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.

2008-02-15

bovine [15-Feb-2008 @ 18:04]

Filed under: clients — bovine @ 18:04 +00:00

:: 15-Feb-2008 18:04 GMT (Friday) ::

As was previously indicated last month, OGRp2 results from the older
PlayStation 3 (CellBE) Linux clients earlier than version 2.9015-505
will no longer be accepted. If you are still using the older version,
you are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. See this
announcement for further details:

http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/planarc.cgi?user=bovine&plan=2008-01-10.05:48

2008-02-05

mikereed [05-Feb-2008 @ 00:40]

Filed under: clients — Mike Reed @ 00:40 +00:00

:: 05-Feb-2008 00:40 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Dear friends,

We have recently been in communication with a number of vendors of anti-virus
software, regarding their false detections of dnetc. Many of them have been
brought around to our point of view that dnetc is benign, peaceful and able to
happily co-exist on a busy workstation. Our attempts to bring McAfee around to
our point of view have failed, despite our best efforts.

We would like to re-open hailing frequencies with McAfee and we need your help
to do this. On their site is a page describing dnetc as a ‘potentially unwanted
program’. You can see it here:- http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100867.htm

At the side of the page is a link ‘Rate This Potentially Unwanted Program’. We
would like as many of you as possible to visit the page and let McAfee know
that dnetc should not be detected.

We remain grateful for your continued support and enthusiasm.

Moo!

2008-02-03

mikereed [03-Feb-2008 @ 21:54]

Filed under: project status — Mike Reed @ 21:54 +00:00

:: 03-Feb-2008 21:54 GMT (Sunday) ::

Dear friends,

We are coming towards the final stages of the OGR-25 project.
Our network has come under some strain in recent days, due to
the amount of OGR work being processed. We are aware that
some of the stubs being issued are very small. This is making
calculating buffer requirements difficult for those of us who
like to keep a close eye on things.

In the default configuration, an instance of dnetc which
cannot receive OGR stubs to work on will switch over
seamlessly to the RC5-72 project. We recommend to leave this
behaviour in place, if only to ease the load on our network
at this busy time.

If you have disabled the RC5-72 project in your client
configuration, your client may sit idle for a time while we
continue to experience difficulties with network connections.

We expect that the network connection difficulties will
continue into Monday, as this is historically the busiest
day of the week for our system. Please bear with us as we
work to resolve the shortages. We thank you for your
support.

Moo!