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Still alive

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It's been now 3 weeks since surgery, and I'm still only allowed to type/mouse 10 minutes per day, so this is just a quick message to say surgery went OK and I'm still alive ;).

Surgery again..

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'm getting surgery again (other arm, different issue) next week. This means I'll not be taking any orders nor will I reply to emails. Recovery time is unknown, could be anything between 3 and 8 weeks... hopefully not the many months like my previous issue.
I hope to do something on Unreal in July/Aug, to push out a 3.2.8, fortunately there are not really any critical issues at the moment in 3.2.7 (as I write this) so that should be OK.

Pricing info

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I've had to (temporary?) remove my pricing in USD, because it takes too much effort to keep up with the conversion rates, and started to get complaints about it. The problem is also that PayPal conversion rates are used when ordering, which are different than the ones in newspapers, online on google and financial sites, and I haven't seen a way to automatically link it in my website (in fact it takes quite some effort to do it manually too). Hopefully in the future USD pricing will get back when possible, because I understand it's absence can be quite annoying.

Partially restored news, health again, ..

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I've partially restored the news gap since 2006.

Then some other news: I'm having some RSI trouble again, this time it's my elbow, which will be needing surgery in 6-8 weeks or so. Until then (and after, during recovery), I'm only accepting orders for existing products (with small modifications, if needed) and no new custom module coding jobs. I also still plan to work a bit on Unreal3.2* (for 3.2.8), perhaps even a release, I'm not sure.. we'll see.. Fortunately the 3.2* series are already very stable :).

Site vanished

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It seems my previous hoster decided to remove my account without warning. Even after repeated attempts I did not receive a response as to why this happened and more important.. I did not get any access to the files or backup I had. I had a recent backup of the files, but unfortunately not of the database data... this means most of the news, products, etc display data is lost. I'll try to restore it as best as I can, but I'm still having big trouble with my elbow/fingers/wrist RSI, so... not easy... as entering all this data is a lot of typing which is not something I can do at the moment...

Wrist status report & Unreal's feature

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Healing of my wrist is going real slow. The first 4-5 weeks after surgery were mostly 'recovering', and now since a couple of weeks I'm seeing some minor improvements. I can still only type 30m a day or so, but I see my muscles getting stronger and am experiencing less pain.

How do I think about Unreal's feature? I think the move to use inspircd as unreal4's basis is understandable, it seems that I've been one of the few people whom understand unreal3's source code, and we had considerable trouble to get people involved that could (or wanted to) work on major Unreal3.3 coding. The choice of a C++ ircd, originally inspired by Unreal, with various similar features and good module support, sounds logical. Of course, it will take a lot of time to get that ircd transformed in an Unreal4 product: the amount of features (small and large) in Unreal3* is enormous, and so is the amount of testing and bugfixing... many features and little things will have to be (re)implemented, and many (classical) bugs that have been fixed in Unreal3* will reoccur in Unreal4 (-beta's). So still a long road till we'll get a stable Unreal4, I'm counting on a year or so myself.

What in the meantime with Unreal3? Unreal3 will continue to exist for a long time, at least till the first couple of Unreal4 stable versions, and depending on the circumstances even longer (like major bugs/security support). In practice that means at least till 2009. I'd personally take U3 management on me again when I'm able to, so I can personally guarantee U3 stability/existence since I know so many networks depend on it, but in the meantime others will do a good job :).

Wrist status report

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I've re-enabled ordering since I can handle that again (not much typing).

As you all know, I've had hand surgery couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure how (soon) my wrist situation will evolve/completely recover: that's too soon to tell, but I can at least tell things didn't go horribly wrong (apart from cutting a not-so-important nerve) ;). It's possible though, that I'm getting the same problem with my other wrist, but we'll see...

Unavailable for a month or so

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I'm getting hand surgery tomorrow, after which I'll have some recovery to do. I'm assuming that I'll be unable to use the computer for several weeks, and hope to be available again in July. Of course, all of this heavily depends on how things will work out...

Ordering of modules has been disabled for now, until I'm sure I can use the computer again.

Going inactive in UnrealIRCd team

Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Due to my wrist issues I'm (temporary?) no longer active in the UnrealIRCd team, see news at www.unrealircd.com of May 11, 2007. That said, I will still be selling existing paid UnrealIRCd modules, since that takes little typing.

