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adbarr
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response 225 of 239:
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Mar 5 03:49 UTC 1996 |
My finger is poised . . .
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davel
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response 226 of 239:
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Mar 5 11:08 UTC 1996 |
Jump! Jump! Jump!
(Oops. Wrong scene.)
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tsty
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response 227 of 239:
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Mar 11 08:38 UTC 1996 |
welll, tail fo /etc/passwd shows that ther 42,000+ login has been
created ...
and that almost 12000 logins still exist.....
Frankly i'd say that it's about time to "grow" into a Sun 4 ...but when?
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carson
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response 228 of 239:
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Mar 12 12:15 UTC 1996 |
soon... my child... you must have patience.... may the force be with you...
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popcorn
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response 229 of 239:
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Mar 12 13:38 UTC 1996 |
Maybe somewhat sooner, as of yesterday. Yesterday a number of staffers (not
me) moved the Sun 4 from gregc's house to the dungeon. This is a major
milestone in getting Grex onto the Sun 4. Cool beans!
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tsty
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response 230 of 239:
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Mar 13 08:27 UTC 1996 |
<<i do ahve a way of delivering set-up lines ...<g> >> COOL!
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steve
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response 231 of 239:
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Mar 13 16:17 UTC 1996 |
I'm testing things right now. It's looking really good.
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scg
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response 232 of 239:
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Mar 14 07:37 UTC 1996 |
We decided at the staff meeting tonight to switch to the Sun 4 this weekend.
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carson
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response 233 of 239:
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Mar 16 03:55 UTC 1996 |
I was just thinking on gregc's argument about party usage and conference
usage and the analogies drawn... but isn't the largest drain on Grex
neither party nor PicoSpan, but rather mail? and isn't mail a series
of letters?
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dadroc
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response 234 of 239:
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Aug 7 14:33 UTC 1996 |
The system has too many people on it. The time to do a 'b' is
way too long. Last year cranking up the telnet ports made sense,
this year it is just a pain. Going for a bigger 'Look who is on'
item is stupid.
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adbarr
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response 235 of 239:
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Aug 13 22:44 UTC 1996 |
A reason to support the system?
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tsty
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response 236 of 239:
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Aug 14 09:20 UTC 1996 |
... from teh telnet clientele this time.
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bmoran
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response 237 of 239:
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Nov 8 15:38 UTC 1996 |
Well, we've moved twice since this item started. And we're now on the
sun4. And there is now talk of a fundraiser for a T1 line. A lot of
activity for just under a year.
Now, I do check my mail as soon as I log on, but I always check what's new
in the .cfs. The community is the important part of grex to me. How big
grex can get and still keep the sense of community is the big question.
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mta
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response 238 of 239:
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Nov 8 23:02 UTC 1996 |
That's true, but as a reference point, we're already far larger than any of
the original founders ever though likely. (Or that's my impression, anyway.)
And with each step someone predicts the end of GREXes sense of being a
community -- but so far that doesn't seem to have happened.
I think growing too quickly could certainly be the death knell of a sense of
community on GREX, but I think if we take care to grow as a measured pace,
and take care to nurture our sense of community, we'll be able to grow and
change without losing the flavour that makes us GREX.
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scg
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response 239 of 239:
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Nov 9 00:31 UTC 1996 |
I used to think that Grex was wonderful when it was small, because it was
small. Back in the days when Grex had no Internet connection and only six
dial-up lines, I was upset at the prospect of opening newuser to the entire
world through the Internet. I remember thinking that newuser should only be
runnable on the dial-ups, so that while the Internet connection would be
useful for gettnig out, and for local people who were temporarally out of town
to telnet in, we wouldn't get any of those non Ann Arbor people on Grex.
M-Net was a big unfriendly system, while Grex, with only six users at a time,
was the small friendly system. So, I understand that viewpoint. I also now
understand that I was wrong then.
Grex has handled its growth quite well, I think. We've managed to keep our
sense of community and our interesting discussions, while bringin in a much
bigger variety of people. Many of the people I consider to be my best friends
are people in far away places who I never would have met if Grex hadn't had
the Internet connection, open for anybody who wanted to to come in and use
us. We need to be careful about growth, making sure we have the resources
to handle it, but so far I think we've gotten lots of positive things out of
growing the system, with very few negatives.
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