Uptime Project

[k0nsl]

Short description on this project:

What's the Uptime-Project about?

The Uptime-Project is a Fun-Project. Using our service you can collect all your uptime-data (your computer's uptime) and compete against other users.

Want to participate? It works on both Windows and Linux based systems.

Register an account here:
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=login&content=register

Its very quick - you will receive an activation link and its all done (except for setting up the software - which is also only one minute or so).

Join the XtremeSystems League:
http://xtremesystems.league.uptime-project.net/

That's it.

If anybody needs help please write in this thread.

:toast:

-k0nsl

[hixie]

It's funny how there are so little Windows machines at the top ranking, the one that are there are all windows 2000.

Does this use any CPU power or bandwidth?

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

if it ran on smoothwall i'd toss it on my smoothie rig, but for some reason i suspect it won't ;)

[hixie]

It don't think it will, i was thinking about installing dimes on my smoothie, but it won't work.

[k0nsl]

The only bandwidth it uses is when its contacting the servers of this project to give them your statistics - that is, not much!

I decided to create a cronjob and execute the program every day at midnight. It basically executes and sends the statistics, and exits - so nothing is really used up.

Give it a try if you would like - and whoever else who has machines with good uptime ;)

-k0nsl


It's funny how there are so little Windows machines at the top ranking, the one that are there are all windows 2000.

Does this use any CPU power or bandwidth?

[hixie]

My computer(s) are never turned off. Unless i'm changing hardware ofcourse.
I'll give it a go.

[k0nsl]

Hehe, same here hixie :)

BTW - it apparently does work on Smoothwall:
http://www.dalbjerg.nu/post/index/30/Uptime-Project-for-smoothwall

-k0nsl

[hixie]

*Eyes sparkle with joy*

[STEvil]

cant download anything.......

[mcflurry4321]

cant download anything.......

Me neither. :(

[hixie]

Me aswell :(

[k0nsl]

cant download anything.......

Do you mean this?

http://www.dalbjerg.nu/download/uptime-project-v0.1.tar.gz
(works now - I just tried)

Or this:

http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=download
(works - I also just tried now)

Perhaps there was some downtime or overload on the servers yesterday?

-k0nsl

[STEvil]

second link, windows client. Still not working.

[k0nsl]

second link, windows client. Still not working.

Ah, yes, it is true :(

I only tried the Linux link. Hopefully they get it up and running soon...

-k0nsl

[nike]

joined on my daily rig ;)

[k0nsl]

Thanks for joining, nike.

STEvil:
Windows client link is now working ;)
(http://en.uptime-project.net/geturl.php?id=5)

I also mirrored all clients and language files here:
http://i.am.k0nsl.com/mirror/uptime/

-k0nsl

[selder]

Damnit, I already joined another (belgian) theme, and you can't compete in 2 different leagues with the same username ...

Anyway, here is that other league ... Guess who's that in place n°1? :)

http://userbase.league.uptime-project.net/

[k0nsl]

Hehe nice! Not so long left until you reach a uptime of one year :D

-k0nsl


Damnit, I already joined another (belgian) theme, and you can't compete in 2 different leagues with the same username ...

Anyway, here is that other league ... Guess who's that in place n°1? :)

http://userbase.league.uptime-project.net/

[STEvil]

can this be run on multiple machines?

[k0nsl]

Yes, I think it should work that way.

-k0nsl


can this be run on multiple machines?

[STEvil]

Nope, you need a new acct for each machine.

It doesnt care if all the acct's come from 1 email address though.


You're all about to get owned by my P1 233mmx that has a ~5 year old Win95 install ;)
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist&content=league&lid=10113

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

well i guess ill join my machine to the team... why not :)
imma see about poking my smoothwall and gettin it in too...

edit: yeppers, smoothwall is in too now :D

[rhkenji]

im on it. :)

you guys do know that you can keep your uptime even if you power down your pc using hibernate.. ayt? hahaha

[Staucher]

the image not working :(

k0nsl is your image orginal form uptime.net?

