How to get started

Get the Client from distributed.net for your OS
http://www1.distributed.net/download/clients.php
How-To guide here
http://www.distributed.net/docs/tutor_netopt.php
Networking Options
http://www.distributed.net/docs/tutor_netopt.php

Run it the first time and it will ask you some questions and create dnetc.ini
Then edit dnetc.ini (here is a copy of mine)

Code:

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[parameters]
id=YourEmailAddy@MyDomain.com change this to your email addy

[misc]
project-priority=RC5-72=1, OGRP2=0 this is for RC5 only
project-priority=RC5-72=0, OGRP2=1 this is for OGR only
[triggers]
exit-flag-filename=exit.now
pause-on-no-mains-power=no

[display]
progress-indicator=auto-sense

[ogr]
core=1
fetch-time-threshold=0
fetch-workunit-threshold=3

[rc5-72]
core=-1
fetch-time-threshold=0
fetch-workunit-threshold=0

[processor-usage]
priority=3

[networking]
autofindkeyserver=no
keyserver=www.free-dc.org:2064 <-- This forces your client to get work from Bok's pproxy server
nofallback=true
dialup-watcher=passive
interfaces-to-watch=*
disabled=no

[buffers]
threshold-check-interval=0:30
checkpoint-filename=check.txt
frequent-threshold-checks=3

[logging]
log-file-limit=500
log-file=dnetc.log
log-file-type=fifo

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IB, what are the system specifics on this one, preferred OS, preferred CPU / RAM etc?

Also does it require an active net connection?

Sorry Meep! Didn't see this message and I assume you have it all under control by now ;)

First-time participant step-by-step walkthrough

Firstly, you should make sure that the email address you entered in your client configuration is a real email address where you can effectively receive your personal stats password and where distributed.net staff can contact you if you were to be the lucky winner of one of our projects that offers a prize.
The second step is for you to run the client and wait until it flushes work units back to the distributed.net proxy network. Anywhere from 0 to 24 hours after your client first flushes some work units back to us, our stats server will detect that you are a new participant and start publishing stats about your work as well as your ranking on its web site.
You should then lookup your personal statistics on the stats server in order to view your personal stats page. If you are participating in the RC5-72 contest, for example, click on the 'RC5-72' link from the http://stats.distributed.net/ page. You will be directed to the http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=8 page at the top of which you can enter your email address in the search field of the 'Participant Stats' column.
If you enter your full email address or if the search based on your query only returns one result, you will be directly directed to your personal stats page. If you entered a more generic keyword in the participant stats query form, you will be directed to a page listing the first 50 results that match your query. From there, you can click on a participant's name and you will be directed to the corresponding personal stats page.
Your personal stats page for one of our projects contains statistics related to your contribution to a that particular project. If you participate in multiple distributed.net projects, you will have as many project-specific personal stats pages as number of projects you are contributing to. The stats web site is broken down into various sections for each of our projects. Each section can be accessed from the links in the table listing our different projects on the http://stats.distributed.net/ page.
Finally, you will need to request that your stats password be sent to you by email to the address that you specified in your email client configuration, which is also the one under which you appear in the stats server. To do this, you must be on your (or one of your) personal stats page(s) and click on the link at the very bottom of that page that reads: "I cannot remember my password. Please email [insert your email address here]'s password.". Once you click on that link, you should receive an email with your stats password shortly thereafter.
Note: Your stats password will not be automatically mailed to when you first flush work units back to our servers. You must necessarily follow the procedure described in the previous paragraph to request your password.

Well done RC-72 crunchers, you jumped a place that last update :clap:

Keep up the good work! :thumbs:

on this for a test.

See how the little soul does, can only use one core of a pentium D as it gets too loud.

Here are some interesting stats from our friends over at MacNN :)

http://teamstats.macnn.com/rc572/sta...ect&lolimit=30

Won't be long now before we take another spot UP the ladder. :banana:

:bouncy:
UGTU UPI is behind us now :thumbs:

\o/

Should knock off another 2 places in under a week!

