https://linuxcounter.net The New Linux Counter Project replaces the good old counter.li.org project. It counts and generates statistics about all linux users and machines. en Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:45 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:45 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net https://linuxcounter.net/gfx/logo.png https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#49 Hello People! I've just enhanced the countries and cities statistics. You'll find them here: http://linuxcounter.net/places/stats.html. All countries are now links to a page containing the cities in that country and each city is again linked to a page with all users in that city. Remember: It o... Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:31:46 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#49 I've just enhanced the countries and cities statistics. You'll find them here: http://linuxcounter.net/places/stats.html.
All countries are now links to a page containing the cities in that country and each city is again linked to a page with all users in that city.

Remember: It only shows active users that also has active machines registered.

Sincerely yours
Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#48 Hello linux users! I'm just doing some SEO stuff, trying to get listed higher in the search engines. This is not so easy and there are surely many, many things I don't know. Maybe there is someone out there who is willing to help me with some tipps and hints. You may send any suggestions or ... Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:12:18 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#48
I'm just doing some SEO stuff, trying to get listed higher in the search engines.
This is not so easy and there are surely many, many things I don't know.

Maybe there is someone out there who is willing to help me with some tipps and hints.
You may send any suggestions or tipps to seo@linuxcounter.net.

Many thanks in advance!

Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#47 Hello Linux users! I just needed to change some rights and permissions on the server, because we had a backdoor script in one (other) project. If there are any errors in this project here related to file permissions or similar, please contact me ASAP and I'll try to fix this. Sincerely yours ... Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:42:03 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#47
I just needed to change some rights and permissions on the server, because we had a backdoor script in one (other) project.
If there are any errors in this project here related to file permissions or similar, please contact me ASAP and I'll try to fix this.

Sincerely yours
Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#46 Hello people, I've just fixed a problem that cause that creating of new machines through the update script was not possible anymore. By the way I also have another news... :-) I've married my sweetheart at 09/21/2012. This also has changed my lastname from Mieland to Löhner. So don't wonder a... Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:30:48 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#46 I've just fixed a problem that cause that creating of new machines through the update script was not possible anymore.

By the way I also have another news... :-)
I've married my sweetheart at 09/21/2012. This also has changed my lastname from Mieland to Löhner.
So don't wonder about the new name in the disclaimer and everywhere else.

Sincerely
Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#45 Hello all! Are you wondering why our online user numbers has decreased so heavily? Well, I've moved the update and insertion of the online users from a global include file to the header file of the website. Reason? Because the global include was included by everything, including the ajax loader ... Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:54:46 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#45 Are you wondering why our online user numbers has decreased so heavily? Well, I've moved the update and insertion of the online users from a global include file to the header file of the website.
Reason? Because the global include was included by everything, including the ajax loader script in the background and such. This is why the number was so high in the past.
Now the online users only get counted, if they are on one of the visible webpages of the project.

Sincerely yours
Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#44 Hello all linux friends! I'm just at changing my whole live, that means new job, new home, new girlfriend, new location. This has started some weeks ago and it will still need some (two or three) more weeks until all is managed and done. Please be aware, that I'm actually not able to do any suppor... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:41:01 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#44 I'm just at changing my whole live, that means new job, new home, new girlfriend, new location. This has started some weeks ago and it will still need some (two or three) more weeks until all is managed and done.

Please be aware, that I'm actually not able to do any support on this platform. But any requests about password or login problems and any other contact emails are and will be stored and handled as soon as I've arrived my new home.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Just be patient and wait for my answers to your requests.

Thanks so far. Alex]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#43 Hello people! I want to announce the complete shut down and redirecting of counter.li.org to linuxcounter.net. Yesterday evening, Harald has created the redirections and thus The New Linux Counter Project on linuxcounter.net now is the main and only Linux Counter. There are still some very ... Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:24:17 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#43
I want to announce the complete shut down and redirecting of counter.li.org to linuxcounter.net.

Yesterday evening, Harald has created the redirections and thus The New Linux Counter Project on linuxcounter.net now is the main and only Linux Counter.

There are still some very less statistics missing, especially the detailed statistics for the country and cities, but these will come very soon, so stay tuned!
Most of the statistics that were also part of counter.li.org are integrated and there are also some new and other statistics on the new counter.

