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Authors & Publish
chair page, blog 		Paper formatting
page, blog 		Initial paper submission
chair, page, blog 		Final paper submission
chair, page, blog 		Problematic papers - corrections page, blog
Author [PDF,CrossCheck] tests page, blog IEEE PDF eXpress - paper format chair, page, blog IEEE electronic Copyright (eCf) chair, page, blog Attendee downloads of papers page, blog
Conference registration
page, blog 		Travel visas to Hungary
page, blog 		Conference presentations
page, blog 		HELP contacts
WCCI2020, system
Non-Author actions Paper reviews - authors' perspective page, blog IEEE CrossCheck text similarity chair, page, blog IEEE Xplore web-publish chair, page, blog
IEEE Conference Application chair IEEE Letter of Acquisition chair IEEE Publication Form chair Software systems page
Conference Guides for [IEEE-CIS, INNS] conferences : Although this guide was initially set up for IJCNN2019, and was used for IEEE WCCI 2020, hopefully some of the basic information may still help [organising committee members, authors] up to 2023-2025 (assuming a half-life of links and process information of 3-5 years?). The Authors' and Publications menus have been combined, allowing authors to see the Publications Chair perspective as well. I am no longer keeping this up to date. Bill Howell, 11Dec2020
IEEE WCCI 2020 Authors : Although this "Authors' Guide" was set up for IJCNN2019, and [dates, contacts, process] are different for IEEE WCCI 2020, hopefully some of the basic information may still help. See the "IEEE WCCI 2020 HELP web-page" in the menu above for WCCI2020-specific [contacts, a few key data] related to [instructions, FAQs].


Blog : Attendee downloads of conference papers

The "Authors' Guide Blogs" (see links in manu near top of page) are in an early draft form, and are being run on a trial basis. Comments are moderated by the Publications Chair before posting, so expect delays of at least a day or so before they appear. Note that emails have been edited - usually by [omitting salutations, endings], but also by omitting material not relevant to the "theme" under which the emails are placed below.


Table of Contents :

Incomplete list of blog [themes, comments, questions] : the links lead to email threads of selected themes. Text search for other themes.


Summary of the sftp server [goals, constraints, setup, operation, usage, problems]


This summary is targeted at future [General, Publications] Co-Chairs, but it may be of interest to some of the users as well, especially those who would like to understand more about the details. It is a separate web-page from the main "Attendees downloads of conference papers", as it really isn't useful to attendees needs when it comes to using the sftp server.
Attendee downloads of conference papers - summary

31Jul2019 FINAL reminder to finish your paper downloads, within ONE week!


31Jul&01Aug2019 Email warning to attendees - The email body below was sent to attendees to warn them of the imminent sftp server deqactivations. This also links to the [web, blog]-pages, and describes some ofthe common problems that IJCNN attendees encountered when trying to download :

Subject: FINAL reminder to finish your paper downloads, within ONE week!

Although all recipients of this email have accessed the IJCNN sftp server, but I am sending this email to remind those who haven't completed the downloads to do so now.

As attendees of IJCNN2019, you may download ONE copy of the complete set of papers on the server, if you do so between 27Jun2019 and 07Aug2019. Remember to download ONLY the pdfs that are newer than any that you have downloaded already (this is usually a [setting, option] in the sftp program).

I will NOT be providing email technical support at this late stage, so please do NOT send emails to me, unless :

Obviously, DO NOT DISTRIBUTE these copyrighted papers! DO NOT download multiple copies of the papers.


Mr. Bill Howell
1-587-707-2027 Bill@BillHowell.ca www.BillHowell.ca
P.O. Box 299, Hussar, Alberta, T0J1S0
member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS),
WCCI2020 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, http://wcci2020.org/
Retired: Science Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING, Ottawa


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ASSISTANCE - [WEB, BLOG]-PAGES

For settings and instructions that are REQUIRED to connect, you MUST visit :
Attendee downloads of conference papers
Additional [problems, fixes, comments] can be found on the blog :
BLOG : Attendee downloads of conference papers
I will attempt to add several comments to the blog site listed above, depending on my time availability.


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ACCESS PROBLEMS

Although ~16 people have requested help to access the site, and another ~17 requested that their [username, password] be re-activated after being de-activated for [excessive accesses, I am not sure that anyone who has worked through the challenge has failed to connect. Of course, many might have failed but did not notify me.

All of my recent support has involved simply repeating what has already been provided as instructions. There is no sense in spending my time on this. Additionally, I am sure that attendees found solutions to their unique problems by themselves, but I receive very little feedback on that. If you take your time, read the instructions

The top 4 problems that attendees have encountered, in decreasing order of frequency :
  1. failure to read instructions, including the items listed below
  2. you cannot use your browser, you need an sftp [program, add-on, plug-in]
  3. [slow, unreliable] internet connections
  4. deactivation of access - this will occur if :
    • you access the site >4 times. (in other words -> get in, download all, get out)
    • >5 days has passed since your last access
  5. you never received an email with your [username, password] (double-check that you did not!)
    You MUST use the same email address to communicate with me as the one that you registered with!)
Why don't things work?
Sometimes I look at it as the normal Unix utility learning process (eg [grep, sed, diff, com, etc]):
Do NOT contact me for your [username, passwords], unless you did NOT receive these (and check to make SURE that you did not!!). Attendees have received at least one email, and often two or more, providing that information. It is not my job to compensate for your email management problems, and I won't spend time on that.

See the [web, blog]-pages for many more problems.



You MUST use an sftp program - your browser won't work!


Perhaps not surprisingly, the most common problem was people's unfamiliarity with sftp. It's a bit strange that so many seemed to be trapped in the browser world, though.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:57:31 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...@BillHowell.ca>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: HEUNG-CHANG LEE <...@gmail.com>

You cannot use your browser. You need an sftp program. Follow the link for instructions & blog.


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
From: "HEUNG-CHANG LEE" <...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, July 15, 2019 4:30 pm
To: Bill@billhowell.ca
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Mr. Bill Howell

Thank you for your support and care.
Yes, I registered after 27 Jun 2019.
And I connected your URL but I don't know what do I do.
Please tell me what I need to do by using my new ID and Password.

Thank you
Best regards

Heung-Chang Lee


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 18:57:13 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Esma Mansouri Benssassi <...>

My guess is that you are trying to use your browser. You MUST use an sftp [program, plugin, add-on, etc].


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: {Disarmed} Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 10:07:28 +0000
From: Esma Mansouri Benssassi <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Good morning,

I cannot access to the provided address can you please advise.

Best regards
Esma


++++++++ different thread... ++++++++
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 22:20:14 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Jiangtao Ren. Sun Yat-sen U <...>

Jiangtao Ren - Please look at the url provided in the email below. You MUST use an sftp program, add-on, plug-in, whatever] to access. Your browser alone is not sufficient.


------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 11:28:11 +0800
From: issrjt@mail.sysu.edu.cn <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Dear ... Howell,
Would you like to tell me the website where I can download the papers?
Thanks a lot !

Best regards,
Jiangtao


Proper connection port for sftp


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: 答复: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 06:02:58 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Li Tang. Southwest JiaoTong U <...>

Li Tang - You probably have not properly specified the port, as clearly indicated in the error message :

Protocol error: Unknown protocol identifier (0x83 0x83 0x72). Most likely connected to the wrong port.
Connection to server closed.

This is issue mentioned on the information web-page. I use port 22, so try that if you have not already done so. But I cannot help you to find other ports that your system might use. It's possible that sftp connections are blocked by default on your system, so you'll have to ask your system administrators.

