response 89 of 109:

Sep 16 14:06 UTC 2008

resp:87 Hmm, interesting idea.  We've been thinking about "fishbowl" 
conferences for some time now; YAPP had the ability to have
finer-grained  access controls for conferences which would, I think,
provide a starting  point for the sort of things you are talking about
(accessible from the  command line, not accessible from the web; up to
the conference's  administration to decide which way to go).  The
problem with enabling that  sort of support in backtalk was, of course,
legacy support for Picospan.   Since we're moving away from Picospan,
however, we might be able to rethink  these sorts of things (fronttalk,
the "new" terminal-based interface for  BBS, is just a frontend to
backtalk).  Anyway, the point is that it's  technically possible,
provided it's something that the community wants to  do.

With respect to the web site, I think the thing to do is keep most of it
 static, with some cron scripts and 

resp:88 Certainly!  Read /usr/local/bin/fronttalk, and the libraries are
in  /usr/local/lib/fronttalk-0.9.2.  Feel free to read whatever you
like; if you  see bugs, or want to make a change, just send email or
post here, or (for  changes) copy the files in question to your home
directory, make a change,  and email or post a patch (diff -u format
works best).  Provided the changes  are reasonable, I've got no problems
incorporating them into the running  version here on Grex and sending an
email to Jan.

For that matter, there are a number of things that need to be
incorporated  into the current code to make it compatible with Picospan.

response 91 of 109:

Sep 18 12:05 UTC 2008

I thought of making some changes to web pages. 
1. Creating common header html which can be included in all the html files.
2. Creating common footer 
3. Creating common sidebar html file

In order to do this I tried copying all the files from /var/www/htdocs to my
home directory. But it looks like I dont have enough disk quota. Is there any
way I can copy this entire folder to my local machine? 

response 93 of 109:

Sep 18 15:23 UTC 2008

To download the htdocs folder is to attempt to get way more files than 
you need or would even want. There are subfolders to htdocs that are 
actually links to folders elswhere in the system and those probably 
contain symbolic links to other folders as well. It is entirely 
possible you are meeting yourself coming and going - downloading files 
more than once in some cases. Some folders and contents are permission 
based and cannot be accessed. Much of what you can download is no-doubt 
irrelevent to your project but may shed some light on the structure of 
the grex website. 

I have downloaded what I could. I have ommitted the GREX minutes 
documents but admit they would probably be in interesting (& dry) read. 
I've also pruned the stats folder (almost 50MB in itself.) I have made 
these files  available for downloading in a compressed ZIP file at the 
following link.


check here http://www.cyberspace.org/~madmike/GREX/


 I was hoping this might ease bandwith demands on grex in case anyone 
else was curious as to these files and their contents. I havent yet 
checked what all is included but I'm sure you will find what you are 
looking for. 


When I get the time I'll prune this down to the bare essentials. But 
for now I think I'll have a look myself.

STAFF: If you would rather I did not do this let me know.

response 95 of 109:

Sep 18 16:55 UTC 2008

Oops I tried downloading. But I am not able to do the same. 

response 97 of 109:

Sep 19 01:03 UTC 2008

resp:93 I don't have a problem with it; the stuff can be easily retrieved
by a web browser; I'm sure lots of it is already stored in various archives and
caches automatically (like most of the web's content).

The Grex web pages (the ones that we actually edit, anyway; not the meeting
minutes, Apache manual, stats, etc) are now in CVS: /var/ncvs/grex/web is the
location of the repository.

response 99 of 109:

Sep 19 10:44 UTC 2008

Twit Filters are a beautiful thing!

response 101 of 109:

Sep 19 12:34 UTC 2008

Okay then... I have moved the file to a bigtime server for hosting. 
Should be World accessable now. See this page for the updated link.

==== http://www.grex.org/~madmike/GREX/ ====

I've included most of the following folder /var/ncvs/grex/web/htdocs in 
the htdocsII.zip file

the /var/www/htdocs is still available in the htdocs.zip file

re# 100 ;o)

response 103 of 109:

Sep 19 19:50 UTC 2008

Sounded like a good idea...
Am I doing something wrong?
=================================
[root@myserver grex]# cvsync cvsync://grex.org:80
Connecting to grex.org port 80
Connected to 216.86.77.194 port 80
Socket Error: recv: 2 residue 2
Recv: protocol version length
=================================

(takes about 5 minutes to do above cycle)

response 105 of 109:

Sep 20 00:36 UTC 2008

Idiot. I'm losing nothing by him filtering me. hah!

response 107 of 109:

Sep 28 03:26 UTC 2008

I have found two things that is different from picospan.

1) Initially when we get into front-talk it displays help messages which says
that typing "help conf" will display the available conferences. But this
command is not working. I think it should be "help conference".

2) I tried "help conference" and it worked. But there is no pagination for
this command so the list runs out of the screen.

Don't you think changing the initial message and adding pagination will help?

response 109 of 109:

Dec 18 10:26 UTC 2015

Today I can see
(type "help conf" for a list of conferences)
above the Ok: prompt. :)

And "help confe" works and "help conf" doesn't. And there is no pagination.