Monday the 23rd of August 2010 marked the 4th birthday of the community. Although netgeeks.org domain was registered 3 years ago, the community existed prior to the purchase of the domain.

Yes, we still lack content, alas, what started as a hobby now longer has much hope as life gets busier and busier!

Now, back to idle. I'll still post the occasional topic now and then that I feel might be of use to the googling community, especially when sometimes it's difficult to get hold of such information.

Although the forums haven't had any new posts in almost a year, it was brought to my attention that the site currently provides no way of keeping track of forum posts.

As such, some reading later, I discovered it was possible to have the Views module display posts in the forum as an RSS feed, which is exactly what I did.

The feed is available at:
http://www.netgeeks.org/forum/feed

I will be adding more feeds as and when I get time, by the end of which we should have a feed for every forum section.

DivX streaming from Ninjavideo.net on windows was simple enough with the installation of the DivX web player. On linux, the old mplayerplug-in used to work fine when used with a greasemonkey script. Recently however this was depreciated in debian testing, and replaced with gecko-mediaplayer.

So you updated using yum, and lo and behold yum is no longer working. An attempt to use yum gives you the following:


$ yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named cElementTree

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.4.3 (#1, Jul 27 2009, 17:57:39)

I just received an email from project honey pot, 1 billion spammers have been served. The details are below:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was
an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email
address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a
single spam email, the billionth message represents the collective work of
you and tens of thousands of other web and email administrators like you in

For the last 3 years we have been focussed on coding languages. A tiny community we may be, but most of our communication happens via IRC.

Originally, I intended to have the site simply for IRC related coding, however, this is a very small sector so I decided to focus on common coding languages, whether IRC related or not.

Now, as time goes on, another change is due I think. It's time to focus on all things geek. This is in order to attract more people to the site, and create a more intertwined community.

As you may be aware there are a few bots that reside in the IRC channel that offer various services. The main bot which contained the help database and various other scripts (google etc..) is currently down.

My shell company has decided to change datacenters, they did provide me with a new password, however it is not working, so I am now waiting for them to send me a new password.

All files should be present, just a matter of changing the IP and reloading the bots and setting up crontab again. Should be back in a few days, hopefully wont be missed too much!

Some of you may have been experiencing permission errors while trying to create forum content (Thanks for bringing to my attention Daemonseed).

This should now be fixed. As always, any issues, let me know!

Another day, another update.

The static pages are now all up. I am aware of the issue with the use of mibbit and IrCQNet, this will be dealt with while I find a suitable java/flash alternative.

All members were sent an email to reactivate their accounts, as passwords were lost while users were being transferred. This is also a good way to determine who still has correct contact information with us after over 2 years of inactivity for some!

Time for an update as to what's been happening over the past few days:

* Forums up and running
* Users all moved over from SMF to drupal (You may have to use the reset password link)
* IRC Chat page up (using mibbit - I'm not a fan, but will be looking into alternatives meanwhile)
* About page is up

Now that the hardest bit is done, I will continue moving over the old static pages onto here. Expect another update soon.