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Issue no: 200049

Subscribers: 230
New subscribers: 23
Total Unsubscribed: 1

Editorial
General
Reading Tips
Privacy policy
Team links

In short

New members

Ranking
Project RC5
Project Seti
Project OGR-25
Project GF

Milestone Makers
Project RC5
Project Seti
Project OGR-25
Project GF

Activities by TA - members

Organizational News

Topics RC5

Topics Seti

Topics OGR-25

Topics GF

Linux and Crackrack info

Other interesting topics

 

Members that still need to rejoin

The list is shrinking slowly, but there are still a huge number of members that need to rejoin our team, because of the DNet error a few weeks ago. Please, take a look at the list below. If you are on it, then don't hesitate and rejoin. The date behind the names is the last submittal date. We will leave this list in the newsletter for another two weeks.

andrew 15-Sep-2000
aghardy 27-Oct-00
amenthes 31-Oct-00
bigjon 31-Oct-00
bobtist 31-Oct-00
br0wn 10-Sep-2000
caldridge 29-Oct-2000
Champo41 30-Oct-2000
chris.lehto 31-Oct-00
cryptor2718 31-Oct-00
daray 31-Oct-00
emo 31-Oct-00
G41184B 31-Oct-00
howell 31-Oct-00
IIIBradIII 31-Oct-00
imaginer 31-Oct-00
ivn3 31-Oct-00
jc 31-Oct-00
jklupton 31-Oct-00
jlgrubbs 28-Oct-00
kanebear 31-Oct-00
kaibo 31-Oct-2000
kevgray 31-Oct-2000
klarabee 31-Oct-00

Konig 29-Oct-2000
laker8 29-Oct-00
levi 29-Oct-00
locutus 30-Oct-2000
majnoon81 31-Oct-00
matthew.witheiler 31-Oct-00
meadows 31-Oct-2000
Mr. W. Fenton 23-Oct-2000
NakaNaka 31-Oct-00
Participant #317,276 31-Oct-00
Postman 12-Nov-00
Prisaman 31-Oct-2000
R0b0tN1k 31-Oct-00
raffaele_sgherr 31-Oct-00
rc5-ray 31-Oct-00
rlyon 31-Oct-00
shulgin78 11-Oct-2000
swarters 31-Oct-00
tedkord 31-Oct-00
tesla00017 31-Oct-00
tflux 31-Oct-2000
tmus 31-Oct-00
whiplash 30-Oct-00
xmach10x 31-Oct-00

The original call can be found here.

New members

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A respectable number of new members can be added to our ever increasing ranks. From Nov. 26 until Dec. 3rd:

Project RC5

rshacklo, Ken Ng, jorisvanherzele, pegly, psylark, drtomsnot, skullone, gpshonik, howardnugent, ish, caveman, The Reaper, jboggs619, doc.holliday, kevinwilliamson, hanta007.

Dennilfloss is still on a assimilation crusade. Take a look at this first thread for Dennilfloss' achievements. He has started a second thread because the first one became too long.  Aduls accomplishments can be followed here. A general assimilation thread is started by Adul and Train. Here every TA-member can report additions.

Project Seti

The Magicman (returned after a long period), JPJonesInGa, Byron Miller, TeamAnandtech@CUBoulder, Ivar Knutsen, Igor the Village Idiot and #10.

They are all welcomed into Team Anandtech. We hope all the new members will be part of the largest distributed computing family for a very long time.

If we have forgotten anybody, please don't feel passed. It's difficult to keep track of every new member.
You can send a message to
the editorial team, so we can put new members in the next newsletter. Please don't forget to mention on which project they are working.

Ranking

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Project RC5

Our assimilation and recruiting efforts are finally paying off. Slowly, but with a steady pace our output is increasing, not only in the RC5 project, but also in OGR and Seti.

The dump of several miniteams within the DPC-ranks is still a hot topic: A lot of their miniteams are saving for a big dump before the end of the year. In the new thread a complete overview is given by date of flush. Team Killemall has made a dump of 1.3 million blocks. The stats for this dumping day can be followed in the DPC Hitparade.

For some figures now:
[Last weeks numbers between brackets.]

