World: r3wp

After 4 worlds are conquered, well only the rest of the universe 
remains for me... "The world is my oyster"  Roxy Music

This is the same Windows2K PC that ran things at Devcon2004...

the ports in the "log" file for each server matches the ports for 
all 4 of these that show up in the http://www.altme.com/check.html

ok, good sign. Then I would check if those worlds are reachable from 
the outside = if your firewall/router is properly configured ...

Steve, I had similar problems when I ran multiple worlds.  If starting 
the worlds in the order of the ports continues to not work.  I would 
suggest creating a new world, for each that isn't working making 
sure to not shut the other servers to gaurantee they take the next 
available port.  Then copy the data from the non-functioning world 
to the new world.

Your users will need to access the new world by the new name, and 
will need to click on all of the red groups to get them back to the 
state they are accustomed to.

Also - how do you start those world? I created cmd files na start 
it like: altme.com -s "My-world-server" -p 5401

So obviously, this is a worste case scenario.

Not Qchat, but synapse chat

Thanks for those ideas.  I am at the router now, trying to configure 
it.

OK, I had 4 worlds, and I was trying the Brock hack, and generated 
a 5th to do a move of one world which would go to 5404, and it shows 
up happy on the  checkpage.


BUT...when I tried a 6th one, I got a crazy message saying that there 
had been too many worlds generated recently, so it wouldn't let me 
make the 6th one. (guess it is supposed to take seven DAYS to create 
a world, and I am trying to take 7 minutes, like the talk I gave 
at DevCon2004 ;-)

But then a server crash happened, and I just learned I can operate 
AltME server in console mode, like the IOS server, so I DON'T have 
to have graphics on the server running!  -c flag, so I can move my 
world to my server farm and be as happy as the PPC assembler command, 
"EIEIO" ("old mac donald had a farm, e i e i o" (those crazy motorola 
engineers))

question, what is the best way to move world data from Windoze to 
Linux over a connection, so permissions don't all have to be set?

When you move the world, users and permissions remain, no? I for 
e.g. succesfully re-registered some lost world name, the only user 
account you are setting from scratch is the Master one ...

I mean file permissions, like chmod (read, write execute for files)

If I FTP then by default the change.

rsync has options "--perms --times --executability --owner --group" 
for preserving all of those

provided the two filesystems support the same types

How can I avoud AltMe popping to the front on OSX?

If a new posting is receied I mean.

Robert, check settings. There should be an option to avoid flashing 
on a comment or some such.

Ah, missed it. I was wondering because I thought something like this 
existed... Thx.

Has anyone built a script to do calendar email notifications from 
the AltME calendar?

One feature that would make this tool that much better.

Is it just me .. but i'm getting disconnected frequently from this 
world ... nothing to do with Google's woes I hope!

have the same problem actually

probaly we summoned the devil's spirit in Carl by babling too much

Ooooo Great Carl, please calm down your furry

no its wolfram alpha succing up all of the internet !!!!   ;-)

that would be... sucking up ... hehe

It was very difficult to add a couple people to a private group for 
many UI reasons, the worst of which is that the names weren't sorted.

The names are sorted - just in chronological order of joining.

Helpful!

Problems with the scroll bar and a lack of scroll wheel support also 
made it difficult.

You can at least start looking from the top of the list if you know 
they've been around a long time or the bottom if they're new :-)

It wouldn't hurt if some other the very long list of people who haven't 
logged in for over a year had their accounts deleted.

No, when we delete accounts their name turns to none here, and we 
lose the track of conversations. As it is we have a green none (Reichart's 
old account I think) and a powder blue none (Paul). More would be 
even more confusing.

I don't htink that you'd see any more nones if you deleted the accounts 
of people who haven't visited in more than a year.

Yeah you would, in old messages. I was looking bacck the other day 
and saw messages going back more than 3 years.

The AltME archive at REBOL.org doesn't change the name of the poster 
when their account is deleted.

Some of us use AltMe to read AltMe messages, not REBOL.org.

Does the AltME archive at REBOL.org include private and non-web-public 
groups?

No.....It's only the [web-public] ones.

But (confusingly!) there could be a [web-public] private group.....That'd 
be one that a select few could post to, but anyone could web-read.

Yes, it's extremely painful ... Carl should add the ability to sort 
on the names.

It took me close to 5 mins to find BrianH's name to add him to the 
new ~Political group.

And he wasn't close to the top where I expected him to be.

I didn't get invited here until late.

You can sort on "Activity" date/time, which should make active users 
a bit easier to find.

we're talking about in the add user to group dialog

Experimental goodie asked for by Graham.....Ability to execute code 
included in posts in this world.
eg to execute this script:
   http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp210x509
Do this in a console:
  do http://www.rebol.org/aga-do-post.r?post=r3wp210x509