We've got 25 people on the team so far!

We're #250 from yesterday....

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The odds are 1 in a zillion-trillion that this participant will find the key before anyone else does.

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And a zillion-trillion is ten to the what now?

Whatever you're doing, though... keep on doing it!

GeekCulture Team is ranked #172 for yesterday!

The odds are 1 in 1,875 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

how do i disable the OGR on my client??

i only want to run te RC5. please help....and keep it as simple as possible.

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Originally posted by findel:
how do i disable the OGR on my client??

i only want to run te RC5. please help....and keep it as simple as possible.

thankyou....Findel.[/B]

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Well, I concede, I originally was a little stumped at how to turn just do RC5, until I saw something in the documentation. To make it work, go into the config, dnetc -config from a command prompt, in the dnetc folder, and type 2 to go to Buffer and Buffer Update Options. Enter 9 for Load Work precedence. Here, type RC5,DES=0,CSC=0,OGR=0. Then press ENTER, 0, 0. Then you can start dnetc, quietly with dnetc -quiet.

Admittedly, you might just find it easier to edit the dnetc.ini file, adding the lines:

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[misc]
project-priority=RC5,DES=0,CSC=0,OGR=0

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Aaron

We are yesterdays #139, but overall 5591 and moved up 293 places... so is it (5591-139)/239 = days to get to the real 139 (more or less)? Well, probably get more resistance the closer we get... some inverse log, who knows?

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We are yesterdays #139, but overall 5591 and moved up 293 places... so is it (5591-139)/239 = days to get to the real 139 (more or less)? Well, probably get more resistance the closer we get... some inverse log, who knows?

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The 100th ranked team overall has completed 42,490,706 blocks. The GeekCulture team has completed 270,759 blocks to date. We completed 39,879 blocks yesterday which means at that rate... (42,490,706 - 270,759)/(39,879) = 1058 or so days at this rate until yesterdays team stats reflect the overall team stats. Kinda depressing isn't it?

001100010011100000100000001110010011001100110011001000000100110
101001000010101001001100010000010101001101010100001000000101011
101000001010100110010000001001101010000010101100100100000010000
100100010100100000010001110100111101001001010011100100011100100
000010101000100111100100000001101010011000000100000001101100011
011000110111001000000101000010011000101010101010011001000000100
000100100000010001100100010101010111001000000100111101010100010
010000100010100100000010011010100000101000011010010000100100101
0011100100010101010011

P.S. I hope this is correct. I admit that I have only just learned binary recently.

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Originally posted by dragonman97:
Glad to do my part, Bregalad, and the only way I can discretely answer your question is as follows:

001100010011100000100000001110010011001100110011001000000100110
101001000010101001001100010000010101001101010100001000000101011
101000001010100110010000001001101010000010101100100100000010000
100100010100100000010001110100111101001001010011100100011100100
000010101000100111100100000001101010011000000100000001101100011
011000110111001000000101000010011000101010101010011001000000100
000100100000010001100100010101010111001000000100111101010100010
010000100010100100000010011010100000101000011010010000100100101
0011100100010101010011

P.S. I hope this is correct. I admit that I have only just learned binary recently.

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It's not correct. As it is, it's two bits short of being a set of complete bytes and translates to complete gibberish. With the first six bits cut out, the last half translates but beginning does not. Perhaps a copy&paste error? I have a tool that translates both ways.. I'll get it running on a web-accessible machine shortly.

As for achieving such rates (I'm [email protected]), my computers are on all the time anyway, doing various light tasks. I'm not using any extra power - the spare CPU time is just getting put to use.

My alter ego has 6 computers with RC5 running in the background all the time and there are 5 old PCs under my control at work that occasionally crack a few keys. They range from a lowly Celeron 333 to a G4/450DP that's almost 8 times as fast as the celery. Unfortunately for Geek Culture my crunching power was committed to another team many years ago (RC5-64 started in October 1997), but I do wish you well in your climb up the standings.

