118 lines
5.6 KiB
PHP
118 lines
5.6 KiB
PHP
<?php
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session_start();
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%SET_LOGIN_VARIABLE%
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%PLEAZE_NO_CACHE%
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%NO_CHEAP_SESSION_STEALING%
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$navbar="about";
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?>
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>
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ThreadR - About Us
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</title>
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%STYLESHEET%
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<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="%CONTENT_DIR%/img/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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</head>
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<body>
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%NAVBAR%
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<br />
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<div class="container">
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<div class="item-1">
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<h1>
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<center>About us and our website...</center>
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</h1>
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</div>
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<div class="item-2">
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<p>
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Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this <i>about us</i> page on behalf of my team members.<br />
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We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk.
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These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="item-3">
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<h2>
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Who we are
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</h2>
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</div>
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<div class="item-4">
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<p>
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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.
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Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at
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general server management and providing web space for others than actual software development...
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</p>
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<h2>
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About the server
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</h2>
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<div class="image_container">
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<img src="%CONTENT_DIR%/img/server.jpg" alt="Image of the server" />
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<p class="image_container">
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The server at its current place in the basement
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</p>
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</div>
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<p>
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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
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Intel Core 2 Quad which was considered powerful back then (I guess?). Memory wise, the system has to offer the incredible
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amount of four GiB ECC DDR2 RAM which do not quite fulfill the performance and capacity requirements of
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most real world applications today but are plenty to host some two or three files on a web server. <br />
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Basically, that thing is <b>*s l o w*</b> but more than enough for my private internet connection.
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Guess what, there might have been a reason why it was thrown out by its previous owners. <br />
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As for storage, the server came with three enterprise grade Dell branded Western Digitals (one of which since died) and I threw
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in the SSD I pulled from my old laptop as a boot disk. Another laptop hard drive was given to me by a friend but there are
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no free S-ATA connectors left. [If someone at our school wants to donate their old drive controller expansion card, feel
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free to approach me or one of my team mates. You’ll be the hero of the week and you will be given credit here.]<br />
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Oh, btw: It is worth mentioning the fan. Yes, only one fan (plus the one in the power supply). Before the server was moved
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to the basement it was the loudest device in the kitchen, easily capable of exceeding the noise level of my 15 year old
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fridge twice.
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</p>
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<p>
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Okay. That should have given you a rough overview of the hardware. Now, let’s talk software. <br />
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We currently run Ubuntu Server with a custom installation capable of doing GUI stuff as well but we rarely use that.
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The best use I found so far is to access internal status web pages via OpenSSH with X forwarding and Firefox. <br />
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The server came with an installation of Windowze Server 2003 but we had no login credentials and who uses Microsoft
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products anyways? [BTW: The drives were filled with personal data of the employees. To all enterprises: PleAze WIPe
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THe DaTa Off All SERvERS YOU EVeR THrow OUt. You do not want to be in the place former NCIX employees found themselves in
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a few years ago.]<br />
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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
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I’d not choose it again. It is just what I was (and still am) most familiar with.
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</p>
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<h2>
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Our goals
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</h2>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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A general purpose forum engine that allows the creation of forums and forum threads
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</li>
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<li>
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Registered users and guest users
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</li>
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<li>
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Anonymity mode: A mode which allows registered users to post anonymously, even in private threads
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</li>
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<li>
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Random contacts: Get to know new people
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>
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A year flew by...
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</h2>
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<p>
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...and we decided to get this page back online again. A lot of things happened in this year.
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The whole, first developer Team gratuated! Once again: Congratulations to everyone!
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Some of us started a studies, some started a Training (to a specific job).
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[Note to myself: add some more information on what everybosy did in this year]
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Back to the Future! We finally decided to give this Project another try and here we are in 2021 still with Covid-19...
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The developement team got a few new faces so we are back but stronger than ever!
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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%BANNER_COOKIES%
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</body>
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</html>
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