blueneko
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#1 Posted Oct 20, 2008, 1:42 am
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With the MudMagic game listing portal now gone, I cannot MU* from work, which means I actually have to work, and that is making me a sad monkey. Due to my firewall situation, I am struggling to find a connection.
Do we know if the game portal with the MudMagic java client is going to crop up anywhere else? I cannot download anything at work with any success. I have no telnet. MudConnector won't work. I have tried /everything/ I can think of. MudBrower.com connects me, but it drops connection and/or freezes about every 5 minutes. I need some sort of nifty web-based java thingy of goodness. Wundermu* won't work either because I have the oldest version of Java known to man on my work computer. NO, I can't update it either. Ahhhh!
I will offer chocolate coins and warm wishes to anyone who can assist me. I am code retarded, so I might be missing an easy fix, but in all my travels only the embedded MudMagic java client on their site would work for me.
Yours Truly,
Sad Monkey Blueneko
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Kratos
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#4 Posted Oct 20, 2008, 9:17 am
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well you can always use a hyper terminal connection. It works just like a client and a telnet. Or you can also use a java terminal client.
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#5 Posted Oct 20, 2008, 6:28 pm
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Samson said:Not to sound like a nanny state type, but I suspect your boss would enjoy it more if you, you know, worked while at work? :)
LOL, as an employer, that was the first thing that came to mind when i read the first post of this thread. Getting caught goofing off at work is a sure fire way to find yourself without a job and with the world slipping into recession, you don't want to give your employer any reason to add you to the staff cut backs that are bound to happen.
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Vassi
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#7 Posted Oct 21, 2008, 10:27 pm
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Samson said:Exactly my feeling The_Fury. I'm not an employer and my first thought was "gee, they'd probably can me for this" :)
A lot of IT departments don't take kindly to evading the company firewall. Even for otherwise legitimate purposes. Gaming on company time hardly qualifies as legitimate to all but the most laid back employers. And I'd love to find one of those :/
Where as mine lets you have your laptop on your desk and sets up a separate wireless router on the floor - clear of the proxy and firewall - so that you don't do stuff "on the network". It was really weird at first, but I've gotten a hell of a lot of coding done on my side project that I wouldn't necessarily get to after work.
Granted, I work at an IT help desk where we're extremely busy in spurts (Especially if a Citrix server falls over) but there's long stretches in some days - especially fridays - where it's like sitting around for an hour at a time. Burn out is pretty high, it's actually an ingenious solution as i've worked at several call-center environments before and having the outlet really helps.
It's a little weird, though, I get a about two hours a day off the phone to work on other dev projects (I'm angling into the dev shop, but everyone starts on the help desk - especially everyone's without formal degrees) Sometimes I get to work with ASP.NET, Javascript\CSS\HTML, PHP and Python all in one day, sometimes it gets confusing =\
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elanthis
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#8 Posted Oct 21, 2008, 11:07 pm
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Quote:LOL, as an employer, that was the first thing that came to mind when i read the first post of this thread. Getting caught goofing off at work is a sure fire way to find yourself without a job and with the world slipping into recession, you don't want to give your employer any reason to add you to the staff cut backs that are bound to happen.
Man, you guys need to get government IT jobs. At my old job we'd spend time watching movies, my boss would play Ever Quest, and I'd work on various personal projects (including AweMUD). Government doesn't go out of business, government doesn't shrink, government doesn't let people go (even the truly incompetent ones). Plus, if you're actually good at what you do (like my ex-boss and I), then you're mostly just there to be on call -- nothing ever broke, so we rarely ever had any actual work to do.
Of course, the other option is to be self employed -- like I am now -- which is almost as good. Granted, these days I actually do have a stack of real work to get done every day, but the hours are totally flexible. If I feel like taking a huge break in the middle of the day to work on personal stuff (or just goof around), nobody can stop me. :)
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#10 Posted Oct 21, 2008, 11:49 pm
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My company places no restrictions on network/firewalls other than "use your judgment". The result is that you don't feel like you're being nannied, and you can waste time when it is productive to do so. Everybody needs the occasional break, after all, and from their perspective it means we're happier to stay 8, 9, 10, 11, ... hours at the office. So in some sense everybody wins.
The problem is that it kind of spoils you. I have many friends -- and I realize that it is the norm anyhow -- who've done internships at companies that have draconian restrictions on ports you can connect to, and even what sites you can visit. After having had the opposite treatment, the thought of that is repulsive...
quixadhal said:Dot-bomb jobs were nice for that too. Unfortunately, they went away... but while it lasted, it was fun to use the 119-inch conference room wall and 1024x768 projector to play X-Tension, or watch some DVD's in the afternoon.
And on the other hand, it was/is pretty much expected that in a startup environment, you spend 11+ hours every day at the office, and maybe even come in on Saturday since you have nothing else to do. People don't always realize that the perks come with an implicit cost, even though the perks might outweigh the cost.
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Samson
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#12 Posted Oct 22, 2008, 1:29 am
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Vassi said:Granted, I work at an IT help desk where we're extremely busy in spurts (Especially if a Citrix server falls over) but there's long stretches in some days - especially fridays - where it's like sitting around for an hour at a time. Burn out is pretty high, it's actually an ingenious solution as i've worked at several call-center environments before and having the outlet really helps.
I worked help desk too. Same sort of stuff I'd wager even, since we had some Citrix apps ourselves. Monday was the busy day, Friday we may as well have all been playing WoW or whatever. But no. Not according to the management. If we weren't doing company work 100% of the time for some reason, then we were wasting company time and would get written up for it. That meant no internet surfing except for job related functions. No connecting to your servers to make sure your pet projects are still functioning. No IM sessions. No telnet. Very aggressive proxy filtering, etc. And that was just us in IT, who had "elevated" access to the domain.
In fact in IT we spent a great deal more time inventing new ways to restrict access than we did in solving people's actual problems. Which ironically enough were often caused by those same draconian restrictions. Yes. Burnout rates were quite high. Morale was very very low. And the busy work projects turned the place into a glorified telemarketing operation with their insane automatic kiosk ticketing system. It made many people very very unhappy. The smart ones all left. I just wish I'd left before they fired me for essentially burning out and getting fed up with their ridiculousness.
Another bit of irony of course is that the manager I used to work for seems to no longer be employed there. Word has it from people I still know there that she got canned for an ethics violation. I wonder if that little birdie at corporate actually did something with the two reports I filed :)
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Igabod
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#13 Posted Oct 22, 2008, 2:16 am
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[edit to correct faulty information]
check out this thread for some help. it mentions using the flash client on mudgamers.com to connect to muds listed there, and if your particular mud isnt listed then you can look here for the actual flash client, i'm not sure what needs to be done to get to your mud with that but i think that was discussed in the thread i mentioned earlier. hope this helps. i myself have tons of free time at my job and since i'm the manager (aka the only person with access to the cameras) i can do whatever i want. there's not really much that can be done on the 11pm to 7am shift but thats why i chose it :)
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#14 Posted Oct 22, 2008, 7:26 am
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I had a job at a local community IT center once, basically a place that offered computer access to the local community, ran cheap IT classes and so forth. At the start it was strict, I couldn't go anywhere near a game or MUD. After a while though they loosened up and decided that, instead of me sitting half out of my mind all day waiting for something to do they'd let me play games, seeing as the only things I really had to do was ensure that the computers were running smoothly, be there incase a "customer" needed help or sit in on a class.
In the end the administrator of the place even asked me to write up a short course on computer games that I could run there. Shame due to lack of government funding it closed down, fun times. 
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