World: r3wp

This time it was not Safeworld, but Rebol.net or DNS problem.

Yup.

Has anyone experience that AltME just stops receiving messages? If 
I leave my PC on over night and come back the next day, sometimes 
it just show that nothing has come in, but its still connected. If 
I reconnect, tons of messages come pouring in.

'dot' it


whenever u feel that AltMe or the world is a bit too quiet.. send 
a dot to yourself..or to some group

And when that doesn't work, logon as guest, let it resync, then log 
on as yourself again.
It helps kick start the stalled syncing

... ahh, that's what the "dot" group is for ;-)

Dotting to the dot group may resync some public groups.

In addition, dotting to yourself may resync some  private messages 
to you.
Doing both is not guaranteed to get you all missing messages.

great to know ;-(

Is Altme already infected by the rebol mail list problems?

:-)  Email may, as Carl says, be dead.

But these problems show that the alternatives are not yet out of 
the post-natal incubator.

Yup, I clearly see that, but then, I still like email ;-)

I thought that's what the 'dot' group was for... Funny how Dot Fever 
starts whenever there's a new world  =^þ

And I though loss of sync only happened at startup. Strange how this 
has only occurred recently for me.

Need a paging feature whereby we can click on a persons name and 
have it play a wav file on their computer to get their attention 
and flash.

If anyone knows a good chat client has altme like features of self 
archiving dialogue and paging features please let me know as I have 
some immediate needs for that.

Paging could be abusd : )

Isn't paging control by the fact that the person has thier speakers 
on?

but you can as well ring with the telephone, abusable too? ;)

Messenger Plus adds a bubch of extra features on top of IM .. http://www.msgplus.net/
. Be careful on the the install and opt out of the install "spyware" 
option. I haven't kept up with latest IM, so I don't know how many 
of this guys original idea have been rolled back into IM. But in 
terms of paging, you can trigger different sounds via messenger plus

Riechart - add an ignore feature - ignore all except on buddy list 
or something like that.  Yes paging would require speakers I assume 
or flashing the screen as some do.

First time I have this error :
** Script Error: Invalid compressed data - problem: -3
** Near: script: decapsulate
if none? script
** Press enter to quit...

It was at startup.

coloring of active groups are very hard to see for me on this monitor. 
the red color blends too much with black for me. it would be nice 
if there was a graphical indicator such as a dot next to the group 
to better see which group has been updated.

One nice thing would be, if some userdata would be saved along with 
my login, like colours, and read messages in the different groups. 
I just now installed altme on a new computer, and I have to fill 
in all of this.

Another thing would be it it would be possible to save the "most 
interesting folders" the ones I have used most in the last time, 
and to sync them first.

the default background and foreground colors.  I prefer dark background 
and dark text, and if no one has specifically chosen a font, it would 
be kindest if that text showed up in my default (or at least pickable) 
colors.  I don't mind if it doesn't look to the environment to know 
those colors, as long as I can turn down the light.  the column with 
the names it wouldn't matter

I Agree.

small feature request: allow images typed in here, such as http://someurl.com/an_image.jpg
to be viewed in a popup-window rather than launching in a browser. 
would that be 3-5 lines of code? just allow the url to be recognized 
as a jpg, gif, png, bmp or whatever and view it here much faster 
and more convenient.

Thanks.  This is on the list in fact.

could be used for *.txt too. next is integrating your ftp-client 
and we have poor mans ios :)

FTP..........NEVER!

FTP is evel.

evil.

btw - is there really fixed ftp scheme available for rebol? I wonder 
how is that other ftp products as FXFTP etc. don't have any problems 
...

Through lots of work (or luck, on your platform) do programs like 
FXFTP work without problems. :) Various FTP implementations vary 
wildly with their output. It takes lots of work to support them all. 
See Reichart's exclamation above.

Yeah, I'm REALLY anti FTP.  It took us writing our own FTP Client 
to realize, FTP is simply not worth supporting, the people who originated 
it were kids, that did not know what they were doing.  We waste too 
much time, as has everyone that has written FTP client or Server 
software.


Basically, the standard should be rewritten such that every command 
that a normal DOS would use are available, even the simple stuff 
like getting the size of the volume the data is being stored on, 
and remaining space.


But also there needs to be systems in place for check-summing files 
in usable chunks, and also for doing metrics from both sides so that 
better predictions can be made about the time it will take to synch.

It goes on and on, just throw FTP away…


Build an x-internet interface to something new, and build it correctly 
to be global not local.


For example, every block (some unit of bytes) of a given file should 
be able to exist in multiple places (on the web, not just on a server), 
etc.

Let's solve everything in one place once and for all.

FTP is evil.
But some of us have to use it.
As far as I know, REBOL doesn't support SCP
http://support.real-time.com/linux/web/scp.html

(Technically this is not an Altme message, so perhaps replies could 
go to Chat)

wow, I just figured out the subliminal message of AltME brand.  The 
user becomes a new "ME" because of being reborn into the communications/collaboration 
age.  It ain't the same old me, it's the AltME.

I have been Alt-ed

maybe even X-Alt-ed

and no scars showing.

Alt-R-ed

;)

How about browsing a users webserver? means altme would launch a 
browser to the users dial-up IP. Could be usefull for writing web-documents, 
quick turnarounds.

We have a small private world and guess what? We deleted the master. 
Now we can't change anything. Is there any way to get the master 
back?

What im missing actualy in ALTME is a GLOBAL "lock" on all the ALTME 
windows..!! Just 1 button that locks all the IO with mouse and keyboard 
on the ALTME input fields..

PS: a feature im using on my chat tool too and its sometimes very 
handy!

Please expalin more...

can imagine "don't accidentally type in the public", or forcing mouse, 
keyboard to stay in the window. the first i would like too, the second 
not.

I'm not following, need a more verbose description.

situation: i want to copypaste something and juggle with all this 
windows. accidentally pick altme and paste. would be good if altme 
would not accept that. similar in purpose to this "gone" button, 
i am here, can read, but don't want to say something, because window-juggling.