Editor wanted

I am looking for someone to edit the wiki and possibly moderate the forums for the running Maddison Atkins ARG. Any takers?

LG15chat: The Clues

Here are the clues that have been posted (in binary, mind you) to the #lg15chat IRC:

There will always be a day, when the world will end..W@
There is never a time when @e Bree was alone, yes, Jon@
Nicely done on @the solving, there is more!
Lets not worry about the PAST right now. Lets worry ab@
Lets Worry about the @end.
Your Clues are @we @the and that should be the @end. F@

Feel free to comment anywhere such things are being discussed (including, but not limited to, this post, WebSeriesToday, Facebook, email, Second Life, chat on this site, or even a private post which needs a password).

Private LG15Chat discussion

Add comments to this post if a private conversation is required. Let me know if you can't comment here (wintermute@nitemarecafe.com for those who don't have it already). I also thought this might be a good way to keep everything in one place.

Here are the links from WebSeriesToday thus far:

lonelygirl15: We will not be stopped.
LG15chat: We are here.
LG15chat

And some handy tools:

The trusty decoder

We are here

There will always be a day, when the world will end..W@

OK. So something did happen. Just not sure what it means.

We are here? Who is "we?" Cassie used "I was here..." a lot. Is this a play on that? Is @W the author, or who this is directed at? Is Cassie sending me death threats from the grave, or are the Creators sending me a very creative cease-and-desist for the unofficial LGpedia?

Anything happen?

Anything happen? Other than me letting everyone know to contact me if they'd like an account to edit the unofficial LGPedia.

dosemu networking issues.

I have decided to stick with WWIV 4.30 under dosemu for now, as there are a number of annoying bugs under WWIV5 compiled for Linux, and I know C much better than I know C++, so I can do a number of mods in the 4.30 code that I can't in the 5.0 code ;) So I thought I'd set up networking under dosemu, and I noticed something quite peculiar. I decided the easiest method to get things working would be to use bridging on my ethernet card. Keep in mind that I connect to this computer via wlan0. Here is the settings in my dosemu.conf:

$_pktdriver=(on)
$_vnet = "tap
$_netdev = "tap0"

And here is my bridge.sh:

brctl addbr br0
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addif br0 eth0
ifconfig br0 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
tunctl -u 1000
ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addif br0 tap0


And I go into dosemu and set up a basic tcp.cfg for use with mTCP, and I can ping out to Google by both name and IP. Great! So, I exit the emulator and go back into Linux and try to download the Microsoft TCP/IP networking stuff for DOS. No go. I try to ping Google by name. Nope. By IP? Nope. OK. Reboot, since I don't have the bridge coming up on boot. I double check everything, all look good, and I run my script again, but don't go into dosemu. Can't ping Google. I can ping my default gateway, though. Hmmm... Reboot again and lets try this a command at a time:

brctl addbr br0

I can still ping Google.

ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up

I can no longer ping Google.

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up

I can ping Google again.

So, it appears that putting eth0 into promiscuous mode is causing me to not be able to ping Google via wlan0. But if I run the script and boot into dosemu, I can reach the Internet just fine. So instead of connecting via wlan0, I connect via eth0 and the exact same thing happens. Very strange that I can't get out to the Internet from the my host OS, but can from the guest OS. Maybe if I connect via eth0 and disable wlan0 completely... Doesn't make sense to me that having one nic in promiscuous mode should impact the other at all, unless my router is getting confused...

More on WWIV under Linux

Every time I turn around, one bug or another is biting me in my Linux WWIV setup, so I think I've decided to use my knowledge of how to get DOS doors running to run the DOS version of WWIV from back in the day, so it'll be at least fairly stable while I work out some bugs. Since the Linux version is file-compatible, I'll be able to move back to it pretty seamlessly at some point. Since I decided to run the DOS version, I thought I'd check to see availability of the source of the old versions, since it was commercial software. I went to bbs.wwiv.com via telnet (that's the official WSS BBS) and, since I registered back in the day, Trader Jack gave me access to those file areas, so it will be a modded board fairly quickly ;) I'm attempting to do virtual networking between dosemu and Linux as well, but keep managing to drop my network interface while I'm connected from remote ;) I'll sort that out later, though, since it's a minor convenience thing ;)