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Could someone announce a guess as to when our new ISDN service will
be available for (1) staff testing and (2) users?

Sure

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Hey, Agora has a cool new HTML login screen...use Backtalk and look at 
it...someone around here (valerie?) is pretty good with their html 
artwork!  We need more confs to have html login screens!

Great news on ISDN, valerie!  I didn't know we were that close.

How do you make an HTML, as opposed to normal, login screen?

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And if the button colors you really want aren't there, you can plead 
with me, and I'll probably be willing to install what you want into 
bacltalk's button palette.

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If they are the same size as the standard ones, that is easy.  If not, it
is perhaps a bit harder.  I'd have to look into that.

What, the size of her ears?    8-)

Hmm...I tried that, valerie, but the closest thing to the legendary red button
that I found was a little bit of text saying that fw commands are soon to be
added.

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M-Net's ISDN line is now installed and is in *intermittent* use.  If
any of the baff think M-Net's testing/debugging problems may be of some
help to Grex, there is an "ISDN Techtalk Item" in M-Net's Sysop Conference,
linked to the same item in the M-Net Policy Cf.
        OTOH, the two systems may be too dissimilar.

*sigh* figures that mnet would get ISDN up before Grex....not that it
was a race though

Oop!  That "ISDN Techtalk" item is only in the Policy Cf.  However,
there is an interesting item in Sysop about wiring m2-net (formerly
our K-12 machine) together with m-net (the main machine), including
diagrams and a "loopback" feature so that telnetters will connect
properly whether or not the ISDN line is up.

I'm not counting on m-net having terrific reliability with it.  

On Tuesday at about 10:00 p.m. WWNet, M-Net's ISP, was prematurely
disconnected by Agis, its backbone connection.  WWNet didn't reconnect
with M-Net until last night (Wednesday) at 10:00 p.m.  Due to a change
in IP addresses, M-Net incoming mail isn't finding us.  Sorry for
any inconvenience.

WWNet is undergoing it's own IP address changes right now, so things are
likely to be interesting with them.

M-net is still not responding to telnet.

That's because WW-Net's DNS has hcanged IP addresses, and the NIC hasn't
gotten around to changing their records, dispite a week of notice.

        There was an unregistered new address for *arbornet's* name 
server.  WWNet was working correctly.  

#21 didn't make sense, since telneting directly to the IP address didn't work
either. I shall presently try to find out the new IP.

I entered Agora item #34 to discuss M-net.

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(M-Net's ISDN technical discussion isn't very useful to Grex except as an
example of why several of us insisted that Grex go with real ISDN routers
(M-Net didn't take that advice))

Thanks, Marcus!

Thanks, marcus.

 Thanks, Marcus. You never cease to amaze me. 
<omni bows>

Thank, Marcus!

Yes, thanks Marcus!

Thanks Marcus.

        Well, gues I said it in #1 also, thanks Marcus and all who
helped, including he one(s) that made sure Marcus got feed every
now and then.

To Marcus: Wow!  Thanks!  To all staff: Please try to instill procedures
so that errors like this don't happen again.

You mean regular backups?  Yes, we are going to start that again. ;)

I'm guessing at the numbers, because I didn't want to bother Marcus with too
many dumb questions while he was working, but the two files he reconstructed
were each about 800K in size, and each had been sliced and diced into about
400 pieces.  He searched the disk for all the fragments, and manually figured
out what order they belonged in and spliced them all together again.  It's
a pretty insane task.

So the inode tables had all gone bye-bye?

THANKS TO MARCUS! HURRAY!

        Is there a discussion for when the regualar back-up will 
take place, like at 4am, when the local use of Grex, is usually 
low?   I take this can be automated.  Just hope someone can 
switch tapes when they visit the Pumpkin.
        I would suggest an A, B & C tape set.  And a nearby log for
when someone switches the tape.  I'm not suggesting daily visits
to Pumpkin, just a routine for switching tapes when someone stops
by and a visual record so that tapes are not switched twice in
one day.

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