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Here is the tutorial on how to make your desktop like that: Customize your Own…. I like it, but it does take up some CPU to take all those stats on the system.

I would like to receive some feedback from IM users and internet meeting users as to what features they wish their existing program would add, because I would be willing to integrate user requested features within kerPlunk. If you request it, I’ll work on it. So leave a comment on a feature request or something you think the instant messaging program should have.

Some ideas (Things not on our to-do list… yet):

Folder Sharing - A custom folder(s) in which you can sync/share files between 2 or more people in addition to sharing single files.
Screen Sharing - The idea describes itself.
Realtime Music Sharing - Listen to music with your friends, even if the file isn’t on their computer.
Theatr - Watch a movie with your friends.
IM and Voice Logging on Website - If you want to hear a conversation whether via instant messaging or voice on a computer without the kerPlunk software, you can visit the control panel on the kerPlunk website and play back a conversation or read it. Voice to text could be added so you could read voice conversations directly from the site.
Type-Board - Kind of like a whiteboard in which you can right things on, but you can type things. This allows you to share computer code with other people as well as notes or other things. You can also simultaneously edit documents and other paperwork.

What else?

Hopefully this project will be a more common program as more and more people start to use it. I also need help converting the code to C++ as well as to Linux and Mac. You might even get a staff listing if you do such a good job with the program.

If you were wondering what kerPlunk was, you can find it here: http://zotagsearch.com/kp/

Interested? Contact me on the right hand panel.

Edit: I will pay anyone $75 via Paypal to anyone who can compile it in C++ and/or get it working cross platform.

I tried switching to Ubuntu, but I can’t get used to it as a main environment. And plus, Windows supports everything. I measure my computer by how much I can get done on it, not how good the os is (yah dont talk me into mac).

Wish me luck, and hope I dont lose any files. I have lots of projects to work on!!!

When you connect to an Nginx proxy, it sends a “host” request header to the server. When you set the web server in the conf to a website, such as zotagsearch.com, it is requesting “localhost” from the web server (apache or any other server) instead of zotagsearch.com. Look at the configuration below in the Nginx testing to see that in effect. This means if your web server has a host set to zotagsearch.com, then a request for http://localhost/ would return an invalid response because there is no directory set to this. Look at this configuration below to understand:

Apache Virtual Hosts:
<VirtualHost zotagsearch.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@zotagsearch.com
DocumentRoot /htdocs/pathtofiles
ServerName zotagsearch.com
ServerAlias www.zotagsearch.com
ErrorLog @rel_logfiledir@/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog @rel_logfiledir@/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

If it got a request for http://localhost/, Apache would be like “dude i dont have any files to server to ya, sorry”.

Test one (on http://thelastnight.us/, a friend of mine):

My Nginx Configuration File:
location / {
proxy_pass         http://thelastnight.us/;
proxy_redirect     off;

proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
proxy_set_header   Server           “testresponses”;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size       10m;
client_body_buffer_size    128k;

proxy_connect_timeout      99999;
proxy_send_timeout         99999;
proxy_read_timeout         99999;

proxy_buffer_size          4k;
proxy_buffers              4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}

Response screen shot:

TheLastNight.us Nginx Proxy Response

Bluehost has a configured response for invalid requests to the server. Google could have easily not set this property.

Test two (on http://theplanet.com/):

My Nginx Configuration File:
location / {
proxy_pass         http://theplanet.com/;
proxy_redirect     off;

proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
proxy_set_header   Server           “testresponses”;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size       10m;
client_body_buffer_size    128k;

proxy_connect_timeout      99999;
proxy_send_timeout         99999;
proxy_read_timeout         99999;

proxy_buffer_size          4k;
proxy_buffers              4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}

Response screen shot:

The Response from theplanet.com

The response from the server was invalid because nothing was set at that address. As you can see, the web server was requested http://localhost/.

Test three (on http://webhostingdiscussion.com/):

My Nginx Configuration File:
location / {
proxy_pass         http://webhostingdiscussion.com;
proxy_redirect     off;

proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
proxy_set_header   Server           “testresponses”;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size       10m;
client_body_buffer_size    128k;

proxy_connect_timeout      99999;
proxy_send_timeout         99999;
proxy_read_timeout         99999;

proxy_buffer_size          4k;
proxy_buffers              4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}

Response screen shot:

WebHostingDiscussion.com Nginx Response

If you go to http://webhostingdiscussion.com/, you will get a website about web hosting discussion.

