Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 11 February 2014 09:16, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:16:15AM +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 02/11/14 at 10:11am, Bigby James wrote: On Mon Feb 10 12:20:45 EST 2014 Kyle wrote: I'll take a little frustration of non-linux using normal human beings over a captcha that completely excludes visually impaired normal human beings any day. I can understand your concern and applaud

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Alex Jordan
(Top-posting because I'm not replying to anyone in particular.) One thing that we could do is suggest registering for the forum in the Beginner's Guide. The logic being that you should do it while your box is still working, just in case. On Feb 11, 2014 8:27 AM, Curtis Shimamoto

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Mauro Santos
On 11-02-2014 01:48, Don deJuan wrote: What is confusing about that? The devs have no desire to be popular or the coolest kid on the block or to be on every box in the world. I'm not sure, I've seen a world domination plan mentioned a few times but I don't know the status of that. [1]

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/11/2014 11:00 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 11-02-2014 01:48, Don deJuan wrote: What is confusing about that? The devs have no desire to be popular or the coolest kid on the block or to be on every box in the world. I'm not sure, I've seen a world domination plan mentioned a few times but

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Randall D
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:00:51PM +, Mauro Santos wrote: On 11-02-2014 01:48, Don deJuan wrote: What is confusing about that? The devs have no desire to be popular or the coolest kid on the block or to be on every box in the world. I'm not sure, I've seen a world domination plan

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:27:15AM -0800, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: On 02/11/14 at 10:11am, Bigby James wrote: On Mon Feb 10 12:20:45 EST 2014 Kyle wrote: I'll take a little frustration of non-linux using normal human beings over a captcha that completely excludes visually impaired

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Kyle
According to Curtis Shimamoto: # I think you've missed what Kyle is saying here. From what I understand # (as a non-blind user), traditional captchas that are super hard to read # and easily deciphered by computers are what tend to not be usable by the # visually impaired. # # The captcha that we

[arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Feliz Xett
Hi all! I hope it's ok to bother this list with this question/suggestion/rant about the forum registration process. I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to the forums at

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2014 15:42, schrieb Feliz Xett: On the bottom of the registration page there was a very clever captcha. The question was: What is the output of date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'? I might even have found this funny if I wasn't ON A NON-LINUX LAPTOP. By reading manpages

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread luc
Hi, ~ date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' 4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9 but that somehow looks wierd :P Cheers, Luc

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 10.02.2014 15:42, schrieb Feliz Xett: Hi all! I hope it's ok to bother this list with this question/suggestion/rant about the forum registration process. Hi, I implemented this captcha some years ago as we had massive spam and troll problems. We are not just fighting spam bots but actual

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Feliz Xett
Hi Pierre and others, thank you for your replies. Thomas Bächler: By reading manpages (readily available on the internet), an online sha256 calculator and some brain function, you can easily solve this without a Linux computer. I know I could have solved it, as could have every other Arch

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Dimitris Zervas
I don't think that using a computer command is suitable to avoid computer bots. They can easily read the captcha, solve it (just execute the command) and that's it. I've seen graphical captcha, but not with numbers and letters, but with games or with photos. I don't remember the names right now,

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Felix Kaiser
You could have used http://bellard.org/jslinux/ :-) /var/root # date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' 4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9 Felix

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Nowaker
Could this please please please be replaced with a real captcha? If any captcha is needed, I prefer copy-paste-enter captcha like this instead of some weird recaptchas. If you are on Windows, go get a free shell account. ;) -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Ryan Fredette
Did that work for you? My result was different on my linux box at work. What does `uname` report in cygwin? On 02/10/2014 12:14 PM, Vinicius Rezende wrote: ...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Victor Silva
Also a suggestion is http://simpleshell.com/ Just tested it and works quite well. 2014-02-10 15:14 GMT-02:00 Vinicius Rezende viniciusr...@gmail.com: ...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Kyle
According to Dimitris Zervas wrote: # I've seen graphical captcha, but not with numbers and letters, but # with games or with photos. # I don't remember the names right now, but google does. # The downside, is that it requires flash player... The other downside is that it would exclude visually

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Vinicius Rezende viniciusr...@gmail.com wrote: ...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) Except you need to replace $(uname) with Linux, otherwise you won't get the right hash.

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Vinicius Rezende
...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker enwuk...@gmail.com wrote: Could this please please please be replaced with a real captcha? If any captcha is needed, I prefer copy-paste-enter captcha like

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/10/2014 10:48 AM, Feliz Xett wrote: Hi Pierre and others, thank you for your replies. Thomas Bächler: By reading manpages (readily available on the internet), an online sha256 calculator and some brain function, you can easily solve this without a Linux computer. I know I

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux
Feliz Xett fez...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to the forums at bbs.archlinux.org. On the bottom of the registration page there was a very clever captcha.

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel Micay
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Feliz Xett fez...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Feliz Xett fez...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread WorMzy Tykashi
On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newbie. I disagree with your source. If anything, Arch Linux is

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux
WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newbie. I

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading somewhere that Arch

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading somewhere that Arch