A recent Kickstarter anonabox boasted to be developed over four years, aswell as being 100% open source, it was then pointed out that the original project was a semi-finalist on Hackaday Prize (source).
With reddit in uproar, and anonabox’es AMA only receiving over 370 comments, August Germar logged off without any real answer as to why he has essentially stolen the product from aliexpress.
August Germar then verified that he was using the board from aliexpress and was infact simply buying the boards and installing the software. Anonabox also was called out about his version two prototype was infact a board for openwrt.
It seems as though the anonabox, origionally a plug and play type deal was infact not so plug and play, with some of the problems being that
The project is not original and for $45 from an original $19 thats a huge price markup.
It is currently well known that bukkit has been given a dmca request by Wesley Wolfie, but now that that has happened, we now need to rebuild!
So here is whats happening, the folks over from bukkit are now working on a new modding api, called sponge! currently ‘Sponge will start with Minecraft 1.8, with Vanilla Client Support on Forge.’
Old plugins that were written on bukkit will most likely have to be removed, unless someone finds a way to make them compatible with sponge.
Here is a large extract of what they plan to do.
Our ultimate goal is to create a modding API that is easy to use for owners of small servers for friends and family, owners of large servers, and everyone in between. In addition, we also plan to permit client modding.
Sponge mods should work across several different Minecraft versions without needing an update from the developer, which means that you don’t have to worry about all your mods breaking between each new major release of Minecraft (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, etc.).
Sponge will support official interoperability with Forge so you can use both Sponge mods and Forge mods together. We are working directly with the Forge team.
While Sponge will not be directly supporting Bukkit, community projects have been started that aim to provide complete support for existing Bukkit plugins on top of Sponge
I recently had a problem with O2’s pay and go go go sim, where I was unable to send MMS or group text people, after a couple conversations with O2 chat and some form help, I was able to finally get it working, perviously when I tried to send an MMS or Photo, I would get the message ‘MMS blocked by Carrier’. But this solution should fix it for you, as it did for me.
The first issue I had was that my apn settings were wrong, here is how to fix it, your settings may vary, but essentially you need to get to your ‘APN’ settings menu in your phone, usually it is Settings > General > Mobile Data > Mobile Data Network > APN and for Iphones it is Settings > Mobile > Mobile Data Network > APN and for me it was ‘Quick settings’, then tap and hold ‘Mobile Data’ and select ‘Access Point Names’, see below.(I have a HTC Desire 610, but this may apply to most HTC’s)
Now you have located the menu, you should probably reset your ‘APN’ settings to default, you can do this by pressing the menu button and pressing ‘reset to default’, this stap is technically optional and may straight out fix your problem, so it may be a good idea to check it out. Once you have done that, you should have the following APN; (these may vary from phone to phone)
Name – ‘O2 Pay & Go’ APN – ‘payandgo.o2.co.uk’ Proxy – Not Set Port – Not Set Username – ‘payandgo’ Password – ‘password’ Server – Not Set MMSC – ‘http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002’ MMS Proxy – ‘82.132.254.1’ MMS Port – ‘8080’ MMS Protocol – ‘WAP 2.0’ (2.0) MCC – ‘234’ MNC – ’10’ Authentication type – Not Set APN type – ‘default,hipri,dun,supl,mms’ Bearer – Unspecified
Now save.
(Settings may vary from phone to phone, so make educated decisions if you are stuck, or Google your specific phone settings for O2 (Or your Carrier).)
You now need to add a new APN for MMS, note that you should have 2 APN’s one for Calls, texts and Internet, and one for MMS. Give it the following settings;
Name – ‘O2 MMS’ APN – ‘wap.o2.co.uk’ Proxy – ‘http://wap.o2.co.uk’ Port – ‘9201’ Username – ‘o2wap’ Password – ‘password’ Server – ‘http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002’ MMSC – ‘http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002’ MMS Proxy – ‘193.113.200.195’ MMS Port – ‘8080’ MMS Protocol – ‘WAP 2.0’ (2.0) MCC – ‘234’ MNC – ’10’ Authentication type – Not Set APN type – ‘mms’ Bearer – Unspecified
Now save.
(Settings may vary from phone to phone, so make educated decisions if you are stuck, or Google your specific phone settings for O2 (Or your Carrier).)
You should now have two APN’s and should now be able to use calls,texts,internet and mms (as well as group messaging and photo sending) on O2 Pay and Go Go Go.
Were back! and were faster than ever, well over 140% faster to be precise, out with Xampp on windows, in with Ubuntu Webmin!
Wait… Webmin isn’t that taboo? Well, yes, it is but its got loads of features and is really easy to do otherwise time consuming tasks that could take minutes and turn that into a couple of seconds, for example, adding a virtual host to apache2 would require FTP and a bit of nifty .txt editing, but with webmin, its a couple of clicks away, practical in the long run, but it does have it’s drawbacks.
Plus webmin is easy to use and quick to configure, so Ill be doing a couple tutorials on that soon enough!
Recently bukkit has been issued a DMCA takedown because of recent events and the massage below appeared on bukkit’s downloads pages.
451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons. This content is unavailable as the direct result of a DMCA takedown request. A copy of the notification can be found at this link.
What now? well, we don’t know, as far as we are aware Wesley Wolfie is issuing the DMCA notice to Multiplay (who host bukkit and bukkit’s download links (reference)).
I believe that Spigot will continue to update there builds but are in the same boat as bukkit, but that it is ok for them to do so as it is not Wolfie’s Intention to stop the modding of bukkit but to protect mojang from using his code in their develpments of bukkit as he was unaware that mojang had aqquired bukkit and he was no longer working for an open source project and was now working for mojang essentially for free.
