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Official Announcements / Re: Thread about the DonationCoder.com server Shutdown on March 2nd, 2008
« on: March 07, 2008, 01:38 PM »
It looks like they got in using an exploit in an older version of the Subversion Version Control System (SVN) that i had installed on the server a while ago.
It does look like that, but there is no way to be 100% sure.
The facts are:
  • Someone logged into the svn user account (which for some reason had a bash shell bound to it instead of being pointed to /sbin/nologin or something) before logging in as root (timestamps show svn was first)
  • The svn user account had " nano /etc/passwd " in it's .bash_history.   It is safe to assume that they erased the .bash_history on every log-in, so it will only show the commands they ran on last login, nothing before that.
  • About one hour and a half later, they logged in as root through the front door. According to the ssh logs, it seems they used a valid password. Then went straight to installing their trojan code on the webpage. As far as we can tell anyway, the .bash_history does show that it wasn't erased because it had commands in there we ran before the attack. However, they could easily manipulate it and only delete the lines they were responsible for.
  • They also killed the log daemons upon login. Thus adding more uncertainty since we only have partial information.
  • The attackers came from at least 3 different IP addresses:

    24.39.219.73
    82.201.163.136
    62.13.171.41

    It's most probably safe to assume that these are also hacked computers.
  • The way they infected the pages was by running a script called fr.sh which traversed the directories looking for index.html/htm pages (It also got 2 PHP pages that were not accessible to the public). It seems like it grabbed the code to inject from a file they created (filename was Script).


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Official Announcements / server news
« on: March 07, 2008, 12:16 AM »
The donationcoder server may have to be restarted a few times yet this week as we install things and fix little details here and there.
So please don't panic when you can't reach the server for a second :)

awanpmjadb.jpg

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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« on: March 06, 2008, 11:48 PM »
Don't forget wordzilla :) He borrowed us one of his servers to host the down notice page.

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General Software Discussion / Minimize any window to tray on *nix
« on: March 06, 2008, 10:08 PM »
I've seen some mention of minimize-to-tray apps here on DC, I figured I would post this for the few fellow Linux users here who might want something like this:

With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the "close" button will minimize back to system tray.  It works well with Gnome,  KDE,  XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*

kde.png

I have set up a key shortcut in fluxbox, so I only have to press one button and click the window i want to send to tray. Comes in handy! Especially useful for thunderbird.

http://alltray.sourceforge.net/

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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« on: March 06, 2008, 08:20 PM »
ps: f0dder .. since you seem to be monitoring the forum and not the irc channel

OP MOUSERBOT !!!

:)

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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« on: March 06, 2008, 08:19 PM »
By the way, i LOVE the cody image!!  :Thmbsup:

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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« on: March 06, 2008, 08:15 PM »
Not yet fortress style really. We're on a pretty-much default softlayer setup now. We're using this as a temporary server so we can take our time setting up the fortress setup. :)

And I am definitively considering virtualization. We can do some performance tests on that when we have the new server, since there won't be such a time-rush.

All non-forum / main donationcoder stuff has always been on a secondary server. (with the exception for that svn server mouser recently installed and seems to have doomed us, though I guess there is no way to be 100% sure)

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« on: March 01, 2008, 07:59 AM »
perhaps they would have been better with an apple machine?
one of those old mac's where the computer is 'in' the monitor, and a one-huge-button mouse ;)

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Living Room / Re: Phun - 2D physics sandbox
« on: February 20, 2008, 01:10 PM »
Not sure what the problem is for you, jgpaiva...
Runs great here (on linux). :)

That little thing is addicting!

Collision detection fails sometimes though, when very high speed objects collide they tend to go through each other.


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Living Room / Re: GPLv3 explained
« on: February 18, 2008, 11:08 AM »
There's probably more objective people than Mr Zealot himself? Wink

See, there we go with the name calling already :P

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Living Room / Re: GPLv3 explained
« on: February 18, 2008, 10:04 AM »
...explanation from an objective person

There is such a thing as an objective person on software licenses?  :D
That would be like finding a programmer who is objective on programming language ;) It simply does not exist.
Maybe in some ways, software licenses are worse since a lot of ideology and complete ways of thought are represented by them.

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Living Room / Re: GPLv3 explained
« on: February 18, 2008, 10:01 AM »
It's actually fascinating to hear about how v3 features were designed to thwart companies who found loopholes in v2.

Exactly.

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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy
« on: February 17, 2008, 03:37 PM »
Now, I'm a bit rusty at the more advanced DNS topics, but assuming that your (ISP or whatever) nameserver doesn't know about DONATIONCODER.COM, how will it resolve NS1 and NS2? Doesn't resolving NS1 and NS2 mean your DNS server has to contact ns{1,2}.donationcoder.com, which it doesn't have the IPs for?

