:: 16-Jan-2000 21:03 (Sunday) ::

I have just resigned from distributed.net.

Please understand that the organization has done nothing to prompt this.
I am leaving for purely personal reasons, which I’d rather not discuss
publicly, and have no hard feelings whatsoever towards the organization
or any of its members.

Keep on cracking.

:: 16-Jan-2000 20:36 (Sunday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– FreeBSD [ELF/x86/MT] v2.8005.455
– Linux [s390/glibc2.0/MT] v2.8005.454

You may be saying the Linux s390 is still the same version…. Well
Its now MultiThreaded

Changes:

2.8005.455 fix: all: client not rotating to next project
fix: win32/16: all font issues resolved
fix: all: fix for cosmetic ‘Retrieved n of 4billion’ message
fix: all: duplicate ‘nettimeout’ setting in .ini
chg: many: CSC cores removed from (some) clients

Good Job To All!
Moose

:: 16-Jan-2000 11:25 (Sunday) ::

We’ve been told by a number of users that their dnetc clients have
failed to automatically resume RC5 after the client had received the
CSC contest closure indicator. The problem seems to affect a fair
number of machines, and it may be necessary for you to manually quit
and restart your client to get it to properly resume RC5. No other
actions should be necessary (provided your client has already figured
out that CSC is over, by allowing it to talk to the keyservers).

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:43 (Sunday) ::

Ok, I think we *finally* have stats back in order. CVS decided now
would be a good time to start playing games with some of the permissions
on the .php3 files.

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:39 (Sunday) ::

Congratulations, everyone, on a successful conclusion to the CSC Challenge
project. There have been a lot of questions about who actually found the
key, so I thought I’d make a quick update to let everyone know what the
scoop is.

First, yes we do know who won, but we haven’t been able to contact him so
we’re not releasing his name or information. We’ve got a good email
address for him so contacting him will not be a problem. (I’m still
going to try for the traditional phone call, first)

The winner was not on a team, and lives in the United States. Beyond
that, I’d rather wait until we’ve made contact before more information
is released.

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:11 (Sunday) ::

Ok, everything is back up again. Two notes though:

1) This is only a partial run for the last day. So all of the ‘yesterday’
numbers are going to look odd. This is quite normal.
2) By running the statsrun multiple times, the change in rank (the little
up/down arrows) got blown away. Since the last day is a partial run
anyway, we probably won’t fix this either, since it would be rather
meaningless.

Thanks to all of you for making this win possible! Keep your eyes open for
an OGR beta RSN!

:: 16-Jan-2000 07:54 (Sunday) ::

Yes, the csc stats main-page is down right now… I’m manually
running the last day of the contest. It will be back in a
few minutes, in the meantime, why not read dbaker’s announcement?

http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/dbaker-csc.html

:: 16-Jan-2000 07:17 (Sunday) ::

We won, guys.

See http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/dbaker-csc.html for more information.

Thanks for all your support.

Daniel

:: 15-Jan-2000 14:50 (Saturday) ::

The updated psearch for CSC was activated last night at about 00:00 Indiana/Alabama
time. Apart from an initial hesitation (which might be attributable to the RC5-64
stats run) it seems to be running fine. Please let me know if you discover
otherwise. Thanks to all those who tested it out. The link from my previous .plan
is now going away.

I’m planning to make the same change for RC5-64 in the near future, to keep the two
projects as similar as possible. Team searches will have to wait, I’m afraid. I’m
starting to direct my efforts to some client architecture issues.

Not to get all “gushy” or anything, but I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone
who has stuck with us through some unexpected side-trips. distributed.net is
nothing without the huge numbers of volunteers who load and run the clients. The
trust you put in us is the real foundation of what we’re building. I hope we can
continue to deserve that trust in the years to come.

Now, wipe that tear from your eye, and let’s find those keys!

Moo!

:: 15-Jan-2000 08:13 (Saturday) ::

Re: http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/planarc.cgi?user=nugget&plan=2000-01-14.22:01

Yep, and I didn’t find any fake rocks around the keymaster. Hrm, pout.