On May 26, 2012 sites that fail to comply with the EU ePrivacy Directive disclosure requirements could be subject to fines up to £500,000.

These changes were outlined in the European Directive 2002/58/EC, primarily in article 5. What is more commonly termed "The Cookie Law" passed into force last year and requires website owners to provide upfront information about what information they are recording and obtain user consent.
All websites across the EU, regardless of where their servers are located, will have to adhere to these new privacy requirements. This includes EU citizens operating private websites, domains registered within the EU or domain names whose owners are EU citizens, business' who operate within the EU or any business that conducts business with with EU citizens.

 

Code Authors are pleased to announce they are Sponsoring a local music band called Silverchild for the indefinite future.
John Haywood webmaster at Code Authors said "Silverchild is a four piece Indie/Rock band based in the North West of the United Kingdom. We liked their music so much we acquired a domain and put a website together for them and their gowing fan base to use. The music industry is so hard to make headway in, we hope this small gesture will help unite their fan base into one focal point where they can help spread the word."
Please visit their site, listen to their music and leave your mark at Silverchild

Good morning to everyone!

I am pleased to announce Tuttosoft.it - the PHP Nuke Italian Community -is looking for multi-lingual forum moderators (English and Italian)  to help us out supporting our site users. Pleas contact through the Tuttosoft.it website if you are interested.
Many Thanks

Dreamhost, one of the interwebs most popular hosting providers has recently forced a password change on all it's users account due to possible unauthorised client data access.
Dreamhost's Twitter feed excerpt;

Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don't have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we're forcing a change out of caution. Please login to our web panel and change any passwords you may have with us. We'll keep this post updated as we get more information.

Update Jan 20th, 09:50pm PST: We're going to set this post to resolved. We have been sending out update emails to every account owner we have, letting them know what happened, and how to proceed from here on out. As a precaution, we advise every user to change all email passwords as well. We are not forcing this change, however, so make sure you take care of that ASAP. -Brian H

Update Jan 20th, 08:15pm PST: Forced updates to FTP/shell users should now be done. Any users that are locked out should update their passwords via the web panel. If you're still unable to get in, please let support know asap. -Brian H

Montego has just released his latest version of Approve Membership Lite V1.1.0.
Approve Membership Lite is just one of the great free software products available under the TegoNuke (tm) brand name available at MontegoScripts. This version is ONLY for use with RavenNuke 2.20.0 and will NOT work on any other version of RavenNuke or phpNuke or any other fork or derivative of nuke.
This is a special release only for user of RavenNuke 2.2.0 which was released a few days ago.

Here are just some of it's more important features;

• Allows an administrator to approve membership applications.
• The applicant's details are sent to a pendingusers table and a notification email is sent to the administrator.
• A list of pending applicants is displayed to the administrator, who can then delete or approve as he/she thinks fit.
• On approval, the normal email is sent to the applicant with or without the activation link.  - this means you can automatically activate the user without them having to click an activation link
• The option is available to add a customizable message to this email.
• The option is available to include the activation link or not.
• The option is available to send a follow up email to an applicant. This email text is also customizable.
• The option is available to send an email to a rejected applicant. This email text is also customizable.
• Administrators can pre-approve email addresses and email domains and configure the actions to be taken by the module for semi-automation.
• Superusers can assign admin rights to the Approve_Membership module and the Pre-Approved email addresses page.

We here at Code Authors have been using this for a while now and highly recommend it but please help sustain the development by donating on their site by donating if you use it.

PHPBB2 Forum BBCode Modification for RavenNuke™ v2.5, which expands the standard BBCode features to allow: audio/video embeds, text formatting/styling options, image/video positioning, dynamic twitter signatures, customizable color swatches, inline ajax help, forum search "tags", modal search functions for wikipedia and duckduckgo, as well as various other features.

Improved UI and CSS layout which can be customized per theme. Four sprite powered editor themes included in sand, light blue, crimson, and black; or build your own with a little CSS know-how and the included photoshop files. Several optional addons are included to further enhance your RavenNuke™ powered site; which allows you to add code highlighting, link icons, easy youtube videos, and/or hashtags.

After an easy installation, courtesy of a comprehensive, kickstart powered install guide, you may find yourself asking, "Who needs phpbb3?"

Find it at Tricked Out News and get previews or become a fan of the mod on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AdvancedBBCodeBoxForRavenNuke