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Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 01, 2002 19:35
Lex, you rule! We've got 25 people on the team so far! We're #250 from yesterday.... Let's get into the top 100! IP: Logged |
feldspar Geek-in-Training Posts: 31 |
posted February 02, 2002 15:31
From my stats page today (0 blocks done yesterday):
quote: And a zillion-trillion is ten to the what now? ------------------ IP: Logged |
SupportGoddess Highlie Posts: 599 |
posted February 02, 2002 19:56
I would like to nominate Rednivek for the "Embodiment of Team Spirit" Award. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Aaron Geek-in-Training Posts: 30 |
posted February 03, 2002 19:03
Almost past the 200 mark comeon team!! Somehow it says I've been pushing through over 6Mkkeys/s which is dumbfounding on my iBook and a G4 400. Is it possible that the dnetc crunchers would run even though the system was asleep? Thats the only way I can figure out how an asleep G4 can still be doing so much crunching. IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 04, 2002 16:39
Its possible (especially with an iBook), but my Cube doesnt crunch at all when its sleeping... 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. IP: Logged |
findel unregistered |
posted February 05, 2002 15:53
hello. Im all new too this. Im a bit of a newbie as you call them. and definatly not worthy of your geeky presence. A wannabe geek if you will? 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. IP: Logged |
dragonman97 Assimilated Posts: 365 |
posted February 05, 2002 17:55
quote: 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: code:[misc] IP: Logged |
Aaron Geek-in-Training Posts: 30 |
posted February 05, 2002 20:37
Hey team way to go! Our most recent ranking is #138 or so. That means we are almost in the top 100. Way to go Lex be #1 on the team (at least until I catch up). Anyhow, good job team. Aaron IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 05, 2002 21:22
I wonder how long until our daily ranking matches our real ranking.... we have to spin up through all the lesser teams that have been using up space and keys before us (in a slower fashion).... 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? IP: Logged |
Aaron Geek-in-Training Posts: 30 |
posted February 05, 2002 22:33
quote: 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? Aaron IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 05, 2002 23:21
Yes, except that we could win at any time. IP: Logged |
Bregalad Alpha Geek Posts: 336 |
posted February 06, 2002 01:30
Hey Rednivek, great work recruiting geeks for the team. You're moving up the standings very quickly. Aaron and Dragonman97 turned in amazing numbers yesterday. They must have a pile of modern machines. Speaking of people with multiple computers what's with your numbers? Are your computers shut down most of the time? Based on your hardware I'd say your peak speed is around 9Mkeys/sec, which would translate to more than 2000 blocks/day if the computers did nothing but crack keys all day. IP: Logged |
dragonman97 Assimilated Posts: 365 |
posted February 06, 2002 13:17
Glad to do my part, Bregalad, and the only way I can discretely answer your question is as follows: 001100010011100000100000001110010011001100110011001000000100110 P.S. I hope this is correct. I admit that I have only just learned binary recently. IP: Logged |
+Andrew Alpha Geek Posts: 266 |
posted February 06, 2002 17:50
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+Andrew Alpha Geek Posts: 266 |
posted February 06, 2002 18:09
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. IP: Logged |
Bregalad Alpha Geek Posts: 336 |
posted February 06, 2002 23:58
I was specifically wondering if Rednivek's three machines were sleeping most of the time because I've yet to see his stats come anywhere close to their potential. 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. Just one more thing; don't you dare find the winning key before I do IP: Logged |
dragonman97 Assimilated Posts: 365 |
posted February 07, 2002 08:41
quote:
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: code:0011000100111000001000000011100100110011 IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 08, 2002 20:34
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. IP: Logged |
mephisto Highlie Posts: 642 |
posted February 08, 2002 21:40
count me in for three machines.... a dualie p3 667.... a p2 450 and a p2 266... coming soon another pentium 166...and maybe a sun ultrasparc.....gotta work on the details for the last one.... IP: Logged |
Bregalad Alpha Geek Posts: 336 |
posted February 09, 2002 01:58
quote: 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. 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. IP: Logged |
Lex Super Geek Posts: 218 |
posted February 09, 2002 15:44
Heh... I remember writing an ascii to binary converter in perl. It took me a while because I was tired, and it was probably the second perl program I'd written and the first was done several months before. I did it the hard way though. After I was kindly reminded of this, I reduced it to only a few lines. I can't seem to access the one up there (machine must be down) so I'll post mine. Meet Lex's handy dandy Ascii to Binary to Hexadecimal and Back Again Thingy. code:#!/usr/bin/perl 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 IP: Logged |
donnab Geek Posts: 79 |
posted February 09, 2002 18:19
quote: 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. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Amnesiak unregistered |
posted February 10, 2002 22:41
Hi! Well, I just wanted to laugh with the joy of the day, and I find myself engaged in a computer race... You have the contribution of my modest iMac G3 500, geeks! IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 11, 2002 04:38
Hitting resistance close to 100, but we can do it! GeekCulture Team is ranked #109 for yesterday! Welcome new team members! IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 11, 2002 16:21
OK... officially joined... I haven't been running it on the Ti since it pegs the processor and keeps the fan on almost continuously... 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 Maybe a couple more machines at home... IP: Logged |
Rednivek unregistered |
posted February 11, 2002 17:23
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. IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 11, 2002 22:40
quote: 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 crunch crunch crunch IP: Logged |
Wizzar Geek Larva Posts: 24 |
posted February 12, 2002 19:45
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). IP: Logged |
Aaron Geek-in-Training Posts: 30 |
posted February 12, 2002 20:50
quote: Welcome to the team! IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 13, 2002 08:28
Lex... 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 mmmm... hello crunchy goodness! IP: Logged |
Snaggy Moderator Posts: 1693 |
posted February 13, 2002 08:40
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? 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?) IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 13, 2002 09:28
quote: 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 I'd give up cycles in the name of entertainment and dancing TTBs! IP: Logged |
homesalad Super Geek Posts: 217 |
posted February 13, 2002 18:25
Okay, so I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but its possible to get a different moniter in the preferences from dnetc. 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. IP: Logged |
Lex Super Geek Posts: 218 |
posted February 13, 2002 20:23
If this were, say, Linux and I could get virtual terminals, I could just redirect the output there. All that are avialable seem to be pseudo-terminals, real terminals (ancient clunky things you plug into serial ports), and the console. More on that last one later. 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.] IP: Logged |
greycat Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 14, 2002 09:21
Have dnetc write to a log file. Then open up a terminal window and use the command "tail -f mylogfile". You can alias it or make an icon for it or whatever you want. IP: Logged |
Lex Super Geek Posts: 218 |
posted February 14, 2002 12:00
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. IP: Logged |
AceroSBU Single Celled Newbie Posts: 1 |
posted February 15, 2002 11:51
I'm a bit late and I had to make a new account here to post, But count me in! IP: Logged |
Snaggy Moderator Posts: 1693 |
posted February 16, 2002 13:17
Here's a link to my thread about a GUI front end for dnetc running under Mac OS X that Red found. http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/Forum15/HTML/000427.html IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 338 |
posted February 16, 2002 18:03
quote: 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 Still crunching away... IP: Logged |
Lex Super Geek Posts: 218 |
posted February 17, 2002 18:46
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. IP: Logged |
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