be infested with, and we wouldn't
want it to infect other conferences.
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ryan1
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response 16 of 24:
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Sep 9 22:43 UTC 1996 |
I think it should be spread to all confs ASAP. I hardly ever read items
in picospan because it takes way to much time now-a-days with all the
more people telneting in. This makes it MUCH more easier to read
postings. Because of this, I will be in BBS a lot more, maybe even more
than party (heh, probably not, but I'll be in here a lot)
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orinoco
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response 17 of 24:
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Sep 11 00:24 UTC 1996 |
Ooooh..... Aaahhhh.... Ooooh...Aaahhh.....
Very neat stuff. I don't see what all this complaining
about speed is about--I am finding this vastly faster.
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janc
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response 18 of 24:
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Sep 11 14:57 UTC 1996 |
Glad to hear it. You must have a better net connection than I do.
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remmers
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response 19 of 24:
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Sep 15 17:06 UTC 1996 |
Does backtalk support twit filters?
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janc
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response 20 of 24:
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Sep 17 22:06 UTC 1996 |
It would be pretty easy to build one into the scripts, but we haven't
done so yet.
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damnit
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response 21 of 24:
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Dec 12 00:33 UTC 1998 |
this server is going very very slow......
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damnit
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response 22 of 24:
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Dec 12 00:34 UTC 1998 |
how long have you guys(and girls) been using this server?
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janc
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response 23 of 24:
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Jan 26 21:03 UTC 1999 |
Mostly the server is pretty good, but we get hackers from time to time
who run fork bombs, ftp huge files, and so forth. This kind of thing
slows down the server pretty badly. We've been on the current machine a
few years. Don't recall the date.
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jd59
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response 24 of 24:
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Mar 27 10:54 UTC 1999 |
exit
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browse
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a :help
a :"help"
a :quit
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