:: 17-Jun-1999 02:22 (Thursday) ::

note: the following MacOS client is not a final release. It is beta. As such
it may not function as you would expect it to. I am asking for user feedback
running these clients. Currently, only the GUI is available, but the FBA should
be shortly.

Expected Problems:
1) slower key rate under MacOS 8.6

The Client: http://web.triton.net/sampo/rc5des.PPC.sit
Feedback: mailto:sampo@tir.com?subject=rc5_beta

thanks!

:: 17-Jun-1999 02:14 (Thursday) ::

test

:: 16-Jun-1999 06:24 (Wednesday) ::

Well, gregh’s keen eye already spotted an error… the yesterday column in
the team members listing shows how many blocks that person did yesterday, not
how many they did for the team yesterday. So it’s wrong for anyone who used to
be on your team and left it but did blocks yesterday, if that makes sense. I’ll
fix it tomorrow.

Sorry about the cowfusion. }:8/

:: 16-Jun-1999 06:20 (Wednesday) ::

The ‘stats hounds’ out there might notice that the team members listing
suddenly got a little better tonight… I’ve been playing around with it.
One undocumented feature is that it will also show just members who
contributed blocks to the team yesterday… to see that, just add a ‘&source=y’
to the url. For example:

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmember.php3?team=1828&source=y

As you can see, I’m #3 for my team yesterday… I’ve got some catching up to
do, so I’ll wrap this up and let the client have free reign again. ;)

Hopefully I’ll have the links on the team summary page updated tomorrow… I’m
tired now and afraid I’ll break something if I mess with it now.

Enjoy!

:: 13-Jun-1999 05:01 (Sunday) ::

As many of you have probably noticed, we ran into a “problem” today that
has resulted in underreporting on the stats site. Due to human error,
the “assigned blocks” and the “completed blocks” tables on the keymaster
were pointed to the same file during the cycle to a new keyslice.

The result of this mixup is that about 1.2 million valid blocks were
discarded as duplicates on the keymaster. This is also why dctievent and
the proxyinfo page were reporting very low overall keyrates all morning.

Since we’ve learned to be overly-cautious when it comes to logging, there
is no data loss. All dupes are logged, and therefore we will be able to
simply parse out the dupe logs and credit everyone who has lost blocks.
I would anticipate this happening in the next few days, as soon as we can
code and test a script to perform the recovery.

I apologize for the low stats in today’s run, and recognize that it
hasn’t affected everyone equally, which is frustrating. We’ll do
everything we can to correct the discrepancy as soon as possible and get
stats correct again.

Also, team member stats will be officially online monday. Thanks for
your patience.

:: 11-Jun-1999 22:35 (Friday) ::

I’ve received a “beta” t-shirt from our vendor. Images at:

http://nodezero.distributed.net/~nugget/shirt_front.jpg
http://nodezero.distributed.net/~nugget/shirt_back.jpg

On the whole, the shirts look pretty good. The cow image on the front is
excellent, and the quality of the shirt is first rate. However, there
are some issues with the dnet logo on the back that will need to be
resolved before they can go to production with the shirts. The black
rectangle just isn’t transferring well and doesn’t look like it would
weather the laundry very well at all. I think that the big, black
rectangle looks a little weird, too. I’m hoping that it works
better on black cloth.

One possible solution would be to use the white-background, greyscale
logo for the white t-shirts. I don’t know much at all about silkscreens
or garment imaging, so I’m just relying on whatever the vendor decides to
do to address the issue.

The tentative plan is to offer four styles of shirt initially. long
sleeve, short sleeve, black and white. Depending on how successful the
shirt sales are, we’d really like to see other items and a more diverse
product lineup released.

As always, as more information becomes available, you’ll hear about it.

:: 09-Jun-1999 21:28 (Wednesday) ::

Everyone should go to http://slashdot.org/ and vote!

:: 08-Jun-1999 22:19 (Tuesday) ::

The UPS on statsbox started complaining about battery problems a few
minutes ago. I’ve shut down the box so Petr can experiment and bang on
the UPS to try to determine what’s causing it to complain.

That’s why you can’t reach stats right now. Shouldn’t be long…

:: 04-Jun-1999 03:48 (Friday) ::

The following clinets have been updated:

rc5des443-win32-x86-cli.zip
rc5des443-dos-x86-cli.zip

Enjoy!

:: 01-Jun-1999 03:26 (Tuesday) ::

Linux 443 Clients have been updated. The problem seems to have been
fixed.

Enjoy!