The mbot.org databank now hosts more than 1.000 unique 3Dmark01 and SuperPi results each. Yay. :)

This info would have been great if i'd added popular games too.

bot down?
http://madmark.madoka.be/ gives me blank page.

It has been down a few times last week, yes.

I've upped v1.3rc1. Just a few little, behind the scenes, bugfixes. Let's hope this one gives me less downtime.

botje seems down again?

Arg, damn host denies access to my logs, so I can't figure out what's going wrong. : / Only thing I can do atm is redeploy the application everytime it goes down. Darn.

-edit-
Working again... for now.

One week later and no more hick-ups. Phew. :)

Next release will include an easy feature & bugfix request form.

would it be possible to have the bot update the first page with all the scores from the fora instead of each fora seperately? Or would other forum members (or you) rather not do that.

What do you mean? The "world stats" section isn't sufficient?

Well, right now, I have to surft the different fora to get a better view of the scores. It would be much easier if I could just surf to the madshrimps thread and see the scores from everyone who submitted their score, be it on XS or shrimps or ...

Aah ok. Well, you should visit http://madmark.madoka.be, the site hosting the mbot engine.

It's a little bit short on features atm but I think the "browse results" and "browse mbots" section might interest you.

Did that already but browse mbot by category gives you the leading scores of all the teams and browse results will eather give you the scores of 1 person if you fill in a name or give you the top 10. Now the top 10 is great but I'm more interested in what everyone is scoring (and more in particular the Belgians :p)

Don't take this as criticism(?) it's just how i'd like the scores to show in the fora, that's all :)



:offtopic: btw madshrimps is cheating a bit cuz umekami10 (superpi) isn't really a forum member afaik ;)

Constructive critisicm is always welcome. ;)

The possibility to remove entries or block entries from the ranking is high on the todo list.

down again?

Yeah, and I think I finally found the problem. It's not the app itself, it's the MySQL database on the host which can't handle it. I can access all my tables fine, but the table holding the results doesn't respond. I can't drop it, I can't select from it, I can't delete any records... darn.

I'm placing the app on my own server. People won't be able to access the site, but al least the mbot threads would get updated.

:super:

what kind of crappy hosting is that btw? ;)

The engine is currently running on a private server. You won't be able to access the site, but the threads are now up to date. :)

Could you please update InsaneTek's bot for me? Since the site is down I can't update it manually like I've been doing. Do you have any idea when you will be able to get the site back up?

dedicated mbot server!
 

Hi Tech,

The 3Dmark01 and 03 thread on insanetek are up to date, SuperPi is not. I don't know why, can't see why it wouldn't update the first post.

On the brighter side, after a few months of downtime, the mbot now has a dedicated server. w00t!

Specs:
Athlon XP1700+ @ 2.0Ghz
Asus KT880, gigabit nic, dual channel, ...
512Mb DDR400

Bandwith is not too great, but it's a start:
1GB / month upload
192Kbps capped

The address is now http://213.224.90.80:7001/mbot/

Can someone give me some feedback on the speed? Is 192Kbps upload speed doable?

very good speed!
updated SuperPi & F@H with force and it went very fast

Works great. Thanks a lot! I <3 mbot.

Speed is great, but I wonder: how long are you gonna keep that IP?

Seems like keeping page size < 15Kb pays of. :)

It's a dynamic IP, but it almost never changes. My kotnet IP has never changed in three years. I don't know how frequently my Telenet IP changes, but I hope it stays the same too.

Kotnet is like one big network that is connected to the rest of the net via a central server. This is why your IP almost never changes.
Telenet hands out new IP's every 4-36 hours to keep their IP pool small.

my telenet IP changes every other year or so ;)

About as frequent as you shut down your computer? :p

Indeed; why is this a bad thing? ;)à

Dit the same thing with Actua in the early days (when it was hosted @ home).

That's why the forumengine still uses very few bandwidth :)


But since I added support for attachments, I hosted it | priorweb (already a year).


Recently I'm trying to run a ut2004 server for some gaming with friends, but my IP keeps changing several times a day :(


Anyway, going littel bit offtopic...

Kepp up the good work I'd say!

updated the mbot engine with a few small fixes and a usefull feature: the botlist now contains a link to the participating forum thread.

http://213.224.90.80:7001/mbot/listBots.do

mbot v1.4:

- added 3Dmark 2005
- added PiFast
- fixed VBB3 + superpi bug
- small fixes

http://213.224.90.80:7001/mbot/index.jsp

Howcome XS gets updatdated and madshrimps doesn't?

Joy joy, the bot has had another upgrade.

Bugs squashed:
- duplicate results removed
- next best bot ranking fixed
- accuracy of results improved to 2 digits after comma

Features:
- ability to block results for moderators (bot view page)

Huge update today!

Some really, really cool features added:
- add / remove / browse hardware online
http://www.hwbot.org/browseHardware.do
- automatic matching of hw to results (* admins only)
- look at average gpu/mem overclock of each hw item (!!)
eg. 6800 core average overclock:
http://www.hwbot.org/VideoCardModelBrowse.do?coreId=21
- support for pcmark04,05, superpi 3m, aquamark, ...

Full release notes:
http://www.hwbot.org/


Not all hardware has been added yet. Feel free to add missing cards / processors!

Guide for correct keyword use: "|" means or, "," means and. Or has higher priority.
eg. to match GeForce 1 DDR the keywords could be "gf1, ddr | geforce ddr" which means a result with the keywords ('gf1' and 'ddr') or 'geforce ddr' would be matched to the videocard.

when trying to add new videocard category

"I made a booboo due to crappy coding skills. Sorry... "

ATI | Radeon
ATI
1995-01

There's no, or little checks on fields left blank. If it's not that, it's probably something stupid i overlooked when putting it on the production server.

will check later tonight.

The forms for adding / editing hardware now have input validation. You should not encounter a bug anymore when adding hw.

I also redesigned the browse videocard screen. Looks userfriendly to me now. : )

111 bots, 24 teams, 6000+ results. hwbot is growing : )

did ya see my comment about the "faq"? :)

"Can I bots myself" ?

forgot about that. : )

renewed the front page. News is loaded on demand with ajax.

http://www.hwbot.org/

better or not? it doesn't show too well in IE. : /