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keesan
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response 70 of 306:
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Apr 1 16:57 UTC 1998 |
Today when I dialed in to check my mail with pine, and hit i, I got
inbox opened with 18 then a division sign and I was disconnected.
Seems to be a bit crowded at the moment, as when I redialed I had to wait for
a free conference (conference? does this have two meanings?).
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olddraco
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response 71 of 306:
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Apr 1 17:02 UTC 1998 |
Typical. .yeswrite files and its opposite .nowrite don't pay attention
to people you haven't already sent a tel to. I didn't send a tel to
the user therefore the .yeswrite file shouldn't have passed it. But
also typical is the arrogance of the staff. I will remember and not
make the same mistake twice.
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jep
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response 72 of 306:
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Apr 1 17:19 UTC 1998 |
Backtalk is working again.
The backtalk images are small, and wouldn't be much of a space or
bandwidth problem for Grex. I occasionally see annoying delays caused
by having the images on hvcn.org. If Grex is down, then it's down and
neither images nor text will load. If Grex is up, but hvcn.org is down,
slow or having problems, then there are annoying little problems. I
don't see a downside to having the images load from Grex, instead of
hvcn.org. It would be an improvement for Backtalk users.
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janc
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response 73 of 306:
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Apr 1 17:27 UTC 1998 |
Which response are you unhappy with? Steve's double-checking that you really
had set "mesg ne"? Lots of people make the mistake of thinking that creating
a .nowrite file alone is all that is needed. It's not even a stupid mistake.
It's certainly the most common reason for problems like this.
Or are you unhappy with my saying that I didn't plan to fix the bug? There
are probably hundreds of things on my list of things to do for Grex. I have
to prioritize them. This one requires about a days work, fixes a rather
small bug, slows all write connects down noticably, and doesn't strike me as
any fun. That puts it pretty far down the priority list. Far enough so that
the only way it is ever going to happen is if I'm working on some other bug
or adding some other feature into the same part of the program. I don't
anticipate anything like that. There probably aren't going to be many
changes to write in the near future. The only reasonably high priority thing
on the To Do list for write is integrating then .nowrite logic and such like
stuff into talk/ntalk. That's likely to be a real nightmare, and isn't likely
to happen any time soon. My priorities right now are 501(c)3 paperwork and
Backtalk.
What kind of non-arrogant response would you like to see from us?
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janc
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response 74 of 306:
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Apr 1 17:31 UTC 1998 |
Jep slipped in. One thing I'd like to do someday is let users set their own
image host. That way they could download a package of images onto their own
machines, unpack it into a directory on their machine (say /btimage) and set
the image host to "file:/btimage". That way all button images would be stored
locally and would have to be fetched across the net at all. The only catch
is that it becomes hard for me to chagne the images - everyone has to download
a new set.
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albaugh
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response 75 of 306:
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Apr 1 18:13 UTC 1998 |
Has the "more" program been changed recently? It no longer works on multiple
files - only the last one is more'd. What should happen is that if there are
multiple files in the file spec, each one is preceded by its name, and more
pauses at the end of each file. At least that's how it works on other UNIX
systems. I thought it worked that way on grex too. Anyone know what's up?
The current more is pretty useless, worse than cat... :-(
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valerie
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response 76 of 306:
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Apr 1 19:05 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 77 of 306:
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Apr 1 19:09 UTC 1998 |
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jep
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response 78 of 306:
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Apr 1 19:17 UTC 1998 |
Jan, is there some appropriate forum for talking about Backtalk issues?
I haven't seen anything in the conferences I read, but I'd be willing to
add another conference to my list. From time to time I have ideas,
which I'd be happy to post somewhere. In the past I've e-mailed you and
srw, or (more often) forgotten them.
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valerie
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response 79 of 306:
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Apr 1 19:21 UTC 1998 |
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carson
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response 80 of 306:
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Apr 1 19:22 UTC 1998 |
(I think the Backtalk conference is fairly appropriate. I asked a
question there once, and received an answer. it's also fairly low
traffic, from what I could tell.)
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gibson
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response 81 of 306:
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Apr 1 21:50 UTC 1998 |
Just now, in the middle of an entry, i was bumped to the login screen.
After logging in twice i was dumped. Any ideas why.
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jared
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response 82 of 306:
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Apr 2 00:20 UTC 1998 |
The question mark doesn't work properly while entering agora:
Waiting for a free conference (? for help)
...5618
...5617
...5616
...5615
?...5614
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keesan
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response 83 of 306:
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Apr 2 01:49 UTC 1998 |
This time I got into Pine okay, including the inbox, but two times out of
three as soon as I hit Ctl-X to send a message, I was disconnected. ANd the
other tiem (second of three) I was only allowed to write three lines and then
got the message a:/write failed, file system is full. I noticed that I had
20 messages (most just arrived). Could that be creating a problem? When I
try to answer them I get dumped. Or is the April fools programming spilling
over into odd places?
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keesan
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response 84 of 306:
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Apr 2 01:52 UTC 1998 |
Where have all the flowers gone? Make that three times out of four, this time
was when I pressed y to continued an interruped composed message. Do I have
to delete all my messages before answering them?
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keesan
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response 85 of 306:
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Apr 2 01:57 UTC 1998 |
This time I was reading and deleting messages, and in the middle of reading
the third one, I got disconnected. If this is a joke, please desist.
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keesan
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response 86 of 306:
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Apr 2 03:14 UTC 1998 |
This time I got disconnected as soon as I hit C for compose, and I am down
to 9 messagesin the mail file, but one of them is 14 K and binary. WOuld this
cause all these problems? It was working earlier with the same file there.
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i
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response 87 of 306:
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Apr 2 03:42 UTC 1998 |
I got what seemed to be very bad line noise calling -3000 earlier (the
connection died before i could log in). No problem calling back.
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valerie
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response 88 of 306:
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Apr 2 05:47 UTC 1998 |
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janc
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response 89 of 306:
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Apr 2 16:33 UTC 1998 |
Grex's net connection is experiencing really bad packet loss. It stinks.
We hope this will get fixed soon, but it probably isn't anything with our
equipment.
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rcurl
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response 90 of 306:
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Apr 2 17:22 UTC 1998 |
I was going to say. Much better on a dialin. Is the mail getting in and
out?
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keesan
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response 91 of 306:
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Apr 2 17:54 UTC 1998 |
Pine is working perfectly now, I think. But who, after listing the first
five or six names, disconnected me. I logged on again and tried who again
after a half hour, and the same thing happened. From the grex prompt.
Is there some way to reread the first half of the login screen, which is extra
long today? If not, could the newer information be put at the end?
I already knew about the t-shirts, but the ISDN stuff went by too fast.
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rcurl
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response 92 of 306:
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Apr 2 18:22 UTC 1998 |
Pine is working, but with something broken in the ISDN link, and packets
being dropped, mail transmission would involve a lot of repeats, which
might cause problems. Logged in now on a dialin everything seems hunky-dory,
but it was pretty bad when connected from the net. I was unable to do much
as things hung, and then I got timed out.
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remmers
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response 93 of 306:
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Apr 2 18:58 UTC 1998 |
Re #91: Type "!more /etc/motd" to re-display the login screen.
(motd = Message Of The Day)
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scg
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response 94 of 306:
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Apr 2 21:53 UTC 1998 |
I've been on the phone with Ameritech several times today about they problem.
They're still working on it. At the moment, the line seems to be generating
one CRC error every minute or so, which is much better than it was, but still
not good. We should not be getting any CRC errors.
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