Block production

Total no blocks Nov/26

Total no blocks Dec/03

Week production

Team Anandtech

522,566,508

533,562,705

10,996,197 (10,363,542)

Slash Dot

513,111,429

518,626,524

  5,515,095 (4,517,285)

Dutch Power Cows

451,542,249

472,282,137

20,739,888 (16,784,288)

Member stats Dec/03

Total no of members

Active members

Difference (non-active)

Team Anandtech

2,521 (2,506)

654 (602)

1,867 (1,904)

Slash dot

3,808 (3,811)

627 (561)

3,181 (3,205)

Dutch Power Cows

3,808 (3,674)

1,372 (1,310)

2,436 (2,364)

Project Seti

Overall # ranking for 12/03 in the Club Teams category.

Local group production 12/03:

11 Linux..................................(+66683)........ +2588
12 O’Grady’s Macs..................(+44463).......... +616
13 TA.................391571............................... +1605
14 OS/2 Warp..........................(-18355)......... +1000
15 Team Nippon........................(-25743)........ +1304
16 Switzerland..........................(-69911).......... +682
17 Matrox User.........................(-70124)........ +1352


Compared to last week, our Seti team did 14000 WU's more than Team O'Grady's Macs. It will not take long, before the Macs are passed. The big challenge remains Team Linux. The gap has decreased by some 4000 WU's. More additions to the Seti team are still needed to get them the Club Top 10 place they deserve.

Project OGR-25

WU production

Total no WU's Nov/26

Total no WU's Dec/3

Week production

Team Anandtech

16,771,638

 18,064,915

1,293,277

Slash Dot

17,841,917

 18,848,466

1,366,549

Dutch Power Cows

  4,613,266

 4,955,512

342,246

A good number of TA-members is helping out in the OGR-project. This is absolutely necessary, if we want to take the No. 1 spot. We have only a few weeks left to pass Slash Dot.

We still have a couple of weeks to help TA get back into the #1 spot in OGR-25. Make sure your client is set to pull from the TeAm proxies, set your project order to OGR,RC5,DES=0,CSC=0 and frequent-threshold-checks=4 and count some rulers. Your client will revert back to RC5-64 automatically when it can't get any new OGR work units, but will flush and fetch OGR as needed.

Important to mention is that the DPC are still converting some power to the OGR project. Somehow, they want to become a major player in this project also. Wildhagen is posting the DPC Hitparade on the DPC-forum and tries to raise interest amongst the DPC members for this project. It will be a long time before they even come close to our level. You only have to take a look at the above statistics overview.
The DPC are trying to drain all known proxies with OGR-stubs, just to prevent TA of becoming No. 1. This is showing the real character of this team. For more information, take a look at the OGR Topics.

Project GF

As you can see, we have a negative number of WU's. Because of the anonymous benefactor, TA has had a great number of rays contributed to the teams total, that were not legitimate. It looks like we're going to loose the battle for the No.1 spot in this project. It is almost impossible to stay ahead of Team ProcessTree. We can only hope, that there will be a for-profit project soon, that will draw members from this team.

Osmo made a call in which she is asking for some assistance in the efforts of keeping TA on the No. 1 spot in this project. Without the anonymous contributor, we need roughly 75 MHz to stay on top of the world.

Stats taken from Osmo's page:

GammaFlux Rays

Total No. of WU's Dec/03

No. of WU's this week

No. of WU's last week

Team Anandtech

2,921,313 (3,007,309)

 -88,596

152,839

Team 3D Now

2,776,831 (2,661,121)

 115,710

113,783

Team ProcessTree

2,626,724 (2,363,410)

 263,314

260,746

 

Milestone Makers

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This section is meant to congratulate TA-members on their special achievements. More and more TA-members are getting their milestones. Lets keep up the pace.

The milestones for the different projects are:

RC5-64

every 100.000 work units

Seti

every 1.000 work units

OGR

every 25 TNodes

GammaFlux

every XX work units

Project RC5

We have changed the list to an alphabetical order, so everyone can now find his own milestone a bit easier.