By the way, you put your email as contact person for two registrations, so you received two passwords :
...deleted...
...deleted...

The second one will have over-ridden the first, so try them both. That might also be the cause of your problem.


Connection denied


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 07:02:04 +0000
From: Jeyananthan P. <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Hi,
I am not able to access the page. It says access denied.
Thank you.
Regards,
Pratheeba


User deactivated - re-activate for access


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: Unable to access IJCNN papers on sftp repo - not logged in in last 7 days
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:42:15 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Laura Muzzarelli. Forschungszentrum Jalich <...@fz-juelich.de>

Done. Try to do all downloads soon!

Thanks for the email,


------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Unable to access IJCNN papers on sftp repo - not logged in in last 7 days
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:34:13 +0000
From: Muzzarelli, Laura <...@fz-juelich.de>
To: bill@billhowell.ca <...@billhowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

I am trying to download papers from the IJCNN conference, but I am unable to login to the sftp repository and get the following error:

Error: Authentication failed.
Error: Critical error: Could not connect to server

By reading the blog, I think my account was deactivated because I didn't access the repository in the last 7 days.
Would it be possible to reinstate my account? It is linked to this email address.

Thank you very much in advance and for your support for the meeting!
Best,

Laura Muzzarelli
Doctoral Researcher / PhD Student
Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

User deactivated - dormant 5 days, example notification


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:26:30 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Athanasios Davvetas. NCSR-Demokritos <...@iit.demokritos.gr>

I have re-activated and tested your access.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:09:43 +0300
From: Athanasios Davvetas <...@iit.demokritos.gr>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Howell,

Is it possible to regain access to the conference papers? I just noticed that I’m missing a bunch of them and I no longer seem to have access to the sftp server.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:33:49 +0000
From: Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon <...@ieee.org>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>

Thanks.
I downloaded my paper.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:41:37 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon <...@ieee.org>

I didn't see your email until this morning, as it had been filtered to an IEEE email directory of mine.

As a standard security measure, on 23Jul2019 all users who had not accessed the system within 7 days were deactivated. I will be doing the same tomorrow. As your account was accessed 28Jun2019, it is no longer active, but I will reactivate it tomorrow (today I am working out of town).

Make sure that you download all files in one or two sessions. Accesses in excess of 4 can also result in deactivation.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:25:22 +0000
From: Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon <...@ieee.org>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Sorry to bother you about this. However, I tried several times and I couldn't download my paper.
It always mentions as "Authentication error".
Is the password correct (attached below)?
Could you please help me regarding this?


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 online access to conference papers - deactivated
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 18:57:54 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: <... 18 recipients emails ...>

The [username, password] protection of IJCNN2019 conference papers is the "first stage" to prevent downloading by non-attendees. The second step is the deactivation of users who have accessed the site an unusual number of times.

As you have all accessed the site >=6 times, your username has been deactivated. However, on further investigation, it seems that at least 12 of 18 of you were having some kind of difficulty accessing the documents.
If were not able to download the files before deactivation, and of course would still like to, answer the questions above in an email to me and ask for reactivation.

<...recipient name...> - I have used our email exhanges as a means of showing some of the problems that can be encountered. I hope you don't mind that, as this is how problems have been fixed. I assume that you have downloaded everything already, so there is no further need for access.


User deactivated - very large number of accesses, example notification


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 deactivation of sftp access
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 10:34:35 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: <... 2 recipients - [name, email]s removed ...>

Your access to the sftp server are far higher than normal, so I have just deactivated them as normal procedure. However, there is a chance that you have been having legitimate problems (albeit far beyond the norm). If you can explain that to me, and still need to finish downloads, then I could reactivate your access for a short period.

This comes at a time when some attendees have apparently been doing an outrageous number of downloads, far in excess of your accesses. There is a possibility that those users have passed around their [username, password]s to MANY of their colleagues, who have been doing pirated downloads. I can't see anyone actually accessing the server than many times by themselves, unless they have absolutely nothing to do with their time and lives .


HTML corrupts the password!!


Many thanks to a graduate student and supervisor, who prefer not to haveemail exchanges shown, for a unique example of a serious problem of HTML corruption of passwords. This is the only direct example that I can remember.

Essentially, when looking at the [username, password] that they received from me, the "visible characters" were quite different from the actual characters because of html character interpretations. While a warning had been in the instructions since the beginning about this potential problem, it is somethign that most of us would ignore to begin with, and would miss with subsequent checks.

Even worse, even though the instructions state that the password should be 12 characters in length, quirky passwords could still give the same string length (this was not the case here). But the instructions also warn about that, and state how to check.

This problem arose because I stupidly used the same approach for passwords as I have used personally for decades - exploit as many characters as the system being used supports, which in the case of [Unix, Linux] systems is a lot (I haven't tried full uncode). The problem is that I am used to the [problems, solutions] and don't think about them. Systems administrators usually restrict passwords to simple alpha-numeric to avoid this problem! (Actually, they don't use emailing of [username, passwords] which is highly insecure!)


Able to logon but can't download?!?


S.N. Balakrishnan of Missouri S&T U, USA, mentioned verbally that although the sftp server login had been successful several times, downloading of files could not be done. This is the only case that I have heard of, and it is of great concern if it affects others!! It might possibly be due to too many users at the time, connection problems, or not realising how long it takes to download (1-2 hours for low speed internet, 1 Giga-byte).

Please email me if it has happened to you. Technical details like [context, error messages, etc] would help.


"HMAC corruption" red-font error message


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 online paper access - sftp program problem
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 02:45:47 +0000
From: Balakrishnan, S. N. <...@mst.edu>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Hi Bill,

It worked!

I downloaded File Zilla at my home computer and downloaded (I think) all conference papers. No problem with user name or password.

Thanks a lot for staying with me!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 9:11 PM
To: Balakrishnan, S. N.
Subject: IJCNN2019 online paper access - sftp program problem

Don't worry too much about tomorrow's deadline! I'll try to look more into this tomorrow (I'm traveling) or Thursday.

As I just received an example of "html corruption of the password", I am attaching a text file with your password to see if that helps. (probably not, but worth a try).


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 online paper access - sftp program problem
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:22:07 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: S.N. Balakrishnan. IEEE. Missouri S&T U. USA <...@mst.edu>

I just logged on under your [username, password] and downloaded paper N-19005.pdf.

Your image is very blurred - it looks like there is a red-font error message "HMAC corruption" (confirmed - this is the same as your previous screen capture errors). That doesn't look good at all - pretty basic error!

1. Perhaps there is no agreement on a "message authentication code (MAC)" between your sftp program, and the sftp server? It is my guess that your sftp program will adapt to whatever protocols the sftp server is using, but it could be the other way around.

Please look for your SFTP Chrome add on's HMAC setting, if it has one (probably not - this will likely be buried in the system as most users don't want to see it). Perhaps it defaults to something rather than being "auto".

2. Is the password being emptied properly? the picture shows only 9 "*".s, but your password MUST be 12 characters long. Most likely the number of "*"'s doesn't vary with the length of the passwords - but try one very short, and one very long fake password just to see how many "*"'s come up.

3. Just as your system won't allow FileZilla, it may be blocking (firewall or other security measures) it's function, in spite of what system administrators say. I still recommend using your home computer. I am not helping you very well, and we are running out of time.