Yep,... That's how the hosting company has had it set up for some reason...

Whoever controls the domain (i'm not sure if that's mouser or the hosting company or whatever i'll have to ask him about it) should probably put in the IP addresses for the server instead of the domain name with the subdomains. The donationcoder server does have multiple IP's (72.36.247.82 through 72.36.247.86) that can be used, so it's not like you're stuck with one IP and have to have the subdomains as a hack to get around the 2 nameservers requirement.

nudone: an easy solution for you, without using custom dns servers etc, would be to just put the ip for donationcoder in your hosts file.


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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy
« on: February 17, 2008, 01:53 PM »
You also might want to try these:

[Select]
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3

No advertising when you mistype an url ;)

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Living Room / Re: Free Polo Shirt From Microsoft for answering Vista quiz
« on: February 17, 2008, 01:35 PM »
GNU/Linux+FireFox=no silverlight=no shirt=nothanksvista

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Living Room / GPLv3 explained
« on: February 17, 2008, 12:22 PM »
Ever wonder what's different about the brand new GPL version 3 versus it's older kin, GPLv2?

Richard Stallman, the guy who came up with the GPL in the first place, explains in non-legalese
so we can all understand once and for all what it's all about:



rms.png

http://video.google....-1230218647830638736





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Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?
« on: February 16, 2008, 05:28 AM »
We'll take one :)

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Living Room / Guide: Earning income from a Free/Open Source project.
« on: February 13, 2008, 09:33 PM »
The brainchild and creator of the GNU/Linux distro "Damn Small Linux", a GNU/Linux distro for systems with limited hardware resources, has written up a little guide on how to make money as a FOSS developer from his experiences with DSL.

It makes quite an interesting read, since it covers the donation concept and some notes on the 'psychological barrier' and some of the harder choices many developers have to face when trying to survive developing only freely available software.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/income-guide/

dsldonate.png

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Developer's Corner / There is PHP, Perl, Ruby, and now there is...smalltalk?!
« on: February 08, 2008, 06:57 AM »
Smalltalk is now usable as a web development scripting language thanks to seaside:

seaside.png

Why does smalltalk remind me of emacs? (in terms of wanting to do everything)

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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« on: February 05, 2008, 05:21 PM »
It seems to me that the google social graph api is not a graphical api but rather one to use google's search data to gather data about how social elements link to eachother.

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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« on: February 04, 2008, 07:35 PM »
I'm pretty sure i made some images that i posted on the forum elsewhere that look realy similar to those images (mouser on the top with A LOT of lines coming out into the rest of the small members).
I ran those on a very old database snapshot. It may actually look different now. These old ones actually took a few hours to generate,.. there's alot more posts on the forum now, it would probably take forever to generate now. I need to find something superior to graphviz thats more scalable. Graphviz only runs in 1 process, and thus won't migrate on a cluster. I also can't find a way to seamlessly generate 'parts' of the graph and stitch them together later.
It would be nice to find something that lets us generate/view the graphs on a google-maps like panable-zoomable interface without eating boatloads of memory/cpu

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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« on: February 04, 2008, 03:58 PM »
Told ya :)

Made the huge images warning a bit more noticeable :)

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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« on: February 04, 2008, 03:26 PM »
We've been working on a forum visualization tool for the donationcoder forums.
Some test results (warning, huge images):

http://www.linkerror...social_net_green.jpg

http://www.linkerror...ests/4/socialnet.jpg

Each path is a post. Eg:
If I post in one of mouser's threads there would be a line going from me to mouser.
In the last example, thicker, brighter lines = more posts.

The project is on hold for a bit since we're 1) very involved with other stuff 2) kind of hitting a limit on how much we can do with just graphivz to create the graphs.

It will be released to the public at some point though ;)

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Living Room / Re: Cody - The 3d model
« on: January 31, 2008, 11:28 AM »
Is there a way to import that Blender file into Cinema 4D?
-Xenonym (January 31, 2008, 09:58 AM)

You can probably export it as .3ds or some other common format, which I think Cinema 4D should be able to import. But I think you'll only get the mesh, not the bones and rigging for animation. And probably not the texture and vertex groups either.

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOTHIC!!!
« on: January 30, 2008, 03:27 PM »
Cody wanted to do something in Blender in gratitude for his animation movie, so he came up with this one:
Wow looks great! Thank you, Lashiec.  :Thmbsup:
It's not that easy to make nice looking organic objects :)

*counts candles*

Woohoo, I'm 5! :D


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