SurfiOnline

Dear asshole at XeroCool’s Blog thank you sincerely for ripping my old layout and the CSS. Yes, you asked me, and I said no. That doesn’t give you permission to totally rip the layout and CSS of my old design.

Further more, you removed all credit to me:

/*
Theme Name: owned
Theme URI: http://xerocool.innereyes.com
Description: hi
Version: 1.0
Author: me
*/

You’re also obviously too dumb to implement your own header text using the CSS because of the huge white gap at the top of the page. Go and learn CSS yourself, cheapskate.

How do I know its my design?

• Font’s, paddings and width’s are exactly the same from my own design. Oh wait, the whole CSS file is with tiny modifications.
• featuredwork classes are from a portfolio page I was building.
• .syndicate classes for tables are exactly the same from what I was using previously.
• CSS contains my “now playing” album image code”
• .toolbar_x classes are what I designed for MY code buttons editor I used to have on comment pages.
• The comment “/*** MyCode ***/” is the term used to describe BB code in MyBB, I lifted the aboev CSS directly from MyBB and thus it is there too.

Obviously you’re also way too dumb to lift it and replace all instances of the code of my domain with your domain:

.img-shadow {
float:left;
background: url('http://www.surfionline.comhttp://xerocool.innereyes.com/wp-content/themes/classic/images/shadowAlpha.png') no-repeat bottom right !important;
background: url('http://www.surfionline.comhttp://xerocool.innereyes.com/wp-content/themes/classic/images/shadow.gif') no-repeat bottom right;
margin: 10px 0 0 10px !important;
margin: 10px 0 0 5px;
}

Oh also, there is a bug in your menu which co-incidently I was experiencing too. The “link” doesnt go all the way to the top - click down on it with your mouse and don’t let go - notice how the dotted border isn’t all the way at the top? It’s a bug. What a co-incidence it happens in your layout too.

Oh, and for comparison.

My Work	The Ripped Work
My CSS	The Ripped CSS

You idiot.

Now if its not enough, i’ve contacted you and i’ll be contacting our MyBB lawyer if this design is not removed immediately.

Oh by the way, anyone else, feel free to publish this anywhere you like. These kind of people shouldn’t be allowed on the internet. They’re cheap and thieves. Watch out, you could be next.

Since my initial purchase of a dedicated server for MyBB, i’ve purchased a second dedicated server to replace the existing one (a better offer came up with better specs). Yesterday I just moved SurfiOnline and all corresponding subdomains over to the new server.

Setting up a dedicated server totally from scratch to be serving fairly popular websites (Note: This site isn’t one i’m talking about - it’s sure as hell not popular) for the first time has been quite interesting for me. I mean, i’ve had lots of experience with Linux and managing servers but i’ve never really set up a server from the ground up including things like real DNS, MTA’s etc. Like I said, i’ve installed them and everything before but never in a live production environment.

The whole process was fairly easy to do with compilation of Apache/PHP/MySQL/Subversion/Bind/Qmail.. you get the picture. The only thing I had some trouble with was Qmail not wanting to scan emails through SpamAssassin and ClamAV (Spam and Antirvirus protection for Linux). That was sorted but then it left me with one other problem - all mail for SurfiOnline was being rejected for “Sorry, I couldn’t find any host named surfionline.com”. A little research and it turned out it was because I was sending test emails from my old hosting account with ZeonHost which was locally resolving the DNS on their network (which it was still set up on) and not resolving the correct mail server IP. That’s fixed now too.

In terms of server management, i’ve always, however, considered myself to be fairly knowledgeable especially when it involves HTTP servers, PHP, MySQL and server security. All of it being self taught through the internet.

I’m happy to say that the new server, without any optimizations, is performing pretty damn well with MyBB load times as low as 0.03 and 0.05 seconds per page - however that’s on the beta website - more on the beta later. I’m still yet to move the MyBB website and MyBB forums over to the new server as they’ll be done with the release.

I think soon i’ll focus on some short guides here on my setup of this server and how i’ve gone about certain things and the various scripts i’ve created (because Control Panel’s are a waste of server resources and are security issues). We’re talking about simple scripts such as a script which scans all of the Apache VHost’s and runs webalizer for them automatically, bandwidth and usage tracking using iptables for certain ports, tracking the data transfer of certain Vhosts and other crazy little things.

This song has been stuck in my head for a while now… Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Go on and close the curtains
All we need is candlelight
You and me and a bottle of wine
Going to hold you tonight

We know I’m going away
How I wish….wish it weren’t so
Take this wine & drink with me
Let’s delay our misery

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone

There’s a log on the fire
And it burns like me for you
Tomorrow comes with one desire
To take me away….it’s true
It ain’t easy to say goodbye
Darling please don’t start cry
‘Cause girl you know I’ve got to go
Lord I wish it wasn’t so

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone

Tomorrow comes to take me away
I wish that I……that I could stay
Girl you know I’ve got to go
Lord I wish it wasn’t so

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone….

Other “exciting news” to follow tomorrow night.