Glide path...
May. 13th, 2002 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpBy the end of the day at the MCC, I had developed one heck of a headache. I'd determined earlier that I was nearly penniless, since I'd had the bad taste to leave my wallet at home (better my wallet than my JSC photo id!), and thus had not eaten any lunch, but I doubt that my aching head was the result of malnutrition.
Once home, I found Lee hard at work trying to put together her MUD with not a lot of help (read: none) from any of her buddies. She was in way over her head, trying to understand pseudo-C code without ever having learned any programming language. The "coder" in the group she hangs with is apparently a real lightweight, and that's all I'll say about that.
Over dinner at the bar-b-que place down the street, she told me of having gone in and set the Linksys DSL router to allow someone outside of the house to link to her Linux box and connect to her MUD via port 7878. She was really happy that this worked (as she's generally been happy with her experience in Linux).
It's doubly hard to program the thing, given a rather skimpy set of docs (at least, according to Lee). From what little I've seen of the "source code," though, it looks like a fairly flexible and powerful system.
Anyway, after dinner, we sat down and watched The Mummy Returns, which was a lot of fun, actually. It's certainly a far cry from the Mummy movies that I saw on TV as a kid, which succeeded in keeping me awake nights for weeks, it seems, on end. As it is, I really don't enjoy the horror genre, but then again, are these Mummy movies really in that genre?
Got to go to bed early tonight, so as to get up in time to make my telecon. I will try earnestly not to wake up every hour or so. I will get a good night's sleep!
First, though, I think I might take a gander at the docs to this MUD system of Lee's...
Cheers...
Once home, I found Lee hard at work trying to put together her MUD with not a lot of help (read: none) from any of her buddies. She was in way over her head, trying to understand pseudo-C code without ever having learned any programming language. The "coder" in the group she hangs with is apparently a real lightweight, and that's all I'll say about that.
Over dinner at the bar-b-que place down the street, she told me of having gone in and set the Linksys DSL router to allow someone outside of the house to link to her Linux box and connect to her MUD via port 7878. She was really happy that this worked (as she's generally been happy with her experience in Linux).
It's doubly hard to program the thing, given a rather skimpy set of docs (at least, according to Lee). From what little I've seen of the "source code," though, it looks like a fairly flexible and powerful system.
Anyway, after dinner, we sat down and watched The Mummy Returns, which was a lot of fun, actually. It's certainly a far cry from the Mummy movies that I saw on TV as a kid, which succeeded in keeping me awake nights for weeks, it seems, on end. As it is, I really don't enjoy the horror genre, but then again, are these Mummy movies really in that genre?
Got to go to bed early tonight, so as to get up in time to make my telecon. I will try earnestly not to wake up every hour or so. I will get a good night's sleep!
First, though, I think I might take a gander at the docs to this MUD system of Lee's...
Cheers...