NSAuth module added

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Added a new paid module, NSAuth, which actually consists of 2 modules (ircd + anope/ircservices). In short it provides pro-active nick enforcement (you cannot use a registered nick, unless you provide the correct password), and optionally it can require everyone to be a registered user to be able to get on the server, or it can only enforce that for certain hostmasks. [more details].

TextBan v1.0

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

TextBan is now no longer an experimental module. This also means a win32 version is now available in the Windows Module Pack. There have been no code changes between 0.1 and 1.0, so for *NIX users there's no reason to upgrade.

RestrictedOper and QFloodBan added

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Added 2 more paid modules:
RestrictedOper: This allows you to create "opers" with very minimal rights (eg: can only /kill, but not see any additional info like server ips etc), ideal for opers in training.
And QFloodBan: Which bans users that go repeatedly excess flood or sendq exceeded. Not exactly one of my favorites, but can be useful on some networks were you got some real trouble going on with flooders and such ;).

Site updates & CVS

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

I've updated the site a bit... an RSS news feed is available, and some IE render bugs got fixed.
A Windows CVS build got released (ok, that was 3 days ago), the first one since 3.2.3. I don't know when 3.2.4 will be released exactly, but I presume somewhere in September.

AntiRandom v1.1

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

AntiRandom v1.1 is now out which fixes a few issues such as the digits check not working properly and some other cases where the score was too low. windows version | *NIX version

TextBan v0.1

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

I've added a new experimental module which I had in the queue for a long time now: TextBan (*NIX only currently). What it does is let chanops ban certain words or (part of) sentences by for example: +b ~T:block:*http://*
This module is currently experimental, if I get good feedback it'll get added to the Windows (and *NIX) Module Pack later on.

AntiRandom v1.0

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

I've released a much more improved version of AntiRandom: configuration has been moved to the configfile (instead of editting the .c), it is now 10x faster, the way it calculates scores has been redone to give less false positives and make it detect more bots. And various other enhancements (such as except hosts). Besides the *NIX version, there's now also a Windows version included in the latest windows module pack.

Status report

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

UnrealIRCd development is quiet at the moment, basically both me and codemastr are currently doing other things. I've been having fun with my new pc & converting my desktop to Linux, doing custom coding jobs, working on some security research papers, and doing various other things.
We don't plan to add many features to the 3.2* series anyway, I just wrote a story about it in the FAQ so feel free to check it out: FAQ: Has development on 3.2* been halted?? What is this talk about Unreal3.3*?. Win CVS Builds are also not available, since there's hardly anything new in CVS.
I almost forgot.. The CVS link with daily .tar.gz's from CVS now actually works again.

New website style

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

I've changed the website style / navigation method a bit, there are no more frames now and things look a bit more clean ;). I expect most people to be positive about it since it's now much easier to copy/paste urls and no "woah where did the navigation go" problems. 2 sections still open up a new screen however, the docs and CVS. The CVS link (which doesn't seem to be working atm) will probably be fixed, the docs.. I prefer them to open up a new window.

Unreal 3.2.3 released!

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

After almost 5 months (excluding the hotfix) we have released a new UnrealIRCd version: 3.2.3. This release brings channel mode +I (invex), channel mode +j (jointhrottle), non-standard nick support, and much more. You can download it from www.unrealircd.com. For windows users, a new module pack is available.

New win CVS build

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Yet another win CVS build. This adds channelmode +j (jointhrottle) and localized nick support (like 'german' to add umlauts and es-zet). Feel free to check out latest CVS or get the win cvs build if you want to play around. Hopefully more languages can be added soon :).

New win CVS build & win32 module pack for 3.2.2b

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

CVS activity has resumed again, channelmode +I got implemented (by codemastr), and I'm currently working on +j. Check out the win cvs build if you want to play around with +I and/or the other new features.
I've also made a new win32 module pack that works on Unreal3.2.2b (no other changes), you can download it here.

Win CVS build, activity, and more..

