a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

[astcell]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

I was thinking of something for deployed females!

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

How about a TTB full of soap operas, chick flix, and movies with Mel Gibson and Johnny Depp?

i thought you said you got loads of pr0n channels on the TV over there. don't tell me you need even more stroke material. just how boring is tajikistan?

[astcell]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

How about a TTB full of soap operas, chick flix, and movies with Mel Gibson and Johnny Depp?

[audit]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

Deviant,

Check your e-mail and we can talk about this, I'll offer up hosting the website and forums off my server for this project. I'm sure we can come up with something.

[audit]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

astcell, remind me to get out of this wheelchair and implant my foot in your ass when I see you I was just informed of the TTP showing up at my folks house and my dad thought the thing was a damn bomb, he was ready to call the police but called me first wondering if I wanted to take a crack at it first.

He's running the thing down to my office now for me, now to try to explain this to my wife when I get home.

[not5150]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

Here's another idea that I cannot take credit for. Astcell was talking about recording a bunch of commercials and sending them in the TTB. I suppose there's probably enough commercials out there to make a commercials box.

There's some damn good commercials out there with videography and cinematics rivaling the best motion pictures. Here's a link to a Thai life insurance ad to prove the point.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5mZqeDNtg (beware extreme tear jerker) - ok on second thought maybe that isn't the right type of commercial to send to the sand box :)



The upcoming Toorcon might be an excellent place to maybe do a talk about the TTB and get content submissions.

[DaKahuna]

Re: gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

my dear friend... you have already done so very much. this wouldn't have even gotten off the ground in the very beginning if it weren't for that first pelican case, and you were even over-generous when helping me to get that.

It is insignificant when you think of what the men and women in uniform and the sacrifice they are making on our behalf. I well know what they are going through being there willing to put their lives on the line so that we can enjoy the freedoms they are protecting.

[Thorn]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

I think a black TTB case ought to be on the list, it is one of the cammie colors. Maybe you can set up a paypal donation button on your site for visitors?

I've sent a PM to Deviant, offering to buy the next Pelican case. Funny, I was thinking of black, too, but wasn't sure what color scheme might be up next. May all the "black ops" tools could go on that TTB set.

[astcell]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

Hi Deviant,

I have no webspace, I simply bought the address and forwarded it on to another point, in this case your IP. I have done this with my other addresses too. I will happily point it anywhere you wish however.

Let me know what else I can do too. I think a black TTB case ought to be on the list, it is one of the cammie colors. Maybe you can set up a paypal donation button on your site for visitors?

How about make a list of what you need on your site. You know, like the hard drives you use that I found at Tiger Direct, the pelican case, the power adapter, and so on. Make a wish list like at amazon, so anyone can logon and see what you wish to have, they can buy it, and parts will show up on your doorstep by the gross. In theory.

And next year put Masha the bear on the PowerPoint show, not me! :-)

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

let me know if this is the route you plan to go. I'd be willing to help with a cash contribution toward the purchase of a license.

my dear friend... you have already done so very much. this wouldn't have even gotten off the ground in the very beginning if it weren't for that first pelican case, and you were even over-generous when helping me to get that.

[DaKahuna]

Re: gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

All of my experience as both a forum Mod and Admin has been with VBulletin. It costs $160 to purchase and $85 to lease.

let me know if this is the route you plan to go. I'd be willing to help with a cash contribution toward the purchase of a license.

[TheCotMan]

Re: gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

Also, TheCotMan and Con are the real experts on the backend stuff. My suggestion is to suck up to them bigtime.

Heh-heh. Well, it is a lot of work. Security is a huge temporal vortex that can pull in as much free time as you allow yourself to give up. Any standardized forum anti-spam system generally has automated bypass methods in the wild, or will quickly have such software. You can always add, "just one more layer," and, "strengthen existing layers," but for every customization you apply, that means more time requirements for each upgrade-- and when upgrades are encouraged because of security issues in software, your downtime increases, and your personal time is used even more.

I don't really want to discuss any specific on system or application configuration in the support software for forums, but I can talk with you about the forum settings.

The most important thing to support forums is to automate everything you can automate. I don't have to wait for new packages to be built by maintainers for forum-support software. I can build from source to get more control over the specific options, and libs used to build support applications. Scripts allow me to automate this process. When I get word of a security issue in a specific piece of forum support software, I can have a new build, built, and minimize downtime by preparing separate build environments-- making it *super* easy to fall back to an old build if there are serious problems with the new build.