[k0nsl]

Yes, it is. I stole it from here:
http://en.uptime-project.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=510&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc

:)

It works now, doesn't it?

-k0nsl


the image not working :(

k0nsl is your image orginal form uptime.net?

[Shpoon]

I could put it on a veeeerrry old laptop...:p

[Mackai]

for those of you that could not or can not download the uptime client for windows i found this link on the uptime project forums and it worked for me 5 minutes ago , http://www.canardwc.com/telechargements/UPC023.rar

[SoulGG]

How do I join the team?:)

[Martijn]

How do I join the team?:)
Join competetion, then select XS...

[jimwah]

Thanks for the mirror k0nsl - needed that today since I couldn't get the win client off their site. Lets see how much abuse my work PC can endure, its scary seeing how many processes are running on this machine in taskmanager (I just counted - 64!)....muwahaha; its only relief is the odd reboot perhaps once a week - but I'll try & avoid that too now :cool:

SoulGG: when you login to your account on the uptime site, you can choose a team to join (on the left in green - in fact I think it says 'league' rather than team, scroll bottom & select XtremeSystems & save changes). Download & run the client, then enter you're username & password, hit update & check the XS page to see if you appear :)

[[XC] riptide]

[QUOTE=jimwah] Lets see how much abuse my work PC can endure, its scary seeing how many processes are running on this machine in taskmanager (I just counted - 64!)....muwahaha; its only relief is the odd reboot perhaps once a week - but I'll try & avoid that too now :cool:

QUOTE]
My normal boot rolls in with 91 processes! :cool:

[jimwah]

My normal boot rolls in with 91 processes! :cool:

:slapass: No remorse! Put it on uptime & we'll see who's crashes first :D

[[XC] riptide]

:slapass: No remorse! Put it on uptime & we'll see who's crashes first :D
:confused: :confused: It never does! :confused: :confused: Most processes are very low CPU items and quite low mem items. I would put it on uptime, but I see no easy way to to beat guys who have been on for years and years.!

[jimwah]

Yeah beating a Sun box that's been on for 5yrs could be a challenge - good project for a bit of banter tho' :) k0nsl's linux box is kicking XP a$$ at the moment. Wish I hadn't switched off my machines at home last night (thunderstorm got me a bit nervous) 'cos I've got an AthXP w/ win2k which had been on for months.

[SoulGG]

Join competetion, then select XS...

Blind as a bat in one eye:slap: Joined

[selder]

... k0nsl's linux box is kicking XP a$$ at the moment...

Say what? http://userbase.league.uptime-project.net/ ... smells like my 2003 is kicking someone else's butt ;)

It's a shame you can't join 2 different teams with 1 account on uptime-project :/

[Staucher]

i can not see the uptime images :(

http://xs304.xs.to/xs304/06305/uptime-seite.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs304&d=06305&f=uptime-seite.png)

[[XC]melymel]

OK my laptops on board this on windows XP it only get's turned off when I can't be bothered to wait for the 80 redlib clients or 5 dimes vm's to turn off. This is also the 7th DC project now running on my poor laptop :p:

:toast:

[k0nsl]

My uptime is zero now. The server was turned off when I woke up this morning. There was a great thunderstorm so apparently the power must have been shut off :(

Anyway, I'm glad more people join up!

PS.
For creating signatures with your uptime, see:
http://en.uptime-project.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=510

-k0nsl

[Staucher]

Check that not :(

[k0nsl]

Try this:


<?
/*
Uptime-Project Profile XML-Parser

Version: 0.3
Date: 18.04.2004
Autor: MeTRiX [metrix (a) www.uptime-project.net]
Support: http://www.uptime-project.net

Changelog
v0.3 18.04.2004
~ Anpassung neue URL
v0.2 15.12.2003
~ Optimierung fuer den Einsatz unter Windows
v0.1 02.08.2003
~ Erste Version


Skript ermoeglicht die Ausgabe von Uptime-Profil Daten auf beliebiger Website.
Wenn dieses Skript eingesetzt wird, bitte einen Link in Verbindung auf http://www.uptime-project.net einbringen.