2000, November 26 - December 3

<--Havoc--{{{ crossed the 2.9M mark
anand crossed the 3.2M mark
Arlen crossed the 6.0M mark
awoolf crossed the 1.9M mark
Batti crossed the 1.3M mark
BPhantom crossed the 5.1M mark
byeung888 crossed the 600K mark
cdlweasel crossed the 200K mark
celtech crossed the 5.4M mark
czhang crossed the 500K mark
david.tupper crossed the 300K mark
davidhutchinson crossed the 200K mark
davidwmorris crossed the 200K mark
Den crossed the 5.5M mark
denali crossed the 3.7M mark
Devin Ruddell crossed the 800K mark
Diff crossed the 100K mark
dirtboy crossed the 1.1M mark
dmech crossed the 600K mark
dmiller8 crossed the 2.5M mark
Dougal crossed the 3.7M mark
Drakkhen crossed the 8.0M mark
DukeLeto crossed the 100K mark
ecid crossed the 1.5M mark
emiller01 crossed the 200K mark
Eric Durant crossed the 5.1M mark
ForceSHO crossed the 1.5M mark
Frarge_Boffle_Nurp crossed the 100K mark
fsawyer crossed the 700K mark
gabs crossed the 800K mark
ganesha71 crossed the 100K mark
Geoff Stirling crossed the 400K mark
GSmith crossed the 900K mark
hanswee crossed the 100K mark
hershbj crossed the 2.3M mark
hharm3 crossed the 100K mark
IsOs of crossed the 2.9M mark
jamess1070 crossed the 2.0M mark
jamesws crossed the 2.9M mark
jatwell crossed the 2.5M mark
JayTeam crossed the 1.2M mark
JHamilton crossed the 2.1M mark
JHutch crossed the 6.0M mark
JimMc crossed the 100K mark
jmman crossed the 1.5M mark

JMV crossed the 100K mark
john.alfaro crossed the 300K mark
JonB crossed the 11.M mark
KingHam crossed the 2.2M mark
kishkumen crossed the 1.6M mark
lore crossed the 100K mark
MadRat crossed the 400K mark
matthewa crossed the 9.1M mark
mawster.chadwick crossed the 700K mark
mechBgon crossed the 500K mark
Mika crossed the 1.4M mark
mike crossed the 3.2M mark
mischa crossed the 200K mark
mpopovic crossed the 2.2M mark
mscrivo crossed the 100K mark
Napalm381 crossed the 400K mark
Neil.White crossed the 600K mark
nkwan crossed the 1.8M mark
paulerdos crossed the 300 K mark
Preston crossed the 4.7M mark
rc5crackheads crossed the 2.0M mark
rellsworth crossed the 400K mark
Ringo crossed the 500K mark
Sato crossed the 2.4M mark
Seti Cavalry crossed the 300K mark
Sloth crossed the 1.4M mark
Species 8472 crossed the 9.5M mark
ssammy crossed the 200K mark
SSP/Lesley/Trahloc's herd crossed the 200K mark
Stefan crossed the 100K mark
SUOrangeman crossed the 1.8M mark
TA Cube crossed the 14.7M mark
tedwong69 crossed the 200K mark
The Dominion crossed the 1.9M mark
The Federation crossed the 5.0M mark
The Federation, Recon Fleet crossed the 4.4M mark
The Naked Crackers crossed the 1.0M mark
TWTA crossed the 3.2M mark
TheCool1 crossed the 800K mark
TheUtt crossed the 3.0M mark
Tim crossed the 400K mark
ÜÜGH crossed the 400K mark
ViRGE crossed the 3.9M mark
watson81 crossed the 100K mark
Xrayman crossed the 1.2M mark

This list of RC5 milestone makers is a good example of what we are capable off

Project Seti

For the moment, we have picked the milestone makers from the messages in the forums.
We can tell that Legoman, Jlytle, Colby and Ganerc have made it to 1000 WU's this week. Tetsuo got to the 2000 WU's level and Assimilator1 got the 3000 WU's  level. Another milestone worth mentioning is the 5000 WU's of The Magicman. He only just returned and is already on the move.