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Originally posted by +Andrew:
Andrew's Binary/ASCII Converter. Credit goes to the ThinkGeek 'you are dumb' in binary shirt for driving me to create this tool - just to see if the shirt was correct. Surprisingly, it's come in handy several times since then.

As for achieving such rates (I'm [email protected]), my computers are on all the time anyway, doing various light tasks. I'm not using any extra power - the spare CPU time is just getting put to use.

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Thanks a lot, Andrew, that's a great tool (obviously, since it's written in perl )

There were only two little errors, and the biggest was that I used a Windoze editor to cut this into what I thought were correct groups of 64 bits. Unfortunately, I didn't realize the index was 1-based (oops). Thanks to your tool, I found the errors, and fixed them. Without further ado, the correct message:

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0011000100111000001000000011100100110011
0011001100100000010011010100100001011010
0100110001000001010100110101010000100000
01010111010000010101001100100000
01001101010000010101100100100000
010000100100010100100000
0100011101001111010010010100111001000111
00100000010101000100111100100000
001101010011000000100000
00110110001101100011011100100000
0101000001001100010101010101001100100000
0100000100100000
010001100100010101010111
00100000010011110101010001001000010001010101001000100000
0100110101000001010000110100100001001001010011100100010101010011

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Originally posted by Rednivek:
Bregalad,

2 of the machines are sleeping most of the time... the AMD TBird700 is on all the time... what do you calculate to be its optimum speed? As far as I can tell, dnetc owns the CPU most of the time on that machine... but then again, there's OS overhead... and 1 Xwindows session slowed it down to about half cracking speed one day.

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I saw that the TBird is doing quite well. In terms of top speed it should be capable of roughly 2300kkeys/sec. The GHz PIII could do about 3200 and the G4/450 has a top speed of almost 3900. All told those 3 machines running full out would crack 3000 blocks per day.

Obviously any machine you use to do actual work will run slower. Likewise any machine allowed to sleep won't be of much use.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
undef$/;foreach(@ARGV){$in.="$_ "};chop$in;unless(@ARGV){$in=<>;}
if($0=~/asc2bin/){foreach(split(//,$in)){print(unpack(B8,$_),"\040")}}
elsif($0=~/bin2asc/){$in=~s/\s//g;$ln=length($in);print(pack("B$ln",$in))}
elsif($0=~/asc2hex/){foreach(split(//,$in)){print(unpack(H2,$_),"\040")}}
elsif($0=~/hex2asc/){$in=~s/\s//g;$ln=length($in);print(pack("H$ln",$in))}print"\n";

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Just change the name to change the functionality. symlinks or copies work nicely. Takes input from the command line or standard input.

47 6f 20 47 65 65 6b 43 75 6c 74 75 72 65 21

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Originally posted by Bregalad:
Oh and it's really 2am here. Our stupid public transit system becomes almost useless after midnight so I'm recently back from driving a friend home. Maybe tomorrow I'll start a rant thread about that.

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You have public transit until midnight and you're complaining? Out here a taxi costs over $16 for a short trip, if he answers his phone. I think that even in Boston the public transit closes down around midnight or shortly thereafter. Although I could be wrong, because I always have to drive there or drive 3/4 of the way there to a place where I can leave my car to catch a train, so I just drive all the way.

GeekCulture Team is ranked #109 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 1,252 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

So, I put my old G3 333 Lombard on it too... and since I leave it running as a webserver, it'll be at it slow but sure.... (729,161 keys/sec)

Oh, Lex, Nice job with the installer... I used it on the Lombard and it was smooth... though I resisted restarting due to it's server nature...

Snaggy, how do you find out individual stats for the team? Is that a private admin function, or did I miss a link?

=bd

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Originally posted by Rednivek:
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=925184131

Go there and click on "yesterday" or "overall" which is right above the chart segment on the bottom of the page.