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

I've updated the win cvs build today. As you might notice, there are not a lot of changes in the UnrealIRCd code in the past month or so, but don't worry... We will become active again in the next few weeks to fix a lot of outstanding issues and perhaps add some new features as well.. I've mainly been doing other stuff in the past few weeks, like I'm now registered as an official company, and the free time I had I spent on arranging the Unreal testers stuff and helping users out of the forum... I'll try to minimize ("stop") doing the latter since I really can better spend those hours to work on the Unreal code.. fix bugs, add nice new features, etc ;).
Actually I did do other coding in the past few weeks, like I made AntiRandom: an experimental module that kills users with random nicks/idents/realnames. Use with caution of course, but results look promising.

JumpServer

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed a small display bug in JumpServer and did a 50% recode, nothing new really.. just a small bugfix. Win32 modpack not yet updated, sorry ;p.

ConnThrottle

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

I've added a new paid module ConnThrottle. This module can throttle incoming connections, like 20 local connections/minute and 40 global connections/min. Useful against bot/clone attacks.

Page layout

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

I've updated the site a bit, improved fonts & custom coding section.

3 modules added

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

I've taken over a few modules coded by Angrywolf (who stopped coding modules), namely:
jointhrottle - limits joins in a channel to x:y per-user
m_ircops - command /IRCOPS that lists all IRCOps that are online
m_staff - command /STAFF that lists content of a specific file/URL
Additionally, the windows modpack has been updated to include these modules, and the *NIX modpack as well.

Unreal 3.2.2 released!

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT

A new UnrealIRCd version is out: 3.2.2! This is a recommended release. You can download it from www.unrealircd.com. For windows users, a new module pack is available.

MyMoon

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Updated antimoon module to include 4 more names.

MyMoon

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

I've released a new module: antimoon that protects again MyMoon drones.

3.2.1b

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

3.2.1b was released to deal with some win32 issues. If your windows ircd is running fine then there's usually no reason to upgrade since it only contains 4 fixes and 0 new features. More info here.
As a consequence of this, I had to release a windows module pack for 3.2.1b
On a side note, wincvs builds will be available about/within a week or so.

New win cvs build

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

After ~1 month, win cvs builds are available again. However, there are not really any exciting new features. Reason for this is that we are all taking a break / vacation, so CVS is not very active at the moment ;).

Windows module pack updated

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The m_umsg module wasn't working correctly on windows, I've released a new windows module pack to fix this particular bug.

Unreal 3.2.1 released!

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

A new 3.2* stable release is out: 3.2.1! This is a recommended release. Go get it at www.unrealircd.com. Unreal3.2.1 has module support on Windows so I've made my windows module pack available here.

Added SQLMod screenshots

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Added some screenshots of SQLMod + updated description a bit.
Also updated Monitor to reflect the most recent additions.

*NIX ModPack now also available

Mon, 24 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

I've now also added a ModPack for *NIX. This package contains all my (7) recent modules and comes with an easy-to-use installer (dialogs!) that asks you a few questions and lets you choose which modules you want to install. Hopefully it woks well for most of you.. I tested it on Linux and FreeBSD.

JumpServer module updated

Sun, 16 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Added an option to JumpServer so you can specify an SSL server[+port] where any SSL clients will be redirected to. I've also submitted my module to the modules page on unrealircd.com since the module is considered stable now (same for RegExcept).

Windows modules

Thu, 13 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

UnrealIRCd on Windows now has module support in CVS, I've made a new win cvs build available. There I also have a download option for my "module pack for windows" which contains all my (7) modules compiled against that cvs version. As soon as 3.2.1 is relased (no ETA) probably many more modules will be available (from other authors, on their site and at unrealircd.com).

Unreal 3.2 released!

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

3.2 stable is finally out! Go get it at www.unrealircd.com!

Added RegExcept module

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

This module adds the ability to exempt registered users from bans via +e ~E:RegNick. The module simply checks if the user has that nick AND is set +r ('registered nick'). More info/downloadable here.

New winbopm version: 3.1.2

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

People have recently reported a few problems with winbopm version 3.0.3 so I thought this would be a good time to create a new version. After some fiddling it seems to work, for more info see the winbopm page.

Added JumpServer module

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Added a new experimental module, 'JumpServer'. This module adds the ability to 'redirect' users to another server, for example to redirect everyone to another server right before you are shutting the server down. Note that this 'redirecting' is only supported by a few clients (mIRC).