YC Performers redux

Some ways down this forum there's a thread titled Young Composers' Performers where someone suggested putting our own performances on the web. Well... the new development is that I have a web server, I've got it back up and running (it was down for several months) and I'll be happy to host as many files as needed. It's on a cable modem at the moment, but I expect to move back onto campus next year and I'll have a faster connection then.

FTP to: 131.215.185.41 (will be frogbox.caltech.edu as soon as ITS gets around to adding the DNS entry)

Username: ycompose

Password: ycompose

E-mail me if you upload anything so I know it's there, and to identify what you're uploading. Include whatever information you want me to put on the page.

Everything will be located at http://131.215.185.41/~ycompose/performances/. I already have some recordings of my orchestra there for your listening enjoyment, with more to be added whenever I have time.

Downloads are either extremely slow or don't work for me.

BTW-- do you know a Freshman at Caltech, Abheek?

And are Caltech and Occidental really close top each other?

Will have a listen soon...

You really aught to tighten your security a little on your ftp server...

RedHat's default security ismn't all that tight...

Just to reinforce this, I can tell that your windows partition is on hda2, swap is hda5, you have two CD drives, your linux native format is ext2...

At a guess, you are running version 7.x of RedHat (certainly, it is RH you are running though.)

I couild chown your system, if I was evil enough, but I won't.

Please PLEASE have a look at your security. People can and DO hack systems, and most of them with bad intent.

However, I am extremely overjoyed to find that you are a Linux user. There should be more of us :)

Hmm.

Working on it. The computer had been down for several months, so my priority was to just get everything working first.

Should be dealt with, though I'm not quite sure - this is the first time I've ever run a ftp server. I suppose this isn't really a a good excuse, but it was 4 in the morning when I set up the FTP server and I'd pulled an all-nighter doing quantum the previous night...

And I still may or may not have missed something. It's 5:30am now.

Ah, I know the feeling!

Security looks pretty good now! I was only concerned, because it has been known for hackers to raid a computer after only a few minutes of it being connected to the 'net. They just search domains and subdomains for weaknesses, and then exploit them. Often not for malicious intent, but occasionally so.

Was I correct in your system specs?! Talking of which, I found your fstab where mine should be. No wonder I was having a little difficulty in booting this evening! :-P

This is a good idea of yours, btw. I will have a proper look tomorrow...

...What's with the clock on YC? 5:30 appearing as 5:43, and my posts usually getting assigned a time that's a bit into the future? Example: At time of clicking "Post My Message" below, my computer and the two nearby clocks read a few seconds after 9:02 PM.

You were correct. And I should have been more paranoid. I'm an "ex-hacker" myself and still have fairly strong ties to quite a few members of the Los Angeles hacker community, even though I pretty much gave up hacking in favor of music more than a year ago.

An interesting note is that California hackers have generally considered caltech.edu domains off-limits, mainly out of respect for the institution. Most hacking directed against Caltech students is done by other Caltech students as part of various pranks, and even that is governed by an unwritten code of honor. (Among its major points: all pranks are accompanied by a signed note identifying the perpetrator and the house to which he/she belongs; no prank is to cause any damage that is not completely reversible; pranks that may cause personal injury are strictly prohibited; and the prankster must assist in clean-up or repair if asked to do so.)

Anyway... I haven't noticed any uploads yet. Come on, I can't be the only one here who's recorded anything...

The YC.Com clock is only the bios time of the server this site is sitting on. Computer clocks are not very accurate, and I see mine getting visibly faster within about a month of setting it. So this is why the time is so fast at the moment.

As for the difference in time zone, that is just that. The server is 8 hours different to my time, which used to be annoying. Now I am used to it.

Drag. I was curious about this, but it seems the site is no longer working. Did you give up on this idea, Andrew?

Oops. I went home for winter break and forgot to switch httpd back on. Should be OK in a minute or two.

Oh, and it's now http://frogbox.caltech.edu/~ycompose/performances or ftp to frogbox.caltech.edu - any contributions welcome, again please e-mail me (andrewh@caltech.edu) if you upload anything.

I'm sorry Andrew I forgot where this thread was so I went ahead and made a new Yahoo group for the exact same purpose as what you have been talking about. Are you still running this thing here? Or are YOU still here even?

Can I still open a shell into 'frogbox.caltech.edu'?!

Hmm... the server's been online only intermittently - I'm not sure how worthwhile this is given that it's on an unreliable cable modem connection. I live in a Caltech-owned apartment, but we're still waiting for Caltech to fully integrate us into the campus network. I'll put the server back up as soon as I'm done with some work that I'm doing right now.

What I was considering is a system that allows people to post files to my forum site, but these files are then sent to another server (say, frogbox.caltech.edu, or xxx.hately.demon.co.uk, or whatever (maybe mirrored?)) for archive purposes. Maybe the files will reside on the proper server for a month or so, and then get relegated to the backup server later.

Any thoughts, Andrew?

Sounds good. I'll volunteer my server for use as a backup site.

I may be in contact in the next few days... This is PRECISELY what a week off is for :)

Thanks, Andrew.

Oh, what's bandwidth like for you?

Inconsistent. Max upload speed is usually between 40 kb/s and 100 kb/s.

Ah, so it'll be fine for such things as midi files, then.

I found out that I can't get ssh access to my web server, so that's a bit of a pain. I would have just run a nice little shell script, which determined how long something had been on the server, and if it had been on too long, it would then move it to your backup. Have to come up with another solution then...

But a lot of things are fine for MIDI files. The Yahoo extension will hold more MIDIs than we'll be able to generate for the next year at least.

I suppose I can still archive old MP3 files.

I was thinking of some better designed software (web interface) specifically for music purposes, which allows people to comment on things slightly more easily. Without adverts too...

That works too. Main thing is... I have virtually unlimited web space, about 9 GB reserved for http access.