Phase II Begins!

[Angus]

:drums:

The servers are down for the changeover to Phase II :fireboun:

:elephant: Let's hope all goes well!! :elephant:


EAT OUR DUST, ars

[Darkness Productions]

I'll be bringing everything I've got, while not much, I'm hopgin for a good Ars kicking.....

[magnav0x]

go! go! go!....Reminds me of those counterstrike days

Woot! DF will be loaded as soon as I get home from work

:cheers: :fireboun: :bonk: :crazy: :machgun:

[PY 222]

Man... I can feel the buildup of anticipation for Phase II all the way here in California.

There are like so many participants just lingering around the DF Forums waiting for news on the new client.

Its so cool.... feels like a carnival!

[magnav0x]

Its so cool.... feels like a carnival!

Where are the carnies?! I want a piece of them :sniper:

[rshepard]

Servers are up- go get 'em :cheers:

[magnav0x]

:hifi:

[Angus]

Updates appear to be happening very smoothly!! :cheers:

:elephant: :fireboun: :bouncy: :fireboun: :elephant:

[Wedge]

at last :) I'm rolling out my measly 2 computers to start as of now :drums:

[Moogie]

All boxen updated automatically...no problems here.:hifi:

[Chinasaur]

Ah Fer Fsck's sake!!!

Ok...I'm coming back...gotta see how this beastie runs after all the time runing DFI.

I just put my single XP1800 on it and I'll get the duals cranked back up sometime Saturday or Sunday.

At least I got a month's break on my electric bill :)

:cheers:

[Moogie]

'Bout time Chinsaur! Welcome back!!!!!!

:hifi:

[IronBits]

/me gets the fridge ready for more company...
Welcome back to all! :drums: :D

[cygnussphere]

Chinarific:thumbs:


It's just not FreeDc for me with out ya man

:elephant: :elephant: :elephant:

http://myweb.cableone.net/eventhorizon/smilies/groupwave.gif

[Dyyryath]

Ah, things are getting exciting. :thumbs:

It's good to see some of our old faces coming by again and taking up arms. :)

In fact, I could've sworn I saw xj10bt producing a few WUs...

[IronBits]

:notworthy PCZ - come on bro, I know you got more over there! :scared: :)
Now if we could get Dyyryath:kiss: to start borging. :weggy:
Come on Condor!!! :|party|:
Beyond - come on pal, fire em up :smoking:
xj10bt? Whose that? :moon: :D
Someone get ahold of Beth133 please. :bouncy:
and the rest of the Free-DC family to - get the word out. :cheers:
I'm still ramping :blush: but I wanted to share a little fun...
PY 222 is NOT getting my virtual fridge! :)

[rsbriggs]

Get him, IB !!

Hmmm. This would be an appropriate smiley. (Borrowed from, and my apologies to, team ARSTechnica :rotfl: )

http://members.arstechnica.com/subscriptors/x/whilden/ars_giving_it_to_h.gif

[Chinasaur]

Yo Cygnussphere and Dyyryath and Moogie and IronBits.

I ain't jones'n like I did last time...I'll play..but I gotta keep my head above water this time :D

:cheers:

[IronBits]

Right on brotha!!! :smoking:

[IronBits]

Ok, who's gonna step up to the plate and deal with bguinto1? :scared:
http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/distributed-folding/render-user-detailed.pl?Id=10583
My home pharm is tapped out ...

:notworthy (insert name here) :hifi:

[rsbriggs]

Ouch. There's a little fire power there....:machgun:

I've got about 10 gigglehurts I could throw behind you, if you wanted a little extra, but nothing nearly enough to fill in the the 20K / hour gap there...

[Condor]

I still have half a dozen machines that are anxiously waiting at home.
Sometime this weekend.

But, I don't think any one of us can take him on head-to-head.
It will have to be a team effort.

[Angus]

I think there's a 'stats god' somewhere back East that could fire up a big work pharm.... :help:

[rsbriggs]

And, not to change the subject any... :scared: team ARStechnica seems to have doubled their active users to about 75 from the 30-something they had going yesterday. They seem to be closing the gap rather quickly...

<hint> Yes, team effort... If IB were to PM me with his handle he might see an extra 5K to 8K per hour added to his overall....... </hint>

[Moogie]

Got nothing more to throw on. Think I'm going to have to move on to family memebers now. :)

[Dyyryath]

Ars Technica's DF team got some front page exposure this week. It was bound to cause us some problems. Of course, It's nice to see that even with half as many active users, we're still outproducing them. :thumbs:

I'm tinkering with the idea of using *some* work machines, but I'm still a little leery of this client. I'll give it a couple of weeks and see if any major problems manifest now that everyone is using it. In the meantime, I'm going to whip up an 'installer' of sorts for Linux and Windows that'll make it easy for non-DC people to install the client. This should make borging boxes a little easier.

I'm envisioning a CD that you pop in and let autorun. The user gets a GUI dialog box with two buttons: Install Distributed Folding & Uninstall Distributed Folding. They click install and it puts a client on the machine which is preconfigured with the cruncher's handle & all necessary switches. It'll also install dfGUI. If it's a Windows 95/98 box, it'll put dfGUI in the startup group with the 'hide client' switch, start in tray switch, & autostart client switch. If it's an NT based version of Windows (NT,2000,XP) it'll install the client as an automatic service. When it's done, it'll start the client, tell the user it's done & eject the CD.

The uninstall button would simply do all this in reverse. :)

I've got several friends with machines who'd be willing to let it run, but don't want to hassle with installing it and worrying about it. This should take care of that: Put a CD in, click a button, take CD out.

I'll also make a Linux version.

[Chinasaur]

What's the weather like today on Mt. Olympus Dyyryath ?

:notworthy



:cheers:

[Moogie]

That would certainly make things alot easier Dyy. It's rough trying to walk someone through that over the phone, especially when they are not really fluent in "computer".

Thanks! :)

[magnav0x]

Very good idea Dyyr! :notworthy

[IronBits]

Originally posted by rsbriggs
<hint> Yes, team effort... If IB were to PM me with his handle he might see an extra 5K to 8K per hour added to his overall....... </hint>
Ask Dyyryath, he needs the help more than I do :D

[Digital Parasite]

Originally posted by Dyyryath
I'm envisioning a CD that you pop in and let autorun. The user gets a GUI dialog box with two buttons: Install Distributed Folding & Uninstall Distributed Folding. They click install and it puts a client on the machine which is preconfigured with the cruncher's handle & all necessary switches. It'll also install dfGUI.

Sounds cool. Are you going to make this publicly available? I'm honoured that you are bundling dfGUI with it. :thumbs:

Jeff.

[Dyyryath]

Yeah, I think I'm actually going to make a 'web tool' out of it. For example:

You go to a web page and enter your handle. Then you enter the switches you want to use. Then you hit 'Submit' and the tool creates the ISO with your config built in and send sit to your browser as a downloadable file. All you'd have to do then is burn it to a CD and start passing out copies. I like those little mini-cds myself. :D

Digital Parasite: How could I possibly include anything else? You've got the best tool going. :thumbs:

[Dyyryath]

Originally posted by IronBits
Ask Dyyryath, he needs the help more than I do :D

LOL :D

Actually, my problem appears to be keeping the clients I've already installed running. Each day I get one or two that just stops going (the process dies). I haven't looked into it deeply enough yet to figure out what it is, but it's definately a problem I'll have to iron out before I put the rest of my boxes on it. :(