JB's Personal Site, News section

News

24 Januari Installed a tweaked version of wget a webinterface to dict dictionary server.
23 December Added a link to the giFT web interface, a great file sharing application for nix!
27 November Fixed Sara and added an SNMP based system statistics page to the MRTG page, also reconfigured Ipac so it monitors with more detail and uses MRTG for output.
27 October Removed saint and replaced it with sara, also updated all the menus.
14 October Installed a wrapper script to rblcheck using a huge list of blacklists.
11 September Installed a ftp server(ProFTPD) to serve all the files in the download section over ftp.
23 August Got a new cable modem (Motorola SB4100E) and ip. So the entire site is addapted to the new gateway and at the same time I changed the various network tools to reflect the changed routing: made the Mrtg page a lot smaller, changed Netsaint etc. Besides this I also terminated my Hetnet account, so also because of that I removed all larger downloads (Apache for example) and made some changes.
14 May Added some virus info from Sophos to the info page.
28 April Joined the seti.nl webring, check out the seti.nl menu at the main site.
14 March Added a php based guestbook.
19 November finally added some more text, this time a technical info section.
29 Oktober Added a banner script.
11 Oktober Gave the scroll bar a colour (ie only).
3 Oktober Added a Nimba counter, just numbers no ip's, but this nonsense has had its time
8 September Added the cool bandwidth bar from kernel.org to the main page.
4 September Finally got my old Pentium 200 back so I could install Dnews and MRTG on that machine, which should make this site a bit faster.
18 August The Gnotella web interface didn't seem to work from behind a linux firewall so I replaced it with BearShare, same functionality only a better looking page and a more mature program.
17 August Noticed that Dshields dynamic banner has fallen and can't get up so I replaced with my own version of my providers status page that I was using for my own amusement for some time. It is only in Dutch by the way. Also put the gnotella web interface online so you can now download a shitload of mp3's from this site!!
20 June Added an online bandwidth test to the site. This one uses javascript and uses only a small amount of bandwidth, so we don't screw up the Internet just by testing it like so many others do . Perhaps I will upload the test page to some or all of the homepage servers I use for the images later so you could really test your connection even if you're a broadband user. Right now you're limited to my 128kbit (upstream) server, and since you can choose to summit the results I hope you will provide me with some useful details about how fast my visitors are actually connected to this site.
14 June Added a script that tries to guess what browser you're using. Mainly because some problems just are really hard to prevent and it's better to say something about them then.
12 June Filled the old gap that the closed 'internet weather report' left with a real weather station this time. This one uses various sources and can display most cities throughout the world, but US users do get a lot better functionality. Still this was the best one I could find, and besides an image on the mainpage I also added it to the tools page so you can check it out yourself and even use it on your homepage directly from this server!!
25 May Replaced the old Flash detection script by a new one, still javascript but this comes with lots of features and the detection is much better, look here for more info. Also made a few links to Flash only versions for those scenarios where the script just doesn't detect Flash and redirects you to the non-Flash version of the site.
21 May Made a special page describing how to use Dnews on this server. Mainly because there seem to be a lot of visitors lately looking for this.
9May Added a Google searchbox to the main page...Google really rocks!!
25 March Found a cool java script to display handy popups when you move your mouse over a link or click on it, like this one: Click here!
I will use it to make some things clearer and by doing so make the page even more user friendly Download section updated.
27 February Updated the Download page and also added some scripts. Replaced the old download scripts and gave the counter a reset.
5 February Made a CSS to replace the old Frontpage tables, this makes the pages a lot better readable and adds a nice rollover effect too, hope you like it.
30 January Removed 7Search from the site and replaced it with a more generic search script. You can now query the most important searchengines through a drop down list and more important: I can add new searchengines easily! Also added an Internet Explorer 5+ favorite icon to free myself of the errors IE causes in case it isn't there and fixed some more small errors like that .
22 January Created non-Flash version of the site. All pages who use Flash objects now check if Flash is installed. If not a page which uses imagemaps instead of Flash objects is loaded automatically. Finally I can view my site with BeOS!! Also added an ICQ status indicator on the site and linked it with a slightly altered local version of my "Personal ICQ Web Communication Center". Used the forms at www.icq.com to do this and removed the link to the "Personal ICQ Homepage" myself afterwards. Why would you want to convert your ICQ software into a webserver when you already have the best web server there is, Apache??
16 January Added Music to my site, the right way I meen: Real Server live encoded feed of Dutch radio station Radio 3FM!!
13 January Added Perlfect to the main page. This is a searchengine script that creates a database from a site. So you can now search all (well, nearly all) pages of this site like you normally do with for example Altavista !!
8 January Created Dutch and English pages for Visual Route and replaced most of the refers to the traceroute script with links to Visual Route server afterwards. This is especially handy with MRTG!!
7 January Made a Duth version of the site and linked it with the main page. Translated also most of my scripts into Dutch and adjusted the Flash objects, and the varios other objects on je pages for this section. And finally I joined a banner exchange project whose banner you can find in the main section.
3 January Added a Flash clock to the main page, this is based on the example I found here. It displays YOUR time so you can compare it with mine which is ntp synchronized to Central European Time (CET).
1 January In case you're wondering: Yes the counter has been reset .
31 December Added birdtalk.cgi to the main page. This script allows you to send others an e-mail with a link to this site. Works very nice, is fast and best of all allows me to do some promotion, if any , in a surfer friendly way... got it from cgiresources . I also found a similar script there to handle mail to my postmaster account and a script to handle webserver errors. So no more boring apache error pages, but customized nice looking ones.
25 December Finally put MRTG on the website. I'm using the Webmon-MRTG and the MRTG-Ping-Probe pluggins to watch the same list of hosts I used for Webmon. Also changed most of the pages layout. This replaces the old Webmon script. Looks very usefull so far...
24 December Added a Portscan script. This script does an nmap scan on your IP-address so you can see if that firewall of yours (if any!) is working. The script is a combination of the remoteaddr.cgi and trace.cgi scripts already installed on this system. As a result these scripts are also updated to look a bit more like the rest of the site. Finally I installed Tomcat and Cocoon so the server can now run jsp pages, servlets and XML...mostly for fun and education for now.
11 December Changed the Dnewsweb look to match the site's layout some more. Also integrated Netsaint into the website, it now has a cool flash menu, so there's no need for second browser windows and passwords anymore, hope you like it!!
9 December Joined the Links-To-You program. Mainly because I'm curious what effect something like this will have. Also signed up for 7Search. Use the search form on the main page to check it out.
5 December Replaced the old button menu's with flash versions. These are a lot smaller and work a lot better too!! Also added a counter script to display the total visitors count on the main page. This script is also used to display time and date and has many other features, look here for details.
27 November Replaced the flash menu with a better one, this one should be better clickable and is also updated for the new site layout. Moved the tools to a separate section and also added a personal (protected) section. Especially rewriting the Flash menu took a lot of time (with all the links changed and stuff...) but I got to admit that I love the Flash interface even more every time I use it!!
21 November Replaced the download script with a better one, works pretty good I think!!
19 November Replaced the old big menu in the top frame with a lot smaller Flash only version. Added bookmarker to the available web tools and put up three new sections: About,News and Downloads
12 October-18 November 2000 Site was created 12 October . Click on this link to look at the original site. Since then the site has been altered numerous times. I made a frameset version, added a navigation menu and added lots of graphics. Click here to have a look at the final version.

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