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This year at LugRadio Live we're having The Hour Of Power again, like last year. It's a one-hour main-stage session where people demonstrate cool visual things. Last time there was Justin Hornsby demoing MythTV, dotwaffle demoing, well, demos, Malcolm "pepsiman" Parsons demoing Linux on the Nintendo DS, msemtd demoing his home-built MAME arcade cabinet, and Mirco "MacSlow" Muller demoing Lowfat. This year we're looking for more things in that vein. So, if you want to show off your media centre software or something you've built into an Altoids tin or some exciting pretty web technology or something else, contact us to volunteer!
Where Jokosher stands out beyond other audio applications is that it provides for easy inclusion of a fantastic new GUI. This allows the ability to distinguish one track from another with the help of icons and other visual references...Feels like Audacity with regard to simplicity, but has a full set of features and seems to be more fun to use from a visual perspective.Good work the Jokosher team!
<video> and <audio> elements will provide this in the browser eventually, assuming that they're actually implemented and we can get around the issues of what video formats are supported (Apple are lobbying hard for video format support to not be mandated, meaning that the element will be broadly useless on the web itself -- Safari will support QuickTime-supported videos, IE will support WMV, Firefox and Opera will support Ogg Theora). This is a big problem, but there are tentative steps toward solving it.whatever.swf. That's highly easy to deploy. It will be possible to make single-file deployments of a scripting+SVG+HTML+images bundle, but it's harder; images are a particular problem if you intend to support Internet Explorer.<canvas> element, which is also emulable in IE); single-file-deployment isn't critical, really (instead of a complicated <object> tag to embed a Flash file, it's <iframe src="mywidget/">, with your JS/HTML/SVG widget in a folder). It'd be supported everywhere, you wouldn't have to worry about the direction being solely controlled by one vendor, and it uses technologies we already know rather than trying to supplant the open web as Microsoft's Silverlight is doing. Those of you who doubt that HTML is capable of this sort of thing, take a look at Apple's Dashboard widgets, which do many cool things and are pure HTML, JavaScript, and <canvas>.
You might even be able to convert existing Flash movies to it using flasm, which would get the project up and running pretty quickly.
Of course, the idea needs a name. It would be nice to have it not be named after toilet cleaner, like Flash or Ajax. Whoever writes the IDE gets to think of the catchy name and be immortalised for ever. If you need a name, call it "April". No catchy acronym, it's just a nice word, and it's when my daughter was born.
Currently desperately trying to not start writing this.
"It’s hard to live up to your principles. If it were easy, your principles probably aren’t worth a damn anyway."
Stuart --
Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here's something to be happy
about -- today a honey pot you installed successfully identified a
previously unknown email harvester (IP: 61.183.167.138). The
harvester was caught by your honey pot installed at:
www.kryogenix.org
Don't forget to tell your friends you made the Internet a little better
today. You can refer them to Project Honey Pot.
Project Honeypot is a system designed to catch email spammers. Basically, you sign up for their site and they give you one PHP (or ASP, or Cold Fusion, or half a dozen other things) file. You drop it somewhere in your webspace and throw in a couple of links to it (hidden on your own pages). The idea here is that ordinary people don't follow the links, but spammer screen-scraping robots do. On the page is an email address and what looks like a weblog comment form, randomly generated, but tied to your Project Honeypot account. If any email arrives at that email address, which is run by Project Honeypot, or comments are posted through the comment form, then they know it's spam (because only robots will scrape the email address and then mail it). Whether it's a large help in the great fight against spam or not I don't know, but it's pretty easy to set up and once it is set up you don't have to do anything. And as you can see from above, I've already identified a spammer that they didn't know about.
You can see my honey pot at http://www.kryogenix.org/random/hpot/pedatetightknit.php if you want to take a look. Just looking at it confers no penalty. The comment form on it is hidden with CSS by default, so it might not be visible when you look. Don't mail any email addresses you find on the page, though!
Signing up for your own honeypot is pretty easy (although I wish they'd use OpenID for accounts); I'm supposed to refer you, but there's no "affiliate accounts" or similar. Go get one, and we'll all try and help.
gingalingling, eh?
I knew I'd get grief about getting a LiveJournal :-) Consider me subscribed; if I'm going to be depressed I'm surely better finding out about it through RSS than paying £200 an hour to a psychotherapist.
Nonetheless, you should indeed come and cry with me at LugRadio Live!
Update: and Jono too! ilovemybeard says "there's so many people here i can talk to about the community. it's like communitising a community within a community using community tools to promote community tools." Ho ho ho :-)
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