If you have any questions or problems with the boards, or anything else, don’t hesitate to fill out the support form by clicking on the support button at the top of this page.

Part of the decision to move over to new software have been said anti-spam features, but the unsurpassed speed of the irc daemon plays a big role in this as well. Resource usage on our servers have gone down by a little as well, which only benefits the speed of the servers even more. If you’re interested, check out the list of features over on their wiki.

Next to moving ircd’s, we have also acquired a valid signed SSL certificate for ssl.oceanius.com so you don’t have to accept invalid certificates anymore. Simply connect to /server -ssl ssl.oceanius.com 6667 and you’ll be chatting via SSL in no time.

Utilizing QWebIRC, an up and coming open source project by QuakeNet, we are able to host our own Web Chat which doesn’t require the use of Java. This service is available without ads, like the comparable Mibbit service, at http://chat.oceanius.com. If you would like to pre-set the channel name of your choice, you can use http://chat.oceanius.com/?channels=name .. replacing name with your channel name. For example, if you wanted to connect to #lobby, access http://chat.oceanius.com/?channels=lobby . Feel free to link to this application via your website to attract new users to your channels!

We have also extended our support for the commercial Mibbit application, by enabling WEBIRC support. This enables Mibbit to pass the IP address you are connecting from to our IRC servers, so that users don’t show up with *@webchat.mibbit.com hostnames. This helps our channel and network operators fight abuse across the network, and we appreciate Mibbit’s assistance in getting this setup for Oceanius.

Enjoy!

Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR! =]

Inside the wordpress administration you will create a new xml file, this file can contain 1 or multiple map definitions. These definitions then get coordinates, and optionally you define a line between them.

Configuration example:

<locationmap>
    <map id="networkmap">
        <baseimage src="%pluginpath%/worldmap.png" />
        <plotimage src="%pluginpath%/location.png" />
        <font src="%pluginpath%/SEMPRG__.TTF" />
        <location id="hana" title="hana.oceanius.com" x="148" y="61" />
        <location id="wraith" title="wraith.oceanius.com" x="82" y="72" />
        <location id="kane" title="kane.oceanius.com" x="128" y="47" />
        <location id="adaro" title="adaro.oceanius.com" x="250" y="46" />
        <link from="adaro" to="hana" />
        <link from="wraith" to="hana" />
        <link from="kane" to="hana" />
    </map>
</locationmap>

This plugin includes the excellent pixel font: Semplice Regular by Style-force.net.

The latest version of this plugin is current version 1.0 which can be downloaded here. After downloading, extract the plugin to your wp-content/plugins folder and activate it in the administration panel.

See the readme for easy integration in your template or post contents.
Requirements: PHP5, GDlib, Wordpress >= 2.5 

Our demo map: