Sunday 01/09/02

The xylus 500 is up.

Monday 02/09/02

If you are using FireDaemon and your folding has stopped it could be because the beta expired on the 1st of September. Elvis gave us this reminder

remember that firedaemon BRC2 had a expiry date of September 1, 2002 (over the weekend just been). if you've found that your service refuses to start, then this is most likely the case.

you can get a new version from
http://www.firedaemon.com/
which expires October 1, 2002 (a month's time).

and please, if you do like the program then donate to the author. $10 for a great program is not much to ask, and you will get a free version of the full program when it goes "gold".
 

We passed the 1,000,000 points mark a few hours ago, this is a great achievement and everyone who has contributed to this milestone should take a bow, well done team.

Team Daily and Team Weekly and Top 20 stats pages have been updated.

Wednesday 04/09/02

Following on from last weeks Folding article in the Bulletin, Tori Lee had her letter to the editor published in this weeks edition. you can read it here, well done Tori or should we say Victoria.

The Project Dolphin Team continues to grow and has attracted 129 members so far. All this typing activity  has move the team into 126th place with 16.6 million key strokes.

The forums have a new colour scheme that is available for you to setup. It was designed by sabretooth and is based upon the main news page. If you want to use this new scheme and set it up as your default you will need to click on User CP then Edit Options, scroll down to Style Set down down box and the select sabretooth OCAU. This new scheme makes all the Folding sigs stand out and makes for a colourful read.

One of our members WOOFLE has put together some Folding info on his web page its looking good so check it out and see what you think. He is looking for some feedback so send any comments here to a thread he started in the forums.

As you may know the stats were down for quite a few hours yesterday until the early this morning also the Core server was out of action as well, this is Vijay's explanation 

Stanford (the University ITSS, not PandeGroup) runs the Core server and got that back on line 20 minutes ago.

The stats server went down last night and it's back up (although it is chugging through a whole bunch of stats at the moment).

Vijay

Friday 06/09/02

Some news that will effect all of us early Sunday morning (midnight  WST), Stanford are having a power outage for a few hours so all their servers will be down. Also news about server 117 being out of action for a day or two.

9/5/2002 Planned complete server outage 9/7/2002

Our building will be without electricity on Saturday Sept 7, 2002 from 9am to 1 pm PST. Thus all F@H servers will be completely unreachable during this time. Even if we kept our machines on UPSs, the rest of the networking infrastructure in the building would be down anyway. We're going to come in around 8am to power down the F@H servers at the very last minute we can and then bring them back up when the power is restored. This is an unusual occurrence (due to a new building coming on line next to us) and so it doesn't happen frequently (good thing too -- coming into to work at 8am on Saturday isn't my first choice).

9/4/2002 Server .117 down for fix

We're replacing harddrives on .117 and then restoring from a backup. Expect that .117 will be down for 1-2 days.

Sunday 08/09/02

The xylus 500 is up.

Monday 09/09/02

The Top 20, Team Weekly and Team Daily pages have been updated.

Statsman is having a bit of trouble so unfortunately no Folding club, top 20PPW and top 20 PPD updates till he gets his numbers right again.

Thursday 12/09/02

As you may have noticed from the lack of updates its very quiet on the folding front news wise.

Vijay and the gang are still perfecting and testing the Gromac's and will roll out a new protein in to wider circulation in the near future when they are happy with the results and the everything is stable.

After the server outage on the weekend there maybe a few of us with outstanding WU's ready to send back mainly to server 111, which according to the server status is currently rejecting any returns, hopefully it will comeback online soon.

Saturday 14/09/02

Version 3.14 has been released and is available on the downloads page. Here are the changes associated with this new client.

3.14:
- If running the client as a service (using the -service flag), then
the scientific core will not exit on a logoff. Before, this was not
true for all cores.
- If the program fails to connect to an assignment server, it will no
longer just go back to a previous work server, since that server may no
longer have work appropriate for this client.
- Fixed bug in setting core priority.
- Advanced Configuration option of disabling optimized assembly code added.
- Send/autosend conflict resolved.
- If a situation where a core is outdated arises, and remains even after a
new core is downloaded, the current work unit is deleted.
- Bug in GUI version where if certain Configuration options changed, core
perceived an improper shutdown fixed.
- If FAHlog cannot be opened for writing on startup, an attempt is made to
delete it. If an open attempt fails again, then a file called FAHlog2 is
started.
- "-forceasm" command line option supported to manually force assembly
optimizations to be used (could be auto-disabled again by core later) if
current work unit is a Core_78 work unit.
- "-advmethods" command line option supported. Using it will give you
assignments to the newest scientific cores and/or work units, before they
go into more widespread circulation

Sunday 15/09/02

The xylus 500 is up.

Tuesday 17/09/02

Here is another reminder to constantly upgrade your folding clients to the latest version which is currently at 3.14. One of our members suffered from the continuous core download and found out the hard way that version 2.15 doesn't prevent this from happening.

