staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2000-09-18

bovine [18-Sep-2000 @ 00:42]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 00:42 +00:00

:: 18-Sep-2000 00:58 (Monday) ::

There have been a couple of new utilities added to the third-party addons
page, including:

Ovine by Julius Welby. A python script that allows people (such as those
who use the email fetch@distributed.net gateway) to automatically swap
in other in-buffers when the client exhausts its current one.

PM by Spirin Timofey. A Win32 utility to process proxy console logs,
allowing you to monitor the buffer levels and last-update times of all
connecting clients.

You can find links to those utilities (and more) on our third-party addons
page at http://www.distributed.net/download/addon.html

I’ve also finished some minor reorganization of the text on the front
distributed.net web page, the ogr contest page, the rc5 contest page, and
the client download pages. Most of the changes I’ve made have been in
the interest in trying to improve the readability of the pages to someone
visiting those pages for the first time.