World: r3wp

i have problems, Altme is trying to load things but is disconnected 
before it's finished so that it enter in a enternal loop, trying 
to reload same things each times.

Odd.  Worse case, just reinstall.

i wonder why disconnections discard all changes. Missing some atomicity 
in updates here.

If the whole loaded things  is not commited at once then it's trying 
to redo again and again.
what a mess...

Sometimes one person sees something no one else sees.  When that 
happens, we have to start local and work our way out.

Given that AltME has not changed, and no one else is seeing this 
problem, we need to consider that something odd happened on your 
system, right?

it's not the first time people described this syndrom.

Saying it never happened before so it doesn't come from Altme, he's 
a special way to resolve (or not) bugs.

First, I did not say it never happened before, I said no one else 
is seeing this problem.

Second, if you are going to argue with my logic, I'll just shut up...

Sunanda: the server was upgraded to 1GB ram. (This was not planned. 
Richard was unable to connect to it, so he went to restart the server, 
and decided to take the chance to upgrade the ram. When he got there, 
he noticed the server was not really down, but he decided to upgrade 
it anyway.)

who needs more than 640KB RAM?
 - Bill Gates :-)

Thanks for the explanation, Gabriele.

I thought Bill Gates said 64kB of RAM.

he didn't say either. it's a mis-quote, or so he says himself.

I was just looking it up and it looks like at the least Pekr was 
correct that it was a reference to 640KB or RAM whether a misquote 
or not.  ;-)

For those who like stats:


110 different people made just over 35,000 posts on this world in 
2008. That's nearly five meg of raw text communication.

Is that growth or shrinkage?

Well, for 2007, we also had 110 active posters, and they made nearly 
45,000 posts. So that's shrinkage in volume, and no growth in population.

Other worlds (which have specialised in R3 development and testing) 
have more than taken up the slack in volumes. I don't have numbers 
for all of them, because I am  not a member of them all.

Small print: I can only count the posts I can see.

The totals include the private groups which I am a member, but not 
those for which I am not.

The totals do not count any private messaging between myself and 
other world members.

ask for a account  for r3-alpha thanks

Is it possible to serve more than one world on the same computer?

I tried and got a "server is already running" message.

I got it to work on a different port.

On windows you do not seem to need to declare the port like on linux.
Windows opens multiple worlds from the gui

Just beware, if you open the worlds in a different order, they will 
use the first available port, so for example if the first world you 
created isn't running, and you start the second world you created, 
the second world will look for the first port, however, the world 
server knows it should have been assigned to the second port.  (excuse 
me not using the port numbers to avoid confusion, but I couldn't 
recall if the first port was 5000, or 5500).  If the server isn't 
using the port is was created on, it won't be recognized by the world 
server.

IN short, order matters, and your servers won't open if they don't 
open with the right port being available.

I going to be serving on a linux box and it seems you can just assign 
the port at start up.
altme -s "world name" -p 5401

Now trying to autostart at boot time but having a trouble...

su -lc '/.../altserve -s world -p port &' user > /dev/null

according ot altme guide
does not seem to launching...

I know the example is for altmeserve but I thought it would work 
for client as well

sorry, my issue was with re-creating a world.  I had multiple worlds 
hosted on the same machine at one time and I cheaped out and didn't 
register the world for $10 US per world.  When the worlds expired 
after 10 days of no usage (which never happened, but they expried 
anyway), I had to recreate the worlds, the order was important in 
that scenario.  Sorry for misleading you.

Is there a known problem changing server types for a world going 
from a linux box to a windows box?

I moved a world from linux to windows and I'm getting this error: 
	AltME Error: Registry: cannot load dataset files: 2

Never mind. The data files are empty. Must have lost data when I 
loaded it to my flash drive. Try again.

Graham needs a prize for being AltME's top public poster since AltME 
REBOL world has been in existence!


See http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2005
thru to year 2008!

Nice going! -- though you are off to a slow start for 2009: not yet 
on the Prolific posters leader board:
http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2009

I'm retiring!

Very impressive.

Graham used to be near the top in the mailing list too!

http://www.mail-archive.com/[rebol-list-:-rebol-:-com]/msg05409.html

uh, when did you start talking about yourself im ht ethird person?

in the

Graham, one of your email addresses comes 7th in the top ML posters 
(page required login to see):
  http://www.rebol.org/ml-author-ranking.r

Graham sometimes likes to talk about himself in the 3rd person.

I was simply worried there were now two of you... although watching 
you both compete directly would be........damned funny...

Graham thought he would adopt a new years resolution, create an online 
persona that is nice to qtask and altme.

sadly 5 of the 12 top posters are not known now to be Rebol users

I'm all for split personalities...

is it just me, or my persona, that has found Altme inaccessible a 
few times today ?

Possible, if you think it happened, it is as good as having happened. 
 But one could also say....

- A router went down
- Bandwidth was limited between NZ and the world.
- The software gremlins don't like you, or you, or the other you.

Since my international web access was fine, I have to pick 3.

I think I'll fade into the background again.

Well almost your name color fade well in the yellow of unread message 
:-)

I used to prefer the green Graham ;-)

Happened again ... got message unable to connect to network.  Rebol.net 
was up but curiously, rebol.com was also inaccessible.

I've had some flakey connectivity to rebol.net, and this world too.

I am guessing these worlds are no longer hosted on the same PC as 
rebol.net now?

This world seems to be on the same IP as rebol.net:
 read dns://www.rebol.net
== 209.167.34.213
Which is the same number as "check your world" for REBOL3:
http://www.altme.com/check.html

(Glad to see Graham's green is back)