////////////////// WEB 2.0 SUICIDE MACHINE ///////////////// WORM’s own medialab moddr_ has conjured up a machine that lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide machine is maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com! Commit NOW!
The machine consists of a tweaked Linux server installation running on the release 8.10 of Ubuntu, called Intrepid. Apart from a standard installation of the HTTP web-server (apache2 with python module), there are two main additions. First, Selenium RC Control is is a server which automatically launches and kills browsers and runs as java applet in the background. It automatically fills in forms, makes AJAX requests and simulate keystrokes. This all driven by a single python/cgi script with some additional self-written libraries. Secondly, each user can watch her suicide action in real-time via a VNC remote desktop session, displayed on our website via an flash applet rendered live into the client's webbrowser. Apart from using Selenium and Python, we were also running some customized bash scripts plus MySQL in the background for logging and debugging, jquery for the website and a modified version of the great FlashlightVNC application built in Flex. Web2.0 Suicide Machine consists of roughly 1500 lines of self-written code. http://suicide.moddr.net/ -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
