:: 05-Mar-2000 20:52 (Sunday) ::
Well, we’ve come up with a temporary solution to the statsbox problem, so
I ran stats last night. I’ve also re-enabled the nightly runs for now.
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2000-03-05
decibel [05-Mar-2000 @ 20:51]
2000-03-04
decibel [04-Mar-2000 @ 01:51]
:: 04-Mar-2000 01:52 (Saturday) ::
Guess we shouldn’t have celebrated the new CPUs in statsbox so loudly…
it seems that we’re having some kind of hard drive problem now. The box
is up, and stats are up, but we won’t be able to do a statsrun until we
get this fixed. }:8(
More info as available…
2000-03-03
decibel [03-Mar-2000 @ 05:46]
:: 03-Mar-2000 05:54 (Friday) ::
In case any of you don’t track how long the statsrun takes on a daily
basis ;) ….
Normally the run takes ~4:15. Tonight it took ~2:30. While I wish I could
say this was due to our stellar coding skills, I can’t. :( The good news
is that I can report that our new PIII-500s have made a big difference
(well, the change of 66MHz to 100MHz FSB probably had a huge impact as
well, since that’s the bus that the memory sits on).
You may all thank Sedriss and Grub for their donation of one CPU a piece.
Enjoy!
2000-03-01
bovine [01-Mar-2000 @ 16:30]
:: 01-Mar-2000 16:50 (Wednesday) ::
I’ve made some modifications to the Faq-o-matic codebase to allow it to
display “updated” icons next to answers that have been recently modified.
This makes it much easier to see things that have been updated within the
last week. As a part of the GNU public license, I’ve contributed my
patches back to the original author and he has indicated that they will
be integrated into the next release. You can check out our FAQ at
http://www.distributed.net/faq/
2000-02-29
decibel [29-Feb-2000 @ 03:05]
:: 29-Feb-2000 03:07 (Tuesday) ::
Ok… I guess this is what I guess for saying this would only take ten
minutes. The update query is currently blocked by one of the statsrun
queries. If the query doesn’t clear soon, I’ll just turn stats back on.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
decibel [29-Feb-2000 @ 02:39]
:: 29-Feb-2000 02:40 (Tuesday) ::
Per jfc’s request, I’m combining fr and fx in the stats database. I’ve
turned access off while I’m doing this to protect data integrity (though
it shouldn’t be needed). Should be back up in ten minutes or less.
2000-02-25
bovine [25-Feb-2000 @ 00:32]
:: 25-Feb-2000 00:34 (Friday) ::
I’ve rewritten the speed database submission page so that it is much
friendlier. Additionally, the database updating process is now completely
automated, so your entries should now be immediately visible. Go check
it out today by visiting the speed page at http://www.distributed.net/speed/
and clicking on the “Submit” link.
2000-02-23
nugget [23-Feb-2000 @ 19:43]
:: 23-Feb-2000 19:43 (Wednesday) ::
Statsbox will be offline briefly while we add new drives. Thanks for your
patience.
davehart [23-Feb-2000 @ 09:33]
:: 23-Feb-2000 09:36 (Wednesday) ::
The OGR-24 search has been suspended as of 07:15 UTC 23 Feb 2000.
We will restart it later. For more information including how to speed
the return to rc5, see:
http://www.distributed.net/ogr/suspended.txt
Thanks for your participation.
2000-02-20
decibel [20-Feb-2000 @ 21:03]
:: 20-Feb-2000 21:07 (Sunday) ::
For those of you wondering about stats for Feb. 19… no, they didn’t run.
I’m pretty sure we ran out of disk space again (we were VERY close when
I looked today). I’ve cleaned out some old stuff, so we should be good to
go. Rather than doing a statsrun in the middle of the day, I’ll just let
to-night’s statsrun handle things.
Sorry for any inconvenience.