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Grex > Helpers > #122: Grex System Announcements - Fall 2003 |  |
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scott
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response 37 of 68:
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Oct 27 17:33 UTC 2003 |
who | grep 216.93.104.37
will give a list of people currently dialed in, and from there you can guess
whether you successfully trunk-hunted.
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aruba
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response 38 of 68:
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Oct 27 21:15 UTC 2003 |
Or you can dial 761-3000 with one phone, and dial it again with another.
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keesan
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response 39 of 68:
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Oct 28 15:58 UTC 2003 |
All my items are almost new again - they start at response 6, for instance,
instead of 38. I am typing in 38 to go to the end. What might have caused
this?
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mcnally
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response 40 of 68:
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Oct 28 17:08 UTC 2003 |
The /a partition, which contains your home directory, was temporarily
full yesterday. Perhaps your conference participation file was
corrupted when picospan tried (and failed) to write it to a full
filesystem? (Just a guess and probably not a good one -- disk full
errors occur so frequently on Grex (and before that, on M-Net) that
I'd imagine picospan has to have a fairly robust way to deal with them.)
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aruba
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response 41 of 68:
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Oct 28 17:10 UTC 2003 |
No, I think that's exactly what happened to Sindi, and to me.
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gull
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response 42 of 68:
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Oct 28 18:33 UTC 2003 |
No, you're right, Mike. Picospan doesn't handle it gracefully at all --
it truncates the participation file.
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keesan
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response 43 of 68:
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Oct 28 21:14 UTC 2003 |
I recall seeing something about /a being full yesterday, thanks.
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galagie
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response 44 of 68:
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Nov 4 08:05 UTC 2003 |
/d is almost full, too
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mynxcat
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response 45 of 68:
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Nov 4 17:40 UTC 2003 |
The motd says Happy Diwali 2002. First, it's not 2002. Second, this
year Diwali was on October 25th. Just an observation.
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micklpkl
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response 46 of 68:
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Nov 4 18:56 UTC 2003 |
I noticed this same thing. What is up with the birthday list in the
motd? I see several birthdays listed for users that haven't used the
system in ages (like griz), and many of us that came by Grex later in
life aren't ever listed (like myself, for one). Does one have to be in
the "inner circle" to matter?
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mcnally
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response 47 of 68:
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Nov 4 19:03 UTC 2003 |
No, but you probably have to provide someone with your birthday..
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mynxcat
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response 48 of 68:
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Nov 4 19:30 UTC 2003 |
Who do we provide that information to? I thought they picked it off
your plan. Or did they run some kind of program at one point and then
never ran it again. So now we're not on the list. so what gives?
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scott
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response 49 of 68:
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Nov 4 20:34 UTC 2003 |
Valerie handles the birthday list, but with kids and all she's probably not
had much time to clean it.
Send email to valerie if you want to add your bday.
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anderyn
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response 50 of 68:
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Nov 4 22:01 UTC 2003 |
I complained and got told to send email, and that's how I got on. Bruce still
isn't on, afaik.
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tod
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response 51 of 68:
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Nov 4 23:43 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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bhoward
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response 52 of 68:
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Nov 5 00:52 UTC 2003 |
Whadya mean? I am too there:
;: grex; grep bhoward /usr/local/etc/birthday.list
May 29 Happy Birthday Bruce (bhoward) Howard!
;: grex;
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remmers
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response 53 of 68:
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Nov 5 13:12 UTC 2003 |
It's probably a good thing that birthday list is opt-in, not opt-out.
Some folks might not want their birthdays, or their presence on Grex,
publicized in the motd. Besides, in view of the fact that people can
edit their .plan files in arbitrary ways, culling birthdays from .plan's
poses some technical problems.
Anyway, now you know how to get on the birthday list, and how to view
your birthday entry.
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willcome
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response 54 of 68:
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Nov 5 16:30 UTC 2003 |
Thanks, remmers!
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tod
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response 55 of 68:
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Nov 5 18:14 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 56 of 68:
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Nov 5 19:22 UTC 2003 |
See response #49.
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valerie
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response 57 of 68:
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Nov 8 04:37 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 58 of 68:
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Nov 8 14:55 UTC 2003 |
Don't be too sure of that last. Grex is as susceptible to haunting as
anyplace else.
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ea
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response 59 of 68:
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Nov 9 16:53 UTC 2003 |
re #57, 58 - are you saying that Grex is like the Hotel California? You
can check out any time you like, but you can never leave? ;)
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bhoward
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response 60 of 68:
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Nov 10 00:54 UTC 2003 |
...And He Ought To Know.
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gregb
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response 61 of 68:
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Nov 20 18:25 UTC 2003 |
Re. 57: This is true. I've been in and out of here
several times with spans that'ov lasted over a year!
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