4. Perhaps you can simply ask your IT people to do the download and pass t to you (good luck on that!) ).

Your's is a very special problem. Knowing the answer might help future conference attendees.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 reactivation of [username, password]
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 21:48:40 +0000
From: Balakrishnan, S. N. <...@mst.edu>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

I went forward one more step as in the attachment; it said ‘opening SSH or SSN files” but nothing came out after 70 minutes after which the file server timed out!.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 6:28 PM
To: Balakrishnan, S. N. <...@mst.edu>
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 reactivation of [username, password]

As I am working on IEEE Xplore preparations with General Chair Chrisina Jayne and Publications Chair Chul Sung, plus I cannot respond to individual requests, I have reactivated all users with less than 7 accesses to date.

You should now be able to access the server, much earlier than I expected...


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 14:12:38 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: S.N. Balakrishnan <...@mst.edu>

I just answered this in a separate email. It will have to wait, except to note that I will have nothing to do with internal controls of software usage by organisations. My advice - use your personal computer.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:05:28 +0000
From: Balakrishnan, S. N. <...@mst.edu>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear [Mr.] Howell,

Thank you for your email. Since I have been overseas since our conference, I am trying the download process only now. I downloaded the SFTP Chrome add on and tried to log in using my user name and the password that you sent, I got the attached message.
BTW, our institution filter would not let me download your preference, that is, File Zilla.
Can you kindly help?


FileZilla connection failure


The frequent frustrations with sftp setup, and the frustrations of trying to provide support when I don't have sftp system administration experience, are well reflected below.

Worse, we have no idea of what the problem was and how it was resolved.

Most users seem to resolve the problems, and although I know of only one or two who simply couldn't resolve their issues, I suspect that the number is MUCH higher!!! After all, about have of the 900 attendees didn't access the system, whereas I expected only 25% not to do so (but that was a pure guess).


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access problems
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:30:46 +0000
From: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

Thank for your help and patient in past days. The issue is solved finally.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access problems
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:48:46 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>

Your [username, password] are correct, and I just successfully logged in with them.

I am sorry, but it's not clear to me what the problem might be. So far, although perhaps 20-30 people had initial logon problems (usually due to trying to use their browser rather than an sftp program), you are the only one I know of with persistent problems. Unfortunately, I cannot spend more time on this/

I recommend that you ask a [friend, colleague] to try to download the files on your behalf using your [username, password].


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: [SPAM]IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:02:33 +0000
From: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

Thanks for your help. Sorry that I still cannot download through sftp. Could you check my ID and password as below?

ID:
Password:


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:52:14 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>


I just re-tested your [username, password] from here, and it worked fine.

Going over some of the details :

Your system is using port 22 (hopefully that is correct, but it is the port that I use)
Logon Type : You have "Normal" which should OK. I use "Ask for password" so that I enter the password every time (extra safety - but not relevant here).
There are 12 characters in your "ghosted-out" password, so I don't think that your email has "truncated, re-interpreted] the characters (but I can't see the password to be sure).

I don't think that these will help, but try :

Try "Logon Type" = "Ask for password", even though I don't think that's the problem. But I NEVER see the command that you get (below) so I can't compare without switching, and Im not going to do that.
Try "Quick Logon"
Try bumping up your "Maximum number of connections" to 2.
I hope that you are not initiating the logon, then going on to something else to wait for it. You will be quickly dropped if you aren't active!
Look at the [web, blog]-pages, as there might be a hint in there. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to update those for a while, so many recent solutions aren't there.

Try again, and if nothing works, send me your password. Although the [username, password] emails are usually [generated, sent] automatically, there is a chance that you received the wrong password, or that it was corrupted.


*****************
Server comments

Your server comments when logging in :
Status: Connecting to bh.cust.lexi.net...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "ting-wei.kang@mediatek.com@hh.cust.lexi.net" 22
Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server

My server comments when logging in (I use "Quick connect"):
Status: Connecting to bh.cust.lexi.net...
Status: Connected to bh.cust.lexi.net
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Status: Listing directory /
Status: Directory listing of "/" successful


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:14:11 +0000
From: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

Sorry to bother you again. I have contacted our company’s IT colleague after your guideline. IT colleague mentioned there is no firewall for FTP download.

About access ID, I used "ting-wei.kang@mediatek.com" in FTP setting, it was just email appearance issue.

I don’t what’s next step I can try, could you give some guidance?

I captured all my current setting page and error message as below:


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:33:57 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>

I don't know which port you set, and in any case this depends on your system. Furthermore, firewalls etc can have an effect, as can several other problems as mentioned in the "Authors' Guide : Attendee downloads of conference papers" [web, blog]-pages

I also just noticed in the copy of my 16Jul2019 email to you below :
username<...@mediatek.com>

This is wrong, it is only ting-wei.kang@mediatek.com, as the "double email" above did NOT appear in my text email. This may have been created by your email software!!??


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:21:42 +0000
From: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
To: Bill@BillHowell.ca <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

Thanks for your kind. However, I still cannot access the sftp.

My setting of FileZilla is as below figure. Of course, ID and password are filled below “Logon Type”. Furthermore, I didn’t change other settings. Could you check if my setting is correct at your convenience?

+-----+
image of General setup of FileZilla :
Protocol : SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
Host : bh.cust.lexi.net Port : not shown (22 works for Howekll)
Logon Type : normal
+-----+

-----Original Message-----
From: William Neil Howell [mailto:Bill@BillHowell.ca]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 2:15 PM
To: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees

I'm sorry for my very delayed response. I must have filed this and lost treack of the email. I can only work from my cellphone now, and will be in Friday workshops today.

The logon looks wrong : "xxxxxxxxxxxxx@bh.cust.lexi.net" ((01Aug2019 Howell - I was totally wrong here: "...@bh.cust.lexi.net" is fine, where "..." is the username.))
Normally, one only sees something like (I forget details) : Sftp://bh.cust.lexi.net"

However, you might be using the command line or something.

Perhaps by now u\you have already solved the problem, but let me know if you still cannot access. I won't be able to do much while travelling this weekend.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: [SPAM]IJCNN2019 Online access to new attendees
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:16:26 +0000
From: Ting-Wei Kang (康庭維) <...@mediatek.com>
To: Bill@BillHowell.ca <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Bill,

Thanks for your effort.

I tried to use FileZilla to connect sftp, however, below message is shown. May you share what's the root cause?

Status: Waiting to retry...
Status: Connecting to bh.cust.lexi.net...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "xxxxxxxxxxxxx@bh.cust.lexi.net" 22
Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server

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image of General setup of FileZilla :
Protocol : SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
Host : bh.cust.lexi.net Port : not shown (22 works for Howekll)
Logon Type : normal
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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: I am the author of IJCNN-19607, and I have some problems downloading the paper in STFP.
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 18:27:25 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Wendong Zheng <...>

Sorry, Wendong, I was using my cellphone on the road and didn't take a close look at the details.

"... Command: open "...@bh.cust.lexi.net" 22 ..."

does not look valid ( although it might be). ((01Aug2019 Howell - I was totally wrong here: "...@bh.cust.lexi.net" is fine, where "..." is the username.)) With FileZilla, I don't set up a login file. It's a really bad [idea, practice] to use files with your password, as it's security risk to have passwords lying around. I've done that before, and sure enough, embarassingly the password pops up as if it has a life on its own, so Itry to abvoid that!

Instead, FileZilla allows a "formal" login that is pre-setup, and a "Quick Connect" where you simply enter (copy-past) the 4 pieces of information to log in. I use the latter for convenience. You probably won't ever use this server again, so why waste time setting up a login profile?

Try again - your case may be different, and important to have on hand to help others.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: I am the author of IJCNN-19607, and I have some problems downloading the paper in STFP.
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 22:13:15 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: "郑温冬" <...>

First of all, you should at least have a clear idea that the login was successful! It's not clear from what you have provided to me.

