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Grex > Coop > #284: Grex Town Hall -- How do we move forward? - Fall, 2010 |  |
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kentn
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response 75 of 334:
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Sep 30 22:12 UTC 2010 |
I've seen a lot of good suggestions, by the way, and am trying to keep
an open mind about which ones we can reasonably do. Keep entering them
as you think of them. It's getting agreement and the implementation
that take time (and Grex is known to move slowly on both counts). We
are working on some ideas even now (such a determining feasibility and
who could do things). Enthusiasm is needed more than ever, along with
a sense of urgency about getting things accomplished quickly that will
help improve Grex before it's too late (and I don't think it's too late
yet).
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kentn
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response 76 of 334:
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Sep 30 22:21 UTC 2010 |
Hey, it'd be great if we'd get a million dollars and there probably
are ways to do that legally (e.g. a grant). twinkie, do you have
any line on how we could go about it?
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cross
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response 77 of 334:
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Oct 1 05:06 UTC 2010 |
I'll help Grex when I get back from Afghanistan next month.
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tsty
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response 78 of 334:
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Oct 1 09:22 UTC 2010 |
got an email faorm a newly validated newuser, rust, wheo said (and approved
the posting of his email):
> Thanks. Been here before. For years and years. But, I kinda let the account
lapse having my Debian boxen available.
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> Grex is HIGHLY useful for checking what robots see, text only browsing with
lynx, checking yer DNS from someplace else, all kinds of things that only a
remote connection can offer. But, since I farmed out hosting to another
company instead of doing it myself (and paying outrageous prices for
dedicated connections)... it just isn't what I used to do.
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> Heck, I remember when you guys used to cry for parts. I guess I can toss
those 30 pin RAM modules now.
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... thoight yu;d all like to know ...
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kentn
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response 79 of 334:
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Oct 1 11:44 UTC 2010 |
Re 77: Thanks, sounds good, Dan!
Re 78: Several more things to add to the list of "what can you do on grex?"
I'm glad to see a former user come back. We need more people like that, as
well as new users.
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tsty
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response 80 of 334:
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Oct 1 20:22 UTC 2010 |
r e 79 ... proactive validatoin at werk.
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jgelinas
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response 81 of 334:
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Oct 2 16:27 UTC 2010 |
Carried over from the Treasurer's Report item, where folks where asking
about using Google for e-mail:
What is the advantage of using GMail for "@cyberspace.org" instead of
"@gmail.com"? I can see the advantage for an organisation, but what is
the advantage for a user?
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mary
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response 82 of 334:
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Oct 2 18:26 UTC 2010 |
I think some people really like the cyberspace.org address.
I can't imagine how anyone would have Grex as his/her primary email
address. If Google mail goes down it's for minutes. If Grex's machine
died, well, you could be missing a whole lot of mail for a very long time.
We're simply not an enterprise email system.
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tod
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response 83 of 334:
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Oct 2 19:24 UTC 2010 |
re #81
What is the advantage of using GMail for "@cyberspace.org" instead of
"@gmail.com"?
I guess you could ask current Grexers if they would use @cyberspace.org
if given a worthy email system.
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jep
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response 84 of 334:
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Oct 2 19:57 UTC 2010 |
re resp:75: I urge you to keep it open, Kent. It's a little encouraging
to know someone thinks something is going on. It might be much more so
to know what it is. We're all used to feeling like part of the crowd,
not being outsiders looking in on the cool kids.
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keesan
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response 85 of 334:
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Oct 2 21:53 UTC 2010 |
Grex has the advantage of being a shell account and also having spamassassin
so you can tailor your spam filtering, extract text from attached garbage,
etc. I use it for freecycle and friends, but for anything that would cause
a problem if it got lost I use other addresses which are less convenient to
use.
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yecril71pl
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response 86 of 334:
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Oct 8 14:23 UTC 2010 |
Most items on the welcome menu do not work returning unhelpful error messages.
Hyperlinks in Grex help system go to http even for pages that actually reside
within Grex, resulting in broken links because new users cannot go HTTP.
These are elementary things, not rocket science, and they are repelling to
bump into.
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jgelinas
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response 87 of 334:
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Oct 8 14:38 UTC 2010 |
Aside: Whether to use absolute or relative links is always an
interesting question. The value of the former is that they can be
easily copied from one place to another. The value of the latter is
that they *can't* be easily copied from one place to another.
