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[!AltME] Discussion about AltME
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Pekr 5-Sep-2006 [1779] | but that 's it like telling, then someone sends me format.exe in email, I save it, and once I click it, it formats my HD :-) Or am I missing something? How is that supposed to be a security hole? |
Henrik 5-Sep-2006 [1780x2] | pekr, maybe I'm just too used to OSX, but OSX will ask for security permission before I run anything at that level. |
there isn't even a requester saying "do you really want to run this app? could be dangerous. your computer could go boom." like webbrowsers do nowadays. | |
Pekr 5-Sep-2006 [1782x2] | maybe I just don't understand the issue - what level do you mean? You downloaded .bat file, which is just that, .bat file. It now depends, what you can do under your XP box (user permissions) |
well, so basically you are expecting altme to distinguish particular suffixes as .bat, .pif, .exe .cmd and prevent their direct execution? | |
Henrik 5-Sep-2006 [1784] | yes, something like that. I think it's pretty standard policy to do that. What's this notorious single-click policy to run things in Rebol anyway? The viewtop does it too. :-) |
Pekr 5-Sep-2006 [1785] | you can run it by single click in altme? That is not probably good :-) |
Henrik 5-Sep-2006 [1786] | yes, that's what I'm complaining about :-) |
Pekr 5-Sep-2006 [1787] | then I do understand your concern :-) |
Anton 5-Sep-2006 [1788x3] | Well with rebol at least you have some security. But I always preferred double-click to run an application. |
Oh I see what you mean - single-click from AltME executes the .bat file. | |
I think it's part of Reichart's new philosophy to simplify everything to the lowest common denominator, which I'm not entirely sold on. | |
Henrik 5-Sep-2006 [1791] | me neither |
Volker 5-Sep-2006 [1792] | i guess he simply uses an os-call to launch the right app. Where the app is choosen by the os, based on filetype. And a *.bat runs.. |
Graham 5-Sep-2006 [1793x2] | I think Carl wrote this stuff ... |
I would log it as a bug | |
PeterWood 7-Sep-2006 [1795x3] | I've just installed ubuntu on my desktop (15" LCD screen). The first application I've installed is AltME. |
The text size in minute even with the large font selected. Any hints? | |
in -> is | |
yeksoon 7-Sep-2006 [1798x2] | is it a font issue? |
I remember RT has document it somewhere that there are some libraries required to run REBOL/View on Linux | |
PeterWood 7-Sep-2006 [1800x2] | I don't know - the rest of the dekstop is fine - does Rebol require special fonts. |
.. dekstop -> desktop | |
yeksoon 7-Sep-2006 [1802] | http://www.rebol.net/builds/lib-dep.html how about the above link? I saw 'freetype' as a requirement |
PeterWood 7-Sep-2006 [1803] | It runs okay but the text is so small I can hardly read it. The large text seems to be about the same size as the small text on Windows (which is too small for us MAc users ;-) ) |
[unknown: 9] 7-Sep-2006 [1804] | YEah, this is an ongoing problem, we need a wiki for this. |
Henrik 7-Sep-2006 [1805] | the problem is related to X-windows DPI settings, which seems to change on a whim with varying window managers and distributions. |
Henrik 14-Sep-2006 [1806] | I had to reconnect to this world again to get the latest updates. However, the last group I was sitting in was !RebGUI. After the update, it moved to the top like it should, because there was new posts in it, but it was not painted red and it was not selected after logging in, so it must have been tagged as read somehow. |
Graham 14-Sep-2006 [1807] | I read it! |
PeterWood 14-Sep-2006 [1808] | Which key combination do you use to copy text in AltME on Linux (Ubuntu) ? |
Volker 15-Sep-2006 [1809] | As in windows. But kde-programms will not see it, gnome-apps do. |
PeterWood 17-Sep-2006 [1810] | Thanks, Volker. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V work fine!! I think I must have been pressing Alt-C and Alt-V when I tried before (to used to Cmd-C & Cmd-V on my Mac!!). I notice that right-click isn't supported. Scrolling seems better than under Windows though. |
Oldes 18-Sep-2006 [1811] | Just reinstalled system copied Altme folder to new location and I'm hapy to see, that Altme is one of these easy to move applications:-) |
Brock 18-Sep-2006 [1812] | Anyone know how many world servers AltMe World servers will communicate while polling for changes? I am just running a demo of a packet sniffer package PRTG Packet Grapher and I get about 6-12 IP addresses connecting regularly with my computer. The IP addresses all seem to end in either .69 or .223. |
Oldes 19-Sep-2006 [1813x2] | This should not be related with Altme at least I have have only one regular Altme connection (to www.rebol.net:5400) But I'm not running any world. If you have a world, you probably will see people connected to your world (altme) server |
And it's not important how the IP ends, but how starts:-) | |
Brock 19-Sep-2006 [1815x3] | I agree with the starting part, but thought that they had servers located in more than one location. The coincidence with the vast majority ending in the same digits has me wondering if the servers are not related to eachother. |
Yes, I have a world running but it is just for personal chat between family and doesn't get used very often. | |
There are regular bursts of transfers as seen by the packet graphing utility, so that leads me to believe it is simply AltME connecting... but it sure would be nice to know. | |
Graham 29-Sep-2006 [1818x2] | This is a rather annoying bug with 1.2.8 ... not sure if it were present before .. but if you have something in the clipboard, then right click no longer copies anything to the clipboard. |
And worse .. it's intermittent! | |
Henrik 29-Sep-2006 [1820] | I see that too, but I thought it had something to do with Synergy, because I see it in other apps too. |
Ingo 30-Sep-2006 [1821] | It works here, with and without synergy (if we mean the same program, the tcp/ip km switch to use the same mouse and keyboard for two computers). WinXP |
Anton 30-Sep-2006 [1822x2] | Yes, I've noticed something has changed there. (Probably should check the AltME changes log for a different behaviour.) |
(Mm.. not much written in the changelog.) | |
PeterWood 8-Oct-2006 [1824] | I'm finding the AltME under LInux seems to sync much better than AltME under Windows. By checking the web public discussions at rebol.net, I found that some topics hadn't synced. I dotted but no effect. So I switched to Linux where AltME synced everything. |
Graham 9-Oct-2006 [1825] | It may be that it was just a different installation that did it .. |
Louis 12-Oct-2006 [1826x2] | Why is file share disabled in this world? |
I would like to share a slideshow. | |
Henrik 12-Oct-2006 [1828] | I think it had something to do with that the world was created before filesharing was available |
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