<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DoubleJ:
I had the same BASIC course as a swab (freshman) at the Coast Guard Academy in 1975 and similar remote terminals. No FT to connect to at that time, but did play the old text-based Star Trek with people on terminals at who-knows-where.
With regard to ethanb's dilemma, as ethanb stated, though he may not work for the hospital, "his network access goes through their firewall and thus their filters", so finding some backdoor way to bypass this, while I think would be possible, could have repercussions if discovered given the "concern" nowadays by sysadmins with security issues.
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The old Star Trek game was a classic - I haven't thought about it for years. I used to play it in the early 1990s dialing into the VAX/VMS machines at my dad's work (first with a genuine VT52, later with a VT100 compatible terminal, then towards the end with a 386sx/16 PC). Of course I had to go look it up now:
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/
http://www3.sympatico.ca/maury/games...star_trek.html
[URL=http://www.decus.org/libcatalog/document_html/v00282_1.html]
If I didn't have so much other stuff to do, I might try recompiling it and running it right now. Brings back good memories...
In any case, as for reading flyertalk, I've mostly been doing it using a text-based browser (lynx) on an off-site unix machine. They allow outgoing ssh and it's fast in lynx. For the first day, I just used a graphical browser in an xterm, but it was frustratingly slow. At some point perhaps I'll try setting up a proxy at my home machine, but I'd rather not piss off the security guys too much. The text-based solution is entirely encrypted, and I believe that the xterm is as well (since I started it over ssh). Since we do 3D medical imaging research (each exam I do generates around 200 MB of raw data and at least 670 MB of processed images), web access is a drop in the bucket when it comes to bandwidth, so I doubt they'll ever notice. Perhaps at some point I'll try setting up a proxy on my home computer.
Thanks for all the suggestions,
Ethan (my first two page thread!)
Edited because I was incapable of formatting things correctly when writing in lynx.
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Edited because it takes two tries to do anything right.
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Edited to add a link to the real VAX/VMS version.
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