World: r3wp

Runs very well.

Interesting.  I tried to run Synapse under Xandros and it crashed.

I might just try pure wine instead.

What's the file size limit in Altme nowadays?

Windows :: Right click, select properties.

Graham what version of Xandros are you using?

it was a version I downloaded late last year.  Expired now I guess.

Ports: Hi, I want to setup AltME in a way that it connects to a local 
port-forwarding proxy which than tunnels the connections.


What local ports does AltME use? And what are the remote IPs / Ports 
I need to use?

robert I think whatever you tried broke safeworld ;^)

it may have been a DNS problem, because I was connected to the r3 
world the whole time and could send messages just fine. of course 
it's no fun if there is no one to respond. :-)

I know ....just razzing

I think 5400 is the main port.

Robert - http://www.altme.com/guide/advanced.html#sect0.7.

Robert, no docs but check  worlds/rebol3/config.txt  and prefs/prefs.txt

If the lookup server dies, then no one can reconnect to a world anywhere. 
 This is how Altme controls access.

Is everyone else able to see their own worlds now? I can see RT worlds, 
but not my own, even one I start locally. The test page on the AltMe 
site says they should be reachable.

I'm still getting  exists but not on-line.

I guess nobody else here is running their own worlds.

I will by trying to start one on Saturday ...

the one world I have been running was no longer activated.  Same 
problem I've always had with AltME.  The world name is not payed 
for so therefore after inactivity would be released to be reused 
by others.  However, it is accessed daily, but still get's released 
every once in a while.  I can now access it after re-registering 
it.

We are tracking these down.

I got it back up. I have shortcuts that use the command line options 
to start the worlds. That doesn't work. I had to go into the UI and 
choose Start a World, then I could see them again.

Just figured it out two minutes ago.

To confirm, you are saying that to start a world, you "had to click 
on"  [Start a World]?

They would start on the server just fine from the shortcut, but I 
couldn't connect to them until I did that.

So everything looked good. Even the AltMe test page said they were 
reachable. But the AltMe client couldn't see them.

I read the docs. But the port 5400-5409 are outgoing ports. So no 
problem to tunnel them. But than AltME gets back via port 5500. But 
AltME directly contacts to my system, not using the tunnel.

I tried to use a SOCKS proxy for dynamic tunneling but AltME doesn't 
seem to have SOCKS support done right or at all.

My understanding is it uses port 5500 to check the world server and 
5400-5409 are dedicated for your world addresses, incoming and outgoing. 
 The AltME client itself simply uses your default internet ports, 
80, 8080.

5400 is incoming port IIRC

5500 is for World lookup - outgoing. 5400 is incoming port, when 
you run your own worlds. 5400 - 5400 is vaguely described. But maybe 
it is because most ISPs don't block outgoing connections at all.

In order to run your own world, you need to DST-NAT (forward) particular 
incoming port to your machine.

Gregg : I run my own world ...I just never log off of that one.

It's not about running my own world. It's about connection to worlds. 
The thing is that this port 5500 seems to be an incoming port. And 
this one is routed wrong.

would be nice to allow opening groups in separate windows.

Or at least tabs.

we talked a little bit about subgroups in the r3-alpha world: a group 
that holds subgroups, for particularly shortlived topics, like an 
event (last nights episode of XYZ TV show) or for short discussions 
of questions. this avoids mashing separate subtopics into one group 
and they wouldn't scroll out of view as quickly.

The alternative suggested was threaded discussions.

Maybe make optional expirable groups that way if a post doesn't take 
place for some time in a respective expirable group that group will 
expire and clean itself up.

I wouldn't want the material to disappear, but if it could be very 
compacted, perhaps.

it would be nice to see a list of files that you are about to download 
in the file sharing module. there's nothing useful about seeing dialogs 
with "There are 5 files to download.".

and apparently multiline messages don't work on this machine. strange.

I try again. Someone mentioned he got AltME run through a proxy. 
I still failed with support from programs like Proxifier etc. But 
please note that I tunnel all the traffic through SSH as well.

wouldn't it be best to contact Reichart privately, and ask him, if 
the fix would be possible? Maybe there is some little bug somewhere, 
which would not take long to fix?

Best to send something believed to be a bug to Feedback...since then 
it is queued.

Does the folder sharing features work yet in Altme?  I never have 
seen any shared out folders so was just wondering.

Paul, I believe it is just a limitation of this World.  I have file 
sharing available on a personal world that I maintain.

Yup...

does AltME store information about window maximization somewhere? 
I have an annoying problem under OSX Leopard, when I switch my macbook 
between the internal 1280x800 screen and my external 1680x1050 screen 
where AltME sometimes decides that the window should be maximized 
at all times. When resizing the window, the content will be resized, 
but the window itself fills out the entire screen except for the 
menu and the dock. It does not fix itself until after a reboot, so 
I don't know if it's a bug in AltME or Leopard.

Thanks Brock.