:: 17-Dec-2001 18:12 (Monday) ::

In preparation for moving stats from tally to blower, I’ll be taking the
stats database off-line to copy the database files over to blower. I’m
hoping it will be less than 3 hours.

:: 13-Dec-2001 16:54 (Thursday) ::

Uptime on the stats box is a curious 13 hours which is a likely explanation
for why last night’s stats run failed to complete. We’ll kick off the
run cleaning up from any potential inconsistencies resulting from the
interrupted stats run. Thanks for your patience.

:: 07-Dec-2001 15:17 (Friday) ::

Good news/bad news:

I have been working on a method to automate the process of determining
when an OGR stub is “completed.” That is, when it has been done by two
separate sources who agree on the result. When this is finished, we will
be able to quickly determine which stubs still need to be done, and when
an OGR project can be called complete.

Unfortunately, due to some personal issues, my access to computing resources
will be extremely limited in the near future. As an aside, if you happen
to know of an opening for an HP-UX sysadmin who is willing to travel, drop
me a line. Australia or the US preferred.

Regrettably, I haven’t made enough progress yet to be able to recycle
OGR-24 and OGR-25. Being able to recycle is one of our highest priorities,
not only so we can finish OGR-24 and -25, but so we can continue to 26…31.

:: 05-Nov-2001 00:28 (Monday) ::

lists.distributed.net is under a Hurricane watch for Hurricane Michelle,
and the area is under mandatory evacuation. The colo guy is going to be
riding it out, but the potential for loss of electricity is fairly high,
so there may be some disruption of list services.

:: 16-Oct-2001 18:57 (Tuesday) ::

A logfile wasn’t transferred to tally from the master yesterday, so
yesterday’s rc5 run is missing a small amount of work. I’ll be re-running
the rc5 stats for yesterday to correct this, and to speed this up I’ve
turned off web access.

:: 12-Oct-2001 19:17 (Friday) ::

From http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_8.20.html

The U.S. Senate approved far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation late last
night, rejecting efforts to limit the measure’s impact on the privacy and
civil liberties of American citizens. The Uniting and Strengthening
America Act (S. 1510) was the product of negotiations between the Justice
Department and the Senate leadership. In an unusual departure from normal
legislative procedure, the bill was sent directly to the full Senate
without any debate or consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and other colleagues, including Paul Wellstone
(D-MI) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), unsuccessfully attempted to have the
Senate vote on three amendments designed to minimize the impact on civil
liberties. “What have we come to when we don’t have either committee or
Senate deliberation or amendments on an issue of this importance?” Feingold
asked. “Each of us cares as much as anyone in this room about the fight
against terrorism, but we want to make sure we don’t go beyond that goal
and intrude on our civil liberties.” The unamended bill was approved by
a 96-to-1 vote, with Feingold dissenting.

:: 01-Oct-2001 16:04 (Monday) ::

Having some issues with stats today. First, only 1/2 the logs for 9/25
were processed, so we’ll be processing that today. Hopefully, I can run
just 9/25 without redoing the past 5 days. Doing so will undoubtedly cause
some oddities on the stats pages though, so consider yourself warned. :)

Also, the past few days haven’t run due to a disk space issue.

:: 23-Sep-2001 05:12 (Sunday) ::

http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_wiretap_alert.html

Draft legislation, proposed only just days abo (19-Sep) seeks to deny
Americans the right to privacy by mandating government backdoors in all
encryption products. This right on the heels of 13-Sep’s “Combating
Terrorism Act” which proposes similar injunctions on the freedom and
liberties of American citizens and was rushed through with less than 30
minutes of consideration on the senate floor.

The ATA/MATA draft bill is expected to go to vote as early as this week.
If you’re in the united stats, this bill can and will have serious impact
on your privacy. Please consider contacting your representatives and
those on the senate committee considering the bill to voice your concern
for this erosion of privacy in the dubious name of combating terrorism.

http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_wiretap_alert.html

The EFF has an excellent summary of the situation with pointers to the
relevant facts and elected officials. Even something as simple as one
email to the senate subcommit te can make a difference.

The events of 11-Sep are horrific to us all, but we can’t expect to defeat
an attack on freedom by destroying those freedoms ourselves.

Please consider adding your voice to the debate before it’s too late.

:: 12-Sep-2001 18:10 (Wednesday) ::

Statsrun didn’t happen last night due to missing logs. As soon as I get
the logs on tally, I’ll start the run. This only affects RC5.

:: 08-Sep-2001 21:36 (Saturday) ::

The 9/05 run is in progress. I’ve turned web access off for the next hour
to give it a bit of a head start. I’ll probably turn web access off again
later tonight for another few hours. Hopefully, we should be back to normal
by tomorrow night.

Sorry for the delays.