Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Pixel_Outlaw on February 29, 2012
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So my friend and I thought it might be fun to take a thin client computer and make it into a full server. Done.
Specs:
Debian 6, no X11.
300 MHz CPU (idles at about 6%, up to 10% with 4 users logged in)
512 MB RAM (system only needs 29 MB initially jumps to 39 MB with multiple programs users running)
"Mystic BBS" installed.
Yesterday we set up a BBS on it and nobody on our little server has ever used one.
The first thing to strike me is the notion of a "Time Bank" the bugger kicked me off after about half an hour. Even as a board operator it did it.
I know that ANSI art was popular at the time and I'm wondering how ANSI art is stored? Is it just a flat text file
with ansi characters inside?
If anyone knows how to set up a modern terminal to work with ANSI that would be great, currently we are using a few
Linux terminals gnome-terminal, lxterminal, and puTTY. They get garbled characters many times. I assume it is because they are trying to use Unicode instead of ANSI?
It is not ready for prime time yet, but it feels GREAT to be able to do so much with just simple text.
I guess it goes back to the hacker mentality of not accepting limitations on your system but redefining them.
A thin client is basically garbage but we've made a full early 90's style server out of one with very low resources.
Thoughts?
Reminiscence about BBS? :carrot:
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I think we have this board solid enough to launch now.
There is still a lot of configuration to do with theming and customization of messages.
ssh or telnet in:
user 'bbs'
password 'bbs'
To
98.127.21.127
If you want the nice ANSI characters to display correctly please consider using Synchronet. (Linux, WIndows, Apple)
The hardware:
Debian Linux (net install)
Via C3 800MHZ
512 MB RAM
120 GB disk space
10 nodes at any time