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Fozzie

08-13-2003, 01:42 PM

How do you register and sort out your username etc?

rshepard

08-13-2003, 01:57 PM

It is all handled through the cbspn.conf file-

# CBSPN Server
# configuration file
#

# Set UserID (you may use an email address or your name.
# For example:
# uid=Joe Smith
# uid=joe_smith@temple.com
uid=<<your username>>

# Set DC team name
teamname=Free-DC <<=== of course !!

and so on.....

everything else in the file is prretty self- explanatory--
hook it to an always - on connection ( or at least one that runs a long period of time)
and you're in business

Fozzie

08-13-2003, 02:06 PM

It just said unregistered at the top of the DOS session.

rshepard

08-13-2003, 02:13 PM

did it go ahead and start?

Fozzie

08-13-2003, 02:59 PM

How do I know when its processed some nodes and how do i keep track of input into the team?

rshepard

08-13-2003, 03:08 PM

If you are running the Command line version,
you can watch it- it will process the position and work done as it goes along. Also, there is always the peer-node monitor, which will let you track it ( don't have a link handy, but find one of cygnussphere's posts, its in the sig)
Stats are updated once a day, so you won't show up until tomorrow
:thumbs:

Fozzie

08-13-2003, 03:29 PM

to run it everytime I am on the 'Net. Won't be much but I haven't got unmetered access at the mo.

IronBits

08-13-2003, 03:47 PM

If you have the little chessbrain icon in the task tray, right click on it and configure ;)

ECL

08-20-2003, 09:03 PM

I thought I'd try this thing out. The numbers are a bit confusing.

According to CB MOC, I've completed 125M nodes in 481 seconds.

I looked around and the closest I could find was "andrewvsm" is sitting at 122M nodes, having expended 1789936 seconds to get there. Is my computer really 3721 times faster than his? I doubt it. Otherwise, I should be able to crush those Anandtech guys like ants by sometime tomorrow.

So what are the stats really based on? Is a "Total Node" on the stats pages really a giganode? A teranode? A petanode?

rsbriggs

08-20-2003, 09:24 PM

Umm. I believe that statistics are based on billions of nodes....

For the official statistics, then, you have completed .125 nodes...

Or is it giga, and you have completed .00125 nodes?

ECL

08-20-2003, 11:19 PM

So a node is equal to either a million nodes or a billion nodes...

rsbriggs

08-21-2003, 08:33 AM

A node, as specified on the stats page, is some large number of what the client also locally calls nodes. Yes - that is confusing.... I *think* that the stats are based on billions of nodes - so, it would take a thousand-million client nodes to equal one "Bnode" in the stats....

Anyone else think the daily color distribution for teams on Magnav0x's page should change? Something more like:

> 5000 RED
> 1000 ORANGE
> 500 GREEN
> 100 VIOLET

Or even 3000,1000,500,50... As it is, 19 out of the top 20 tops teams are red (which covers a range of 80 up through nearly 7,000) - makes it hard to tell who is doing well, and who isn't....