I wanted colored batch files and I managed to achieve this with someones solution which I modified and made my own, it is now quite different to his but I cannot find who it was to give them credit, anyway, here is the code!
@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
set "DEL=%%a"
)
title Startup Assist - Handler
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 08 "Service"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 08 " Startup Assist - HANDLER - RUNNING "
echo.
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 0E "WARNING"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 08 " Startup Assist will stop if a server startup file is not found this is because of windows MS DOS functionality, Sorry "
echo.
call :ColorText 08 "["
call :ColorText 08 "Minecraft Service"
call :ColorText 08 "]"
call :ColorText 0A " Minecraft Server "
call :ColorText 0C " Nexion"
call :ColorText 0A " Started"
echo.
start "launch.bat" "C:UsersNexionDocumentsMinecraft ServersNexionlaunch.bat"
echo(
call :ColorText 79 "This window will now await user input!"
echo.
)
PAUSE
exit
goto :eof
:ColorText echo off “%~2” findstr /v /a:%1 /R “^$” “%~2” nul del “%~2” > nul 2>&1 goto :eof
which looks something like this
As you can tell, this is for my minecraft server 🙂 (Nexion.co.uk)
and that’s all there is to it! you can use any standard colors that you could already within batch files. (Note: When running without user, i.e. started by another process, the colors requite administrative privileges!)
Hashing a password means that users cannot have their passwords compromised when a database engineer is reading cleartext in user databases (to a degree, the passwords could be decoded, but hashing them makes them illegible to someone who is not doing anything extensive). And also prevents hackers from reading passwords in plain text and can be compromised by collision attacks.
Additionally when hashing a password a salt may be added to the password, this prevents a database from being attacked by dictionary attacks.
Why Hash Passwords?
Storing User credentials in Plain Text is generally as bad practice as it allows anyone who reads the file (or computer) to see the password, username or any other credential without any sort of protection, In some cases it is against the law, such as PCI SSC Data Security Standards which handles debit and other card types. The solution to this is to Obfuscation in the form of hashing. Hashing a password makes a standard password seem completely random.
How hashing works
When a user signs up for a website or any other form that requires secure credentials, such as a password, username, email address or address, that user will fill in a form that will ask these credentials, then the web server will both hash and store the hash, the server will ‘throw away’ the original password and keep the hash. In a more secure environment the user may also be given a salt, this may be unique to the user or unique to the application (The user will not know the salt, the salt is owned by the server and will be kept secret.). When hashing both the password and salt will be combined and hashed.
I recently installed php, but when I was unable to save files, I was very stuck, and that’s why I’m posting it here, I want to tell anyone who Googles this problem to find this solution.
The problem was when I used an fopen and fsave within php, the file would always ‘die’ as in the open or die within php. The solution is below
Firstly I looked for the Environment user in phpinfo() in my case it was
www-data
and then I simply typed this
chmod 777 -R www-data /var/www
that, in its simplicity is the solution, but I am thankful that I have found the solution!
To create a phpinfo you need to create a file in your root and insert the following code
<?php
// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();
?>
and save it as
phpinfo.php
or whatever you choose, I saved it in my root but you can save it wherever you want, then I browsed to the environments section and that gave me the necessary information for me to create the solution.
Why this works
The problem was that php did not have enough permissions to write to the folder. by giving the user www-data full permission i.e. 777 it can now read write and execute without a problem!
A habit worth looking into is to structure your hard-drive and here is some notes.
Your hard-drive root (C:) should just be folders, nothing else, and it shouldn’t have any of YOUR folders that you keep stuff in that your not sharing on a network, thats what your user folder is for.
Share folders on a drive root. Long names for files will eventually fill the limit and you cant store anything, so I keep all my shared folders in root in organised folders, but don’t clutter your HDD, it should be a thing of beauty, not a baron list of folders and files, just files. (To clarify, I mean you should only have folders on your C: nothing else)
Have a C:/Store folder and a C:/Drivers folder, C:/Store is for stuff you need but don’t want, like pesky programs that wont live in Program Files. and C:/Drivers is for all the installers for your computer from your manufacturers website.
Why go to all this trouble? Well its good practise I suppose.
I have my computer for multiple reasons, editing, video production, gameing, rendering and general use, because of that I have a very high spec computer and it’s great, but today I want to talk about the joys of excessive HDD space.
First of all, I dont have a SSD, and I dont plan on getting one, but they seem great, so I may consider it, please stop commenting on this subject, I am fully aware of the Joys of SSDs. my server has a 30GB one and it is great, but please, no more spam.
So first, whats it good for? Well currently I have 3 HDDs and they are setup with no raid, but I do have VSS running which is great, but heres a bullet pointed list.
Previous Versions, A vital backup tool.I have this on Alfie (My harddrive name), this is connected to the computer via USB so its slower, and therefore I use it for bvackups and archiveing stuff rather than storage.Its great!, when your computer dies, you cant help but feel a bit down hearted, but with this, you just hit F8 a bunch of times, select your date and your done, but it can take some time if your backup was a while ago, so do it regularly, or set it to an interval.
Windows Image Backup or File History, its like backup, but you can restore Individual files so if you deleted a folder, you can just roll it back I have used this a few times and its really saved me. I over use this to, deleted something you shouldn’t?, ‘is it in the recycle bin, no, hmm just roll back the folder, ah there it is.’ . Also on Alife.
Store all the things. I have Felix for this, a swifty SATA HDD, I haven’t deleted anything in a while I keep all my songs, video and Pictures on it and its great. I also keep software and Installers on there incase my software breaks.
RAID. I dont have this, but its worth pointing out RAID would be useful, but Id rather use all the space :).