Morning.

@DavidS good morning :)

I have switched from XFCE to i3

and so far I'm liking it

Oh nice!

I'm using Lubuntu

On my new laptop

Good old lubuntu.

I have a machine with lubuntu on it but I need to reinstall and get rid of the GUI because it's a server

oh :)

@DavidS I still use IRC occasionally. I remember dialling into the local University in the early 90s to connect to their IRC, which only received direct dial in connections. :)

However, I spent far too much time with students and staff that were in the habit of writing correctly, role playing and ridiculing anyone that typed poorly.

heh, yeah I used to spent a lot of time on IRC but mostly used telnet talkers (which, you may mean if you're saying it was running on a server at uni)

@DavidS I think it is possible to uninstall a desktop. CTRL + ALT + F3, login, then "sudo apt remove --purge lubuntu-desktop" However, I recommend checking if you need to do anything to GRUB to launch directly into a terminal prompt after that.

but I if so I can understand you might say IRC in case I didn't know what a MUD was or something

Ah well this is a three year old version of lubuntu and not even an LTS for some insane reason

I don't know what I was thinking. So the repos are dead now etc

If I had no options I could probably sort it all out but I want to run KVM etc too.

I am not sure how the connection worked, my friend was the kid of a mathematics professor, he brought around the connection script or software on a floppy disk, copied it into a directory and all I had to do was browse into there and type "connect" then run the IRC front end. I know I was an early adopter of mIRC and then Pidgin.

ah okay definitely actual IRC then.

mIRC was great

I wrote a script for mIRC once upon a time.

It had many exploits.

I remember my PC being odd, checking connections and finding someone was on my PC. Checked all the users on the channels I was in, found them, sent them a spike over mIRC.

heh

It was like the wild west back then

The spike was probably a bit harsh, or pre-emptive depending on perspective. It loaded into RAM, wiped the boot sector then flashed their BIOS. (There is loads of protection against that these days, wouldn't have a clue how to do it now).

I certainly did a lot of questionable things when I was younger.

oh well, we're not in prison, that's the main thing :D

MS Chat certainly didn't have enough gateways against kids connecting to adult channels. >>

How would he have lodged a complaint? "I was trespassing on this kid's PC, perhaps altering how it worked and then he knocked me offline." Would incriminate him also.

Not to mention absolutely zero cyber laws where I was at the time.

quite

What I miss the most? The erudite atmosphere. Either you needed a lot of technical skills or the social skills to have someone help you get online. There was a Darwin step to filter out the mouth-breathers.

mouth-breathers :D

/me slaps David S around with a trout for old time sake then poofs.

o/

o7

nice talkin to you.