staff blogs

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2000-03-20

bovine [20-Mar-2000 @ 05:15]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 05:15 +00:00

:: 20-Mar-2000 05:28 (Monday) ::

A few users have expressed interest in finding out the latest status of
the clients, and I’m glad to say that we are getting very close to being
able to release the next batch of clients and proxies. Although we’ve
had the OGR specific problems addressed for quite awhile, we’ve been taking
the opportunity to try to address as many of the other feedback issues
that have been received over the last few months. The upcoming client
release is currently undergoing internal beta testing and we hope to have
more details about their release shortly.

2000-03-10

decibel [10-Mar-2000 @ 17:32]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 17:32 +00:00

:: 10-Mar-2000 17:34 (Friday) ::

Well, I’ve added some extra logging information to the statsrun…
hopefully it’ll generate some clues the next time the wrong data gets
processed for the day. I’m running the 3/9 stats right now, so they should
be available in a few hours. Sorry for the delay.

decibel [10-Mar-2000 @ 16:04]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 16:04 +00:00

:: 10-Mar-2000 16:05 (Friday) ::

Seems Mar. 8 was loaded into stats again last night. I’m working on it…
will post an update when I know more…

thebigo [10-Mar-2000 @ 00:04]

Filed under: Uncategorized — thebigo @ 00:04 +00:00

:: 10-Mar-2000 00:06 (Friday) ::

Hello, I’m the new guy. I’ve been asked to ‘come aboard’ to help with a
new aspect of distributed.net stats. I’m not saying too much about it now
but as things start to pull together I’ll begin to let out some more
details of exactly what kind of project I’m working on.

2000-03-08

decibel [08-Mar-2000 @ 01:08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 01:08 +00:00

:: 08-Mar-2000 01:09 (Wednesday) ::

Statsrun will be a bit delayed tonight… Mar 5 data got processed again
last night for some silly reason, so I need to back that out before running
Mar 6 and Mar 7.

2000-03-05

decibel [05-Mar-2000 @ 20:51]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 20:51 +00:00

:: 05-Mar-2000 20:52 (Sunday) ::

Well, we’ve come up with a temporary solution to the statsbox problem, so
I ran stats last night. I’ve also re-enabled the nightly runs for now.

2000-03-04

decibel [04-Mar-2000 @ 01:51]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 01:51 +00:00

:: 04-Mar-2000 01:52 (Saturday) ::

Guess we shouldn’t have celebrated the new CPUs in statsbox so loudly…
it seems that we’re having some kind of hard drive problem now. The box
is up, and stats are up, but we won’t be able to do a statsrun until we
get this fixed. }:8(

More info as available…

2000-03-03

decibel [03-Mar-2000 @ 05:46]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 05:46 +00:00

:: 03-Mar-2000 05:54 (Friday) ::

In case any of you don’t track how long the statsrun takes on a daily
basis ;) ….

Normally the run takes ~4:15. Tonight it took ~2:30. While I wish I could
say this was due to our stellar coding skills, I can’t. :( The good news
is that I can report that our new PIII-500s have made a big difference
(well, the change of 66MHz to 100MHz FSB probably had a huge impact as
well, since that’s the bus that the memory sits on).

You may all thank Sedriss and Grub for their donation of one CPU a piece.

Enjoy!

2000-03-01

bovine [01-Mar-2000 @ 16:30]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 16:30 +00:00

:: 01-Mar-2000 16:50 (Wednesday) ::

I’ve made some modifications to the Faq-o-matic codebase to allow it to
display “updated” icons next to answers that have been recently modified.
This makes it much easier to see things that have been updated within the
last week. As a part of the GNU public license, I’ve contributed my
patches back to the original author and he has indicated that they will
be integrated into the next release. You can check out our FAQ at
http://www.distributed.net/faq/