It looks like you logged in and perhaps waited around to start downloads. Your connection will be terminated if you take too long to start. I'm travelling and can't check the details, but even when I get back home, I may not be able to get to this fast - there are just too many last minute upgrades to the bash scripts, allowable accesses, and author requests to do a lot of detailed work.

There have been quite a few accesses today, and there is a possibility that bandwidth limitations, or bad connections have cause the problem.

Try again, but try to start downloading immediately. Maybe that will work.

Bill

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: I am the author of IJCNN-19607, and I have some problems downloading the paper in STFP.
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:42:21 +0800
From: 郑温冬 <...>
To: Bill <...>

Hi Howell,

My name is Wendong Zheng, the author of IJCNN-19607, and I have some problems downloading the paper in STFP.

I visited SFTP as you said, and the username and password were copied to text files before filling in the quick connection column of FileZilla software. However, after receiving the open command, there was a problem with the link not connecting to the server and the link time out. I still can't solve it by using VPN (I've turned off the firewall!). I hope to get your help. Have a nice day!

The details:
bh.cust.lexi.net
<...username...>
<...password...>
22

Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "<...>
Error: no activity after 20 seconds, connection timeout

Regards,
Wendong


[username, password]s are sent to registered attendee emails only


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Budapest, Hungary - Attendee download of papers - access or other problems
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:08:29 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: 17120347@bjtu.edu.cn <...@bjtu.edu.cn>


I will not act on your email, as it must come from the registered attendee's email account, which is the only somewhat-reliable check that I have of a legitimate user. Only registered attendees of IJCNN2019 may download from the server, and then only one full set of papers.

The listed user received 2 emails with access details, plus a link to the [web, blog]-pages with instructions and problems people have encountered.


Mr. Bill Howell
1-587-707-2027 Bill@BillHowell.ca www.BillHowell.ca
P.O. Box 299, Hussar, Alberta, T0J1S0
member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS),
WCCI2020 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, http://wcci2020.org/
Retired: Science Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING, Ottawa


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 Budapest, Hungary - Attendee download of papers - access or other problems
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:10:29 +0800
From: 17120347@bjtu.edu.cn <...@bjtu.edu.cn>
To: Bill Howell. Sponsors-Exhibits Chair. IJCNN2019 Budapest. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>

Excuse me, for some reasons I can't accessed the server. I use the FileZilla and try several times to input the right host address, username, password and port number, but it still shows that: Error: Fail to authenticate.
Error: Fatal error: cannot connect to server.

Here are some information you may need: Registered e-mail: wuj@bjtu.edu.cn
Registered person: Jun Wu
Paper Number: N-19828
Papet Title: Integrating Dual User Network Embedding with Matrix Factorization for Social Recommender Systems
Paper Author(s): Liying Chen, Honglei Zhang and Jun Wu

Look forward to your reply. Thank you very much!


[Lost, deleted] email message with [username, password]


I'm not enthusiastic about spending my volunteer time because it's not worth attendees' time to find their own email messages...


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: A sincere request for personal username and password
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 09:46:19 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: 李晓红 XiaoHong Li. Tianjin U <...@tju.edu.cn>

An email was sent to you 27Jun2019 with your [username, password]. Please follow the instructions via the linked [web, blog]-pages.

There is a chance that that email didn't get through (in which this one probably won't either). Please do a thorough check of your emails, and if you absolutely can't find it, get back to me.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: A sincere request for personal username and password
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 23:14:38 +0800
From: 李晓红 <...@tju.edu.cn>
To: Bill@BillHowell.ca <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear Mr. Bill Howell,

Sorry to disturb you. I have never received an email with [username, password] about online access to conference papers. Could you please provide me the [username, password]? Looking forward to your reply.

Mrs. Xiaohong Li


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 Online paper access - problems
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:51:56 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Hanen Ameur. MIRACL <...@gmail.com>
CC: Chrisina Jayne <...@gmail.com>

You received an email 27Jun2019 with your [username, password] (I found no email delivery failure notice). Please look that up. Look at the instructions as linked in the email.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Hanen AMEUR <...@gmail.com>
Date: 1 August 2019 at 13:36:20 EEST
To: Chrisina Jayne <...@gmail.com>

Dear Chrisina,

I would like to access to the conference proceeding, but I didn't receive the email indicating the username, the password and the port. Please, can you inform me about the procedure to get these connection parameters ?

Best regards,
Hanen
--
Hanen AMEUR
PhD Student in Computer Sciences
Tunisia


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: about proceeding download
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:15:08 +0000
From: Li Zhang <...@northumbria.ac.uk>
To: daniel.c.sung
CC: Chrisina Jayne <...@gmail.com>

Dear all,

Please don't worry - I managed to retrieve the username and password for the proceeding download. Thanks very much indeed. Really appreciate all your great help very much.

Li


+-----+
From: Li Zhang
Sent: 13 July 2019 19:33
To: daniel.c.sung; Bill@BillHowell.ca
Cc: Chrisina Jayne
Subject: Re: about proceeding download

Dear Publication Chairs and General Conference Chair,

I'm really sorry for bothering you about the following. It seems that I accidentally deleted the messsage with username and password for proceeding download. I'm wondering if you or any other chairs may help to pass on this information again.

I'm extremely sorry for bothering you about it.

Thanks very much indeed. Really appreciate all your great help very much.

Dr Li Zhang
Associate Professor (Reader)
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Environment
Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK


Paper correction : LaTeX Error


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: The corrected paper of the problematic paper N-20072
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 23:57:14 -0400
From: Chul Sung <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Hi Bill,

I tried to run your script to add the header and ISBN into Junjie's issue but in the template generic.tex I found

\usepackage{nopageno}
\usepackage[norule,symbol,perpage,bottom]{footmisc}

and in my environment keep throwing errors that nopageno and footmisc cannot be found in my tex.

So when I comment out them I cannot make it.
It seems my environment problem but I cannot solve it.

Sincerely,
Chul Sung

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: The corrected paper of the problematic paper N-20072
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 22:03:50 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: Chul Sung <...>
CC: "殷俊杰" <...>, Chrisina Jayne. General Co-Chair & Workshop Chair. IJCNN2019 Budapest. INNS Director. Oxford Brooks U. Oxford. UK <...>

I don't know - I imagine it could be either, as the author might have picked weird styles, or you may be missing it. He would have to send you the details of his pageno. Styles.

However, this may be a red herring - papers should NOT have page numbers! That is clearly specified (if I remember correctly).


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: The corrected paper of the problematic paper N-20072
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 16:32:35 -0400
From: Chul Sung <...>
To: 殷俊杰 <...>
CC: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>, Chrisina Jayne. General Co-Chair & Workshop Chair. IJCNN2019 Budapest. INNS Director. Oxford Brooks U. Oxford. UK <...>

Hi Junjie,

When I try to include the header and ISBN I got the below error with your paper.
! LaTeX Error: File `nopageno.sty' not found.

Bill,
Is it Junjie's issue or my environment issue?

Sincerely,
Chul Sung


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: 殷俊杰 <...>
Date: Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:41 AM
Subject: The problem of the final paper
To: <...>

Dear Organizing Committee
I am Junjie Yin from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. My paper ID is N-20072. I have downloaded my paper from the sftp server and i found that the paper title is obscured by the header. How can i fix it?


Please email my paper to me


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 08:42:58 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Payel Sadhukhan <...>

I am not able to keep up with demands, please use the online system, where individual papers can be downloaded. I recommend that you download all with you first login, as your access will be deactivated after too many logins.