WICHTIG:
Es muessen Schreibrechte auf die Temp-Datei existieren !
Bitte keine Aenderungen an der Cache-Funktion oder am Programmablauf vornehmen. Danke.
*/


// Variablendefinition ->>

// Uptime Project User-ID
$config[uid] = 101856;
// (Path to) Temp-File
$config[tmp] = "uptime.dat";

// <<- Variablendefinition



// Programmablauf ->>

if(@filemtime($config[tmp]) <= time() - 3600 || @filesize($config[tmp]) == 0)
{
$input_xml = @fopen("http://data.uptime-project.net/xml.php?uid=$config[uid]","r");
$input = @fread($input_xml,2048);
@fclose($input_xml);

if($input)
{
$tmpfile = @fopen($config[tmp],w);
if($tmpfile)
{
@fwrite($tmpfile,$input);
}
else
{
echo "Kann nicht in Temp-File schreiben. Fehlende Rechte.";
exit;
}
@fclose($tmpfile);
}

unset($input,$input_xml,$tmpfile);
}

$tmpfile = @fopen($config[tmp],r);
$input = @fread($tmpfile,2048);

if($input)
{
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$input,$values);
xml_parser_free($parser);

$xml = array();

foreach($values as $data)
{
if($data[tag] != "PROFILE")
{
$xml[strtolower($data[tag])] = $data[value];
}
}
}
else
{
echo "Kann Temp-Datei $config[tmp] nicht lesen.";
exit;
}

@fclose($tmpfile);
unset($tmpfile,$input,$parser,$values,$data);

// <<- Programmablauf
header("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreatefrompng("uptime8.png");
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0,0,0);
$font_size = 7.5;
ImageTTFText ($image, $font_size, 0, 60, 22, $black, "fonts/tahoma.ttf","User: $xml[username]");
ImageTTFText ($image, $font_size, 0, 60, 32, $black, "fonts/tahoma.ttf","Uptime: $xml[uptime]");
ImageTTFText ($image, $font_size, 0, 60, 42, $black, "fonts/tahoma.ttf","Record: $xml[record]");
ImageTTFText ($image, $font_size, 0, 60, 52, $black, "fonts/tahoma.ttf","OS: $xml[os] SP $xml[os_sp]");
ImageTTFText ($image, 7, 0, 50, 68, $black, "fonts/tahoma.ttf","Generiert um: $xml[generated]");
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

// Beispiel:
// Siehe fuer weitere Felder die XML-Datei.
// echo $xml[username];
// echo $xml[uptime];
?>

If anyone wants to use the above code they have to change the $config[uid] variable (it can be found in the URL of their stats - I already entered yours, so you don't have to change it Staucher).

You'll also have to download a template image, such as this one:
http://glenn.studio-projekt.de/uptime/uptime8.png

And put this image in the same directory as "uptime.php" (the above code). After that it should be ready for usage.

Other template images can be found here:
http://en.uptime-project.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=510&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Or for simplicity use these:
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=myprofile&content=uptime_images

But they are loading too slowly for my taste therefore the above solution is probably the best one.

-k0nsl

[jimwah]

My uptime is zero now. The server was turned off when I woke up this morning. There was a great thunderstorm so apparently the power must have been shut off

Noo! 36 days now stands as the XS record to beat :)

Selder, 260 days is v.nice indeed, is your 2k3 machine running under any load? Do you have any other machines you can add & join XS? I might join a machine or two at home, but I'm moving in two months time tho' so that limits me a bit; unless I can rig up a big UPS & drive very fast over to the new house :D

[selder]

It is, it's running an OpenSSH server to which 5 people connect ... it's running an Apache too, but only for the internal network. And the usual services ... storage and print stuff ...

[[XC]melymel]

Does it help the team to add more boxen? if so do I have to register a new name to do so as I hope to not have to take this p3 box down again and leave it run permanently.

