I've been using ftp and usenet to collect information on TV shows.  You
can see what I've put on grex so far by looking for me in lynx under
personal files.  Or look in the directory /u/kaplan/TV

So, is this kind of stuff interesting to you?  If it is, let me know so
when I go to the staff to ask for a public "official" directory for TV
stuff I can be armed with an answer to the question, "who cares."

Also, if there's a TV series you're interested in and you want me to look
for an episode list, post that here too.

33 responses total.

This is now linked in as Scifi item 39.

I've added current information from "The Simpsons" and "X-files"
to the stuff on line.  I'm also doing a README file.

Point of Inquiry: What information, exactly, will the README file contain?

Just a guess, but I have a funny feeling it'll contain something like
the following:

  "If you are reading this and you think TV info is a good use of my time and
  grex disk space, send mail to me (type "!mail kaplan" any time in lynx
  without the quotes).  Also send me mail if there's other TV info you want
  me to try to add to this collection."

Hmm...

Yeah, go for it.. some guy posted me some series info and it made the
whole thing more enjoyable to watch!!!!
Donna

For now, I've been keeping most of my TV info off of my grex account
because of the lack of disk space.  I'll bring /u/kaplan/TV back up
to speed when that disk space conservation message leaves the MOTD

I added and restored a bunch of stuff to /u/kaplan/TV, and Rob Henderson
made a nifty HTML file to make the files easy to access.  Look at "What's
new on grex" from lynx and post your comments here.

Would you please gzip those files to save some disk space?

pretty please. i cant even respond to my own bloody conference sometimes.
speaking of which, since this is sci/fi & *fantasy* i guess i can plug my conf
here. in PicoSpan, type "join fuzzy" at the Ok: prompt.

When I tried to gzip the files last night, I could not because there was
no disk space. 

Some of the bigger files had been compressed for a while.  A little while
ago, my TV files took up 221 blocks.  Now that I've gzipped them all (and
made it harder to read them, especially via lynx) they are down to 128
blocks.  If you think that my meager disk usage is causing the problem, I
disagree. I'm providing these files as a public service.  If a root type
person wants me to move them off /home and gives me a directory elsewhere
for them, fine.  But a lot of people have hundreds of blocks worth of old
junk mail that they will never look at again.  I bet the 93 blocks I've
just freed up will be gone in the next few hours. 

I apologize for the above paragraph.  Lets take the flames and disk
management discussion elsewhere.

Robh, please post here when you've updated the HTML page.  Everyone else,
I apologize for the trouble you'll have if you try to read my TV file
right now.

I'll update the Lynx page immediately.

Remember too, folks, we'll have a new disk on-line sometime
next week.  (That's the current estimate, Goddess only knows
when it will happen, maybe tomorrow, maybe August.)

re 10&11: i meant no personal attack, as i know you are not a major culprit.
thanks for freeing what you did...

Yes, really, thanks.  It's not that 128 blocks or even 221 blocks aren't
meager, it's just that I keep deleting my conference files so I can read
my conferences...  Every little bit helps, even 1 or 2 K.  I'm sorry that
it will all be gone in the next few hours (and I believe you are correct
in that assumption), but I don't think that's a reason to *not* try to
reduce personal usage as much as possible (gzipping isn't difficult *if*
there's enough space to do so, and reading .gz files is easy with "zmore").
Thanks again.
  And remember...*until and not before* we have that new disk open to
the public, *please* try to reduce your disk usage whenever and
wherever possible!

amenpraisebobhalejulah!!

ummm- I'm relatively new at this, but I ahve repeated problems with disk
space (as do we all).  I don't think I'm using much disk space, but there
could be things I'm not aware of-  why doesn't someone post in Agora
some ideas of specific things we could all do to reduce the load?
I know it would help me.. I would do whatever I could (If I had any
ideas of what would help)

people still read agora?

I think there may be an item like that in Info somewhere.

There have been numerous requests and suggestions for reducing disk
space.  Check the info conference for sure.

I nominate Agora for sacrifice to the Low Disc Space Gods.

no, i actually like it. i even <blush> read it first when i log on.

(Nuking Agora wouldn't help much with the disk space crunch, since
the crunch is on a different partition from where the conferences
are kept.)

then how come we can't enter responses sometimes?

no disc space. grin...

The partition that holds the conference items themselves is /usr/local.
It has plenty of space. However, the /home partition is the one that kepps
running out of space. /home is where all of your personal files are stored.
PIcospan creates a file for each conference in your home directory that
contains information on what items you have read and which responses ofg
those items, etc. If /home is out of space it will not be able to change
your personal participation files. That's why you get the error.

Also, while you're entering a response, Picospan stores what you're typing
in a temporary file in your home directory.  If there's no room on the
/home partition, it can't write data to the file and, as a result, you
can't enter a response.

is there any way to change the cf.buffer to the /usr/local partition?
even with the new disk, i'm sure the /home partition will fill up faster,
and at least we could respond.  i have misssed several good opertunities 
because of the lack of space in the /home partition.

the cf.buffer files aren't really the problem at all for filling up
the /home partition - they are just temporary while you enter your response.
to put them on /usr/local, you would have to change the way .cf.buffer
was named - or you couldn't have two people enter a response at the
same time - there can be only one /usr/local/.cf.buffer.  that would
require, I belive, re-writing and re-compiling part of PicoSpan, and the
effort involved in that is higher than waiting a few weeks until a bigger
disk is online.  the current /home partition is 108623 1k blocks.
the new one will probably be 1,800,000 1k blocks or so.  that is
approx 18 times larger.  I think it will be quite a while before
it is full again.

and then, kaplan can uncompress his TV files, and we'll all be happy again.

for a while, at least.  good point, i hadn't thought about entering more
than one response at a time.

MST3K is supposed to start up with new episodes on the 17th.

The 16th, actually.  "Girls' Town."

cool!  i love MST3K!

nifty.  any new joel-le-o-le-o info since Paula Poundstone departed?

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