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28 April 11 Wow! Almost exactly 2 years since I last updated this wiki at all and we finally got hacked! So, here's a restore of all the pages from 29 April 2009 and a nice MIDDLE FINGER to whoever hacked the wiki - Open Editing is now turned off so you need a password to screw around here now, Jerk Face! Good like figuring it out!


29 April 09 Nearly concluded Proof Of Concept testing for phpWIKI and ASPwiki. See the Active Trials wiki for details or read the blog feed belowOld News

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WIKI experiments nearly completed

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 - 13:22:12 PST  [Edit ]

Both I and Ron Luck have been conducting a series of trials on the P.O.C. of whether or not it is practical to make web sites using WIKI scripts. Ron's POC is using ASPwiki - wiki based on the Windows OS server using ASP.net as the structure for the scripts running the wikipedia. Matt's POS is using phpWIKI - a php based wikipedia script that relies on PHP 4.0 or PHP 5.0 and Apache on the server's side in order to run. To see the Proofs, go check out there links


I'm reasonably convinced that the Proof Of Concept is valid, that between ASPwiki and phpWIKI it IS possible to create a convincing website that is NOT actually HTML based but WIKI based. M Baun, 29 April 09

FRAMESET and IFRAME tag experiments for WIKI

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 - 1:43:03 PST  [Edit ]

P.O.C. tests to show Ron ways that he might be able to "hide" the "wiki-ness" of the Branestorm ASPwiki pages using various HTML document Framing commands. The actual tests are http://www.cctu.us/302 outlink - site as regular FRAMESET HTML tag, using the top "frame" as a sort of "site banner" to help disguise the fact the site is not actually in HTML code (except for the frame and header pages). http://www.cctu.us/303 outlink is the exact same site, but with the FRAME sub-tag FRAMEBORDER set to Zero - I don't know if it's just me, but on my own computer, there IS still a visible white line dividing the two halves of the framed page - looks atroshious! http://www.cctu.us/304 outlink is a test even for me of the newere HTML 4.1 tag IFRAME - this tag lets you put framed documents within an HTML page WITHOUT having to use 3 pages to make your framed document - with the older FRAMESET tag, you need one page to declare the frames, then a minimum of two pages, one for each declared frame space - IFRAME does away with that by allowing you to embed the framed document into a single HTML page - the only problem I see is that it's relatively ugly looking - the IFRAMED document clearly LOOKS like a framed document, not very seamless, not very pretty. I suppose I'm just going to have to learn XHTML and CSS STYLESHEETING after all. M Baun/16 Apr 09

[http://www.cctu.us/wiki]

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 - 0:58:05 PST  [Edit ]

Our First Hack! In a way, I'm almost proud - the stuff I do here seems so often to be largely for my own personal time wasting I feel almost honored that someone would take the time to hack one of my websites - the site attacked was the main CCTU wiki site http://www.cctu.us/wiki outlink, and the assbag who attacked it showed they really are not very advanced in computer skills - first, the site is "open" - that is, there is no password used for page editing the wiki pages found there, so anyone can make changes to the site - hardly a challenge, huh? All the little prick and/or pricks managed to do was fuck up the MENU items on the sidebar with some crashed http site location (crashed because HTTP is not supported in Wikepower phpWIKI code, unlike ASP code, this WIKI script does not recognize most HTML codes) and fuck up the BLOG feeds page with the same piece of crap HTML - so first, to whoever the hacker was: Did you a lot of friggin' good, didn't it? Took me all of 2 minutes to figure out what pages you fucked up, then took me all of 2 more minutes to repair the damage from the archived pages I keep on my personal computer - so for all your effort, the stuff you did is now totally gone from CCTU.US wiki as if it were never there in the first place. And second, please take this opportunity to D.I.A.F. - I mean, really, how fucking "macho" do you have to be to beat up on a non-password WIKI site? That's like a 5th grader stealing lunch money from the 2nd Graders - big, tough, mad-skillz hacker YOU are, that you can screw with an OPEN website. Why not toddle along and come back when you have some REAL skills? Try hacking http://www.docbaun.com outlink and see how far you get with that one - go ahead, IMPRESS ME. I was hacking websites when FidoNET was the means of communication, when COMPUSERVE was the ONLY internet provider and before it was even called an internet. I've paid $1000 per month phone bills to hack sites in my youth, so far, you do not impress me. So go ahead, make me say "wow!". I double dog dare you. Matt Baun

[http://www.cctu.us/115]

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 - 0:15:59 PST  [Edit ]

Updated THE GOOD,THE BAD AND THE UGLY site to include a Public Shout Box.

