World: r3wp

And we, have for the most part completely stopped using Exchange 
server.  It only stays running so we can confirm we are compatible 
with it from Qtask.

it keeps everyone employed

How can IT justify their existence if anyone can set it up??

ie. it is in the interests of the IT department to make sure only 
they can understand and run things

And the IT refused to load Altme on his PC. He said he didn't want 
to slow down his computer. Hey, it's hard to win against that kind 
of mindset. Not even the truth sways that.

IT departments are not interested in truths .. just their jobs

50% of IT guys are disillusioned with their lives and jobs

Isn't that so.

one may laugh at Dilbert, but one might begin to cry, when one experiences 
the same things in real life corporations.

Yes, I know a few disillusioned IT guys, who are in it for the money, 
but still curse the systems they have to manage. They must've lost 
the intererst a long time ago. They have not had experiences with 
anything that is truly great, revolutionary or in other ways very 
different from what they are currently working with.

James, I had the opportunity recently, while I was in a busy period 
(before this one) to make money on a job setting up an AltME-like 
website and was given about a week to do it. I decided to hand them 
AltME instead. I never got any money for solving the problem in 5 
minutes rather than a week and I never heard back from them, so I 
don't know how it went. I suspect people are not interested in something 
that is not already in use by millions of people. One can ponder 
whether that was a stupid move or not. :-)

should have sub-contracted the job out here :)

90%+ of people are disillusioned with their lives and their jobs.

I even know of doctors that would rather be IT professionals.

and I know IT professional, who wanted to be a doctor. Took 3 years 
of medicine college study, but did not make it ...

And I know of some doctors who can't decide what they want to be 
.. so they do both!

:-)

and I know of doctors who really shouldn't be doctors, but that's 
another story.

I've seen this error twice now, on machines where AltMe is connecting 
to this world. Once on a machine where the world has been for a long 
time, and it caused it to resync everything; the second time, just 
now, on a virgin machine:

AltME Error: Cannot write to file: track/track.set Is the file write 
protected? Does the directory exist?

Is it just me?

For the past week or so I've been all but locked out of Altme between 
(it varies) 18:00 and 21:00 UT.

Messages sent may get lost with the status message hanging on "Internet 
busy"

If I close and reconnect, I may stay at status "logon" for an hour 
or more with the resync percentage stuck at some random value.
No other connections are affected; and rebooting doesn't help.
Maybe it's Altme's way of telling me to get an early night :-)

I've noticed worlds disconnecting momentarily more lately it seems, 
but I don't know what would cause that. I haven't seen the same problem 
you have though, and I haven't tracked it carefully enough to know 
if I'm just imagining things.

Yep, more "internet busy" messages for me too.

Search utility for Altme: works across worlds and even if you are 
offline:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=skimp-my-altme.r
***
Use the package downloader to install:
  do http://www.rebol.org/library/public/repack.r

That's a good thing to have.

question: why not "search-my-altme.r" as a filename ?
(or another way: what does "skimp" mean ?)

It's a  pun on the phrase "pimp my altme"

skimp is the indexing engine....the project is really a demonstrator 
for what skimp can do:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=skimp.r

Ok, a reference back to your core indexing functions ?

Got it!

I'm sure someone has mentioned this but can you autostart a world 
after a reboot? I don't mean autoreturning to a  world via the -w 
arg.

do a search in this world... its been covered before... or just browse 
up a bit... you're bound to find it.

Thanks.

James, I use windows so I would put the shortcut in my startup folder, 
with the appropriate parameters to auto-start.  I know I put my solution 
in earlier, I'll try and find the date for you to save you from looking.

Thanks. Brock. I did look but couldn't find it.

May 11, 2006

thx

search words: world shortcut
user: brock

Brock, how does it handle the password portion?

I believe it's assumed since it's running on the 'server' and being 
accessed by the script, that the password is not required.  I think 
it's only when starting a world from the client that you are asked 
for the password.

Ah, well if it works. Thanks so much.

Listen, I have a question. How do I know which port it is using? 
C:\Program Files\AltMe\altme.exe" -s "<Worldname>" -p <portnumber>

Maybe just use one of the open ones? 5400-5409

Hey, it works! Thanks. I got to thinking that maybe I should try 
to just try to start it from the CMD and presto! Thanks!

from the Safeworlds site there is a way to identify what port the 
world connected to... AltME Tools > Check Your World... then type 
your world name  ie,  Rebol3, and it will tell you what port you 
connected through.  Typically the first world connected will get 
5400 and then each one after will increment the port number.

Glad you found a way to get it to work.

Is there a way to sync the groups?  Several of the groups here show 
up as having no messages.  I thought they were empty until I added 
a message to one and then it downloaded the past messages.  Is there 
a way to force it to grab the messages for the other groups?

There is a "dot" group. What you do is go there and type something, 
traditionally a ".", and that works for some people.

I noticed this effect sometimes. Sending a message seems to "unblock 
the pipe".

Also worth trying: type a message to yourself.

What used to work is logging on as guest and then relogging on as 
yourself. This world has no guest account so that won't work here; 
but it may work in other worlds.

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