Dragon's Eye back up

[Pinacolada]

Well, boy howdy. The old girl is ticking away just fine mere inches from my left foot. For the first full day she was back up, she received 14 calls. Not bad! Not bad at all. I am pleased that it was missed. (Just means you have to improve your aim, people...)

There are still some issues to be worked out. I lost a few menu files in a hard drive crash a while back, but I'll continue to work on them. Also, do not attempt to use the "FurryBoard" feature at this time. (There seems to be a sychronization issue between the two user lists maintained by the "matrix mod" which makes this possible. I have not yet looked into the fix.)

I have a mostly-completed BBS guide; it's in OpenOffice.org format, but could easily be converted to a .PDF (or M$ Word .doc format), if anyone is interested, simply e-mail me.

Or, one thing that I may do is upload it to Metal Mage's Retrograde BBS site: www.retrogradebbs.com. [Edit: this has been done with the OO.o version, can't find the .doc file yet; all I have to do is install OO.o on this Linuxy computer and do a "save as," but I'm lazy... :/]

Note: If you have had an account at any point during the system's life, all your account information is preserved. If you're having trouble remembering your password or username, simply e-mail me via my Yahoo e-mail address, and I'll either look up your account name, or reset your password temporarily.

Note that you can change your handle, as well as other terminal parameters, using the "EP" command (which I've rewritten as compared to stock Image BBS).

The address, you ask? Why, it's telnet://dragonseye.dyndns.org:6400!

Be there, or be burninated!

[wiskow]

I checked it out... Lookin' good!

-Andrew

[Pinacolada]

May 7, 2008 20:59:16 GMT -5 wiskow said:

I checked it out... Lookin' good!

Thank you, sir. *tips his hat* Coincidentally, I tried logging on to your BBS, couldn't remember the bogus # I gave at signup. Tried emailing you, but your mailbox is temporarily inactive or something. I'll PM you with the phone number to change to.

[wiskow]

You probably tried e-mailing me at my old verizon.net address. Just replace "verizon.net" with "gmail.com". (it's also on my profile here)

Got your PM... I'll reply soon.

-Andrew

[garth]

Tried but my computer of choice doesnt want to connect seems its that 6400 thing as regular port 23 bbs sites its fine with

[Pinacolada]

May 10, 2008 2:28:52 GMT -5 garth said:

Tried but my computer of choice doesnt want to connect seems its that 6400 thing as regular port 23 bbs sites its fine with

Oof. Sorry about that, garth. I don't have a choice in the matter, the ISP I'm using assumes I'm a h4><0r for using port 23 and blocks it. Tech support practically came out and said it. I ended up giving them a piece of my mind.

Slightly edited transcript:

Them: "h4x! lol"
Me: "OMGWTFBBQ!"
Them: "lolz sux 2 b u"
Me: "... yes, it does. But! The things I know about programming Ye Olde Computar Masheen in BASIC 2.0 and a li'l bit of assembly code j00 w!ll n3v4r kn0\/\/! I worked for Symantec, for five years, setting up miserable Windrone boxes to be safe from people like you. Just because I am using port 23 does not mean I am a bad person! It's retrocomputing!" *sniffs, curls up into the fetal position, sucking his thumb*

They weren't impressed. Even after pointing out my boss is letting me use his account; I'm paying the bill, he's got $[e-mail], woo -- so can't I _pretty please_ have port 23...? I won't hide terrorists and anthrax in my interwebnets... it's just a stupid BBS!

Oops. *slaps hand over mouth* D'oh!

I forgot rule number one. Rule number one: Never, never use acronyms which the "tech" (and I use that term loosely) is not familiar with. (It just ... slipped out.) Or his manager, which I had the displeasure of communicating with. (Remind me to tell you about my utter frustration with my former cell phone service provider... aren't there fora for such things...? As Lord Ronin would say: "295,491 blocks deleted for content"...)

Of course, if silence conveys a blank look on the other end... there was a long, long blank look...

Pointy-haired boss: "I'm sorry, we can't approve this; file-sharing programs go against the net-neutrality act."

Me: "... (picking up jaw off floor) ... WHAT?!"

It got worse from there. *sob*

Honestly, that was how the conversation went...

Anyway, the long and the short of it, garth. Perhaps consider trying another program...? I wonder if you could build cgterm for Amiga... that'd be bitchin'!

*glees!*

I'm gonna go visit the local UPCHUG (nice name, huh?) Commie user's group and I'mma ask them if they could help me with that! Amiga got SDL libraries...?

[Pinacolada]

Okay... here's the deal, mmkay.

She is back up. Slightly different address though:

telnet://dragonseyebbs.dyndns.org:6400

Enjoy!