New Project - Ready Response DLV

[NeoGen]

New project people!! :D

http://www.readyresponse.org/index.p...tributed&opt=2

Actually, it isn't new at all. It's several years old, but only a few days ago it has implemented teams. Some of our members have for a long time been fooling around with it, and competing between eachothers, and when teams were implemented it was no surprise that we would be ranked 1st! :D

What is Ready Response DLV? (also know as Red Library)

Red Library is Ready Response's search engine with a difference - every single link in the database is hand picked (at present 7000+ links) and categorized. It is a tremendous resource and used by many other sites/visitors worldwide, but as with all search engines there is always a possibility that a link in the database will become a broken a link (404).
The idea behind this project was to make a client application which downloads links from the Red Library server, validates them (i.e. checks to see if they are 404 or not) and then returns the results back to Red Library. The Red Library server will then double check all the links that come back reported as 404, and remove the links if they are found to be down over a period of 7 days or longer. Basically - the more people that run the client, the less bad links will be present in Red Library!

The project itself is very simple. You start up the client and it will fetch a group of 100 links to validate. Every 5 minutes (default interval, can be changed) the client will download 5 of those pages (can be raised up to 10) and check for 404's. Once those 100 links are finished, it will fetch another group of 100 and repeat the process. It takes very little bandwidth as you can calculate. Probably as little as the Dimes project.


Steps to get it going...
1) Register here:
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.p...tributed&opt=3

2) Get the client here (Currently Windows & Mac):
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.p...tributed&opt=7
NOTE: Requires the .NET framework

3) Join our Team here:
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.p...d&opt=12&tid=6

Other pages of interest:
Site's stats:
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.p...tributed&opt=4

Ready Response Main Site:
http://www.readyresponse.org/


Have fun!

[Empty_5oul]

i am only validating 5 links at a time.
I have selected 10 from the dropdown and hit "enter" to make sure it is selected :?

any ideas?

[NeoGen]

I noticed that too.
After selecting 10, you have to click the stop button and then close the application. Otherwise the change will not be saved and the next time you start it, it will start going 5 links at a time again...

[NVM]

Linux-coming soon.....sigh.

[NeoGen]

Yea... it's very rare to see a Mac version being rolled out before a linux version...
I always thought (and still think that) Mac versions would be harder to make than Linux ones.

[NVM]

i'm getting timeout after timeout here when it tries to connect. anybody else? we may start a discussion over at team Ninja HQ to see if this is really ready for the Vault,as there have been complaints about this problem. hopefully its temporary,and not a case of this projects resources being overwhelmed too fast,too soon.

any comments here or over at TN would be appreciated.

[Lagu]

NVM

Have you tried to restart the client? I.E shout it down and start it again?

Lagu ;)

[NVM]

yes i did. i also read this at the DLV forums about the timeout problem:

I guess it's just because we have underestimated the number of users for the 'first version' of DLV and our server can't handle all the request fast enough.

But you just have to wait a little bit as we're working on this problem. And if everything goes as planned the new client (out soon) will reduce the serverload a lot. And it also reduce the users traffic a bit more too.

[markdeacon]

im on it

[Lagu]

Hi

Have you guys got wery little points today? I run this project 7/24 and today only earned 134 points so far. It seems as I have lost a lot of points from kl. 00.00 - 16.45. There is somheting wierd witih the Client or it is the server?
Sending and receiving new links takes 10 minutes. It is scandal!

I used to be in the top but today I´m number 34 in the daily rank.

Lagu