Grex Helpers Conference

Item 122: Grex System Announcements - Fall 2003

Entered by i on Wed Sep 24 10:51:39 2003:

37 new of 68 responses total.


#32 of 68 by aruba on Sat Oct 25 15:54:52 2003:

Sorry, TIm, you're right - I should have posted here.  We are now down to 4
dialin lines: 761-3000, 5041, 3411, and 3451.  Are you saying that the trunk
hunt isn't working at all, or just that all four lines were busy when you
tried to call?


#33 of 68 by gelinas on Sat Oct 25 16:41:47 2003:

BTW, we should figure out which modems are no longer connected and unplug
them.


#34 of 68 by aruba on Mon Oct 27 15:43:35 2003:

I called Ameritech this morning to get them to fix the hunting on our lines.
(I was afraid that if I called on the weekend, I'd get someone who would
make the problem worse.)  I spoke with a gentleman named Jim, who checked
and found that all our numbers *except* 761-3000 had been programmed to
hunt.  He sent a request down to the programming department to fix things,
and they should be better in a few hours.  Please post here or send me mail
if there continue to be problems.


#35 of 68 by tpryan on Mon Oct 27 17:23:42 2003:

        Thank you for attention in getting this fixed.
I just dialed into -3000, any easy way to find if I did hunt down?


#36 of 68 by tpryan on Mon Oct 27 17:24:35 2003:

        I am currently on ttytf, but that might tell us if we hunted down
from -3000


#37 of 68 by scott on Mon Oct 27 17:33:12 2003:

who | grep 216.93.104.37
will give a list of people currently dialed in, and from there you can guess
whether you successfully trunk-hunted.


#38 of 68 by aruba on Mon Oct 27 21:15:44 2003:

Or you can dial 761-3000 with one phone, and dial it again with another.


#39 of 68 by keesan on Tue Oct 28 15:58:06 2003:

All my items are almost new again - they start at response 6, for instance,
instead of 38.  I am typing in 38 to go to the end.  What might have caused
this?


#40 of 68 by mcnally on Tue Oct 28 17:08:03 2003:

  The /a partition, which contains your home directory, was temporarily
  full yesterday.  Perhaps your conference participation file was
  corrupted when picospan tried (and failed) to write it to a full
  filesystem?  (Just a guess and probably not a good one -- disk full
  errors occur so frequently on Grex (and before that, on M-Net) that
  I'd imagine picospan has to have a fairly robust way to deal with them.)


#41 of 68 by aruba on Tue Oct 28 17:10:25 2003:

No, I think that's exactly what happened to Sindi, and to me.


#42 of 68 by gull on Tue Oct 28 18:33:29 2003:

No, you're right, Mike.  Picospan doesn't handle it gracefully at all --
it truncates the participation file.


#43 of 68 by keesan on Tue Oct 28 21:14:09 2003:

I recall seeing something about /a being full yesterday, thanks.


#44 of 68 by galagie on Tue Nov 4 08:05:55 2003:

/d is almost full, too


#45 of 68 by mynxcat on Tue Nov 4 17:40:59 2003:

The motd says Happy Diwali 2002. First, it's not 2002. Second, this 
year Diwali was on October 25th. Just an observation.


#46 of 68 by micklpkl on Tue Nov 4 18:56:26 2003:

I noticed this same thing. What is up with the birthday list in the 
motd? I see several birthdays listed for users that haven't used the 
system in ages (like griz), and many of us that came by Grex later in 
life aren't ever listed (like myself, for one). Does one have to be in 
the "inner circle" to matter?


#47 of 68 by mcnally on Tue Nov 4 19:03:40 2003:

  No, but you probably have to provide someone with your birthday..


#48 of 68 by mynxcat on Tue Nov 4 19:30:45 2003:

Who do we provide that information to? I thought they picked it off 
your plan. Or did they run some kind of program at one point and then 
never ran it again. So now we're not on the list. so what gives?


#49 of 68 by scott on Tue Nov 4 20:34:34 2003:

Valerie handles the birthday list, but with kids and all she's probably not
had much time to clean it.  

