xettie will be down...

to all the xetties,

due to unforseen circumstances, xettieboard will be down for a short period.

this is because i can no longer ride on my customer's server as he wishes to discontinue the server co-location service.

i will try to move xettieboard to the other hosting package of mine. of course performance will be affected but i will try to make that as minimal as possible.

thank you!

xettieboard

it has been a long long time since i last modified xettieboard.

i've moved all the smilies faces to smiley.xettie.com as this is hosted on freenet's sharehosting server. which means it wont clog up the original xettieboard.xettie.com server on loading those smilies. especially after i opened up the smilies for others to use on their blogs. in just 3 weeks, the server logfiles for accessing the smilies have exceed 500MB!!!

imagine what happen if i put the smilies back onto xettieboard server. it will be crawling sloooooow!

xettieboard has moved to new server!

yay!! new home for xettieboard is now at http://xettieboard.xettie.com

xettieboard server specs:
P4 3.0Ghz (LGA755)
1GB RAM
80GB RAID 1 HDD
Win2000 Server
MS SQL 2000 Server

to do list:
1. a xettieboard for standalone individuals.
2. a xettieboard for users to join groups.

a new home for xettieboard!

one of my client has agreed to lend some CPU cycle and storage space for me to host xettieboard on his co-located machine in cyberjaya.

and i've also planned to migrate the current ms access db to ms sql 2k on the machine. soon i can do more stuffs to the board and really offer it out into small groups.

my plan is to replace all the other chatboards out there, to make xettieboard as configurable to a local msg board as well as interblog board.

but when is this gonna happen? i am not so sure. kinda busy these days... and the server has not move to cyberjaya yet...

server problem - HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed

talked to tham from freenet yesterday. he has confirmed the reason of "HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed" error. it was due to server overloaded with scheduled web stats processes.

he said he will reflect that to his boss. at this moment... stay tight while you get the "HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed" error...

exponential popups...

as per nom's challenge, i've made the popup speed exponentially faster. what's exponential you may ask...

exponential is like... 2,4,16,256,65536,4294967296, ... ... ... basically it's x to the power of x (or x^x in plain mathematical writing).

so after 6 milliseconds (1000 milliseconds = 1 second), you get 4294967296 popups!! but all of these are only theories... in reality, the pc wouldn't be able to do it that quick... perhaps there're 50-60 windows after 10 seconds?

well i dunno. i haven't try it but nom did... ask him.

farking spammers

finally those farkers shown up again with spams. i've recorded their IPs and browser info.

it turned out that most of them are from italy. but also some from poland, us and other unresolved ips.

but all of them have a single common thing, which is the browser info. it is:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

i am not very sure if that's the real browser or some sort of spywarez with pre-defined browser version data. anyway, if it's real browser info, then it's WinXP without service pack installed... which means popup blocker is not installed.

so i've put in some filters. if the msg is more than 1000 chars, contains "<h1>", "poker", "viagra", "casino", "debt" and "loans", then it will launch a new browser window to yahoo.com every 1 millisecond. until the pc is out of memory.

so i hope those are real browsers. let's see how it goes...

Spam count resetted

while i tried to clean up those spams and also compress the dB, i accidentally deleted those old msgs. which means spam count has been resetted to 5th Jan 2005.

but on the bright side, dB size has been reduced from 6mb all the way down to 520k. :D

those spamming buggers

due to the recent ads spams by those stupid buggers, i am thinking of a solution.

since i didn't keep track of user's IP and browser version previously, i couldn't pin point the buggers in order to filter them. (well, i could but i wanted more info of them)

at this moment, i will just ignore them and continue to let them spam while i collect more info.

when there's a pattern, then i can easily pin point which msg is spam and which is not.

at this moment, i've identified the pattern as follows:
- message longer than 1000 chars
- with these words: poker, viagra, casino, debt and loans

please bear with me while i collect their IPs and browser info.

added a few new icons

i've added a few new emotional icons...
check them out.

server problem...

it was confirmed by my service provider, that stupid HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed error came from the server itself. nothing wrong with my code.

i've also wrote an official email to them.

dear sir/madam, as you may have aware of the problem on 202.9.109.2 (www.xetronic.com) with its "HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed" error. the frequency of the problems seems to have increased exponentially for the past month. it has became very frustrated having to wait for the problem to resolve itself when that happened. therefore i would like to transfer the website to another webserver, unless freenet can pinpoint the problem and solve it within a timely manner. thank you. rgds, freddie

shared calendar is up!

spent some time on doing that shared calendar. it took more time than i've anticipated.

anyway, now the members can put up events... any sort of events you think the others might be interested. stuffs like, any outings, any gatherings, free food , birthday, weddings ...

don't worry, i'll manually take it down if i find it unsuitable.

shared calendar...

a shared calendar will be in soon... stay tuned! :)

lame game... :D

i've also thrown in a pretty lame game into the board. it's was one of the coolest game back in 1999 when i first made it with pure DHTML.

it's the slot machine game. yay!

just click on "show menu", and select "play a game".

breakdown of spammers per day...

i admit i am a geek. coming from a math background has made me pay attention to the numbers and stats.

i just added the breakdown feature to list out the spams on the day.


click on the "breakdown" link...


you'll see the breakdown of all the spammers on that day.