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Just to let you know. These days we also had been hit by some DDoS  attacks.
We are also checking what else can we do.

Well, the issue that we have had has been ddos for quite a while and ongoing for several month back and forth and just recently we've been dealing with a lot of SYN flooding and as well recently with massive amount of HTTP flooding as well once we cut of the SYN flooding. So having 2k - 5k users online on the forum was really to slow the server and then dump in loads of SYN ack requests... does the trick.

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netstat -s | grep -i syn
    202740 SYN cookies sent
    433510 SYN cookies received
    262994 invalid SYN cookies received
    228178 resets received for embryonic SYN_RECV sockets
    53117722 SYNs to LISTEN sockets dropped
    TCPSYNChallenge: 172
    TCPSynRetrans: 3398945
    TCPACKSkippedSynRecv: 4699
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by Rich Walsh on Today at 12:23:23 am »
To me, this is the result of being stuck in the 90's.

Way back when you could set up a home-brew server and provide acceptable service to all your users on dial-up. But *25* years later home-brew usually means lousy transfer rates and unreliable service. For a fraction of the cost Nathan was paying, he could have used a hosting service and eliminated these problems. For example, the company I use (hostway.com) offers Linux hosting with unlimited storage, unmetered bandwidth, an SSL certificate, and more for $35/mo. At that price, who needs this rinky-dink stuff?
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I'm using SM 2.42.9, which is at the same level as FF45
In that case, I prefer to not update the script yet.

Martin, another issue is that smf 2.0.19 also have issues with newer version of php 8.x so sooner or later we need to bite the bullet and we're currently on 8.4 so it's just matter of time before smf 2.0.19 breaks totally.
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Long story short is that the old server is currently being phased out and it's been running 24/7 since 2012 and it's time to retire it and it's starting to show significant signs of hardware issues. Also, the OS is steady patchworks over the years as well and isn't helping. We've moved the forum into it's on sub-domain running currently in it's own vps annd later on this week we'll be moving both the full main site including the wiki and as well os2games site.
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by khadmin on Today at 12:09:36 am »
I like TinyFileManager, but it does not has support to include metadata, like in our case "Short Description, Long description, etc.".  I think it we will need a developer with PHP skill, it we want to adapt this script to became something similar to Hobbes.

If Nathan can share the meta db data it's then easy to convert it to something else and as mentioned Martin it's easier and quicker just to make something better that is built for the purpose than tinkering around with TFM.

//Kim
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Virtualization / Virtualbox Question
« Last post by David Kiley on March 23, 2026, 11:41:06 pm »
When I run other operating systems in virtualbox (such as windows vista), i'm able to use the whole screen space so my whole virtualbox window, no matter how I resize it, shows the whole OS in the window. If I drag the window wider, for example, it adjusts the desktop resolution to match it.

In ArcaOS though, I can only set the resolution fixed with the screen utility, and it leaves space around the virtualbox window.
See the image screenshot attached.
Unfortunately on 800x600 shows up fully on my laptop screen. Anything higher causes a scroll bar to appear.

Is it just a limitation of the arcaos additions, or am I missing something?
 
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 22, 2026, 07:40:45 pm »
Hello

We need to come up with a solution between OS2World and OS2Site.

I like TinyFileManager, but it does not has support to include metadata, like in our case "Short Description, Long description, etc.".  I think it we will need a developer with PHP skill, it we want to adapt this script to became something similar to Hobbes.

The mirrors are still up, but those are not the latest version.
- https://us01.hobbesarchive.com/pub/index.php?p=
- https://de01.hobbesarchive.com/pub/index.php?p=
- https://uk01.hobbesarchive.com/pub/index.php?p=

I'm asking Nathan in case we can get a latest full backup.

Regards
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 22, 2026, 05:48:09 pm »
It's Bots, perhaps IA bots harvesting data. Same problem here. It's going to kill the internet for all but the largest companies. Perhaps that's the plan as the internet started out too democratic what with anyone being able to throw up a server. Now it seems if you don't use cloudflare or similar, you get flattened.
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Article Discussions / Re: Adding an extra thing to the ArcaOS strategy ?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 22, 2026, 05:43:59 pm »
No access to the closed code. They do have permission to do binary patches, which is how they've patched the kernel and such.
Note that the patched binaries have to be distributed with ArcaOS, not separately.
Personally, I wonder if IBM still knows where the latest source is. Rumor also says the PowerPC OS/2 source is lost, which is a shame as that would have been the best to open source, pure C code.
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General Discussion / Re: Hobbesarchive gone
« Last post by Kim on March 22, 2026, 11:33:13 am »
Must be a lot of mirroring going on if it runs up 8TB traffic per month - if we assume that the entire site is around 30GB that would be around 8-9 full site mirrors per day.
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