Thursday, January 22, 2009

Mosha is more and more alive

The most important service of Mosha, the HTTP2telnet gateway, is now operational. I haven't yet started sending out registrations, and am actually planning on changing the mechanism to an allow list, with a list of sites that will be able to connect regardless of the origin. This will make things slightly more convenient for people, and especially easy to try out the service. However, the list of accepted targets will be limited.

Also note that the current Mosha server makes a rather large amount of noise, and since it is sitting in my apartment, this means I can get annoyed by it, at which point I will turn it off (this is prone to happen at night). I have been told that the solution is to buy an EEE box from Asus, which are quiet as a whisper, however, there is still the little detail with regards to the money. They are inexpensive, but even $250 is something. Feel free to comment and give suggestions.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Mosha dead, long live Mosha

As this is still the place for Mosha updates, I can announce that the old Mosha is completely dead. Both the motherboard and the processor are done for, and will never work again. As donations have been insufficient to replace Mosha with a new computer, and ad income never exceeded $100, I have to resort to using an even older system to run the gateway on. I'm currently in the process of instaling it (it is at http://home.mosha.net at the moment, but don't expect it to work in any way). I'm currently recompiling the virtual machine, hopefully it will lead to a version that actually works (the current virtual machine is too new, if you can believe it, and causes strange run time errors).