P.S. i'm using this while waiting for conroe, I don't normally run a p3 although it actually feels just as smooth as my 805 did :p:

[k0nsl]

Sure, please go ahead and add more, melymel2789 ;)

I added another one today. My workstation hehe...

-k0nsl

[SoulGG]

I just registerd another box under *Terence_G* the specs are posted on there it'll be running 24/7 for as long as I can...I don't use it it doesn't even have a monitor or keyboard but it'll be on....

[STEvil]

Does it help the team to add more boxen? if so do I have to register a new name to do so as I hope to not have to take this p3 box down again and leave it run permanently.

P.S. i'm using this while waiting for conroe, I don't normally run a p3 although it actually feels just as smooth as my 805 did :p:

every machine needs a seperate ID.

[[XC]melymel]

:woot: my laptop made it past 1 week!! although there's a lot of time left to catch DeathSpawner3 if his ever turns off, what rig are you running?

:toast:

[selder]

hell ... power outtage in the whole house! darn, there goes my sweet spot on n°1 :p

[STEvil]

I need a battery for my laptop so I can unplug it from the wall without shutting down.. I dont want to lose my 12+ days up uptime!

[rcofell]

Looks like I happen to have the XS topscore now, 78 days, a windows machine nonetheless :D . Put it on my old machine that I just rdp into since I'm too lazy to move my messenging stuff over(logs). Too bad the machine will be moving with me to college in 2 weeks... Could put it on my astaro box(firewall) when I get to college, but a major version is supposed to come out soon, plus the updates sometimes need to reboot(although they usually aren't that critical).

[SoulGG]

Power outages are a :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[Martijn]

Power outages are a :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

That's why I got myself a UPS today :D :D

[rcofell]

That's why I got myself a UPS today :D :D
But you have to unplug the comp when you switch to it :D

[SoulGG]

8 years and 80 days.............wowwwwwwwwww

[k0nsl]

Bump for more & new members :)

(See post on page #1)

-k0nsl

[ewsforos]

Argggg... you ppl are so unlucky... I just joined and saw this uptime project...

I have a small mail/web/proxy server at home, which had 3 years and some days uptime, which I only formated/clean install like 2 weeks ago cause I wanted to try out something with RT Linux. :(

My workstation is at about 20 days, my other server at ~300 days and we just lost a box at work which believe it or not had an uptime since 1996 running SCO UNIX on an i486. Mobo died... :brick:

I had the WR easy, and it slipped right through my hands... How is this for unlucky? :dammit:

I wonder how many ppl with insane uptimes haven't heard of this project...

Edit: Since it (apparently) only allows one system to be used with each account at any given time, I've just joined with the one with the highest uptime I have at the moment... what a shame if I only knew about this a few weeks ago...

[meshmesh]

So let me get this straight. All it does it measures how long the PC is on. So what happens when I do a Windows update or software update (firwall, antivirus,..) and I am asked to reboot?

[ewsforos]

Goes back to 0 naturally... uptime is the time between power-cycles/boots pretty much. However, from what I've seen (and I haven't looked at it pretty closely yet) it DOES have an average for each user which it counts towards, so as long as you don't reboot all that often, this isn't such a big problem since it will help the team by increasing the average value.

Having said that, that's what you get for using windows :p:

In Linux the only reason to reboot is to put a new kernel to use, and even this is no longer necessary with kexec in the latest 2.6.x kernel tree ;)

[jimwah]

...that's what you get for using windows :p:

:hehe: indeed, my XP managed to reach almost 40 days now, it had a bit of a freak out the other day but it recovered, just. >250 days ewsforos! Nice uptime :)

[ewsforos]

Thanks :)

<linux advocate>
In 5 years it has been rebooted only 3 times... 2 of which were within 8 months because of the need for security related kernel upgrades.

This box has seen uptime on the 850 days range. I have had other systems (running linux naturally :p:) which were WELL beyond that (>1100 days), but where the need for security wasn't paramount, and they were in a restricted environment/limited access.