Project OGR-25

This list of OGR-milestone makers is not complete. They are taken from the forum messages, made by NT4Mike. Due to circumstances of a personal matter, he wasn't able to post all of the achievements. We all wish him luck for the time ahead.

Ducky has passed the 2.2 Pnode mark!!!
giantnt4vizmechthunderstorm has passed the 1.375 Tnode mark!!!
Buzzman Waltz has passed the 900 Tnode mark!!!
Qythyx passed the 800 Tnode mark!!!
Bassman passed the 725 Tnode mark!!!
ob1 passed the 475 Tnode mark!!!
Clueless passed the 475 Tnode mark!!!
The Federation has passed the 375 Tnode mark!!!
ZapZilla has passed the 300 Tnode mark!!!
Ottawanker passed the 225 Tnode mark!!!
vtpham passed the 225 Tnode mark!!!
afrazier has passed the 175 Tnode mark!!!
nkwan has passed the 175 Tnode mark!!!
Bartman has passed the 125 Tnode mark!!!
quatious has passed the 100 Tnode mark!!!
Drakkhen has passed the 100 Tnode mark!!!
nexus9 has passed the 100 Tnode mark!!!
cvermeer has passed the 100 Tnode mark!!!
psgsr44 passed the 75 Tnode mark!!!
Fagin has passed the 75 Tnode mark!!!
Choralone passed the 50 tnode mark!!!
The Naked Crackers passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
Seti Cavalry passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
dunnry passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
TA Cube passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
Participant #280,188 has passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
mnelsonx has passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
Teamzero has passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
Mark R has passed the 25 Tnode mark!!!
alpha 7x has hit the 25 Tnode mark!!!

Project GF

We are still working on a mechanism for listing the milestone makers for GF.

Activities by TA - members

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Another Brainstorm.... AnandTech.com in other languages?? TA
First posting: Dec/01/2000 by Train

This topic comes up every now and then, but Train has given a new impulse to the idea. Train suggested to translate the Anandtech website. This is not feasible , but a tranlation of the teams website is. Some volunteers already came forward, but we still need some languages covered. This is a very important means of expanding our ranks to other parts of the world. If anyone has ideas or wants to volunteer, please submit them into this thread.

Motto Contest Entry Thread   TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Virge

Virge announces the next contest for creating a catching motto for the team. The best motto will be awarded with a weeks outpu by one of Virges' machines. To support this effort, the chief editor of this newsletter (PeterN) is also giving one weeks output of his P166@200.

Team Anandtech CrackGameWinner

There are still about 8000 blocks that should be added to the account. The progress of the amount can be monitored at DNet. Semper_Fi was the one that guessed correct and therefore declared the winner. In this thread, Xede is asking for people to pay up their wager and start cracking for crackgamewinner@hotmail.com. This account will later be retired into Semper_Fis' account.

Team Anandtech Advertising campaign

DanC is still waiting for input to his question: Which site will be most suited to host the banner for recruiting people for TA? Some very interesting suggestions have been made, but maybe there is a site, nobody has thought of and offers some very interesting perspectives.

PeterN made a suggestion (in the same thread), to use some banner exchange company. This will take our banner to many websites and it will cost much less money.

Also, an offer has been made by Cycas. He is willing to put the banner on his side for free for some time.

Come on, people. Let this vast resource of members not go to waste and give some input on this topic. It will benefit all our projects, if we can get more computer users to join TA.

Organizational News

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Besides the slowing down of OGR-stub issuing by DNet, there is no organizational news important enough to be mentioned.

Topics RC5

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Talk about raising the bar! TA
First posting: Dec/02/2000 by GeoffS

In his attempt to get to page 1 on the stats pages of the teams' proxy, GeoffS has gotten permission to install the client on over 100 computers at his workplace. Right now, the machines are P3-500, but will be upgraded to P3-600 soon.

Best OS for RC5? TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by BlackFlagg

In this topic, a very interesting discussion is taking place. A number of opinions are given, so there should be one that fits every circumstance or configuration.

HELP!!! RC5 setup in a dual boot machine TA
First posting: Dec/03/2000 by IsOS

IsOs has a very specific dual processor configuration and encountered some problems. He is advice by some of our hard- and software experts.

