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Not mentioning that keeping the box opened gathers lots of dust. Only 6 months and some dust will accumulate (dirt warning..).

Not mentioning that keeping the box opened gathers lots of dust. Only 6 months and some dust will accumulate (dirt warning..).

Just got set up and am looking for someone's (anyone/everyone's)opinion. CLICK HERE or go to http://thunderhacker.dyndns.org

The tracker already has all of this data. It has a count of how many people have completed as well as how many people are incomplete and how much they have left to go. (Like this, a CGI script that just reads the tracker's state file.) In fact, there's even a stats generator that makes pretty graphs out of it all. We're working on getting the UI elements to display these stats integrated into the core (example), but for now there are patches that do it. (Shameless plug.) To top it all off, the tracker generates log files that are plain old HTTP logs, and are parseable by pretty much any web stats generator.

If AOLTW/WB/etc ran their own tracker they'd have all the stats they needed. If you upload a torrent to a 3rd-party site and are the initial seed and want to see the stats, pretty much all of them nowadays let you at least see how many total downloads there have been. It's not an issue.

The tracker already has all of this data. It has a count of how many people have completed as well as how many people are incomplete and how much they have left to go. (Like this, a CGI script that just reads the tracker's state file.) In fact, there's even a stats generator that makes pretty graphs out of it all. We're working on getting the UI elements to display these stats integrated into the core (example), but for now there are patches that do it. (Shameless plug.) To top it all off, the tracker generates log files that are plain old HTTP logs, and are parseable by pretty much any web stats generator.

If AOLTW/WB/etc ran their own tracker they'd have all the stats they needed. If you upload a torrent to a 3rd-party site and are the initial seed and want to see the stats, pretty much all of them nowadays let you at least see how many total downloads there have been. It's not an issue.

The tracker already has all of this data. It has a count of how many people have completed as well as how many people are incomplete and how much they have left to go. (Like this, a CGI script that just reads the tracker's state file.) In fact, there's even a stats generator that makes pretty graphs out of it all. We're working on getting the UI elements to display these stats integrated into the core (example), but for now there are patches that do it. (Shameless plug.) To top it all off, the tracker generates log files that are plain old HTTP logs, and are parseable by pretty much any web stats generator.

If AOLTW/WB/etc ran their own tracker they'd have all the stats they needed. If you upload a torrent to a 3rd-party site and are the initial seed and want to see the stats, pretty much all of them nowadays let you at least see how many total downloads there have been. It's not an issue.

I have thought about this exact same thing.. I plan on integrating something like it into the next version of burst!, provided that I can co-ordinate with Bram on the protocol extension..

Seems to me, all you have to do is go after the tracker server listed in the .torrent URL. The tracker server is the centralized server that all hosts using a .torrent file must connect to in order to find the end-content.

Here is a sample from one of the Matrix 2 .torrent files at suprnova:
d8:announce40:http://suprnova.dyndns.or g:6969/anno unce7:comment76:Matrix Reloaded - single CD - DivX Telesync - 576 x 252 - very good quality!13:creation datei1053692711e4:infod5:filesld6:lengthi10313728e 4:pathl29:Matrix.Revolutions.Teaser.avieed6:length i1542e4:pathl38:The.Matrix.Reloaded.DivX.TS-DaDuck .NFOeed6:lengthi8943616e4:pathl45:The.Matrix.Reloa ded.DivX.TS-DaDuck.Sample.avieed6:lengthi711053312 e4:pathl38:The.Matrix.Reloaded.DivX.TS-DaDuck.avie ee4:name34:The.Matrix.Reloaded.DivX.TS-DaDuck12:pi ece lengthi524288e6:pieces27860:

Seems to me you could also go after dyndns.org with a court order to have them to give you control of the suprnova account. Of course, their AUP forbids 'illegal' use of dyndns.org accounts:

12. MEMBER CONDUCT

The Member is solely responsible for the contents of his/her usage of the Service. The Member's use of the Service is subject to all applicable local, state, federal, and international laws and regulations. The Member agrees: (1) to comply with all local, state, and federal laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States through the service; (2) not to use the Service for illegal purposes;

In fact, looks like someone already got to dyndns.org or perhaps the suprnova account owner didn't want any trouble or their IP address revealed:
suprnova.dyndns.org. 14396 IN A 127.0.0.1

I like BitTorrent a lot, I've been using it to grab Alias episodes the last few days. I've never watched the show, but now that my TiVo is starting to look pretty empty, a co-worker convinced me to start watching Alias. So far, I like it, and there's a great BitTorrent listing here:

Alias Archive

I haven't as much luck getting movies, they seem to take forever, but I grabbed Red Hat 9 via BitTorrent, and it was damned fast when it debuted...

