Hoorah!

[artisanal_xara]

I just learned that our home network is set up such that I can telnet to oort from campus. That means I can check my email from campus! Hoozah!

I didn't think our IP's were stable enough to do that, but George showed me how to find our ip from anywhere. Yay!

Good lord, I'm a dork. I'm currently telnetted from Orb to campus to oort to miranda back to Orb then to foo. Gah! That's not the most practical thing to do, I'm just being silly, but it sure is amusing.

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[gorski.livejournal.com]

Oort? *chuckle*. What a cool name for a machine. Named after the astronomer, the cloud, or the asteroid, if I might ask? :)

...In my younger days, I remember being telnetted to a machine here in Raleigh using both sides of a 38-kilobit connection to Iceland, just for grins. The latency was noticeable, but not too bad... as narrow as the pipe was, though, in retrospect I should probably have been nice and not wasted other peoples' bandwidth too much.

On the other hand, though, isn't it nice that telnet is designed so that you can get to any one of those machines without having to log out of any of 'em or open a new connection to any of 'em?

peace,

--me

[artisanal_xara]

oort: named for the cloud.
miranda: named for the moon.
Orb: so named because it's a Mac cube.
foo: named for the metasyntactic variable.