Shattered Kingdoms

I went to college at 7.






That was a heck of an early morning class.

Ewwwwwwww. I try for classes no earlier than 10.

Which reminds me, did you ever do a postdoc wert?

I'm working on my doctorate now, although I'm only finishing the first year of a five-year program.

Oh, so you're a long ways from even orals then.

Three ways.

The easy way if the sysadmin is dumb is to use the web-based The Mud Connector, a Java telnet applet.

The easier hard way that sometimes works is to proxy. You need to be able to configure a computer outside the network. Run a SOCKS proxy on it or whatever you want (as I recall XP does support running Telnet as a service...telnet to always-on machine, get a command prompt then telnet to SK, easy beans) that will accept incoming connections and then connect to SK as well. That way the network you're behind only sees the connection to the outside computer, not SK.
Problem with this is if the network ACL blocks certain types of traffic (SOCKS, Telnet, etc).

The hard way that always works is also to proxy, but with one more advanced step: a wrapper. Depending on the type of wrapper you can choose which type of traffic you want the telnet traffic to look like. So you can encrypt the flow of data (telnet is plain text, btw...a smart sysadmin could really mess with you because your passwords are transmitted right out in the open). Plenty of sysadmins who will watch or parse their snort logs and when they see kids getting around firewalls just go ahead and log into the kids' email or whatever they're accessing. All in the name of making sure there aren't any -hacker- tools or anything bad these kids are also accessing besides their forbidden email, of course. Can't bust em until you see exactly what all they're doing.

Anyway, back to the point. The way to make it always work is to have an outside computer proxy that will on the one hand have a straight telnet connection to SK and on the other hand, a HTTP wrapper that will feed/send the connection back through port 80 or 8080 on the network, both of which 99% of the time are not blocked unless you're in gov't or a very secure LAN. Still in plain-text unless your wrapper supports true encryption. Just google "http telnet wrapper" for more directions. Basically you're making your telnet protocol function inside the http (web page) protocol.

Didn't mean to get technical but it's interesting and fun to understand.

Baby steps are configuring your computer/router at home to have the right ports open, especially in the context of DynDNS if you don't have a static IP address. Generally learning the abstraction lingo in computer networking is a wise idea if you spend significant amounts of time online.

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With all the SK'ing I do, I still keep a 3.0+ And I slack off! (I should also add that I have a kid and work)

I wrote a long post explaining my GPA... but truthfully I thought no one would believe it (It is that good)... and thought well, you may have a higher GPA but I am sure I have more fun...

Sure you do.

I operate on the OthetCorp approved grading scale:

A: All right! You bribed the teacher!
B: By Gosh, it's a good thing your friend knew what he was doing, and periodically drops his paper.
C: Chrono Trigger is indeed a good study method for Calculus. Good thinking.
D: Don't forget that you cant make a without a D.
F: Fun. This class was so awesome and enjoyable, why pass up the opportunity to enjoy it again?

You remind me of one of my professors. It was a class where 80% of the students did not attend class till the midterm and he promptly flunked those who did not attend. The number of students that failed the course was 42.