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tpryan
response 50 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 1 17:07 UTC 1999

        Thank you for all, scott.  Hope we helped to pin down the bad modem.
krj
response 51 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 04:35 UTC 1999

I was coaching a Cleveland Free-net user through the Lynx interface 
to the Grex conferences.   In Lynx, on the page "Grex Backtalk Welcome 
Page 1 of 2",  the Enter Conferences link is on the same line as 
the "vanilla" radio button, which makes it hard for newcomers to find.
 
It looks like      (*) Vanilla Enter Conferences
                   Create a New Account


janc
response 52 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 11:53 UTC 1999

Ugh.  Need to check out more of these pages via lynx.
krj
response 53 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 16:21 UTC 1999

While you are there, jan: in explaining the difference between the 
"pistachio" and "vanilla" interfaces, Backtalk recognizes that I am 
using Lynx and adds text telling me to select the "vanilla" 
version.  But the radio button defaulted to "pistachio," I'm 
pretty sure.  If Backtalk is going to recommend "vanilla" to me,
maybe it could also set the radio button.
jazz
response 54 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 16:26 UTC 1999

        Wow ... "pistachio" versus "vanilla" reminds me a lot of a joke from
Anything That Moves magazine ...
manluna
response 55 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 21:00 UTC 1999

help
kill help
help
4:write
tpryan
response 56 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 21:41 UTC 1999

        A victim of the eclispe?
janc
response 57 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 11 22:36 UTC 1999

Actually, some lynx users seem to prefer pistachio to vanilla, though
vanilla was designed with lynx in mind and pistachio wasn't.
jazz
response 58 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 12 13:40 UTC 1999

        How violent.  "Help!  KIll help!"

        It's very 90s.

        I give it a 8.5, Chuck.
senna
response 59 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 13 10:53 UTC 1999

Odd.  I can't connect through telnet or backtalk to grex.  I think it's my
ISP, since the thing won't let me connect to  M-net either
goose
response 60 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 13 16:07 UTC 1999

Is ton working correctly?
jep
response 61 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 13 16:32 UTC 1999

Grex is exceedingly slow through the Internet right now, but at least
it's available again.  Backtalk is taking a couple of minutes to show the
results of pressing a button (such as "Next item").  Telnet seems a little
faster than that.
keesan
response 62 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 13 20:33 UTC 1999

I cannot access altavista or yahoo to look at the new kiwanis website that
omni says he just posted.  How else can I look at a website?  I cannot type
lynx plus any URL with a tilde in it, Procomm objects.
krj
response 63 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 17:34 UTC 1999

"ton" was a straight copy of the code from M-net, and on M-net their 
policy is to restart the wtmp file every month.  Grex doesn't restart 
the wtmp file very often.  If I remember correctly, Grex's "ton"
is reporting time on since April 2.
 
To make "ton" behave correctly it would have to be modified to only 
count the current month's connections, and then I don't know how it would
handle a mid-month rollover of the file.
krj
response 64 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 19:15 UTC 1999

Grex seems to be suffering from network routing problems this afternoon.
I cannot connect from tir.com or msen.com, but I can get here from 
Michnet.  This may be related to keesan's problem in #62?
hhsrat
response 65 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 19:45 UTC 1999

Keesan - instead of a tilde in a URL, you can substitute %7E  so 
http://www.site.com/~user would become http://www.site.com/%7Euser

Everyone - the MOTD is too long.  There's 2 items about system 
maintnence, 2 about the lawsuit, 1 about the Grex ad on arborweb.com, 1 
about the grexwalk, and 1 birthday.  Couldn't the system maintnence 
items be combined, the lawsuit items be combined, and the arborweb.com 
thing be deleted?  The arborweb thing has been there for several months.
tpryan
response 66 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 21:10 UTC 1999

        I just got done reffering to a hURL with a tilde.
scott
response 67 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 22:47 UTC 1999

(scott thinks hhsrat is a too young to remember the huge motds of the olde
days...)
scott
response 68 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 14 22:57 UTC 1999

There have been nasty routing problems going on all day, and part of
yesterday.  Nothing that is Grex's fault, though.   :(
hhsrat
response 69 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 00:50 UTC 1999

Maybe I am too young to remember older, longer MOTD's, but, IMHO, a full 
screen of MOTD announcements is too much.
pfv
response 70 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 18:43 UTC 1999

        One, "Compleete Screene" (tm) is more than enough, I agree..

        It's all gone with even a line or two of scrolling after the
        blasted shell wakes up..
keesan
response 71 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 21:06 UTC 1999

The tilde works now, for some reason.  But it is very slow to access a website
on grex by typing lynx www.grex.org/~user.  Is there some more direct
way to get at a website on grex?  (Such as the new kiwanis site).
drew
response 72 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 22:49 UTC 1999

www.grex.org/u/s/user I think. That is, the user directory is two levels down
from root, in a directory and subdir named with the first and second letters
in the user name. To wit, mine would be www.grex.org/d/r/drew if I were to
bother to set it up.
don
response 73 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 23:20 UTC 1999

Actually, it would be www.grex.org/u/s/user/www. /.../user is the home
directory.
jazz
response 74 of 162: Mark Unseen   Aug 15 23:39 UTC 1999

        There was a major fibre cut in the Chicago area, Ken, and although it
did not affect the Chicago NAP per se, it did affect a number of companies'
connections to the Chicago NAP.  
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