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jazz
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response 34 of 124:
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Apr 9 16:14 UTC 1999 |
I'm not sure how that relates to what Steve said ... at all ...
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steve
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response 35 of 124:
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Apr 9 16:40 UTC 1999 |
There is a program called cron which can run other programs at
a specified time, in order to do things like simple system maintenance,
and other things.
A bunch of log files get either updated or moved every night, among
other things. The way things have evolved, right at midnight a bunch
of things fire off at once, which wasn't by intent but has come about
that way, as we've added new things for cron to do. One example is
that Grex now makes copies of the all-important passwd and shadow files
six times a day in multiple locations, such that if the /etc directory
is ever damaged we have a copy of the passwd database no more than 4
hours old.
But all this takes a little time, and I think we're doing too much
at once right at midnight. We'll have to look at all the things that
are done, and work on rescheduling them a little bit such that we can
spread them farther apart.
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keesan
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response 36 of 124:
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Apr 9 18:23 UTC 1999 |
re 34, I thought all the Indian grexers might be reading email at once.
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gregb
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response 37 of 124:
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Apr 15 03:08 UTC 1999 |
Re. 33: Good point. Maybe time should Grex should use GMT as the std.
time reference.
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rcurl
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response 38 of 124:
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Apr 15 04:28 UTC 1999 |
GMT no longer exists. Try UCT.
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scg
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response 39 of 124:
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Apr 15 04:43 UTC 1999 |
Isn't GMT still the timezone Britain is in, even if it's not the official
timezome of the world anymore?
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rcurl
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response 40 of 124:
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Apr 15 05:14 UTC 1999 |
Well, there isn't a standard clock at Greenwich anymore, for one thing.
Then, while GMT is now defined as UTC, it would not be called that
anywhere except in England - after, all, consider what UTC stands for (I
wrote it incorrectly in #38). Furthermore, time zones have been lettered,
and the correct time zone name for England is ZULU. (We are in the Romeo
time zone.) Try http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/world_tzones.html
for more information.
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flem
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response 41 of 124:
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Apr 15 05:20 UTC 1999 |
poTAYto, poTAHto, IMO.
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other
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response 42 of 124:
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Apr 16 00:51 UTC 1999 |
GMT = Grex Mean Time
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prp
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response 43 of 124:
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Apr 16 01:36 UTC 1999 |
I heard that Greenwich went to BST year round. (BST=British Summer Time)
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scg
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response 44 of 124:
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Apr 16 03:28 UTC 1999 |
Britain is not on daylight savings time in the winter. It was getting light
at 8 am and getting dark at 4 pm when I was in London a few months ago, so
noon was actual solar noon, just as it's supposed to be.
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ec
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response 45 of 124:
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Apr 17 04:25 UTC 1999 |
Hiyez! Nice to see so many familiar names!
The newuser program and even the web interfaced version of it still
don't allow those of us with apostrophes in our names to have them stuck
in the gecos. :-(
Is this an okay place to whine about Backtalk? The
subscribe-to-conferences page doesn't actually list conferences at the
bottom as it says at the top it will.
Very spiffy interface overall, tho'! Maybe I'll telnet in for a
nostalgia trip sometime soon anyway.
Er, and I've typed an aliased name "Iain
O-apostrophe-really-is-allowed-here-'-see?-Cain" in the box next to my
login, but when I hit the "Preview" button, it shows my default name for
the conference.
Yous are badly in need of users who report bugs, hey?
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ec
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response 46 of 124:
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Apr 17 04:26 UTC 1999 |
Yeah. Like that. So only the preview is broken.
I'll have to log in to see what my new uid is, won't I? :-)
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mdw
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response 47 of 124:
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Apr 17 07:02 UTC 1999 |
Chfn should allow you to put a ' into your gecos field. Wonder how many
broken mail programs are out there?
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mrmat
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response 48 of 124:
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Apr 17 21:40 UTC 1999 |
oops. Didn't mean to do THAT.
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jep
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response 49 of 124:
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Apr 17 22:02 UTC 1999 |
Howdy, Iain! Good to see you back on-line.
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ec
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response 50 of 124:
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Apr 18 03:51 UTC 1999 |
I'm not very back and never ceased to be on-line... but it's good to see
you're here too.
There's lovely connectivity and lately very nice weather up here in
Edmonton, Alberta!
The only problem I've ever had with mailers is that the M$ variety
thinks it's appropriate to quote all special characters with single
quotes... including single quotes. :-P
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mary
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response 51 of 124:
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Apr 18 11:48 UTC 1999 |
Howdy, Iain. How are Jennie and Chris? I've often wondered
how it went for you three when you moved to Canada. Was that
community accepting of your unusual (threesome) relationship?
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keesan
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response 52 of 124:
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Apr 22 02:53 UTC 1999 |
We are getting a badly scrambled screen, intermittently, lower ASCII, using
bbs, pine and lynx (the response I am typing is okay though). Has been
happening off and on for a few hours. I cannot read other responses after
the first five lines or so. (Wonder if the problem is this computer).
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bdh1
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response 53 of 124:
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Apr 25 07:47 UTC 1999 |
Were you on a local dialup modem or telneted in? What is 'lower ASCII'?
'(Wonder if the problem is this computer)' if you mean yours not grex,
I'd bet on it. If telneted in does your screen size and TERM variable
match what you negotiated? (If you are using a Micro$oft telnet program
the answer is usually 'no' and there's your problem. Sigh.) Of course,
it is now four days later, how they hangin' now?
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hhsrat
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response 54 of 124:
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Apr 26 01:07 UTC 1999 |
Telnetted in just now, could not run the "uptime" command
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tsty
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response 55 of 124:
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Apr 26 04:32 UTC 1999 |
new item for specific sys problem. deserved NOT to take up space here,
as it did tehlast time <i learned, see?>
ec - dude, welcome back ... both b0xes?
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davel
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response 56 of 124:
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Apr 27 10:41 UTC 1999 |
Re 54: there was a discussion of the uptime problem in the current system
announcements item, resps 51-55.
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janc
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response 57 of 124:
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Apr 29 16:20 UTC 1999 |
Hi Iain. Thanks for the Backtalk bug reports. I think both of those
bugs are pretty fixable.
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krj
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response 58 of 124:
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Apr 30 20:18 UTC 1999 |
/c and /a are full, or almost so
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