Build a test-space. This is great to help avoid down-time in your production space, and lets you try out experimental things without the general public seeing them.

Things are busy enough on these forums that we actually have specialization now. One person entirely deals with Firewall rules, updates, and the network. Another person installed the base OS. Another person works all of the support software on the system, and adds more layers for security, another person is the primary forum admin, and then we have 2 more forum admins to fix serious problems, or deal with user promotion issues, and an army of moderators to deal with rules, users, spam, and steer the future of the forums. Last, but not least, we have all the people that participate and/or lurk, which is why the rest of us do what we do.

I couldn't do all the things I do if it wasn't for the moderators-- or I could, but would have to quit my day job.

Several DCG have abandoned their own public forums because of the spam problem, and the work required to maintain forums. Some have moved their primary forum location to use the Defcon Forums DCG spaces, and let us manage the spam problems, and help keep it running.

Encourage organizers and give them tools to make it easier for them to organize.

Last comment in this post... your moderators are volunteers. Treat them well, and do as little treading on any decisions they make. These people will stop helping when they no longer like visiting.

[Edit:]
OK. I lied. You can try talking to DT. If you just need a single forum for discussion of your project, and he likes the idea, we could provide such a forum here. However, if you had your own forum, you could have rules to make discussion of P&R be mandatory. ;-) Maybe there is an opportunity here to host space for community projects like yours.

[Thorn]

Re: gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

wow, with this recent press exposure i see that it's become necessary for me to get a proper web site up really soon. i find myself fielding a lot of the same questions repeatedly so i'd love to get things in place in short order.

AST... the mail forwarder is working great and the web page presently works with a meta-refresh to my personal web server... so i assume all is well there. if i knock something up in terms of actual web content, could i upload it to you somehow in the next day or so? i leave for norway for a week on monday and would really like this in place before i go.

the other thing that will require additional help would be the forums. i really would like to have a forum tied to that web site, but my mod-fu isn't as great as that of some others here. could any of our mods suggest what software package would work best? is there anything that is freeware that isn't going to get totally owned in no time? most PHP bulletin boards i've put together for folks wind up being spammed to hell or full of fake users, etc. any suggestions on the best solution there would be a gift from heaven.

All of my experience as both a forum Mod and Admin has been with VBulletin. It costs $160 to purchase and $85 to lease. Details are here. It's a really good platform and worth the cost in my opinion. This is such a great project that 'd be more than happy to offer whatever help I can give you, whether that mean helping with setup, moderation or administration.

Also, TheCotMan and Con are the real experts on the backend stuff. My suggestion is to suck up to them bigtime.

[Deviant Ollam]

gonna have to get a proper web site up REALLY soon

wow, with this recent press exposure i see that it's become necessary for me to get a proper web site up really soon. i find myself fielding a lot of the same questions repeatedly so i'd love to get things in place in short order.

AST... the mail forwarder is working great and the web page presently works with a meta-refresh to my personal web server... so i assume all is well there. if i knock something up in terms of actual web content, could i upload it to you somehow in the next day or so? i leave for norway for a week on monday and would really like this in place before i go.

the other thing that will require additional help would be the forums. i really would like to have a forum tied to that web site, but my mod-fu isn't as great as that of some others here. could any of our mods suggest what software package would work best? is there anything that is freeware that isn't going to get totally owned in no time? most PHP bulletin boards i've put together for folks wind up being spammed to hell or full of fake users, etc. any suggestions on the best solution there would be a gift from heaven.

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: a new happening - the Traveling Terabyte Project

How hard would it be to make a drive dedicated to all YouTube videos?

that wouldn't be too hard at all... heh, perhaps i should start the planning of a third addition to the TTB family. what color pelican case is most appropriate for such a category?

really, the only hard part would be converting .flv videos into a proper format. one of the rules of the TTB project is that all content on the drives must be in 100% open formats. no DRM or lame proprietary codecs are allowed.

all video is either MPEG or AVI container files encoded in XviD or DivX. all audio is either MP3 or occasionally AC3 on some of the high quality movies. (a couple of the music directories may be AC3, as well... like the original Dark Side of the Moon in quadraphonic. that's a real treat to hear, and obviously can't be handled by mere MP3 stereo.)

if there was a way to get GooTube content converted en-masse (i don't enjoy doing them by hand like i so often have to) it would make a terrific addition to the project.