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DigitalBill
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From: The TiBook, on the WLAN, nothin' but Net!
Registered: Jan 2001

posted February 17, 2002 20:26     Click Here to See the Profile for DigitalBill   Click Here to Email DigitalBill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Lex:
Interesting. What screen saver do you use? The basic one seems nice enough and is what I use.

Can't say I really have any other ideas, unless dnetc isn't as stable as we'd like. Although on occasion I've noticed temporary lockups while running it on my iBook. Perhaps it has something to do with it polling the battery? Hmmm.


On the Lombard, I'm running Cosmos... one of the defaults installed with OS X.

I'll let you know in the morning if it made it throught the weekend or not.

Running in Terminal on my TiBook doesn't seem to have the same Panic problem. Of course it doesn't sit unnattended for 12 hours at a time. Oh, and I run the iFlavaX from MacSurfshop on the TiBook...

=bd

More later...

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DigitalBill
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posted February 18, 2002 11:00     Click Here to See the Profile for DigitalBill   Click Here to Email DigitalBill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by DigitalBill:

I'll let you know in the morning if it made it throught the weekend or not.


Didn't make it. I left the Lombard with the screensaver off (well, on but with the cursor in the 'no sleep' corner) and when I came in this morning... yep Kernel Panic.

Wonder if anyone else running dnet as root has this issue?

=bd

I hate restarting...

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Lex
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posted February 18, 2002 19:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Lex   Click Here to Email Lex     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thats pretty odd. Anyone having this problem should probably just uninstall it (Delete the /Library/StartupItems/Distributed.net folder)

You might try making it run as another user. Change the owner of all the dnet files to you or some other user (bin maybe?) and set the setuid bit on dnetc (4755 should do). Too tired to go into it now for the non-unix types, but it probably won't help anyway. Bleh. Just use the gui Red found.

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Wizzar
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posted February 19, 2002 20:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Wizzar   Click Here to Email Wizzar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Last night I got the client installed on half of the macs in the lab I work in. It makes a huge difference when you run the client on a bunch of macs that rarely get used!!!

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+Andrew
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posted February 19, 2002 21:23     Click Here to See the Profile for +Andrew   Click Here to Email +Andrew     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
W: Don't do anything without clear permission. It can lead to trouble

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Bregalad
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posted February 19, 2002 23:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad   Click Here to Email Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm running dnetc in an OS X Terminal window with user level permissions. I think I've got root disabled.

I've run OS X on and off at work since DP2 and at home since 10.0 was released. I've seen only one kernel panic and it appeared to be caused by a kernel extension associated with the Cisco 5000 VPN client.

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Rednivek
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posted February 23, 2002 02:47     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I believe it. VPN5000 caused 1 panic for me also.

Current Rank: 3,126

GeekCulture Team is ranked #128 for yesterday!

The odds are 1 in 1,454 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

31 Active GCDT members yesterday!
Go GCDT! (avenge the curling loss)

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Avi Drissman
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posted February 23, 2002 22:43     Click Here to See the Profile for Avi Drissman   Click Here to Email Avi Drissman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yesterday (2/23):

1 Wizzar 7,774 19.61%
2 [email protected] 5,262 13.28%

Number two! Whoo hoo! Wizzar, watch your tail...

And that's just my dual 800 G4 at work and my P133. During the weekdays, I also crunch with my PowerBook G4/500.

I need to find some more machines at work. Crush the enemy... crush...

Avi

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Rednivek
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posted February 24, 2002 09:35     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Current Rank: 3,049

GeekCulture Team completed 39,633 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 123,135 Kkeys/second!
GeekCulture Team is ranked #121 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 1,399 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

32 active members yesterday!

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Aiyana
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posted February 24, 2002 11:27     Click Here to See the Profile for Aiyana   Click Here to Email Aiyana     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, my two G3's (333 iMac and 266 PowerBook) have joined in on the fun. For all they're worth, speed-wise. My kingdom for a spiffy G4 iMac!

I'd install it on the Special Edition DV iMacs in the vet hospital compuer lab, but alas, they all run off a central server that's secreted away somewhere.

That and I'd probably get my arse kicked for it.

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dragonman97
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posted February 24, 2002 13:26     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Avi Drissman:
[...]
1 Wizzar 7,774 19.61%
2 [email protected] 5,262 13.28%

Number two! Whoo hoo! Wizzar, watch your tail...
[...]
Avi[/B]



Good work Avi, you certainly have beat me as well. My cluster is off over the weekend, and will probably be scaled back now. But, I may be letting a 1.7 GHz P4 into the fray.

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Rednivek
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posted February 24, 2002 20:32     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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GeekCulture Team is ranked #118 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 1,393 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

32 active members yesterday!

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Avi Drissman
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posted February 25, 2002 21:03     Click Here to See the Profile for Avi Drissman   Click Here to Email Avi Drissman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
1 [email protected] 7,104 17.29%
2 Wizzar 6,401 15.57%

Excuse me, Wizzar, please let me pass. :-)

dragonman97, please throw the 1.7ghz P4 into the ring. We can use the power. I do not fear it, though.