With the Folding Clubs I have added member totals for each club. So far we have had 840 members reach the 25 Club level or greater.

There is an interesting thread in the DC forum regarding attracting new members and keeping them, started by a recent arrival to our folding community Ironstone. It's developing into a great thread with some interesting ideas, its obvious from some of Ironstones posts that he has a great sense of humour that could be classified perhaps as pythonesque. The more recent posts are centred around this posted by badg3er.

and replied to by Ironstone....

The loyal proletariat at the Ironstone Tractor Factory and Potato Peeler Foundry hereby solemnly pledge to work tirelessly on a memorandum of intent to increase production from nearly 1 to a glorious 200 ppw.

Committees and sub-committees have been formed, and a whittling group has been proposed to discuss work on the production of a pointy stick to prod the comrade who pedals the generator that provides the power for our "Gulag" class computing machine.

As soon as it's our turn to borrow the pen from the nearby Cast Iron Kite Factory we fully intend to commit this pledge to paper.

You are a Heroic Inspiration to us all Comrade Badg3er.
Long Live The Revolution!

Friday 20/09/02

TheWeatherMan has a new skin out for EM3, this one is based on the new Spiderman movie...

 I just added a SpiderMan skin for EM III. This skin is only for single clients only. In other words, if you monitor more than one client this isn't the skin for you. I will work on one that can be used if you monitor multiple clients and post it soon.

This skin would just about make the perfect example of a complete skin with all features used if you were looking for an example to use for a team skin. This was a lot of fun to make. SpiderMan is one of my favorite comic book characters. Hope you enjoy the new skin.

Get it here: http://www.em-dc.com

You may have seen the stats blip yesterday morning and wondered what it was all about. Well it was the Genome units we have randomly been doing over the last few weeks that never seemed to return any points. They were added to the stats database yesterday and if you did a heap of these Genome work units it would have been like Christmas or like Kaliban said "a bit like a tax return". If you check your personal stats you will see Project 799 which is the G@H work units.

There was a newish G@h server that had not yet been added to the stats list, so it had been "withholding" its received work units for several weeks. I added it to the stats server list yesterday, so it dumped a few weeks worth of completed units all in one go.

Thanks and sorry for the confusion - Stefan

Sunday 22/09/02

The xylus Top 500 is up.

Thanks to Lombers for letting us know that the latest version of FireDaemon is available for download...

A quick note, you do not need to create the firedaemon service again, you can simply install the new version and it will spot the old services.

Sydney, Australia
Saturday, September 21, 2002

FireDaemon v1.5 BRC4 is now available for download from
http://www.firedaemon.com/.

Please refer to the Forums (http://www1.firedaemon.com/forums/) or the Beta
Release page (http://www.firedaemon.com/beta/) for details.

--
FireDaemon for Windows NT/2K/XP
Install and run virtually any application as a Windows NT/2K/XP service http://www.firedaemon.com

OCAU V [H] stats comparison.

Friday 27/09/02

Here we have a  different stats page courtesy of the Dutch Power Cows (thanks to the [H]ard mob for this) its not totally in English but its certainly readable. Apparently its updates once a day so you have to allow for the time difference. It has nice features like positions moved and team ranking for daily output.

Assignment server trouble this morning, apparently assignment server 93 is down but if you have a 3 series client it will try to get work off AS 95.

The main AS .93 is currently down for work. If you have a more recent client (3 series and definitely 3.14), the client will automatically fall back to try the secondary AS (.95) so you should not notice anything.

We'll hope to get .93 up in an hour or so.

Vijay

Also the stats server has been playing up...

ok, the server got hit hard and we've done some tweaks to handle a higher load (and to give more informative user responses).

Should be back to normal.

V

Saturday 28/09/02

Here is a funny thing from the Forums from the man himself Agg. After he created the Distributed Computing Forum on June 29th last year, he wrote...

I've created this forum..

..but I'm still not sure what it is you're going to discuss in here exactly.  Ranking changes, connection problems..?

I don't think he needed to worry because Axis and Manaz hit the nail on the head

configuration, troubleshooting, tips and tricks... monitoring software....

And of course, the odd "I'm kicking your arse!" comment is sure to pop up

We have made the DC Forum one of the more popular places to pop into and have a chat over the last 15 months and I think we are going to be around for a long time to come. Go OCAU.

The Top 20 has been updated.

Welcome to all those RC5ers that are looking to Folding to keep their DC appetite at bay since that magic key ( 0x63DE7DC154F4D039) was found and the project has been wound up. I hope we satisfy your requirements and you enjoy your stay.

Congratulations to the Brisbane Lions on winning the AFL premiership this year against a tough opposition in the Collingwood Magpies it was a great game and a shame there had to be a loser. I bet you Queenslanders are happy tonight.

Sunday 29/09/02

The xylus 500 is up.

Team Weekly and Team Daily have been updated.