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Grex > Helpers > #137: Grex System Announcements - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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juicy
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response 133 of 219:
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Jan 6 19:44 UTC 2005 |
after Netscape 4, the entire codebase was thrown out, and they started from
scratch. The project was handed to a semi-independent, non-profit (I think)
organisation, the Mozilla Foundation, and the source opened. Mozilla was
released as a development version, starting w/ version .1 (or, before that,
Milestones counting up to I think 18); every so often, especially quality
Mozilla releases have been forked as official Netscape releases, starting with
NS 6.0.
At some point in the last several years, it was decided that instead of
offering the entire kitchen sink at once, users should be able to just get
the parts they want and build their own sink at home, so now there are the
Moz Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (e-mail), Sunbird (calendar), and Lightning
(calendar/address book synchro, I think) projects; you can also still get the
entire package at once. You can read more about Mozilla at
http://www.mozilla.org/about/ ; there's probably a link to a page about the
history of the Mozilla project around there somewhere, although I don't see
it.
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cross
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response 134 of 219:
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Jan 7 04:02 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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tsty
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response 135 of 219:
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Jan 9 08:49 UTC 2005 |
re 128 .. thakxx rcurl.
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naftee
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response 136 of 219:
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Jan 12 03:56 UTC 2005 |
http://www.omegahat.org/rcurl/
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rcurl
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response 137 of 219:
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Jan 12 06:24 UTC 2005 |
It seems to be case sensitive. Try http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
I suppose, eventually, everyone here will be a Package...
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albaugh
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response 138 of 219:
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Jan 12 18:22 UTC 2005 |
For users of "mail", here is something I discovered is different about the
mail program on nextgrex:
R [message list] reply to message sender(s).
r [message list] reply to message sender(s) and all recipients.
Use of just lower case "r" annoyingly adds you (the recipient) to the reply
distribution. Use capital R instead.
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naftee
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response 139 of 219:
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Jan 13 05:12 UTC 2005 |
re 137 Yeah, whoops. Silly me for thinking all URLs were not case-sensitive.
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juicy
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response 140 of 219:
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Jan 13 06:02 UTC 2005 |
nope, just the domain.
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gelinas
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response 141 of 219:
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Jan 21 23:56 UTC 2005 |
Grex will be unavailable from 12:00 to approximately 15:00 tomorrow,
22 January 2005, while it is moved from the Pumpkin to provide.net.
The old machine will move back to its old IP address, but logins (and mail)
will be disabled; it is moving back to provide DNS service for our domain
until our domain registration is updated.
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mfp
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response 142 of 219:
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Jan 22 01:02 UTC 2005 |
pwho
bbs
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pwho
bbs
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pwho
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keesan
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response 143 of 219:
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Jan 22 04:39 UTC 2005 |
Does this mean grex will be available via the website using the old machine?
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gelinas
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response 144 of 219:
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Jan 22 05:04 UTC 2005 |
I don't quite see how you reached that conclusion, but no: www.cyberspace is
an alias for grex.cyberspace, and so will move along with grex. I mentioned
logins because _some_people will probably try to connect by IP address
instead of domain name.
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keesan
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response 145 of 219:
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Jan 22 05:18 UTC 2005 |
Why is it not possible to hook up the old grex to the same ISP connection and
DSL modem to check if the problem is in the computer or in something else
(such as the DSL modem or the connection to the ISP)? Would this interfere
with using it as a DNS server? And why do we need a DNS server if grex is
not working?
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gelinas
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response 146 of 219:
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Jan 22 06:20 UTC 2005 |
oldGrex _is_ on the same connection as the current grex. I log into it
regularly. However, since I'm the only user, there is not much going on.
There are other machines on the network as well, which other staff members
use regularly. They have mentioned seeing similar behaviour there.
We need a DNS server so that people can find our machine by its name. This
is one of the functions of the main machine. However, DNS "bootstraps" from
an IP address. Right now, that IP address is 216.93.104.34. Until I can get
the new IP address registered, and so get the 'bootstrap' fixed, we have to
keep a DNS server running on the old address.
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keesan
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response 147 of 219:
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Jan 22 11:54 UTC 2005 |
Similar or ientical behavior? Could we have two different problems at once?
The old problem was 2 minute freezes every few minutes. This is 10 sec
freezes every couple seconds. The old problem occurred during telnet, not
dialup. What is the motehrboard maker and model? Please email
keesan@freeshell.org
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gelinas
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response 148 of 219:
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Jan 22 21:11 UTC 2005 |
ASUS, and I looked at the capacitors; they are fine.
Grex is now in the new location.
It will take a bit longer to get the dial-ins re-directed.
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naftee
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response 149 of 219:
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Jan 23 02:17 UTC 2005 |
gelinas, why don't you refer ms. keesan to a text on networking, and save
yourself some time and energy? I hate to see you stressing out.
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gull
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response 150 of 219:
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Jan 23 22:36 UTC 2005 |
Everything is nice and fast now. Good work.
I was a little confused yesterday when I connected via dialin and got
something like this after logging in:
This is _NOT_ Grex. Use the domain name, not the IP address.
Dialin Users
NO CARRIER
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keesan
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response 151 of 219:
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Jan 23 23:23 UTC 2005 |
Ssh connection is nearly instant. Telnet not working, but it worked this
morning, very slowly.
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naftee
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response 152 of 219:
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Jan 24 02:16 UTC 2005 |
Just re-booted.
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keesan
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response 153 of 219:
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Jan 24 04:10 UTC 2005 |
Telnet and pine are working again but I have not received any mail for a few
hours except something from grex. I would have expected 10 spams in this
period.
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gelinas
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response 154 of 219:
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Jan 25 18:44 UTC 2005 |
Grex panicked and did not reboot itself Monday evening.
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gelinas
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response 155 of 219:
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Jan 25 18:49 UTC 2005 |
I think I fixed the terminal server to connect to the new machine last night,
so dial-in should be working again.
I also think I fixed the web proxy to accept requests from the new machine.
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scholar
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response 156 of 219:
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Jan 25 19:30 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, Joe!
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keesan
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response 157 of 219:
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Jan 26 03:15 UTC 2005 |
What does 'grex panicked' mean in more technical terms? Is this some odd
hardware problem or a response to something done to the software?
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