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New SSL Certificate
December 31, 2011 - 11:19 pm
Tags: donations, SSL, wildcard certificate
Posted in News | Comments Off on New SSL Certificate
We’ve finally splashed out on a Wildcard SSL certificate for the geekshed.net domain. We have applied this to the site, a few subdomain sites, and all of the IRC servers. What does this mean for you? Well, the most notable change is that all of our IRC servers now have an SSL certificate which is…
Server map updated
October 5, 2011 - 7:30 pm
Posted in News | Comments Off on Server map updated
We have just updated the server map. We have had such a massive turnover of servers in the past few months that it became very quickly outdated. You can find it at http://www.geekshed.net/servers/.
BNCs Moved
October 4, 2011 - 3:25 pm
Posted in News | Comments Off on BNCs Moved
We have, tonight, moved the BNCs from their previous unreliable homes onto a new server. Your previous connection credentials should work, as before. We hope the new server will be more reliable and less prone to downtime. Any questions, ask us in #help
Mibbit Hacked
August 14, 2011 - 5:07 am
Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments
We write to report emerging news of certain elements of Mibbit (an AJAX IRC client service) being hacked. The proof of hack is further backed up by Mibbit’s official statement. Because of the nature of Mibbit’s front end, your web browser cannot connect directly to IRC. Rather, it has to connect via a Mibbit back…
Tonight’s Problems
August 1, 2011 - 4:42 pm
Posted in Explanation, Statements | 1 Comment
It’s been a rough few hours. We are sorry for this. An exploit was found in a 3rd party services module and used against us. This allowed the corruption of the access lists of 2 channels. Although it is fairly obvious from the code that an exploit caused by flawed logic exists, this has gone…
Welcome CornishNerd
July 19, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Tags: cornishnerd, geekshed staff, tom
Posted in News | 12 Comments
CornishNerd has recently kindly accepted our offer to join the GeekShed staff team. He will be primarily responsible for the forums in a bid to make them an active part of the community. Network administration is not an easy job and we are thankful for the time he has dedicated to us. P.S. I realise…
Welcome Brigitte
July 17, 2011 - 7:18 am
Tags: new staff
Posted in News | 9 Comments
Brigitte has recently kindly accepted our offer to join the GeekShed staff team. She will be primarily responsible for the forums in a bid to make them an active part of the community. Network administration is not an easy job and we are thankful for the time she has dedicated to us.
Recent Downtime
May 4, 2011 - 4:41 am
Posted in Statements | 4 Comments
The more observant of you may have noticed us suffering from some major netsplits lately. GeekShed has typically been a stable network because of the pro-active tactics of its staff in resolving server issues such that they have minimal effect on our users. We have, recently, been hit with large scale Denial of Service attacks…
Channel topic on your site – using Javascript
March 3, 2011 - 7:49 pm
Posted in Tutorial | Comments Off on Channel topic on your site – using Javascript
We have set up a JSONP service to allow you to use a simple bit of Javascript to get your GeekShed channel topic on your website. This has been possible for a while with PHP (http://www.geekshed.net/2009/10/topic-rss/), which provides a more flexible solution. This, however, cannot be used on hosting services that do not support PHP….
TOS Change
March 1, 2011 - 7:05 pm
Posted in Statements | Comments Off on TOS Change
We have today, after much discussion, changed our terms of service. The reason for this is that the way it was previously done was confusing for users. The terms of service were previously called “Rules” and featured prominently on our site. Many users confused these with a definitive set of laws for which punishment would…