World: r3wp

Chris - what is the main difference between a web-launch and plug-in 
aproach? Isn't plug-in a better deployment way?

Web-launch was an idea I'd posted here (another group) about a browser 
interpreting a Rebol script, then presenting metadata and a large 
icon to launch the script.  I don't think the plugin is better.  
It's right in some situations, but I'd prefer in most cases to launch 
my reblet.  I may change that opinion if the Rebol plugin were as 
seamless, if not as ubiquitous, as the Flash plugin.

Chris - that is the idea, to be seamless in its deployment and functionality 
- sadly the reality is different ....

Exactly -- whereas web-launch is comparitively low-hanging fruit.

ALTME IS GOING WILD... Its hanging 5 times in an hour... and now 
the All Groups is red, but all groups are labelled in black... !??!

hum  strangely the apache group suddenly became red and a mesg dated 
from august came in !? strange.

something strange happened here and lot of groups updated, it was 
almost like fresh instalation.

nothing special here, I will try to restart altme to see :-)

it seems to be back to normal...

I rebooted my machine... a laptop I rarely need to reboot.

no problems here

No such luck for me - still 53 empty conversations on my Windows/XP 
installation. Though I guess most of them haven't had a post for 
a long,  long time.

of course, that is ok ... you have set threshold of messages loaded. 
If e.g. you set it to 500, then it is 500 posts in total, not per 
group .... (or so I think :-)

I had some transient wierdness in the Blog Chat group recently......I 
can only scroll back  as far as Thu to my message starting <MVS/TSO? 
CICS? >

Petr: It says "per chat room" on the settings page so I'm not certain. 
Mine was set at 1000; I've changed it to 10,000 temporarily to see 
if that makes any difference.

Conventional wisdom suggests the higher the setting,  the more likely 
you are to experience the "recycle" crash.

Isn't the recycle crash a thing of the past?

Setting to a large number does make switching between groups tediously 
slow.

Actually If my memory serves me correctly the number of posts settings 
only affects how many are displayed and shouldn't affect synchronisation.

I'd like to think it is a thing of the past...But as far as I know 
all we applied was the low-count workaround.

The main feature that needs to be added to AltME is prevention of 
a post being lost if the Internet connect happens to be broken.  
This happens often for me as the phone lines here are very unreliable. 
The user should be able to work off-line, and his post automatically 
be sent when he log on.

When I want to send a longish post, I write it with my preferred 
editor and then I just copy it to here.)

Please always sumit complaints to Feedback...even if it is the same 
complain.  If you use that chanell, it ensures it is logged, and 
in the case of repeats, counted.

(I'm typing on a very small keyboard, excuse those errors).

why is there is a per file size limit  for the shareing folder?  
I could almost understand a 2 gig historical limit -- but this is 
under 6Meg

That was not my choice...

?

is it settable per world

I don't find an option

I think it has to do with the fact that many service providers will 
timeout an http port  xfer even if its still working.  and that amounts 
to about 6MB .  I have that kind of effect with gmail.  if I try 
to download something larger than 3MB it fails... because of the 
length it takes to download with my phone  modem

it could be that the server which this world is running on enforces 
this timeout somehow.

but these are just assumptions... someone might know for sure.

Yup.

yup as in you know why?

it is not that. I run the server and it has excelent connectivity 
(multiple T3 )  I move many gigs of data with amazing regularity

Max if we were interested in being limoted by the lowest common denominator 
would we be here at all?

so R who is to blame for hardcoding a filesize into altme fileshareing? 
 Qtask is all about accountability should be a gimmi.

maybe it's a limitation .. if you make the files too large, it kills 
messaging??

I just got a new Altme ... so what's new???

That you got a new Altme. ;-P

Juts got it too -- It made my font-size go little

Changes are listed here:

http://www.altme.com/new.html

(Plus it changed my ctrl+s to send into enter to send)
I just reset that to how I want it :-)

Wow, where are my magnifying lenses!

the aA key restored the better size for me

We had to do an update, the "download file" was driving me crazy.

Sorry about the reset to font size...just hit the [aA]

somehow, I find that everytime the CTRL-S option is reset (which 
happens every now and then), I loose 5-10 minutes tring to put it 
back, looking in my options and trying to remember where that option 
is setup.. the pencil icon just has no relevance to the option and 
find that its easily forgotten... why not just use the CTRL-S or 
ENTER text itself as the toggle button?

You mean write it out in "english?"