:: 29-Jan-2003 05:11 GMT (Wednesday) ::

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:: 28-Jan-2003 06:56 GMT (Tuesday) ::

The query that does the main import for the OGR verification is causing
the postgres process to die. This obviously hampers development quite
a bit.

I’m currently in contact with one of the dev-team for postgreSQL, so
hopefully this issue will be resolved quickly and we can tell you how far
along in OGR we are.

:: 27-Jan-2003 22:25 GMT (Monday) ::

It’s come to our attention that some wise individual decided that
blower.distributed.net (the stats machine) belongs on an email blacklist,
presumably because they think it generates spam. If you click the ‘mail me my
password’ button on your stats page and don’t get an email with your password
in it, it’s probably because your ISP is using whatever blacklist we’re on.

If anyone finds out what blacklist blower is listed on, please email
help@distributed.net with the information and we’ll see if we can
get the listing removed. Note that there are several blacklists that
have decided to blacklist entire major Network Service Providers.
http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?ip=65.112.245.132&Search=Search is one
example. They’ve blacklisted all of Qwest’s IPs, and since blower’s network
connection is via Qwest, blower is blacklisted as well. Because of the nature
of this list, you should contact your ISP and tell them to either white-list
blower, or not to use that blackhole list. That page even states that that
blacklist isn’t intended for public use:

“If some mail server is rejecting your email based on the above listing, ask
them to either white-list your address or to stop using this list. I don’t know
who is using blackholes.five-ten-sg.com to block email – it is my personal list
used to protect my personal mail servers (and my clients). I make it public so
that anyone who has mail rejected here can find out why it was rejected.”

:: 27-Jan-2003 19:49 GMT (Monday) ::

Two new pre-release clients are now available:

* dnetc479-netbsd-68k
* dnetc479-netbsd-ppc

:: 25-Jan-2003 03:25 GMT (Saturday) ::

Thanks to the worm that’s running around, UD (where blower is located) is
currently off the net. This means no stats until Qwest fixes it’s network.

:: 21-Jan-2003 04:24 GMT (Tuesday) ::

— Official releases —

These release-candidate personal proxies were formally moved to the
official release page:

* proxyper332-macosx-ppc.tar.gz
* proxyper333-freebsd-x86.tar.gz
* proxyper333-linux-x86-glibc21.tar.gz
* proxyper333-linux-x86.tar.gz
* proxyper333-os2-x86.zip
* proxyper333-win32-x86.zip

This personal proxy existed on the official release page for a very
short time, but was revoked due to improper SIGIO handling. A
replacement build 334 has been put on the pre-release page (see
below):

* proxyper333-solaris26-sparc.tar.gz

— Pre-releases (release candidates) —

These pre-release x86 clients were available on the pre-release page
for a very short time, but were revoked due to suspected problems with
the new x86 assembly core introduced in that build:

* dnetc479-netbsd-i386-elf.tar.gz
* dnetc479-bsdos4-x86-elf.tar.gz
* dnetc479-bsdos2-x86-aout.tar.gz

These pre-release AmigaOS clients were revoked due to a bug and
replaced by new 479b versions (upgrade to the new version if you
were running an old release candidate):

* dnetc479-amigaos-68k.lha
* dnetc479-amigaos-ppc-pup.lha
* dnetc479-amigaos-ppc-wos.lha

These new release candidate proxies and clients were just added to the
pre-release page:

* proxyper334-solaris26-sparc.tar.gz
* proxyper333-linux-alpha.tar.gz
* dnetc478d-os2-x86.zip
* dnetc478-linux-sh4.tar.gz
* dnetc479-linux-alpha4.tar.gz
* dnetc479-openbsd-sparc-aout.tar.gz
* dnetc479-hpux1020-hppa11.tar.gz
* dnetc479-hpux1020-hppa11-nonmt.tar.gz

:: 15-Jan-2003 19:28 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Nerf & co. are running some big, hairy query on postgres on blower, which is
swamping one of the drive arrays. This is slowing stats processing down a huge
amount, so I’m going to turn the statsrun off until whatever they’re running is
done. Sorry for the inconvenience.

:: 12-Jan-2003 00:50 GMT (Sunday) ::

Blower was updated to the latest version of PHP tonight.
Everything seems to be working fine now, however initially stats was
showing up as though users had completed 1 block, due to a PHP bug.

Ilia (one of the PHP QA team) located the bug straight away for me, so
things should be back to normal.

If anyone spots any other issues which may be due to this update,
then please drop me an email.

:: 09-Jan-2003 23:48 GMT (Thursday) ::

The network to one of our two webservers was unavailable for about 2.5
hours earlier this morning, but connectivity has been restored now.

Additionally (but unrelated), one of our U.S. keyservers was partially
inaccessible for a few days and was finally able to flush a large
number of blocks that had been sent to it, so there was a slight
keyrate spike today as well.

:: 09-Jan-2003 18:57 GMT (Thursday) ::

CalicoJak has been kind enough to update a little calculator tool from
the rc5-64 days. For a given CPU, it gives estimates on the number
of blocks per day and week you should do for RC5, as well as your expected
OGR rate.

Check http://www.distributed.net/~nerf/rc5calc.html for all the fun.

Keep in mind that these are very rough estimates and will likely
change as cores get updated.

Stop in to #distributed on irc.distributed.net and says thanks to CalicoJak.