This is/was "hotly debated". IMO public schools are like any other public thing and accessible to vamps generally, and Angel was just being sassy when Jenny asked him how he got in.
But along those lines, my initial response was "Depends on who's writing" with the Angel/Jenny school scene in mind. "Enter all who seek knowledge" or whatever.
Overall they were not very consistent when it came to the invitation thing.
If you throw an strace on a process that interacts with the filesystem you'll see that stuff like open() returns a file descriptor and stuff like read() takes a file descriptor as an argument.
These are also generally the numbers you're using when you do I/O redirection in your shell with stuff like 2>&1 or exec 5< ./some_file.txt
When server CPUs go idle, it takes them some time to get spinning again when they're needed. So I keep this low resource bash one liner running in the back ground to keep my CPUs lightly active. This way there's always a little momentum going and they never stop spinning:
What got me hooked is really the essence of the game itself. A multiplayer fantasy RPG with a global player base. It's a really cool concept that I've enjoyed in many iterations. EQ, WoW, GW2 etc.
I just never really stopped playing this one. One of the things I love about MUDs is that it's so easy to just have it running in another window. Killing a monster every 4 minutes during the work day. Chatting with folks and organizing groups while literally playing other MMOs.
I don't think that I could play WoW on one screen and GW2 on another with any efficacy and I almost certainly wouldn't enjoy it.
I've also really enjoyed the classes the game offers, the ability to multi class, and the reincarnation system which is similar to modern "prestige" systems. Except I can keep most of my earned exp while choosing an entirely different race and class combination.
MUD communities tend to be pretty great and this one has been no exception.
In regards to the screenshot "Mud age" is the same thing as /played or /age in MMOs. The amount of time spent logged in to the game.
Good answer! I get tired of the self hosted email FUD. Sure there's more to it than "docker up" (Maddy is close though) but it's not that hard and it's thoroughly documented at this point. So many tutorials.
Earlier in the week something someone said reminded me that Bell Witch exists. Been revisiting/rediscovering their catalogue this week and it's been a blast :D
Same here, both old.reddit.com and the new layout (i.e. just reddit.com) work fine for me without a login. All I have to do is dismiss the little flyout that asks if I want to login using google.
Even in Chrome. Even without Ublock origin. Even from the USA, without a VPN.
Ready for the incredibly complex fully elite hack? CAN YOU HANDLE IT?! DO YOU HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY?
Private browsing/incognito mode.
ETA: With the large variety of responses in this thread, I'm really curious if this works for other people or if I'm just super lucky.
That book was likely a huge boost to my career. My first tech job was for a very small shop and the owner insisted that everything run Solaris. Which meant sendmail all day long.
That book got me through some rough times. Fucking sendmail milters ... in 2000.
