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Another forum change.

PunBB sucked.

Replaced. Reregister. If you have pending issues, repost them. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it was hard enough for me to manage the entire project... a crappy forum added to the difficulty.

An update... OMG!

How's everyone doing? Good? Great. I'm glad to hear it.

I haven't mentioned a damn thing in this place for a long time.

You might ask yourself, why is that?

I haven't had time really. But fear not... the project is not dead!

A couple updates...

First, I have created an actual development site where I am hoping to allow everyone to view updates and progress appropriately. You can find it...

Here

Second, I"m visiting the forums again and noticing a crapload of spam. I apologize. I haven't seen them in a long time.

You might ask... whats the point of the forums then?

Unfortunately up until now I have only had one other person helping me. Radar. That one other person has done his best to keep up with it, but both of us have lives, I have rent, and we both have Jobs. These things came in front of the project heavily, and unfortunately that set us back in getting you, the users, taken care of.

Fortunately, I have friends... I know, weird right? I have aquiest the help of my friend jackyyll to assist with development as well as administration of WSI. He has already begun work (and made great progress) on a new, very easy to use, customize page that will no longer require the annoying coordinates form that you have now.

If you are in dire need of support, PLEASE use the IRC server. I am on there ALL the time. I might not respond, but leave me a message with your email address and the issue you are experiencing. I have three usernames... AgentGreasy, JediMastah and OffbeatAdam. If not, you are MORE than welcome to email me at my gmail account:

zen.tsunami.x

If you don't know how to finish the address (add @gmail.com to the end of it duh) you're dumb. But I did that on purpose to make it so easy for spammers.

The trac page I set up is still mildly under construction. I will have it open 100% soon, once I get everything set up and configured, however you are welcome to browse the wiki and see any currently open milestones that I have. I am adding more as I come up with crafty names for them, however be prepared for a little time because I am doing a 100% complete rewrite of the entire system, to add extensibility to it for other features and requests.

Thanks for your time,

OffbeatAdam/AgentGreasy/Adam

Forums Notice

I apologize for not noticing this sooner (my apologize 54 users that registered >.<). I messed up the mail settings on the forums, and they were not sending auth mails properly. My bad... I deleted all users. Please re register and you will get your email properly now! Sorry!

Forums Back!!!!!

I have resurrected our forums, the forum link on the side now works. The Forums and you can now use it for obtaining support. Thanks for your patience with this guys. Feel free to use it at any time!

Changes 5-13-2007

Hello everyone! Some changes have occurred on this fine mothers day:

• Fully moved over to new update system and image callback system
• Fully moved over to new server:
• Xeon 5130 Server with 2GB Ram
• 2 250GB drives (1 for backup)
• 1GB Nic
• 2000GB bandwidth.

The move is completely finished, and if you are seeing this page... this means you've caught the DNS change to. I've reduced update time from 38seconds to 28seconds, as well as total resource usage from ~200mb to 80mb. On top of this, I've fixed a number of image updating issues. All in all, every thing should be working "better!"

Just a reminder: We do have an IRC channel, and although lately I have been AFK in it, if you ever run into any problems you can leave me a message on there and I will gladly get back to you. I am also working on a complete update to the frontend now, including changes to the login system, registration system, and customization - as well as the ability to force your own signature update. More on this later.

IRC Server Info

• Server: irc.x-zen.cx
• Channel: #wsi
• My Username: OffbeatAdam most of the time. Sometimes AgentGreasy. Sometimes JediMastah. It varies.

Just so you know, the irc server is mine and is run on the same server as pulse.offbeat-zero.net. You are welcome to use it and create a channel for your own usage, however keep in mind that it is mine and well, there are rules.

- Thanks, Adam/AgentGreasy/OffbeatAdam

What is WhatPulse?

Direct from Whatpulse.org Sure we have a fancy website, loads of stats and lotsa users, but many people still wonder what WhatPulse exactly is. This page tries to explain a bit more about what it is, a simple keycounter.

The purpose of WhatPulse is simply to collect statistics about your computer behavior. Some people (Like me) use it to determine how long they've worked on something, like a programming project, a school essay, chatting by all means.

How does it work?

WhatPulse opens a so-called "keyhook" when it's booted, which listens to incoming Windows messages about the keyboard, the keyhook sends these messages to the program itself, and the program first determines if the key pressed is a proper key (Every standard keyboards' keys are counted) and then simply does PreviousKeyCount + 1.

Pulsing: When you "pulse", you're actually sending your keycounts in the program to the server along with other information about your Account, so the server can decide where to put the keycount. If the pulse goes according to plan, the server sends back an "OK", and the client's keycount is reset to 0 (zero), and your previous keys are added to your profile in the server database! :)

And for all you people who are thinking "oeh mi god a keylogger, no way!", well, exactly, No way. WhatPulse is not and never will be any sort of keylogger, it does not collect the keys you type, but only how many keys you type. (see our privacy policy)

WSI?

WSI stands for WhatPulse Signature Images and is just that; signature images generated for WhatPulse. The way the images are generated is when you send a pulse to the WhatPulse server it counts the number of keys and stores it away in a database. Then a big XML file is generated and we grab that directly from the WhatPulse server. Then we parse this 17MB+ (plain-text) XML file into the signature images like the one shown at the top of this box.

We're open to suggestions on improving the system, and we always love it when people submit bug reports on the forums.

On the menu bar on the left you may be wondering what the two letters mean next to the dates. In order they are:

Last Update
Time Now
Next Update