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Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

I noticed that the OGR stats run did not happen last night so decided to check the /plan and bovine had posted the following which includes the explanation for the lack of OGR statitics last night and hints at the start up of RC5-72.

:: 30-Nov-2002 23:49 GMT (Saturday) ::
I've just put some additional release candidate clients on the
pre-release page http://www1.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

dnetc478-bsdos2-x86-aout.tar.gz
dnetc478-bsdos4-x86-elf.tar.gz
dnetc478-linux-arm-elf.tar.gz
dnetc478-linux-x86-elf-pthreads.tar.gz
dnetc478-netbsd-mipsel.tar.gz
dnetc478-openbsd-sparc-aout.tar.gz
dnetc478c-os2-x86.zip

Note that we are providing the linux-x86-elf-pthreads client as an
alternate to the traditional linux-x86-elf client (which uses forking
and shared-memory as its execution model). The pthreads client should
still be considered for use specifically on systems that have problems
with shared-memory usage (such as clusters that utilize MOSIX for
process migration), since our forked-model client still has greater
code maturity.

It's been pointed out by a number of people that some of the clients
on the pre-release page have been available there for more than 4
days. That threshold is intended to merely be a guidance for the
approximate amount of time, and not a hard-set time period. Formal
release of those clients and the formal start of RC5-72 is soon
forthcoming but is awaiting coordination with a number of staff to
ensure everything begins smoothly.

Additionally, OGR stats processing will probably not occur tonight
since Decibel is out of town and I need him to manually re-process a
couple of today's logfiles before resuming the automation.
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Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

Though not fully functional RC5-72 statistics are here --> http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=8&team=1178
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Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

Just noticed the statiatics for RC5-72 and OGR-25 are back online and up-to-date.
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Chinasaur · Junior Scribe Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 69

I like OGR..I ran it exclusively vs RC5..but the thing that makes me laugh are the graphs...they haven't been updated since 2000.

Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

Chinasaur · Junior Scribe Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 69

Beyond,

Found this on sneakernetting on dnet - http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/59.html

As for the old machines...doesn't seem worth the extra electricity to run them...I wouldn't if they were mine. A K62 or 3 doesn't do much work compared to a modern proc.

Either way..you have an enviable problem...too many computers to hook up

Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

You are more than likely right, best just dump them and save till I can afford to build new boxes. Anyone need any used but not abused old parts?

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Chinasaur · Junior Scribe Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 69

Post what you have and I'll see if I want any of it.

Also, I know a lady who's son's Jr High might want some of it...so I'd buy some for them.

Let's see what ya got.

Also, it will all most likely run BeOS so it's always good to keep legacy hardware around...especially with Intel and M$ coming up with the trustworthy computing/Palladium initiative ... in the future...you may only be able to buy a computer that runs M$...they will have paid the US lawmakers to outlaw open source and non-DRM protected HW.

Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

Beyond · Junior Scribe Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 111

from bovine's .plan;

:: 17-Dec-2002 09:36 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Several additional clients have graduated from release-candidate
status to formal release availability on the download page:

dnetc478-riscos-arm
dnetc478-irix6.5-mips
dnetc478-netbsd-arm32
dnetc478-linux-sparc
dnetc478a-linux-arm-elf

A few new release candidates have been added to the pre-release page:

dnetc478-dos-x86
dnetc478-linux-x86-elf-glibc20
dnetc478-nto2-arm
dnetc478-nto2-x86
dnetc478-ps2linux-mipsel
dnetc478-qnx4-x86
dnetc478-win16-x86

Also the proxyinfo monitoring pages have been updated to support a
more modern backend infrastructure, but we have tried to keep the
presentation approximately the same. You can see the new RC5-72
proxyinfo (updated at 5 minute intervals) page at:

http://n0cgi.distributed.net/rc5-proxyinfo.html
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/ogr-proxyinfo.html

The random, useless factoids at the top of the proxyinfo page are
indeed outdated and need to be replaced with more interesting quotes
(I've merely translated the old 1998 quotes/scripts into modern XSL).
If you have cute ideas for *positive*, general interest quotes, I'm
willing to accept suggestions at . (Preferably
try to keep them project neutral so that they'll work for RC5-72 keys
or OGR nodes.) For the curious, saved copies of the two input files
that generate the above proxyinfo page are:

http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/proxyinfo2.xsl
http://www1.distributed.net/~bovine/proxyinfo.xml (stale input data)
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