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  How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows
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  Been a while since the last release, but for good reason: this update is huge. 4.00.285: Total Recall Edition! Spawns, input windows, and input history now have their layouts and content restored per character (and on exit/reopen) Bonus: If there's a crash, the content will be restored up to the moment of the crash! Changed the welcome text into a popup window, since it doesn't fit anywhere in the restored content Added a tooltip for the window tabs, so if they're truncated it's still possible to see the full name, unread count, etc. Added 'Convert spaces to %B' function Added '/autolog' to restart any stopped server/character autolog Added '/reconnect' to reconnect to all disconnected tabs in every window Added 'File->Close Window' to close a single window Changed 'File->Exit' to close all windows (so that relaunching will then restore all windows vs just the last one closed) Added '/exit' to close all windows and their tabs (same as File->Exit) Added %server% and %character% variable substitution for all log filenames Added right click menu for URLs (open/copy) Added support for Pueblo tags Added Tab number display when Alt is pressed (for easy Alt+# switching) Changed it so that the config.txt file is locked on open, so you can't open two copies that try to write to the same file accidentally Changed '/wall ' to act like it was directly typed in every connected world, so aliases & commands all work Changed input history color to be the window color, not the inaccessible local echo color Changed TCP_NODELAY to be on by default since BeipMU already internally coalesces sent data into single blocks optimally Fixed minor annoyance where clicking on a spawn window in the background wouldn't bring it's main window to the front Fixed a crash when trying to connect with SSL and the port isn't the SSL one (basically when SSL fails to negotiate) Improved tooltips so that they don't go off the right or bottom edges of the working area of the monitor they appear on That first change is the really massive one and it's great. Not only does it remember your layout now, but you can also copy a layout from one character and paste it to another, and as long as you're using the same names for the spawns you're triggering you can easily make them match up! If you're using the version from the Windows Store it should update itself next time you restart, and from then on, every time you reopen the program it'll remember your layouts and show the last content from your worlds (unless you tell it not to, which you can). If you're not, you can get the new version here, but please consider using the Store version because it sends the dev reports if something goes wrong (and you've opted into the extended Windows telemetry), which helps him find rare bugs, and it also gives him a better idea of how many people are actually using it, which is motivating. And everyone loves a motivated dev!
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  How to use Potato MU Client
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  @Aria said in How to use Potato MU Client: I managed to fix it. For reference for anyone setting this up in the future, all I did was remove the $ at the end of the line, which seems to have been the issue. Yeah, Potato pretty much gets that anything you put in that box is going to be a regex, so signifying that it's the beginning and end of a regex isn't entirely necessary and could break stuff, IIRC.
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  Setup ChimeMUX + MediaWiki on Digital Ocean
  tinymux mediawiki digital ocean chimemux • • Thenomain  

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  I’m told by @skew that the curl doesn’t always work or stopped working or something. I will try wget as mentioned here when I can: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-ubuntu-1804/#install-mediawiki
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  TinyMUX: @descformat and @parent
  tinymux • • Thenomain  

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  Oh that! Ok. Thanks! :)
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  Building: A Basic Tutorial
  tinymux tutorial building • • Cobaltasaurus  

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  @skew Thank you!
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  Zero to Mux (with wiki)
  mux tinymux tutorial digital ocean • • Glitch  

