:: 01-Jun-2003 17:39 GMT (Sunday) ::

Ooops, forgot to turn the statsrun back on. *blush*

The change to the RC5-64 pages is done.

:: 30-May-2003 22:14 GMT (Friday) ::

Something that was changed when we migrated RC5 to the current statsrun code
was to add the ability to scale how things were being displayed on the pages.
As part of this, we decided that for RC5 stats, we would store the number of
keys in the database going forward, instead of the number of blocks. This is
how RC5-72 data is stored, but -64 data is still stored in the old format.

I’m currently running a script that is changing all this data. While it’s
running, there might be some odd things showing up in the RC5-64 pages. Please
ignore them. :)

:: 27-May-2003 12:53 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Your years of waiting are over. We now have completion data for OGR.

See http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=24 (and 25) for
all the fun.

Note that we’re not done. Expect to see a bit more data coming in the
future.

:: 26-May-2003 02:15 GMT (Monday) ::

Recently I have been working on some of the international language support on
the distributed.net home page. Along with some minor changes to the navigation
for all languages, I have also begun translating the web pages to Esperanto
(Esperanto is an international language invented in the 1880s that is now
spoken by millions of people in all countries around the world). If you
know Esperanto, feedback would be most appreciated – I’ve only just started
learning!

Many thanks to Russ Williams for helping with some of the Esperanto
translations.

:: 25-May-2003 22:30 GMT (Sunday) ::

Several new clients have transitioned from the pre-release page to the
official download page. You can check out the list of newly available
clients on http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.php

Additionally, some new pre-release clients have also been made
available for early testing on our pre-release download page:
http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

Some users have reported that the latest McAfee anti-virus 4266 DAT
file update inappropriately classifies dnetc.com as being a trojan.
We have already contacted them about this issue but we are still
awaiting their response on this matter.

Just another warning that full conversion of the rest of our mailing
lists (including rc5@, proxyper@, and announce@) from majordomo to
mailman will be occurring very soon. There is no need to be alarmed
when you receive an email welcoming your subscription to a list that
you already thought you belonged to.

:: 21-May-2003 09:51 GMT (Wednesday) ::

After an amazing 761 days of trouble-free uptime it looks like the server
oldnodezero.distributed.net spontaneously rebooted. This machine was the first
dedicated distributed.net server and hosted our website, dns, mail, and a
variety of other critical services for much of the past five years.

Thanks to all the cows who have contributed to this machine’s stability over
the years and especially to visi.com for such a remarkably stable data center
and colo. I think the last reboot was to physically relocate the machine to
their new (at the time) data center.

:: 12-May-2003 15:43 GMT (Monday) ::

A new MacOS X client has been put on the pre-release page for testing.
It is expected that this version should fix bug 3186. Additionally,
there is a new OS/2 time-limited beta on the pre-release that should
fix bug 1345.

:: 07-May-2003 04:06 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Long time, no plan.

Distributed.Net has been running majordomo since inception and it is finally
time for us to join others in putting majordomo 1.x to rest as many others
before us. To that end, we have found a list manager, Mailman, which is feature
rich and fairly easy to migrate to from majordomo. There are many benefits to
list manager and subscribers alike, and we expect this change to improve the
experiences of both.

The first thing you will notice (after you fix your in-box filters) is that
there is embedded list management information in every post thereby making it
easier for you to update your subscription. Upon following one of the links you
will be brought to a web based interface allowing you to change email delivery
preferences and detail other lists you may be subscribed to. You will now also
receive a monthly password reminder for your list subscriptions which will
double as a bounce detection email. Finally, we will eventually be able to
offer real-time web archives of hosted mailing lists.

We have converted some lower volume lists so far and are working through
learning how best to use the new tools and features available to out greatest
advantage. Expect the larger lists, like rc5@lists, to be converted later this
month.

–Chipper

:: 06-May-2003 16:37 GMT (Tuesday) ::

We’re currently in the process of migrating our mailing list software
from majordomo to mailman. It is expected that the change will give
us improved backend manageability and flexibility of the mailing lists.
Mailman also provides better bounced message handling, and a web-based
interface that people can use to subscribe and unsubscribe.

Although we are trying to keep the mailing list subscription lists and
configuration settings as close as possible to the existing majordomo
operations, there are a few changes that will immediately affect our
list subscribers. In particular, you may find that you need to update
your mail program’s filtering/sorting rules if you use any.

More details will be provided as they become available.

:: 05-May-2003 02:07 GMT (Monday) ::

More than twenty client builds have been transferred from the
pre-release page to the official release page. Please see
http://www1.distributed.net/download/updates.php for the list.

A handful of new pre-release clients have also been added to the
pre-release page for early testing by the courageous.
http://www1.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php