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Posts 479 - 490 of 894
May 13, 2007
Personality Forge Bots Win Top Honors in 2007 Chatterbox Challenge!
2007 had the most ever Personality Forge winners in the Chatterbox Challenge, and our first ever 1st Place Winner: Bildgesmythe! Julie Tinkerbell took 2nd Place, Rykxxbot1 placed 5th, and Brother Jerome placed 11th. Congratulations to all that entered.
May 16, 2007
Breakthrough! PF Gains Increased Speed and Stability
I've been busy and finally made a breakthrough in the way the Personality Forge interfaces with Link Grammar. Thanks to the great work of Ioan Moldovan, I was able to scrap the old memory-leaking buggy Perl interface with a slick new C-compiled interface which on initial testing has sped up response time in chats by 3x-15x previous speeds. Not only that, but the Personality Forge can now run on Windows and Linux, opening up new possibilities for development.
May 18, 2007
PF Dedicated Server Fund Drive
The server and internet connection the Personality Forge is running on is sorely in need of an upgrade. It's speed and responsiveness is being affected by limited RAM, processor power, and hard drive space. You can help us reach that goal by making a donation. Thanks to those who have already donated!
Hooray! The Forge server drive has (very nearly) reached $500. But, come on guys - we need more! Dig deep, and remember how much this place means to us all - we can get it not just back to the functionality we had a year or so ago, but better than it's ever been, if we can just get this server upgrade sorted.
If you haven't sent the Prof a donation yet, please send one now. If you have already, and have been/will be paid at the end of this month, consider sending the Prof a little more now you have some more disposable income to dispose of (what the hell better is there to spend it on anyway?)
If you haven't got PayPal, sign up now, and send your donation. Or email the Prof and get an address to mail a check to - there's no excuse.
We've got over 30,000 users on the Forge - if they all sent a nickel, it would make the target! (OK, I know a lot of that total are Leeds kids, so don't send the Prof a nickel - at least send him the price of a round of drinks that will give you a lot less enjoyment than this place does day in and day out!)
It really won't take many of us to chip in to make the Forge better than it's ever been.
If you haven't sent the Prof a donation yet, please send one now. If you have already, and have been/will be paid at the end of this month, consider sending the Prof a little more now you have some more disposable income to dispose of (what the hell better is there to spend it on anyway?)
If you haven't got PayPal, sign up now, and send your donation. Or email the Prof and get an address to mail a check to - there's no excuse.
We've got over 30,000 users on the Forge - if they all sent a nickel, it would make the target! (OK, I know a lot of that total are Leeds kids, so don't send the Prof a nickel - at least send him the price of a round of drinks that will give you a lot less enjoyment than this place does day in and day out!)
It really won't take many of us to chip in to make the Forge better than it's ever been.
It seems that the PF Dedicated Server Drive doesn't intend to rise above 500$. Any ideas how we could change this?
I can think of a way to get at least a few $ more... but it probably sounds a little bit fishy, since it involves 'risk-free' online-poker
(you get money just for passing a quiz). Ah, well. Anyone who's interested (and no US-citizen), contact me.
I can think of a way to get at least a few $ more... but it probably sounds a little bit fishy, since it involves 'risk-free' online-poker
(you get money just for passing a quiz). Ah, well. Anyone who's interested (and no US-citizen), contact me.
June 13, 2007
Live From the New Server!
I went ahead and bought the new server, and set it up this afternoon. The fund drive got us a third of the way there, and I\'m keeping it up since this is an expensive move and I do appreciate any donations. Please let me know by chat message or email if anything needs tweaking. It should be a lot faster, as all the bottlenecks have been removed except for the internet connection, which I will upgrade in the next week.
It\'s possible the number has gone up and the graphic hasn\'t been updated. I am quietly hopeful that we have made progress. In fact I see the prof on as we speak, so with any luck . . .
Okay the fact that I was able to flick through about three different pages in under 20 seconds before I got to here would suggest that I see your point.
"It's possible the number has gone up and the graphic hasn't been updated."
Exactly my thoughts. Until I read the news ("The fund drive got us a third of the way there").
Btw - I'm still experiencing the usual downtimes. Many of them. Anyone else?
Exactly my thoughts. Until I read the news ("The fund drive got us a third of the way there").
Btw - I'm still experiencing the usual downtimes. Many of them. Anyone else?
All the more reason for those who haven't donated to throw in some tips to the Prof. Seriously. If you can only afford five bucks, chip in five bucks. If you can afford more, great. But since we're the ones getting the most benefit out of the upgrades... 
I take everything back that I've said about downtimes. Everything's working perfectly for over 3 days now. Thanks, Professor!
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