:: 23-Aug-2003 14:00 GMT (Saturday) ::

Bovine made a change to the log format for the master logs. This has the
unfortunate side-effect of breaking stats, specifically some C code that I’m
not clever enough to figure out. Greg’s done some work on fixing it, but it’s
not done yet. He’s AFK for the rest of the day, so there won’t be an RC5-72
statsrun tonight.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

:: 16-Aug-2003 17:43 GMT (Saturday) ::

No, it’s not done yet!

OGR-24 stats are indeed showing 100%, but that’s due to rounding. As of last .
night, 24 stubs had 0 valid results, and 350 stubs had only 1 valid result .
Since each stub requires 2 valid results to be considered done, we’re not .
quite there yet. Hopefully tonight.. .

:: 16-Aug-2003 09:17 GMT (Saturday) ::

OGR-24 is almost over. Rounding error shows 100% on the stats page, but
there’s still a few dozen stubs to be done. After some final checking
we will let you know when it’s all done.

:: 13-Aug-2003 17:34 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Everybody wish a happy 21st birthday to dbaker@distributed.net, our
favorite scapegoat!

There are a couple of new release candidate clients for NeXT and
Digital Unix on the pre-release page. One of the earlier release
candidate clients for Digital Unix was also moved onto the formal
download page.

An updated round of personal proxies will probably begin to be made
available in the next week or so.

You may notice some more OGR24 stubs circulating out every now and
then. There’s only a few percent of the stubspace remaining, so we
hope to be able to get it finished up soon.

We’re also very close to finishing distribution of the second RC5-72
subspace (out of 4096). The block return rates have been 80.50% and
67.52% so far for the two.

We’d also like to ask everyone to check their machines with older
clients and be sure a version higher than v2.8014 is being run
(v2.8015 was released around May 2001). Although OGR results from
these older clients are currently still being accepted, they have
diminished mathematical value to us. Additionally, a large majority
of traffic that we are continuing to get from those old versions
represent unauthorized worm deployments of our client. Because of
these reasons, in the next couple of weeks we may begin blocking
traffic from these older versions and instructing them to shut down.
If you still have machines running one of these older clients when
this is done, it may cease running and contributing to your stats.

:: 15-Jul-2003 10:24 GMT (Tuesday) ::

ogr-verify failed to run last night (permission problem in the database) so
the completion numbers didn’t update. I restarted it and the numbers will
update when it’s done (should be around 18:00 GMT). Sorry about that.

:: 12-Jul-2003 14:52 GMT (Saturday) ::

Two new Tru64 prelease clients (one non-threaded release candidate,
and one multithreaded beta release) are now available on
http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
As always, report any issues you find with these versions in Bugzilla.

:: 23-Jun-2003 02:41 GMT (Monday) ::

Some new client binaries have been moved onto the formal release page:

* SCO UNIX [5.x/x86/ELF] v2.9005.484a
* Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 [Alpha] v2.9005.484
* Solaris/SunOS [Sparc/Ultrasparc] v2.9005.484
* NetBSD [PPC] v2.9005.484
* Linux [Alpha-ev5/ELF] v2.9003.481
* OS/2 [x86] v2.9005.484b
* Mac OS X/Darwin [PPC/OS X] v2.9005.484

See http://www1.distributed.net/download/updates.php

:: 18-Jun-2003 09:22 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Statsrun puked last night. All fixed now; ogr stats should be up in an hour.

:: 10-Jun-2003 15:17 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Just a few words about how the completion numbers are generated. The
single “Percent Complete” number is actually the average of how far along
we are for pass 1 and pass 2. The current breakdown of how things are
going is:

project_id | pass1_pct | pass2_pct | tot_pct
————+———–+———–+———
24 | 85.23 | 49.70 | 67.46
25 | 81.90 | 47.60 | 64.75

Also, these numbers represent the number of stubs done. Given that some
stubs require much more work than others, the percent complete may not be
a linear representation of how much work is left to do. On the other hand,
the work returned is spread out fairly evenly across the stubspace, so it
should be close.

:: 02-Jun-2003 20:49 GMT (Monday) ::

We had a partial password reminder run with mailman this past weekend, but
it was stopped prior to completion … sooo, I’m going to run it again
manually. My apologies in advance for subscribers that receive duplicate
password reminders.