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**Head Guru** · January 15, 2004

Many have asked about the nifty little offline/online graphics that each guru has in their signature line.

There is a custom bit of software that we have installed on a dedicated server and are now offering it to all our clients to use for free.

If you would like to use the offline/online in your sig line, your web pages or whatever please feel free to do so. We did not code the software, its GNU freeware, we are simply providing the server on which it runs.

To use this you need to go to;

http://www.tchstatus.com:8080

And follow the simple instructions.

Enjoy!

**DarqFlare** · January 15, 2004

Thanks HG! You rock!

**KevinW** · January 15, 2004

I've tried adding the generated code from the site to my sig line, but I keep getting an error message that it doesn't like the format of the code.

**KevinW** · January 15, 2004

Never mind ... I finally figured it out ... but it wasn't intuitive!

;-)

kw

**davejenbarnes** · January 15, 2004

Never mind ... I finally figured it out ... but it wasn't intuitive!
;-)

kw

Could you let some of us who're getting the same problem how you fixed it?

Would much appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jennifer

**Head Guru** · January 15, 2004

My sig looks like this

tchgurubill

**davejenbarnes** · January 15, 2004

Wow, thanks Head Guru Bill! This is a test. I think. I AM online on my AIM account, but I don't know if it will work!

Jennifer

Huh, it says I'm offline.

Ok, that was a Privacy issue in my iChat... just selected to make my privacy level allow anyone. Whew, thanks for the help!

Rock Sign

Edited January 15, 2004 by davejenbarnes

**ejh** · January 15, 2004

This is cool! Thanks Head Guru!! Rock Sign

**Deverill** · January 15, 2004

As Jennifer said, sorta, you have to set your IM settings to allow anyone to see that you are online. If you only let your buddies see your status then the little program can't see that you are online.

**ejh** · January 15, 2004

Thanks Jim! Just so other guys know... you have to disable your block list... it has to be set to let anyone who wants IM me (as opposed to anyone except those on the block list!)

**boxturt** · January 15, 2004

Thank you Bill This is pretty cool!

**TCH-Thomas** · January 15, 2004

Thanks Bill

Just one question. Will this work with Msn too?

-Thomas

**TCH-Thomas** · January 15, 2004

Update to my previous question. I found a service to use for this. But will TCh offer this service to use for MSN, since 1) I found that the other services msn button looks like !""#&!" and 2) i figure it will go faster if all icons are from same server?

-Thomas

Edited January 15, 2004 by Tonsa

**arvind** · January 17, 2004

just getting a blank page when I click the link !

**TCH-Thomas** · January 17, 2004

It just worked for me.

**Lianna** · January 17, 2004

Worked for me too Arvind.

**arvind** · January 17, 2004

for me it says it loading there after a really long time it says page cannot be displayed ? I wonder what's wrong ?

**arvind** · January 17, 2004

when I tried it mozilla it says two things first time I tried it connection refused second time request timed out !

**Lianna** · January 17, 2004

Arvind, sounds like you might have a firewall blocking port 8080.

Open that port in your firewall software.

**arvind** · January 21, 2004

i have already done that and even disabled my firewall to no avail !

**TCH-Bruce** · January 21, 2004

You need to change the "[" and "]" brackets to "" in the generated code for it to work.

Hope that helps. :lol:

**Head Guru** · January 28, 2004

Per a suggestion we have now added MSN

Naughty

**TCH-Thomas** · January 28, 2004

Thanks Bill :blink:

Another reason why Rock Sign

-Thomas (formerly known as Tonsa)

**arvind** · January 28, 2004

finally got this site working. Lol the funny thing is I'd already implemented this into my site before I found this thread out now I've got an online status indicator straight from the stable resources of TCH !

**vendlus** · January 28, 2004

Nice. Thumbs Up

**arvind** · January 29, 2004

I've put these indicators on my blog and it displays fine ie IE but in Mozilla they are just text links. How does one fix that ?

EDIT: Sorry hadn't added the proxy change to mozilla. Plz ignore this post.

