Fri, 5th Dec 2008 07:39:58
Never fear, this site is here
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The map is still up and running (as of January 2nd, 2008), and you can see it at the following url:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Nightmap.ashx
Disclaimer: This post is a post about my opinions and experiences with the pipeline portal application, Cocoon. This disclaimer is included to disclaim any possibility that I may be wrong about this. Period. :-P
On paper its an impressive framework to construct a web application around practically any source medium, dynamic or otherwise. Cocoon is largely based on the XML philosophy (that everything has to be extremely complex and difficult to use to store simple information (citation)).
Ladies and Gentlenerds, Spiders, and bots.
You've found this site because you most likely like technology, computers, coding, learning or Jack Daniels. You may be interested in coding as a hobby, or perhaps you're interest is professional. Perhaps you're just bored. In any case NEVERFEAR!. This site is here.
This site is the work of a few e-friends who wanted to try and light the social fire of a technology community. It is as much a website as it is an IRC network. As it is a group of friends.
You will notice there is no register-account button or link. This is because we want to know you before we allow you to write on this site! If you are interested in contributing, we'd love to hear from you on the IRC network where we can get to know you as you try to socially engineer us.
We hope to promote learning or at the very least cure our boredom. We hope to do this by writing articles, blog entries, rants, hints and tips. Share what we know with you.
In short NEVERFEAR is a place of love, of creepiness, a place of late night laughter and of Cyrus' scarily deep voice.
We invite you all to come join us at irc.neverfear.org:7777 (6697 for SSL users) #neverfear.
-- Doug
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Most Linux distributions have great package managers like apt or
portage. But installing programs when you don't have root access can
be a pain. You need to find, download and install all the dependencies
and their dependencies, setup a prefix somewhere in your home folder
and hope that everything works.
Prefixed portage is perfect for those kinds of situations. It's
a modified version of portage, the package manager of the Gentoo
distribution. I am using it on a computer running Linux, but you can
also use it on OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris to install applications and
libraries from the portage repository.
This method has numerous problems, such as the password being sent unencrypted to the web-server, and the fact many users reuse passwords, if an intruder works out a users password (though any means), there is a good chance they can log into the same users email account, online banking etc etc..
The whole username/password login method has many flaws, most are down to the fact most people struggle to remember a single 5-6 character password, let alone multiple random messy looking passwords such as "Xm2K?pdT&av", as most "good password guides" suggest.
GPG, ("GnuPG"/"GNU Privacy Guard"), is a free/open-source replacement for PGP. I won't go into what GPG is, since I guess quite a lot of the people reading this already know, however if you do not, it is primarily used to sign or encrypt email messages - see the Wikipedia page on it
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#Halo 3 Activity Map: Animated
The video
Note: the times are GMT+0
So what is it?
Several months ago, Bungie (the creators of the Halo game series) created a map, showing the geographic location of people playing Halo 3 online.The map is still up and running (as of January 2nd, 2008), and you can see it at the following url:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Nightmap.ashx
#My beef with Apache Cocoon
Thu, 20th Dec 2007 12:16:50
Filed under: Coding.
What is Apache Cocoon?
On paper its an impressive framework to construct a web application around practically any source medium, dynamic or otherwise. Cocoon is largely based on the XML philosophy (that everything has to be extremely complex and difficult to use to store simple information (citation)).
#The opening of neverfear
Sun, 9th Dec 2007 12:30:43
Filed under: Website.
Ladies and Gentlenerds, Spiders, and bots.
You've found this site because you most likely like technology, computers, coding, learning or Jack Daniels. You may be interested in coding as a hobby, or perhaps you're interest is professional. Perhaps you're just bored. In any case NEVERFEAR!. This site is here.
This site is the work of a few e-friends who wanted to try and light the social fire of a technology community. It is as much a website as it is an IRC network. As it is a group of friends.
You will notice there is no register-account button or link. This is because we want to know you before we allow you to write on this site! If you are interested in contributing, we'd love to hear from you on the IRC network where we can get to know you as you try to socially engineer us.
We hope to promote learning or at the very least cure our boredom. We hope to do this by writing articles, blog entries, rants, hints and tips. Share what we know with you.
In short NEVERFEAR is a place of love, of creepiness, a place of late night laughter and of Cyrus' scarily deep voice.
We invite you all to come join us at irc.neverfear.org:7777 (6697 for SSL users) #neverfear.
-- Doug
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#Installing Programs on Linux Without root
Prefixed Portage
Most Linux distributions have great package managers like apt or
portage. But installing programs when you don't have root access can
be a pain. You need to find, download and install all the dependencies
and their dependencies, setup a prefix somewhere in your home folder
and hope that everything works.
Prefixed portage is perfect for those kinds of situations. It's
a modified version of portage, the package manager of the Gentoo
distribution. I am using it on a computer running Linux, but you can
also use it on OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris to install applications and
libraries from the portage repository.
#Secure website-authentication using GPG keys
Sun, 9th Dec 2007 12:30:43
Filed under: Security.
Overview:
Currently, most websites log you in the same way: You enter a username and password, the web-server hashes the password (generally via MD5(), or SHA1()). This hash is then compared to the one stored in a database - if it matches, the user knows the original password, so it logs them in.This method has numerous problems, such as the password being sent unencrypted to the web-server, and the fact many users reuse passwords, if an intruder works out a users password (though any means), there is a good chance they can log into the same users email account, online banking etc etc..
The whole username/password login method has many flaws, most are down to the fact most people struggle to remember a single 5-6 character password, let alone multiple random messy looking passwords such as "Xm2K?pdT&av", as most "good password guides" suggest.
GPG, ("GnuPG"/"GNU Privacy Guard"), is a free/open-source replacement for PGP. I won't go into what GPG is, since I guess quite a lot of the people reading this already know, however if you do not, it is primarily used to sign or encrypt email messages - see the Wikipedia page on it
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