I want to welcome all linux users!
Please tell everybody to register for the counter to get counted as a linux user!

Sincerely yours
Alexander Mieland]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#42 I've finally got an email about an error that appears, when trying to login with a wrong password or when trying to logout: "503 Bad Gateway". This problem must exist at least since three weeks, and I really wonder, why I've not received any bugreport about this much earlier. Anyways, I've just f... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:24:39 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#42
Anyways, I've just fixed this issue and now you are able again to logout from the platform and to get informed when entering a wrong password at login.]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#41 Since debian based distributions are the most used distributions, I've now created an own PPA for The New Linux Counter Project. This PPA already holds the most recent version of the lico-update script. In the future, it maybe will hold some more few other packages. But for now, you are able to ins... Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:57:27 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#41 PPA for The New Linux Counter Project. This PPA already holds the most recent version of the lico-update script.
In the future, it maybe will hold some more few other packages. But for now, you are able to install and update the lico-update script on the most simple way: through the PPA for The New Linux Counter Project.]]> https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#40 Hello Linux geeks! This time I'm coming to you with a small question. I'm wondering if it would be interesting for you, to have some kind of bigger news section with news also from other pages, blogs and magazines. Maybe you are interested in such a service on the New Linux Counter? Contact me on ... Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:59:33 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/news.html#40 I'm wondering if it would be interesting for you, to have some kind of bigger news section with news also from other pages, blogs and magazines.
Maybe you are interested in such a service on the New Linux Counter? Contact me on one of the social networks like facebook, twitter, dispora, identi.ca... ;)]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#18 Complete redesign. Many users has complained about the oldfashioned design. Now we have a modern look and feel. Submenu added. This replaces all in-page links and buttons like "Delete Account" or "Edit profile" User preferences added. You now can change timezone, dateformat a... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:53:29 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#18

Complete redesign. Many users has complained about the oldfashioned design. Now we have a modern look and feel.

Submenu added. This replaces all in-page links and buttons like "Delete Account" or "Edit profile"

User preferences added. You now can change timezone, dateformat and timeformat. More options will follow

News ticker added. This now shows the last 10 news.

Munin statistics added for monitoring the server hardware.

Migrated the trac wiki from sqlit3 to mysql. This is the first step for combining the user databases together.

Many, many small bugfixes and layout fixes.

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#17 LiCo website: Implemented uptime statistics. New version 0.3.15 of lico-update.sh script release with following main changes: Implemented compatibility for other shells Implemented compatibility for IPCop and busybox Implemented many fallbacks for example for sending the data (wget, curl, netc... Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:59:23 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#17

LiCo website: Implemented uptime statistics.

New version 0.3.15 of lico-update.sh script release with following main changes:

Implemented compatibility for other shells

Implemented compatibility for IPCop and busybox

Implemented many fallbacks for example for sending the data (wget, curl, netcat, perl, /dev/tcp)

Implemented update switch -update. Can run in a cronjob for autoupdate.

Implemented switch --allow-root if root user is needed for running the script or for update.

Many other smaller bugfixes and fallbacks.

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#16 lico-update.sh fix: Script was not able to create new machines (#40).lico-update.sh fix: Accounts and userid ranges were not correct (#44).lico-update.sh fix: Script has thought Debian is unknown (#39).lico-update.sh fix: Script was not able to detect non LSB compliant distributions (like Slackware)... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:55:29 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#16

lico-update.sh fix: Script was not able to create new machines (#40).

lico-update.sh fix: Accounts and userid ranges were not correct (#44).

lico-update.sh fix: Script has thought Debian is unknown (#39).

lico-update.sh fix: Script was not able to detect non LSB compliant distributions (like Slackware).

Some other small fixes to the lico-update.sh script.

Some small fixes to the lico-update API.

Small fixes (typos and styling) to the project pages.

Created new mailinglist interest@lists.linuxcounter.net: http://lists.linuxcounter.net/mailman/listinfo/interest

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#15 lico-update.sh version 0.3.9 released: now with internet connection detection (simple online/offline indicator) Added TOP100 lists for best uptime, most diskspace and more Added Kernel statistics. Added uptime information to machine public page Added some better formatting to uptime and to siz... Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:09:11 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#15

lico-update.sh version 0.3.9 released: now with internet connection detection (simple online/offline indicator)

Added TOP100 lists for best uptime, most diskspace and more

Added Kernel statistics.