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  @ziggurat @Thenomain updated instructions, and my notes above (maybe back a page?) built on that. Check it out here: https://musoapbox.net/topic/138/zero-to-mux-with-wiki/41
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  MUSH 101 Tutorial
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  How To Mu*
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  @coin SimpleMU works under wine but it's just slow sometimes even on pretty high-end desktops.
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  Setup from Zero
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  It's the mysql.h, probably. The 'do the secure installation' step that is now recommended does something that changes the standard permissions that tinymux expects when it comes time to configure it. I know I managed to fix it once. I do not for the life of me remember how, but it wasn't any of the things recommended on the thread to fix the mysql.h issue, because none of those worked for me at all. It may have been some kind of worst practice hail mary I yanked out of my ass, so I don't recall, unfortunately, what it was. It was a permissions issue, that much I do remember. Whether it involved changing the permissions on the directory where the file was housed or the file itself, and what I ended up changing them to, unfortunately, I do not remember. :/ I know that isn't much help, but maybe with that information some of the people who actually know what they're doing can help narrow it down. ETA: For the tech people: If this is a digitalocean install, mysql.h is there, and it is installed. The permissions are just locked down in such a way that tinymux can't access it to use it to do anything -- which may be only after the 'mysql_secure_installation' step, but even if you did this after setting up tinymux you'd run into the same issue later -- so tinymux acts like it isn't there because it can't see or use it. ETA2: Mediawiki 1.30.0, the current version, is fussy and different in some new and interesting ways. Be advised if you're using code from an earlier iteration or planning to import. Apparently a lot of stuff deprecated between versions 29 and 30 and you will probably need to tweak your stuff. Depending on how much you fuss with things, this may be no big deal. (I know I found the stuff they're starting to add in so egregiously annoying I gave up on using Vector entirely and started building a new skin during the time I can't really do anything else productive (while this comp is on its last teetering legs and we settle in for the long wait for its replacement).)
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  Create a Music Player from YouTube Videos (Audio Only!)
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  That is super helpful! Thank you so much! :D
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  Digger: A graphic room editor for MUX/MUSH
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  @golgoth said in Digger: A graphic room editor for MUX/MUSH: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ -- I went into the 'site-packages' directory for Python3 and copied PyQt5/ to Python2's. Hey, at least it's now failing creatively: $ python main.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 8, in <module> from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/QtCore.so, 2): Symbol not found: _PyBytes_AsString Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/QtCore.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/QtCore.so I have tried and failed to install PyQt4 from the official site, as it complains that it can't find qmake, and I can't find an install for qmake except via the qt-devel library. Until I become a more capable developer, I will now leave this in the hands of other people, and let this thread get back on track. -- For those now afraid to try out Digger, I am only having these issues on macOS. Try it out!
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  HOW-TO: Reneg on a promise to write an AWS How-To
  how-to aws nopenopenope • • Jim Nanban  

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  @skew said in HOW-TO: Reneg on a promise to write an AWS How-To: What is this thread? [...] I'm lost. Hey, buddy! Welcome to the thread! This is a followup on my other thread here: http://musoapbox.net/topic/1546/aws-amazon-web-service-as-mu-hosting/ People had expressed interest there, and in PMs, and in chats elsewhere, about what I did to get a MUSH up on AWS Free Tier. I had told them that I would write a how-to... But as said, the guidance I could give was insufficient to mitigate the potential risks of a mistake. @Cheesegrater above has a good breakdown of how to avoid those problems. It's much less dire, given that info... but given all the other options at comparable cost, it's just not worth the potential trouble to me. If/when I go to Linode or whatever, I'll write that how-to instead. So that's what this is!
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  Basic Anomaly +Jobs Functions
  tinymux tutorial anomalyjobs anomjobs • • Cobaltasaurus  

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  @Scorn said in Basic Anomaly +Jobs Functions: Maybe I'm crazy. I probably am. (Okay, definitely.) But I'm curious.. how difficult would it be to configure the list of displayed jobs (i.e. when you type +jobs) to include the name of the submitting player as well as bucket, job name, due date, assigned, status? (Ssssh, I'm not supposed to post.) But this is actually already a function. You just change your &jobs me=<stuff>. For example: &jobs me=BOTD will give you bucket, opened by, title, and date. &jobs me=BOTDS gives bucket, opened by, title, date, status.
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  Wiki best practices
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  In fairness, the suggestion I have for someone to be able to common sense fix the problem the current mediawiki install has on digital ocean is not a best practice. I am reasonably sure there's a more secure way to do it than the one I laid out through some back end, and the one provided does absolutely have risks (and big ones). For someone without heavy duty SQL/mediawiki/server experience, however, it works and will fix the problem without incident most of the time. That describes me, really. I only know the fix because I ran into the same problem, and after digging around about how to go about it, that was the only answer I found. At some point, you have to do what works and hope for the best, especially when the argument about how to get something done takes up more time than researching how and getting it done.
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  Metrolook Mediawiki skin, questions.
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  @Seamus Can you link us to one that has the 'dark' look you want?
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  Dealing with Staff
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  @mietze We also appear, at least many of us, to be more incapable of giving a fuck. X place is bad? Eh. Quitting is easier these days, far more things competing for our attention.
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  Adding Google Fonts to CSS Themes
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  And then love and adoration of my players as they read their wiki in Snipple? Victory.
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  Customize Tabs in Wikidot
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  @krmbm said in Customize Tabs in Wikidot: If you're not keen on self-styling, there's a decent-looking template to redesign the look of the tabs here: http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:tabview-csi Definitely! Thanks for sharing that. Hadn't seen that before.