:: 05-Sep-2000 21:49 (Tuesday) ::

Both statsruns failed last night, for different reasons.

I recently removed an index from the RC5 master table with the hope of
saving some space and speeding some things up. As it turns out, that
index is critical for one of the steps in the RC5 statsrun. That’s why
Sept 3 stats ran for almost 24 hours. The index is back in place, and RC5
stats will play ‘catch-up’ tonight as stats for both Sept 4 and 5 will
run.

In OGR, somehow some blocks were assigned to participant 0. Problem is,
there is no participant 0. I’m re-running OGR stats right now; they should
be up very soon.

:: 05-Sep-2000 20:02 (Tuesday) ::

Had some issues with stats last night; I’m working on them now and will
post more info as soon as I can.

:: 05-Sep-2000 13:16 (Tuesday) ::

The Following Clients have been Updated/Added

– Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 [Alpha] v2.8010.463

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html

By Sys: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Changes.txt: http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

The Following Clients have been placed for pre-release:

– SGI IRIX [6.5/MIPS/n32] v2.8011.464 2000-09-05

The Following Personal Proxies have been placed for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT/2000 [x86] v319b 2000-09-05

– FreeBSD [x86] v319b 2000-09-05

– Linux [x86/unified] v319b 2000-09-05

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

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

And on a personal note, Today is my birthday! I’m 27 if you really want
to know. My loving Wife gave me a spray bottle for the grill. She’s great!
(Well she really gave me a new set of Golf clubs about 2 weeks ago) I’ve
had Donuts and the Cake and Ice cream will come later. What a great day.
Nothing better than a birthday to make you feel great. Check out my Amazon
Wish List if you care to. }:8) You can see the kinds of things I Like
and Enjoy to do for fun.
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/3GB4KN3SHMMWK/104-1237237-2386356)

Enjoy the clients and Proxies and Have a great day! (its my birthday so
why wouldn’t you have a great day!)

Moose!

:: 01-Sep-2000 12:51 (Friday) ::

Chris Hessmann spotted a problem with team joins in OGR that I wanted to
point out so that people don’t get confused. In a nutshell, the new stats
code isn’t properly handling new team joins.

When a participant joins a team, any old work that was not assigned to a
team is supposed to go to the team they just joined. This is happening
properly in the master table, but it isn’t being reflected in the other
team tables.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a fast easy way to fix this, so we’ll have to
live with it for now. When this is fixed however, all the work that isn’t
currently showing up on the teams will magically appear, and things will
all be as they should, thanks to the fact that the proper info *is* being
stored in Email_Contrib.

The bug report for this is at
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1655

Sorry for the confusion.

:: 29-Aug-2000 12:20 (Tuesday) ::

The RC5 statsrun died for some reason last night, probably due to a database
deadlock. I’m re-running them by hand right now.

:: 22-Aug-2000 08:54 (Tuesday) ::

I’m working on an improvement to our current team join code. The new code
will speed up the statsrun, and will make things a bit more accurate (the
current system bases team membership on a participant’s team setting at
the time of the statsrun, instead of noting the date that someone joins
a team and using that info to determine what team someone belonged to on
a given date).

Unfortunately, in order to do this, I have to disable team joins until
the conversion is complete.

As soon as the new join process is in place, I’ll be able to re-do the
statsrun to make use of the new data. Team joins will be re-enabled before
I tackle the statsrun though.

:: 12-Aug-2000 05:38 (Saturday) ::

Just got back from a short trip.. somehow, tally knew I was gone and
decided to barf on OGR-25 stats last night. I’m way to tired to look into
it now, but I’ll work on it first thing tomorrow.

:: 09-Aug-2000 18:02 (Wednesday) ::

The Following Clients have been placed for pre-release:

– Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 [alpha] v2.8010.463 2000-08-09

The Following Personal Proxies have been placed for pre-release:

– Windows 95/98/NT/2000 [x86] v319 2000-08-09

– FreeBSD [x86] v319 2000-08-09

– Linux [x86/libc] v319 2000-08-09

– Linux [x86/glibc2.1] v319 2000-08-09

The Pre-Release Page can be found at:

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

Enjoy

:: 03-Aug-2000 08:28 (Thursday) ::

Well, it’s obviously taken quite a bit longer than I thought it would to
get the OGR-25 stats up and running. I tested multiple project’s on the
hourly code yesterday, but somehow managed to forget about the daily code.
:/

Anyway, the daily code now works, and OGR-25 stats are now available. I’ve
also started the RC5 run, which I had delayed while I was working on the
OGR stats.

There might be some odd numbers still in stats, but those will have to
wait for tomorrow. :/

:: 03-Aug-2000 01:22 (Thursday) ::

I’m running some maintenance on the database right now, so the RC5 run
will be delayed a bit. I might also disable web access for awhile. We also
got the first OGR-25 results back today, expect OGR-25 stats within the
hour.

On a personal note, I switched to a Dvorack keyboard today. I’ll let
everyone know how it goes, but I can say that having your typing speed
suddenly drop to 0 is very, very unsettling! You don’t want to know how
long it’s taken me to type this simple message :/