Code:

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58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,356              320
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,459,961              360
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,117,827              2,255
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,596,682              3,530
62            moomin                                          8,441,107              1,833
63            Free-DC                                        8,424,996              22,399

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Code:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,461              105
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,460,325              364
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,120,141              2,314
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,599,567              2,885
62            Free-DC                                        8,447,743              22,747
63            moomin                                          8,442,097              990

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Code:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,474              13
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,460,557              232
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,123,132              2,991
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,602,478              2,911
62            Free-DC                                        8,461,958              14,215

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Code:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,844              370
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,460,901              344
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,125,515              2,383
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,606,368              3,890
62            Free-DC                                        8,486,820              24,862

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who deleted all the stats? all the stats are belong to us :D

I did. Is there a problem with deleting the past 6 months of old posts, mostly repeating what place we are at?
That's what Bok's stats are for ;)

no no, it is ok to delete that posts, I have no problems with it... I was just missing the list with page 1 to page x this morning when I looked into the new posts of that day :D

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,844              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,461,164              263
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,127,808              2,293
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,610,438              4,070
62            Free-DC                                        8,493,741              6,921

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Code:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,844              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,461,438              274
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,130,401              2,593
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,613,589              3,151
62            Free-DC                                        8,499,228              5,487

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,844              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,461,672              234
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,132,385              1,984
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,616,967              3,378
62            Free-DC                                        8,504,897              5,669

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              23
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,462,110              438
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,134,742              2,357
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,619,388              2,421
62            Free-DC                                        8,510,437              5,540

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,462,465              355
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,137,431              2,689
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,622,492              3,104
62            Free-DC                                        8,516,161              5,724

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,462,791              326
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,139,521              2,090
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,625,415              2,923
62            Free-DC                                        8,521,629              5,468

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,769              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,463,187              396
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,141,736              2,215
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,629,263              3,848
62            Free-DC                                        8,527,299              5,670

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              48
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,463,706              519
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,143,429              1,693
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,631,687              2,424
62            Free-DC                                        8,532,818              5,519

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Code:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,464,098              392
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,145,566              2,137
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,635,370              3,683
62            Free-DC                                        8,541,135              8,317

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Congrats to Darkness Productions for passing Perv Boy :thumbs:

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,464,211              113
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,148,206              2,640
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,638,981              3,611
62            Free-DC                                        8,550,161              9,026

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,464,455              244
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,150,340              2,134
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,641,804              2,823
62            Free-DC                                        8,558,592              8,431

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,464,842              387
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,152,156              1,816
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,644,406              2,602
62            Free-DC                                        8,566,967              8,375

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,817              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,465,220              378
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,154,194              2,038
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,647,242              2,836
62            Free-DC                                        8,575,795              8,828

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              48
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,465,498              278
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,156,544              2,350
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,650,295              3,053
62            Free-DC                                        8,585,561              9,766

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,465,665              167
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,158,485              1,941
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,653,482              3,187
62            Free-DC                                        8,594,213              8,652

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,465,769              104
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,160,548              2,063
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,657,368              3,886
62            Free-DC                                        8,603,907              9,694

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,465,911              142
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,162,946              2,398
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,660,611              3,243
62            Free-DC                                        8,622,240              18,333

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57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,466,029              118
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,164,865              1,919
61            Libertarians for Privacy                        8,662,869              2,258
62            Free-DC                                        8,644,749              22,509

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56            2CPU.com's RC5 Team                            9,785,011              6,051
57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,466,346              317
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,166,842              1,977
61            Free-DC                                        8,667,129              22,380

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56            2CPU.com's RC5 Team                            9,790,069              5,058
57            University of Virginia Computer Science        9,679,865              0
58            Texas Aggie Distributed Computing Team          9,612,867              0
59            Born2OC.be                                      9,466,545              199
60            Distributed Pegasos Team                        9,169,489              2,647
61            Free-DC                                        8,689,341              22,212

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and I'm as high as i can realistically be I've switched some borgage over to RC5-72.

Not much but it all helps, onwards to the top 50 in the teams ladder.