:: 31-Oct-2000 18:42 (Tuesday) ::

The Following Clients have been placed/updated for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Zipped] v2.8011.464e 2000-10-31

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

changes.txt file is included in the download.

Please remember to report bugs at http://www.distributed.net/bugs/

Enjoy!

:: 31-Oct-2000 13:09 (Tuesday) ::

I’m re-running OGR stats for yesterday to take care of those errors. It’s
taking a long time since a backup is also happening, so I’m going to turn
web access back on. Don’t be alarmed when it looks like stats haven’t run
for OGR. }:8)

:: 31-Oct-2000 11:05 (Tuesday) ::

There are some errors in the team stats on OGR, due to some new code I
implemented (which is supposed to fix some other errors!) I’m aware of
the problem and will get things straightened out ASAP.

At some point in the near future, I will be re-calculating all the team
statistics for OGR from scratch to eliminate some errors. The new stats
code doesn’t recreate the team tables from scratch every night like the
old code does; instead, it takes the list of participants that did work
that day and adds the work they did to their total work. Sounds simple in
theory, but when you add retires and retroactive-active team joins (when
you join a team, any work you’ve done that wasn’t assigned to a team gets
assigned to the one you just joined) to the mix, things start to get a
bit tricky. There is currently a problem with how both of these events
are (or rather, were) handled by the stats code. This means that the
information displayed by the team and team member pages is not totally
accurate.

As soon as I’m sure that I’ve fixed all these bugs, I’ll re-calculate the
team information so that it’s accurate once again. When I do this though,
your team might jump up or down a few places. This isn’t because we’re
short-changing you, it’s because the numbers were wrong to begin with.
}:8)

I’ll be certain to post a .plan when I actually re-do the numbers.

:: 30-Oct-2000 01:35 (Monday) ::

Something apparently got botched during one of today’s hourly OGR runs,
so I’m re-doing the day from scratch. This will delay the RC5 run a bit.

:: 29-Oct-2000 00:58 (Sunday) ::

The Following Clients have been placed/updated for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Zipped] v2.8011.464d 2000-10-29

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

Please remember to report bugs at http://www.distributed.net/bugs/

Enjoy!

:: 28-Oct-2000 12:00 (Saturday) ::

I’ve made some significant text updates to our trojans page so that it
can hopefully be used as a more definitive reference point for people
needing to find out information about these worms, instead of having to
assemble details revealed over the multiple updates to my plan pages. I
also include links to the anti-virus vendors that describe each of these
worms. http://www.distributed.net/trojans.html

:: 28-Oct-2000 08:16 (Saturday) ::

During the recent problems with stats, the ranking for OGR got botched.
I’ve zeroed out any change in ranking for participants and teams, as if
everyone had the same exact rank yesterday as today. The problem will take
care of itself after tomorrow’s statsrun.

On a different note, a few proxies stopped talking to the master a day or
two ago, resulting in a lot of data backing up, so many of you might have
lower stats than normal for a few days. All is back to normal now, and
stats should be back to normal after tomorrow.

Sorry for any confusion.

:: 27-Oct-2000 23:16 (Friday) ::

I’m in the process of re-configuring sybase to hopefully speed things up
some more. I’ll have it back up as soon as possible.

:: 27-Oct-2000 22:38 (Friday) ::

Hi everyone, just a quick introduction .plan.

As some of you would know now I’ve been helping out with distributed.net
for a little while now, so I should have a .plan :)

What I will be doing (other than consuming large amounts of coffee) is
working on the PHP for both the general site as well as helping out with
the help@distributed.net email, for the time being anyway.

One last note – if you have suggestions for stats or anything else you
can submit them via bugzilla (http://n0cgi.distributed.net/bugs/)

:: 26-Oct-2000 19:07 (Thursday) ::

For everyone who’s been wondering why stats have been up and down; the
statsrun has been slowing down again, so I’m running a maintenance routine.
I’ve also been working to get the stats-runs finished. Although dbcc runs
in the background, tally just isn’t powerful enough to support the dbcc,
statsrun, and web access all at the same time. That’s why I’ve been turning
web access off and on.

As soon as either the dbcc or the statsrun finishes, I’ll turn http back
on.