:: 27-Oct-2000 22:38 (Friday) ::

Hi everyone, just a quick introduction .plan.

As some of you would know now I’ve been helping out with distributed.net
for a little while now, so I should have a .plan :)

What I will be doing (other than consuming large amounts of coffee) is
working on the PHP for both the general site as well as helping out with
the help@distributed.net email, for the time being anyway.

One last note – if you have suggestions for stats or anything else you
can submit them via bugzilla (http://n0cgi.distributed.net/bugs/)

:: 26-Oct-2000 19:07 (Thursday) ::

For everyone who’s been wondering why stats have been up and down; the
statsrun has been slowing down again, so I’m running a maintenance routine.
I’ve also been working to get the stats-runs finished. Although dbcc runs
in the background, tally just isn’t powerful enough to support the dbcc,
statsrun, and web access all at the same time. That’s why I’ve been turning
web access off and on.

As soon as either the dbcc or the statsrun finishes, I’ll turn http back
on.

:: 26-Oct-2000 03:10 (Thursday) ::

The Following Clients have been placed/updated for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Zipped] v2.8011.464c 2000-10-26

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

Please remember to report bugs at http://www.distributed.net/bugs/

Enjoy!

:: 26-Oct-2000 01:18 (Thursday) ::

As I’m sure some have noticed, OGR stats are off by a day. They will be
up-to-date very soon after tonight’s RC5 run. Sorry for any confusion.

:: 25-Oct-2000 03:21 (Wednesday) ::

The Following Clients have been placed/updated for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT [x86/Zipped] v2.8011.464 2000-10-25

– AmigaOS [m68k] v2.8011.464 2000-10-25

– AmigaOS [PPC/PowerUp] v2.8011.464 2000-10-25

– AmigaOS [PPC/WarpOS] v2.8011.464 2000-10-25

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

Please remember to report bugs at http://www.distributed.net/bugs/

Enjoy!

:: 24-Oct-2000 02:40 (Tuesday) ::

It’s not been a good day in stats-land. For some reason, the bcp process
started failing silently some time after the first log for yesterday was
processed. I’ve fixed the problem by deleting the table that date gets
bcp’d into and re-creating it, but now I have to re-run OGR for yesterday.
In order to make this happen at a reasonable clip, I’ve got web access
shut off again. I’ll turn it back on as soon as I can.

Sorry again for the inconvenience. }:8(

:: 23-Oct-2000 21:06 (Monday) ::

The maintenance I’m running is taking a lot longer than I expected. It’s
not really impacting http on the box, but the web access is slowing the
maintenance down by quite a bit, and we can’t do OGR statsruns until it’s
done. So, I’ve turned web access off again for now, to give things a chance
to finish up. I’ll get the web turned back on as soon as possible.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

:: 23-Oct-2000 15:12 (Monday) ::

I wanted everyone to know that the latest in our worm saga has arrived.
Our friendly worm writer has included my personal email address as the
configured ID in dnetc.ini (gentleps@muohio.edu.) I would like to take
this time to assure everyone that I did not produce this worm.

This worm is spread via open c shares to c:\windows\system and
c:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\. You should be able to use bovine’s
wormfree (http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/wormfree.zip) program to
clean your machine. You can read more about his application and what it
does at http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/dnet-finger.cgi?user=bovine. If
this does not work contact us and we will work to update the program.

We will be correcting my stats within the next day or so, but until then
please understand that they will be corrected soon.

Please feel free to email email abuse@distributed.net or
help@distributed.net if you have any questions about this or any other
worms.

Thank you for your understanding. Paul

:: 23-Oct-2000 10:28 (Monday) ::

OGR stats are running right now. I’m also running some maintenance on the
database, which will take an hour or two. Until it’s done, expect tally
to be *SLOW*.

:: 23-Oct-2000 03:09 (Monday) ::

Something went slightly amiss with the OGR run tonight, so OGR stats will
run after RC5 stats are done. They should be done by about 0900 GMT (4AM
CDT).