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aruba
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response 42 of 234:
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Jul 6 13:16 UTC 1998 |
Since we went to this machine? I think the previous machine would take an
hour or so to run "uptime" with a load that high.
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arthurp
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response 43 of 234:
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Jul 7 02:34 UTC 1998 |
Hm. That was with a project machine at my place, and with a laptop at
my place. The laptop is gone/sold, and the project now has OpenBSD on
it. It'll be a while before I get the chance to try NT on it again. I
can certainly see why you would avoid IE2. It's won't even do anything
while it's downloading a file. (I was using it to download a real
browser both times.)
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janc
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response 44 of 234:
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Jul 8 02:56 UTC 1998 |
The "view previous responses" thing has always been at the top of the page.
My rationale was that if I was looking for response 12, i'd probably first
try scrolling back. If I found that the first response was 16, then I'd look
for a button. Since I'm probably at the top of the text then, the button
should be at the top of the page.
As for IE2, I think you should sue Microsoft.
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aruba
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response 45 of 234:
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Jul 8 14:31 UTC 1998 |
Pine has gone back to being really slow at resolving groups like "board" and
"baff". It's as if it isn't using the shadow password database anymore.
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aruba
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response 46 of 234:
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Jul 8 14:34 UTC 1998 |
(What I mean is, when I type "board" at the "To:" line and hit enter, there is
a really long pause while Pine tries to look up "board" like it was a user and
give me a full name. Eventually it gives up. That was always slow in the bad
old days, but it has been quite fast for the last year or so.)
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cmcgee
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response 47 of 234:
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Jul 10 14:25 UTC 1998 |
This isn't a problem, but I dont know how to find the information, so here
goes:
Is there some way, using Grex, that I can find the urls of websites that have
information about <topic>? I wanted to find something about the acidity of
different types of coffee beans, and realized that lynx will only take me
there if I know where there is.
Can I do by dialing in to Grex, or do I have to go to the library and use
their web browsing software?
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rcurl
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response 48 of 234:
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Jul 10 14:52 UTC 1998 |
You can use lynx to access web search engines. One is AltaVista at
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
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srw
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response 49 of 234:
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Jul 10 18:01 UTC 1998 |
Yup. Go there in lynx, type in your query into the form, and you will
receive a list of "hits" from their database. If you like AltaVista, put
it in your bookmarks file in Lynx. ("a" command) then you can easily get
to it with the "v" command.
Another kind of place to try altogether is http://yahoo.com/ It is not a
search index, but rather a topical hierarchy, but you can search it.
It's better for some things, worse for others. I go there first, and if
it is not successful, then I use Altavista.
(all from lynx, of course)
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mta
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response 50 of 234:
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Jul 10 18:19 UTC 1998 |
http://metacrawler.com/ will search several engines at once for you, too.
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mta
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response 51 of 234:
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Jul 10 18:21 UTC 1998 |
Mke that: http://www.metacrawler.com/
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tsty
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response 52 of 234:
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Jul 10 18:55 UTC 1998 |
ummmm bbs auction Failed security checkpoint? ?! huh !?
...adn i donated stuff, too.
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tsty
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response 53 of 234:
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Jul 10 18:56 UTC 1998 |
oh, ... adn www.search.com has a pretty good engine.
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mta
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response 54 of 234:
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Jul 10 19:14 UTC 1998 |
The failed security checkpoint is because the Auction conference is not yet
open to the public. (It happened to me, too.)
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atticus
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response 55 of 234:
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Jul 10 19:26 UTC 1998 |
(re #49: Yahoo also has a search facility -- I think it uses AltaVista
as the search engine)
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keesan
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response 56 of 234:
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Jul 10 21:49 UTC 1998 |
To use Altavista to find websites with certain words in them, go down until
you hit the blank line, then enter any word you are interested int with a +
in front of it, and if you are interested in a phrase put " " around the
phrase'. For instance, on the underline enter:
+"coffee bean" +"low acidity" +roasted then hit return twice to submit the
query, and use the down arrow to go to each successive item in the list, and
the return key to look at it. THere are help instructions around, too. To
finf the place in a website with the word you are after, type w, and then fill
in the word, and return.
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valerie
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response 57 of 234:
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Jul 14 15:13 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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davel
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response 58 of 234:
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Jul 14 15:49 UTC 1998 |
Re 57 re 37: possibly someone should do something about that?
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keesan
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response 59 of 234:
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Jul 14 16:57 UTC 1998 |
Does that mean that I cannot 'talk' with someone who is using the menu shell
unless I go to the menu and run 'chat'? I was again unable to 'talk' with
someone who was sending me telegrams, we finally gave up. (One problem was
that he sent me the telegram 'talk keesan', but I told him to do the same
thing as for telegram except substitute 'talk' for 'tel', which would not have
worked if he was in menu). Could we have an item for asking dumb questions
about how to use grex, rather than using this one or having everyone ask the
same questions over and over again of the helpers? This might also encourage
new users to ask questions. If nobody else starts the item I may.
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aruba
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response 60 of 234:
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Jul 14 17:19 UTC 1998 |
Re #57: I haven't noticed Pine being slow about resolving aliases lately, so
maybe it was just one of those slow periods when I noticed it. (Though it did
happen more than once.) Sorry for the false alarm.
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senna
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response 61 of 234:
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Jul 14 19:00 UTC 1998 |
Grex is up to its old tricks of letter displacement in cooperation with
lag (I'll type something out in party, the line will be lagged, and a
random letter from the middle of the statement will be transposed to the
beginning). Also, I'll occasionally type something fairly quickly,
which will refuse to echo until I type something else later. Thus, I
could type "!tel valerie," type "Hi! How are you doing?" and have it
displayed nicely in party when I type the letter i or something five
minutes later. These problems occur in telnet only. My only problem
when I dial in is severe random text echo loss. Still :)
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i
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response 62 of 234:
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Jul 14 23:38 UTC 1998 |
Interesting. I've experienced what seem to be occasional noisy lines
at grex's end. (I dial, then hang up fast when i hear a really staticy
ring sound, then redial and connect quickly after hearing a good, clear
ring. Things occasionally go downhill fast later, though - usually the
keyboard echo stops, and my modem starts flashing "retraining" - often
the connection come back a few times before finally dying.)
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scg
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response 63 of 234:
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Jul 15 04:46 UTC 1998 |
The ring sound, on standard Ameritech POTS lines, is generated by something
in the phone switch, before it actually gets onto Grex's lines. If you're
hearing a really scratchy ring sound, I don't think that's a line noise
problem at Grex's end.
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valerie
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response 64 of 234:
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Jul 15 18:45 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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other
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response 65 of 234:
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Jul 15 22:59 UTC 1998 |
i went through the telnet queue several times today, and each time, the
session would hang and die either at 1, or 0 or right after asking for a
password. it was really bizarre. i disconnected and dialed into grex
directly and did not notice any severe or unusual load conditions.
any ideas what happened?
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rcurl
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response 66 of 234:
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Jul 16 05:25 UTC 1998 |
That didn't happen to me, but I did log in, saw the motd etc, and then
it gave me another login prompt.
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