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* Your general plans look interesting and good, but it would be better to discuss them with more experienced people than me.  We can start on Thursday night.  I hope you will post an announcement and code in a repository soon, as I think it will attract attention from more and unexpected angles offering more ideas to chew on.

* Your general plans look interesting and good, but it would be better to discuss them with more experienced people than me.  We can start on Thursday night.  I hope you will post an announcement and code in a repository soon, as I think it will attract attention from more and unexpected angles offering more ideas to chew on.

*:: Thanks for all your efforts!          --Fred

*:: Thanks for all your efforts!          --Fred

*: The repository thing is a bit difficult as 99% of the system is other peoples software and about 1% or less of it is simply glue code written by me to script it.  I might want to do a bit more polishing up of the system and pay a bit more detail to how I package it before I start having others work on it.  but I will enable access to the wiki at ___.___.___ and I will eventually have a build process for the system, at which point I might either use a free repository or just house it on my web server.

*: The repository thing is a bit difficult as 99% of the system is other peoples software and about 1% or less of it is simply glue code written by me to script it.  I might want to do a bit more polishing up of the system and pay a bit more detail to how I package it before I start having others work on it.  but I will enable access to the wiki at http://teotwawki.steubentech.com and I will eventually have a build process for the system, at which point I might either use a free repository or just house it on my web server.

*: In either case, I really am looking forward to tomorrow if you bring in the XO that you put TN on and starst to run it at some point during the demonstration you will receive a lot of posts to the network news system which will propagate to all 4 laptops (or more as the case may be if Jeff has installed it) and all 4 laptops will have the post that you added to the tn.general group on your node.  Plus any other posts anyone decides to add on any of the machines in the room.

*: In either case, I really am looking forward to tomorrow if you bring in the XO that you put TN on and starst to run it at some point during the demonstration you will receive a lot of posts to the network news system which will propagate to all 4 laptops (or more as the case may be if Jeff has installed it) and all 4 laptops will have the post that you added to the tn.general group on your node.  Plus any other posts anyone decides to add on any of the machines in the room.

*: Also others without the software installed can easily just browse to the IP of any of the laptops running on the mesh and contribute/read postings, play with the wiki etc.  and also download a copy of the software over the mesh from any of the machines running the software. This last bit actually saved my butt once because I didn't realize updating to version 802 would wipe out my custom installed software (including everything in /opt/tn!) I had updated 2 of the 3 test laptops and then found out that my software was gone. but thankfully there was one left that did not get updated yet and I simply restored the software over the mesh from the remaining box.  as long as one machine still exists with tn installed it can be recovered.

*: Also others without the software installed can easily just browse to the IP of any of the laptops running on the mesh and contribute/read postings, play with the wiki etc.  and also download a copy of the software over the mesh from any of the machines running the software. This last bit actually saved my butt once because I didn't realize updating to version 802 would wipe out my custom installed software (including everything in /opt/tn!) I had updated 2 of the 3 test laptops and then found out that my software was gone. but thankfully there was one left that did not get updated yet and I simply restored the software over the mesh from the remaining box.  as long as one machine still exists with tn installed it can be recovered.