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That's a neat idea.

This is going to be extremely useful when I start b/ping for that final badge, the Elite Guard Supreme Commander.

This is awesome, way to go dude. :)

It's a shame I hardly ever b/p anymore. I just deposit.

It's a shame the fucking program doesn't work anymore.

At 3/18/07 10:36 AM, Tommy wrote: Didn't Denvish make something similar to this a while back and got busted for it?

I hope the same doesn't happen to this.

Yeah, my BP Helper was 1½+ years ago, when the servers and database were much ropier than they are now. Also, the big difference is that mine tried to pull the NEXT PID page, and opened the new page if it didn't return an error - which according to liljim was unnecessarily taxing on the database, particularly if the bot was being used by a lot of people. Fortunately, mine had the disable code in at the start, so when James asked me to pull the plug, it was easy to do.

It was on my suggestion that Casualty has put in the code to do the same, and I also suggested that he contact the admins to make sure they're OK with people using this program - I'm sure there still may be issues with numerous users doing pulls on the portal page every X seconds. Since Casualty has put in the disable option, I'm going to leave the thread open for now, but it may well be that if he meets disapproval from the admin team, you'll find your copy of the bot disabled and this thread locked. We'll see.

I thought this was going to be a very witty text infomercial on a fictional product, but nay. Just the thing for me too, being a stat whore.

Fag faildows user trick

Cool, but extremely stat whorish. <3
Good job Casualty, the force is strong in you.

I like this idea, but I'd rather do it the hardcore olskool way and keep watch on the Portal by myself. Nothing against your product - seriously, it's awesome, but I don't feel it's completely necessary for myself.

Great job though, Casualty. This is sure to help many young statwhores on their way to the top rank.

Which reminds me, I wonder if Afro will be using this? :P

At 3/18/07 11:06 AM, Denvish wrote: It was on my suggestion that Casualty has put in the code to do the same, and I also suggested that he contact the admins to make sure they're OK with people using this program.

Good thinking, just in case Wade were to call the FBI.

Thats awsome

Sorry for the wrong order of responses, but I'm lazy and you know it.

At 3/18/07 11:47 AM, Tommy wrote:

At 3/18/07 11:06 AM, Denvish wrote: It was on my suggestion that Casualty has put in the code to do the same, and I also suggested that he contact the admins to make sure they're OK with people using this program.

Good thinking, just in case Wade were to call the FBI.

As I said, I did and I thank Denvish for noticing me.

At 3/18/07 11:45 AM, Platinum wrote: I like this idea, but I'd rather do it the hardcore olskool way and keep watch on the Portal by myself. Nothing against your product - seriously, it's awesome, but I don't feel it's completely necessary for myself.

Watching the Portal page... THAT'S OLKOOL MAN! Seriously, nothing beats those long nights with tea and cookies you spend B/Ping all the time.

Great job though, Casualty. This is sure to help many young statwhores on their way to the top rank.

Which reminds me, I wonder if Afro will be using this? :P

Hahaha, that's kinda kill us all. But hey, if he wants to...

At 3/18/07 11:35 AM, MetalDart wrote: Cool, but extremely stat whorish. <3
Good job Casualty, the force is strong in you.

Being a stat whore, I understand it and also <3

At 3/18/07 11:06 AM, Denvish wrote:

At 3/18/07 10:36 AM, Tommy wrote: Didn't Denvish make something similar to this a while back and got busted for it?

I hope the same doesn't happen to this.

It was on my suggestion that Casualty has put in the code to do the same, and I also suggested that he contact the admins to make sure they're OK with people using this program

And I thank you for that! I'm glad I can disable it in case it would hurt NG =P Thanks again.

At 3/18/07 10:57 AM, RupeeClock wrote: This is going to be extremely useful when I start b/ping for that final badge, the Elite Guard Supreme Commander.