I've started a BitTorrent session for this file. You can get it at http://aroben.dyndns.org/rotk-e3-stream.mov.torren t -Adam

You can find them here:

Full movie

Movie clips

The torrent creation guide relies on the stock completedir; bleh... a much better replacement is MakeTorrent. Currently it's an enhanced/modified completedir (sources are available, so you can use it under *nix), but I'm working on a complete rewrite. There are guides here and here.

I'm also developing an alternative client, and many people prefer the interface to the stock one.. it's called burst! (front-end is released GPL, back-end currently still relies on the python code which is MIT).

The torrent creation guide relies on the stock completedir; bleh... a much better replacement is MakeTorrent. Currently it's an enhanced/modified completedir (sources are available, so you can use it under *nix), but I'm working on a complete rewrite. There are guides here and here.

I'm also developing an alternative client, and many people prefer the interface to the stock one.. it's called burst! (front-end is released GPL, back-end currently still relies on the python code which is MIT).

Improved wireless/microwave calculators:

Wireless Network Link Analysis

Microwave Radio Path Analysis

Line-of-Sight Path Analysis

Improved wireless/microwave calculators:

Wireless Network Link Analysis

Microwave Radio Path Analysis

Line-of-Sight Path Analysis

Improved wireless/microwave calculators:

Wireless Network Link Analysis

Microwave Radio Path Analysis

Line-of-Sight Path Analysis

Basically, what you have to do, is create the torrent and then "download it" over the files... Bittorrent will realize the files are complete, and it will seed without downloading obviously...

I haven't found any linux software to generate the torrents...
You can use MakeTorrent for windows...

gbppr.dyndns.org/PROJ/mil/celljam

Source

Davak

most likely cause an inoperable brain tumor... An inoperable brain tumor? Why would you even want to operate a brain tumor? Brain tumors don't even do anything (except grow really fast)... o_O

"On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of trolls invaded the front page stories at slashdot. There were long trolls, short trolls, even goatse trolls. A troll army carried the spiralx banner. Fortunately, the moderators took care of the infestation within a few hours."

The post to the Antispamery: http://antispamist.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php? t=12 w/ a poll


And I believe most/all of the following referrers are faked/spam:

www.sanmarinobasketcup.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.inchfarm.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.artifaxx.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.augustapublishing.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.aussiebar.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.bu-derm.org[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.arsongs.net[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.arizonasba.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.bobbakazoo.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.spankit2.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.search4pornography.com[1] 1 : /Adult-Directories/Big-Dick/ [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.sexyteenerotica.com[1] 1 : /index.php?action=n [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.chaiti.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.chocoborancher.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.lambertonline.net[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.mathweb2001.net[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.oceanroofing.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.orangecountydiscjockey.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.ipna2001.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.questinspection.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.crc-endocrinology.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.dreamshaven.com[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.enterprise-nx01.net[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0) www.pacificbiodiv.org[1] 1 : / [go] 0 below minimum threshold (0)

I know this is kinda off-topic but I am kinda fired up about it right now. I just got done posting a comment to the Antispamist's Spam Forum about the increasing spamming of my web server logs. I am using a script that displays the recent referrers and it is currently half full of spam. Has anyone else had problems with this? This recent bout seems to stem from one guy

I can't take credit for coming up with a formula like that, but in one of my courses in college we designed an algorithm to park a robotic car.

Actually, all our source and some videos are on my website... http://djonce.dyndns.org/pburgh_projects.htm

Whoops... forgot the port: http://gryffin.dyndns.org:9080/upgrade/

Overpriced processor upgrades have a long and rich tradition on Macs.

True, but for a good reason: Mac owners tend to get kinda attached to their machines. A CPU upgrade is often the "path of least resistance"; keep the same Mac, same peripherals, same system environment, just speed it up. And it's still cheaper than a new Mac.

I did this myself a few years ago, and didn't regret it at all. Read all about it here if you'd like.

ssh $user@$your_home_computer sudo softwareupdate "SafariUpdate-1.0 Beta 2 (v73)"

The first thing I thought when I saw this article was, "sounds like this guy has discovered fractals". What he's describing would appear (from the limited information provided) to be a fractal equation. It will be interesting to see how easily it is incorporated into Fractint. Fractint currently has about 70 or so different types of fractals that you can tweak, play with, and zoom into to your heart's content.

