From bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu  Fri Sep 20 10:08:31 2002
From: bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Johnson)
Date: Thu May 18 12:41:34 2006
Subject: [Cs22800] Any project ideas?
Message-ID: <1032534512.8167.41.camel@linux.razor.net>

Has anyone decided what project they're going to do?

So far I have explored gnome, kde, ximian evolution, galeon, and
ethereal.  Most of them seem to need bug fixers rather than programmers,
which isn't as attractive to me for a course.  Also, I have had bad luck
in the past with sourceforge as I joined projects and they just fizzled
out.  I guess I'll keep searching.

What are your thoughts for the course?


Ben



From zrscott at uchicago.edu  Fri Sep 20 10:37:07 2002
From: zrscott at uchicago.edu (ziba robert scott)
Date: Thu May 18 12:41:34 2006
Subject: [Cs22800] Any project ideas?
References: <1032534512.8167.41.camel@linux.razor.net>
Message-ID: <3D8B40A3.3000707@uchicago.edu>

Contrary to our silence on this list, Stephen Dranger and I (Ziba Scott) 
are both excited about this class.  (I'm speaking for Stephen for the 
moment because he is en route from Japan).
That having been said, we don't have solid project ideas in mind.
We do, however, both have an inclination to work on something of a 
visual nature.  In part this is because it's outside the realm of our 
classwork so far and also we've been working in a lab where everyone 
does visulization research and we got stuck with a statistical project.
Preferably with OpenGL, but gui work and the like also interests us.
-Ziba


Benjamin Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone decided what project they're going to do?
> 
> So far I have explored gnome, kde, ximian evolution, galeon, and
> ethereal.  Most of them seem to need bug fixers rather than programmers,
> which isn't as attractive to me for a course.  Also, I have had bad luck
> in the past with sourceforge as I joined projects and they just fizzled
> out.  I guess I'll keep searching.
> 
> What are your thoughts for the course?
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CS22800 mailing list
> CS22800@cs.uchicago.edu
> http://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs22800




From bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu  Fri Sep 20 10:46:52 2002
From: bsjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Johnson)
Date: Thu May 18 12:41:34 2006
Subject: [Cs22800] Any project ideas?
In-Reply-To: <3D8B40A3.3000707@uchicago.edu>
References: <1032534512.8167.41.camel@linux.razor.net> 
	<3D8B40A3.3000707@uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <1032536813.8167.51.camel@linux.razor.net>

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 10:37, ziba robert scott wrote:
> Contrary to our silence on this list, Stephen Dranger and I (Ziba Scott) 
> are both excited about this class.  (I'm speaking for Stephen for the 
> moment because he is en route from Japan).
> That having been said, we don't have solid project ideas in mind.
> We do, however, both have an inclination to work on something of a 
> visual nature.  In part this is because it's outside the realm of our 
> classwork so far and also we've been working in a lab where everyone 
> does visulization research and we got stuck with a statistical project.
> Preferably with OpenGL, but gui work and the like also interests us.
> -Ziba
> 

That sounds pretty interesting.  I don't mind visual stuff, but I'm more
into the
command line security programs and what not...although a good gui will
never be cause for complaint from me.  I am friends with the honeynet
guys (honeynet.org), and they have a rootkit that is actually used to
capture information about blackhats and crackers to use in analysis
later on.  So in a sense, the rootkit is actually used against hackers
to hide the monitoring / sniffing tools.  I have worked on the project
for a while and they need a lot of coding so I may do that.  They
actually presented our project at the BlackHat conference in Vegas this
summer.

I'll let the list know when I decide on what I'll be doing to hopefully
spur some more interest in getting this class off the ground.


Ben