:: 24-Jan-2001 15:56 (Wednesday) ::

Just updated http://www.distributed.net/source/ with a new source download.
Delete your old source files and refresh with these and go nuts. New cores
are always welcome -hint, hint ;)-

Happy coding!

:: 20-Jan-2001 07:51 (Saturday) ::

I’ve released an updated version of my log visualizer for win32. Version
1.2.1 corrects a log parsing issue that caused it to ignore block entries
produced by older “rc5des” clients (between about versions v2.7100.417
and v2.8000). Additionally, it adds a menu item to quickly “zoom full”
and show the entire log file, in case you have used the zoom selection to
restrict it to a specific date period. Finally, when you have the “idle
period emphasis” enabled, the lower bound of the y-axis (keyrate) is now
forced to 0, allowing the idle periods to be accentuated at their actual
level of non-productivity. As always, source can be found at
http://www.distributed.net/source/ or binaries at
http://www.distributed.net/download/addon.html
http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/win32vis.png is a nice snapshot of
the display, in case any of you have not seen it before.

I encourage any motivated participants that have C++ and Win32 API
experience and a bit of free time to consider looking at the TODO file
included with the source code and possibly working on any of the outstanding
tasks. Contact me directly if you’re thinking on working on anything (or
have additional suggestions for other TODO items) so that I can coordinate
who is working on what.

:: 16-Jan-2001 03:23 (Tuesday) ::

Just thought I’d share a picture of the present that my fellow cow-orkers
from distributed.net and United Devices got me!
http://www.bovine.net/~jlawson/webcam/archive/burfday-hay.jpg

:: 15-Jan-2001 22:48 (Monday) ::

[Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] Automatic processor detection found 4 processors.
[Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] Loading crunchers with work… [Jan 15 22:49:07
UTC] Loaded OGR stub 25/12-11-2-8-18-19 (35.50% done) [Jan 15 22:49:07
UTC] Loaded OGR stub 25/12-11-2-8-19-5 [Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] Loaded OGR
stub 25/12-11-2-8-19-1 [Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] Loaded OGR stub
25/12-11-2-15-16-10 [Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] 10 OGR packets (10 work units)
remain in buff-in.ogr [Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] 10 OGR packets (10 work units)
are in buff-out.ogr [Jan 15 22:49:07 UTC] 4 crunchers (‘a’-‘d’) have been
started.

Even though we don’t have bandwidth yet, the new statsbox is being
productive.

:: 15-Jan-2001 10:28 (Monday) ::

Well, here is a new plan update since many people have been nagging me
for an update (and one johnla in particular).

I have just made available new versions of the Win32 Log Visualizer and
Java Log Visualizer utilities. For both of them, I added support for the
new log file format used by the recently released v2.8012.465 client
builds. Additionally, in the Win32 version I have added support for
selecting which project data to look at, instead of viewing all projects
mixed together (the Java version has separated the projects by painting
each with a different color since the last version or two). The Win32
version also adds the ability to turn off the artificial “emphasis” of
idle periods when the dnetc client was not running, because the emphasis
would frequently become distracting on large log files. You can retrieve
precompiled binaries or source from
http://www.distributed.net/download/addons.html or
http://www.distributed.net/source/

Also noteworthy is that distributed.net has recently migrated its primary
IRC channel from the EFNET irc network to a new private IRC network.
Although http://www.distributed.net/discussion/irc.html has not yet been
updated to reflect this fact, you can now find us on irc.distributed.net
(port 6667) in the #distributed or #ud channels. To help maintain a
partial presence on EFNET and ease with the migration to the new IRC
network, I have also written a two-way Perl IRC relaybot that sits on both
networks and relays conversations across the gap. Nugget has put together
a page summarizing scripts for several popular IRC clients that makes this
relaying a little bit more transparent:
http://www1.distributed.net/~nugget/dctirelay.html

For those of you interested in news from the United Devices front, as of
this weekend the entire UD staff has moved to a new 16800 sq ft office
building. There will undoubtedly be a significant amount of unpacking
and equipment/network set-up during this coming week, so there may be
intermittent reachability to http://cvs.distributed.net/ More importantly,
the increased amount of bandwidth to the UD office (that we have been
promising for awhile) is expected to be arriving very soon after this
office move settles down. The limited bandwidth to the United Devices
office has been the factor that has been preventing us from bringing the
new, replacement stats server online. Once the bandwidth issue is resolved,
the database contents will merely need to be transferred over and then
the new server will be able to take over right in its place. However I
can’t be any more specific on the timeframe for the full conversion, since
Nugget and Decibel would be the ones in charge of that entire process.

Well, that’s all for now. I wonder how many more birthday emails I’ll
end up getting today…

:: 12-Jan-2001 07:30 (Friday) ::

The Following Clients have been Updated/Added:

– AIX [PPC+POWER] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– OpenBSD [Sparc/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– OpenBSD [x86/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– NetBSD [1.5/x86] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– NetBSD [m68k] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– BSD/OS [2.x/3.x/4.x/x86/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

– Linux [ARM/ELF] v2.8012.465 2001-01-12

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html

By Sys: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Changes.txt: http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

Enjoy!

:: 09-Jan-2001 06:06 (Tuesday) ::

The Following Clients have been Updated/Added:

– Windows 32bit [x86/Zipped] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

– Windows 32bit [Alpha/Zipped] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

– Windows 3.x [x86] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

– PC-DOS, MS-DOS [x86] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

– FreeBSD [x86/ELF] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

– Linux [x86/ELF] v2.8012.465 2001-01-09

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html

By Sys: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Changes.txt: http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

:: 02-Jan-2001 05:53 (Tuesday) ::

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

– Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me [x86/Zipped] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me [Alpha/Zipped] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– Windows 3.x [x86] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– PC-DOS, MS-DOS [x86] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– FreeBSD [x86/ELF] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– Linux [x86/ELF/all lib versions] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– Linux [arm/ELF] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– BSD/OS [2.x/3.x/4.x/x86/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– NetBSD [m68k] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– OpenBSD [Sparc/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

– OpenBSD [x86/aout] v2.8012.465 2001-01-01

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

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

changes.txt file is included in the download. or at

http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

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

Enjoy!

:: 01-Jan-2001 20:53 (Monday) ::

Happy New (Year|Millennium) from all the cows at distributed.net!

I realize that things have been a bit quiet on the d.net front lately.
Between the holidays and a bunch of us in the middle of moving to Austin,
it’s been difficult to stay on top of everything. Thankfully, it looks
like everything’s starting to settle down again and we’re in good shape
as we start the new year.

On the statsbox front (in case you haven’t heard) we’ve got a nice Dell
PowerEdge server that has been provided by United Devices which we expect
to put into production in the first half of January. We’re waiting for
more bandwidth at UD’s data center before we turn everyone loose on the
machine. It’s also only got one of the four processors we want.

After we add the other three processors, it’ll be a quad Xeon 500 with a
gig of ram and a boat-load of scsi drives.

Thanks for your patience through the holidays. And a special thank you
to all the members of the Japan Windows NT Users Group (
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=8024 ) for sending
the *really* cool 2001 cow calenders and case emblems. They’ve been a
big hit with everyone here.