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.

2004-09-20

bovine [20-Sep-2004 @ 17:38]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 17:38 +00:00

:: 20-Sep-2004 17:38 GMT (Monday) ::

Our proxy1.red.wa.us server has been experiencing networking
difficulties for the past 3 days, so it has a small backlog of blocks
that will not be accounted in stats until 22-Sept when its operator
gets back in town. Until then, it has been removed from our DNS
round-robin lists.

Our two proxy*.utrecht.nl servers also experienced an unrelated outage
due to a networking firewall failure. Their connectivity has been
restored and any of their backlogged blocks should be reflected in
today’s stats update.

2004-09-05

mfeiri [05-Sep-2004 @ 17:01]

Filed under: Uncategorized — mfeiri @ 17:01 +00:00

:: 05-Sep-2004 17:01 GMT (Sunday) ::

A couple of months ago I held a lecture about “Cheating in public
distributed computing” at the 20th Chaos Communication Congress, one of
the biggest annual hacker conferences in Europe. I discussed the impact of
cheating on distributed computing projects and illustrated several
possible ways to handle the problem. The slides are now available under a
CC license. Additionally I have formulated 3 basic “anti-cheat” rules that
anyone should read before starting a public distributed computing project.

You’ll find everything at http://www.feiri.de/cheat/