I’ve been low on money lately as well. I recently got the Paypal debit, so I’m hoping my little bits of money will transfer into it soon. I have to buy a lot of supplies for my senior graduation project product, I did the website, but I also want to include a model of a futuristic peaceful city on Mars, much like the city on Ergo Proxy.

So much has happened, but never really had the time to post it. I’ve been getting worried about college, I haven’t applied to many colleges at all because of my low money, college applications are so damn expensive! That’s why I’m hoping on getting an acceptance letter from UNCA on the 15th of this December, so I can stop applying to colleges, well that is if I don’t get accepted to NCState. I haven’t applied to a single college out of state, I simply won’t be able to afford it, not even with the money I get from the Marines, I really don’t care, UNCA offers a under-grad program in Mechatronics, and that’s what I want. It will set me up for Biomechatronics grad program at MIT.

Speaking of MIT, I submitted my project to MIT THINK 15 days ago. I’m excited, I hope I win. I’ve been thinking of Verdis so much, and I need a new computer to setup a repository on it. Not only that, but I’ve been thinking about working off FreeBSD…

Speaking of updates, I need to update my WordPress, I don’t even know what version this is, but I know there is a version 2.6.5 out, I’m probably on 2.5, can’t remember, this was setup more than a year ago. ANIME, ANIME, ANIME… I love it, great story’s great stuff. I really like cyberpunk stuff, and short series anime’s. Like so far I’ve seen “Serial Experiments Lain,” which is my absolute favorite, not only is it cyberpunk, but it’s so psychologically disturbing! It’s a great anime, and it’s 13 episodes long. I also enjoyed “School Days,” which is a great love triangle anime, but get’s crazy at the end, very disturbing, but I loved it! My little brother is the one who told me about it, the anime makes me think about him a lot. My little brother has always been able to get girls, lucky him, he was born “cute” I guess. Me, I’m not so lucky, not so cute looking, rather rough, and I’m very shy to the girls I really like, ahahaha, well at least I won’t have to worry about that “School Days” situation. I LOVE WWW.CRUNCHYROLL.COM!

In Newspaper, I’ve been drawing more than usual. I think I can become “go to artist,” I’ve been increasing my skills, and self-style of drawing. I’ve also became a fan of a well-known artist.. Keith Thompson, of http://www.keiththompsonart.com/ – His art is insane! I love it, its great, his photoshop skills are excellent too, his artwork is superb! Someday I hope to be able to draw as good as him, and use photoshop as good as him. I mean, I can draw pretty well, and use Photoshop pretty well, just enough to impress my high school. OH, and at school I also decided to join the “Save Darfur NOW” club. I’m hoping on contributing what I can for the cause.

Like I said early, the ZocialNET. Well the “.ZocialNET/” which is coming out of the box more, unique interface and design, and “the system” I must say I think is better than Facebook, and MySpace. I also set it up to where you HAVE to be invited to join the system, that way the ZocialNET won’t accumulate a bunch of losers, and bots, and un-wanted people on the network. Other projects in the ZocialNET I’m working towards are the a social visualization system, based off the JIT ( Javascript Information Visualization Toolkit) which is superb! A system where you can visualize the social interaction between each user is what I’m aiming for an JIT has the tools to make it happen, but of course this will take several months of development before I can integrate it into the ZocialNET. I also built the ZocialNET with a CLI, and IDE, which I think are pretty neat and handy. The CLI provides news, an the IDE are for people who want to get involved. I also ended up making a small, sweet looking home base interface for the ZocialNET. I thin it looks, and works great! Now I just have to fix the eyeOS…

hmmm… soo much has happened, and so much is about to happen. I’ve watched “A Victim of the Brain” a docu-drama on Google videos, which was great, and very interesting, it’s about cognitive science and the brain. I learned more about the conscious of the brain, and how WE ARE victims of the brain, because some things are just pre-defined, which define our choices. I learned there is NO free-will, but there is desires. I think it’s really interesting and that everyone should take a look at it. More about a victim of the brain: a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind’s I, a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett’s Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally by Stanis?aw Lem. The film was shown several times on television in Holland in the late eighties…. WHERE TO WATCH: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8576072297424860224

I’m also getting ready to setup a new layout on the website one last time today. Hopefully everyone will like it, and it’ll be a surprise. It’s more personalized, and efficient.

