Grex Agora Conference

Item 3: Grex System Announcements - Fall 2015/Winter 2016

Entered by cfadm on Thu Dec 31 16:40:40 2015:

35 new of 54 responses total.


#20 of 54 by keesan on Tue Jan 10 04:27:31 2017:

It is pssh that is too tiny to read.  Midpssh simple would not work for me.
I think I got a white screen.  Does it work on your java-based phone

I just got an email forwarded (because of its size) from
Administrator@cyberspace.org telling me to run the attached zip file to update
my Web Mail certificate.   As far as I know we have no webmail. 
'Download and launch file'.  I suppose I could print out the characters in
it and make it into a paper boat and launch that.  


#21 of 54 by walkman on Thu Jan 12 19:03:52 2017:

I was down in middle-earth and my ram's horn did not call the elven
figures  or the frost giants. 


#22 of 54 by kentn on Fri Jan 13 12:18:21 2017:

Grex administrators will not ask you for your password or have you
install downloaded files.  We can reset your password for you.

Do not open any attached files in spam e-mails.  The vast majority of
them contain viruses and other malware.  Be careful of attached files
in e-mails you did expect to receive, too.  Don't click on links in
e-mails, either, for the same reason.

And no, we don't have web mail on Grex.


#23 of 54 by keesan on Tue Jan 17 13:36:48 2017:

I can't open them with pine or mutt anyway.  Just wanted to let grex admin
know about this spam.
Grex outgoing mails are being blocked by both Barracuda (includes SBC) and
Yahoo (includes ebay, Nextdoor, ecycle, frontier, and half my friends).
Same with sdf mails, for at least the past week.  Can someone at least fill
out the form at Barracuda to unblock us?  I am using fastmail as a backup but
they plan to drop support for non-javascript browsers.  


#24 of 54 by cross on Sat Jan 21 01:27:23 2017:

We're not really in a position to support email anymore. There are better
alternatives, such as getting a GMail account and talking to it using imap
or something.


#25 of 54 by keesan on Sat Jan 21 15:24:30 2017:

I normally use sdf, with grex as a backup for bad-yahoo days.  Grex is rarely
blocked by yahoo.  


#26 of 54 by tonster on Sun Jan 22 04:25:28 2017:

resp:14: Far too much to buy for my needs. I didn't purchase it before,
I had a license from when I worked at vmware. Sadly, I no longer do. :( 


In other news, it seems I've just paid for another 2 years of grex's
domain names. Happy New Year!

In related news, does anyone know why we're paying for private
registration? Seems like a silly expense, even if it is only $10/yr.


#27 of 54 by cross on Sun Jan 22 09:15:39 2017:

No idea; seems kind of wasteful to me.


#28 of 54 by tod on Wed Jan 25 01:33:19 2017:

re #26
Generous, thanks!


#29 of 54 by walkman on Wed Feb 1 17:53:53 2017:

Can you hear me?


#30 of 54 by cross on Wed Feb 1 19:27:02 2017:

No.


#31 of 54 by papa on Wed Feb 1 22:33:36 2017:

See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me
-- Peter Townsend (NOT "Hear me")


#32 of 54 by commodorejohn on Thu Feb 2 17:43:33 2017:

 Fly like a song, fly while you're singing
 A song without you is a bird without winging
 Some city flights leave in the morning
 Some city nights end without warning
 Can you hear me call?
-- Betty Thatcher (Renaissance)


#33 of 54 by tod on Tue Feb 7 00:41:13 2017:

You didn't need
To do that to me
 .


#34 of 54 by walkman on Wed Feb 8 00:36:42 2017:

Come on and touch me
When we're dancing
You know you've got that loving touch
(Loving touch)


#35 of 54 by kentn on Thu May 18 03:13:06 2017:

If you didn't notice from the Grex problems item, Dan Cross upgraded Grex's
OpenBSD to version 6.1. Grex was inaccessible for a few days during this
process. Many applications have been updated to newer versions. If something is
missing or not working right, post about it in the problems item and let staff
know.


#36 of 54 by cross on Sat May 20 02:22:42 2017:

FYI: I've rewritten the `menu` shell. As far as the user interface is
concerned, this version is a more-or-less faithful recreation of the
previous version, though there are some minor differences in some of
the details.

This version is written in `go`; the older version was written in C and
was something of a nightmare.


#37 of 54 by cross on Mon May 22 02:50:49 2017:

FYI: I'm going to write about Grex a little bit in the `agorage` conference
(conf:agorage). Check it out if you're interested. Or don't.


#38 of 54 by papa on Wed May 9 04:21:20 2018:

"conf:" is a neat trick, like "resp:".

Are there any other tags like that we can put in bt posts? References to
to responses in other items and items in other conferences would be us
useful.

Are such tags documented anywhere? I've searched the bt documentation 
on unixpapa.com but haven't found anything.


#39 of 54 by tonster on Fri Sep 21 04:00:06 2018:

There will be downtime tomorrow as I attempt to migrate Grex to
different hardware. I need to repurpose the hardware Grex is currently
running on, and need to figure out a way to move the VM. 


#40 of 54 by tonster on Fri Sep 21 16:08:30 2018:

The transition to the other hardware was completed successfully.
Apologies for the downtime.


#41 of 54 by papa on Fri Sep 21 18:50:25 2018:

Thanks for taking care of the old girl. ;)

May I ask on what hardware Grex is now running? Is it in a VM?
 


#42 of 54 by tod on Mon Sep 24 11:32:31 2018:

re #41
My guess is raspberry pi 3  :)


#43 of 54 by kentn on Tue Sep 25 18:22:19 2018:

Thanks for taking care of Grex, Tony!


#44 of 54 by tonster on Fri Sep 28 04:03:31 2018:

M-Net and Grex both became VM's several years ago. They exist today on
an HP bl495c G5 server blade.


#45 of 54 by tod on Fri Sep 28 11:52:13 2018:

Millenium Falcon


#46 of 54 by telnetuserid on Sun Jan 16 16:13:05 2022:

Good job for keeping grex alive.
Thanks for the hard work!


#47 of 54 by tod on Tue Jan 18 20:08:30 2022:

Yes, Tony! Hats off


#48 of 54 by sehnsucht on Tue Feb 22 18:10:03 2022:

GREX is an even more hidden gem of the net than Tildeverse. I
really like this place.


#49 of 54 by papa on Wed Feb 23 00:37:30 2022:

Indeed, it is. A little too hidden and underused.


#50 of 54 by kentn on Wed Feb 23 01:53:07 2022:

We need to get a wordle-like game running the Games conference.  It's
similar to the 5-letter match game.


#51 of 54 by madmike on Wed Feb 23 14:53:02 2022:

Well, well, well cyberspace is alive and well :) Howdy folks! Greetings from
the InfinitelyRemote ;)


#52 of 54 by tod on Wed Feb 23 18:25:58 2022:

There goes the neighborhood


#53 of 54 by papa on Wed Feb 23 23:47:19 2022:

resp:50 You mean like we used to do 20 questions with one "master" who
thinks of the word and the rest of the players making guesses to which the
master reports results (letters correct; letters used in other position)?


#54 of 54 by tod on Thu Feb 24 23:44:30 2022:

Oh, i thought this was like a 'safe' word


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