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 Ozgur Akan's BlogOpen Source ArchivesI believe in us!Posted by aiqa on August 05, 2004 at 12:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)Jeopardy Project is in an early state. The most painful days are these because we have to make more people interested in our project. We need to provide a starting point. Actually we are really lucky because of the platform we are working on. Java and linux have already proved their success in every need of programmers. Using both java and linux we become platform and hardware independent. Java can work on several operating systems and linux can work on several hardware. I guess people will be interested in a project like Jeopardy because our infrastructure is perfect. Open source projects need people`s attention more than closed source projects. Because -we don`t pay- just share information we have got, there is only one motivation that you can have, being a member of a successful open source project. Coding for open source comminity is like donating to future. Imagine a future when all networks are secured by Jeopardy. Imagine you are a part of it. Imagine your work is one of the building blocks of the future networks. The day will come, people will ask questions about our project. They will ask for help to install it. There will be thousands of people asking questions so we will again use the power of open source community and use mailing lists for users. We have an immense power by the help of internet. We can learn anything, anytime. We can communicate directly by e-mail. We can work as one by using these comminication methods. We need one thing. One simple state of physicology that people can not have constantly. It is successful mans first rule to keep focusing on a subject : "motivation". In this universe even one simple stone can not be lifted without the motivation of the effect of it`s results. It is easy and simle keep motivated. Keep thinking the results of success that will come after your efforts. Jeopardy project will be successful. We, the workers of Jeopardy project, will be honoured one day. I am working for that day. This is our motivation. Join us! Would you join my intelligence?Posted by aiqa on August 01, 2004 at 04:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)Open Source Software... A dream that comes true. The only way to create something really valuable under no company pressure. The only way to code it as a hobby while communicating with the programmers from all over the world. One of the best way to improve computing skills. An ideal way to meet with the masters. A long way to walk... What about the human intelligence? I think of software as something that has it`s own intelligence. A single line of code has an inteligence to do what that single line of code is written for. Usually when the problem can be solved with a line of code probably there should only be one way to solve the problem but when it becomes lines of code, thousands of lines of code, who can manage that amount of knowledge? From the beginning of an open source software human intelligence is combined as in the form of lines of codes. One programmer (especially an experienced one) can give all of his experince to his software, but he is only one person. How much experienced ever he is or how clever, he has a brain with limited intelligence. He has one human life, he has to sleep, eat and do human stuff. Then a human can not solve complicated problems good enough. A human can write only what a human can write but we need more of it. We need the one who is clever than any of us. We need the best code, the best solution, the one without bugs. We need perfection. n+1 people will always be able to do more than n people. n+1 people will have more work time than n people. n+1 people has more intelligence than the less have. The one perfect human is "us", we call it open source community and it is the intelligence we give to an open source software by the will of creating a piece of code that will last forever. A sign to future. A way to be remembered. A way to challange... As I mentioned before, I think of software as something that has it`s own intelligence. In other words we can say "Open source software is the pool where we combine our intelligence". It is more than a software, it is the most humanistic creation of human mind. Have you ever eximined a successful open source software, for example netfilter? You will be amazed when you see it`s source code. You will find lots of tricks that you would have never tought in your mortal life. Be involved to an open source project. Be involved to create the perfect code. Create something that has been tought to be impossible. Be us! Jeopardy Project has started!Posted by aiqa on July 27, 2004 at 02:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)Everyone using linux (iptables command) should (at least once) wish to use a graphical interface which can be used from any place at any platform (even a cell phone). One unified user interface for all your linux based firewall management needs which can be accessed via a browser or used as an application. One who is expert in networking can insert some sort of "rocket science rules" to the firewall while a newbie can click "close http access" after reading the explanation above the button., Netfilter Team has build an excellent firewall software which is developed day by day by the power of open source software. Linux lovers already started to use it but companies or linux (even computer) newbies hated the cli which is called "black screen" by those people. Then we see some graphical user interfaces. Maybe the most succesful one is fwbuilder which lacks of working on different operating systems. It works only on linux :(. Not extendible to new netfilter pathces. A plain firewall managament intarface. (I don`t say it is a poor software but it is just a firewall interface) jEopardy will be more than a firewall management software. It will also be network monitoring software with ids capabilities (it may work with snort ?) It will be a network oracle :) The only disadvantage of jEopardy is, it is still in the planning state. We have to work hard to create the best tool ever written for firewall management. One who is involved in this project will learn how to program in Java or C, will learn networking concepts and security. Join us! http://jeopardy.dev.java.net | |
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