[http://www.cctu.us/baun08]

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 - 23:51:05 PST  [Edit ]

BAUN-STEELE officially announces their intention to run for President and Vice President in the 2012 Federal Elections - making history as the earliest announced candidates in a Federal Election EVER!. And after just 4 months of Obama-Biden, don't you think it's already time for a change?

[http://www.docbaun.com]

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 - 21:59:40 PST  [Edit ]

Posted a really depressing sort of article on committing Suicide to this domain, just really to see if ANYONE is actually out there and reading this stuff. :) Doc

A Note To Ron about TiddlyWIKI

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 - 0:11:15 PST  [Edit ]

I know you were the only one to test it out when I had it up on the domain - the entirley JAVA based wiki emulator - and wanted to pass along a note to you - after several days of testing it, it would appear that TiddlyWiki cannot be used as a Wiki for a website - at least not in the sense that you and I understand the function of Wiki's. The problem comes from the page itself - the JAVA script "knows" when a TiddlyWiki page is not on a computer but on a server (probably tests for Relative as opposed to Absolute path, that's almost always the give-a-way in a script), so while you can edit to your hearts content just fine on your desktop, as soon as the pages are pushed up to a domain server, they become read only. Which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the SUBSCRIPTIONS tab in the BACKSTAGE section - this feature, which would be really cool if it worked properly - allows you to "synchronize" copies of the same TiddlyWIKI between a web copy and a PC user copy - which is fine, I suppose, if you are a project manager and want everyone to be "on the same page" - the desktop user can "subscribe" to the TiddlyWIKI on a domain, and then when you post a revised TiddlyWIKI, the feature in BACKSTAGE can be used to bring your desktop copy up to speed with the web hosted copy. But as a "for real" wiki, it's nearly worthless - despite being all JAVA code, and therefor cross platform (not broswer, machine or OS dependent) the only way any changes YOU make on your home PC can be distributed to others is to physically upload the TiddlyWIKI (default page error.html) to a web server via FTP client, then tell everyone in your "project" to synchornize their copies. Hardly the purpose of a wiki, as I see it - the whole Idea of a WIKI, as I understand it, is that it's supposed to be accessible to everyone in your project, and everyone in your project should be able to update/add their two cents worth to it. With TiddlyWIKI, unless you use the BACKUP feature a lot, as soon as you synchronize copies (your desktop copy with the remote hosted one) any changes you made to your desktop copy will be lost - overwritten by the web based copy during synchronization. Pity, really, it was rather a nice interface - I suppose a Project Manager who didn't want feed back from the peons could use it as a "Voice On High" way to communicate to a large number of project members one-way, and I suppose if you need a place to store information for projects you are doing on your own PC it's very nice, but as a "true Wiki", it just doesn't cut it, as far as I can see. Just wanted to pass that along to you because I know that you, like me, were trying to figure out how it could be used like a phpWIKI or a WikiASP program - and so far as I can tell, it can't. But in fairness to TiddlyWIKI, I can see the two possible applications for it - first, as I mentioned, using it as a Project Manager, to pass down project details to a wide distribution (although a group email would be easier, as would an RSS feed), or as a kind of "Help Content" manual - you could put revisions to a program or protocol on it, push it up-line and then when a user or subscriber "synchronizes" their copy to your web based copy they would get the "update" to your manual - skips the "download, then install" steps, but other than that I can't really see it as anything other than a novelty. M Baun / 5 April 09

[http://www.docbaun.com]

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 - 3:36:30 PST  [Edit ]

This Trial can also be accessed from http://cctu.us/301 outlink. A Proof of Concept to answer the question, "When is a Web site NOT a Web Site?" - why when it's actually a WIKI site. This Proof of Concept test is to see how "convincing" a web site can be created using nothing but the wiki scripts that run this site - with some minor modifications, I think I've pulled it off pretty good, actually. The Test Conditions for this P.O.C. were: (1) Does the site look like any other, regular, HTML made web site? (2) Can the index.php script be modified in such a fashion as to prevent editing from Public viewers to the site? (3) Can the wiki site be "protected" from modification/editing by the Public? (4) Can Administrative functions be altered in such a way that even a wiki savvy user/viewer would find it difficult or impossible to make changes to the site? Go see for yourself and then let me know if you think I've pulled it off.

[http://www.cctu.us/154]

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 - 1:53:19 PST  [Edit ]

The Caturday Voting site converted to THE DAILY LOLCAT - using a modified JAVA script, the site's one page will show a different LOLCAT picture each day (365 days) of the year. This site also runs a JAVA date/time applet in the upper corner. This conversions is an entire "Proof of Concept" test to show that it's possible to design web sites with unique "view one time, one day only" images, making it possible to design sites with Holiday specific images or banners that will load only on the dates you specify.


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