Send email to valerie if you want to add your bday.


#50 of 68 by anderyn on Tue Nov 4 22:01:26 2003:

I complained and got told to send email, and that's how I got on. Bruce still
isn't on, afaik.


#51 of 68 by tod on Tue Nov 4 23:43:41 2003:

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#52 of 68 by bhoward on Wed Nov 5 00:52:11 2003:

Whadya mean?  I am too there:
    ;: grex; grep bhoward /usr/local/etc/birthday.list 
    May 29 Happy Birthday Bruce (bhoward) Howard!
    ;: grex; 


#53 of 68 by remmers on Wed Nov 5 13:12:50 2003:

It's probably a good thing that birthday list is opt-in, not opt-out.
Some folks might not want their birthdays, or their presence on Grex,
publicized in the motd.  Besides, in view of the fact that people can
edit their .plan files in arbitrary ways, culling birthdays from .plan's
poses some technical problems.

Anyway, now you know how to get on the birthday list, and how to view
your birthday entry.


#54 of 68 by willcome on Wed Nov 5 16:30:59 2003:

Thanks, remmers!


#55 of 68 by tod on Wed Nov 5 18:14:35 2003:

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#56 of 68 by remmers on Wed Nov 5 19:22:17 2003:

See response #49.


#57 of 68 by valerie on Sat Nov 8 04:37:57 2003:

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#58 of 68 by remmers on Sat Nov 8 14:55:51 2003:

Don't be too sure of that last.  Grex is as susceptible to haunting as
anyplace else.


#59 of 68 by ea on Sun Nov 9 16:53:50 2003:

re #57, 58 - are you saying that Grex is like the Hotel California?  You 
can check out any time you like, but you can never leave? ;)


#60 of 68 by bhoward on Mon Nov 10 00:54:43 2003:

...And He Ought To Know.


#61 of 68 by gregb on Thu Nov 20 18:25:20 2003:

Re. 57:  This is true.  I've been in and out of here 
several times with spans that'ov lasted over a year!


#62 of 68 by remmers on Mon Dec 1 19:18:35 2003:

The vote program is now open for business in the 2003 Grex Board of
Directors election.

To run it from a tty connection (dialup/telnet/ssh), type  vote  at
a Unix shell prompt or  !vote  from just about any other prompt.

Or you can access the voting facility on the web at the URL
http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/pw/voting-booth

The vote program allows you to view the list of candidates and their
campaign statements, and to cast a ballot.  If you do the latter and
later change your mind about whom you want to vote for, simply run
the program again and cast a new ballot.  Your new votes replace any
previous one.

Any Grex user can cast a ballot, but only the votes of eligible voting
members will be counted in determining the outcome of the election.

Discussion on the election and the candidates can be found in the
Coop conference (conf:coop).

Polls close at the end of the day (EST) on December 15.


#63 of 68 by remmers on Mon Dec 15 11:46:25 2003:

Today, Monday Dec. 15, is the last day to vote in the 2003 Grex
Board of Directors election.  The polls close at midnight EST.
See the previous response (resp:62) for instructions on how
to vote.


#64 of 68 by naftee on Tue Dec 16 04:31:51 2003:

Only half an hour left!!!!!!!!!!!! ICANAT WAIT!


#65 of 68 by bhoward on Tue Dec 16 06:16:17 2003:

I'm afraid you must...at least for a little longer.

aruba has to confirm the official membership list.

remmers and davel then have to conduct independent counts of the votes.


#66 of 68 by remmers on Tue Dec 16 21:32:46 2003:

These things have now been done.  Winners in the 2003 Grex Board of
Directors election are polygon, mary, slynne, and bhoward.  See
Item 25 in the Coop conference (item:coop,25) for details.


#67 of 68 by rextor on Wed Dec 17 10:00:28 2003:

hallou everybody, may i know how to get legion software?for crack something
thank you


#68 of 68 by khalid on Fri Jan 2 04:11:30 2004:

well well well endof test


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