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Oh, thanks... shoulda seen that... but who codes links the same color as text? (And of course I have Underlining off, in the name of Typography)

bd

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Originally posted by Wizzar:
As of yesterday I just got all 3 of my systems up and crunching away. They are a 1.2Ghz Athlon, 750Mhz Duron, and a meek Powerbook G3 233Mhz. Tomorrow when I get to monitor the lab at my college I'm going to run it on 6 more computers (PIII's of unknown Mhz).

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Welcome to the team!

I finally restarted My Lombard OS X box with your dnetc installation on it... (it actually had a kernel panic...)

Anyway, being pretty new to unix, I can see the dnetc process is running in Top and Process Viewer (dutifully using 90.1% of my CPU at the moment, but the Question is, how do I monitor it? Is there a way to use Terminal to connect to the process? Or is it just going to sit there quitely?

Thanks...

=bd

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Originally posted by Snaggy:

Me too, I miss the little progress window I get in OS 9. Is there a setting to turn this on for OS 10, or like I mentioned in this thread, if there is a programmer in the house, we would gladly supply some graphics for frivilous visual stimuli ... (say the TTBs Go-Go dancing to the crunching data?)

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Heh... there is one if you run dnetc from terminal... it gives you a little text-y progress bar...

I think Lex's install is running 'dnetc -quiet' that makes it run like a 'faceless' app in OS 9 (and like most of the processes in X).

I love the idea of an interface with dancing TTBs... but wouldn't that steal precious CPU cycles? Hmmm....

=bd

run the config menu, and then somewhere in there, there's an option to show a 'percentage' option.

Maybe thats it, at least there's a thing that kind of moves across the terminal window.

Though I don't know the first thing about unix.

Currently I just have it dumping to a log file. If you used the graphical installer it should be in the /Library/StartupItems/Distributed.net folder. If you used the perl script installer it should be in /var/dnet.

The console might have been a good idea, but OSX's Console app just views the console log. It does this in real time, sure, but because of certain limitations the progress bar just looks silly. Also lots of other stuff go to the console, so you'd have to sift through. On the plus side, you can view any log file with console viewer, so telling it to open your /Library/StartupItems/Distributed.net/dnet.log file might work well.

You might even want to pipe it into one of your pseudo terminals, especially if you don't use the Terminal app often. For example, I don't usually use more than 3 terminal windows at a time, so I might pipe my dnetc output to /dev/ttyp4, which would be terminal window 4. To do this, lets get unixy. Okay, maybe not that unixy, but we have to edit a file.

Go to the /Library/StartupItems/Distributed.net folder and open the Distributed.net file in there with TextEdit (if you used the perl script, you might need to become root first.) Then just change the line "dnetc -hide" to "dnetc > /dev/ttyp4 &" or whatever number you like. Save, reboot. Now to watch, just pop open terminal windows until you get to the one with dnetc running in it. The shell will still be running in this terminal, but it will quickly become obscured by dnet's output and stay that way unless you try and use that terminal. You can open and close this terminal as much as you like and dnet will be there waiting.

I tried piping dnetc off to some unused terminal or pseudoterminal and then tried to get it out again elsewhere using dd and cat, but with no luck. Perhaps someone with more unix skill knows the proper command for that?

So far, short of writing another program, your best options are to watch it with the Console app or to pipe it to a Terminal window you don't use often. Or to not run it as a service at all. Anyone with anything helpful to add?

[Edit: Make sure to put an ampersand at the end of that command up there. I'm not sure exactly how OSX handles services that fail to go into the background, but it just occured to me that it might not be fun to find out. For non-unix types, the ampersand at the end makes the process run in the background.]

http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/Forum15/HTML/000427.html

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Originally posted by Lex:
The OSX Console app actually does run tail. In fact, .log files are even associated with it, so just make a shortcut to the dnet.log file on your desktop. Thats handy.

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Yea... this is probably sufficient... though I'll look at the wrapper.

BTW Lex... Since I installed your installer in OS X, my Lombard's had 2 kernel panics. I leave this box on all the time, hosting a couple filemaker databases and using to serve some PHP tests I'm working on...

It's panics seem to have come when I'm away, and it's been in the screensaver for a long time...

Just an observation...

=bd