Why is this av smiling?
on Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I'm not, but I can't be bothered to turn off my perma-smile script.
Final babbler update for tonight:
I am leaving babbler off tonight. It works for a while, then when load picks up, it stops working, and I get flagged as spammer/virus. I will look into how to get whitelisted. Naturally, I would be more than happy to slap a company’s logo onto the babbler if they would like to officially sponsor it or whatnot. Only deal is, it has to be given away :)
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January 30th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
dear max
I get your great babler translater from a comunivation officer in SL and i love the tool first time i realy need it i read that google make some problem hope they fix your support soon as it is normaly not the way google work to block real talents form ther network
With best wishes from vienna
January 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Thanks Mohab.
So far, no word. Bu I didn’t expect them to be fast. :/ Sorry guys. Mulling over some other options, we’ll see what can rig up.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:27 am
It’s a pity that google is such pain!
On the other hand if Altavista only requires a logo, the fish thing is actually nice! Double-advertisement both for you and them.
Whichever way it will go, Thank you so Much for all your effort! I (and many others undoubtly too) are very happy that you try to create a bridge accross the rivers of languages. :-)
February 1st, 2007 at 4:45 am
Ah, I don’t think they are a pain. I got bit by automated protection.
Yeah, the fish would be good. Unfortunately, the av/bf thing is a javascript you put on your page. But I did try using the same url, but after a minute, it got blocked.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I have had that response from Google for doing nothing else but checking my mail or looking at my Reader account - I would not automatically think it had anything to do with your activities. It lasted a day or two.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
@ordinal: nah, i did some tests. After a bit, I turned back on mine, and did xlations on google, yahoo+babelfish, and the all worked. As soon as Ihooked the general public back into it, it got the error. I will look if babelfish’s reposnse are tight enough, I can probably hook babbler directly in, which would distribute hits among all of the Sim IP’s which should be spread out enough. Also, I am looking to make package so people can set up their own bridges on their web-servers, which should help distro the load.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
This is probably a bad idea, but what about using TOR, say with 2-5 hops?
It would help to farm out where the requests are coming from, and for the small size of each translation request, it shouldn’t add more than a second or two of latency, unless the network was really bogged down.
Love Babbler, DeBabbler, and SimNeighbors. I’d really love to see all three packed into one HUD attachment, with a notecard for enabling and disabling features, for those who don’t want to run all three. Eh? Eh? Heh
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 am
@hank Hmm, good idea about tor. I’ll look into finding a php-tor implementation (does that exist?)
Yeah, the plan was to join debabbler into babbler. I pushed out debabbler because I needed one, and didn’t feel like refactoring babbler at the time. :) I don’t know about rolling all of neighbours funcitonality into babbler, but maybe just the basic sim registering script, to help keep things up to date. But I plan to add more nifty bits to the sim neigh registrator-tron.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Does anyone know people at Google and/or Linden Labs. There must be a way to allow this to keep working if you talk to the right people.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Hi Max,
Thanks so much for all the work you’ve done on babbler/debabbler. I’m trying to build a network of people round the world, and i could never have done it without you!
I like the idea of a bridging package - if you need someone to help try it out I’d be more than happy, although my bandwidth limits on the server are pretty stingy so I probably wouldn’t be much help for a large amount of “public access” :)
Maybe if you opened up the “server side” bit along with a notecard configure HUD, that’sd ease the load. I’m sure you’d find a few generous people willing to share the load on their servers.
p.s. I know the security code is supposed to be hard for bots to read, but this is my 5th attempt, ‘cos I couldn’t read it either.