:: 12-Jan-2003 00:50 GMT (Sunday) ::

Blower was updated to the latest version of PHP tonight.
Everything seems to be working fine now, however initially stats was
showing up as though users had completed 1 block, due to a PHP bug.

Ilia (one of the PHP QA team) located the bug straight away for me, so
things should be back to normal.

If anyone spots any other issues which may be due to this update,
then please drop me an email.

:: 09-Jan-2003 23:48 GMT (Thursday) ::

The network to one of our two webservers was unavailable for about 2.5
hours earlier this morning, but connectivity has been restored now.

Additionally (but unrelated), one of our U.S. keyservers was partially
inaccessible for a few days and was finally able to flush a large
number of blocks that had been sent to it, so there was a slight
keyrate spike today as well.

:: 09-Jan-2003 18:57 GMT (Thursday) ::

CalicoJak has been kind enough to update a little calculator tool from
the rc5-64 days. For a given CPU, it gives estimates on the number
of blocks per day and week you should do for RC5, as well as your expected
OGR rate.

Check http://www.distributed.net/~nerf/rc5calc.html for all the fun.

Keep in mind that these are very rough estimates and will likely
change as cores get updated.

Stop in to #distributed on irc.distributed.net and says thanks to CalicoJak.

:: 08-Jan-2003 03:50 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Moo! :-)

:: 31-Dec-2002 02:22 GMT (Tuesday) ::

I tried to build live stats for the key-rate data.
They use the same data source as dctievent and the graphics are build
using rrdtool.

* http://www1.distributed.net/~pstadt/rc5-72/
* http://www1.distributed.net/~pstadt/ogr/

They should be updated every 20 minutes.
Any suggestions concerning the colors are welcome ;-)

:: 29-Dec-2002 20:30 GMT (Sunday) ::

The keymaster is going to be resuming distribution of some of the old
OGR-24 stubs that never got enough redundancy on our network. So if
you have clients that are configured to run OGR you’ll notice some of
these stubs eventually coming your way.

:: 29-Dec-2002 10:43 GMT (Sunday) ::

A few more clients are now available on the pre-release page:

* dnetc478-netbsd-sparc
* dnetc478-aix-powerandppc
* dnetc478b-ps2linux-mipsel
* dnetc478-aix4.3-power
* dnetc478-linux-s390x
* dnetc478-linux-s390
* dnetc478-linux-s390-z
* dnetc478-solaris-sparc

And a new build of the personal proxy for a few platforms are also
available on the pre-release page (hopefully this will be the last
build number increment before general availability of the proxy):

* proxyper333-win32-x86
* proxyper333-linux-x86
* proxyper333-linux-x86-glibc21
* proxyper333-freebsd-x86

Remember that the files available in the pre-release directory are
intended for limited use by people who are willing to help us test
them before they are announced for general availability. People who
test them must be willing to watch their machines carefully after
installing them (to notice/report anomalous behavior).

:: 17-Dec-2002 21:17 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Just a quick note to let you know we’re doing stuff:

Joel and I have been working on the OGR verification routines and are
pretty close to the final testing phase. At this point we’ve run into
some problems that require things to be handled manually, which is
obviously a Bad Thing.

Once we get things sorted out, we will have one of the biggest hurdles
to finishing an OGR contest out of the way.

:: 17-Dec-2002 09:36 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Several additional clients have graduated from release-candidate
status to formal release availability on the download page:

* dnetc478-riscos-arm
* dnetc478-irix6.5-mips
* dnetc478-netbsd-arm32
* dnetc478-linux-sparc
* dnetc478a-linux-arm-elf

A few new release candidates have been added to the pre-release page:

* dnetc478-dos-x86
* dnetc478-linux-x86-elf-glibc20
* dnetc478-nto2-arm
* dnetc478-nto2-x86
* dnetc478-ps2linux-mipsel
* dnetc478-qnx4-x86
* dnetc478-win16-x86

Also the proxyinfo monitoring pages have been updated to support a
more modern backend infrastructure, but we have tried to keep the
presentation approximately the same. You can see the new RC5-72
proxyinfo (updated at 5 minute intervals) page at:

* http://n0cgi.distributed.net/rc5-proxyinfo.html
* http://n0cgi.distributed.net/ogr-proxyinfo.html

The random, useless factoids at the top of the proxyinfo page are
indeed outdated and need to be replaced with more interesting quotes
(I’ve merely translated the old 1998 quotes/scripts into modern XSL).
If you have cute ideas for *positive*, general interest quotes, I’m
willing to accept suggestions at bovine@distributed.net. (Preferably
try to keep them project neutral so that they’ll work for RC5-72 keys
or OGR nodes.) For the curious, saved copies of the two input files
that generate the above proxyinfo page are:

* http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/proxyinfo2.xsl
* http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/proxyinfo.xml (stale input data)

:: 16-Dec-2002 20:56 GMT (Monday) ::

While I haven’t been helping Decibel much with recovering
from the problems in stats, I think I have an acceptable
excuse…

http://www.toomuchblue.com/gallery/EmmaBirth

Moo!