In general, if it's not worth your time to get the information for a system that is provided, it most certainly isn't worth my time.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 13:11:29 +0530
From: Payel Sadhukhan <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

I cannot connect to sftp://bh.cust.lexi.net. Can you kindly mail me my paper, N-19632? Thanks in advance.
Payel


CrossCheck failure - will my paper be published?


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Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 16:22:30 -0300
From: Carlos Alexandre <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Thank you Mr. Howell!
I will email Mr. Chul Sung about my paper.

Carlos A. S. Silva


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 14:46:33 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: Carlos Alexandre <...>

Carlos Alexandre - All accepted paper should make it into Xplore. A number of papers require changes, most are very simple [page size, margin] corrections.

In your case, the paper may be one of those with markings from a different conference (I am travelling and camnnot check any details). That's a HUGE mistake to submit a paper that looks already published, but as long as it is legitimate (Chul Sung should check) it can be published.

You might have hit the jackpot - perhaps as many as 30-40 papers failed CrossCheck, but we could not react in time so they are accepted for IJCNN2019. This is a good warning to yo - high self-similarity is the major reason for CrossCheck failures, so don't get caught next year and re-work your work!

Reformat and save your paper, then email to Chul Sung and cc me.

Bill Howell


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Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 12:22:36 -0300
From: Carlos Alexandre <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Good afternoon Mr. Howell,

My name is Carlos Silva, and I had an accepted paper for IJCNN2019.
When I went to download the accepted papers, I noticed that mine (number 20125) had an observation in "problematic papers.txt" that it was accepted but did not go through CrossCheck criteria. This paper is the progression of a work that I published in IJCNN 2018, so it is possible that they have an content intersection, always with all the quotations.

I'd like to know how to proceed in this case. Will the article be maintained in IJCNN and IEEE Xplore, or will it be withdrawn?

Thanks in advance!

Carlos A. S. Silva


Connection timed out


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: issue with proceedings
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 22:23:52 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: Gonzalo NAPOLES RUIZ <...>

Gonzalo - Thanks for the comment. I just answered a similar question, but I'm working from my cellphone, so if I get the chance tomorrow I'll link you with the other aithor to see if someone solves the problem. Tonight is the first time I hear of this problem.

There is no alternative - DropBox, at least in its simple free form, does not appear to be appropriate for this, although other IEEE conferences might be using it.
(07Jul2019 Howell - I was wrong (dumb comment). Of course there are alternatives, but in the current case I meant that I didn't QUICKLY find a really easy cheap alternative, I am using my ssh VPN which I trust, and I don't have time to play around!)

Check to make sure that your login worked. If I remember correctly - you do not have much time to start downloading, so as soon as your are logged in. Start the download of all files. Make sure the port is correct for your system. And it's possible that heavy volume is limiting bandwidth today, although I wonder...


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: issue with proceedings
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 03:48:34 +0200
From: Gonzalo NAPOLES RUIZ <...>
To: Bill@billhowell.ca

Dear organizers,

We have been trying to access the proceedings of the conference in the provided sftp with no success. We followed the instructions from the conference website and got the error message below from Filezilla:

"Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity"
"Could not connect to server"

Is there an alternative way of downloading the proceedings?


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 10:45:46 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
To: Ping Wei <...>

Common problems seem to be :
  • you must use an sftp program - that error has come back to those using a browser (that ould only work with an sftp add-on or plug-in)
  • pick the proper port : I use port 22, your system may be different, or your organisation may block the usage of sftp?
  • Sometime sporadic connection problems occur, as happened to me on Friday, even though I live only 100+ km from the server area (I live in the country, cellphone-type low speed only).
  • A very few attendees are listed 2 or 3 times because their email is also the contact for others from their organisation. Only the last-enabled password will work. Try all of them and see which works. I don't have access to my files now while travelling, so I cannot see if that applies to you.
Let me know if you are able to connect.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 答复: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:17:37 +0800
From: zoe <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Dear sir or madam,

I could't access the sftp server to download my paper. The error message is as follows:


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:29:04 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From: Ping Wei <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Thank you for your information. I have tried to connect the server many times but it shows error every time.

Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server

Thanks.


sftp requires too much work for downloads


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:44:37 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>

Javad Alirezaie- I appreciate your email. It's [worrying, frustrating] when people can't access the server (or correct their papers), and it's infrequent that any of us have an exact reason why.

Sometimes I look at it as the normal Unix utility learning process (eg [grep, sed, diff, com, etc]):
  • it helps to have a little explanation to start with, but these are never really exact and don't work
  • it helps far more to have concrete examples with actual values (blogs are often key)
  • somehow the [grammar, syntax] snaps in place and the problems magically disappear, without understanding how
  • While one can point out differences between what [does, doesn't] work, it doesn't usually fit into explanations but works wonderfully well after practice.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:03:07 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>

Thank you Bill, finally it worked! I don't know what happen since last night, but I was able to download the files this morning.
Regards,
-Javad


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:23:59 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>

Thanks Bill, I tried again with no success, keep getting the following error message, I checked the Blog, I noticed emails from some other people having the same problem, but there was no solutions provided. I'll try again tomorrow. BTW, I tried connecting to our server, i.e sftp at Ryerson and another machine as well, both of them were working! Anyways, thanks for your email response and your attention in this regard. All the best, -Javad

status: Connecting to bh.cust.lexi.net...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "<...@bh.cust.lexi.net" 22
Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:14:33 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>

As you had previously logged onto the server more than 5 days ago as of 23Jul2019 (see below), your account was deactivated. I should have mentioned that in the emails I just sent to users who have accessed the system (~50% of attendees), although it is clearly indicated in the "Access Problems" section.

I have just re-activated your [username, password], and tested that it works. Hopefully, FileZilla will work for you now.

As I mentioned in the email, I am NOT providing technical support at this time, as :
  • the vast majority of users don't seem to have a problem beyond the usual getting used to new software (see "Access Problems" in the email that was sent - ~16 challenged users of ~439 that have accessed the server). Of course I could be wrong about this, as some of those who have not accessed yet may not have been able to. But the lack of emails indicates that this is not a big problem.
  • most of the problems are resolved after users take a look at the details
  • sftp is extremely well supported and described on blogs etc. - the IJCNN2019 blog is puny in comparison
  • as a volunteer, I have to get back to my priority [responsibilities, projects]
One strange thing that might help is setting the port as 1022 instead of 22? I came across that not long ago, although I doubt I could easily find it again.


****************
Previous logons :
190705 12:00:31 bh sshd[28559]: Accepted password for <...username...> from 99.228.248.212 port 59145 ssh2
190705 12:09:23 bh sshd[28605]: Accepted password for <...username...> from 99.228.248.212 port 59344 ssh2

****************
Common issues

I sympathize with your frustrations : "... To be honest, I did not expect to spend this much time just to download the papers something that all attendees deserve to have without any hassle! ..."
  • The system does not optimise ease of use, or the papers would simply be posted publicly. It is a compromise between usage and security. That compromise is a minimalist one - it is not highly secure, nor is it extremely easy. I see the key problem as being the lack of "very basic security skills" on the part of users.

