Login Love



So back in college in San Diego I managed to get one of the first cable modem subscriptions available. It was awesome, almost no-one on our loop, we could get 1MB from some fast servers every once in a while. The one big problem of course was that they required users to log in before the connection would work. Well, that wasn't the problem, the problem was that the chimpy app they provide for the Mac timed out and died in bad ways ever few hours. So I blew a weekend banging out a port of the unix login scripts to my mac (the 660av - what a machine!), and the rest of the week doing interface work and Login Love was born. It was sadly kind of a hack, because the real problem was that Open Transport had some issues where it would kind of choke in certain situations. I just chimped my way around that by detecting Open Transport dying out from under me and then "Doing some stuff" and getting it back in a usable state and reloggin in. So it appeared the connection never went away. A vast improvement over having your machine drop the connection and force a reboot every 3 hours. Not that it is useful anymore, but you can download all this stuff.