New Projects in July 2005

There are a few on-going projects within mychub.org site for July 2005. These includes :-

1) Friends linking module (60% done)
- so that users will be able to link/add friends within their profile.
2) Picture Messaging Module (100% compete)
- Users will be able to view pictures of the sender via the messaging module. So you'll know how ur sender looks like.
3) Thumbnail feature (100% complete)
- we have added a thumbnail feature for the profiles module so that thumbnails will be auto generated and this will speed-up browsing of member profiles as well as save valuable bandwidth.
4) MyChub Eggdrop IRCbot (100% complete)
- Now we are able to use the advance features within IRC and integrate it with our main website to create a seemless integration of chat and browsing functionality.
5) MyChub Video Server (100% complete)
- By popular demand, we have re-introduced the video server and provide streaming video content to our patrons.

Greets goes to chaserRawang for his contribution on the Friends Module.

Blog Feeder busted and bandwidth sharing...

There is a problem with our Blog feeder service thus it continually blocks the other modules from running. So, we had no other choice than discontinuing the blog feeder service until we can find a more suitable XML rendering engine which is compatible with the ATOM format.

Nevertheless, there is one good news that cheers us up. That is one copy cat group forgot to close a certain hole within their security, thus allowing us to dump some of our content over there. We thank them for the generousity and thus relieving some of the extra pressure from our webserver. Kuddos boys!!!

www.mychub.org --> MyChub.ORG

Recently, there was a problem regarding our URL www.mychub.org. It seems that base address was not working while sub address works fine. Initially, I thought it might be due to the DNS caching factor. Thus I added a temporary DNS server to accelerate the propogation of the domain name. Nevertheless, it turns out that the problem was not as expected. I have traced the error to a faulty index file coding which has wrongly sent our users to a blank page.

Within minutes, the error was rectified and now users are able to use the old address www.mychub.org

More importantly, the added DNS server will continue to accelerate mychub site pages while we have added a feature of a shorter URL --> http://mychub.org

With both URL working, we can expect more users will enjoy the benefit of this shorter name and a faster browsing experience via the accelerated server.

MyChub.ORG is back Online June 2005

This is a screen capture of the recent mychub administration module.

As you can see.. our bandwidth is very high and every effort has been done to maximize the usage of the site. Fortunately for us, we have a fantastic hosting - FIVIO.COM.

We have been upgraded to the Linux-GOLD package FREE of charge. This translates to :-
200MB More Diskspace
40GB More Data Transfer

We value every effort to support mychub and kuddos to the people at Fivio.com for the upgrade.

MYCHUB.ORG domain outage 2005

There was a domain outage in June 2005. This was due to the excessive amount of users going to our website. Thus, we are in the process to upgrade our server to a more bigger and powerful plan to accomodate the additional bandwidth and content. Users are advised to be patient as we will take some time to port all the coding and material to this new server. Estimate downtime - One week !!!

(It can be faster, but i'm doing task this alone.. so spare the comments while I work on the migration work)

Change in Profile Upload Policy - 2005

I've noticed that some users are tying to be funny by putting cartoon pictures as their profile. Thus, I've changed the upload procedure to prevent GIF pictures from uploading. This is because most cartoons are in GIF format while ordinary pictures are in JPG / JPEG format.

Rederection Code Fixed...

There were faults in the redirection coding. I have found that the old code is taking too much overhead on the server. Thus I have written a new optimised code so that the site would work faster this time and you can get to the user via a short URL. e.g: www.mychub.com/gemukchub.

This is a snippet of the code -------

RewriteEngine onRewriteBase /mambo
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?option=com_partystaff&Itemid=68&func=fullview&staffname=$1 [R]

# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*


order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all


order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName www.mychub.org
AuthUserFile /home/mychub/domains/mychub.org/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/mychub/domains/mychub.org/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Silly Time Bug 2005

I noticed a very irritating bug in our mambo environment, there was inability to login to mambo site when using IE6. Mozilla Firefox from the same machines was able to login! Not only that, but some IE6 machines managed to login all times, while the rest could not login at all (they were thrown back to the login page). A IE5.5 machine was tested and proved to be working.

