:: 17-Jan-2000 14:44 (Monday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Installer] v2.8005.455
– Linux [Sparc/ELF/glibc2/MT] v2.8005.456

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html
By Sys: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Have Fun.
Moose

:: 16-Jan-2000 21:47 (Sunday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Installer] v2.8005.455
– Windows 3.x [x86] v2.8005.455
– PC-DOS, MS-DOS [x86] v2.8005.455

See http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html for updates by
date.

See http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html for updates by
System.

Enjoy!
Paul

:: 16-Jan-2000 21:03 (Sunday) ::

I have just resigned from distributed.net.

Please understand that the organization has done nothing to prompt this.
I am leaving for purely personal reasons, which I’d rather not discuss
publicly, and have no hard feelings whatsoever towards the organization
or any of its members.

Keep on cracking.

:: 16-Jan-2000 20:36 (Sunday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– FreeBSD [ELF/x86/MT] v2.8005.455
– Linux [s390/glibc2.0/MT] v2.8005.454

You may be saying the Linux s390 is still the same version…. Well
Its now MultiThreaded

Changes:

2.8005.455 fix: all: client not rotating to next project
fix: win32/16: all font issues resolved
fix: all: fix for cosmetic ‘Retrieved n of 4billion’ message
fix: all: duplicate ‘nettimeout’ setting in .ini
chg: many: CSC cores removed from (some) clients

Good Job To All!
Moose

:: 16-Jan-2000 11:25 (Sunday) ::

We’ve been told by a number of users that their dnetc clients have
failed to automatically resume RC5 after the client had received the
CSC contest closure indicator. The problem seems to affect a fair
number of machines, and it may be necessary for you to manually quit
and restart your client to get it to properly resume RC5. No other
actions should be necessary (provided your client has already figured
out that CSC is over, by allowing it to talk to the keyservers).

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:43 (Sunday) ::

Ok, I think we *finally* have stats back in order. CVS decided now
would be a good time to start playing games with some of the permissions
on the .php3 files.

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:39 (Sunday) ::

Congratulations, everyone, on a successful conclusion to the CSC Challenge
project. There have been a lot of questions about who actually found the
key, so I thought I’d make a quick update to let everyone know what the
scoop is.

First, yes we do know who won, but we haven’t been able to contact him so
we’re not releasing his name or information. We’ve got a good email
address for him so contacting him will not be a problem. (I’m still
going to try for the traditional phone call, first)

The winner was not on a team, and lives in the United States. Beyond
that, I’d rather wait until we’ve made contact before more information
is released.

:: 16-Jan-2000 08:11 (Sunday) ::

Ok, everything is back up again. Two notes though:

1) This is only a partial run for the last day. So all of the ‘yesterday’
numbers are going to look odd. This is quite normal.
2) By running the statsrun multiple times, the change in rank (the little
up/down arrows) got blown away. Since the last day is a partial run
anyway, we probably won’t fix this either, since it would be rather
meaningless.

Thanks to all of you for making this win possible! Keep your eyes open for
an OGR beta RSN!

:: 16-Jan-2000 07:54 (Sunday) ::

Yes, the csc stats main-page is down right now… I’m manually
running the last day of the contest. It will be back in a
few minutes, in the meantime, why not read dbaker’s announcement?

http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/dbaker-csc.html

:: 16-Jan-2000 07:17 (Sunday) ::

We won, guys.

See http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/dbaker-csc.html for more information.

Thanks for all your support.

Daniel