Jolt Country

http://moltobenny.com is on a LINODE now.

You can go there and play ZORK.

bye

That's cool. What's 4xgamer running off of?

You can also play Zork 2! Thanks, Ben.

Flack wrote:That's cool. What's 4xgamer running off of?

Your mom.

You can now also play Apartment F209 at:

http://f209.moltobenny.com

:D

You can also play Zork by sshing in to moltobenny.com with the username "zork" and the password "zork".

This function is currently in beta, let me know how it works for you, and how you've found a way to use it to hack into and destroy my linode.

There's two ways you've left open to get into the zork account right now. One is by simply logging in through SFTP. The other is by running an executable at login time (like /bin/bash). For example I can login with:
and get a shell.

None of these result in root access of course. But people still get full access to a Linux shell on your server and read access over the whole file system. Which is not good.

Using SSH for this thing is probably not a good idea anyway. You could set up an anonymous telnet login for playing zork instead.

Good stuff! Thanks! Yes, anonymous telnet! That sounds good.

I couldn't figure out how to set it up!

PROJECT CANCELLED.

You can now access an old-timey dial-in BBS ("The Night Owl 2000"!!) by telnetting to moltobenny.com!

I thought you said "PROJECT CANCELLED"...

Went there and looked around. Lots of Chinese characters, might be my Firefox telnet add-on that's doing it. Will there be files for downloading? Isn't there some kind of PHPBB theme that emulates a BBS?


THE
OLD/NEW
AARDVARK

One thing I noticed (on some other telnet BBSs) is that when I said YES to "Extended IBM ANSI Characters" things ended up looking like shit.

So maybe turn that off for everyone, Pinner? Please?

I do like that Ben and Flack now have BBSs. And that reminds me, I haven't been to Flack's in a while...

I think it is time to advertise this boards on Caltrops, perhaps. I will also try to create a sticky here so that people always know where to go when they want old school BBS flavor.

The ANSI character thing works just fine here using the standard Linux telnet client.

What I found was that older versions of telnet.exe that came with Windows work great, and newer versions (Vista and newer) don't display right.

I have put the old version of telnet on my website here:

http://robohara.com/bbs/index.php?file=bbs-telnet

You can either overwrite the newer one (that's what I did) or rename it to something like telnet2.exe or telnet-old.exe or telnet-new.exe or lick-my-scrotum.exe, it really doesn't matter.

For my BBS I wrote a one line batch file that says "telnet bbs.robohara.com" and then created a shortcut to the batch file on my desktop so all I have to do is double click that icon and the BBS opens up. I'll do the same for Pin's if it's up for more than two weeks.

I am also happy that FLACK is BACK.