In school I’ve been reading “Dracula” good but not my style. Out of school I’ve been listening to the Audiobook of “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow! Which is excellent cyberpunk book, all about hacking and stuff. Reminds me of the good ol’ telnet days etc… when it was cool to be a super geek, well it still is too me! w1ld3833zt!!! lol Anyways, I say check out the book. I might upload the audiobook so everyone can download it. It’s been reviewed at cyberpunkreview.com here: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/books/cyberpunk-books/little-brother/ – CHECK IT OUT!

I think i’ll opne up a downloads section where you can download things I like, and I’ll include hacking/ bypass software with tutorials. Not super-serious killing, stealing, and destroying hacking software, but things like $sys$Firefox lol, and things like that…

I think I’m going to close this post now, so much has happened, too much to blog about, and so much is getting ready to happen, that I will try to blog about.

-!RONALD A. RICHARDSON!

Accurate: I plan it to be accurate, it will be debugged several times. C’mon it’s Linux + Web 2.0, so errorless.

Affordable: The operating system is free… besides that the computer is a Mini-ITX type, and will be sold at $60, that includes the OS. It is affordable for anyone who needs a nice computer, and operating system to handle all they need, without purchasing additional software and license.
- I believe that an OS should come packed with everything the user will need, that means they shouldn’t have to buy or install additional software to get the job done. Other than games, and misc./ media type apps everything should be included.

Accessible Technology: The operating system can be downloaded online, other than that the ZocialNET is accessible from the web. So users will be able to access there desktop and files from the internet. The computer hardware can be bought from me, hopefully that is accessible enough. If not I will come up with soemthing…

Well that’s pretty much it. I’m looking forward to winning!!!

I wouldn’t really call it an OS, BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes, and it gets the job done well.

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Description: CD Image
Name:: bt3-final.iso
Size: 695 MB
MD5: f79cbfbcd25147df32f5f6dfa287c2d9
SHA1: 471f0e41931366517ea8bffe910fb09a815e42c7
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Description: USB Version (Extended)
Name:: bt3final_usb.iso
Size: 784 MB
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SHA1: 3aceedea0e8e70fff2e7f7a7f3039704014e980f
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Description: VMware Image
Name: BACKTRACK3_VMWare.rar
Size: 689 MB
MD5: 94212d3c24cf439644f158d90094ed6a
SHA1: 21c9a3f9658133efff259adbe290723583b4fd82
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BackTrack focuses its central idea on the needs of computer penetration testers. The inclusion of Live CD and Live USB functionality enables any user to just insert their respective data medium and boot up BackTrack. Direct hard disk installations (2.7 GB uncompressed) can also be completed within the Live CD (700 MB compressed) environment through the basic graphical installation wizard with no restart subsequent to installation. BackTrack further continues its compatibility with the computer forensics demographic with accessibility and internationalization by including support for Japanese input in reading and writing in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.

The key additions to the BackTrack suite are notably -

* Metasploit integration
* RFMON wireless drivers
* Kismet
* AutoScan-Network – AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application
* Nmap
* Ettercap
* Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal)
BackTrack’s functionality further increases with the arrangement of each tool in 16 categories. The tool categories are as follows -

* Enumeration
* Exploit Archives
* Scanners
* Password Attacks
* Fuzzers
* Spoofing
* Sniffers
* Tunneling
* Wireless Tools
* Bluetooth
* Cisco Tools
* Database Tools
* Forensic Tools
* BackTrack Services
* Reversing
* Misc

The ffmpeg installation script version 2.0.1 released with the following improvements.
• Mencoder bug fixed
• flvtool2 bug fixed
• generic servers script bugs fixed

download link > http://ffmpeginstall.sourceforge.net/

–It’s simple and easy to install. Here’s a basic summary on how to use the script.

You need root access to the server to do the following:
1) Download the script source
2) Untar the script source
3) Chen the file INSTALL ,it will give full instructions.
4) But you need basic unix working knowledge
Thank you

ENJOY THE SCRIPT!

