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gelinas
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response 25 of 67:
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Aug 4 01:10 UTC 2004 |
The effort required to keep retroGrex going is likely to be effort that
would not be available for the new machine, anyway.
For instance, it may require an additional cfadm. However, if the
administration of the new conferences is sufficiently differnt, as I
expect to it be, we'll need a new cfadm any way.
I've never looked closely at NNTP, but it is quite a bit more than just
storing each bit of a text in a separate file. After all, the "TP"
stands for "transfer protocol;" if you aren't transferring files, you
don't need NNTP.
If you start reworking clients to present the "look and feel" of picospan,
or any other conferencing system, you will rapidly lose any advantage of
starting with an existing client.
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jp2
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response 26 of 67:
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Aug 4 01:58 UTC 2004 |
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gelinas
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response 27 of 67:
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Aug 4 02:23 UTC 2004 |
How so? The machine will still be open to telnet, so the clients will
still be running on grex, as will the server.
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jp2
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response 28 of 67:
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Aug 4 14:41 UTC 2004 |
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gelinas
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response 29 of 67:
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Aug 4 14:58 UTC 2004 |
Except the limitation of the hardware owned.
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naftee
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response 30 of 67:
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Aug 4 15:32 UTC 2004 |
re 26 What the hell is "two- or three-tier" architecture ?
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polygon
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response 31 of 67:
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Aug 4 16:15 UTC 2004 |
Jan has convinced me. The more I think about it, the more I like the
idea of RetroGrex. It's easy, simple, creative, and unique, all at the
same time.
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twenex
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response 32 of 67:
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Aug 4 17:20 UTC 2004 |
Yep.
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jp2
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response 33 of 67:
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Aug 4 17:42 UTC 2004 |
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tod
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response 34 of 67:
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Aug 4 17:49 UTC 2004 |
re #31
I'll make the t-shirts
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albaugh
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response 35 of 67:
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Aug 4 17:55 UTC 2004 |
"RetroGrex" is a misnomer. You only use "retro" when you're creating
something new to deliberately look like something old. In this case it's just
current-grex-on-life-support, and that ain't "retro" to me.
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janc
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response 36 of 67:
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Aug 4 18:06 UTC 2004 |
I called it "retroGrex" because it slips nicely off the tongue. How
retro it would be depends on your point of view. Lots of people today
would find a forum where you turn off http and make it accessible only
via telnet pretty darn retro. I'd be happy to entertain suggests for
better names.
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other
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response 37 of 67:
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Aug 4 18:13 UTC 2004 |
Well, in the spirit of current trends in nomenclature such as
prefacing every name with i- or e-, I'd like to propose the name
oGrex
Short for old-Grex, but swifter off the tongue, and emcompassing the
word ogre, which is vaguely applicable to the monstrous old hardware
when compared to the sleek, small, new system. Ok, so that's a bit
of a stretch.
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albaugh
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response 38 of 67:
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Aug 4 18:16 UTC 2004 |
Also O for obsolete, ontiquated, on-life-support, etc. :-)
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marcvh
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response 39 of 67:
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Aug 4 18:20 UTC 2004 |
"Grex Classic"
"Legacy Grex"
"This is your father's Oldsmobile."
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naftee
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response 40 of 67:
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Aug 5 06:40 UTC 2004 |
YE OLDE GREXE
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tod
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response 41 of 67:
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Aug 5 15:51 UTC 2004 |
Veggie Grex
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tsty
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response 42 of 67:
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Aug 8 04:35 UTC 2004 |
<<janc is not a veggie>>
i'm pretty much *with* janc on this one - the name might need tweaking
but the concept is quite sound.
btw, would there be a commonality between b0xen for agora & co-op?
.... conference-copy?
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tod
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response 43 of 67:
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Aug 9 16:46 UTC 2004 |
re #42
grex on life support = veggie grex
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ryan
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response 44 of 67:
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Aug 30 03:59 UTC 2004 |
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gelinas
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response 45 of 67:
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Dec 21 06:39 UTC 2004 |
NB: It looks like it will cost us $30/month to keep current-Grex up and
online.
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albaugh
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response 46 of 67:
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Dec 21 19:31 UTC 2004 |
If certain people want to fund that dubious "luxury", they're welcome to raise
the additional funds. I don't think that the grex general fund should be used
to keep current grex on life support.
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tod
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response 47 of 67:
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Dec 21 20:02 UTC 2004 |
Will the membership be given a chance to beta test NextGrex before oldGrex
goes offline?
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janc
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response 48 of 67:
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Dec 21 20:48 UTC 2004 |
Why $30/month?
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janc
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response 49 of 67:
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Dec 21 20:53 UTC 2004 |
I see litle advantage in letting everyone on before openning the system.
I'd have to delete all their test accounts before moving their real accounts
over. I'll let anyone have access whom I trust will report security problems
to me rather than exploiting them. Very few of the people who I asked to do
testing did anything.
I think what's actually going to happen is that we'll change over with
rather inadequate testing. Some problems will occur, and we'll fix them.
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