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!!!

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).

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!

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.

Looks pretty good. Thanks.

At 3/18/07 08:39 AM, Electric-Bla wrote: Wow... That's a bit too hardcore for me. But that's great work man!

Yeah! Awesome!

I haven't racked up any yet so should be interesting to try out, you must be quite clever if you can create your own programs.

So, how do you get the discontinued thing to stop popping up? I've reopened and reinstalled the program 2-3 times. Nothing is stopping it.

At 3/20/07 03:29 PM, Casualty wrote: Germany... Weird country IMO =P

Hah... you can say THAT again!

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.

Pity. Oh well, at least I know about it now. :)

It is telling me that the project is discontinued now.

Is this true or is my comp a faggot?

I downloaded it, seems awesome, but I don't think its working for me. It says there are 10 entries, but does not say what they are. So how do I know exactly which ones are the new ones?

Make a version that runs on a Mac, and I'll love you forever.

You should get some kind of award for this!

Contact Tom ASAP!

Hooray, its working for me now.

At 3/20/07 03:34 PM, bagoverhead wrote: You should make one which alerts you when a submission is under judgment with "KK" in the title..

Well, you should just check it out every time there's an alert =P

At 3/20/07 04:28 PM, Arktaran wrote: So, how do you get the discontinued thing to stop popping up? I've reopened and reinstalled the program 2-3 times. Nothing is stopping it.

It's pretty weird, and I don't know why is does that... Maybe you need to have your browser running, or try some other stuff like that. I'm sorry for that, I'll try to make it work better this Saturday.

At 3/20/07 05:53 PM, schneelocke wrote: stuff

Thanks for your comments =)

At 3/20/07 06:08 PM, VeinDigger wrote: It is telling me that the project is discontinued now.

Is this true or is my comp a faggot?

The system is a faggot. I'll try to fix this soon. Saturday, probably. For now, just keep trying to start the program and make sure NG Log is not down.

At 3/20/07 06:09 PM, kustdro wrote: I downloaded it, seems awesome, but I don't think its working for me. It says there are 10 entries, but does not say what they are. So how do I know exactly which ones are the new ones?

Those 10 entries ARE new ones. It only counts new entries.

At 3/20/07 06:13 PM, Bolo wrote: Make a version that runs on a Mac, and I'll love you forever.

Doesn't it run on a Mac? I'm sorry, but I don't have a Mac and I have no idea what I should to to make it compatible... =(

If you had trouble opening Portal Guard:

That means, if that one error always came up, telling you the project had been discontinued, download this setup file and install Portal Guard again. After uninstalling the old version, of course.

Also, you can now disable the pop up sound and I added a little thing that tells you if you should download a new version...

I hope it works this time. If it doesn't, I really don't know what to do...

I'd install it if I could be fucked. It's a cool program.

Hehe, I actually downloaded this a few days ago...must have just shown up on the website and it didn't work when I installed it. But I guess I will try it again now.

At 3/24/07 08:04 AM, milinko959 wrote: Hehe, I actually downloaded this a few days ago...must have just shown up on the website and it didn't work when I installed it. But I guess I will try it again now.

So, does it work now? =P

At 3/24/07 08:21 AM, Aci6 wrote: I downloaded your program and you're a typical newground user, "If you can read this you are gay", funny enough.

I just had to, I mean come on...

Thanks for your devotion to the newgrounds users, its thoughtful to create a program for them.
Thanks A lot!

It's a pleasure to serve Newgrounds =P

That's freaking awesome. I'm using it right now.