  • At least sftp it isn't as bad as [public, private] key encryption : few IJCNN people (or other) I've worked with are any good at all at that even if it is simple.
From my point of view the problems with sftp access have been essentially the same as the problems of authors who couldn't fix completely-wrong [paper size, margins, font] even after 3 to 5 iterations. This tends to follow a progression :
  • they don't have a problem - and it often takes a couple of emails for them to even see their problem
  • they didn't read any of the information, or didn't go into the details
  • they require 2-4 iterations to really get into the problem, repeated advice is necessary
  • rarely is anything new [learned, added to the list]
  • when they finally resolve their problem, in spite of my requests they rarely provide clues as to what their problem was, or how they fixed it.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:50:43 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>


Hi Bill,
As I did not receive any response from you, I gave up downloading the files, however, you sent another email today informing us we have still time .. I also installed the File Zilla, still no luck. Please try to use my user name and password, see if you can access the server. To be honest, I did not expect to spend this much time just to download the papers something that all attendees deserve to have without any hassle! Thank you.

user name : <...>
Password: <...>

Regards,
-Javad


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:40:59 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: Anthony Hudetz <...>

Fair comment, Anthony. I threw together this sftp setup at the last minute when two other groups failed to get it done over the past two months.

The first thought was to use DropBox and many, many similar setups, but none complied with IEEE requirements for providing online access to conference papers. I assume that other conferences do use DropBox etc, and perhaps an upgraded version allows compliance. But I had no time for this - when I started it up and sent the first email notifications, it was already 2-3 weeks late, and I knew that sftp would do the job (for me, peerhaps not so easy for the users).

I wonder if the normal organisational restrictions on software downloads are a major impediment to using sftp? That would have been a problem at work for me (I'm retired), but I always used my home computers to do anything anyways.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 15:04:22 -0400
From: Anthony Hudetz <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

The lack of downloads is not surprising. There is too much work involved. If there was a simple link to each, I would have downloaded them already.
Anthony


This sftp system has failed for me, go back to USB memory sticks


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 online access problem
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 09:40:26 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: <...attendee name...>


Thanks for your additional comments, <...attendee name...>. You bring out
some good points. In a few hours, I will post these to the theme "This
sftp system has failed for me, go back to USB memory sticks" on the
blog-page :


http://www.billhowell.ca/Neural nets/Conference guides/Author guide website/Attendee downloads of conference papers blog.html


If you want to change the title or add comments (or get the comments of
others), just let me know.

Just one correction - I am absolutely NOT a specialist or a techie. I've
never worked as that and wouldn't want too, especially on the tech support
side! The IJCNN2019 sftp server for papers is the first time that I've
played that role, other than as [nominal, figurehead] manager of a Lotus
Notes system which was so robust I hardly ever did anything with it. A
consultant took care of the very rare real things that came up. I have
used ftp in the past, but never ran an ftp or sftp system.

I'll try not to feel evil as "Big Brother". Actually I had no time to put
in a download volume-based cut-off, and threw together the access limit
control which is far from ideal!! - you are absolutely correct about
that. But another constraint was that I would not put in automated
programs to do the security controls (the user login itself is an example
of an automated control), as again, there wasn't time and frankly I was
afraid of trashing the server when working in too much of a rush. It [was,
is] not clear where a threshold should be set, and without the automated
controls the system is reactionary rather than real-time. But access
limits was the key simple security measure to avoid vulnerability of
wandering [username, password]s.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, ultimately perhaps all [journal, conference]
papers will be open source, and all of these headaches will disappear.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 online access problem
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:38:52 -0400
From: <...attendee name...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>


Hi Bill,

I appreciate your reactivation. However, I will not use it any more so you
are welcome to deactivate. I spent several hours of my time trying to
access in the past. So the lessons-learnt, for me, do not get into that
again. Now: YOU are an excellent specialist and based on what I hear you
probably you spent 100s of hours, which is really absolutely inappropriate
to expect, accept, tolerate. I only hope this distribution approach will
not be repeated for future conferences I am involved with.

As a side issue: That I am blacklisted with 10+ or so accesses, I find it
ridiculous, you can pass on this opinion to whoever you find appropriate.
The very fact that somebody is watching over your shoulder and "evaluates"
that you may be abusing the system make me wonder if this the right way to
distribute proceedings for which I paid for and I am entitled to have, but
I cannot. A flashback to 1984 ... and so on.

The sad fact is that with my *anomalous* 10+ accesses I could hardly
download the 5 papers from my session. In fact I had no chance to get my
own paper. My two cents is that if there are people abusing the system,
they are professionals, and will not need 5 or 10+ accesses, they can do,
and will do with a single swipe. But it is past tense, what may be need I
will get via academic account, perhaps a few months down the line.

Have a great summer, <...attendee name...>


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 online access problem
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 07:41:06 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: <...attendee name...>


<...attendee name...> - I have reactivated your [username, pwd].
Reminder : [pwd, username] = <... details removed ...>

As per my email of 01Aug2019 below, I am reactivating access for those who
require it, albeit a number of users with extremly high accesses (some
"excessive users" have >>20 accesses!!) are being questioned about their
use.

You had a high number of accesses (10+), as can be compared in the table
"Accesses per user" below, but much less than the "Top ten accessors"
table below. This probably reflects your difficulties in Budapest. By the
way, it took 1.5 days for me to get access, as the wifi would not work with
my Linux (only PC, Mac), and my cellphone roaming didn't kick in for 24
hours. My other problem was to borrow a computer monitor, which took some
time and which resulted in sporadic use of my computer as well.

"Excessive users" are a key focus for deactivation. Up until 28Jul2019
[Organising Committee, INNS, IEEE] users were excluded from deactivation,
but the general assumption is that a long period since the last access
indicates completed downloads now applies to them as well.

I appreciate your email below. You have good comments, and a survey could
be interesting. I am going to get some running excercise and will provide
some [questions, comments] later today or tomorrow.

... the following tables were removed, but can be found via the link
Attendee downloads - summary.html :
  • Attendee and hackers accesses (02Aug2019)
  • Distribution of the number of accesses per user
  • Top ten users by number of accesses


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 attendees: FINAL reminder to download papers,
within ONE week!
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 16:24:15 -0400
From: <...attendee name...>
To: www.BillHowell.ca <...@billhowell.ca>


Hi Bill,

You do a terrific job on multiple fronts, congrats and thank you!

As for the online access/download of IJCNN2019 proceedings:
My vote would go for NOT to do such things in the future. If you collect such poll there is mine.

I do understand this way we can save perhaps a few $1000 for conf budget. Still. What I can say is that I spent perhaps 2 hours trying to download, and I could download perhaps 6-8 those papers for a Session I chaired and wanted to be familiar with. But it so much took time. Also I know that bandwidth is an issue.

All in all, I do not have the proceedings, which is sad. Of course through academic subscription and IEEE membership but it is not the same as to be able to browse through the proceedings. That is lost in this transition.

I know I am old fashioned, and probably there is not much need by others for proceedings.

But this of course does not take a you out of your merits.

Have a great summer,

<...attendee name...>


++++++++ different thread... ++++++++
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Pre-conference online access to papers for registered attendees
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:56:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: ...
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Dear [Mr.] Howell,

I am conscious that we should let waist your time, but I have checked again the only e-mail I have got form you is on the 27th Juni which is an invitation for IEEE young researchers. Anyway you have sent to me the login password, thanks for it.

In my budget for the <...conference name...> I am including a booklet and a papers usb for the attendees,


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: 2019 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE IJCNN 2019)
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:53:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: ...
To: Bill@BillHowell.ca

Dear [Mr.] Howel,
the e-mail I received on the 27 Juny is below and it doesn't give me my username and password for downloading he papers, please give me those.

I am surprised with the conferrnce organization. I organized also big conferences, always the attendees get in a USB all the paper the first day of the conference
Thank you,


Multiple passwords over time


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Corrected paper pdfs - new lamps for old
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 18:15:46 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Marley Vellasco. South American Liason. IJCNN2019 Budapest. PUC-Rio. Rio de Janiero. Brazil <...>

Marley - Thanks very much for the heads up! Sorry for the delayed response, I've been focussed on bash scripts to insert copyrights etc into the pdfs since this morning, and only just looked at my email.