**ThumpAZ** · January 30, 2004

As Jennifer said, sorta, you have to set your IM settings to allow anyone to see that you are online. If you only let your buddies see your status then the little program can't see that you are online.

Well, that kinda makes it a grrr (frustrating, not angry) situation... If you have folks on your ignore list, then you are disabling that list as you can ONLY have it set to allow EVERYONE to see you.

Oh well... trade offs are a part of life

**stevevan** · January 30, 2004

Curious if anyone knows why the aim icon would be working just fine, but yahoo isn't. Entries are identical except for "ymsgr:sendIM" and related image (<IMG SRC="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/yahoo/username_here">.

It's nothing I can't live without, but I was just wondering.

**TCH-Thomas** · January 30, 2004

ThumpAZ made a similar post/reply in

this thread.

**stevevan** · January 30, 2004

'k, Thx. Like I said, it's nothing that's gonna cause me to lose sleep over!

**arvind** · January 31, 2004

what's happened to the msn bit ? My icon isn't working and when I try it from the 8080 site I just get a broken image ?

**arvind** · February 3, 2004

What does the onerror part of the html code do it isn't validating with xhtml 1.0 transitional. My MSN onerror bit is fine but for some reason yahoo's wont so I'm wondering whether it is essential or can I remove it ?

**arvind** · March 8, 2004

How does one set this up on your own domain. TCH's one is down and causes problems for me on my site so I wanna set mine up so that I know it will always be online ! Could I have help setting it up please ?

**TCH-Dick** · March 8, 2004

That server isnt down

**wbragg17** · March 9, 2004

I have only been with TCH for the past week or so, but i can honestly say that it has been one of my best decisions. Thanx again.

Well that didn't exactly work the first time!

Thanks once again.

Edited March 9, 2004 by wbragg17

**section31** · April 8, 2004

a lil late...But thanks.

Rock Sign

**section31** · April 19, 2004

any chance that server is loaded...i'm getting broken images and sometimes an incorrect status. Its either that, or the server thats on has some packet loss coming towards my isp...i wouldn't doubt it...my isp is p00p. Just started happening in the past few days.

**Head Guru** · April 19, 2004

We are aware of the load issues on the status server.

I have another server up and ready to take over, I just have not found the time to move the data to the new server.

I will "try" to get that done today/tonight.

Bill

**Alan** · April 19, 2004

Just whenever you get time Bill, We aint in a rush.

Better get some sleep if your planning on doing it tonight lol.

You gonna be got a sleeping disorder like I have (NetAddict), and get where you can't fall asleep.

Ty for letting us know though.

**TCH-Don** · April 19, 2004

LOL

even when I try to sleep, I start coding in my head

**TCH-Bruce** · April 19, 2004

LOL
even when I try to sleep, I start coding in my head

I've always had that probem.

**Alan** · April 19, 2004

I just have the problem where when I lay down looking at my computer screen it is like a magnet.

I might have fly DNA in me, Would explain my attraction to the blue light from the monitor LoL!

**TCH-Thomas** · April 19, 2004

even when I try to sleep, I start coding in my head

Yiipiiee, theres hope for me... I may think of what to do next days on my projects, but never the coding itself.

**TCH-Bruce** · April 19, 2004

I just have the problem where when I lay down looking at my computer screen it is like a magnet.

Maybe moving the computer to another room may help! :lol:

**TCH-Thomas** · April 19, 2004

lol Bruce :lol:

**section31** · April 20, 2004

thanks for the update.

**Alan** · April 20, 2004

Maybe moving the computer to another room may help!

Great Idea, but then I would not be able to have no fun on the PC, My Parents would be able to see everything.

No More Yahoo! Chatrooms after 12:00 at night

LOL!

**Head Guru** · April 21, 2004

OK folks.

I have completed the move to the new server.

The online status should be fully working now.

If not let me know.

Bill

**TCH-Thomas** · April 21, 2004

Thanks Bill.

Msn works great but not yahoo though (it shows me as offline, which im not).

Edited April 21, 2004 by Jikrantz

**Head Guru** · April 21, 2004

Fixed?

