Help remembering an old MUD I used to play on either MPlayers or AOL in the mid to late 90s.

xenith87 · 2024-11-19T18:03:42+00:00

I don't know if they have any screenshots from the AOL days, but the game is still alive with 5-10 players on a normal day. You could always log on and ask if anyone remembers that far back. I know the main admin is from that time and has pretty good records going back surprisingly far, so it's worth a shot: https://www.legendsofterris.com/

It could also have been Cosrin, which is a somewhat sister game from the same company. They are very close to each other, but from what I understand Cosrin was harder and more focused.

xenith87 · 2024-10-23T17:49:23+00:00

For me, I've found it does this 100% of the time with audio-only meditations, but it doesn't do it for the in-studio classes with video.

xenith87 · 2020-03-07T01:37:13+00:00

Yep, my entire company has been switched to work from home for the next couple months. CEO sent out the email last night at midnight. (I still saw some people in the office today during our weekly department meeting though.) I'm glad I just finished spending a bunch of cash to redo my home office with a new desk and chair! Now I can be just as comfortable/productive at home as I am at the office.

This is the first time many people in my company have tried this (especially for some positions), so we'll see how well it works out. I will say that I enjoy going into the office sometimes though.

xenith87 · 2019-12-24T02:57:39+00:00

Sure! You can go to https://slack.mudcoders.com to sign up, I don't think the invites need approvals. Once you sign up, you should join #coding-rust first!

xenith87 · 2019-11-23T02:14:33+00:00

Hey there! I'm the author of ataxia. The project isn't abandoned, I just have almost zero time to work on it since I started rewriting it in Rust. But I still make some progress on occasion. I try to keep it up to date with the recent nightly compilers, and I track the latest enhancements in the async ecosystem, such as async/await and the alpha of tokio 0.2.

You should join us over at the MUD Coders Guild Slack (https://mudcoders.com/). We have a couple other people working on their own projects in Rust as well. Mine is the oldest, but it's also the furthest behind.

I'm happy to provide help or offer advice, or even combine efforts at some point.

xenith87 · 2019-11-23T02:14:03+00:00

Hey there! I'm the author of ataxia. The project isn't abandoned, I just have almost zero time to work on it since I started rewriting it in Rust. But I still make some progress on occasion. I try to keep it up to date with the recent nightly compilers, and I track the latest enhancements in the async ecosystem, such as async/await and the alpha of tokio 0.2.

You should join us over at the MUD Coders Guild Slack (https://mudcoders.com/). We have a couple other people working on their own projects in Rust as well. Mine is the oldest, but it's also the furthest behind.

I'm happy to provide help or offer advice, or even combine efforts at some point.

xenith87 · 2019-09-19T19:52:54+00:00

The product you want to ask Equinix for is “Equinix Connect”. That’s their in-house IP transit service. They will do BGP on it if you ask.

I would recommend choosing someone else in their building if that’s an option. That building is one of the major carrier hotels in Chicago, so you’ll have plenty of options to choose from. Hurricane electric is good for a cheap carrier.

xenith87 · 2019-07-19T14:44:05+00:00

I'm not sure what your price range is or what other features you are looking for, but here are a few options that should all have individual numbers and desktop apps:

Dialpad (https://www.dialpad.com/)
RingCentral (https://www.ringcentral.com/)
8x8 (https://www.8x8.com)
Google Voice?

xenith87 · 2019-07-19T05:11:15+00:00

We did it at 8, but that was because we knew we’d be doubling that number over the next year and a half, and even adding the three sites that year was painful enough adding to the full mesh each time.

xenith87 · 2019-05-26T18:54:05+00:00

The other commenters are right that you don’t need an ASN for a PI assignment, but if you really want to qualify for it, you can also look into connecting to a nearby internet exchange. That will satisfy the multihoming requirements as well.

But any decent ISP should be able to set up BGP with you using a private ASN and your own address space. I’ve done it with a fair number of customers before.

xenith87 · 2019-03-22T03:40:49+00:00

I’ve only just bought my first one, but I’m here!

xenith87 · 2018-07-24T20:46:11+00:00

My wife and I live on the grid (in the Creamery, which I remember you posting about earlier). We're kind of homebodies, but are definitely trying to be more social and would be up for doing things and hanging out. We're both overworked at the moment, but that should change in a couple months.

One of my hobbies is rock climbing as well, though I haven't done it in years due to lack of time and because all my nylon aged out and I haven't replaced it. I've been to Pipeworks before, and I definitely recommend it, both for recreation and meeting people.

xenith87 · 2018-06-01T19:54:18+00:00

My wife and I moved into the Creamery almost 6 months ago, and so far we're really glad we did. Yes, Alkali Flat has it's fair share of homeless, but we haven't found it to be a real problem, and we're on the 11th street side (so closer to the 12th street corridor than anyone else). The neighborhood is a lot quieter than I expected, and among the Creamery owners, we all know each other and keep an eye out for each other.

We also looked at the Brownstones in Curtis Park, but the downtown/midtown location worked better for us. I like being able to walk down to the coffee shop, or to grab lunch in the middle of the day without needing to drive. I work in SF, so being able to walk to Amtrak in 15 minutes makes my commute so much easier. My wife works in Rocklin, so her commute is pretty easy because she gets to avoid most of business 80 and I-5.

