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2010-01-16

chrisj [16-Jan-2010 @ 16:01]

Filed under: stats — chrisj @ 16:01 +00:00

:: 16-Jan-2010 16:01 GMT (Saturday) ::

Hi All,

Some of you may have received an email from stats indicating your password was
retrieved by googlebot:

you (or “crawl-66-249-68-177.googlebot.com” [66.249.68.177]) recently
requested the password for your distributed.net stats account.

This was a side effect of the temporary placeholder page put in place whilst
fritz (statsbox) was offline. Your password has not been disclosed to anyone
but you.

For now, I’ve blocked googlebot from accessing stats, until our robots.txt file
takes effect again.

Moo!

2010-01-15

bovine [15-Jan-2010 @ 20:50]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 20:50 +00:00

:: 15-Jan-2010 20:50 GMT (Friday) ::

Statsbox is back online. We used some of the downtime to thoroughly
upgrade the OS, software payload, RAID firmware, and add some more
RAM. Thanks for your patience!

2010-01-09

chrisj [09-Jan-2010 @ 23:30]

Filed under: stats — chrisj @ 23:30 +00:00

:: 09-Jan-2010 23:30 GMT (Saturday) ::

It looks like fritz (statsbox) is experiencing some residual issues following
the problems within our provider earlier.

We’re working to resolve this as soon as possible. All work submitted will be
credited when stats is brought back online.

Thanks for your co-operation and patience. Moo!

bovine [09-Jan-2010 @ 01:46]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 01:46 +00:00

:: 09-Jan-2010 01:46 GMT (Saturday) ::

There are currently some network connectivity issues to the ISP where
our stats server is hosted. Until our provider’s connectivity is
restored to normal operations, the accessibility of our statistics
server may be impacted. Thanks for your patience!

2010-01-01

chrisj [01-Jan-2010 @ 21:43]

Filed under: Uncategorized — chrisj @ 21:43 +00:00

:: 01-Jan-2010 21:43 GMT (Friday) ::

On behalf of everyone at distributed.net, welcome to 2010.

Happy Moo Year

2009-11-30

bovine [30-Nov-2009 @ 07:34]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 07:34 +00:00

:: 30-Nov-2009 07:34 GMT (Monday) ::

Happy Cyber Monday! If you’re planning on doing a little holiday
shopping, why not consider helping distributed.net by signing up at
iGive? Once you sign up through the following link, supported online
retailers will donate a small percentage of your purchase price to us
and help fund our general operational expenses:
http://www.igive.com/html/ssi.cfm?CID=1098&MID=3206

2009-11-29

bovine [29-Nov-2009 @ 06:15]

Filed under: keyservers — bovine @ 06:15 +00:00

:: 29-Nov-2009 06:15 GMT (Sunday) ::

Our keymaster is now back to normal operations and OGR-NG is sending
and receiving work again. We don’t think very many results, if any,
were lost as a result of the outage. The cause of the power failure
is still being investigated. Keep on crunching!

2009-11-28

bovine [28-Nov-2009 @ 19:48]

Filed under: keyservers — bovine @ 19:48 +00:00

:: 28-Nov-2009 19:48 GMT (Saturday) ::

There was a UPS or related power failure at our keymaster that caused
some data inconsistency in our OGR-NG database. As a result, the
project was automatically suspended until manual validation of the
database can be completed.

We hope to be able to bring OGR-NG back online within a day if
everything goes well. Unfortunately, some OGR-NG results that were
returned during this inconsistent period may have been lost.
Meanwhile, RC5-72 is continuing to run and is unaffected. Thanks for
your patience and support!

2009-10-29

bovine [29-Oct-2009 @ 20:46]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 20:46 +00:00

:: 29-Oct-2009 20:46 GMT (Thursday) ::

Our statsbox should be back online and the hardware upgrade is
complete. No work was lost while it was offline, and it has fully
caught up with the backlog.

For those who are interested in the details: It had a failing
redundant power unit and the closest replacement I could find was a
used power supply designed for a larger 4U case from the same
manufacturer on eBay. Although I couldn’t use the whole power supply,
I believed I could use its newer revision power units if I swapped the
power connectors and faceplates from the failed unit and jumpered an
unnecessary switch connection. Fortunately this worked. I also took
the opportunity replace to a failing case fan, re-seat all power and
drive cables, do a burn in, and upgrade its FreeBSD from 6.2-PRE to
6.4-STABLE. Maybe we’ll move to 7.2 sometime!

Thanks for your patience and continued support!

2009-10-27

bovine [27-Oct-2009 @ 20:29]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 20:29 +00:00

:: 27-Oct-2009 20:29 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Our statsbox is temporarily down while we perform some minor hardware
upgrades. We hope to bring it back online by tomorrow. Thanks for
your patience!

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