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Title: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Coastie on February 13, 2016, 12:49:17 PM

These two images were posted on Facebook from Linux Inside;  "Celebrate Star Wars in UNIX style...via@imgur"

(http://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12742590_1171637549521370_7300013434666650452_n.jpg?oh=e072fa3b4fd899408073df3d22f36137&oe=572A9ACF)(http://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12742590_1171637549521370_7300013434666650452_n.jpg?oh=e072fa3b4fd899408073df3d22f36137&oe=572A9ACF)(http://i.imgur.com/BWmxBNm.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/TDhzK9L.jpg)

According to one of the comments, this is not new but it is new to me.The command worked for me. I did not install anything but it was there. Are there any other "hidden" programs? In kernel? :o

Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Wirezfree on February 13, 2016, 01:31:04 PM

@Coastie
It's starting a telnet session, like a remote terminal on towel.blikenlights.nl
It's not actually in Linux...

It works on any platform you can run "Telnet" on, even Winblows(arg wash mouth out) :o :o  like this
(http://i.imgur.com/Iwnk4Qs.png)

Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Coastie on February 13, 2016, 08:09:27 PM

Looked up Telnet on Wikipedia. Still confused. Is this Star Wars thing a program or am I connecting to a website that it is on or something else?  :-\

Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Wirezfree on February 14, 2016, 01:48:10 AM

It is a form of Ascii Art (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ascii+terminal+art&biw=1920&bih=961&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwoMbAz_bKAhWnO5oKHbJPCpoQsAQIIQ)
Some clever people can create pictures, static or moving by clever use of ascii codes.

Like when you type in some commands in a terminal you see text appear and it moves.

Wiki: Ascii Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art)

Yes, it is a remote computer, when you connect to it, it auto-runs the ascii art.

Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Coastie on February 14, 2016, 12:34:34 PM

Thanks, Wirezfree.

I would mark this topic solved but don't see option for this.

Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: UltraCookie on February 14, 2016, 12:36:35 PM

Edit the Startpost and Set the prefix to [solved]

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Title: Re: Mystery Star Wars program
Post by: Coastie on February 14, 2016, 01:21:47 PM

Quote from: UltraCookie on February 14, 2016, 12:36:35 PM

Edit the Startpost and Set the prefix to [solved]

Not showing that option.