The Gate Keeper

its really good to see all the differing opinions, but also the cleanness of these opinions. I know these types of forum topics can get ugly, but just want to say thank you all for putting in your opinions and not rubbishing everything else. In saying that... I've used IE, FF and Opera. IE was my main up until they released 8. I only stopped using IE as my main when they released 8 because tab browsing became really really slow on Vista, though i've seen on 7 it is pretty responsive, so i may switch back. I'm not really they type of person who needs all the bells and whistles, and IE has always been reasonable. I'm on FF at the moment cause its reasonable in opening tabs. I did try opera for a period, but got a tad annoyed with a couple of the features and the layout of certain things. But Opera is a great browser once you get use to it. As for FF being safe, wasn't there a report released for last year that stated the FF had twice as many bugs/exploits found & patched than any of the other browsers? Like with IE/Opera/Safari all sitting around 30 to 35, and FF sitting up around 80? I'm sure we published it here...

yep, got the exact same cooler as well. Though i don't monitor my computer's temp, i have it just to keep it cool mainly for when i'm gaming.

to mass flood the room .

valiance, people may still have GuarDDog on their system for keep sake, or for the ability to see how one of the "tanks" of MSN Chat operated. I will admit, it was probably the most full on script around, but many did enjoy it, and its stability. With the ability to kick out 900 flood bots from a chat room without disconnecting, and all the UI for those who weren't scripters, it was really good for the general user, not so much for the more advanced because there was a really complex system behind it all which very few understood, and those that did, well they were making their own scripts.

it would have to do with the dlls involved. Its most likely the nHTMLn2.9x.dll or WhileFix.dll as these have had reports that virus scanners pick them up as viruses. As I am the creator of the script (not the dlls), I cannot assure you that they are clean, but the fact is, no one has reported of their computer being infected with a virus, only that some anti viruses have a false positive to them. You should be able to add GuarDDog on the safe list or something, so it doesn't scan that file/folder.

valiance, out of the respect for everyone here, please give more information then "Simple to do". This is a community where we help others out. What is the point of "hauding" your knowledge? If you believe you know appropriate steps, measures, and methods that would help in being able to perform this task, you should say more then just "simple to do". If that's all you're going to say, please don't bother posting. Otherwise, help out. Sorry if it sounds like i'm "ripping into you", but come on, i've seen this too many times. If you've got something to say, say it, don't just boast that you can do it. If that's all you're going to do, don't post.

your code speaks for itself. does it need someone's approval? i think not. do you need someone's approval? perhaps. your code is nice and clean. there isn't really much that you could do to improve it and keep it within the category of "bare bones". Though in situations like this i tend to agree with tewl. re-inventing the wheel is a little silly, but i understand also your code as to why.

the amount of lines in a code doesn't reflect the quality or the compactness of the code. i could get travis' code and turn it into 11 lines. does it mean that its still any smaller/better then his current code? No. It makes it harder to read, and less coder friendly.

the reason why you get it when you add the whois as well, is exactly as i said, you are trying to do too many things at once, and the server considers that flooding. You need to put a counter, so that you only perform X amount of commands per few seconds, so that the server wont kick you off.

the reason is because you might be trying to do too many things at once, and the server is disconnecting you. As mentioned... What exactly is your protection method?

ozzy, you saying vista > 7? why's that?

since working at Deloitte for the last 4 and half weeks (got 3 and half left with them), i have touched a bit upon C# and .NET 2 and .NET 3.5. I might be able to lend a hand here and there, but i believe i would be as affective as you were when you first started, close to no more then that. The tasks i was asked to do was debug a feature, which i worked out reasonably easily, and the other was create one, which sort of existed in another form, so i just copied/pasted and modified as needed.

i believe its not "scripting for the name", but scripting for help. And you would agree as well would you not? If someone was nice enough to make something, whether simple or complex, that did something you personally was not aware of, could not code, didn't have time to code, or even just too lazy, should you not give respect to the author who did actually become aware of it before you, who could code it, who took the time to code (even if they may not have had all that much time), and who wasn't too lazy?

hmm... from memory, vincula used noop command (basically its suppose to stand for no operation), but a server didn't have that, so it would come back with a "noop command invalid". you could replicate this idea? to do this, have a timer which sent "noop" to the server. when sending noop, set another timer which would be similar to a reconnect or something. and if the noop isn't responded to within say 15 seconds, you can predict you are disconnected from the server, and allow the 2nd timer to continue. if it did receive something back, then you would cancel the second timer.

lol, or just code like me and make it pretty complex that if anyone could rip it, they also had the skill to make most/all of it on their own without the need to rip it.

can't use just start up wine with full admin rights? in terminal... sudo wine?

yea, err0r is right. I had the same issue when i did GuarDDog, and my only work around was to calculate the different heights for each different theme.

expire, i personally and professionally don't agree with you there. i believe that regardless of code reuse, it should be acknowledged, unless you know for certain that the work your copying will be for your eyes only, as in, it will never be distributed. If there is a fraction of a chance it will, you should document your code, giving credit where it should be, even if it is just for 1 function.

yea i'm like err0r. i have it installed on a dual boot, but don't use it much, unless i am working on programming stuff for uni.

well all i can say is thank you for the kind words, but GD5 wasn't without its flaws. I'll admit that it was probably one of the more complex peices of work around, but there was still a lot to be desired for.

ok... for starters... if ( $me isop # ) { is not needed because you have used the prefix @. In mIRC help file, look up "prefixes". and you should combine if statements if possible. with your code, you have nested statements, but no alternatives within the nested loops so you can join it using &&. now, we can use regular expression for this, saves having to divide the string up and find out each word's length. your final code should look like this... on @!*:text:*:#:{ ;LongText if ($readini($settings(chanoptions.txt),$iif($ini($settings(chanoptions.txt),#,0) != 0,#,Default),LongText) && $regex($1-, /([^ ]{15,})/g) > 0) { /access $chan add deny $+(*!*, $Ial($nick).addr) 1 :Long-Text /kick # $nick No Long Text One min Ban } } the regex will return how many words longer than 15 in length. for convention, you should stick to one coding style. use # or $chan, try not to cross between.

yay christmas is here! , merry christmas from the person already in christmas

'Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.' -- George Santayana. what has past, has past. learn from it, gain wisdom, so that you aren't going to repeat it again. Though you may feel like all the "older folk" need to come back and dominate, the "old folk" never left. the majority of us are still here, and there, but we have moved on. Learnt from the last, and positively added to the future of others. Perhaps from this all, we can do the same?

if you are simply just copying/pasting from one connection to the other, or trying to use a room lister originally designed for the modified Vincula connection you have, that is probably your issue. Thinking of this, there are probably stuff in the Vincula Connection, that's a lot further indepth then just a mere "copy paste" to help your room lister work.

bit pointless auto closing after scanning isn't it? Does it remove folders in the temp directories as well? Like, if you temp directory is... C:\User\Bob\Temp... and you have a folder in there hello, does it remove all the files inside hello, and hello?