World: r3wp

I am a HUGE fan of handing over the source!  You will need to bring 
that up with Carl at this point.

This is no longer my call.

OK, I will bring it to Carl :-)

Yes...may I suggest a ralley of the troops : )

posted to Carl ... we will see what he thinks ....

Huh?  RT now owns the product?

I presumed that they were being contracted to support it ...

presumption is an odd form of science : )

logical deduction.

not necesarily correct, but logical.

:)

Oldes, I'd be surprised if the link handler were dramatically different 
to the IOS Conference link handler.  You could use that as a base 
with which to offer a fix?

Perhaps...

One of my worlds once again expired with no apparent reason :-(

hmm, so actually both of my worlds expired ...

Chris.. I don't need to see any code, I know where the bug is. Check 
this:
>> size-text make face [size: 10x10 text: "hello"]
== 9x75
>> size-text make face [size: 100x10 text: "hello"]
== 29x15

From the above it's clear that to fix the stupid link bug just needs 
to add one char (zero) to enhance the size of face which is used 
to count the text size.

Oldes, better is to turn the wrapping off completely:

size-text make face [size: 10x10 text: "hello" para: make para [wrap?: 
false]]
== 29x15

I don't care how exactly .. I just want to have the Altme fixed!

Carl did not login to r3-alpha yet, so he did not saw my message 
probably yet ... I don't want to contat him via Chat, as I am not 
sure if private messages there are really private :-)

I've send him private message in R3 Chat, do you see it?

nope

Pekr, that is why I will only run one world on a server.  I was getting 
that problem on a regular basis.  I had reported it to Safeworlds 
as well, bu they could see no reason for it.

I suspect it is due to the worlds not being 'reserved'.  But of course, 
haven't reserved a world to see if this is the case.  Bottom line, 
since I stopped all worlds but one, I have far fewer instances of 
my worlds expiring, but it still happens on occasion.

I have been having a bit of trouble with AltME. for a while it could 
not log on today, and all the time I have been using it I see it 
disconnect quite often.

It also often comes up with the message under my name of  "Internet 
busy" which I dont understand.  Now just now it said "depot update"

the same here and the same for some other ppl too. I thought it is 
my connection, but then I realised my worlds do run OK. I think it 
was rebol.net having problems ...

Short outages of this world do seem common.
You can see if an AltME world is accessible here:
http://www.altme.com/check.html

I logon to the rebol3 AltME world again for a while just now, but 
the check above said the world was ok.  Are the issues with AltME 
all known about or should I start submitting information from my 
sniffer about exactly what occurs?

I logon = I could not logon

I saw a break too. Did not check the check page.

I guess they need all the help they can if there are undiagnosed 
issues.

Is there a way to sync the state between two or more AltMe systems? 
I post this from OSX and just installed AltMe there. But, the initial 
sync makes everything red... I want to have it like on my PC system.

using the same data files should be enough.

So, copying it.

But will it stay in sync?

I use linux and win on same PC so no need to copy.. with Mac it's 
not possible probably.

But you may try to check, which data file modifies and how.

When I use flash disk, to prevent long syncing process (dunno why 
altme running from USB flash is so slow), I simply copy the whole 
dir. It works perfectly. Just copy all your files ...

AltME uses blocking calls to file operations, and USB flash drives 
are much slower than hard drives, or even internal flash drives. 
Sometimes they are 2 or more orders of magnitude slower.

Write operations to flash are even slower still.

writing bunch of small files to USB flash disk is very retro in the 
floppy way.

Pity AltME is not open sourced, we could move it to SQLite storage 
....

Aha, multipler servers > 2 must be started in the order they were 
generated at first. (Reading Pekr et al)

do they just grab the next port up?

dunno, my batting average for 4 worlds to connect is .250

I did come up with a process for IOS so I could tell people the way 
to connect many clients without all keys in one to be able to coexist 
(Ashley, Scot, Chris...IIRC)...I wonder if I can still repeat that 
now...;-)

no matter what I have tried, I am batting .250 out of 1.000 (1 of 
4 servers is reachable outside of my firewall, but I have 5400 to 
5409 open.  Chaging the order of starting servers, rebooting the 
server PC (Win2000) did not have ANY effec.t

the server which is working is the one I need the most, and is on 
5403

it doesn't matter when it starts, it works, and the others don't.

maybe there is a lease timeout like in DHCP

Have you thought of moving to a different solution?

ie. another rebol chat program :)