Added uptime information to machine public page

Added some better formatting to uptime and to size informations (diskspace, etc)

Fixed that always an update is needed for lico-update.sh. The last mandatory update was 0.3.6, but the API always needed the latest version. This is now fixed. You now can use 0.3.6 of lico-update.sh again.

Fixed overwritten mailer infomation

Wromg country codes fixed

Fixed creation of new machines with lico-update.sh

Many other small bugfixes

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#14 Machines now have four new switches to set informations to not public. All links (except the ones for the script download) are now changed back to https. machines now has a new switch to set one machine to active/inactive. Only active machines will get count! ... Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:51:51 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#14

Machines now have four new switches to set informations to not public.

All links (except the ones for the script download) are now changed back to https.

machines now has a new switch to set one machine to active/inactive. Only active machines will get count!

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#13 You now can use OpenID to login to linuxcounter.net! Just enter your openID in your profile and then use this to login. ... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:05:07 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#13

You now can use OpenID to login to linuxcounter.net! Just enter your openID in your profile and then use this to login.

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#12 Many changes in this version. Too many to write them all down here. But here are the most important: The server environment has changed! We are now using nginx together with the varnish cache, php-fastcgi and the standalone server of trac. Actually the varnish cache is deactivated, because of som... Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:31:23 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#12

The server environment has changed! We are now using nginx together with the varnish cache, php-fastcgi and the standalone server of trac. Actually the varnish cache is deactivated, because of some configuration issues I still have to figure out. But the access and the responses are much faster than before with Apache.
This was initiated due to very high load on the server because of an article about our project on slashdot.org.

We now have a completly newly rewritten update script! This script now uses native bash and doesn't rely anymore on a mailserver. It now also detects the distribution and its version. And it also contains an update notifier if the version you have is too old.

Login process and session management completly rewritten. There was an error in the session management that has caused a new session on every click.

Added the display of online users record on bottom of the page.

Machine summary statistics finished.

Implemented much nicer bars for percentage display

Many, many other smaller changes and fixes in the background...

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#11 General, basic engine behind the new counter is finished. Now we are starting with the statistics. Statistics gets generated as XML files once each night. These xml files can be accessed from outside to display the statistics also on other sites. First page full of statistics finished: http://lin... Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:23:19 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#11

General, basic engine behind the new counter is finished. Now we are starting with the statistics. Statistics gets generated as XML files once each night. These xml files can be accessed from outside to display the statistics also on other sites.

First page full of statistics finished: http://linuxcounter.net/short.html

All old, freezed accounts from the old database now were also imported into the new database. They also have the status "freezed".

If a frozen account logs in, then the account gets automatically re-activated and counted.

The whole page is again available with http:// only. Only the login, the registration and the personal profile are ssl encrypted.

Display of users online implemented in bottom of the page

Extra page implemented with help for the machine-update script: http://linuxcounter.net/script.html

All fon-sizes now are relative (em)

Many other bugs and enhancements fixed: http://trac.linuxcounter.net/query?status=closed&max=99999&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=time&report=11&desc=1&order=id

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#10 Added public pages for user and machines Added the very first, general statistics changed extension of certificate image from .html to .png machine-update 0.32: Script will not die when no mailer found. Instead it prints the output for manual sending. ... Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:43:11 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#10

Added public pages for user and machines

Added the very first, general statistics

changed extension of certificate image from .html to .png

machine-update 0.32: Script will not die when no mailer found. Instead it prints the output for manual sending.

]]> https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#9 Implemented and added the certificate image generator. Implemented the machine-update engine, machine-update script and a new email address as the target for the machine-update script. Added many additional information to the machines like swapspace, free memory, free diskspace and more. ... Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:58:51 +0000 https://linuxcounter.net/changelog.html#9

Implemented and added the certificate image generator.

Implemented the machine-update engine, machine-update script and a new email address as the target for the machine-update script.

Added many additional information to the machines like swapspace, free memory, free diskspace and more.

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