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Monthly Tutorial Competition Prizes

joebert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:44:29 -0700

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As further incentive for him to keep up with this stuff, I took his wallet while we were taping him up and told him Im going to start giving stuff away as long as hes up there.

Bigwebmaster mentioned something about monthly competitions for the Tutorial Writers Group (open group BTW, anyone can apply to join) before this all happened, so thats probably a good place to start considering its where Ill likely get into the least trouble for giving his stuff away.

If Ozzu started doing a monthly competition for Tutorial Writers what kind of prizes should there be ?

I heard someone blurt out $50 cash, another suggestion was Ozzu gear such as T-shirts and coffee mugs.
Someone mentioned a selection of Gift Certificates from various online retailers, I was quite partial to ThinkGeek GCs myself so I could fulfill my dream of opening a whole six-pack at once with hands full of Ring Things, then I remembered Im supposed to be giving this stuff to other people. I can think of one person who would love to get their hands on A Titanium Spork.

In any event, we need a sizable pool of things to pick from here people. ]]>

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Monthly Tutorial Competition Prizes

joebert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:44:29 -0700

New Ozzu Server

Bigwebmaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:31:12 -0700

If you notice any problems please let me know. See this thread for the original topic:

announcements-rules/new-ozzu-server-t92131.html]]>

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New Ozzu Server

Bigwebmaster — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:38:48 -0700

This server will have a faster processor, twice as much ram (from 2GB to 4GB), and slightly more hard drive space (using SAS too). Also it will come with RHEL5 vs RHEL4 that we are currently using.

Its not that Ozzu really needs it, but should help make things even better.]]>

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Automatic Bans for "Cookie Stuffing"

joebert — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:26:22 -0700

Cookie Stuffing is when someone includes an image or any other type of multimedia in a post that doesnt point to an actual image or media, but instead points to an affiliate link.
The reason it points to an affiliate link is the image or media when rendered in the browser will attempt to fetch an image or media from the affiliate link but instead of getting an image or media back, the browser is getting affiliate cookies and data that is otherwise useless to the browser as far as that image or media is concerned.

Anyone who looks at a post with this image/media placed in it will be considered a "referral" for the person who made the post, at the place the affiliate link points to. Even though the person who is looking at the post is never actually going to the affiliate page.

Cookie Stuffers rely on browsers either rendering nothing at all when they discover theres actually no image or media at the address, or that people viewing the post will simply ignore the normal "Missing Image" icon that some browsers display when theres no valid image or media at the specified address.
In some browsers this "Missing Image" icon tends to be a Red X, in other browsers it may just be a small square with the word "Image" in it.

Its important that everyone is aware there are no security concerns for anyone browsing Ozzu because of Cookie Stuffing. Privacy concerns for it are no different than they are for viewing any other image or media in a post.
The people affected by Cookie Stuffing are Companies who compensate affiliates for referrals and Affiliates who send genuine referrals to companies.

Now with what Cookie Stuffing is and who it effects out of the way, I can get to the point.

Anyone caught Cookie Stuffing at Ozzu will have their affiliate link reported to the company the affiliate link points to so that the company can investigate the affiliate on their own.
There is no excuse for Cookie Stuffing, therefore those caught doing it at Ozzu will be banned without warning. As with any ban You can contact any Administrator or Super Moderator to appeal the ban, but chances are your excuse isnt going to be considered valid.

If you see a suspicious image in a post, feel free to copy the address/affiliate-link the image points to, then report that post by clicking the red exclamation mark in the top-right corner of that post right by where the quote post button is. Include the address/affiliate-link in your report.]]>

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New Forum: Marketplace

Bigwebmaster — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:16:09 -0700

http://www.ozzu.com/marketplace/

This area is the area where you can advertise your products and services, request for paid help, offer your paid services to others, setup trades/bartering for work you need done, and much more. I have also moved the Jobs Opportunity forum under that forum as a sub forum. As this area fills up there will be additional sub forums to try and organize everything.

Only one thread per product / service.

Again this forum is considered to be in a test stage and as long as it doesnt get seriously abused it could be something helpful for members of the forum. We may introduce posting requirements as well in the future to help limit abuse. We will see how things go.

Any questions or comments are welcomed in this thread. I know there have been many requests in the past for a forum such as this, so we will see how things go.]]>

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New Ozzu Homepage

Bigwebmaster — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:42:00 -0700

We have redone our RSS feeds page slightly and have added a new RSS Feed for the headlines on Ozzu.

The "Who is Online" and "Statistics" area has new icons.

We have also changed the menus around slightly, the main menu is now on the right hand side (but that might not be completely permanent yet). Where the old main menu was is now a breadcrumbs/trail menu which shows where you currently are inside of Ozzu. This has been requested many times and I am pleased to announce I have finally implemented it. There are still a few bugs with it and I will be trying to resolve those soon.

There will also be a few more changes coming soon, but I will announce those later.]]>

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Main Ozzu Server currently down

Bigwebmaster — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:48:42 -0700

It sounds like this could be a short downtime period, but I will keep you updated.]]>

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Ozzu Downtime

Bigwebmaster — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:03:23 -0700

This caused a loss of power to all of the networking gear and servers. The fire marshall wouldnt allow the backup generators to come online and much of the wiring was destroyed anyhow. I am very pleased that the ozzu server was not destroyed in the explosion and now everything is back up and online as of about 1 PM PDT today.

All I can say is it has been a very frustrating weekend and I am glad everything is back online. I think I might be taking a few days off soon.]]>

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New Profile Fields

Bigwebmaster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:34:36 -0700

Favorite Browser
Favorite Software
Favorite Quote
Favorite Books
Favorite Movies
Favorite TV Shows
Favorite Songs

You can edit your profile here: http://www.ozzu.com/ucp.php?i=164

If you think I should add any other profile fields please feel free to post what you think I should add in this thread.]]>

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