World: r3wp

So I thought I will put an end to "your world has expired" nonsense 
(which is technologically done in totally dumb way - your worlds 
are running, and yet they expire, and it totally contradicts what 
is communicated on the web - your world expires, if not used for 
more than 10 days) ....


... but unfortunatelly, following registration link does not work 
- http://www.altme.com/cgi-bin/orders/cart.r?cmd=buy&prod=100-1&

Good luck with the email ...


Please contact the server administrator, [root-:-localhost] and inform 
them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have 
done that may have caused the error.

Pekr, Lost my worlds too. First time since we thought we had figured 
out the problem...

If you run your own AltME world that you start with a script or other 
method, the AltME name server has been improved to keep your worldname 
reserved as long as users login to your world a minimum of once every 
ten days.

http://www.rebol.com/article/0463.html

So does this mean if you remain continuously connected you can lose 
the name?

What we need is a way to search the group names instead of being 
forced to scroll thru them ...

Disconnected now and got this message


Server reported error in unknown-request because of: fstatus

where 
the f is italic

Quite odd. I was seeing altme problems today as well.  Checked the 
traceroute to discover the connection to this server was routing 
from here in California, to NY, to Washington DC, then to Frankfurt 
Germany... nice.  This server is just south of Washington DC.

Tried to use AltME on Win7 today. Wow, don't try to share files. 
What a horrible OS experience Win7 is, along the lines of "where 
are my files?"

I've got to imagine this is a problem for R2 as well, no?  Anyone 
have a fix for the installer?

Change OS ?

Put the files somewhere other than in the program files directory; 
stop acting like a Win9x progeram.

Right now I have an issue with AltME not loading new messages after 
the initial refresh after logging in.

And the activity line says "Chat: <groupname>" and sticks there instead 
of saying "On-line". Refreshing requires logging out and back in.

Yes, I've looked a that a bit... it's a strange one.

I thought that TCP isn't allowed to drop packets, but it sure seems 
to do so. Perhaps REBOL simply is not detecting that error condition.

Running two other worlds right now and no problems there.

A couple days ago, in one of our main worlds we use here, the checklists 
did not sync.

So, I think the algorithm for sync verification must change. Right 
now it's notification based, but I think it needs to reverify on 
a regular basis.  This wasn't a problem when TCP/IP was reliable.

But, I see dropped packets even in web browsers these days... often 
leading to some strange looking pages (because for example, the CSS 
never loaded.)

yes, I see the same thing. I recall there was a sudden drop a couple 
of years ago in general speed and it has been like that since.

Is there a way to automate notifications for private groups?  I will 
not be visiting as much but want to get updates to certain groups 
and thought about making some form of tool to do this.  Was curious 
if someone has already created one.

Would be cool if ALTME groups had a notification feature where it 
could send something to an email box on each update to that group.

Actually this looks pretty simple to do but may require an instance 
of altme running all the time

I wanted to avoid that.

I don't know of an existing tool, but it shouldn't be hard to do.

Interesting that for some reason AltME sees graphviz .dot files as 
word documents in its file sharing.

I guess it's because .dot is also word document templates.

probably so ....

New participation index for the REBOL3 AltME world:
  http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2010


The older prolific posters table simply counts total posts made....But 
that's a little simplistic as some people post each sentence as a 
separate post (understandable given some of AltME's connection issues) 
while others post entire multi-line essays in one post.


The new participation index attempts to adjust for that by weightng 
various things: total non-blank lines posted; total words posted; 
etc.


It is still a fairly meaningless, though remarkably consistent measure 
of the participation in the [web public] forums of this world.


Thanks to everyone who participates and keeps this place so alive 
and friendly....And especially Graham, who is the top poster no matter 
which way it is counted :)

Very cool. Thanks Sunanda.

So I have to use long words now??

And lots of different ones ....repetitions are weighted downwards 
too :)

(or lobby for some groups you are hyperactive in to become [web public]....that'll 
have an immediate boost to your already high ratings :/

Please don't do that last one. Most of the groups that aren't web-public, 
especially the hyperactive ones, are that way for a reason: privacy.

If you want to take your rants public there are other groups for 
that.

Unless it's *your* group, a group dedicated to one of your own projects. 
Then go for it :)

No problem Brian. there's a double-switch needed to make things [web 
public] at REBOL.org....
Step 1 is for  someone here to mark  a group [web public] 

Step 2 is for someone (usually me) at REBOl.org to flag that group 
as on the publication list

So mistakes, or over enthusiastic [web public]ings can be corrected.

Hi. I read the FAQ and the Altme docs. How's one to find the last 
posted messages since last login?

Do I have to go to each individual world of interest?

no, nn gives you all the messages posted since the last nn across 
all headers

sorry - didn't clue in you were asking about AltME - you can't see 
the latest since the last login, but you can sort so that the groups 
with the latest messages are at the top

Florin, on the left, you should see "M | Users | Status"  You can 
click on these:

M = Most recent
Users = Alphabetical
Status = By by status

Thanks

Just a note, I had to reinstall Altme again because of computer failure. 
 And like the previous times I got the following note from my antivirus: 
  Category: Trojan


Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from 
an attacker.

Recommendation: Remove this software immediately.


Microsoft Security Essentials detected programs that may compromise 
your privacy or damage your computer. You can still access the files 
that these programs use without removing them (not recommended). 
To access these files, select the 'Allow' action and click 'Apply 
actions'. If this option is not available, log on as administrator 
or ask the local administrator for help.

Items: 
containerfile:C:\Program Files\altme\worlds\rebol3\chat\380.set

file:C:\Program Files\altme\worlds\rebol3\chat\380.set->(SCRIPT0001)

Get more information about this item online.

not a big confidence builder to the inexperienced

I wish this would get cleaned up, it always gives me a bit of a fright 
until I realize what's going on.

It is annoying, isn't it.
Documented here:
    http://www.altme.com/notes/blade-runner.html
and here:

    http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?offset=0&post=r3wp151x3911

hmmm... using microsoft anti-virus, guess they haven't gotten the 
memo

Does the AltME search on rebol.org also search in the poster name 
field? At first glance it seems not to.