The weirdest thing I have ever seen in a Unix-like OS - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2018, 12:45:44 pm
content: I was running FreeBSD 11.1 on PuTTY over SSH, until I tried to run DOSBox... Watch the video to see what happened.Now, what I want to know, is what is this, and why is it in my Unix?

author: stmdude
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2018, 01:31:06 pm
content: Your DOSBox is compiled with AAlib support.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2018, 08:36:52 pm
content: That is an interesting library. Wonder if it could be used to playback movies over SSH. Wonder if that would count as piracy if you started a video streaming site that uses SSH.

author: link87
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 01, 2018, 09:19:05 pm
content: It's been done before. I've seen some movies streamed over telnet in the past. Well more like noticed them. Not very fun to watch

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2018, 10:35:59 pm
content: Quote from: link87 on March 01, 2018, 09:19:05 pmAt what point do you just say don't even bother?

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 12:31:10 am
content: I think at that point it would be more of a thing you do because you can, and not because it's a good idea.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 04:27:36 am
content: Once upon a time I fed video from an analog television tuner card into an aalib player to "watch" TV on a console without X available at the time.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 04:38:48 am
content: Quote from: sleemanj on March 02, 2018, 04:27:36 amWhy couldn't you just use a forwarded X11 server? There aren't any major operating systems, at least now, that doesn't have an Xorg server implementation.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 06:49:50 am
content: Quote from: TwoOfFive on March 02, 2018, 04:38:48 amI only had a console on the machine in question no gui let alone a functional X server, I forget the details of why, it's a long time ago, at least 15 years.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 07:13:26 am
content: So a full on dumb terminal? Neat.I just had a bit of a sp00ky moment with SSH and my network myself. I was looking around on my router's control panel, trying to figure out what IP my BSD VM was on (too stupid to use ifconfig). I tried one of the IPs over SSH, and it connected, but I later found out that not only could I not log onto that SSH server, the VM was set to NAT, and that I had no idea what machine I SSHed on. Even sp00kier is that it had no hostname, I had for whatever reason given it a DHCP reservation, and if I tried to block the MAC address from connecting, so I could see what would go down, it would still connect. So at this point I was half thinking someone broke in, but my shit is secure enough for that not to happen.As it turns out... my UniFi AP AC LR was what was at the end of that SSH connection. It's my fault for not documenting this anywhere, and also my fault for completely locking myself out of any and all management apps until I reset the AP. I didn't even know these things had SSH servers on them. I mean, it's effectively enterprise grade network hardware, so what do I expect (and a damn good AP, even on 5Ghz which is why I bought it in order to supplement my bogged down, aging 802.11 N 2.4ghz system.).Either way lesson learned, no harm done, and I am so secure I locked myself out. Good to know.

author: darrellg
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 11:48:52 pm
content: You can watch Star Wars on telnet:Code:telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 11:57:00 pm
content: Different concept. That's optimized and designed for ANSI terminals. What we're talking about is the direct conversion of graphical applications and media into text.

author: andersm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 11:39:11 am
content: I believe VLC comes with an AAlib output plugin. Watch movies at work while your boss think you're up to your usual Unix command line nonsense.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 11:41:45 am
content: Quote from: andersm on March 05, 2018, 11:39:11 amThe question is how 2 sound over a dumb terminal. I might as well do what I'm supposed to do at work and then just watch the movie when I get home. Or, better yet, do both, and just watch the movie on another monitor and say that it helps me with my workflow (which it does).