Oh well, it will eventually get back there :) Happy to help the xtremesystems team out anyway :)

PS: Keep in mind that this system is an actual server, running a large number of services, and it's averaging ~230-250 processes at any given time. So the uptime you see is not of a box staying idle... It is under costant load ;) I'd love to see a wintendo box doing that :p:
</linux advocate>

[SoulGG]

What are the specs on that bad boy?

[ewsforos]

1U 19'' rackmount case and motherboard (Supermicro)
P4@2.4Ghz
2Gb RAM
2x120Gb Maxtor ATA disks (raid1)
2x 100Mbit Intel NICs
and a 8Mb integrated gfx card (not used anyway, system is headless)


Pretty down to earth specs if you ask me...

That is of course, keeping in mind, it was built 5 years ago of course, so it was pretty good specs-wize at the time :)

[SoulGG]

Yep nothing too extreme just steady and reliable

[ewsforos]

Exactly :)

[SoulGG]

Seems like every account I make ends up in the gutter (illegal uptime some garbage) I think i'm going to scrap this project seeing as I can't get any support from the dudes there.:slap:

[jimwah]

Shame you can't get any help with the client man; I get the odd random message in German (took me a few minutes to figure out where it came from) that translates into something about not connecting to the server, but otherwise I've had no grief with it here (only got 1 account though).

[SoulGG]

It always seems to work fine after I restart the computer and wait 10minutes......But there is never any need to on my workstation...All it does it encode audio/video 24/7. Buggy little program:(

[Staucher]

is uptime.net down?

[jimwah]

Looks that way....

"No connection to the data base could be made. Try again please later." :(


edit - its back now (~ 15:10 GMT)

[jimwah]

Apologies for the DP (again)...but the whole project seems to have cleared itself of users this morning! If I search for my name I'm still in there somewhere, but our league has been cleared. Hopefully its a glitch & we'll turn up again soon.

For a project called 'Uptime', ironically, their server has quite a lot of downtime.

[[XC]thewildblue]

My system is still up and on 61 days ish but it reports illegal uptime......

[jimwah]

If you open the client & select the options tab, do you have 'Method 2' selected for 'Uptime Determination'? I just selected 'Method 1' & tried to update & it was illegal, Method 2 is fine. Otherwise it sounds like the client is bugged like SoulGG's :(

[SoulGG]

They finally fixed the uptime error...We are now able to delete the last session and resubmit the time. :) I have my laptop on there now an will have two more boxes up on there later this week:D Time to buy a UPS

[jimwah]

:woot: 100 days for my XP box :woot:

[Martijn]

I just got the briefcase up and running. Dead silent and invisible, lets see how long it takes until the parents switch it off :D

[ewsforos]

:woot: 100 days for my XP box :woot:


:woot: :clap: Well done! :D

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

24 days on my XP box and freakin 103 on my smoothwall :D

[jimwah]

:toast: cheers ewsforos! Keep at it guys :D

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/jandz/updates.jpg

[ewsforos]

^---- LOL :rofl: :D

[jimwah]

Disaster - some kind of power blip at work :slapass: Gave me a chance to do some much needed maintenance on this box tho', and that heap of updates too! Will anyone beat the 125 day XS record for WinXP? :p:

[SoulGG]

My network storage dump will:D It's a laptop with about 3.5hours of battery life, it's connected to a UPS with about 2hours of battery life as well :cool: Soon to have 3TB of storage

It's in for the long haul!

[ewsforos]

LOL SoulGG

Sorry about your box jimwah... was doing great for a wintendo box :(

PS: In 20 days we have a birthday party! :D (see sig)

[jimwah]

Dammit SoulGG! It's looking good for you taking the throne with all that battery backup goodness, but just make sure you dont work that laptop too hard - I wouldn't want it to overheat & crash or anything ;)

We've gotta move office in January too, I might have to shift this project to a machine at home - mostly Wintendo-2k :rotf: boxes, of which 1 must've been up 3 weeks to a month hopefully - I'll have a look later on.

