• Idea's

    From Time Warrior@VERT to Hector Feliciano on Thursday, March 17, 2005 08:41:42
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    To: Hector Feliciano
    Re: Idea's
    By: Hector Feliciano to Digital Man on Thu Mar 17 2005 03:09 pm

    I'm not DM but I think I can answer these accurately enough :-)

    1. Print feature within the message menu, for printing of messages you want.

    That would be cool! :-)

    2. external door area to access MM or other doors from within js side.

    Synch already has rlogin / outbound telnet to access MUD's, MOO's,
    GameServ's, other BBS's, etc...

    3. Java style business card door from with the main area of the site.

    This would be up to a third party author, not Rob.

    4. Sysop Java console for editing users, files and such from within the web side.

    Deuce has this on the to-do list (he's the main SynchWeb guy) however as far as I know it's not a priority as of yet. Getting more important user features implimented is a priority over web based Sysop configs. Besides -- a third party other than Deuce could easily make this and have Deuce impliment it i'm sure.

    5. Real time chat from within the web users or Guru.

    Deuce has this planned but as for the ETA or priority level of it, he'd be da man to ask.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Tracker1 on Thursday, March 17, 2005 21:44:19
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    Re: Re: Idea's
    By: Tracker1 to Time Warrior on Thu Mar 17 2005 07:58 pm

    5. Real time chat from within the web users or Guru.

    Deuce has this planned but as for the ETA or priority level of it, he'd
    be da man to ask.

    AFAIK, this will probably be more integrated into the ircd in the future, and less on internal chat, which would need quite a bit of work.. if you remember, I had my internal chat fairly modded, but lost those in a hd
    crash about a year and a half ago.. since, I've been using the local irc
    for the chat in telnet, and it wouldn't be difficult to use a java based
    irc client into the local system.

    Well personally -- I think being able to page the Sysop from the web, the
    web user appears as a psudeo-node in Synch and then the Sysop joins a web based split screen sysop chat... well that would be something i've NEVER seen a website do! Page the webmaster for chat?!?! hahaha! only in the bbs scene baby! :-)

    The guru would be good as a web / telnet doc resource... however i havent really seen anyone mod the engine to that extent yet. Maybe one of these years! :-)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Angus Mcleod on Thursday, March 17, 2005 21:51:33
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    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Idea's
    By: Angus Mcleod to Time Warrior on Thu Mar 17 2005 10:46 pm

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: Idea's By: Time Warrior to Hector Feliciano on Thu Mar 17 2005
    09:41:00

    1. Print feature within the message menu, for printing of messages you

    That would be cool! :-)

    Hard to arrange, though. After all, you are either using a copy of SomeRandomTelnet v1.0 which either has a print feature or it doesn't, and there's not much SBBS can do about it, or you're using a browser which
    most likely already does have a print feature.

    Sure ya could. Similar to the way you can use NTP without your telnet client directly supporting it. How would one program such a thing? Well, I wouldn't be the one to ask :-)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Deuce on Thursday, March 17, 2005 21:52:21
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    To: Deuce
    Re: Idea's
    By: Deuce to Angus Mcleod on Fri Mar 18 2005 01:19 am

    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Idea's By: Angus Mcleod to Time Warrior on Thu Mar 17 2005
    18:43:00

    1. Print feature within the message menu, for printing of messages

    That would be cool! :-)

    Hard to arrange, though. After all, you are either using a copy of SomeRandomTelnet v1.0 which either has a print feature or it doesn't, and there's not much SBBS can do about it, or you're using a browser which most likely already does have a print feature.

    Well, afaik, there IS a standard "Send the following to the local printer" ANSI code... but I bet few free packages support it.

    Could a Synchronet Menu Command send that call to the user's PC? If it can -- would Windows or Linux even acknowledge it?

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Belly on Friday, March 18, 2005 17:30:41
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    To: Belly
    Re: Idea's
    By: Belly to Time Warrior on Fri Mar 18 2005 04:31 am

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: Idea's By: Time Warrior to Hector Feliciano on Thu Mar 17 2005
    09:41 am

    Synch already has rlogin / outbound telnet to access MUD's, MOO's,

    Yeah, I run a MOO here too, and have it set up as a door.

    Oh really? Addy and port? I'll throw it in my outbound games section. Altho i'll of course need the name of the MOO also :-)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Angus Mcleod on Friday, March 18, 2005 17:32:34
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    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Idea's
    By: Angus Mcleod to Time Warrior on Fri Mar 18 2005 03:16 pm

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: Idea's By: Time Warrior to Angus Mcleod on Thu Mar 17 2005
    22:51:00

    Hard to arrange, though. After all, you are either using a copy of SomeRandomTelnet v1.0 which either has a print feature or it doesn't, there's not much SBBS can do about it, or you're using a browser which most likely already does have a print feature.

