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Grex > Coop > #284: Grex Town Hall -- How do we move forward? - Fall, 2010 |  |
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cross
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response 308 of 334:
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Dec 15 18:29 UTC 2010 |
resp:307 I've seen no evidence that validation will kill us, and lots of
evidence that it won't. Like, the fact that almost all other similar services
do some form of validation.
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cross
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response 309 of 334:
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Dec 15 18:36 UTC 2010 |
resp:307 Same errors. Do you have the <div id="pagefooter"> stuff in your
client?
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veek
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response 310 of 334:
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Dec 15 18:45 UTC 2010 |
yeah! pagefooter is okay right??? i thought it was the revision tags..
but yeah rev tags are there as well in some of those docs.. let me
check.. i got to sleep, tomorrow!
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veek
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response 311 of 334:
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Dec 15 18:47 UTC 2010 |
resp:308 yeah, but SDF is already established with a decent user-base..
oh well, try and see.. and you have smj constantly adding new features..
but really it's the regulars in com(party) that keep that place running
(chicks).
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cross
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response 312 of 334:
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Dec 15 18:56 UTC 2010 |
resp:311 We add a lot of new features, too; just that no one pays much
attention and we don't advertise them. And Grex used to have a
well-established, large userbase as well: we lost that over time through
neglect.
Really, we need to fix the advertising and neglect thing before the restricted
shell. And note that SDF has a restricted shell as well.
resp:310 Yeah, pagefooter should be there. I don't see the Id stuff in the
rejection chunks. I do see that it wants to change "pagefooter" back to
"footer", which is clearly wrong.
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veek
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response 313 of 334:
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Dec 15 19:14 UTC 2010 |
resp:312 yeah.. that's true.. Grex is way better than SDF (imo)! I like the
crowd on SDF but I dislike SDF itself.. i'd be pretty happy if they all
moved here and left smj where he is. Adverts is fixed! flyer is ready for
printing.. only the hacker.gif image may be copy-protected.. i just bummed
that from somewhere.. maybe i'll ask my younger sib to draw it..
hmm.. well i'll try and install svn-server and try to replicate stuff..
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kentn
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response 314 of 334:
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Dec 15 19:55 UTC 2010 |
I'm working on a web page that lists the software we have installed.
Unfortunately, I can't work on it right now (later, yes) and of course,
it'll be an on-going maintenance issue if we put in which version we
have, so I'm thinking it might be best to leave that out for now. I've
looked at a couple sites that list what we have and I didn't have time
look into what it takes to make an update (that is, it isn't always
obvious or easy to update some of those sites for our information, so
would probably call for an e-mail to the admin on those sites. And of
course, since year's Board is not in our web site, it's hard to prove I
have the right to change things.).
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kentn
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response 315 of 334:
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Dec 15 19:58 UTC 2010 |
s/since year's/since this year's/
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jgelinas
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response 316 of 334:
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Dec 15 20:29 UTC 2010 |
(I *really* miss command-line access.)
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kentn
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response 317 of 334:
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Dec 15 21:17 UTC 2010 |
What sort of commands are you missing on the web here?
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jgelinas
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response 318 of 334:
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Dec 15 21:32 UTC 2010 |
Updating text files, like the one that contains the history of board
membership.
And if I could use svn or the like, I would have command-line access to
grex, and so wouldn't need them.
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kentn
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response 319 of 334:
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Dec 16 00:27 UTC 2010 |
As I recall, your situation is not the easiest to fix, though if we had
a java-based SSH client on the Grex web page, you'd probably be pretty
close (though I'm still not sure if that would meet your requirements).
I suppose we could put in a web-based svn clent, too, for that matter.
If it would work to edit files, it'd be okay, again, though I'm not sure
that any allow that without downloading a file to your local machine.
The ones I've seen just let you browse/view. If you had a secure
command line, though, you could just use svn that way.
Sounds like we might need a staff site that has the tools needed for
this kind work (or an area of our main site that is only open to staff).
This would be handy for staff who don't have their own computer handy,
as long as they can find a web-browser. ...just some ideas.
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veek
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response 320 of 334:
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Dec 16 02:26 UTC 2010 |
arbornet has a java client.. you could bunny-hop??
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kentn
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response 321 of 334:
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Dec 16 02:48 UTC 2010 |
Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing.
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kentn
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response 322 of 334:
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Dec 16 02:56 UTC 2010 |
Yup, hopping worked for me.
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cross
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response 323 of 334:
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Dec 16 10:02 UTC 2010 |
The mindterm client is installed on Grex.
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veek
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response 324 of 334:
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Dec 16 12:33 UTC 2010 |
patch please ~veek/latest.diff [ i hope it works ]
I stripped the $Id stuff out; couldn't create my own private repo to
fool around with and verify for sure.. need more time to do that.
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kentn
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response 325 of 334:
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Dec 16 13:33 UTC 2010 |
http://grex.org/mindterm/applet.html works, with some license accepting,
to give a commandline on grex. There are quite a few options for this
terminal, too.
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tsty
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response 326 of 334:
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Dec 18 07:51 UTC 2010 |
re 325 .. retty neat but tehereare is a starnge situation.
somehow, 'it' deciceded who i was --- in advance!
and it was wroing
also it capitalized the first letter of the loginid , which of cours is not
correct. i was able to change the logoind to muself and login though.
yeh, the licensing/security cert (whatever) needs to be 'accepted' but that;s
not biggie.
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kentn
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response 327 of 334:
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Dec 18 15:28 UTC 2010 |
So, basicaly, it works just fine and all these gripes are minor. I
don't see where most people would be confused at all.
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veek
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response 328 of 334:
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Dec 19 04:03 UTC 2010 |
could someone try that patch? ~veek/latest.diff
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cross
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response 329 of 334:
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Dec 19 04:17 UTC 2010 |
resp:326 What kind of computer are you using at home? It probably picked
up your login ID from that.
resp:328 I'm not going to do that while I'm in India. Sorry.
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cross
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response 330 of 334:
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Dec 19 04:21 UTC 2010 |
(Though someone else can if they like. Updating web pages is fairly easy;
sync your web client,
1. cd <wherever>/grex/web/htdocs
2. svn update
3. patch --posix < ~veek/latest.diff
[Make sure nothing gets rejected]
4. svn status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs xmlwf
5. [look at the changes to make sure they are okay]
6. svn commit
7. ../tools/syncweb
And that's it.)
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kentn
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response 331 of 334:
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Dec 19 05:20 UTC 2010 |
Thanks for the list of things that need to be done to make it work, Dan.
As for the Mindterm, yes, it picks up your userid from your computer
where you're running the term. It's not a big deal.
It actually is a pretty decent terminal with a lot of options. We
should consider putting it on the web page where more people can try
it out (hopefully without all the licensing questions).
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yecril71pl
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response 332 of 334:
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Dec 21 21:54 UTC 2010 |
How about S/MIME validation? Like the new user is considered valid when they
can sign a message to Grex?
FTR, my primary purpose here is shell, especially emacs, not BBS. I do have
a regular shell account at my alma mater but they require SSH whereas Grex
still accepts telnet, which is a great thing when all you have is some random
M$ crapware. (Yes, I know what putty is, so save yourself that explanation.)
The rules against fiddling with open source projects are a little upsetting,
but it is still a great place to test your raw ideas :-)
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