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#TILDE.CLUB FAQ
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* WHAT IS THIS?
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It is a UNIX server just like we used to use to host websites in 1995.
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* HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE ON THE SYSTEM?
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A couple hundred. Otherwise it's ridiculous.
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* CAN I HAVE A LOGIN?
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Until there are a couple hundred people, it's pretty open.
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* WHAT ARE THE STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR?
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Be as much of a nerd as you want. Don't make other users uncomfortable
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by talking about wangs and stuff. I'm old and cranky and I'll boot
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you.
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* CAN I...
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ACTUALLY...go easy. There are a few hundred people on this
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box so it gets a little overwhelmed at times.
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* CAN I HOST .AIFF FILES AND THINGS?
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No, my god. This is a fun place to play not a place to download
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Fractal Design Poser 3.
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* WHERE IS THE API?
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There is an unofficial API for this unofficial site at:
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http://tilde.club/~danielbachhuber/club-sites.json
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There is more API at:
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http://tilde.club/~gabriel/who.json
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NEW USER TUTORIAL
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tilde.club is just a tiny tiny server running linux on the amazon
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cloud. Using tilde.club requires you to understand shells and ssh. If
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you don't know about those things, consider this a challenge and
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opportunity to learn! This concludes the tutorial.
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IMPORTANT NOTES
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Since I've now saddled myself in this clown rodeo, a few notes:
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- No drama. What constitutes drama? There is a Mary J. Blige song
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called "No More Drama." If Mary J. Blige would think it was drama,
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it is drama.
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- vim AND emacs are installed, use the one that is right for you. See
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"No drama," above.
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- Chat with anyone you want using the talk command (ytalk seems to
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have gone missing from the Internet!). Just amuse yourself by
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pinging people and saying stuff at random. Don't be shy. If they
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bail or don't reply no worries. This is a unix server. The only
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people who want free accounts on unix servers are awesome cool
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loving generous nerds.
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- If you don't want to chat there's a command that lets you indicate
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that. See if you can remember that command!
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- This is a guilt-free project and total disaster is ALWAYS a possible
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outcome. I'll cover costs up to about $100 a month. I doubt I'll let
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more than a hundred or two hundred people on the system because
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randos ruin. There are a hundred people now.
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- This thing is a de-facto whitey sausagefest so everyone be actively,
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aggressively cool and sweet and remember that the only binary that's
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real is the one that we use on our microchips.
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MY SACRED VOWS TO YOU
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I will do my best to do the following things:
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1) I will make a weekly backup of the public_html directories so when
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some teen in Estonia decides to hack in and ruin everything we can
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bring up a new server and limp back to life.
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2) I won't shut things down without a month of warning and once it's
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shut down I'll make sure a file with all the public_html directories
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is uploaded to archive.org.
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3) If any community forms at all (DUBIOUS BUT SURPRISE ME) I promise I
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won't blow up the community without, like, first pointing everyone to
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some free IRC channel or something. |