There is a lot of cool art on the fractint homepage as well as come descriptive information about fractint and the history of the program, which is currently on version 20.0. I've been playing with the program off and on for about 8 years I guess, and think it is the best fractal generator out there.

For those of you not running DOS, try XFractint. The program has a funky install (imo) but works.

What appears to be 'news' about the discovery mentioned above is that the equation is supposed to generate pictures related to 'natural' shapes. I don't really see it so much as being news, as many have noticed that most natural objects have a fractal dimension to them. Trees are the most obvious example. One of the fractals that Fractint will generate is a cool picture of a fern leaf. If you choose type=ifs, and fern for the IFS subtype, you should be able to display it.

Someday, someone is going to find the correct fractal equation for the universe itself. It will probably be about 50 or so characters long. The physicists(sp?) of the world will look at that, then at the huge volumes they use to attempt to describe quantum mechanics, and say "Doh!"

I don't get it... If I am going to such extremes to AVOID spam, why should the spamemr WANT to go to lenghts to get around it? I obviously am someone who DOES NOT and WILL NOT patronize their products... So why waste the effort?

Yes, there is a solution out there. Basically you need to restore the previous version of libssl.so This will get your webserver up and running again, but it will still have the RSA keysnoop vulnerability. So use at your own risk!

You can find the old libssl.so at two places:

http://ganter.dyndns.org/misc/apple_ssl.php
http://www.zippy6.net/misc/

You have Thomas Ganter to thank for this solution. It was first published on the Apple discussion site, and I mirrored it on my webserver (just to keep Ganter's site from being slasdotted).

I've been trying several kernels as the development focuses them (gentoo-sources, lolo-sources, I don't know the details about the process priorities bug, even if is unrelated the fact is that doing things with nice -19 (such as emerging a packaged), almost took the machine to a halt - now I can compile a package without that hapening, so it must be a problem in gentoo somewhere. Anyway, this isn't bugs.gentoo.org to write a bug report...

Ah! Ah! Ah!.... Oooohh... People are so funny (not to mention ridiculous) when they put labels on someone just because he use(s/d) distro A or B.

Don't see the point of that...

They are released prompt enough for me. And the packages I need the most for my work like Numeric Python, ATLAS, subversion have much more recent versions and better integration and packaging in debian than in portage. It is a fact that many people in my line of activity (engineering research) use debian. If I spent all my day using KDE/Gentoo applications as you seem to do, I'd probably agree with you.

Didn't you ever downloaded an unofficial ebuild from foruns.gentoo.org? I actually think that portage should allow having seperate repositories such as sources.list, because the current gentoo developers can't cope (or are not interested in coping) with all the potential packages (I had/have bug reports on bugs.gentoo.org of many months). BTW, all unofficial repositories I use on debian happen to be provided by official debian developers.

Things do get broken on unstable, but no more than they do on gentoo, and with the bonus that everytime they try to get xfree86/gcc/binutils package right, you don't have to recompile it over and over again.

Again, I don't defend that Debian is the holy grail of linux distributions, not only because such holy grail doesn't exists (every distro is suited for a certain purpose), but because I know that tomorrow I'll change distro again. After all, one great thing with linux/unix is that usually it oesn't take more than 1-2days to swith a distro and have everything as before since the most important part - your home dir - doesn't even need to be touched.

Yeah, it's buried way down in the body of the article, but it's still there. w00t! I'm the guy that wrote TorrentSpy. The web site that the link points to is running on my PC at home on cable 'net access. 300 hits in 3 hours. Not too bad so far, I guess. My gf is gonna kill me if I get slashdotted, tho. There are worse ways to go, I guess ...

I've had several people express interest in an *nix version of TSpy. It's written in Delphi, which theoretically means it shouldn't be too hard to port over to Kylix. If anyone has Kylix experience and would like to help out, feel free to contact me at the email on my web site.

I'm gonna go tail -f my log file and listen to my network bog down.

I'm working on converting my web site from straight HTML to PHP + XML, to ease the pain of future changes. My thinking is, as long as I preserve all the data I think is important in XML, I should be about to output it however I want. I'm going OO with this.

One object type I have is a "renderer". Its job is to output my data in whichever form I ask.
Here are three different renderers operating on the same data:

Old, new, RSS.

