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Project Yourself On Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Rob Levin writes: "Open Projects Net has just embarked on an expansion project, to increase
its user base and provide better service to the community. We've
revamped our web site and [Slashdot] readers might want to take a look. The new project is called Mister Toad's Wild Ride." As a satisfied "customer" of OPN, I have to say this sounds like a great move -- OPN is one of the friendliest IRC environments I've ever seen, and is always a good source of #help. Read the documents to see the dilemma that Rob (lilo) and the other volunteers at OPN are facing, and to learn about their ambitious plan to grow without sacrificing the community feel (or becoming DoS fodder). And more to the point, help! Technical skills, money,and even moral support would be appreciated, I bet.
I'm going to have to call my Friday nights something else. I don't want to confuse the girls.
One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / the next it's rolling over me / I can get back on / I can get back on
8P
I've always wondered this... why not hide users ips (or mask part of the ip) and only display their nickname? Surely a good portion of the DoS problems stem from user->user wars. It would certainly make it harder (but not impossible) to aquire and subsequently abuse a persons ip.
DCCs could still work with the server relaying the targets ip once they had "ok'd" the connection.
I guess the hostname/ip is handy for verifying that the person is who they claim to be, but perhaps there is another fingerprint method maybe even more trustworthy than hostnames (we all know dns isn't exactly bulletproof)
- Toby
The kind folks at OPN considered this, but decided that it was too strong a response to DoS attacks, and, being likely to take out a substantial percentage of innocents, this approach would probably dissuade users from using their IRC network in the first place.
Practice random senselessness and act kind of beautiful.
"me and dannywasreal bored cuz their wont nouthing to do until danny said we could go haX0r some peeple and maybe bill gates and then we culd get some mony but we didnt' find anything that told us how so we went to this l33t place where all these lenux nerds where and they told us to go haX0r on this toad and we pounded on it til my moms gateway did that blue screen thing and then we were bored so we went to mikes house cuz mike has a cable modem and it hooks right up to the college or something and mike says heknows kevin nittlicker or something. he said we had to go home if the FBi showed up but they didnt.
toads are stupid.
danny says indiana jones is playing at the dollar movies."
- I am made of meat.
Consider this a reference (although you could probably find the story through the Palm Beach Post, that being the local newspaper). It's not far at all from where I type this, and yes, it did have nice, seven foot (or whatever the largest sized figures you can get on an exterior wall are) Disney characters all over the entire building. It was in the news for a short time that they were being sued, and now the building is a cheery color of yellow, with flowers and a train. It's still a daycare, and I assume (but this may be incorrect) that it's still the same daycare.
Just like all media stories, however, it was in the local news big time when it happened several years ago, but there was no real followup on exactly what happened. I can only relate that A) it happened and B) the building existed and changed as I described.
Ask InitZero - he worked at the Palm Beach Post, probably while it happened, and he's good with remembering that kinda thing. (I thus attempt to invoke a fellow Slashdotter, a la kiboing).
-- Evan "Off of Military Tr. and Okeechobee Blvd., near the Cherry Road Dennys" E.
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
XO,
Yup, seeking monetary contributions for an IRC network is a pretty hard sell. But before you dismiss the thought out of hand look at what we are doing and the philosophy behind our approach. We are here to help people communicate, and some fairly well-known projects, such as Debian GNU/Linux, Jabber, handhelds.org, PocketLinux and Vorbis, find us quite useful. So if someone wants to know whether we can make a case that they should contribute or code for us, well, I think we can make quite a strong one.
Thanks,
Rob L.
I generally get decent results using a minimal number of keywords. Given that google primarily ranks things based on linking popularity rather than number of matches, a few keywords is usually sufficient to turn up an "authoritative" page on the subject. Also, it's easy enough to add the keywords a few at a time, as each result page has the search field filled in with your previous result.
One problem in this case might've been the inclusion of "sues", since Disney didn't actually sue the day care and the previously mentioned page itself doesn't have any forms of "sue" in it (instead it has "threatened to go to court").
the movie mallrats, which was a sort of loose sequal to clerks, and predecessor to chasing amy and dogma, all of which feature the characters Silent Bob and Jay
Well, running an IRC network is standard to a certain excent. But, when you look at all the possible ways people can DoS the networks and how you have to have some pretty good resources for a large number of users, it gets a little more tricky. "Mr Toad's Wild Ride", at least to my knowledge, is simply the codename given to the project of rewriting the current IRC server code, which includes new network modifications (such as IP/host masking), different announcement modes, and so on and so forth to make OPN even more helpful to those who need it.
Well, since you've chosen to remain anonymous, I'm going to just have to assume you're using Linux. If you are, the majority of applications, tools, etc., in Linux were created in other people's free time. They weren't coding for money, they were coding for the good of the community and the advancement of Linux or any other UNIX-like operating system. Hmmmm, if I remember correctly, even the forums you're typing in were coded by CmdrTaco in his spare time, back before /. was owned by any company.
Alright, apologies for my tone there. :)
Good Luck.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I could've sworn I remembered a followup wherein some other cartoon character franchise offered to let them use their characters. And dumping "disney day-care" into google turned up this message which provides confirmation and details. (It involved 3 Florida daycare centers. Disney did not sue since the daycare centers complied with their demand to remove the characters. Hanna-Barbara volunteered their characters as a replacement.)
I thought it was a reference to Wind In The Willows. Oh, wait, it was.
You should all be made aware that the status is that Rob Levin needs to get a life.
Thank you for your kind attention.
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tcd004
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Seeking monetary contributions for an IRC network. *chuckle* Like that will work.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
As IRC networks grow, they attract denial of service attacks
I'm sure a story on Slashdot won't exactly lower the number of attacks either.
or are /. posts getting to the point that you can't tell what they're about just from reading the intros?
That said, it wasn't clear to me what they're planning to do except have a bigger, faster, more stable and secure IRC network. Not that there's anything wrong with that - that's exactly what they should be doing. But isn't running an IRC net a pretty standard activity? What is this "Mr. Toad metaproject" adding?
Unsettling MOTD at my ISP.
Expect to get sued by The Walt Disney Corporation.
"Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" is the name of a children's ride at DisneyLand. You can bet that the name has been trademarked with lethal efficiency. And since Disney are one of the most ruthless, humorless, ligitious agents out there when it comes to intellectual "property", I place the lifespan of your venture somewhere short of a crippled, emphysemic cockroach in a Raid factory.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Whatever happened to the idea of sending high voltage down the ionized paths formed by UV pulse lasers? It seems to me that these burn lasers will encounter all the same humanitarian opposition as rubber bulltets, tear gas, and water hoses do. And what happens when one of these lasers hits you in the eye? From what I understand of MW radiation it's wavelength is the same as the diameter of water molecules and resonates them. My guess is that shining one of these in someones face will probably make their eyes explode after about 2 seconds.
"Women want romance, not Mr Toad's Wild Ride..."
"Be fair, EVERYONE wants Mr Toad's Wild Ride"
Hmm, I typed "Disney sues Florida day-care center" and didn't get jack squat. Is there some secret method of getting good results from Google that I haven't figured out yet? Is putting too many keywords a problem? I tried your search, and it was the number one response.
Since the name is Disney's creation, they probably have enough of a case. Remember, this is the corp that sued a Florida day-care center (supposedly, I couldn't find a reference on the 'net).