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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 |
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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 |
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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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remmers
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response 67 of 234:
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Jul 16 20:39 UTC 1998 |
Re #66: I think that happens occasionally to people whose login
shell is tcsh, as yours is. My shell is tcsh also, and it happens
to me from time to time. Some bug in tcsh causes it to die under
certain circumstances just after logging in. I'm not sure anyone
knows why.
When this happens, a big-looking core file gets dumped into your
home directory. Then next time you log in successfully, you should
delete it.
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rcurl
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response 68 of 234:
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Jul 17 00:25 UTC 1998 |
Whowzer! 8.6 MB! Is there a sweep for core dumps? Login failures have
happened now and then, but I've never seen that core before (well, not
recently) - so does someone delete them routinely and I just haven't
looked at my directory at the right moment?
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janc
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response 69 of 234:
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Jul 17 13:02 UTC 1998 |
Yup, core dumps are routinely deleted by a system process.
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remmers
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response 70 of 234:
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Jul 17 16:05 UTC 1998 |
The ls listing made it look like an 8.6mb file, but it was actually
significantly smaller -- a so-called "sparse file".
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tsty
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response 71 of 234:
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Jul 18 17:51 UTC 1998 |
for the last couple of days ...day and a half ... from two sites
i have been geting 'no route to host' for both cyberspace.org
as well as grex.org.
finger fails, telnet fails .... waz de prob, oh mighty ones?
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scg
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response 72 of 234:
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Jul 18 18:04 UTC 1998 |
What are the IP addresses of those sites? When you do a traceroute, how far
does it get? If this was last night, while Grex was down, that was what I
was seeing too, but you shouldn't have been seeing that while Grex was up,
and Grex wasn't down for a day and a half.
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senna
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response 73 of 234:
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Jul 18 20:34 UTC 1998 |
I tried dialing in last night, got connected, and no login prompt.
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eieio
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response 74 of 234:
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Jul 18 20:48 UTC 1998 |
TS-- you looking to kick a person, not a machine?
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