I also got the same error when I tried to join the site using "one of" your passwords. It worked fine with my administrative password, and it worked for several other users picked at random. The "Recent attendee logons" (see below) also seem normal.

On second look, the passwords for the initial users got changed by accident (automatic script), and in your case I had tried the first password below :
Non-working ...

With the updated password from the email to you 28Jun2019, it worked :
working ...

So your access works, its just that I screwed up informing by giving you 2 passwords, and I can't even remember the context now...

Sorry Marley. But I do intend to send a reminder email, and given your challenge, I should redo individual email reminders with the current passwords! (easy to say, easier to mess up ). But first - I have to upgrade the "permissions statements" that go on the pdfs, which is what I've been trying to resolve today.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Corrected paper pdfs - new lamps for old
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 07:58:53 -0300
From: Marley Vellasco <...>
To: BillHowell.Sponsors-ExhibitsChair.IJCNN2019Budapest.Hussar.Alberta.Canada <...>

Dear Bill,

I’ve just tried to download the new version of the proceedings but it did not work. It gives two errors in return: authentication error and impossible to connect to the server.

Kind regards,

Marley


PuTTY SFTP problems


In the end, Javad abandoned PuttySFTP and went with FileZilla. Other than deactivation of his [username, password], we never found out what the problem was. This is normal, unfortunately.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:44:37 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>


Javad Alirezaie- I appreciate your email. It's [worrying, frustrating] when people can't access the server (or correct their papers), and it's infrequent that any of us have an exact reason why.

Sometimes I look at it as the normal Unix utility learning process (eg [grep, sed, diff, com, etc]):
  • it helps to have a little explanation to start with, but these are never really exact and don't work
  • somehow the [grammar, syntax] snaps in place and the problems magically disappear, without understanding how
  • While one can point out differences between what [does, doesn't] w
    ork, it doesn't usually fit into explanations but
  • works wonderfully well after practice.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:03:07 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>


Thank you Bill, finally it worked! I don't know what happen since last night, but I was able to download the files this morning.
Regards,
-Javad


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:23:59 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>


Thanks Bill, I tried again with no success, keep getting the following error message, I checked the Blog, I noticed emails from some other people having the same problem, but there was no solutions provided. I'll try again tomorrow. BTW, I tried connecting to our server, i.e sftp at Ryerson and another machine as well, both of them were working! Anyways, thanks for your email response and your attention in this regard. All the best, -Javad

status: Connecting to bh.cust.lexi.net...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "<...@bh.cust.lexi.net" 22
Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:14:33 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
To: Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>


As you had previously logged onto the server more than 5 days ago as of 23Jul2019 (see below), your account was deactivated. I should have mentioned that in the emails I just sent to users who have accessed the system (~50% of attendees), although it is clearly indicated in the "Access Problems" section.

I have just re-activated your [username, password], and tested that it works. Hopefully, FileZilla will work for you now.

As I mentioned in the email, I am NOT providing technical support at this time, as :
  • the vast majority of users don't seem to have a problem beyond the usual getting used to new software (see "Access Problems" in the email that was sent - ~16 challenged users of ~439 that have accessed the server). Of course I could be wrong about this, as some of those who have not accessed yet may not have been able to. But the lack of emails indicates that this is not a big problem.
  • most of the problems are resolved after users take a look at the details
  • sftp is extremely well supported and described on blogs etc. - the IJCNN2019 blog is puny in comparison
  • as a volunteer, I have to get back to my priority [responsibilities, projects]
One strange thing that might help is setting the port as 1022 instead of 22? I came across that not long ago, although I doubt I could easily find it again.


Mr. Bill Howell
1-587-707-2027 Bill@BillHowell.ca www.BillHowell.ca
P.O. Box 299, Hussar, Alberta, T0J1S0
member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS),
WCCI2020 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, http://wcci2020.org/
Retired: Science Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING, Ottawa


****************
Previous logons :
190705 12:00:31 bh sshd[28559]: Accepted password for javad@ryerson.ca from 99.228.248.212 port 59145 ssh2
190705 12:09:23 bh sshd[28605]: Accepted password for javad@ryerson.ca from 99.228.248.212 port 59344 ssh2

****************
Common issues

I sympathize with your frustrations : "... To be honest, I did not expect to spend this much time just to download the papers something that all attendees deserve to have without any hassle! ..."
  • The system does not optimise ease of use, or the papers would simply be posted publicly. It is a compromise between usage and security. That compromise is a minimalist one - it is not highly secure, nor is it extremely easy. I see the key problem as being the lack of "very basic security skills" on the part of users.
  • At least sftp it isn't as bad as [public, private] key encryption : few IJCNN people (or other) I've worked with are any good at all at that even if it is simple.
From my point of view the problems with sftp access have been essentially the same as the problems of authors who couldn't fix completely-wrong [paper size, margins, font] even after 3 to 5 iterations. This tends to follow a progression :
  • they don't have a problem - and it often takes a couple of emails for them to even see their problem
  • they didn't read any of the information, or didn't go into the details
  • they require 2-4 iterations to really get into the problem, repeated advice is necessary
  • rarely is anything new [learned, added to the list]
  • when they finally resolve their problem, in spite of my requests they rarely provide clues as to what their problem was, or how they fixed it.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:50:43 -0400
From: Dr. Javad Alirezaie <...@ryerson.ca>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>


Hi Bill,
As I did not receive any response from you, I gave up downloading the files, however, you sent another email today informing us we have still time .. I also installed the File Zilla, still no luck. Please try to use my user name and password, see if you can access the server. To be honest, I did not expect to spend this much time just to download the papers something that all attendees deserve to have without any hassle! Thank you.

user name : ...
Password: ...

Regards,
-Javad

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:30:12 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: Javad Alirezaie <...>

Thanks, Javad - this helps. I am working from my cellphone, while my computer is taking it's time sending the emails like you received. My script is using low-level signalling, which blows up quite easily.

I wasn't thinking fully when I last responded. The sftp is running from my recently "re-incarnated" ssh server, which I gave up 4 years ago because of the cost. However, I'm terrified of messing around with the sftp server at this critical time when attendees are downloading. I also cannot use my ssh server as I would like in the interim, for the same fear.

All "normal users" cannot log in via the normal ssh process (I can as root, but even then there are abnormal limitations), but must use sftp.

Please allow me until Sunday (or Monday, depending on problems I am having with upgrades to all the posted paper pdfs (copyright sentences - not exactly what you were looking for anyways), and support for Sponsors, and quick replies on simple access problems of other attendees. I'm sure that your problem can be resolved, completely unsure that I am the one that can do it, It's interesting, though. I looked briefly at putty some time ago, but I thik that was for something veryspecific, and I haven't used it in practice.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 13:16:43 -0400
From: Javad Alirezaie <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

I am using PuTTY SFTP , I can ftp in to the server, login and check and see all the files etc.. I use "get" or "mget" command to download files, it works for other servers though!!

Using PSFTP to transfer files securely. PSFTP, the PuTTY SFTP client, is a tool for transferring files securely between computers using an SSH connection.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:48:16 -0600
From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>
To: Javad Alirezaie <...>

You have provided me with an error message "unable to open N-19326.pdf", which is more than most people .

On the basis of that, it looks like your program is trying to open the file rather than download it. I assume that you are not using an sftp [program, plug-in], in which case you will not be able to download. This was explained on the web-page. Aother frequent problem are connection problems, but at least users can download some individual files.

