Hosting Problems For distributed.net

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 25, 2002 @08:40PM from the need-to-find-a-new-home dept.

Yoda2 writes "I've always found the distributed.net client to be a scientific, practical use for my spare CPU cycles. Unfortunately, it looks like they lost their hosting and need some help. The complete story is available on their main page but I've included a snippet with their needs below: 'Our typical bandwidth usage is 3Mb/s, and reliable uptime is of course essential. Please e-mail dbaker@distributed.net if you think you may be able to help us in this area.' As they are already having hosting problems, I hate to /. them, but their site is copyrighted so I didn't copy the entire story. Please help if you can." Before there was SETI@Home, Distributed.net was around - hopefully you can still join the team.

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"I hate to /. them but..."? by flipflapflopflup · 2002-03-25 20:46 · Score: 5, Funny

You've now got 10,000 readers hovering over the link, "Ooh, should I, shouldn't I?", then thinking f**k it and clicking anyway.

A slow, painful, prolonged, /.'ing ;o)
OMG, hang on!!! by Loki_1929 · 2002-03-25 20:54 · Score: 1, Funny

No, they can't shut down yet! I have to break 10,000 in the rankings!

Good Lord, what shall I do? :(

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Re:Stopping three quarters of the way by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-25 22:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Can you imagine them hitting 100% and realizing that due to a software bug, the correct key was already found but no one realized it?
Sorry, my CPU time is taken. by Fourier · 2002-03-26 02:56 · Score: 3, Funny

You know, I would help out with all this distributed computing stuff, but my spare CPU cycles are all taken up running multiple instances of Progress Quest.