Here is a simple Load monitoring / logging script . This will log the load in /var/log/load.log . You can execute the script as follows,

chmod +x /root/loadavg.sh

Now add it as cron

*/5 * * * * /root/loadavg.sh

• 1) Load monitoring script in BASH(loadavg.sh)

#!/bin/bash

export _loadavg=$( cat /proc/loadavg | awk ‘{ print $1}’)

echo “Load Average:$_loadavg on `date` ” >> /var/log/load.log

• 2) Load monitoring script in Python(loadavg.py)

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os,commands

loadavg=commands.getoutput(“cat /proc/loadavg|awk ‘{ print $1}’”)

_date=commands.getoutput(“date”)

f = open(‘/var/log/load.log’, ‘aw’)

f.writelines( “Load average :” +loadavg+” on “+ _date+”n”)

f.close()

• 3) Load monitoring script in perl(loadavg.pl)

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $ld=`cut -d’ ‘ -f1 /proc/loadavg`;

my $lavg=chomp($ld);

my $D_ate=`date`;

open (LOG, ‘>>/var/log/load.log’);

print LOG “Load Average:$ld on $D_ate”;

close (LOG);

Recently I downloaded the ubuntu source for linux2.6.24-18.32, which is 8.04 latest. I need the i386 modules in ABI to finish the compile for Verdis, there there but there not the right ones. I often lose place of myself in the Linux Terminal when it comes to things like this. I need /linux2.6.24/debian/abi/2.6.24-18.32(verdis)6/i386/386.modules – but instead I only have abi/2.6.24-17.36/ – whats up with that? Right now I just found another package of linux source code labeled 2.6.24-18.32, hopefully it will have the correct modules. If anyone recognizes what I’m doing wrong, please assist me. It’s probably minor. Once I get Verdis compiled I think I will open a repo host of the latest linux source codes in order on one simple download page, so no-one else has to go through things like this. I personally think ubuntu is doing a good job, but it’s a bit jumbled and out of order for me.

• click here to download 1600×1200
• click here to download 1280×1024

My compile of Verdis crashed with some ABI modules in the linux 2.6 kernel i was compiling, I fixed it though. Found out that I didn’t have the i386 modules in place. So I got that sorted out, at the reate of this compile I should have results for the next compile tomorrow morning.

Anyways that’s not what I wanted to write about, I’ve started out some new website projects on my server that you will see up and running within the next week or so. I’ve been working on these projects for a while. The majority came from open source projects, but they had a lot of bugs, so I fixed them and wen’t on modifying the codes to what I need. They are a number of web services and applications. The following projects are all licensed with the MIT License, some are under Creative Commons…

First off, I am starting an online magazine called “Green Society Magazine”; it’s going to be a magazine about almost everything from culture to technology to music to fashion to politics, and a lot of other things…

My second project is called “Spacegeist,” it’s really for my senior exit project but it will be another personal website of mines with a bunch of stuff on it. Not much of a service but people can register and join in on the fun. The cool part is, is that it’s an evolving website that will do what it wants… more genetic algorithms… lol

My third project is “My Green Budget,” it is an online budget/ finance management system. Its user friendly and has a lot of nice features to it. It came to me when I was reading this month’s GQ issue about the down fall on the economy, and the authors testimonial to the effects it’s been having, and how we should be looking forward to recession. The economy is not looking it’s best, so I decided for me to get ahead is to manage my spending habits and the little money I have. This will also be useful when college comes around next year… if I can afford it!!! LOL (I’m seriously thinking of joining the military to pay for college, there benefits are looking really good!!!)

My fourth project is called “FlickStreamr,” it will be a simple WordPress blog that allows people to stream movies on it. Of course, from 3rd party sources. The blog will only post the best movie sources and screening, no bootlegs etc…

My fith project will be “the universal eye,” which is sort of like Flickr, where it allows photographers, and any body else to post photos online, it’s really simple. Sign-up, upload, and share… The coolest features of the website will be in the community part and the “grand collage.” The grand collage will be a collage of random users photos smashed and jumbled together on a web page. Hopefully it will be a application that features higher rating photos in the collage.

My sixth minor project, which is port 28 of the ZocialNET, it has came out so nice I decided it deserves it’s own domain. “ZocialOS.com” – Port 28 is an online web browse desktop environment operating system that features a kernel, and lots of cool applications. Anyone can sign up and get an account on the system. It even has an ftp, and documents etc… It’s like taking your desktop everywhere on the road.

My seventh project, “Jabber Board,” is a online chat system that will allows people to come in and chat, create rooms, and channels, pm, all that, it’s basically an online chat client and message board together. The board is phpbb3.

Those are my near future projects, so they will be a great addition to the network. Also Huntersville’s new website is almost complete and I can’t wait to have it 100% ready for them!