New forums – not so much

Posted on February 2, 2011 by mparadise

In the week since I put the new forums online, we’ve gotten 78 registrations. As near as I can tell, 76 of them are spammers.

Looking for an appropriate plugin to fix this… I hear good things about ‘human test’, so I’ll give it a try.

edit – hey, speaking of forums.  I see no posts – has any successful registrant tried to post? If so, could you let me know what happened?

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  • http://twitter.com/k2dbk David Kozinn, K2DBK

    I have to admit that I didn’t realize that the forums were live, and it wasn’t until I looked that I realized that the Forums link was down the right side of the page not along the menu bar at the top (where the link to the Blog is, for instance). I’d suggest moving it there to get a bit more visibility.

    David

    • Anonymous

      Heh – yeah, there’s a problem with the template that I can’t quite seem to figure out. It works correctly on every page except the home page.

  • benni

    Hi ,

    i just connected my bb with bbssh and my XP, and restartet my PC over Wi-Fi.
    Nice. But now i want to make some kind of GUI for this. The GUI runs on BB and just uses BBssh functions for connecting .
    Doing it with just a button event.
    Are the rec free for use in non commercial way?!
    I found the link to the rec but as it seems to me its not the whole code.

    Thx !

    regards Benni

    • Anonymous

      The full repository is available at http://svn.bbssh.org and is licensed under gplv2; this means that if you redistribute your binary you must also redistribute your modified source.

      You’ll want to look mostly under org.bbssh.net, org.bbssh.crypto, and org.bbssh.io packages; and at SessionMananger as that demonstrates how connections get initiated.

      It is currently set up to require a terminal (vt320 instance) in order to make an ssh or telnet connection; this is legacy code that I plan to refactor/rewrite but that’s a few months away yet.

      You can configure a user’s shell on the windows box to be a batch file or exe that does what you want (this might be the easiest way, since you would need connect via BBSSH to automatically run the command)

      I also intend to add options to BBSSH in the future allowing you to specify a command to run on startup or instead of a shell (as the ssh protocol has provisions for this); if you do modify the BBSSH code to do this w/ ssh I would appreciate if you sent back the mods so I can incorporate them :)

      • benni

        Thx for the fast reply, when i get some code i will share it with you of course.
        –You can configure a user’s shell on the windows box to be a batch file or exe that does what you want –
        How ist this working? With Windows Tools on board?

        My first idea was to open the ssh within the app then emulate keyboard calling e.g. a batch file and emualte “enter”.

        A simple and not the best way to programm but i think the easiest in the first step.

  • benni

    I read some things about ssh again. So i have some things left:
    1. How can i make a users shell in windows behave like a batch oder exe
    2.Normally one can append the command to the ssh command, but i can not do this with bbssh right?!
    3. Can you send me just a whole package of rec so i can run and recode things within bbssh? i am sorry but your source forlders are some kind of confusing to me :)

    thx in advance

    • Anonymous

      Sorry for the delayed reply, things got busy this past weekend.

      1a -. Create a windows user accoutn for this purpose only
      1b – create the batch file – have it check for %username% eq rebootusername (acct you created; help available via google if you’re not familiar with windows batch files) . If user name matches run: shutdown -r -t 0
      1c then run gpedit.msc. Go to local computer policy – user configuration – windows settings – scripts . DoubleClick “scripts” and choose “add”; then add the script yoiu just created. *make sure* that the script propelry checks for account username and test it before doing this step – otherwise your regular account could reboot and you’d be effectively locked out.
      2. The 2.2 or 2.3 BBSSH (late spring/early summer) will have the ability to execute remote command at connect
      3. The source structure is what I use to build; there’s really no other way to package it, so I’m not sure what you’re looking for?

  • Techjohnny

    Download previous versions. Where can we find old versions of BBSSH for download, OTA and JAD?

    • Anonymous

      Old versions are no longer available since our old hosting provide left town.

      Is there a problem with current or beta that prevents you from using it?

      • Techjohnny

        Yes, there is a problem with 2.0, but the new BETA 2.1 is working fine.
        I’m using the Blackberry Tour 9630 on Sprint. When starting the application it would simply hang, and then give me the option to reset, but not until a battery pull was done on my phone.

        Very please with the new version, but would love to see tunneling support added.

        Regards,

        –tj

        • Anonymous

          Ahh, yes – that’s a known issue that was fixed in 2.1 :)

          I’ve been considering tunneling support, but the problem is that few third party apps would support it (as you’d need to set your remote host to “:port” with no host name, in order for the app to use it.

          • Techjohnny

            I’m most interesting in VNC viewer and SSH tunneling support, since this is my primary means to remotely support all remote workstation clients. It doesn’t even look like there is a ported version of TightVNC viewer available for the Blackberry.