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Snaggy
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posted February 25, 2002 22:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Snaggy   Click Here to Email Snaggy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
GO Avi Go!

...now to convince Nitrozac to leave her G4 crunching more often.

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Wired_Apple_Geek
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posted February 28, 2002 17:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Wired_Apple_Geek   Click Here to Email Wired_Apple_Geek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm in loading it onto my personal machines at home now the adding it remotely to our servers in the office.

So you can add two TBooks, 3 G4 Dual 450 and 2 G4 Dual 1 Gigs to the list. Should all be going by about midnight tonight.

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DigitalBill
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posted February 28, 2002 17:46     Click Here to See the Profile for DigitalBill   Click Here to Email DigitalBill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Avi Drissman:

During the weekdays, I also crunch with my PowerBook G4/500.

Avi


Avi,

Don't you find that running dnet on the Ti 500 makes the fan run all day? Can this be good for it? (although I guess the fan running is better than melting the processor into a little puddle of silicon goo...) The fan never comes on on my Lombard 333, sitting right beside the Ti500...

=bd

I'm Nitrozac & Snaggy's biggest fan!

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<brushes off dust as drissman overtakes>
<eyes eclark worryingly>

Dang Intel processors. Gimme a G4!

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dragonman97
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posted March 02, 2002 10:27     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, Avi, I just had the 1.7 GHz running 9-6 yesterday, it does appear to have made a difference of 700 blocks. Until I have the energy to start up the cluster everyday (a time consuming process, due to the terms I do it on - wiped upon reboot), I will keep on crunching slowly but surely.

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Rednivek
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posted March 03, 2002 09:04     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Current Rank: 2,690

GeekCulture Team is ranked #119 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 1,373 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

28 active members yesterday!

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Avi Drissman
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posted March 03, 2002 12:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Avi Drissman   Click Here to Email Avi Drissman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
DigitalBill: Don't you find that running dnet on the Ti 500 makes the fan run all day? Can this be good for it?

Well, I have the client pause when I'm on battery, and when I'm on mains power the fan's on about 75% of the time. That's at work, though; curiously, at home it doesn't seem to use the fan as much.

It's a bit distracting but I'm getting used to it.

Being good for it? If my TiBook can't handle being run at 100% processor utilization for indefinite periods then it had better burn out now so I can get it fixed under warranty. I don't think that that's too much to ask of a computer.

Avi

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Charisma
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posted March 06, 2002 21:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Charisma   Click Here to Email Charisma     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well... I downloaded the client today... and my 500 G4 is chugging away... I just need to join GeekCulture now... too bad the distributed.net servers are down now... tomorrow though.

Here's a thought... install the client on every computer in Henrico County. That's about 10-20,000 500 G3s chugging away... I wonder what the stats are on that!?

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greycat
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posted March 07, 2002 06:49     Click Here to See the Profile for greycat     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Here's a thought... install the client on every computer in Henrico County. That's about 10-20,000 500 G3s chugging away... I wonder what the stats are on that!?

Probably depends on whether you're over 18. If you're a minor, I'm guessing the stats would be "expulsion from school" or "suspended for the rest of the school year". If you're an adult, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fine of, say, a quarter million dollars. Plus legal fees.

But IANAL.

DO NOT underestimate the fear that the non-geeks have of computer geeks. Also, do not underestimate the stupidity of your school board. Remember what Mark Twain said.

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+Andrew
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posted March 07, 2002 17:19     Click Here to See the Profile for +Andrew   Click Here to Email +Andrew     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Finally broke the top 100! #98 yesterday with 58,092 blocks completed:

97( + 5) qnxZone 06-Mar-2002 06-Mar-2002 1 28 183,384.29 59,025
98( + 33) GeekCulture Team 06-Mar-2002 06-Mar-2002 1 44 180,485.56 58,092
99( - 13) The Idle Time Chattown Collective 06-Mar-2002 06-Mar-2002 1 6 175,293.95 56,421

-Andrew

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Wizzar
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posted March 07, 2002 18:35     Click Here to See the Profile for Wizzar   Click Here to Email Wizzar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well I got all of the macs running it in the lab again. I start them all up on a Monday and don't bother checking if they are still running it until the next Monday. Generally they run it until they crash (not too often). My supervisor is the one who told me I could run the program and even showed me where to install it so it'd work so if things aren't ok with somebody it's all on him. Yeah, 98th for the day!

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Snaggy
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posted March 08, 2002 00:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Snaggy   Click Here to Email Snaggy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
WooHoo! YAH!!!

98 is looking great!

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Charisma
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posted March 08, 2002 07:48     Click Here to See the Profile for Charisma   Click Here to Email Charisma     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In regards to greycat, I wouldn't actually do it, duh... just think about it... mind blowing, isn't it?

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dragonman97
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posted March 09, 2002 09:48     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Way to go Wizzar and Avi. GC ranked 96 yesterday! You guys inspired me to fire up some of the cluster yesterday.

