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.

2005-05-18

bovine [18-May-2005 @ 16:35]

Filed under: clients — bovine @ 16:35 +00:00

:: 18-May-2005 16:35 GMT (Wednesday) ::

I have just uploaded revised v2.9010.495b release candidates for Win32
to fix an unexpected core selection problem on AMD Athlon 64 FX or
newer processors. If you had already downloaded the previous Win32
prerelease client already, it is recommended that you download the
updated one.

Pre-release Linux clients for x86 and AMD64 have also now available.

As before, we’d like to recommend that only users who are willing to
perform early testing and open bug reports download these clients now.

http://www1.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

2005-05-17

bovine [17-May-2005 @ 02:40]

Filed under: keyservers,stats — bovine @ 02:40 +00:00

:: 17-May-2005 02:40 GMT (Tuesday) ::

There was some unexpected server hardware downtime today, which has
led to some backlog accumulating and a delay in the start of today’s
daily stats processing. We’re currently processing the backlog right
now and hope to catch up within the next few hours. It is not
expected that any significant amount of work was lost, due to the
buffering nature of our network.

However please be aware that the statsrun for May 16 (once it has
finished processing) may be a little low, since most of the backlog
will be counted in tomorrow’s stats.

bovine [17-May-2005 @ 02:28]

Filed under: clients — bovine @ 02:28 +00:00

:: 17-May-2005 02:28 GMT (Tuesday) ::

I’ve just put a few release candidate clients for v2.9010.495 on the
pre-release page. At this point, we’d like to recommend that only
users who are willing to perform early testing and open bug reports
download these clients now. We hope to formally release these clients
later this week.

http://www1.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

2005-05-06

decibel [06-May-2005 @ 17:12]

Filed under: stats — decibel @ 17:12 +00:00

:: 06-May-2005 17:12 GMT (Friday) ::

I’ve finally fixed the stats bug, and stats are caught up again (just in time
for statsrun…)

decibel [06-May-2005 @ 02:02]

Filed under: stats — decibel @ 02:02 +00:00

:: 06-May-2005 02:02 GMT (Friday) ::

Sorry for the delay on stats this evening. The audit script has detected a
problem, and the normal trick of rebuilding the ranking tables isn’t fixing it
this time, so I’m going to have to dig into the problem more deeply. But only
after some sleep.