This is awesome, way to go dude. :)

Thanks dude! Got any other good idea for another program, maybe? =P

At 3/18/07 10:55 AM, CuteAndFuzzy wrote: It would be leet if it had a built-in voting system in it :O

Really nice, but I'm not much of a portal whore. Helps though :)

Hahaha and something to sense if you have to vote high or low or what? Keep watching the movies for the movies people!

At 3/18/07 10:50 AM, LateckS wrote: Something tells me Dream-of-Duke is going to love you.

Good to know =P

At 3/18/07 10:34 AM, PinkBeer wrote: What does it guard against?

Uhh... It makes you a guard of the portal? =)

At 3/18/07 10:33 AM, Melior wrote: This raped my mum and gave me aids.

Yeah, I like doing that...

At 3/18/07 10:30 AM, peanutbutterclawk wrote: so this update in your screen would happen 200-300 times a day?

If you sit in front of your computer for 12 hours, it'd happen 2,880 times, so yeah, it probably would if you aren't on there the whole day =P But the notice only pops up if there are new entries, remember.

At 3/18/07 10:16 AM, Aksumka wrote: The only thing that I don't like about this is where the slider shows up. I think bottom right would be a better place. If I was the stat whore I was, then I would probably be using it non stop. But since I slowed down with the b/p, I don't really have a need for it. But I will keep it installed.

The thing is, I already have tons of notices sliding up on the bottom right: MSN, AIM, WinAmp, Gmail and GTalk. I kinda learned to ignore them, but that would be fatal with Portal Guard. Thanks for the the comments, anyway!

At 3/18/07 09:58 AM, Pog wrote: Vista compatible?

I have NO idea. But it probably is, and it's probably Win 98 compatible too.

At 3/18/07 09:53 AM, Depredation wrote: It says it's been discontinued :(.

Heh, that was a test to see if the blocking function would work...

At 3/18/07 08:45 AM, Idocreating wrote: Got it now, looks snazzy. What did you use to write the program? Looks like Visual Basic on crack.

100% Visual basic indeed =) That's about the only language I know for programs, anyway..

At 3/18/07 08:50 AM, deslona wrote:

Testimony

I am a Stat-Whore, I quit once but when I came back the addiction was too strong. I had to take it up again. And with the NGLogNGLog and now Portal Guard I was just overcome with the passion of staring at the screen for hours on end....

Thankyou Casualty!

Hahaha my plan is working fine! I created another lifeless thing and soon everyone on the planet will be sitting inside on Newgrounds, trying to get worthless points! *Maniacal laughter and other evil stuff*

At 3/18/07 09:55 AM, Fim wrote: Isn't this cheating?

Actually, it isn't. It's only a program "staring" at the portal page instead of you... It only makes it easier.

I've got it to work now, thanks :). There was a weird glitch...

...if i moved the window just after it started, no error message, if i don't, it comes up with the "discontinued" error. Anyway, maybe something to check out :).

Seems to be working perfectly, very handy tool, nice and simple, although i think a better window screen would boost it a little. It less than .1% of my CPU, so it doesn't lag or anything :).

Out of interest, what was it made in?

At 3/19/07 12:42 PM, Depredation wrote: I've got it to work now, thanks :). There was a weird glitch...

...if i moved the window just after it started, no error message, if i don't, it comes up with the "discontinued" error. Anyway, maybe something to check out :).

Hmmm, that can't be the cause... Maybe it's just over now.

Seems to be working perfectly, very handy tool, nice and simple, although i think a better window screen would boost it a little. It less than .1% of my CPU, so it doesn't lag or anything :).

What do you mean, a better screen? What do you think I could add?

Out of interest, what was it made in?

Visual Basic 6.

At 3/18/07 10:33 AM, Odyssic wrote:

:This would be good for something like Clock day or something.

Or the next supposed 4Chan raid.

BRILLIANT!!!

This isn't... real... is it?

=S strange, strange world

At 3/19/07 12:56 PM, Casualty wrote:

...if i moved the window just after it started, no error message, if i don't, it comes up with the "discontinued" error. Anyway, maybe something to check out :).

Hmmm, that can't be the cause... Maybe it's just over now.

Now it's doing it to me.

