Since the spammers are posting more and more (and the moderation queue is getting quite full), I’ve made 2 changes to the forum.
- Users must be activated by me
- Guests are no long able to view the forum.
Google still can and the rest of the search bots (That it knows about anyways) and everything else still functions as normal.
That is all.
Update: I’ve put it back to the way it was and removed all non-activated users as well as users with 0 posts. I would block by IP, however, Dreamhost has it setup through a proxy and everyone is coming through the same IP. I am looking at other forum options so I don’t have to do all this crap. Will update once done.
Well, I’ve been busy. That’s the jist of it. Logged into the forums, had 280+ spam topics to clear out… and 1 legit post. But I am glad to see more and more activity, even if going slowly. It has a pulse though.
Anyways, now that there is some activity, we need to start making progress (regardless of how small) to turn this into reality. IE, we need to start specing out details such as screen layouts, communication protocols, storage systems, etc. Although I want this to start out on top of a linux distro (in my case, ubuntu), I want this to eventually branch off and be an entirely new distro. Once there is enough content, I’ll put the Wiki backup so we can have a central location for it all and expand upon it.
An update to the forum rules as well. You MUST have an account to post and MUST have a previously posted comment to prevent being moderated. That should kill off most spam.
I look forward to working with all of you and making this a reality.
I’ve updated the blog from 2.5 to 2.7. I’ve also changed the focus of development. Instead of trying to build from the ground up and increase dev time by an unneeded factor of a conservative 1000x, I’m going to use the linux kernel as a starting point and build a bash replacement.
With nVidia and AMD getting closer and closer to open source drivers, it is going to be easier to make them pure kernel mode drivers and abuse them without the need for X11.
Maybe later switch over to a 100% custom solution when we start using neural packs and isolinear chips and integrating with warp cores. But when that happens, we will probably be dead.
Any ways, on to development! I’ll create a google code spot to host the core files.
See you in the future!