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[!AltME] Discussion about AltME

Graham
18-Feb-2007
[2226]
Yeah, I wasn't being personal, just personnel.
PeterWood
18-Feb-2007
[2227x3]
The final top ten bugs are:
Scrolling under Windows
Gnome Cut & Paste (possibly should be X.11 cut & paste)
Clicking http links under Linux has no effect
The edit buffer is lost on disconnection
Display of html links is a mess

Use of graphic as well as red colour to highlight groups with unread 
messages
Message highlighting is lost on disconnection
Search shold show messages in the local archive
Message not "tied" to a topic
Better formatting ot exported HTML conversations.
..and if you could stretch to 12...

Everything red on a new installation
Crash on recycle 

(though I thought the last has already been fixed).
Anton
18-Feb-2007
[2230]
and that one needs to be fixed again, just to be sure.
Graham
18-Feb-2007
[2231]
I don't think it is just Gnome Cut & Paste .. it is intermittent 
under windows as well.
Anton
19-Feb-2007
[2232]
Yes, I concur.
Henrik
19-Feb-2007
[2233x2]
hmm... I just installed a security update to XP and AltME will sometimes 
disappear mysteriously, as if killed.
that said, I have 7 more updates that refuse to install. perhaps 
some of these updates will cause instability if not all of them are 
installed simultaneously.
Anton
19-Feb-2007
[2235]
End of Life
Maxim
19-Feb-2007
[2236]
well, I just discovered that off-line browsing is now a failure in 
every case I have tried  I think that is a #1 bug candidate.
Henrik
19-Feb-2007
[2237]
a reboot seemed to help here for now
Sunanda
19-Feb-2007
[2238]
I also can't offline browse under Win XP --definitely looks like 
a bug.
PeterWood
19-Feb-2007
[2239x3]
I just tried offline browsing with AltME 1.2.12 under Win/XP and 
got a "Intiernal Error" alert which i sendt ot feedback after sneekily 
going back online.
I've added it to the list (at the top).
The top ten is now:
Offline browsing is broken
Scrolling under Windows
Gnome Cut & Paste (possibly should be X.11 cut & paste)
Clicking http links under Linux has no effect
The edit buffer is lost on disconnection
Display of html links is a mess

Use of graphic as well as red colour to highlight groups with unread 
messages
Message highlighting is lost on disconnection
Search shold show messages in the local archive
Message not "tied" to a topic
Steeve
19-Feb-2007
[2242x2]
ans proxy settings are useless
*and
PeterWood
19-Feb-2007
[2244]
Proxy settings has a low priority in the AltME wishes list, mainly 
because it hasn't been important enough to anyone to add a brief 
description of what is wanted.
Steeve
19-Feb-2007
[2245x4]
i just want, it works
it works with rebol
but not with Altme
i can't use Altme at my job
PeterWood
19-Feb-2007
[2249]
Then why don't you add a simple description of what you want to the 
item in the AltME Wishes checklist .


(In case, you haven't seen the checklists before click on the icon 
of a tick (check in the US) in the top left hand quadrant of the 
AltME window.
Graham
19-Feb-2007
[2250x3]
I don't think we should have proxy settings on the list.
the reason is that the proxy problem is with some proxy servers and 
occurs with all rebol applications.  In particular, I can point to 
squid.
I checked this by using a proxy that worked fine with rebol. I then 
switched to squid, and it failed.
Anton
20-Feb-2007
[2253x3]
Far out, I must have been still wonky when I wrote "End of Life" 
- I thought Henrik was talking about IE.
Graham, that's no reason for it not to be on the list. AltME might 
tackle this common user problem by linking to some documentation 
which explains the situation, problems and possibly automatically 
forwards a feature request for you to RT feedback.
Then RT might get a better idea of the numbers of people affected 
by this issue.
PeterWood
20-Feb-2007
[2256x5]
So is it possible to phrase the requirement better than "proxy"?
Is the requirement for an AltME client to access an AltME server 
from behind a firewall or proxy server?
Or is that two seperate wishes?
Does anybody want to run an AltME server from behind a firewall/proxyserver?
May be Safeworlds wants to offer a nifty http re-direction service 
from port 80 on a server?
[unknown: 9]
21-Feb-2007
[2261]
No....we don't
PeterWood
21-Feb-2007
[2262]
At least that's one possible interpretation of "proxy" ruled out.
Graham
21-Feb-2007
[2263]
Anton, if the proxy only allows http packets .. then there is nothing 
that RT can do about this.
Anton
21-Feb-2007
[2264]
It's possible to tunnel through using http packets, isn't it ?
denismx
21-Feb-2007
[2265x3]
I'm running an altme server for family puposes on a Linux (debian) 
server at home. I would like it to start automatically, say after 
a power failure/reboot. I tried it under windows with command line 
options, but I did'nt get it to work.
Is this possible?
My present solution is to login remotly when I notice altme is gone, 
and leave a VNC created xsession up with altme restarted manually 
on it. But I prefer my computers trained to do things for me ;-)
Graham
21-Feb-2007
[2268]
I think command line driven altme servers are not free
Graham
22-Feb-2007
[2269]
If you want to use Altme at work, you could set up a ssl vpn at home 
using a Linksys rvl200 eg http://reviews.cnet.com/Linksys_4_Port_SSL_IPSec_VPN_Router_RVL200_router/4864-3243_7-32015900.html?ctype=msgid&messageSiteID=7&messageID=2349010&cval=2349010&tag=uolst
denismx
22-Feb-2007
[2270x2]
no, not at work. at home. was hoping to have it restart itself after 
a reboot for when I'm out.
Not vital since it's for family contacts only.
Maxim
22-Feb-2007
[2272x2]
there is a (several?)  tool for windows which can generate events 
and select windows.  you could probably use that to simulate a manual 
login.
since all events are handled window wide (from the perspective of 
windows) It should be easy to trick rebol.  just record key sequence... 
put a few waits and you should be done :-)
Bobo
22-Feb-2007
[2274]
denismx, if you're running debian thefile you want is probably  '/etc/init.d/rc.local' 
. Put your command in there and it will run after a reboot.
denismx
22-Feb-2007
[2275]
Maxim, I was thinking of a similar solution, some script that simulates 
keystrokes from the keyboard. I remember seing something like that 
under Windows. There's probably something like that under Xwindows.