This item is for system problems.  If something on Grex isn't working 
right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.), 
this is the place to announce it.  Except for security holes.  If you 
find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".

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please increase the number of ttys

Please spray the case purple.

please let me touch you balls

I was looking for fast free webmail providers for someone and the two best
ones I found are no longer free to new users, due to abuse.

Gmail is no longer free to new users?

Gmail is not fast and it requires a huge browser such as Firefox.  It also
appears to send HTML by default.  See item 22.

Gmail does *not* require a huge browser; it works best in one but can function
with "bare HTML." Signing up may take a graphical browser, but once that's
taken care of you can view it with any browser that supports cookies.

  

#4.253 TS Taylor (tsty) Sat, Mar 18, 2006 (01:37):
 excuse me for speaking up, but, grex has a mission that is severely
 compromised, yet again, by *some* sort of .... something.

 free access, free email, free confrencing, free party, free unix.

 to me, those are not too difficult to maintain/sustain.

 we have lost *old* email and now we are losing *new* email.

 sombody(ies) "in charge" has/have a serious task to accomplish.

 hell, even keesan  and rcurl are bitching up a strum&drang. what next?  
  
sticking to the basics and refining them, imo, ought to be the fundamental
task/goal/target/desires/obligation/responsibility of BAFF. eh?
  

I agree.

 Also, Gmail provides free POP service, although POP is not turned on by
 default.  So if you establish an account with them you can happily use
 whatever low-tech mail program your heart desires..

Can we take this to item 22?

You brought it up, Sindi. :P

I also brought it up in item 22, take a look there.

is item 22 *also* system problems?
  
this si the system problems item, it says up top.
  
i entered a system(wide) problem.

A while ago I remember someone saying that a grexer had run X clients on grex.
I have been trying to do the same but get no joy.

I connect via a PuTTY ssh session; the server I use is Cygwin/X. The PuTTY
Event log says that "X forwarding is refused."

 Are you a member?

No; I take it it's only available to members?

 Well, in order for an X11 client to work across machines it needs to
 set up a socket connection between the two.  My guess is that the
 same mechanism which prevents you from telnetting or ftping out from
 Grex is also preventing you X client from connecting to your X server.

Ahh.

I know this chick from Trenton Michigan that gets asked to open up sockets
every week.  Her stage name is "Chloe".

Yeah, I used to think she was hot but I'm not sure chicks from
downriver.

you're not sure chicks from downriver ?

you must be getting hot, marc.  it's making your sentence-forming skillz 
go whack.

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These sentences no verb.

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Ihave done it with a little linux over a nullmodem cable, from DOS.

I've done it quite a bit here at school, running applications on a computer in
a lab on the display in my dorm room, now that I have the account on the lab
computer (since the computer science club owns the computers and runs the lab).
I do this because my local computer is quite slow compared to those. As far as
I can tell, X forwarding must be enabled in sshd, and IIRC it isn't by default.

I've done it between computers here, too.

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I just saw this when starting up bbs:

warning: libc.so.38.2: minor version >= 3 expected, using it anyway

Seems to be working anyway...

 That's a known problem, based on a mismatch in shared library versions
 between what bbs was compiled against vs. what's running on grex now.
 It's been doing that for quite a while, probably this is just the first
 time you noticed..

 Why does bbs segmentation fault when I scribble a response?

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 .. hey! what about email to AOHell ??!!!!!!!   <dammit>
  

hau !

I don't usually get 'you have new mail' messages when I have new mail.  Is
there something I should be setting in pine, or is this a system setting?

 re #36:  What do you get when you type "echo $MAIL" (without the surrounding
 quotes) into a shell?

I think its /usr/local/bin/newmail

/var/mail/keesan

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