"There is this huge speed bump in the road to realize cyberspace situational awareness. Cyberspace has grown so far so fast in such a short time, that all of us have little to no control over the unforeseen consequences this brings to our lives. Would a sane society create a system which they cannot hope to control or even visualize? Think about it."
After mulling over self-publishing a cyberspace situational awareness mini-series starting with a short book on human cyber consciousness, I think it is best I delay writing a book and focus on software development. The general idea of human cyber consciousness is indirectly discussed in this... (0 Replies)
Our team just published this technical report on ResearchGate:
Virtualized Cyberspace - Visualizing Patterns & Anomalies for Cognitive Cyber Situational Awareness
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License This... (0 Replies)
Richard Zuech annotates his first experience flying in virtualized cyberspace hunting the bad guys!
... and he finds some!
Application for Virtualizing CyberSpace like Outer Space for Cyberspace Situational Awareness (0 Replies)
Please message me or post in this thread if anyone is interested in contributing some C, C++, or C# code for this project. Right now we have an open source C++ git project (created by someone else a few years ago) that fails when we try to compile on Ubuntu. I need someone to fix the make... (4 Replies)
Here is an end-of-year update of my CSA research for 2016. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone at unix.com who keeps the forums running so well as I write code for cyberspace situational awareness experiments and do my research.
I am still hopelessly trying to save the world from the unintended... (6 Replies)
Hi.
I've been very busy this month working on resurrecting my old projects related to "cyberspace situational awareness" (CSA) which began last month by surveying the downstream literature that referenced my papers in this area using Google Scholar and also ResearchGate and posting updates on my... (5 Replies)
Really Slick ScreenSavers(1) General Commands Manual Really Slick ScreenSavers(1)NAME
solarwinds - mesmerizing particle effects saver.
SYNOPSIS
solarwinds [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number] [--dpms/-M number] [--preset/-R number] [--winds/-w number] [--emitters/-e
number] [--particles/-p number] [--geometry/-g number] [--size/-s number] [--windspeed/-W number] [--emitterspeed/-E number] [--particle-
speed/-P number] [--blur/-b number]
DESCRIPTION
From Terry Walsh (http://reallyslick.com): "This is a very mesmerizing particle effects saver. Tweak the settings a little and you'll find
that you can achieve an amazing number of different patterns. You can also connect the particles with lines for a very different effect."
Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali.
OPTIONS --root Draw on the root window.
--maxfps number
Set maximum frame rate.
--vsync number
Limit redraws to specified number of vertical refreshes. 0 - 100. Default: 1
--dpms number
Stop rendering new frames if the display is not on. 0 - 1. Default: 1
--preset number
1 - Regular (--regular)
2 - Cosmic Strings (--cosmicstrings)
3 - Cold Pricklies (--coldpricklies)
4 - Space Fur (--spacefur)
5 - Jiggly (--jiggy)
6 - Undertow (--undertow)
Presets that override all options that come before it on the command line. 1 - 6. Default: 1
--winds number
Winds. 1 - 10. Default: 1
--emitters number
Emitters per wind. 1 - 1000. Default: 30
--particles number
Particles per wind. 0 - 10000. Default: 2000
--geometry number
0 - Lights (--lights)
1 - Points (--points)
2 - Lines (--lines)
Type of geometry. 0 - 2. Default: 0
--size number
Particle Size. 1 - 100. Default: 50
--windspeed number
Wind Speed. 1 - 100. Default: 20
--emitterspeed number
Emitter Speed. 1 - 100. Default: 15
--particlespeed number
Particle Speed. 1 - 100. Default: 10
--blur number
Motion Blur. 0 - 100. Default: 40
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
SEE ALSO X(1),
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 by Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali.
Solarwinds is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as pub-
lished by the Free Software Foundation.
Solarwinds is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL-
ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
AUTHOR
Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>
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