How do you get started then?

[Fozzie]

How do you register and sort out your username etc?

[rshepard]

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
# [email protected]
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]

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

[rshepard]

did it go ahead and start?

[Fozzie]

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

[rshepard]

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]

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

[IronBits]

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

[ECL]

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]

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]

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

[rsbriggs]

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....