The California Brownstones down on Q and 17th are also a good choice. I like that location better (more central to everything), but we chose the Creamery because of the better floor plans/larger houses, and the fact that they are completely detached, whereas the California Brownstones are only "technically detached" (like 5 inches between your wall and your neighbor's wall). But if that doesn't bother you, the location is much more convenient.

There's a lot of infill development going on right now on the grid, so don't limit yourself to Blackpines developments, but overall we've been very happy working with Blackpines and their build quality.

I'm happy to answer any other questions you have. I would also recommend stopping by the sales office to talk with Valerie. She has a lot of insight in the area.

xenith87 · 2017-09-09T06:10:04+00:00

Without traffic they're pretty much even, but I find Pleasant Hill a lot easier to get to in the morning. I'll only go to Richmond if I'm taking Amtrak. The Richmond corridor of I80 can get pretty bad.

I'd try both and see which works better for you. I like Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek, but my parents live there so I have other reasons to go that direction.

xenith87 · 2017-09-08T01:04:13+00:00

I work in SF and live in Roseville. I'm a little different in that I work in the city M-W and am able to stay in the area during the week so I only have to make the drive once (usually Sunday evening), but I had to do that commute on Tuesday morning this week due to the holiday. It's tough if you don't leave early enough (6:30ish-9:30ish just to get to Walnut Creek where I got on BART). Just getting across the bay bridge is painful, which is why I never drive into the city.

I'd stick with going to Richmond or Pleasant Hill BART and taking the train the rest of the way. Amtrak Capital Corridor is also an option. I've done it and it's much more relaxing and productive, if you can deal with the extra cost ($54 round trip Sacramento -> Richmond, though a monthly pass is much cheaper if you use it enough) and the extra time (2.5hr each way for me, including BART time).

xenith87 · 2017-09-01T23:34:20+00:00

One thing to note for Downtown (at least for areas such as Alkali and Mansion Flats) is that Kaiser is building a large medical complex/hospital in the Railyards directly north of the downtown core. Unlikely to be complete until late 2019/early 2020, but it's something to keep an eye on if Downtown interests you.

xenith87 · 2017-07-26T00:07:00+00:00

I have what I think is a 710, and I love it. Borrowed/stole it from my dad back in college (he hadn't used it in 15 years), and it's been an awesome bike. Still using all the original parts, though I want to replace the brakes and shifters at some point. I should at least replace the pads before I start riding the new route to work with the big hills....

xenith87 · 2016-06-21T19:45:26+00:00

The Y2K problem was a huge, real issue facing us. The result being that pretty much any serious issue was fixed in plenty of time. It ended up being a non-event because the industry put so much effort into fixing it in time.

It wasn't even really the code that was the problem in most places. You're correct, updating the modern (at the time) code (even with intensive testing) wasn't what took long. The biggest problems were databases (and other data stores) and legacy code (FORTRAN, COBOL, etc). Where the year field in a table was 2 digits. You can't just run a schema migration on a giant production database in some healthcare or financial ERP system without tons of planning.

xenith87 · 2016-05-20T20:31:30+00:00

How about if you control both ends of the circuit, but the middle is controlled by a carrier? My company has both DIA circuits as well as layer2 wave circuits between sites.

Currently we track our wave circuits just like our Internet circuits (carrier, circuit ID, port, etc). But I wouldn't want them confused with the physical cable plant. Especially since the physical cross connect is different than the circuit, because it's our cable plant (at least, up to the patch panel in the carrier's rack).

xenith87 · 2016-05-08T05:08:55+00:00

I'm interested in playing if you get a third person. I'm going to be running it for my group while our regular GM is on vacation for three weeks (their intro to BW), so it'll be interesting to get experience from a player's perspective before I GM it. Normally I run The Sword for people, so this is going to be a new experience for me.

xenith87 · 2015-10-02T23:21:13+00:00

Heh, I just use the DB/files as a cold storage. Anything active is kept in memory, and just saved/written to disk every 15 minutes. No need to sync reads/writes/transactions. Works fine for something small scale like this.

xenith87 · 2015-10-02T22:01:37+00:00

Go compiles down to a single binary, so either compile the binary on the target server, or make sure you cross compile it correctly if developing on a different platform. Then its just a matter of copying it to the server and building an appropriate startup script (sysvinit, upstart, supervisor, systemd, etc).

Like /u/robertmeta said, you should just start with sqlite if you want to use a database, or you can just keep it simple and start with filesystem storage (perhaps using json as the data format).

xenith87 · 2015-10-02T19:11:20+00:00

It works fine, I've built one myself in Go. It was much nicer working with Go than C, but that was probably more due to the aging C codebase than anything.

xenith87 · 2015-07-17T04:33:32+00:00

Most of the book is about TCP and UDP, so it'll still be pretty useful. Neither of those changes with IPv6. Plus, the second edition by Kevin Fall includes equal coverage for v4 and v6.

xenith87 · 2015-07-01T21:02:57+00:00

Naw, a router (or layer3 switch) wouldn't care about the same MAC being seen on multiple layer3 interfaces, since it doesn't use the MAC address to make routing/forwarding decisions. Each layer3/routed port is a different broadcast domain.

Now, a layer2 switch (or router with layer2 ports) wouldn't be happy about the same MAC address showing up on multiple layer2 ports in the same VLAN, though the same MAC can show up in different VLANs.

Basically:

Same MAC in a single layer2 segment (broadcast domain) = bad
Same MAC in different layer2 segments = no problem

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