NordicBots.com News

New feature: Translations

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:40:22 +0200

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick note to say that we've added Google Translate functionality to our bots allowing you to translate text to another language.

We have not yet updated the documentation on this feature, so I'll try to explain how to use it, although we don't expect it to be that hard to understand. To translate text you need to use the !translate command. This command is available if chanset +infobot is active.

The full 'syntax' for this command is: !translate [-from ] [-to ] .

If you specify a language through the -from or -to switches then you can write the language code (e.g. nl, en, hu) or the actual name of the language (e.g. Dutch, English, Hungarian). If you do not specify a 'from' language then our bots will try to automatically detect the language the text is written in. If you do not specify a 'to' language then our bots will translate the text to English.

So to translate the dutch text "hallo wereld" to English, you only have to write:

!translate hallo wereld

And the bot will then reply with:

Translation from Dutch (autodetected) to English: hello world

Note that this is basically the same command as:

!translate -from dutch -to english hallo wereld

And the same command as:

!translate -from nl hallo wereld

That's about it. If you have any problems or think you've found a bug don't hesitate to contact us in #NordicBots

Thanks!

Natasha mIRC Script Updated

TheAvatar@noreply.nordicbots.com (TheAvatar) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:12:18 +0200

Update, April 22, 2009
Due to a bug in the 0.6.3 version yesterday, a bugfix version has been released, version 0.6.4.
It can be found in the Downloads section or updated using the script auto-updater.
Users having decode-warnings with version 0.6.3 should either go to Options=>Other=>Lock and enable (uncheck) the 'Decode'.
If not possible, you might want to close mIRC, manually update the script to 0.6.4 (replacing the two old files with the 2 new ones) and then start mIRC. The errors should disappear then and the script work.
Thanks to StareX for discovering the bug.

Our Natasha mIRC control script has been updated with a new version.
Besides adding some extra languages, it has a few minor fixes.
Please notice, as of version 0.6.3 the script requires mIRC 6.17 or higher, because the language file now uses the format UTF-8, as mIRC only supports this since version 6.17.

It can be found in the Downloads section or by clicking here

Supported languages:

English
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese-Brazilian
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish

And a few more soon to come.

Please let us know if you have any problems with this new version.

For mIRC < v6.17 users:
If you use an older version of mIRC than 6.17 you must stick to the 0.6.2 version, which can be found here. It does not have the same amount of languages and wont be updated further. You are adviced to disable the version checker from the Status window.

Happy birthday dusti!

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Looks like we've got yet another birthday this month.

This time it's dusti's time to celebrate that yet another year of working with NordicBots has passed.

Thanks for your dedication to our service, dusti. We really appreciate it and I'm confident our users do too. I hope you have a great day and that you'll continue to work with us for a long long time!

Happy 23rd birthday! :)

Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!

.. on behalf of the NordicBots team!

Happy Birthday Petyyy

TheAvatar@noreply.nordicbots.com (TheAvatar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:00:05 +0200

A big congratulations with your 24th birthday Petyyy!
We hope you will have a fantastic day.
Petyyy is one of the admins dedicating a large amount of his time to NordicBots doing support, managing translations and being the admin with the absolutely highest amount of handled requests.
A big thank you for your big effort making NordicBots what it is.

All the best from your friends at NordicBots

NordicBots is looking for translators!

Petyyy@noreply.nordicbots.com (Petyyy) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:37:12 +0100

Hello All,

We are looking for volunteers that are willing to translate our English documentation to the
following languages:

Czech, French Norwegian, Slovenian and Turkish

Job Details:
Currently we have 5 translator tasks. Usually it only takes a few hours to finish one so we would
like you to finish a task within 8-10 days. Also note that we do not add new translator tasks too
often. This means that you will probably be done with all the tasks within a few weeks and it's possible
that you do not have to translate anything for months.

If you are interested in becoming a translator, please fill out the application form at:
http://www.nordicbots.com/translator_application.php

Users that have been selected to become translators will be notified.