Need help with stats software   TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Adul

Adul is asking for advice, which statistics software is best to display the log-files, generated by the DNet perproxy.

Topics Seti

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SETI takes diff amounts of time on units... TA
First posting: Nov/24/2000 by Nighthawk69

Fairly new to Seti, Nighthawk69 is wondering about the various times it takes to complete a seti-wu. Answers from several members state, this is perfectly normal. Also some advice is given to optimize the output.

SETI speed difference between Win9x and Win2K? TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Spamboy

/it is not clear, which OS is faster on Seti WU's. There are several circumstances to take into consideration, before a conclusive advice can be given about this subject.

Need help getting SetiQ to work with LINKSYS 4 Port Router? TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Russ2kSE

Russ2kSE needed help with this problem. With some good advice, it seems to work out.

Topics OGR

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Dump DPC-OGR started DPC
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Stappel

Here the DPC are announcing their mega flush in the OGR project for Monday, Dec. 4th. They hope to get to the No. 1 position. The other topic in this thread is the slowing down of stub-issues by DNet. They invented the rumor that we are trying to get all remaining stubs. As a countermeasure, they are planning to cheat and drain all the keyservers of DNet and our Team, just to ensure we don't reach the No. 1 spot. What else can you expect from a team, that has no honor and respect for other teams. Hereby, I call upon all TA-members, that are working on the OGR project, to get OGR-stubs from the DPC proxies, if none are available from other places. The DPC-proxy addresses are:
proxy.dsmarty.com
energy.keyserver.org
wildhagen.keyserver.org
victorb.dsmarty.com
dutchman.keyserver.org

Topics GF

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Besides the already mentioned anonymous contributor, there is not much new to tell about the GammaFlux project.

Linux and Crackrack info

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Need help with crackrack TA
First posting: Dec/01/2000 by Blade_47

Blade_47 has a very strange problem with his cracker. It will boot, but after about 1 minute, it shuts down itself. Some probable solutions are given, but in the end it appeared to be the power supply.

How to run 3 crackrack boards on one power supplyTA
First posting: Oct/31/2000 by DanC

Somehow this question comes up every now and then. We will leave it for a number of issues. Here, DanC asks the TA-members if someone knows how to connect more than one motherboard to a power supply. Lord Demios answers with a very elaborate story on how to go ahead.

Other interesting topics

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Again: The sense in doing distributed projects... TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Flot

We have seen quite a number of this sort of questions. Most of them were meant as annoying and to stir up the TA-community. This question seems to be legit and honest. This is rewarded with some valuable remarks by TA-members.

OT: recover hard drive TA
First posting: Dec/04/2000 by Mika

Mika encountered a problem with his hard drive. There is an urgent need for recovery. Due to several helpful hints Mika was able to reconstruct the most important part and recovered the data on it.

In short

Totally forgot to mention in the last newsletter, but there is an archive set up on the teams website. Mika put some work in it again, so thanks for all the effort you put in keeping the server up and running.

The RC5 output still seems to suffer from the stats outage a few weeks ago. That is why the list of members to rejoin have been added again.

We are slowly, but steadily climbing in all of the major projects. OGR is showing a major increase, while the RC5 output is slowly rising. This last output needs to get higher, if we want to be able to hold off the DPC, so again the call for assimilations and new recruits. Our Seti team is steadily raising their output, getting more WU's pumped out every week.

The rate of subscriptions is slowing down. With last issue we had 217, compared to the 230 we have right now. I guess most of the active TA-members have subscribed. However, the more subscriptions we have, the more people will read about our efforts.

If you have someone that might be interested in the achievements of TA, e.g. friends, family or colleagues, then please forward a copy to them and show them how to sign up.

A number of news clippings from the previous issues are reappearing in this newsletter. They might be of interest to all the new subscribers.

In this newsletter, we have mentioned all the topics we could think of. Yet, not all of them are filled yet. In time, all topics will be covered. If any remark, idea or suggestion might arise, please don't hesitate to send them to the editorial team.

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The purpose of this newsletter is to keep every person, interested in the various distributed computing projects the members of Team Anandtech are participating in, up-to-date with the latest achievements and developments.

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