Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Jason House
Will the new server handle small description strings about the bots? It'd be great if we could provide/lookup basic data on bots. Example data would be a homepage or a 1-2 sentence summary. For example "John Smith's experimental Fuego 0.4 with heavy playout for reading semeai" Sent from my

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Williams
Yeah, it's a little roundabout, but like I said, I already have the tool. Plus, it can (and should) be run from a different machine. If you put something in the client and the client is in your closet and loses power, it cannot phone home. Heartbeats solve that, but then you need something to m

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Christian Nentwich
Don has already indicated he would do something around listing clients that are online. However, monitoring the server to see if your client is online seems very roundabout. I've been wanting to put e-mail notification in the client anyway. This can either take the form of sending mails when t

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Williams
A while back, I wrote a general purpose monitor tool that checks a specified URL for a specified RegEx and takes a specified action based on the result. The action can be play a sound or send an email or flash the tray icon. Something like that might work (it would be much easier if the CGOS pag

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Jason House
That raises an interesting point. I've also put bots up in a setup and forget scenario, but inevitably the bit is off of CGOS within a few days and I had no idea when it went down. What's the right way to solve this issue so such altruistic bots can be more easilly maintained? This may also

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Williams
Turn off Windows update or put the CGOS connect script in the startup folder and set an automatic login. David Fotland wrote: I can have a reduced version of Many Faces up all the time on an old computer, but I don't monitor it, so someone would have to email and remind me when it goes down (u

RE: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread David Fotland
I can have a reduced version of Many Faces up all the time on an old computer, but I don't monitor it, so someone would have to email and remind me when it goes down (usually because of a Microsoft automatic reboot :( ) David > -Original Message- > From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.or

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Magnus Persson
On 9x9 I have been worrying of the lack of strong anchors but not enough to complain about. What I think is more important is that stronger programs are actually active on CGOS for longer periods of time. I tried to contribute more by having versions of Valkyria online with a fixed number o

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Don Dailey
2009/6/24 Christian Nentwich > Don, > > you might have your work cut out if you try to control inflation directly, > that can turn into a black art very quickly. Multiple anchors would be > preferable. An offline, X * 1000 game playoff between gnugo and another > candidate anchor would be enough

[computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-24 Thread Brian Sheppard
The discussion seems to be heading to a consensus: to use a single program to anchor the rating system, and it is best to keep the anchors that we currently use. Additionally, we want a bunch of more-or-less fixed, more-or-less standard programs that cover as wide a range as possible, and it is id