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Ok, for those of us that wouldn't have asked the question of we wanted to spend half an hour Googling for it.....would you care to elaborate on what MRTG is?

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MyIE2 / Maxthon (a shell around IE) already has this. It's called groups.
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Does this help ? http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html

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how about a app which via infa red could activate a robot woman ( who looks perfectly like jessica alba ) and would then save me the bother of finding the remote control.

I could even use this app to control the bot on COD when Zingle is shooting my arse off.

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You will soon learn (the hard way) that there is NO defense against the Zingle ;)

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I will adapt.

They said that on halo... now they bow before my every move............

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My post was a quick knee jerk answer to a basic question of what someone could use to poll a remote machine. Sounds from the above that my quick reply upset you, sorry, but I certainly didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t intend to. If I did, I apologise.

Despite my age, Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m very †œnewâà ƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ� to forums and perhaps donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t understand all the rules, unwritten or otherwise. Can I use my †œnewnessà¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ ÂÂ� or old age as a grovelling excuse?

Anyway, to answer your question, MTRG was originally designed ( I think) to monitor traffic loads on networks, however, with a bit of playing around with the configuration file it will monitor just about anything. And indeed people do.

I am an †œold gitââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ� and have seen it used in just about every comms company I have ever visited all over the world. It is a remarkably versatile tool and I have found it very useful.

See http://www.tenet.ac.za/ping-graphs/l...net_co_za.html to see a real time example of someone monitoring simple ping times.

The output graphs can be easily changed to show your results averaged over minutes, hours, days, months or years. Whatever suits your needs?

Being open source, ready made scripts are freely available to enable a user to monitor just about anything. It runs quietly in the background and you can access the results using any old web browser. Use it to monitor your own CPU temp, memory or bandwidth usageââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚¦.whatever you can think of, you can monitor. And of course itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s totally free.

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And my response was an equally quick, and equally jerky kneed, one.

I wasn't upset, so no need for apologies - if my response came across sounding as though I was then I apologise :)

Nope, there are no excuses :LOL:

Seriously, don't worry about it :)

Thanks for that, great answer :)

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Any excuse works here Eric https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2006/06/3.gif to the forum :D

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I'll just rename the thread to the "Sorry" thread ....

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What about a small VB app that sits a corner that tells you info from CF
i.e. New Pm's New Reps, New Posts, Buddy's online, etc etc.

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Wouldn't that need me to either:

a) connect (from the VB app) to CF's server directly and poll the information, or

b) have the app work through an open broswer to retrieve the information?

If the latter than surely having the browser open would mean that people could see that information for themselves anyway?

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a) really .. do a http login to CF via the app and pick up the information, display it in the app with hyperlinks. It's like a mini browser, with a specific target and audience.

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Ok, forgive my ignorance :) But I've never done anything with web browsers before (other than search for pr0n that is :D ).

Woul you actualy be able to retrieve the information from the page the browser returns? I would have thought that I would need to make the program connect to the database to get that sort of information? :confused:

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Yes you can "steal" it from the returning page ... lemony does this but is too lazy (read "focused on other things on the outside of his pillow case") to do this one for me :D

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In the making :tu:

Screenshot:

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• Option to minimize to tray
• Option to stay topmost (using that API ;))
• Grabs new posts, reputation, PMs and who's online
• Ability to change parts of user CP
• Ability to login to CF (uses raw winsock control ;))
• Interface that adapts to your current system theme (say you are using windows default, you'll have that style of controls)

It's gonna be cool.

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:D

Looks like another project I don't need to worry about then :rolleyes: :p:

I think I might go into project management, seems like I don't need to do any of the work myself :D