From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 4 19:55:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21425 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (wumpus.its.uow.edu.au [130.130.68.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21398 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@uow.edu.au) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA09791; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:55:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:55:21 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Chris Browning cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@iii.co.uk Subject: RE: SETI@home -- you are not alone... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Browning wrote: > I came across the SETI@home thing about a year ago and > thought it was just too cool. Waiting to participate. If > they port it to freebsd, that will be one more machine I > can run it on. What's RC5? > Have a look at www.distributed.net. To try to sum it up, it's a huge collaborative and networked effort to crack rc5-64. Upon checking the stats, there were a few interesting figures: (Under top 100 teams listing) 2 Japan FreeBSD Users Group 31506372 282 days 3-Aug 347116.63 The second highest team in the cracking effort is our mates over in .jp! 14 Team FreeBSD 6801812 285 days 3-Aug 74149.10 There we are again at the 14th position. :) (Under top 100 participants) 1 rc5@jp.freebsd.org 13097280 257 days 3-Aug 158333.98 Woohoo!@ Number 1! :) We're not going that badly in the os rankings either, coming fifth (out of 29 different os's) after: Operating System Blocks (1) Win32 (95/NT) 684298016 (2) MacOS 168676713 (3) Linux 143123548 (4) Solaris 88381106 (5) FreeBSD 31722642 A few other notable inclusions: (13) BSDI 3312926 (20) NetBSD 1291470 (28) OpenBSD 36648 Sidenote: It was amusing to see vms and rhapsody topping openbsd :) Nick ps, all these stats came from http://rc5stats.distributed.net -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A "When in doubt, ask someone wiser than yourself..." -unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message