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I have been working on  grex's menu pages for the past weeks. There is a 
link to "interesting topics" on the main menu. I took the liberty in deleting
the links that were contained in topics.html andI replaced with something that
could be called "Interesting Topic" It will basically be  a story i find on the
internet.  I will change it say, every month. That way it will give some of the
users to go  back to this page, or so i think ;) Well Take a look at it and
feedback is welcome.

ok just in case you need directions how to get to this page. it's
under Searching the Internet on the lynx's main menu. 

 re #1
   beware of copyright problems if you're going to include other people's
   work directly -- perhaps it would be better to just include a pointer
   to the source material..

you have a point.. i will do that too ;) thanks

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I will be out of town for the next week.  I'll try to check my mail while I'm
gone, but if you or someone you meet is looking for information about Grex
membership, you might get a faster answer by sending mail to staff rather
than me.

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People who need to read the motd message about the parity change probably
can't read it.  (*Not* a complaint - the change was announced well in advance,
and at this point what else can we do?  Just sticking my oar in ...)

I experimented with trying to write a useful message using only odd-numbered
characters "acegikmoqsuwy" so it would be readable by most people with even
parity set, but I didn't get far.  I suppose I could have done something
like:

        -------------------
        --###---#---#--##--
        -#---#--##--#---#--
        --###---#-#-#---#--
        -#---#--#--##---#--
        --###---#---#--###-
        -------------------

        If you are new to Grex, login as "newuser"
        login:

But I didn't think it would be that much help and I would have been pushing the
message length limit.

The polls are open for voting on a proposed amendment to Grex's
bylaws to allow organizations as well as individuals to become
members. Type  !vote  at a bbs or menu prompt, or just plain  
vote  at a Unix shell prompt, for further information or to 
cast a ballot.

Before voting, folks are urged to familiarize themselves with the
issues by reading Item 100 of the Coop conference, where the
proposal is discussed.

The polls will close July 11 at midnight Eastern Daylight Time.

I could read the thing, i just couldn't log on.  Though i found out what the
problem was.  =)  It works now!  I guess i better talk to marla about it as
well, since its her puter i am currently using

I was able to read the message on the login screen, but everything was going
very slowly.  It was fine after I logged out and changed the settings.

I had no trouble at all, and had logged in and started mail before it occured
to me that it was July 1st, and I needed to change my settings.

I had litle or no trouble, but changed my settings anyway after realizing the
date

I changed the settings, but to me it
looks as if every letter I type comes
out duplicated. Weird.

That would be a "full" or "half" setting for "duplex".  This also masquerades
under the name "Local echo".

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What is the current setup on slow modems/fast modems/Grex/ Groupie?  I had
trouble getting in o 3000 this morning because my normal modem speed setting
was suddenly too fast for it to hand.e.  I havent seen anyone coming in on
groupie the past day or two.  and 4931 and 5041 seem to be constantly busy
for extremely long periods of time.  

Well, I logged on and got "groupie". Granted, it took me several attempts to
figure out what to do with it. ;)
I will say this, it is FAST!!

All of our modems could be like that if we could get the glitches out.

 The current modem setup has slow lines at 3000, 3 fast lines starting 
at 4931, and three terminal server lines starting at 5041.  So there are 
currently 6 lines that run at 9600 or faster.

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I just came in on groupie, and it telnetted me directly to Grex, just like
it is supposed to. On weekends, there is almost never a telnet queue, and
groupie is very nice to use, right now. (Just a data point, and observation.)

        say the magic word at "groupie>" and get into grex!

        like,  groupie>connect grex

Well, I logged in and got the "groupie>" prompt and had to dial "telnet grex"
in order to get a prompt, from there, it works fine.  Is that the right thing
to do...or am I (in a sense) tying up two lines or something like that?

No, that's the right thing to do.

I found and fixed the problem.  I'm not sure if ti was a case of groupie
losing a setting, or me not setting it right in the first place.  It was the
same port that was previously displaying the menu, so I may have only fixed
part of the misconfiguration then.

Groupie sent me straight to a login prompt.  It's working great at the moment.

Oops, it just gave me the groupie> prompt.  It looks like it didn't save the
changes I made earlier.  I changed it again, and it looks like it did save
it this time.  I also think I understand why it didn't save it the first time.

i played wth the groupie> help screens for a while.. then decided
to   telnet grex.org which worked just fine.
  
it's when i get an absolutely blank screen (cursor at 0,0) that
baffles me-  -what then?

I think at that point it's just waiting for Grex to respond and open the
telnet session.

Groupie is now running the latest version of the Chase Iolan operating system,
rather than the several year old version it came with.  Hopefully that should
help things.

When I get a blank screen, I type something in to see waht I get.  often I
get garbled garbage.  Occasionally I type in my login onto a blank screen,
press enter, and magically get a "senna's password:" prompt.  It varies.

Last time I dialed in through groupie it hung up on me before I got all the
way to a csh prompt.  The time before that it froze before echoing the "c"
in "janc" while I was logging in.  Groupie doesn't seem to like me.

I've been having repeated problems using the reset command to fix my term
settings on grex when I dail into grex... I think it is still set to the
old parity...

This is short notice, but following tradition -- since tomorrow
(Tuesday, July 15) is the eve of the Art Fair in Ann Arbor --
Mary and I will be hanging out at a restaurant in downtown A2
watching folks prepare for Wednesday's chaos. Any Grexers who
care to are welcome to join us and share in the calm before the
storm.

This year we'll be at Grizzly Peak Brewing Co, 120 West Washington,
7 p.m. Be there or be unFair.

That's Tuesday, July 15.

Cool.  I'll try to be there.

  I don't do downtown during Art Fair. Sorry.

Wish I could, Remmers.  Already committed for tomorrow night.  Parking
downtown was really easy today, though.

I would like to announce that I have drawn some replacement buttons for 
Backtalk's Pistachio interface. These are more 3-dimensional, and we 
plan to replace the current ones. 

First I will change the button menu for fairwitnesses so that they cam 
select the new ones. I will also change the default buttons at that 
time.

I will do this soon, but not tonight, as it has gotten too late.

If you want a sneak preview, you can check out backtalk on HVCN, or else 
look at these buttons (active and disabled) in your browser
http://www.hvcn.org/hvcnconf/image/pistachio/bgn/nextitem.gif
http://www.hvcn.org/hvcnconf/image/pistachio/ggn/nextitem.gif

coming soon, in a variety of colors.

- Backtalk version 1.3.30 - Copyright 1996-2006, Jan Wolter and Steve Weiss