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kentn
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response 88 of 334:
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Oct 8 18:20 UTC 2010 |
Yes, the web site needs some help with broken links, out of date
information, etc. And the welcome menu should give better messages if
they aren't helpful. The easier we make things the better off we'll be
and the happier our users will be. To appear to be going concern we
need to keep up with issues like these, though we all understand that we
are volunteer run. Sounds to me like we need to go through several
systems on here (including the web site) and make sure things are still
working and making sense (a never-ending task, it seems).
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yecril71pl
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response 89 of 334:
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Oct 8 19:24 UTC 2010 |
What is the process for becoming a volunteer? (I am an easy rider here but
I could technically help)
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mary
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response 90 of 334:
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Oct 8 19:56 UTC 2010 |
Wow, thanks for being willing to jump in and help!
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tsty
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response 91 of 334:
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Oct 11 05:40 UTC 2010 |
tnx yecril71pl ... how;s the weathre over there?
Domain: piekna-gts.2a.pl
IP Address: 217.153.90.242
ISP: GTS Polska Sp. z o.o.
Organization: Connected by GTS Poland
Region: Warsaw (PL)
glasd to hear from ffiernds acorss the puddle.
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kentn
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response 92 of 334:
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Oct 11 23:24 UTC 2010 |
I sent an e-mail to Christopher and we'll see if he responds.
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veek
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response 93 of 334:
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Oct 24 13:13 UTC 2010 |
1. would someone be interested in merging this script with the Grex
page: http://arbornet.org/~veek/whofingerpeek.cgi
It does who, finger username, and peeks the party.log, via a web
interface - I've used the Grex home page as a template. Someone on
staff is working on something for finger but it isn't ready as yet. It
has a change time of Dec 09 (ls -c -lt).. I'm taking suggestions (color
changes, open() instead of backticks, limited-runs/minute,
finger-timeout, etc)
2. Would anyone be interested in a script to add a home page template
to their home dir? I have created my home-page:
http://www.grex.org/~veek/ (nothing fancy, but i thought this might be
useful since ppl can just copy it and modify it - i could do a tutorial
on this)
3. Tutorial on: 1. No typing password, ssh login. 2. Editing web
templates. 3. Maybe even a script to populate said template..
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mary
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response 94 of 334:
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Oct 24 14:48 UTC 2010 |
Hey, nice veek!
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veek
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response 95 of 334:
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Oct 24 16:19 UTC 2010 |
thanks :p , most of the hard work was done by the guy (remmers, me
thinks) who did the main website - the layout and design are super. I
just knocked out some of his content to make place for that form in the
center. I'll make it nicer but I think it's pretty safe as is (no .plan
reading for now).
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tsty
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response 96 of 334:
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Oct 24 16:25 UTC 2010 |
re 93 ... vkewl ... couple thoghts ...
might want to add a 'select action' notation above the 'action' boxe.
reverse, left/rightr, the submit and lognin id box (first thisndgs first?)
and above the looginid box, add 'enter loginid here' directoin.
consider alloweing more than 8 chars in logind box ... also, will this work
with a completyly quaiflied identificatoin, such as mary@cyberspace.org ?
.. assuming more tha 8 chars are alloewed.
any particular reaosn the loginid box has a default value ... it;s ok, of
course, just wondering.
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veek
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response 97 of 334:
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Oct 24 17:16 UTC 2010 |
Re #96:
1. "select action" - mm.. actually what I could do is create a box like
so:
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1.click here: to select Finger
2.click here: to select Who
I'll prettify that box so it looks nice.
2. "submit" "login" position - ha! that was carefully thought out. Out
of 3 actions, 2 don't require the login field so I placed it away
3. Oo forgot about @whatevers.. hmm.. validating email addresses
properly is pretty hard. Simple @cyberspace.org i can easily do. Right
now it won't - I only allow UNIX id's.. ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-_.]{1,7}$
4. thought it might be easier to process.. i should have said something
like: enter loginid to finger, but that's more stuff to bkspace
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tsty
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response 98 of 334:
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Oct 25 04:06 UTC 2010 |
werkx for me .. ayuway, it;s a greate feature.
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yecril71pl
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response 99 of 334:
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Nov 17 12:31 UTC 2010 |
I cannot respond by e-mail because e-mail does not work for free riders, not
even to staff.
The answer is in my pine scratch pad; I guess the staff can read it, and if
not, I shall file it in my home dir, or in /tmp.
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