Test four (on http://robinsblog.com/):

My Nginx Configuration File:
location / {
proxy_pass         http://robinsblog.com;
proxy_redirect     off;

proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
proxy_set_header   Server           “testresponses”;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size       10m;
client_body_buffer_size    128k;

proxy_connect_timeout      99999;
proxy_send_timeout         99999;
proxy_read_timeout         99999;

proxy_buffer_size          4k;
proxy_buffers              4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}

Response: I received a response for a listing of files, such as phpinfo, mysqlinfo, and other files stored in a directory on the server. These are files available to the server admin. He does not know that these tools are in public to see. I do not want to post this screen shot so the server does not get exploited.

In conclusion, my findings are provable on other web servers with not so large teams to fix errors as quick as Google. I have no reason to make up something like that, as I was just showing my findings.

I have yet to find a web server running cpanel (due to lack of time i want to spend on this) with an invalid response. Try a few web servers in your nginx configuration and you will understand how I got this response. If you search long enough, you will find a web server that has an invalid response because there is no host to http://localhost/.

Here’s the entire script:

<?
$file = "log.txt";
// lets sniff the user
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$time = date("F d, Y H:i:s", time());
$referrer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
$userinfo = "IP &gt;&gt; $ip | Browser &gt;&gt; $browser | Time &gt;&gt; $time | Referrer &gt;&gt; $referrer \n";  // this is the format how it will record stuff
// write to the file now
$fp = fopen("$file", "a"); 
fwrite($fp, $userinfo);
fclose($fp);
?>

It uses UDP ports 4000 and 4005 to transfer data, so thats the only downside to the program because you will have to open up your firewall. In a release coming up, you will not need to forward ports on your firewall.

Right now (Sept. 11, 08), the program is still in beta, which means it will have many other features, but we have not added them to the program… yet. Future additions will include a buddy list, higher quality voice, group chat, and a few more ideas.

Here’s a screenshot of the release on Sept 11, 08:

You can check out the program here: kerPlunk Voice Chat

Just released today, I would have to say I’m impressed with some of the features and how simple the browser actually is. You could almost say its a *fun* browser because there is not so much clutter everywhere and you still get the features you still want in a browser.

Speed. It uses the Apple Web Kit, which is the open source framework in which you can create a web browser from. It also includes a few Firefox features. Its faster than Safari or Firefox 3. Every individual task you do on Chrome uses multi-threading to get the task done faster (This includes plugins, tabs, settings, and other features of the program). If you right click on the title bar, you can access a “task manager” which allows you to end certain process’s of tasks that are not responding or you don’t want to run anymore. Here’s a picture of the task manager below:

Google Chrome Task Manager

Google Chrome also has DNS prefetching so your browser doesn’t have to go looking for the IP address of the server for everything you click. Chrome automatically looks at other links on the page and performs the DNS query while you browse.

Simplicity. Thats how Google wanted to create the browser, “Just like the homepage,” and thats how it turned out. You can get to the things you want and hide them when you aren’t using them. If you were wondering about the statusbar, it has a really unique one that pops up from the bottom of the screen when you hover over a link or click on one. Here’s an image of the statusbar:

Google Chrome Status Bar

Developer Tools. If you have ever seen the developer tools for Safari, then you have seen the developer tools for Chrome. Both Safari and Chrome have somewhat the same tools and it also has the same *looks* so don’t worry if you liked how pretty Safari was. Hopefully in the future they will provide more tools.

What it needs:

1. An implementation of Adblock (A free advertisement blocker for web browsers) 
2. A frame on the left side of the screen that allows you to see your bookmarks also, instead of the small bar on the top of the screen.
3. A plugin system (Maybe in the future since it is open-source?)

And since it is open source, you can download the SDK for free, and you can develope your own programs for it for free, unlike the iPhone in which you have to pay a fee. I really think this has a great future, and a lot of advanced computer users will use the Google phone because it runs Linux.

Hopefully it will be released soon, because I’ll get one.

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