Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist • Hacker News Board

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by brianpgordon » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 1:56 AM UTC

burke wrote: post #20

bravura wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain what a named pipe .plan would do? In college, if you would finger me, you would see an ASCII-art animation of the iconic motorcycle jump shot from Terminator 2 for 10 seconds.

Finger basically just reads that file so if it’s a named pipe you can have a process generate content on the fly.

How does the process know that you're reading the pipe? Does it just, like, write a hundred copies of the desired output with EOFs in between so that it can be read multiple times?

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by alt219 » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 2:26 AM UTC

brianpgordon wrote: post #21

burke wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finger basically just reads that file so if it’s a named pipe you can have a process generate content on the fly.

How does the process know that you're reading the pipe? Does it just, like, write a hundred copies of the desired output with EOFs in between so that it can be read multiple times?

The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by brianpgordon » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 2:31 AM UTC

alt219 wrote: post #22

brianpgordon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does the process know that you're reading the pipe? Does it just, like, write a hundred copies of the desired output with EOFs in between so that it can be read multiple times?

The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.

Ah, right, I was misremembering how FIFOs work. You can't even write to it until a reader opens it. I was thinking that you could just dump data on it and the operating system would buffer it until someone came along to read it.

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by gbmor » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 3:35 AM UTC

technofiend wrote: post #19

What a sweet reminder of a simpler and more open time on the net. Makes me miss MUDs which were the right combination of social interaction without leaving embarrassing footprints for future employers to find twenty years on.

There's plenty of MUDs still around. Not as active as 20 years ago, but still active.

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by chrisweekly » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 3:51 AM UTC

mbuchholz wrote: post #16

rememberlenny wrote: post #7

When I got an account for tilde.club, I used it to host the first website I ever made. Now you can see the oldest Dreamweaver based html page I made from when I was 15: https://tilde.club/~rememberlenny/

Good ol' Dreamweaver. Used that for awhile.. worked great for the time :)

Yes! Switching from M$ FrontPage to Dreamweaver was a game-changer! WYSIWYG editor capabilities and generated markup that (for its time) was reasonably clean...

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by mbuchholz » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 3:56 AM UTC

ianmobbs wrote: post #4

[Here's a link to the waitlist]( http://goo.gl/forms/gRMRT1YBU4 )

As much as we appreciate the support, Users that have added themselves to that wait list after the 15th will not automatically get an account. We stopped using the wait list after we started emailing users on the wait list. To get an account we will be opening sign ups on tilde.club's website on the 20th.

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by appstorelottery » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:55 AM UTC

Wow. Brings back memories. We used to spoof mail to the Sysadmin and think it was funny as hell. We were such little nerds :-)

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by mbuchholz » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:03 AM UTC

chrisweekly wrote: post #25

mbuchholz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good ol' Dreamweaver. Used that for awhile.. worked great for the time :)

Yes! Switching from M$ FrontPage to Dreamweaver was a game-changer! WYSIWYG editor capabilities and generated markup that (for its time) was reasonably clean...

I was pretty lazy back then.. so frontpage was my easy way to manage links on multiple pages. But then I moved to dreamweaver after that and never looked back :)

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by CobrastanJorji » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:22 AM UTC

appstorelottery wrote: post #27

Wow. Brings back memories. We used to spoof mail to the Sysadmin and think it was funny as hell. We were such little nerds :-)

Oh man, I remember doing this in high school more than once.

$> telnet ourserver.com 25

helo

MAIL FROM president@whitehouse.gov

RCPT TO jim@ourserver.com

SUBJECT: Hi its me President Clinton

DATA fart

.

QUIT

Such a simpler time. Today I haven't the foggiest idea what it would take to invoke an email server correctly in a way that would definitely deliver the message. Probably a lot.

Re: Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

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Post by Jaruzel » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:40 AM UTC

technofiend wrote: post #19

What a sweet reminder of a simpler and more open time on the net. Makes me miss MUDs which were the right combination of social interaction without leaving embarrassing footprints for future employers to find twenty years on.

There's enough MUDs that are still active, that you should still be able to find a community you like.

Live listings of active MUDs: http://mudstats.com/

The Reddit MUD community: https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/