Debugging the core revealed that there was inability in IE6 to accept a cookie named "sessioncookie" (although it was a persistent cookie, instead), while Mozilla was correctly accepting it. However, IE6 did not behave consistent, since it was accepting the subsequent cookie "mosvisitor" (which IS a real session cookie, btw).

The solution:--
Go to classes/mambo.php, approx line 142 and change:
the line : setcookie( "sessioncookie", $session->getCookie(), time() + 43200, "/" );
into : setcookie( "sessioncookie", $session->getCookie(), time() + 2*86400, "/" );

Now, the mambo time bug. Although it's open source and fits better with mozilla, we have to do something about IE6. So, server machine must be correctly configured in terms of local time/timezone/dst. The only thing I can do is give IE6 some more time. I raise the interval from 12h to 48h. So, Mozilla should compute as well as IE6.

Security Upgrade 2005

Due to certain scrupulous act by certain people. I have coded a new security model based on IP settings. This will un-noticable by ordinary users. However, now administrators will have more control on who can view the site via username, IP or a combination of both.

Private Gallery Upgrade 2005

After a major overhaul... the private gallery is back online. The main reason for the overhaul is the faulty user rights management. This translates to users unable to upload pictures to the gallery, however were able to view it.

We reverted back to the old version 2.1.4 RC3 and made some minor modification to the module sub-system so that it would comply with our existing components.

Added a few more galleries (e.g: Cartoons & Actions) for the viewing pleasure of our members.

Facelift 2005

Redesigned the fresh new look of MyChub.ORG. Upgraded certain template modules with a nice drop shadow effect. This year... "green is in". Thanks to our volunteer graphic designer for the nice facelift.

The user gallery will be closed temporarily for an upgrade. Please be patient as we will be adding more features and models to the gallery.

Messaging Module Bug 2004 Ver 2.0

Found a small bug in the messaging module via "Who's Online". This bug however did not affect profile modules from "Browse MyMembers".

Problem: - People clicking on the "Who's Online" will be able to see profiles but cannot send messages to the profile owner.

Fixed: - Changed the default ".$uname." variable to "$asd_name" that is more appriopriate with the global function of the module.

MyChub @t Friendster

I was working on a module to integrate a friendster like module into mychub.org
Then I suddenly realize why go through the hassle of creating something which has already been done. If we can't beat them... lets join them.

So there comes an idea for a new mychub service called mychub@friendster. By integrating friendster unique friend connection feature and security implemetation, we can create a whole new community specifically targeted for chubs & chasers.

With friendster, we are also able to connect to other chubby clubs in the asian region esp Indonesia & Philipines. Thus enlarging our user base.

Thank you for your support !!!!

P/S: Please Beware of copycat group/ website....
There is only one MyChub. The Innovator & Pioneer of the Malaysian Chubs & Chaser Community.

Domain Transfer 2005

Q: I cannot log in to mychub.ORG these few days.. what happened ???

A: We have decided to change the registrant of our domain name to GoDaddy.com. Thus, MyChub.ORG will be off-line days until the domain transfer process is completed.

Q: Thus this means MyChub.ORG will be come GoDaddy.com ?

A: NO!! MyChub.ORG still will retain it's name however GoDaddy will be our proxy registrant.

Reason: This is essential for security sake. Thus, we are taking the first step in ensuring your privacy through private registrations through Domains By Proxy (DBP). The way a private registration works, is that DBP takes actual ownership of the domain name. DBP then provides its contact information in the Whois database in place of the personal information of the person using the domain name. The user of the domain is then provided with an agreement that gives them all the benefits of ownership (i.e., the user can point the domain name where they want, they can sell it later, transfer it away, etc. – in short they use the domain name just as if they registered it in their own name). For more info - CLICK HERE!

With GoDaddy's DBP feature, MyChub.ORG will be able to prevent all these private information from leaking out or being available in the public whois database (24/7).

MyChub consist of expert volunteers that contibute their field of knowledge for the cause of chubs & chasers community and not just a sing / dance group that tries to copy whatever activities done by other people.

MyChub - The Pioneer of the Malaysian Chub & Chaser Community