Zwitscher v0.1- Twitter From Your Eggdrop

Posted on February 21st, 2008

by jesse
In our IRC channel, we like to interact with various websites and projects. Ever since I saw the Pornokasse we’re playing with possibilites to blog from our eggdrop bot. We wrote a script which creates a feed that can then be imported anywhere (see the top of the sidebar). Today i thought this could be done easier, so I wrote a twitter plugin \o/

Right now you just put your twitter username and password in the file, adjust the trigger and everyone in your channel can use it with this one account. I’m thinking about having the users deposit their own twitter accounts, so that whenever they write something like /me is freakin tired it would update their accounts. Mhh. Maybe later ;-)

Download the .tar.gz snapshot of v0.1 or just browse the source at git.geekosphere.org

By the way, if you’re using wordpress, there are a lot of plugins out there.

Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to root.

Posted on February 9th, 2008

by jesse

An diesem (viel zu sonnigen) Samstag mal wieder etwas zum Lachen:
Wie RISE Security gestern bekannt gegeben hat kommt der hübsche Asus EEE mit einer verwundbaren Samba Version daher.

Auspacken, einschalten, geowned werden. Oh mann :D

Auch sehr lustig ist übrigens die frische SQL Injection in der customer_testimonials.php von osCommerce, mit der man mal eben in fremden osCommerce Kundenstämmen (inkl. MD5 Passwort Hash) rumwühlen kann. Spätestens seitdem ich das in Aktion gesehen habe frage ich mich nicht mehr, wer die Spammer mit Listen valider Emailadressen versorgt…

Unter unseren treuen Lesern gibt es bestimmt auch ein paar, die das einsetzen. Patcht die Lücke. Sofort!

Linux Games #8: Neverball

Posted on February 8th, 2008

by siyb

Neverball is based upon a classic children’s game, the ball labyrinth, it is not an exact clone but an enhanced version of the game we are all familiar with. The Debian release features three different level sets: Neverball easy, Neverball hard and Mehdi’s level, which are pretty damn hard “funmaps”. All sets consist of 25 levels, which do not necessarily get harder as progressing.

You control your marble using your mouse or keyboard, whichever you prefer. The goal is to reach a predefined score by collecting a certain amount of coins situated on the map, within a given time frame. Coins come in three different colours, there are golden coins, that will add 1 point to the total score, red coins that are worth 5 points and blue ones that will get you 20 points towards you goal. You may complete a level more than once if you are keen on beating your own or someone else’s highscore.

Neverball is a challenging dexterity game, that may induce frustration sometimes but the feeling of accomplishment when successfully completing a level makes the game worth a while.


Nerdig gewichtelt

Posted on February 2nd, 2008

by jesse

Juhuu, mein Nerdwichtel Geschenk ist da! Noch mit ganz verquollenen Augen wurde ich heute mit einem Paket geweckt. Coole Sache! Die DVD ist genau das Richtige für einen Samstag wie heute und mit der LED habe ich schon sämtliche mir heute zu nahe gekommenen Personen genervt beglückt. Danke, Sith!

Unser Initiator hat seins auch bekommen. Mein Geschenk sollte zwar schon unterwegs sein, wird aber bisschen spät bei meinem adoptierten Nerd ankommen. Sorry dafür!

Linux Games #7: Nexuiz

Posted on February 1st, 2008

by siyb

Heyhey here we are with yet another awesome Linux game. This time we are going to check out one of the many FPS available for Linux, Nexuiz. Nexuiz uses the darkplaces engine, which is a modified version of the Quake I engine. Even though Quake I has been around for some time, you can’t really compare the looks of the darkplaces engine to Quake I at all, as it comes with quite a few improvements such as: new effects, improved dynamic lights and alpha blended sprites. If you want to learn more about the modifications featured in darkplaces check out this link.

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I will spare you more technical detail, anyone interested should really visit the mentioned websites. Although Nexuiz is ought to be a multiplayer FPS, it also features a single player campaign similar to the one in Quake III or OpenArena. The single player campaign consists of 22 action packed levels, some of which are using familiar concepts like “Vampiric regeneration” or low gravity settings. Hunt down you enemy with one of the nine weapons of your deadly arsenal, veteran Quake players might like the weapon equivalents to Quake armoury (Nex -> Railgun).nexuiz000000.jpgVersion 2.3, which was released in March 2007 adopted a huge performance increase and smoothed online gameplay. The improved AI and new levels guarantee a long lasting single player experience. Unfortunately there are only a few gameservers available online, most of which are located in the USA or Germany (based on serverlists acquired from ghdigital.com and dpmaster.deathmask.net masterservers).


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