/dev/null/nethack Tournament 2008 Announcement

JoaoSantos wrote:
....
> I never played on a nethack tournament, maybe I'll join in. But I have
> a question: can the bones generated on a server A be loaded on a
> server B? I don't think so, but would like to know for sure.

Actually, they probably would be since we do have to enforce very
similar build options on all the servers.

That's a really nifty idea, though, so I've added it to the list of
possible features to investigate.

Thanks,
-robin

robin wrote:
> Carl wrote:

[about the November NetHack tournament on the
/dev/null site]

>> Any chance you'll be supporting telnet this year?
>> (I hope)

> That's a tough one. Is there any reason you'd
> need telnet instead of ssh?

Telnet seems to be considered "too big a security
hole" (or some such), these days, which is probably
why OpenBSD stopped distributing it.

For a personal example, my email service
provider (The WELL, the oldest (1984 or so)
by-subscription "open to the general public"
'Net access site in the world) a couple of
weeks ago dropped support of telnet in favor
of ssh.

There's a pretty good discussion of "why not telnet
any more" here, FYI:

http://www.well.com/help/ssh/

"Putty" is a fine, free, easily installed, widely
available example of an ssh tool:

http://www.google.com/search?q=putty+download

It is almost painless after a bit of initial setup
for each site you access.

I've used it for several years now with no
complaints, on MS-Windows.

[It's nice to have putty also on the Ubuntu
side of my computer, as that makes for a
comfortable common text-only interface when
I swap OSen.]

Linux versions exist, probably for every common
distribution, as do, I think, Mac OSX versions.

xanthian.