I have been working on it a number of hours for the last week+.

Considering it was a fresh machine (no software beyond windows server 2003) on it... ive had to do a wide series of installs/configs.

Add that its windows *SHUDDER* and im a linux boy it takes a while longer (ermm LOTS longer).

As it stands the DB is mostly up (minus one config problem between old version of mysql and the new one).

Most of the mr-pages are working.

The mrbots are up (beyond somehow making it a service - wtf is the windows equivilent to nohup/daemon?)

The backend is generally up.... beyond that ive locked it down to my own home IP (how the fuck do you password a folder in IIS?)

The manual-log-sending is broken. A script will probably need to be rewritten (to get this to work I need to open the box up to a whole series of hacks - once again... a windows shortcomming). So that is one of the next things ill be looking at. I just love it when the general consensus on the web is "move to a unix box".

The bots -should- be able to connect to the db. But they wont. Unsure why. (Tested the username/etc its using and that its open to the remote boxes - both ok).

Once I have manual score-updating working (minus logs) ill post about it.

How the hell do people actually use windows for this stuff? or WHY!?!? (seriously not impressed by windows)

Demi.