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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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keesan
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response 807 of 870:
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Feb 27 00:48 UTC 2005 |
Scott, what are you going to do with the big cards? We had hoped to recycle
the rest of them but our neighbor stopped by to see if anything was worth
putting on eBay and informed us that Friedman's Nonferrous Metals Recycling
closed a month ago. There are rumors they may have opened a different place
in Ypsi, which is not much help to us.
We spent a few hours taking apart: 2 keyboards (cracked, missing
keys), 2 IBM PCs (one with a hard card, the other with 2 full-height floppy
drives), a 9600 bps external modem (Practical Peripherals), several drive
enclosures for full-height scsi drives, a 9-in TI printer. THe box of
diskette labels did not have an inventory number. We still have the previous
grex computer, lots of cards, some T1 stuff, something that you can plug about
10 modems into, two SPARC terminals, two Ann Arbor Ambassador dumb terminals,
three monitors that might be TTL with burnin, a Sparc keyboard, another
keyboard, a few smaller boxes we cannot yet identify, some wires, one internal
modem (14.4 or slower?), a 486 motherboard, and a desk and three big chairs
and maybe some shelving. Anyone want any of this? A Sparc mouse with three
elongated buttons, cute. Various metal plates that may have gone with the
rack that went to provide.net. We are wondering WHY grex kept some of the
above when it was over 20 years old.
We are putting the smaller metal pieces into the recycle bin but does
anyone know of a place that accepts ferrous metal and does not charge to take
it? (They used to pay, but we lost both local junkyards). Kiwanis takes its
computer stuff (and will take our monitors and terminals) to a place that pays
5 cents/pound - maybe they will come pick up our boards and larger cases.
We used to get about 15-20 cents/lb for 'greenboard'.
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gelinas
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response 808 of 870:
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Feb 27 03:20 UTC 2005 |
It should be a while until the home-directory partitions fill up. However,
/var seems to be something else.
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scholar
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response 809 of 870:
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Feb 27 03:24 UTC 2005 |
it's ur mom
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drew
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response 810 of 870:
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Feb 27 05:14 UTC 2005 |
Re #807:
I might have a use for the 9600 baud modem, as a backup for my 33.6K.
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scott
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response 811 of 870:
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Feb 27 13:12 UTC 2005 |
I took those VME cards for decorative purposes. :)
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keesan
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response 812 of 870:
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Feb 27 16:03 UTC 2005 |
Drew, we recycled that modem but you are welcome to one of our 14.4K modems
- internal or external. We also recycled most of our 14.4 externals and only
kept 4-5. And about 10 internals.
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slynne
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response 813 of 870:
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Feb 28 19:25 UTC 2005 |
It was pointed out to me by someone on my blog that when one clicks on
links that are on Grex's home page (http://grex.cyberspace.org), you
get a "back talk crash"
Specifically, this happens when one clicks on the links to sample the
conferences.
Example: http://grex.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/backtalk/peek:agora
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scholar
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response 814 of 870:
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Feb 28 19:27 UTC 2005 |
Dude.b
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krj
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response 815 of 870:
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Mar 4 15:44 UTC 2005 |
A report from party is that FTP is not working for removing
files from Grex. I tried it myself and got a timeout.
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keesan
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response 816 of 870:
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Mar 4 20:34 UTC 2005 |
Is anyone planning to fix lynx, links and w3m so they can access ftp sites
if you are a paying member of grex?
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keesan
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response 817 of 870:
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Mar 4 20:35 UTC 2005 |
And hopefully also upgrade lynx to 2.8.5, which has been the latest stable
version for a while now. Thanks.
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keesan
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response 818 of 870:
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Mar 4 20:41 UTC 2005 |
Lynx 2.8.5 stable release came out Feb 2004 and they are now working on 2.9.
2.8.5 has a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements and some new
features. Is there a precompiled version for OpenBSD?
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keesan
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response 819 of 870:
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Mar 4 20:46 UTC 2005 |
OpenBSD 3.6 includes lynx 2.8.5rel2 - has grex upgraded to 3.6 yet?
3.5 includes lynx 2.8.4rel1. How often does a new OpenBSd come out?
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naftee
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response 820 of 870:
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Mar 5 01:38 UTC 2005 |
calm down, keesan
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cross
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response 821 of 870:
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Mar 5 02:32 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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tsty
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response 822 of 870:
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Mar 6 10:03 UTC 2005 |
keesan demands complainace - immediately! her orders are issued!
comply!
oh, wait ..... envermind
,
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naftee
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response 823 of 870:
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Mar 6 17:26 UTC 2005 |
follow her instructions !
..
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remmers
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response 824 of 870:
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Mar 8 17:55 UTC 2005 |
Picospan and Fronttalk seem to have a different idea of how many
newresponse items I have in this conference. Pico says 151, FT says 21.
FT is correct, I think. I've been reading the conferences mostly with
Backtalk.
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cross
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response 825 of 870:
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Mar 8 19:52 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 826 of 870:
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Mar 8 20:19 UTC 2005 |
Not quite. Soon, maybe.
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naftee
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response 827 of 870:
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Mar 8 21:22 UTC 2005 |
i hope we still have link to picospan
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gelinas
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response 828 of 870:
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Mar 8 22:01 UTC 2005 |
Yes, you will still be able to run picospan, with the command "picospan".
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naftee
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response 829 of 870:
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Mar 8 22:43 UTC 2005 |
Oh, cool! But I still haven't seen the self-destruction of picospan
functionality with my own eyes, as reported in this item.
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scholar
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response 830 of 870:
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Mar 8 23:00 UTC 2005 |
Yeah.
That's bull-, and possibly horse-, shit.
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naftee
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response 831 of 870:
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Mar 8 23:36 UTC 2005 |
I fully agree with scholar's mammalian dissertation.
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