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:: 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.
:: 27-Apr-2005 19:01 GMT (Wednesday) ::
I’ve been working on automatically sending new participants an email with their
password in it (bug 3690). My testing means some of you will have an email from
statspass@distributed.net with your new stats password in it. Unfortunately,
the text of the email is a bit confusing right now. Suffice it to say, if
“10.70.40.11” requested the password to your stats account, you have nothing to
worry about, it was just me. :)
:: 22-Apr-2005 06:52 GMT (Friday) ::
after extensive research, several accounts have been removed from stats
yesterday. As the investigation continues, more may follow.
I strongly recommend everyone downloads their clients directly from the
Distributed.net website at http://www.distributed.net/download
:: 15-Mar-2005 21:13 GMT (Tuesday) ::
This is just a notice that two of our volunteer servers in the
Netherlands, proxy1.utrecht.nl.proxy.distributed.net and
proxy2.utrecht.nl…, will soon be going offline due to necessary
hardware reclamation. They have already been removed from our DNS
zones, so our clients will no longer automatically select them.
However, if you have manually specified the IP address or hostnames of
them in your configuration files, there will need to be some manual
changes. Although we have no immediate plans for a replacement, we
will continue to monitor user feedback and the redistributed traffic
patterns to evaluate whether we need to reconsider that.
There has also recently been a periodic update of our public source
code at http://www.distributed.net/source/ which includes the assembly
source code for our current AMD64 (x86-64) RC5-72 core. We welcome
the assembly language expertise of others that already have their own
Opteron/Athlon64/EMT64 hardware in achieving further optimizations.
:: 27-Feb-2005 11:33 GMT (Sunday) ::
Sorry for the unannounced stats outage. Sadly, the late night fixing just meant
that I forgot to turn the web access back on. They’re back up now.
:: 19-Jan-2005 01:04 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Upgrade complete. 7 bells and all’s well.
:: 18-Jan-2005 23:21 GMT (Tuesday) ::
I’m going to upgrade postgresql on stats to 7.4.6 in a while. I’ll be making
a backup before I do so. I won’t be taking stats offline while I’m making the
backup, so if something goes wrong any changes made after the backup might be
lost.
I expect stats to be down for about 30 minutes while I perform the actual
upgrade.
:: 02-Jan-2005 07:47 GMT (Sunday) ::
Happy new year!
Due to increasing instability with our old email support tool, we have
finally had to replace it with a new system. If you have sent us a
message to our “help@distributed.net” or “abuse@distributed.net” email
addresses (in Dec 2004) and have not received closure on your issue,
you may want to re-send your message.
You may either re-send it to the above email addresses, or visit
http://www.distributed.net/sendmail.php for a web-based contact form.
:: 10-Dec-2004 15:11 GMT (Friday) ::
So I’m a slacker. The statsbox DNS change just occurred.
You shouldn’t have any troubles, but be aware that the IP of
statsbox has just changed to 63.149.157.132.
:: 03-Dec-2004 10:58 GMT (Friday) ::
stats.distributed.net will be moving to a new IP today. The time-to-live
in DNS is relatively short but you may still end up experiencing
difficulty reaching it during the transition. I apologize for any
inconvenience this presents.
Moo.