**TCH-Thomas** · April 21, 2004

Yep. Thank you

**section31** · April 21, 2004

much better...thanks bill... Rock Sign Thumbs Up

**Head Guru** · April 21, 2004

zalright

**Head Guru** · April 21, 2004

The forums are loading much faster now.

Go new server go!

**Alan** · April 21, 2004

Yahoo looks like it is fixed, I see everyone who is on right now as Online.

**MikeJ** · April 21, 2004

Some of it I think is yahoo itself. Since Online Status still has to connect to the IM providers to get the actual status, it is still problematic if the service is.

My status icons are using a script I've been writing (experimenting with improving the responses) and I've noticed that the last several days Yahoo has been very inconsistant with responding to queries and thus had similar problems as the tchstatus service... one of the reasons I have now added status caching in my script ... if there's a 2 minute lag in what my status shows, that's worth it to have instant responses to displaying the images... in most cases... still have to work out a couple things, like the attempts to update the cache can still take some time if the respective IM service is not responding well).

**whoahorse** · April 21, 2004

Testing...

**TCH-Thomas** · April 22, 2004

Im sorry Bill, but i think i found a problem. My yahoo-indicator shows me as online, which im not right now.

**section31** · April 22, 2004

interesting...my first guess was that you logged off iimproperly...so i tested it out myself...and I believe you are right...something is wrong...more than likely probably yahoo...but we'll let bill answer that.

**Head Guru** · April 22, 2004

Im sorry Bill, but i think i found a problem. My yahoo-indicator shows me as online, which im not right now.

I think I might have had the cache settings tweaked up to high on the server.

Please test now and let me know.

Bill

**section31** · April 22, 2004

I did a quick test and i believe its working better now.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 22, 2004

Works :dance:

**whoahorse** · April 22, 2004

I can't get mine to work. I must be coding wrong...

:unsure:

Weezy

**TCH-Thomas** · April 22, 2004

I can't get mine to work

On website or here in forum?

**whoahorse** · April 22, 2004

I can't get mine to work

On website or here in forum?

In the forum...

Weezy

**TCH-Thomas** · April 22, 2004

I forgot to ask which im system before but here´s how i do in yahoo-signature for forum:

><A HREF="ymsgr:sendIM?yourusername"><IMG SRC="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/yahoo/yourusername"></a>

Dont forget to change "yourusername" :unsure:

Edited April 22, 2004 by Jikrantz

**whoahorse** · April 22, 2004

I forgot to ask which im system before but here´s how i do in yahoo-signature for forum:
><A HREF="ymsgr:sendIM?yourusername"><IMG SRC="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/yahoo/yourusername"></a>
Dont forget to change "yourusername"

I am trying to do MSN, it doesn't work. I better try yahoo.

LOL

**whoahorse** · April 22, 2004

It says I am offline. sigh... LOL

**TCH-Thomas** · April 22, 2004

Yup, same here :lol:

**GroovyFish** · April 22, 2004

Did you take a look at what TCH-Jim said a while back? Make sure your settings are correct. :lol:

As Jennifer said, sorta, you have to set your IM settings to allow anyone to see that you are online. If you only let your buddies see your status then the little program can't see that you are online.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 24, 2004

The last days discussions about MSN-indicator showing "offline" (when we know we are online) on the sites and in forum seems to be a non TCH issue. I have tried a few other providers in the last days, but it still shows "offline".

**whoahorse** · April 25, 2004

Mine are working great... thanks for the code help!

Weezy :blink:

**TCH-Thomas** · May 29, 2004

Any problems with MSN status icons again?

**TCH-Thomas** · June 4, 2004

Dont mean to nag, but can someone please please please have a look if Msn icons works?

**DCS** · June 6, 2004

I have a problem with my MSN icon, but all my other ones work (AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ).

**TCH-Dick** · June 6, 2004

Check your Privacy settings. Make sure All other users is in your Allow list.

**TCH-Thomas** · June 6, 2004

Check your Privacy settings. Make sure All other users is in your Allow list.

