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scott
response 291 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 15 12:20 UTC 2004

The backtalk2 conf userlist is people who were staff back then, for the
original Backtalk testing.  Guess that ought to be fixed.
soup
response 292 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 15 13:00 UTC 2004

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twenex
response 293 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 15 13:38 UTC 2004

Re: #290. I regret to announce I can't corroborate this problem, except once,
when it *might* have been my typying that caused the problem anyway.
gelinas
response 294 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 15 14:10 UTC 2004

pfv, when that happens to me, it usually means that one (or more) of the keys
on my keyboard is sticking.
gull
response 295 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 16 01:30 UTC 2004

I've seen it happen when something was wrong with Grex that was causing
Backtalk's login routine to time out.
tsty
response 296 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 16 01:54 UTC 2004

third time through,.... damn disconnects!
drew
response 297 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 17 20:28 UTC 2004

Why does SSH keep dropping my connection? Once in a while is tolerable but
this is getting out of hand!
krj
response 298 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 17 21:37 UTC 2004

Telnet connections are pausing frequently enough that Grex is only
marginally useful.  The party log should show lots of complaints.
mcnally
response 299 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 17 21:50 UTC 2004

  It is a serious problem, and probably deserves to be top priority as
  soon as a staff person has time.
gelinas
response 300 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 17 22:31 UTC 2004

(I think we are waiting the delivery of a DSL modem.)
keesan
response 301 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 18 00:30 UTC 2004

I was unable to telnet in.  I have been telnetting because the dialin
connection keeps freezing up for 1-2 minutes, and it is quicker to untelnet
and telnet back than to dial again.  
albaugh
response 302 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 18 03:40 UTC 2004

If the problem is definitely the DSL modem, and it's just a matter of waiting
until the replacement arrives, then I will hold my tongue and try to be
patient...
tsty
response 303 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 18 04:13 UTC 2004

glad the problem has been identified and conrrectins are on the way.
charcat
response 304 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 18 04:39 UTC 2004

Thanks for the information gelinas, I was wondering also.
rcurl
response 305 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 19 17:27 UTC 2004

  1:19pm  up 29 days, 15:38,  5 users,  load average: 0.41, 0.41, 0.28
Login      Name               TTY  Idle  Login Time   Location   Work Phone
amishel  anton mishel          p5    4d  May 15 02:31
newuser  The Newuser Program   p0   17d  Apr 24 13:51
rcurl    Rane Curl            *pe        May 19 13:19
sgsg     sg                    p6   19d  Apr 30 08:12
viju     Johnson               p8    1d  May 18 02:28

Net connection down. But shouldn't the idle zapper have zapped some of
those idlers? 
kip
response 306 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 19 18:19 UTC 2004

Haven't worked with the idle zapper yet, not sure, would think so.

DSL back up.  I'll be trying out the replacement DSL modem after work today
twenex
response 307 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 19 19:19 UTC 2004

Patience? What patience? ;-P
kip
response 308 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 19 23:26 UTC 2004

On the DSL news front, I tried out the new modem, but it remained in IDSL
mode and wouldn't connect to our SDSL connection.  I'm taking it home and will
reread the manual to see what I missed.

Also, our old DSL modem managed to lock up starting about 1:00am EDT today,
I didn't get a chance to run down to the Pumpkin until about 2:00pm to kick
it.  Amusingly, the stats for the old modem from 2:15pm to 7:00pm, when I
disconnected it to try the new modem, were perfect with no errors what so ever.

Did anyone happen to notice if they had lag between 2:15pm and 7:00pm today?
I'm still talking to our ISP in case it turns out to be the line.  :)
mcnally
response 309 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 00:28 UTC 2004

  If the new DSL modem isn't linking to the provider's DSLAM it's probably
  because you need information about what settings to use;  hopefully the
  provider can provide them if they haven't already done so.

  I'm not sure what information you have about the connection already but
  DSL comes in a pretty wide range of flavors, including different line
  codings, different protocols, different authentication specifications,
  etc..  It's not realistic to just plug in a DSL modem and expect it to
  work without knowing more about your provider's setup.  

  Most probably you already knew all that, but I mention it just in case
  you didn't.  DSL is unfortunately not as "plug and play" as many other
  networking technologies.
achu
response 310 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 00:32 UTC 2004

in ancient china, communications took a different route.

everyone knows about the chinese pea shooters that young boys like to wield.

but where did this enwielding custom come from?

it came from a sort of training.  in ancient days, the land of china was
covered by vast networks of bamboo connecting post offices in cities towns
and villages to other post offices in other ctvs.  messages would be
transported pneumatically by blowing strongly into one endexpress mail was
also sucked.  the people learned how to do this by first practicing with pea
shooters.
twenex
response 311 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 03:05 UTC 2004

After a fairly long hiatus, grex connectivity problems are back.

Welcome to Grex, Lagadelphia - City of Brotherly Lag.
tsty
response 312 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 03:50 UTC 2004

.. not right now ... someting is going right .. for the moment.
tod
response 313 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 17:07 UTC 2004

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mcnally
response 314 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 18:05 UTC 2004

  Admittedly, even after most of a year working for a DSL provider
  I haven't mastered a good deal of the lingo (the telco side being
  perhaps even worse than the computer side for having its own 
  vocabulary) but at least as I have usually heard them used, "ADSL"
  vs "SDSL" shouldn't matter.  The "A" and the "S" stand for 
  "asymmetric" and "symmetric" and refer basically to the upload and
  download speeds.  Those aren't generally things that need to be set
  up in the customer's modem, they're more usually limited by the 
  provider at the DSLAM.

  I won't know the specifics for your DSL provider but it's possible
  I can still provide advice on the DSL issue.  Don't hesitate to ask
  if you need assistance..
twenex
response 315 of 405: Mark Unseen   May 20 18:08 UTC 2004

Re: #314. Yeah; people who complain about computers being hard to use wuold
be totally lost in the telephone world if what i've seen of it is anything
to go by. As a self-confessed geek, the stories in Levy's HACKERS about theMIT
Hackers who engaged in phreaking struck me as really nerdy. Yes, I can smell
the irony right here. It's burning my butt.
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