:: 14-May-1999 16:22 (Friday) ::
Wow… It’s like I dropped off the face of the net, isn’t it?
I realize that things have been pretty static on statsbox for a few weeks
now, and I apologize for the frustration that it’s surely caused.
There’s lot on my plate right now, and recently stats has been the area
that’s suffered the most visibly.
Last weekend I was afk to celebrate my one year anniversary with my
lovely wife. Lemme tell ya, if you can find a wife who’s not afraid to
wear a FreeBSD t-shirt in public, you’ll do just fine. :)
I’ve got an inbox FULL of mails from team coordinators who need their
team passwords. If you’ve mailed me for this, don’t look for a reply. I
am going to get the team password mailer operational today. As in, now,
the next hour or so.
The other big request is people wanting to retire old, defunct email
addresses. If you’ve mailed either myself or help@distributed.net for
this, please be patient. We do have to do a little leg-work before
blindly handing out passwords to people just to ensure that the request
is legitimate. Your mail hasn’t been lost and we’re all churning through
them as quickly as we can. If I had a nickel for each time someone told
me that they’d lost their old address ‘rc5@distributed.net’… :)
I’ve also been wearing my new hat quite a bit, too. There’s a lot going
on behind the curtain here at distributed.net. This week we got a $4,100
cheque from iGive which is a significant boost to our bank account and
will really help us buy some much-needed hardware. Drive space is
getting tight on statsbox and on the keymaster, and we really could use a
backup strategy on statsbox that doesn’t involve flooding my ISDN for six
hours every week. In light of this most recent iGive bounty, I felt
motivated to mention them again. Rather than re-hash my glowing praise
of these guys, here’s a pointer to the archives:
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/planarc.cgi?user=nugget&plan=1998-12-15.15:16
Got lots of little administrivia stuffs to handle. We’re going to sit
down and re-work the DCTI by-laws to make the organization a bit more
robust, it’s time for distributed.net to re-visit its mission statement
as well. We need our public statement to reflect the refreshed sense of
motivation and direction that we’re all feeling and it’s time to start
laying out a map for the mid-term and long-term goals of the
organization.
Plus, gotta put some more time in on stats!
It’s a pretty exciting time to be involved in distributed.net, and some
really amazing things are just around the corner. Hang on…