Ive done that. Still problem for me. Last time this happened i think Bill said it was a cache problem from TCH side.

**TCH-Dick** · June 6, 2004

With MSN you can also try to use your full address instead of just the userid.

**TCH-Thomas** · June 6, 2004

I thought we did have to use full adress so that is what i use anyway, will try without @hotmail.com.

**guita01** · June 11, 2004

You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board. A valid format is: http://www.domain.com/picture.gif, an invalid format is: http://www.domain.com/picture.one.gif

**TCH-Thomas** · July 5, 2004

I think the solution why MSN icons isnt working is found.

According to http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=343 Microsoft have begun to block OSI hosts.

Edited July 5, 2004 by Jikrantz

**MoonFaery** · July 28, 2004

Thank you Bill!!!

Rock Sign

woooot

**naughtykiss** · September 8, 2004

I think the solution why MSN icons isnt working is found.
According to http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=343 Microsoft have begun to block OSI hosts.

which suggests this won't work with MSN after all then?

**section31** · October 31, 2004

this server goes down quite often doesn't it?

**TCH-Dick** · October 31, 2004

I don't think so.

http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/ is not currently working.

But the actual server is up

http://www.tchstatus.com/

This might have something to do with the work being done on the new site.

**TCH-Thomas** · October 31, 2004

Section31, do you mean that you show as offline often (if so which medium?) or that no indicator shows up at all often?

Edited October 31, 2004 by TCH-Thomas

**section31** · November 2, 2004

I don't think so.

http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/ is not currently working.

But the actual server is up

http://www.tchstatus.com/

This might have something to do with the work being done on the new site.

I'm talking about the Online Status Indicator service... Its been going down frequently the past few weeks.

**Head Guru** · November 2, 2004

I have been fighting with the firewall rule set on that server, thus this is the reason it has been problematic. It should be fully working now.

Bill

**abinidi** · March 30, 2005

My sig looks like this

<A HREF="aim:goim?screenname=tchgurubill">

<IMG SRC="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/aim/tchgurubill"

<A HREF="ymsgr:sendIM?tchgurubill"><IMG SRC="http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/yahoo/tchgurubill">

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why doesn't it work if you put the closing bracked on the IMG tag? That is kind of weird...

**TCH-Tim** · March 31, 2005

Why doesn't it work if you put the closing bracked on the IMG tag? That is kind of weird...

Mine has a closing bracket. Could have been a typo.

**pompey_john** · May 24, 2005

two quick questions

1. how do I set up the skype indicator?

2. how do I get the icons to display across under my sig, instead of down?

thanks

**TCH-Bruce** · May 24, 2005

1.) http://www.skype.com/community/skypemebuttons.html

2.) Remove the carraige return between the code for the indicators. Put them all on the same line.

**pompey_john** · May 25, 2005

1.) http://www.skype.com/community/skypemebuttons.html

2.) Remove the carraige return between the code for the indicators. Put them all on the same line.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

awesome thanks

**DWD** · January 12, 2006

From what I can gather on my site and from the red-x's in this post, this (much appreciated) service is down.

Any word on when it will be back up?

**Head Guru** · January 12, 2006

Working on it now.

(Internal server upgrade)

Updates soon....

**Head Guru** · January 12, 2006

This should be corrected now.

Sorry for the issue, 3rd party software and I are not getting along today.

**DWD** · January 12, 2006

Response time by the Head Guru...3 minutes.

Problem resolution...12 minutes.

Hosting with TCH...priceless!

Edited January 12, 2006 by DWD

**DWD** · January 14, 2006

Hmmm...seems to be down again.

**Head Guru** · January 14, 2006

Loading fine from here.

**DWD** · January 15, 2006

Yep, working now.

Unrelated, strange forum glitch: I couldn't see your post until I now (when I go to add a reply). I saw from outside the thread that you had posted but, inside the thread, my post was the last post. I tried reloading and even deleted everything from my internet cache and still had the problem. I think I've seen this before, as I anticipate the post I'm writing will be the first up on the second page of posts...just a guess at this point.

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