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    - Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this about us page on behalf of my team members.
    - We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk. - These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects. -

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    - Who we are -

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    - From left to right: Ilja, Jakob, Jan [me], and Erik -

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    - We are in the process of finishing school and our last semester in computer science is a project of our choice. - Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at - general server management and providing web space for others than actual software development... -

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    - About the server -

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    - The server at its current place in the basement -

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    + Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this about us page on behalf of my team members.
    + We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk. + These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects. +

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    + Who we are +

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    + Image of the team +

    + From left to right: Ilja, Jakob, Jan [me], and Erik +

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    + We are in the process of finishing school and our last semester in computer science is a project of our choice. + Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at + general server management and providing web space for others than actual software development... +

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    + About the server +

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    + The server at its current place in the basement +

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    The server is a 2006 Dell PowerEdge [whatever number goes here] featuring the 2.66 GHz socket 771 equivalent of some Intel Core 2 Quad which was considered powerful back then (I guess?). Memory wise, the system has to offer the incredible amount of four GiB ECC DDR2 RAM which do not quite fulfill the performance and capacity requirements of @@ -84,9 +82,8 @@ session_start(); Oh, btw: It is worth mentioning the fan. Yes, only one fan (plus the one in the power supply). Before the server was moved to the basement it was the loudest device in the kitchen, easily capable of exceeding the noise level of my 15 year old fridge twice. -

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    Okay. That should have given you a rough overview of the hardware. Now, let’s talk software.
    We currently run Ubuntu Server with a custom installation capable of doing GUI stuff as well but we rarely use that. The best use I found so far is to access internal status web pages via OpenSSH with X forwarding and Firefox.
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    Apart from that, there is not much to say here except for the fact that Ubuntu has become worse over the time I used it and I’d not choose it again. It is just what I was (and still am) most familiar with. -

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    - As I briefly mentioned above we want to build a social media platform. Here is a rough feature list of what we have - planned: -

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    • - Anonymity mode: A mode which allows registered users to post anonymously, even in private threads -
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    + Our goals +

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    + As I briefly mentioned above we want to build a social media platform. Here is a rough feature list of what we have planned: +

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    • + A general purpose forum engine that allows the creation of forums and forum threads +
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    • + Registered users and guest users +
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    • + Anonymity mode: A mode which allows registered users to post anonymously, even in private threads +
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    • + Random contacts: Get to know new people +
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