The Deimos Project

Nowadays Deimos is pretty complete and stable. However, it can always be better and I am continuously improving Deimos.

But, what exactly should be improved, which features have the priority?

My question to the users: What do you want to see improved? How?

Sorry - I clearly just hadn't noticed you already had this!

But maybe some better online stats pages for users to use in forum signatures etc? Knowing my luck I just havn't noticed that as well, but the My Deimos page seems a bit bare at the moment.

Hi

I would really like to see stats... lots of stats about all sorts of things, especially in comparing users and teams.

By the way, did you see my post on the 0.8.12 thread?

That preview looks real good. The "what's new since last visit" is a nice idea

Interesting issue. The application commits every hour statistics to the website. During that time, no statistics are recorded. If the delay is 15 seconds * 24 times, that is already 5 minutes which means 99,6%

I wouldn't say this is a bug and easily fixed but I will keep a look out to improve this.

Another crazy idea to throw around... what if deimos also kept track of cpu utilization and memory, and things like that, like we can see on Windows task manager?

That would open up a whole new realm of statistics even.

yea, average cpu utilization would be funny. Guess it would be similar to the network speed, with a real time graph on the app and everything. Altough people like me that run distributed computing apps will have an average of 99% most of the time.

That could lead to something like a "CPU burner" achievement, if a person has PCs that are constantly using a high percentage of cpu utilization.

And I guess all the same with RAM, and a "Memory Hog" achievement.

Say... could Deimos also track mouse distance?

I'm just thinking way out of the box here, but what if it measured mouse distance in on-screen pixels?

There was a program called Modometer that did this and it seemed rather accurate. I loved it, except it always had an issue with crashing after using it for a long time. My urge for statistics is what made me end up here. The program also kept track of how many clicks, distance moved, keys clicked per program so you could tell what programs you used the most, type the most, etc. Right clicks, left clicks, etc.

There was another project years ago that kept track of what keys you used the most.

These would be awesome statistics.

Here's something you can expect from the next version which is expected soon: 0.8.20 (yes, a small jump)

- CPU and memory usage statistics
- Motherboard name detection
- Track the number of computer-boots

With this version you can also expect more extended hardware information at the website:
- Processor name (including number of physical processors and number of cores)
- Motherboard name
- Videocard name
- 32-bit/64-bit
- Hard disk names (multiple support)
- Networkcard names (multiple support)
- Virtual machine detection

The detection of these information has gradually improved in every release and now it will be used more extensively at the website

Oh, and, it also means that 0.8.20 will have a Linux-version without the 'beta'-tag

I have been looking into Deimos for the Mac OS X. It looks like I can actually build a Mac version of Deimos Only cannot figure out how I can count keystrokes and mouseclicks...

Things are moving more slowly due the vacation. Also, I am doing more testing with this release to prevent bugs (the previous releases just had too many bugs for my taste)