:: 15-Dec-1999 12:14 (Wednesday) ::

Statsbox is up to it’s old tricks again. }:8( Several of the pages
seem to be running off of Dec 13 data, instead of Dec 14 data.
Unfortunately, I have to be on a plane to Detroit in just over an
hour, so I couldn’t stay up late last night to look into it. With
(a lot of) luck, things will correct themselves with to-night’s run.
If not, I’ll have to look into it tomorrow.

:: 14-Dec-1999 01:14 (Tuesday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– dnetc-win16-x86.zip Windows 3.1 [x86/MMX-CSC]
– dnetc-dos-x86.exe DOS [x86/MMX-CSC]
– dnetc-openbsd-sparc-aout.tar.gz OpenBSD [sparc/aout]
– dnetc-bsdi4-x86-elf.tar.gz BSD/OS 4.x [x86/ELF]
– dnetc-bsdi2-x86-aout.tar.gz BSD/OS 2.x/3.x [x86/ELF]
– dnetc-linux-x86-glibc21.tar.gz Linux [x86/glibc2.1/MT/MMX-CSC]

The Linux glibc2.1 client has been fixed and is now available again.
Thanks for your patience

Happy cracking
Moose

:: 13-Dec-1999 11:14 (Monday) ::

I had a little bit of spare time, so I decided to make a quick pass at
rewriting the client speed database pages. The keyrate statistics now
are generated from a single frontend CGI, instead of separate pages
containing hand-built queries for each of the different combinations.
This should also allow us to more easily maintain these pages in the
future. You can see these new pages at http://www.distributed.net/speed/

:: 13-Dec-1999 02:07 (Monday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– dnetc-win32-x86.zip win 95/98/NT/2000 [x86/MMX-CSC]

More clients coming.
Moose

:: 13-Dec-1999 00:03 (Monday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added

– dnetc-linux-x86-glibc20.tar.gz linux [glibc2.0/x86] v2.8003.448
– dnetc-linux-x86-libc5.tar.gz linux [libc5/x86 ] v2.8003.448

The following proxies have been updated

– proxyper311-freebsd-x86.tar.gz freebsd v311

For those of you who already downloaded the
dnetc-linux-x86-glibc21.tar.gz, yes we know there is a problem and it
has been pulled, we are working to fix the problem.

Secondly the Win32 client will be out soon please be patient

Have fun
Moose

:: 12-Dec-1999 23:38 (Sunday) ::

I don’t like posting a .plan update when I don’t have any news to
report, but I sort of forced myself to after breaking a personal rule
and making a release-date announcement a week ago. I’ll be careful in
the future not to do that.

We’re up to beta eight, internally. Nearly all of the bugs you’ve
reported to us have been fixed. There are a few outstanding major ones
that are blocking a release, though: the AltiVec CSC core still doesn’t
pass -test, an infinite loop kicks in when the client is paused, and the
lurk mode doesn’t properly detect when the TCP stack is open.

As soon as one of these bugs is fixed I’ll release a stopgap public
pre-release (not really a ‘beta’, because we know what bugs are
remaining at this point). If a few more days pass and none of the above
are fixed, I may throw out b7 as that stopgap measure (b8 is unstable).

Rest assured that there is -massive- progress occuring behind the
scenes. One of the reasons this is taking so long, actually, is that two
coders both working like mad at the client are occasionally colliding in
midair.

RC5 core news is good. We’ve had reports of 5.8 Mk/s on 450 MHz Sawtooth
boxen. The next public beta will, finally, have the AltiVec RC5 core
in it.

In the mid-term future, we’re looking at an FBA for the massive G4 farms
out there – that “Velocity Engine” is just waiting to be put to use.
We’re also considering implementing a “Send Command…” dialogue a la
Anarchie’s FTP command dialogue…

http://sine.com/dcti/send-command.jpg

Our long-term goal is to have a GUI “controller” application that
communicates with the FBA engine. The CLI would become optional, for
die-hard users who like a commandline. We’re aiming for 100% carbon
compatibility.

But that’s long term. In the meanwhile, please understand that the Mac
effort is not dead – it’s just progressing so fast that its wheels are
wobbling.

:: 11-Dec-1999 14:29 (Saturday) ::

MOOOOO!

Well great news we have our first MMX core for CSC!

More clients will be coming with the core incorporated, but for now
you will need to make do with the following client:

– dnetc-freebsd-x86-elf.tar.gz

So have fun, and yes we are working to get more CSC clients with the
MMX core out, so please be patient

Moose

:: 09-Dec-1999 08:36 (Thursday) ::

It seems that the gremlins aren’t dont messing with statsbox just
yet. For some reason, all the data for rc5 for Dec. 7th is gone.
I looked at the logs, and it did get imported, so I have no idea
where the data went.

I’m re-running stats for Dec. 7th. This will almost certainly
screw up all the ‘ranking deltas’ (those cute little up/down arrows
that let you know how much your ranking changed from yesterday),
so don’t be alarmed when things look a little weird. All should be
back to normal after the Dec. 9th statsrun.

:: 09-Dec-1999 03:53 (Thursday) ::

For those of you who are either hyper-observant, or addicted to
stats, you will notice that although the CSC main page says we
did 1.7% of the keyspace yesterday (which we did), and reports
that we’ve completed 26.9% of the keyspace overall (which we
have), that this math doesn’t make sense since yesterday it
reported that we had completed 26.4% of the keyspace overall
(which we hadn’t). This was because I forgot to delete a
record when the Dec 5 statsrun got botched.

This only affects the main CSC stats page and the CSC graphs.
No participant info was harmed in the making of this ‘whoops’.

All is now well again on that front.

Unfortunately, rc5-64/psearch.php3 is now broken. To make a long
story short, nugget had backed out a change made to this page
on the live site manually. I then fixed the file and put the
fixed version into CVS, and ran the normal command to update
the main site from CVS. CVS saw that the version of psearch on
the main site had been modified, so it created an ‘annotated
checkout’ of the file, with some nice commentary to let us know
what changed. Of course, PHP has not clue what all the extra
stuff in this file is supposed to do, so trying to pull up that
page results in a ‘The document contains no data’ error. Since
I don’t have root on the box, I can’t fix the garbled file either.
So, it’ll be broken until I can find someone rootly to fix it,
which hopefully won’t be long.

Sorry for the cowfusion and thanks for your patience!

:: 08-Dec-1999 10:09 (Wednesday) ::

I’ve just made version 1.1 of the LOGVIS (Log Visualizer) utility
available for download. It adds a number of improvements in user
interface, including drag-and-drop file acceptance, command line
filename opening, Reload menu option, Status bar text updates, and
several other minor things. You can find the download link on our
addons page: http://www.distributed.net/download/addon.html