I'm going to be building a bot for one of my servers soon, just to help do certain things automatically, but I honestly don't know how many features to put into it. I'm taking a more security-oriented approach, so features will likely have something to do with that.

This is what I've got so far:

• Google Dorker (drops first page of results from a dork)
  
  
• Update MOTD from source (Send it a raw pastebin, it updates the ircd.motd itself)
  
• Check is website is up (Either by API or making ping from itself)
  
• Simple IP lookup
  
• Run python/ruby/perl/shell script from server and get output
  

hey so I recently re-discovered this site, thought I'd share it here.

basically this is a distilled archive of computer knowledge from zeens to usenet to places like the now defunct TOTSE (temple of the screeming Electron) of which I was a proud member a decade ago.

http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html


feel free to browse through it, there's tons of interesting stuff, and a lot of "lost" knowledge

my favorite is the cyberspace sub section.

it's kinda neat to see what sorts of things were being done in the 90's and early 2000's...
for example, someone managed to hook up a nintendo power glove to a serial port, and make it work with the sega master system VR glasses for visual input XD

now granted that seems quaint and archaic now thanks to oculus and such but back in 2010 that would have still been state of the art.

This thread made me think of WhatPulse, a program that keeps track of you daily computer usage stats. I've been using it for about 10 years now and it's just interesting to keep track of how many keys I've pressed or mouseclicks I've made. Does anyone else use it? It's not as popular as it used to be.

This is mine: http://whatpulse.org/tboxley

does anyone use programmable key input devices on their machines?

a while back I got a "broken" X key USB pro reprogramable 52 key pad...

finally got it working on 8 (stupid thing was stuck in hardware mode...)

but I'm beginning to see the perks of having a reprogrammable keypad/physical shortcut keys.

so I'm curious, does anyone else use them?

Regardless of if you live in a hacker cave or a normal home everybody has their computer setup.

post yours here!

personally, mine is always evolving, so I'll start by posting my latest setup now that my xp machine is up.



yeah, I know it's cluttered but the laptop get's moved when I'm soldering stuff and the C64 stays boxed up til I need it.

those wires up top?

ethernet to my consoles (for loading backups) and HDMI to/from the TV depending on if I'm sending something to it or recording footage from something hooked up to it.

Obligatory "night" shot



that's my "battlestation" though.

how do you guys setup your computer spaces?

So as a Cyber Historian I figured I'd share this here with everybody.

recently I've been troubled by something, see with midi support nearly non existent a lot of old websites and designs are silent now and it's really really unfortunate because one of the cool Ideas I had for my site was to setup Midi's to play as background music... only to find out that this wasn't really possible anymore.

UNTIL NOW

It is my wonderful pleasure to introduce you to Midi.js!

see this bit of javascript actually plays midi's for you, in your browser!

I've tested it on my tablet, my phone, linux, mac OSX, windows 8.1, windows 10, and windows XP.

all working without issues!

to set it up you need to include the following.

Put this in your header:

Please make your selection for the 2018 Makestation Project of the Year.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote.

Project of the Year candidates:

brian51's Transit Mania CJ
pierreh's United Cities of Talaran

Please make your selection for the 2018 Makestation Newcomer of the Year.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote.

Newcomer of the Year candidates:
VSS
pierreh

Please make your selection for the 2018 Makestation Member of the Year.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote.

Member of the year candidates:
brian51
Thomas

I'm not getting any e-mails regarding new replies to my posts/threads.  I know for certain there ARE replies, but I can't keep track of anything unless I get notifications.  I do have "Instant E-mail Notification" as my setting and they are NOT going to spam.  I just don't get any. Help!