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janc
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response 139 of 175:
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Dec 16 16:39 UTC 1998 |
Cool. Thanks to all those who supported me.
Looking at these results, I find myself simultaneously pleased that
John and Steve got elected, and regretting that some of the other, very
able people without so long a Grex history didn't get elected.
Obviously we need to increase the size of the board. The only way I
could find to vote for all the other candidates I really wanted to see
on the board was by not voting for myself. Oh well. Thanks so much to
those who ran but didn't get elected. I respect your devotion to Grex
and your willingness to help.
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remmers
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response 140 of 175:
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Dec 16 16:52 UTC 1998 |
REMINDER: Wednesday December 16 is the LAST DAY TO VOTE on the proposal
for Grex to endorse the Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom. The
polls will close at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. See Item 43 in the
Coop conference (item:coop,43) for discussion of the proposal.
To vote, you must telnet or dial direct to Grex and type one of:
propvote -at a Unix shell prompt
!propvote -at a menu or bbs prompt
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keesan
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response 141 of 175:
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Dec 16 17:48 UTC 1998 |
Only 117 member votes for 3 positions is about 39 voters, under 50%.
How does this compare with US presidential elections?
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steve
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response 142 of 175:
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Dec 16 21:18 UTC 1998 |
We were briefly bothered by a forkish bomb again today, from a
different domain than the last couple. I've sent mail and have
talked on the phone with an administrator from the offending site.
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remmers
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response 143 of 175:
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Dec 17 10:47 UTC 1998 |
RESULTS of vote on the motion that Grex support the Blue Ribbon
Campaign for Online Freedom.
Members:
27 YES
5 NO
The proposal PASSED.
Unofficial non-member vote:
43 YES
3 NO
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gregb
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response 144 of 175:
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Dec 17 13:50 UTC 1998 |
Congrats to janc, steve and remmers!
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steve
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response 145 of 175:
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Dec 17 16:24 UTC 1998 |
Rebooted Grex today, to make effective yet another change to
perhaps make Grex a little better at dealing with fork bombs.
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steve
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response 146 of 175:
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Dec 18 05:35 UTC 1998 |
For the third time in Grex's history we've "rewound" uid's
in the passwd file.
Since the highest number uid (user id) we can have is 65,536
we've had to recycle uids when we've gotten near the end of the
uid limit. This morning just a few minutes past mightnight, the
uid count got to 65,501 so I changed newuser to start using uid
10,000 as we have in the past, but with a new "group" id, which
is 53.
Back in the olden days (ha!) all accounts were in group 50,
called people. Then came group 51, "foks" and then group 52
called "beings". Today we're at group 53 which is called
"humans".
Here's a history of the groups:
Group Date Started
50 (people) 06-jun-91
51 (folks) 24-nov-96
52 (beings) 10-mar-98
53 (humans) 18-dec-98
We've had about 162,000 accounts created on Grex now. Gosh,
I think its time for me to do another strange statistics item
about Grex's accounts...
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rcurl
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response 147 of 175:
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Dec 18 17:23 UTC 1998 |
Pretty quiet right now:
Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Location Work Phone
gal Terri Lynn qb Dec 18 11:59 Ypsilanti q
keesan C. Keesan *p1 Dec 18 11:57
rcurl Rane Curl *r4 Dec 18 12:21
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keesan
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response 148 of 175:
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Dec 18 17:35 UTC 1998 |
Hi Rane, is the telnet connection down again? Jim says hi, too.
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steve
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response 149 of 175:
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Dec 18 19:30 UTC 1998 |
Grex's net connection has been acting strangely since about 5am this
morning. Technically, our ISDN connection is just fine, but a router
"upwind" of Grex (or something like that) has been intermittant.
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keesan
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response 150 of 175:
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Dec 18 20:03 UTC 1998 |
Long delays in emailing short files.
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jep
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response 151 of 175:
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Dec 18 20:20 UTC 1998 |
I've gotten some weird delays using Backtalk, also.
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remmers
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response 152 of 175:
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Dec 18 21:50 UTC 1998 |
Seems to be okay at the moment.
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gregb
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response 153 of 175:
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Dec 19 03:48 UTC 1998 |
I was on this morning when it went deep-six. Right in the middle of
composing a msg. too. I tried for a couple hours after that, but no
dice. Glad to see it back up.
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steve
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response 154 of 175:
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Dec 19 05:02 UTC 1998 |
We've been stable for many hours now. With luck we won't have that
for a nice long while.
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other
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response 155 of 175:
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Dec 19 05:14 UTC 1998 |
greg, look in your home directory for a file called dead.letter which will
have the text you put into the message when your login disconnected.
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rcurl
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response 156 of 175:
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Dec 19 05:16 UTC 1998 |
Now, Merit is not authenticating. Doesn't seem to affect the load here.
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aruba
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response 157 of 175:
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Dec 19 05:24 UTC 1998 |
Everyone please come check out the auction! We're up to 32 new items.
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gregb
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response 158 of 175:
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Dec 19 22:12 UTC 1998 |
Re. 155: Thanx, other.
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steve
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response 159 of 175:
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Dec 20 23:06 UTC 1998 |
We now have possesion of one of the Sun-4/690 computers that
have been donated to us. It's... beautiful, and *heavy*. We have
the "card cage" which can hold up to 16 cards, and the CPU card.
Missing, but coming to us are the CPU modules themselves. All the
system needs is memory and 220V power to run.
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senna
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response 160 of 175:
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Dec 20 23:38 UTC 1998 |
Do we have any tasks earmarked for this thing?
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steve
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response 161 of 175:
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Dec 21 00:58 UTC 1998 |
Well, its most of what we need to create a second CPU. Before we
got this system, if Grex's motherboard died, we'd be dead 'till we
went out and bought a 'new' 670 motherboard. Now, we have a new
motherboard such that we have a backup. We have backups for just
about everything else, and not having that for the motherboard was
troublesome. We'd been looking for "cheap" motherboards, and we
were in the process of negociating for a $400 - $500 one when we
got offers for *two* such systems or parts.
Once we get the second present (which includes 128M of SIMMs)
from California (cards, cpu modles, memory) we'll be able to
build up a system and test it. That should hopefully give us two
working motherboards, one set of CPU's and a batch of memory.
We'll test them out on the old Sun-4/260 chassis, and then we'll
know that we have a backup for Grex which will let me sleep better
at night (I actually had a dream about not having backup hardware).
We also have a second set of CPU modules on the way, we think,
such that if we get more memory we could have two Sun-4/670's
with a backup unit.
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wgm
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response 162 of 175:
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Dec 21 02:02 UTC 1998 |
Is there likely to be a problem with wiring in a 220V circuit from the circuit
box? Any idea what amperage the service is and how much the current equipment
draws?
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steve
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response 163 of 175:
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Dec 21 02:40 UTC 1998 |
There are several options on the 220V power supply. I've used step-up
transformers before with success. The other would be to get a 220 line
brought into the pumpkin, and the third is to not worry about getting 220
installed, as we have other chassis in which to run another Sun-4/670.
We still have a couple of the Sun-3 chassis, one of which was the
Sun-4/260 we used for several years. Chassis we got lots of. ;-)
The other possibility is to get a 110V power supply. One of the
neat things about this hardware we just got is the fact that things
are modular. The power supply looks like a square-ish suitcase, and
plugs into the main box. I *think* there is a 110V version that was
made for smaller installaions but I'm not sure about that.
The power supply needs a maximum of 1200w or about 5A at 220V.
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