Note: For those of you wondering how much you're going to earn with translating, the answer
is simple: nothing. Translators will get their names listed on the website.

Thanks!

Small modification to '+bitch' channel setting

soczol@noreply.nordicbots.com (soczol) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:08:49 +0100

We've made some small changes to the +bitch channel setting.

Previously your bot only looked at the level of the person doing the op (+o) or deop (-o). The bot now additionally checks the access of the person that is being opped/deopped.

An 'op' (+o) mode change is now allowed if any of these cases is true:

The user doing the op has the Master level or higher.
The user being opped has the Op level or higher.

A 'deop' (-o) mode change is now allowed if any of these cases is true:

The user doing the deop has the Owner level or higher.
The user being deopped has a lower level than the user doing the deop
The user is not known on the channel (not added, or not authed to Q)

In all other cases the mode change will be reverted. So any users being opped will be deopped, and any users being deopped will be opped.

We'd like to emphasize that +bitch is not some 'protection' system from takeovers. If there is any service capable of protecting your channel, it would be Q.

Only giving ops to people you trust will also limit the chances of a takeover happening in your channel.

If you have any questions, about these modifications, or just about our bots in general, feel free to join #Nordicbots and ask. We'd also appreciate it if you would report any issues you might be having with this modification.

G-line

TheAvatar@noreply.nordicbots.com (TheAvatar) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:25:55 +0100

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties due to temporary G-line, meaning all our bots wont respond, and a part of the bots are not present on their channels.
We hope the G-line will expire at approx 17:15.

Update: As expected, the G-line expired at 17:15 and all our bots are back online. Thanks for your patience!

Channel stats beta features

TheAvatar@noreply.nordicbots.com (TheAvatar) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:33:56 +0100

We have tried playing a bit around with PISG in the past time.
We have so far ended up with three improvements:

The stats time is increased drastically.
Stats will update atleast once an hour all day/night. At night, updates will occur more often.
You have all, daily, weekly and monthly stats to choose from.
We have added the ability to ignore nicks and merge nicks (if a user has more than one nick showing up in the stats, you can put these into just one nick).
This feature is still beta, but feel free to try it out. Here is how to:
- Log in at www.nordicbots.com
- Go to IRC Settings => Associate my Q-Account
- Complete the guide to link your Q-account with your web account. (ignore the Not finished yet part)
- Go to Community => Beta Features
- Click Natasha channel stats setup
- Pick your channel (you need to be owner). Click Manage.
- Pick either Merge nicknames or Ignore nicknames.
- Pick Stats layout to change the color theme of your stats.
Primary nickname: The nick you want shown in the stats
Additional nicknames: The extra nicknames a user has, you want merged under the primary nickname. This is a SPACE seperated list.
Update entry: If the primary nick is already present, it will add additional nicks to the current entry.
Use the Del X link to remove an entry from the list.

Please keep in mind this feature is BETA and might change any time. Please let me know if it doesnt work as explained above.
Depending on a few things it might take 30-90 minutes, before changes will show up on the stats.

Linking your account is 100% safe and does NOT involve your Q-password in any way! There is no way your Q-account can be compromised using this feature!

Some extra information for those people who want to know....:

Current we generate stats for 1660 channels.
629 channels use another stats language than English
We generate 4 kinds of stats for each language each channel
We generate more than 9000 stats pages

Happy Birthday h3ll

dusti@noreply.nordicbots.com (dusti) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:29:36 +0100

Today is a day of celebration, as one of our dear staffmembers turn older.
This time it's h3ll who's celebrating his 21st birthday!
On behalf of the whole NordicBots team, I would like to wish you a very happy birthday!
Have a jolly day. :)

ps. Note the number of candles. :p

Merry Christmas

dusti@noreply.nordicbots.com (dusti) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:43:43 +0100

Merry Christmas

It's the time when we settle down and spend some time with our families and friends.
Our bots won't do this though, so no worries about that, but don't be suprised if our staff members aren't as active as usual.

Merry Christmas to all of you. :)