I also have Parser object that uses the Expat PHP interface, objects for news items and links, etc. To me, this form of organization makes sense. It helps me centralize information, and prevents stupid mistakes like putting a news item inside a paragraph. It also supports "programming-by-difference"-- most of the methods in the "old" renderer are also part of the "new" renderer, but wherever I need to, I can change the "new" renderer freely. The RSS renderer, on the other hand, is based on the "blank" renderer, so it defaults to doing nothing. Of course, YMMV.

I'm working on converting my web site from straight HTML to PHP + XML, to ease the pain of future changes. My thinking is, as long as I preserve all the data I think is important in XML, I should be about to output it however I want. I'm going OO with this.

One object type I have is a "renderer". Its job is to output my data in whichever form I ask.
Here are three different renderers operating on the same data:

Old, new, RSS.

I also have Parser object that uses the Expat PHP interface, objects for news items and links, etc. To me, this form of organization makes sense. It helps me centralize information, and prevents stupid mistakes like putting a news item inside a paragraph. It also supports "programming-by-difference"-- most of the methods in the "old" renderer are also part of the "new" renderer, but wherever I need to, I can change the "new" renderer freely. The RSS renderer, on the other hand, is based on the "blank" renderer, so it defaults to doing nothing. Of course, YMMV.

I'm working on converting my web site from straight HTML to PHP + XML, to ease the pain of future changes. My thinking is, as long as I preserve all the data I think is important in XML, I should be about to output it however I want. I'm going OO with this.

One object type I have is a "renderer". Its job is to output my data in whichever form I ask.
Here are three different renderers operating on the same data:

Old, new, RSS.

I also have Parser object that uses the Expat PHP interface, objects for news items and links, etc. To me, this form of organization makes sense. It helps me centralize information, and prevents stupid mistakes like putting a news item inside a paragraph. It also supports "programming-by-difference"-- most of the methods in the "old" renderer are also part of the "new" renderer, but wherever I need to, I can change the "new" renderer freely. The RSS renderer, on the other hand, is based on the "blank" renderer, so it defaults to doing nothing. Of course, YMMV.

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has attempted to plot this as a fractal?

BTW: there is a linux version of Fractint available. WooHoo!

I remember waiting over 60 hours for a single screen to draw on some of the deep zooms of the Mandlebrot set when I was running a SOTA 33 Mhz 386. Timothy Leary would not have survived the 60s if he'd had a copy of Fractint and something to run it on at the time :-)

I'm converting my web site to XML these days. so "news.html" is generated from "news.xml and "links.xml". What do you think is easier to reuse: news.html or the source files?

I'm converting my web site to XML these days. so "news.html" is generated from "news.xml and "links.xml". What do you think is easier to reuse: news.html or the source files?

I'm converting my web site to XML these days. so "news.html" is generated from "news.xml and "links.xml". What do you think is easier to reuse: news.html or the source files?

Lets see you guys speed test my new PHP-enabled streaming audio FM radio application running in my house which is connected via ADSL (+200 Kbps upstream). Stress testing here we go...

http://zmaster.dyndns.org/fm_radio/

Cheers!

Paul Zimmerman
http://zimmermantech.com/email.htm

Crayz, you are a pear shaped dweeb.

Hey everyone, look how fat crayz is:
http://crayz.dyndns.org/series/fire/DSCF3632.jpg

The site's acting flakey so I mirrored the 3 thumbnail pages on my box:

http://snotwad.dyndns.org:8000/cyberroach_mirror/

Since the official Slack FTP is a bit slow from everyone trying to grab it, here are a couple (unofficial) mirror lists:

alphageek.dyndns.org
AbnormalPenguin.com

I've already downloaded mine, so everybody have at it. ;)

That's nice and all, but can your server survive a good Slashdotting?!

Check out this new forum for discussing spam: http://antispamist.dyndns.org/forum/index.php

I posted a trackback in response to Dave's assertation that tabs are scalable. I simply don't believe that they are, in fact prior to his article about tabs, scalability was one of the main weaknesses I would bring up in discussions about tabs -- it's not the main weakness, just one of them.

I wonder if my PowerMac G3 can take a Slashdot beating...

I think you left out the "u" out of your name Bulk Panther.

Anyway, thanks for providing us with yet another example of the rules of spam.

I'm sure it will be something like this

Couldn't find a google cache...poor kerneltrap. Thei Antispamist There 4 I am

This post is from the Slashdot Troll Archive.

Here's the link to this particular post: Lex Talionis is a morally bankrupt code

If you're going to troll, may I suggest The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth? It's one of my personal favorites. :)