At 3/19/07 01:45 PM, Grammer wrote: Now it's doing it to me.

Hmm, that's really weird. Normally, that error should only appear when NG Log is down...

Sweet, I cannot wait to get b/p points more effectively. I hope that the program can help me to get into the top 50 as soon as possible.

Here's a bug I found: when your IP address changes while the program's running, it will silently stop working (i.e., stop checking the portal) until you manually click on the "Check the Portal" button once (after that, it will work on its own again).

It's working now, but I need to open the program like three times before it starts working.

But yeah, it's pretty cool, it's actually motivating me to do b/p again. Not like e-stats matter, but w/e

If they disable it, then make it so that only your server pulls the HTML file and people can telnet in to your server on a special port and check for new submissions. This way seems to eliminate the bandwidth problem altogether.

At 3/18/07 11:06 AM, Denvish wrote: Alot of stuff, but left the thread open.

Denvish is the coolest :)
Anyways, I didn't download it, too hardcore for me.
Besides, I don't really have the patience to b/p like 20k entries.

This will make things much easier, especially during high bandwidth strains during the busy hours of NG.

Thank you very much for this neat piece of software.

Nice job.

At 3/20/07 09:05 AM, schneelocke wrote: Here's a bug I found: when your IP address changes while the program's running, it will silently stop working (i.e., stop checking the portal) until you manually click on the "Check the Portal" button once (after that, it will work on its own again).

Hmm, I have no clue on the way of solving that issue, but I think there aren't too many people changing their IP all the time, or are there? Thanks for posting about it, though.

At 3/20/07 11:52 AM, Grammer wrote: It's working now, but I need to open the program like three times before it starts working.

I know, and I don't know why. Heh.

But yeah, it's pretty cool, it's actually motivating me to do b/p again. Not like e-stats matter, but w/e

You know you want those B/P points, so why refuse? =)

At 3/20/07 12:45 PM, Altarus wrote: If they disable it, then make it so that only your server pulls the HTML file and people can telnet in to your server on a special port and check for new submissions. This way seems to eliminate the bandwidth problem altogether.

Actually, that will be the next step. liljim's idea was to make a script pull the Portal page every minute or so and then read from the server. Thanks for telling it again, though!

At 3/20/07 01:37 PM, Casualty wrote: You know you want those B/P points, so why refuse? =)

I only downloaded it cause I'm extremely bored and I have nothing better to do with my time than B/P =/

If you can read this text, you either have a slow modem, of there's something wrong with NG or this program...

What is wr0ng???

I don't have a slow modem btw

At 3/20/07 01:37 PM, Casualty wrote: Hmm, I have no clue on the way of solving that issue, but I think there aren't too many people changing their IP all the time, or are there? Thanks for posting about it, though.

Not sure. I get disconnected by my ISP every 24 hours, and in fact, *all* ISPs in Germany do that - unless you get a "business" deal, of course, which is (naturally) aimed at companies and far too expensive for private individuals.

In any case, I can't really tell you how to fix it, either, but other programs manage to handle this just fine, so I suppose there must be some way to detect whether the computer's external IP has changed. :) Also, when you try to pull the portal on a non-existant interface, don't you get some sort of error that indicates that something went wrong?

At 3/20/07 02:32 PM, schneelocke wrote: Not sure. I get disconnected by my ISP every 24 hours, and in fact, *all* ISPs in Germany do that - unless you get a "business" deal, of course, which is (naturally) aimed at companies and far too expensive for private individuals.

Germany... Weird country IMO =P

In any case, I can't really tell you how to fix it, either, but other programs manage to handle this just fine, so I suppose there must be some way to detect whether the computer's external IP has changed. :) Also, when you try to pull the portal on a non-existant interface, don't you get some sort of error that indicates that something went wrong?

I don't know about the IP thing, neither how to fix it. I'm really sorry, but this'll stay how it is for... always...
Also, if you pull the portal on a wrong interface or if the code changed, or anything similar, you just get 0 entries... I can't do anything about that either.