Just for the heck of it...

[hatman]

Ask me anything, and you will get an answer. Ask about me, ask about something you think I might know, ask... anything. Seriously or otherwise. Whatever you want. You will get an answer. In most cases, that answer will have something to do with the question. In some cases, it may even make sense! (I'll do my best, anyway. Depending on the question.)

You can ask me directly, or, if you've got a quarter handy, you can ask my buddy...

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[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

your buddy is a little scary looking. not sure if it's as scary as that you had good answers for all those questions up there off the top of your head ;p

i do have a question, but i dont know if i want to bother you with it. it involves a computer issue, heh.

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Hey! I spent all of 10 minutes (or thereabouts) making him!

And having random answers is just fun. *g*

Not so good with the ins and outs of computer issues, but if you've got a quarter, maybe Swami Ghumbali can come up with an interesting non-answer? Or I could technobabble at you. Or, who knows? Maybe I would have a real answer. It could happen.

Or not. Whatever floats your virtual boat.

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

technobabble is fun, if sometimes confusing :) see my comment to laramoon, below, for the issue.

propel propel propel your (virtual) craft, placidly down the liquid solution...

[laramoon.livejournal.com]

Cool icon ;) ...I don't think we've ever met, but if you need help with a computer issue, perhaps I can lend you a hand?

I'm a QA tester/test tool developer in a software company - just so you know I'm not just pretending to be able to assist. ;)

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

lol, hi. i've seen you 'around' but dont think we've 'met', no.

well i need to track down someone and double check something before i have a good handle on the problem, but here's where it stands.

i play this online game that runs out of telnet. (well, i run linux..or try to...heh...so for me it runs in terminal.) but a friend of mine is trying to start playing, and i was helping him set up. he's running vista. which apparently comes with telnet disabled? he supposedly enabled it, but when we clicked the link in the game website, it didnt recognize telnet.

now, i need to go back and open telnet independently, if it will, and if it will then punch in the game from there. as far as i know that has not been tried yet, and the friend isnt around at the moment. but assuming that doesnt work, i'm not sure where to go from there...

he could just download a client, but he doesnt want to. heh.

if that made any sense at all, do you have any idea what we could try next after that last thing?

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm not big on Vista. Never actually used it. But yes, according to a quick bit of web research, Telnet does need to be specifically enabled. Once that's done, of course, you have to open the program. (Start -> Run -> Telnet should do it, I think. Or Start -> Run -> cmd -> Telnet). But Telnet usually needs to initiate contact, in my experience. I'm not sure that it accepts incoming connections. So... yeah. I think that's pretty much what you said. Open Telnet and then try to open the game from within the program.

I'd have to know more specifics about the game to figure anything else. Lara or brigal might be of more help (though the latter hasn't volunteered her services, she'd be a good one to ask if she was willing).

Other than that... yeah, my next suggestion would be to download a client.

Does the game's website have any kind of technical FAQs?

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

(Sorry. Meant brianamj. Brigal was her IRC nick...

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

and that took care of it! thank you thank you :DDD

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Cool! Glad to help. :)

[laramoon.livejournal.com]

eeep! this completely slipped under the radar. I'm so sorry! ..glad you found a way to make it work, though. :)

[beansideirae.livejournal.com]

:) i talked to a bunch of people and put all the pieces together, lol. it's working great now. thanks for being willing to help :)