But thanks for letting me know, Javad. Please try again with the proper program, and let me know how it goes. I have not had a chance to post blog comments from other users that would help those experiencing difficulties, but that is to far down a long priority list, unfortunately.

My computer is almost completely tied up today (assuming that my connection doesn't fail - atmospheric conditions occasionally prevent connections out here in the country), so I may not be able to ready emails until later tonight or Sunday.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the
conference
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 12:23:19 -0400
From: Javad Alirezaie <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Hello,
I am unable to download the files, I can see the files but with neither of my ssh programs can download them. i.e. the error message looks like:
unable to open N-19326.pdf

Any comments?
Thank you.
Regards,
-Javad


New attendee registrations must be confirmed by the conference management company


This series of emails illustrates an important point - that I must receive confirmations of new attendee registrations DIRECTLY from the [INNS, IJCNN2019] conference management company.

Also, for attendees that already appear on my list of registered attendees, any requests for [usernames, passwords] MUST come from the EXACT same email address that they registered with. It is the [only, minimal] security that I have!

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Online papers access
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:35:55 +0000
From: Filipe Rocha <...@itv.org>
To: Bill@BillHowell.ca <...@BillHowell.ca>

"There are many good tools, many more ways to screw them up!"

This is really true!
I am sure I will not "hear" a better sentence like this in a long time. hahaha

Anyways, let me know if I can be of any help on this issue.

Thank you. May you also have a pleasant trip (I hope you keep your passport on sight haha).

Best regards,

Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha, M.Sc.
Pesquisador / Researcher
Instituto Tecnológico Vale / Vale Institute of Technology
filipe.rocha@itv.org

+-----+
De : William Neil Howell <...@BillHowell.ca>
Envoyé : vendredi 12 juillet 2019 14:23:09
À : Filipe Rocha
Objet : Re: IJCNN2019 Online papers access

I sure hope to manage it remotely! It's hosted - I don't run my own server
as my internet connections are FAR too slow. But this morning I'm
desperately racing to install the operating system on a Raspberry Pi (read
- very slow), after having messed up my password to it etc.

There are many good tools, many more ways to screw them up!

Have a good trip. Unless I lose my passport, I'll be there too.

Bill


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Online papers access
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:19:48 +0000
From: Filipe Rocha <...@itv.org>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>

Thank you so much, Mr. Howell.
I am traveling to Budapest right now. As soon as I reach there I will access the remote folder.

I am sorry for asking, but how are you managing this server? You may be able to manage it remotely using ssh.

Again, thank you for the credentials.

Best regards.


+-----+
De : Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada
Envoyé : jeudi 11 juillet à 23:50
Objet : IJCNN2019 Online papers access
À : Filipe Rocha

Filipe Rocha - here's your info for access. Remember, your browser won't work. You need an sftp [program, add-on, plugin].

username : <...username...>
pwd : <...password...>

Follow the [web, blog] pages for support, see :
http://www.BillHowell.ca/Neural nets/Conference guides/Author guide website/Attendee downloads of conference papers.html

I'm scrambling right now to install the operating system on a Rasperrry Pi, otherwise I won't be able to administer the sftp server etc when I get to Budapest.

Bring your computer, obviously, if you have to wait to setup and download there.

Mr. Bill Howell


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 Attendee downloads of conference papers - LAST reminder!
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:18:09 +0000
From: Adrianna Borczyk <...@association-resources.com>
To: Filipe Rocha <...@BillHowell.ca>
CC: Regina Legoo <...@association-resources.com>

Hi Bill

Yes Felipe is a registered attendee

Thanks

Adrianna Borczyk
Program Cooridnator
The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks


+-----+
From: Filipe Rocha <...@itv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:45 PM
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada; Adrianna Borczyk
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Attendee downloads of conference papers - LAST reminder!

Thank you for your kind attention, Mr. Howell.

I send in attachment my conference Invoice if that can be of any help.

Best regards.

Atenciosamente,

Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha, M.Sc.
Pesquisador / Researcher
Instituto Tecnológico Vale / Vale Institute of Technology
filipe.rocha@itv.org

+-----+
De : Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@BillHowell.ca>
Envoyé : mercredi 10 juillet 2019 12:10:06
À : Adrianna Borczyk. INNS Membership Coordinator & website. Association Resources. Hoffman Estates. IL. USA
Cc : Filipe Rocha
Objet : RE: IJCNN2019 Attendee downloads of conference papers - LAST reminder!

Adrianna - Filipe is NOT on the list of valid registered attendees that I have. Confirm and I will set up Filipe. I know it's a stupid question - but your list is the ONLY check that I have.

This is a good point that I had forgotten about. I won't have any new registrants since the last time that you sent a list to me (~27Jun2019). If you send me the current list (preferably encrypted - see below, but you probably don't have time to play with this...), I can add new attendees for access. But I need your list, as it's the only validation I have that someone is legitimate. There might be a few sponsor names in emails that are problematic, but ...

Thanks!

Filipe Rocha - I'm basically out of time, with many other requests that won't get done. But I will put a priority on this once Adrianna confirms (but I might not get to until tonight my time).

Mr. Bill Howell


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Fw: IJCNN2019 Attendee downloads of conference papers - LAST reminder!
Date:
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:46:47 +0000
From: Adrianna Borczyk <...@association-resources.com>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...@billhowell.ca>

Bill

Please see below

Adrianna


+-----+
From: Filipe Rocha <...@itv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:58 AM
To: inns@inns.org
Subject: RE: IJCNN2019 Attendee downloads of conference papers - LAST reminder!

Greetings.

I have not received any login credentials for the sftp server. Is it possible to send me one?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha, M.Sc.
Pesquisador / Researcher
Instituto Tecnológico Vale / Vale Institute of Technology
filipe.rocha@itv.org


On-site setup of paper access for new registered attendees


Providing access on-site for new registered attendees was NOT a smooth process at all! These are the sorts of problems that arise when the [cellphone, computer] conspire against you, and when I really would have preferred to spend the firsst 1.5 days attending sessions!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: IJCNN2019 Online paper access
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:43:18 -0400
From: William Neil Howell <...@BillHowell.ca>
Reply-To: Bill@BillHowell.ca
To: ...40 recipients...
CC: "Adrianna Borczyk" <...@association-resources.com>


This is a very quick note to say that I can FINALLY start working on your
accesses to the online papers.

I will work first on providing access to new conference [registrants,
attendees], then I will get to those of you who were notified, but cannot
access their emails while travelling. Some of you may never have received
my previous 3 emails because of spam filters, but then again, you won't
see this either...

However, please note that my connection problems may occur again (see note
below), but I sure hope not...


********************
Current and possibly future problems

After a hilarious day+ of challenges since last night, I have just now
succeeded in getting a full computer system set up with cellphone
tethering for the internet. (By the way, if anyone is running Linux, you
also might not be able to use the conference wifi - the specialist from
the company supporting the hotel had set me up on an entirely different
server, but now my cellphone access is finally working, so I am tethering
instead).


No problems with downloads



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 10:55:21 -0400
From: salman <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Hi,

I have already downloaded. There are 803 items/files downloaded. Thanks.

Kind Regards
Shaeke Salman
Computer Science (PhD)
Florida State University


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:53:59 -0300
From: João Luis Garcia Rosa <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Got it, thanks!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: IJCNN2019 REMINDER!! - download the papers prior to the conference
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 08:11:43 +0900
From: Linh Nguyen <...>
To: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada <...>

Dear Mr. Howell,

Thank you for your reminder. I downloaded all papers for conference without any problems.

Best regards,
Linh.