Gratz to ewsforos on the upcoming birthday too :toast: Party hat at the ready.

[SoulGG]

Hehe, 1 year celebration:D

[ben rogers]

Disaster - some kind of power blip at work :slapass: Gave me a chance to do some much needed maintenance on this box tho', and that heap of updates too! Will anyone beat the 125 day XS record for WinXP? :p:

I can beat that, had 268 days out of my dual p3 667 running windows xp sp2 but had to have a new carpet fitted in the room so it had to go off.

Last screenshotted it at 205 days mind.

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/9505/uptimejb7.jpg

[SoulGG]

Needed the laptop for work purposes so I had to shut her down last night! Good thing it was at 72 days and not 172 I might have had to buy another laptop for just that reason:D

Should have another computer to replace my laptop though. Pretty soon

[jimwah]

Still shows that machine as up on the stats?! shame about the shutdown man, at least I'm one step closer to retaking the XP uptime title ;) :p:

[SoulGG]

I'll leave it there until I get another box on the same account. then i'll have to delete the time to get another computer onto the same name.

[ewsforos]

*singing* Happy birthday to youuuuu, happy birthday to youuuuu *singing*

:party3: :party: :bday2: :bday: :party2: :bounces: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

(check sig) :D

PS: I will be away on holidays for a while. Having said that, I'll try to check on the forum, nontheless, every now and then :D

[SoulGG]

congrats man:D I'll catch up...........one day there's bound to be one server in my work place that's been up for that long!:p:

[jimwah]

:hehe: Happy Birthday mate, have a good break over christmas too :up: :toast:

[k0nsl]

We need more active members with good uptime ;)

Happy Christmas.

-k0nsl

[SoulGG]

Dear Uptime-Community,

After the last very successful 5 years with about 1.7 million data records and
more than 20000 active users, we would like to say "thank you" to everyone who
helped the project grow to what it is right now.

+++ We are very sad to say it, but we decided to close down the Uptime-Project
on the 1st of March 2007. +++

Surely this wasn't an easy decision because of all the time we invested in the
project but we don't have enough time to keep the site alive. Another problem
is, and always was, the increasing costs for servers and traffic. (Thanks to our
sponsors!)

Please shut down all the uptime-clients you're running because we can't keep the
domain name forever and we don't want somebody to get his hands on the user data
the clients are sending.

Why don't we give away the project for free and let somebody else run it?
That question is easy to answer. With more than 20000 users, there is a lot of
user data in our database (for example the email-addresses). We don't want
somebody to get his hands on this data to maintain the user.s privacy.

Again, thank your very much for competing in the Uptime-Project!


Sincerely the Uptime-Project staff


Sucks to see it go:eek:

[jimwah]

Nooooo! I was just contemplating getting the client running again on my work PC (we've moved office & got new machines recently). It's a shame really 'cos there was some amazing records on there, but I can understand what they're saying on the privacy front.

Hopefully some passionate ex-Uptimer will create an Uptime Project II, and a new client to go with it :shrug: I hope at least.

>>edit: typo

[eddieate]

damn did they ever make an OSX client?
Ed.

[jimwah]

I suppose you might have had a chance of getting the linux client to run :shrug: Sadly, its academic now.

[__Miguel_]

Hi there. I just stumbled upon this thread. Unfortunately, I'm too late to even try breaking an uptime world record, but I can tell you my last W2K3 socket 478 Celeron 2.6GHz network gateway (I've upgraded it to an 805 last September) once had an uptime of nearly 150 days. And even then, I only rebooted it because I wanted to patch the OS (it IS a Windows machine, after all, I started getting worried about security flaws... lol)

I just wanted to point out that 1) there is no need for fancy hardware (as it was already pointed out). I was running the server on an Asus P4P800-VM motherboard and 3x256MB DDR-400 OEM sticks. I didn't even have an UPS (good power lines, thankfully).

And 2) Windows boxes may not be as good as *nix systems on major uptime world records, but it IS possible to get great uptimes from them.

Cheers

Miguel