Topic: Messages from the Administrator

Another interesting year is in store for 2008 with some great conferences in acoustics in vibrations around the globe. For a list of conferences, see the Calendar for 2008 Conferences.

This web site was hacked again recently. It appears that someone did some sql injections into the forums. I've shutdown the forums as they were not widely used. I've also changed the hosting of the web site. Let me know if you spot any problems.

After another hacker defaced noiseboard.com, I have upgraded the entire site over the past week. If you find that something is not working, please let me know. The upgrade of the forum from XForum to PNphpBB2 was difficult, but hopefully it should all work.

I've added some new links, new books, I am just about to upload some new Matlab code and the scripts used to convert XForum to PNphpBB2 (pncXF2BB2).

Enjoy!

Unfortunately this web site was hacked. I really wonder about the psyche of people out to destroy rather than create. Hopefully bad karma will catch up with them.

This web site noiseboard.com was unexpectedly unavailable, as the web hosts were upgrading their servers. Everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

It has been one year since noiseboard.com was started. There have been over 36,000 hits over the year. The tallys in the download section show that many people find the articles and papers useful. If you do find something useful, please don't hesitate to drop me a note (and no, your email or fake email address will not get onto a spam list.)

I am currently preparing a short article that compares the use of ANSYS for acoustic analyses using a P4 computer, with and without the Hyperthreading, under windows and Linux, using version 7 and an older version. The first results show that there is little difference between HT and not HT, but a big difference between an older version and V7.0.

I've added a Classifieds section that contains job adverts that I have seen, or people have sent in. There are also For Sale and Wanted sections. If you want to sell anything related to acoustics or vibration, or have a job offer, you are welcome to put a notice here for free.

The hit counts per month on noiseboard.com continues to rise. For the month of April we received 6299 hits (see that stats page). I am glad to see that people are making use of this resource. If you wish to contribute anything, or would like to see something on here, please write to me.

We had over 5000 hits in January! Check out the stats page. I am sure that many of the hits were from search engines crawling through the site.

If you have any news or requests, please feel free to send me feedback so that I can continue to improve this site.

You may have noticed the lack of news articles for the past couple of weeks. I have moved half way around the planet, and hence have not been available. All should be back to normal in the next couple of days.

There are often new additions to this web site, apart from the news items on the front page. I have added a link What's New that is accessed from the menus under Departments.

There hasn't been news to report recently, so you haven't seen many new articles on the web site. There have been many new additions to the web site such as conference listings and a couple more files to download.

I am extremely happy that the number of hits to noiseboard.com has been steadily increasing. The stats page shows that for September there were 908 hits, and in October there were 1999 hits, more than double from the previous month! Thanks for your continued interest.

I've added a new topic called, "Did you know ..." where posts about interesting facts on acoustics and vibration are welcome.

Click here to read all the articles.

The conference pages have been altered so that they are now contained in a searchable database. Its called the "Junket Finder", just type in the location you'd like to visit, and all the conferences relating to acoustics and vibration will be displayed. There is also a "Calendar" link in the Main Menu, which will take you to the list of events.