    Sure ya could. Similar to the way you can use NTP without your telnet cl directly supporting it. How would one program such a thing? Well, I would be the one to ask :-)

    Network Time Protocol? I don't use that very much, and even if I did
    decide to start, I can't see how SBBS could make me start the local
    client, or (conversely) prevent me from starting it.

    Nemesis Transfer Protocol by Merciful Fate. It was created as an alternative to zmodem (and ftp for that mater) over telnet.

    It works even if your telnet client doesnt support it (and to the best of mym knowledge, there are no telnet clients that do).

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Angus Mcleod on Friday, March 18, 2005 17:46:28
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    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Idea's
    By: Angus Mcleod to Mrproper on Fri Mar 18 2005 10:22 pm

    To: Mrproper
    Re: Idea's By: Mrproper to Angus Mcleod on Fri Mar 18 2005 13:55:00

    Network Time Protocol? I don't use that very much, and even if I did decide to start, I can't see how SBBS could make me start the local client, or (conversely) prevent me from starting it.

    I thik he's speaking of the transfer protocol called NTP (I wish the auth would have named it something else)

    A google for "network transfer protocol ntp" doesn't immediately come up with any hits...

    That simply means there is no "homepage" for it, and you can only download
    it via a bbs that has it in telnet file areas.

    Merciful Fate's BBS called "Haunting The Chapple" should have it available. Dreamland BBS at telnet://dreamland.darktech.org would more than likely have it as well.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Angus Mcleod on Saturday, March 19, 2005 05:14:11
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    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Idea's
    By: Angus Mcleod to Time Warrior on Sat Mar 19 2005 02:52 am

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: Idea's By: Time Warrior to Angus Mcleod on Fri Mar 18 2005
    18:46:00

    A google for "network transfer protocol ntp" doesn't immediately come with any hits...

    That simply means there is no "homepage" for it, and you can only downlo it via a bbs that has it in telnet file areas.

    What it means is that it isn't mentioned anywhere in the 8,058,044,651 web pages Google is indexing at this moment...

    Exactly. I stated, and I quote:

    "... and you can only download it via a bbs that has it in telnet
    file areas..."

    Last i checked -- synch web ftp isnt "spiderable" and neither is telnet.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Deuce on Saturday, March 19, 2005 05:16:51
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    To: Deuce
    Re: Idea's
    By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Sat Mar 19 2005 03:10 am

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: Idea's By: Time Warrior to Angus Mcleod on Fri Mar 18 2005
    18:32:00

    Network Time Protocol? I don't use that very much, and even if I did decide to start, I can't see how SBBS could make me start the local client, or (conversely) prevent me from starting it.

    Nemesis Transfer Protocol by Merciful Fate. It was created as an alternat to zmodem (and ftp for that mater) over telnet.

    It works even if your telnet client doesnt support it (and to the best of knowledge, there are no telnet clients that do).

    It's really a pretty nasty security hole though... I looked in to adding support to SyncTERM, then decided not to.

    Hrmm... i didnt know there was a "SyncTERM" .... and its not a hole if only synchterm can do it :-)

    Either way -- if SynchTerm is as good or better than Mtel, then (aside from wanting a download link) it would be cool if NTP was naitively supported. I know you CAN config it to work with Synch on the Sysop end.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Deuce on Sunday, March 20, 2005 20:41:03
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    To: Deuce
    Re: Idea's
    By: Deuce to Deuce on Sun Mar 20 2005 05:55 pm

    To: Deuce
    Re: Idea's By: Deuce to Belly on Sat Mar 19 2005 20:50:26

    #2 I wouldn't test it if I could since NTP essentially accepts any sends it.

    Unsolicited?

    Yep.

    Yeah... of course, if it was built into SyncTERM it *could* only accept incoming files from the BBS you're connected to... but I still couldn't test it.

    Then let someone else test it.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Warp 4 on Sunday, March 20, 2005 20:45:26
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    To: Warp 4
    Re: Re: Idea's
    By: Warp 4 to Hector Feliciano on Mon Mar 21 2005 02:42 am

    4. Sysop Java console for editing users, files and such from within the web side.

    5. Real time chat from within the web users or Guru.

    Again, same as before :)

    Yep. IRC works fine with BBS's making local teleconference irrelevant. However, it would be cool to be able to page the sysop from the web! :-)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Angus Mcleod on Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:20:04
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    To: Angus Mcleod
    Re: Re: Idea's
    By: Time Warrior to Angus Mcleod on Sat Mar 26 2005 11:16 am

    Re: Re: Idea's
    By: Angus Mcleod to Belly on Sat Mar 26 2005 12:47 am

    To: Belly Re: Re: Idea's By: Belly to Angus Mcleod on Fri Mar 25 2005 14:27:00

    Then again, having the ability for Synchronet to automatically u system clock via NTP would be awesome too :)

    WTF for? There are perfectly good applications/utilities to do thi already!

    No kidding. lol ... not even *I* with my "apparently redundant" suggestions would have suggested THAT! :-)

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