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Avi Drissman
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posted March 09, 2002 22:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Avi Drissman   Click Here to Email Avi Drissman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wizzar, you have a lab? You lucky guy. I remember the days when I had fifty machines to keep running. Yes, I had them all crunching rc5. The sad thing is that my dual-800 today has a crunch rate far more than those machines put together.

And congrats on your key rate. You have proven yourself to be a worthy competitor. Enjoy the top spot. For now. ;-)

Avi

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Rednivek
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posted March 14, 2002 04:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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GeekCulture Team is ranked #109 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 1,223 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

35 active members yesterday!

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dragonman97
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posted March 16, 2002 09:51     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So Wizzar, forgetting the fact that you've clearly surpassed me on a daily basis, it would appear that you will surpass my total record shortly. I will have to do something about that - I guess I'll fire up cluster a bit more. Nothing quite like a little friendly competition, especially when one merely tries to beat his own record.

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Geordie
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posted March 16, 2002 16:07     Click Here to See the Profile for Geordie   Click Here to Email Geordie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Trying to get debian linux and/or solaris going has taken my P4 out of commision for the last few days. I'll try to get it crunching again even if I do have to reinstall WinXP to do it (now that's dedication to the cause).

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dragonman97
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posted March 20, 2002 08:54     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Woo-hoo! Team GC is 99 for the day!

On a personal note, I am happy to have broken my own personal record, though I never thought that I could.

quote:

22,213 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00003232% of the keyspace)
at a sustained rate of 69,013 KKeys/sec! Ranked 268 for the day.
Yesterday is this participant's best day ever!


According to d.net yesterday was my best day ever - amazing, this piece of software can determine my moods

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Wizzar
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posted March 25, 2002 19:57     Click Here to See the Profile for Wizzar   Click Here to Email Wizzar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It seems I'm falling behind. I guess I'll have to get those Macs going again. I'm guessing that they got restarted because of all the photoshop projects that were due last week. I'll pass you all <evil grin and laughter>.

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dragonman97
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posted March 26, 2002 09:18     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, it looks like Avi will beat me soon. I'm just trying to keep a lead on him, but I doubt I'll succeed. This shall be interesting. It is inevitable.

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posted March 27, 2002 07:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Avatar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I joined the team today with my wimpy 500 G3. I want to get the two G4's I'm in charge of at school going at it, but they have no net connection, and not much hope of getting one soon.

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posted March 28, 2002 00:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Participant #109,219   Click Here to Email Participant #109,219     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No need to have a net connection -- it's a bit fiddly, but you can exchange blocks through email or by (e.g.) floppy disk to a machine that has a net connection.

The sneakernet FAQ: http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/59.html

Email FAQ: http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/257.html

If the machine can dial in to the net, check the FAQ here: http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/12.html

- 109,219

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Lex
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posted April 01, 2002 17:40     Click Here to See the Profile for Lex   Click Here to Email Lex     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From the maker of the kludgy dnet installer for OSX comes the kludgy dnet pauser for OSX. Not that we'd like you to ever allow your dnetc to be off, but should you ever need your processing power back for a moment, this handy button is your one-stop for pausing and unpausing dnet. It just creates or deletes the proper flag file, and voila! And if the location of your flag file isn't the same as mine (it should be if you used my installer) you can change it in the preferences. You could even use this button to make flag files for some other program.

Anyway, here it is in all its bloated REALBasic badness:
http://homepage.mac.com/lex42/dnpause.dmg.gz

I should really learn to use Cocoa.

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weirdo513
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posted April 02, 2002 18:37     Click Here to See the Profile for weirdo513   Click Here to Email weirdo513     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
-hops on the bandwagon-

How long do i have to let it runbeofre I can join the team.. I recall there being like a certain waiting period but I could be wrong...

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azagthoth
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posted April 02, 2002 22:55     Click Here to See the Profile for azagthoth     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Aaron wrote:
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Stroke of Genius... I will put it in my university directory files and log in via ssh and then run it on their system and my system at the same time. Just might work... I know I can run things like proEngineering and matlab from home that way
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A bit of a warning, Aaron, this might not be a wise idea. These systems are paid for by your school and are for school related functions. Distributed's software is pretty good about not using anything but spair CPU ticks but it will cause a constant load on an server. If a monk[0] monitors this box and notices the load is consitantly high ?he will check into it and find that you are running this and will be less than thrilled. At the least you will find your proccess kill -9'd and perhaps something subtly done to your account, at the worst you could find yourself up on abuse of school resources charges. Unless you own the box and bandwidth or have permission from those that do I would advise against running this software. You might get away with it, you might not. Is it worth it? Now if you admin these boxes then it's no big deal, but if you don't and you have competent admins they will notice this and annoying your admins is never a good idea, ?he might just be a BOFH.

[0] A competent unix sys admin

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posted April 03, 2002 04:14     Click Here to See the Profile for Avatar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"How long do i have to let it runbeofre I can join the team"

Each day around midnight Distributed.net collects stats. So once you start crunching,you have to wait till midnight so it will add you as a member of Distributed.net. Then you can join the team.

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