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[fitzyfitz]

[AnotherUselessPwn]

I'm getting a new computer soon so I am going to use my old one as sort of a TestClient server, It will just be used for constantly running TestClient.exe.

I just thought I would try helping out...... Also there are a few computers at my school that no one EVER uses, I thought I would try to get those up and running also.

[addybobble]

Don't forget to use the proper (and rather excellent) client: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.kirman/PXC/thirteenth_labour.htm

Maybe that needs to be on a sticky somewhere, had to rummage around to find it myself.

[Daffy889]

Does anyone know if there's a way of getting the client to connect through a proxy server? I was in a room with 18 spare dual-processor machines at uni today and couldn't get it to run on them because there's no way of configuring how it connects.

[marky1124]

Running within Mono

[marky1124]

Oh - and also I notice that the clients running under mono call gettimeofday() about 5000 times per second. What a waste of time! Ugh.

[Flynn]

I've had none of these problems with memory - it sits at about 25Mb memory usage and doesn't budge, and I've had it running for days on end. I'm on Ubuntu so there could be a difference there, but also I've just checked what version of Mono I'm on, and it's a bit later than yours - I have 1.1.8.3.

Might be worth installing the latest version of Mono to see if that makes a difference.

[Guin]

13th Lbour site

[Guin]

i have created an LJ for us

http://the-13th-labour.livejournal.com/

will post out details to all concerned and will add links when I get home

[Ashin]

Holy

I get busy for 2-3 weeks and the world changes on me =P
Clients, workunits, registered users, a domain name. Nice job guys.

Best quote of the 15+ page catch up:

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Spammer message with a million 1x1px gifs linking to a Russian site deleted! -Brian

[Juxta]

First place solve on this card should go to Chimera. Second place to Guin.

End. Of. Story.

Please note the use of full stops there. The card has been bounced around, specced about and generally beaten to death. Witness the full horror of the twenty nine page thread which preceded this one and was finally put out of it's misery not so long ago.

Were it not for Chimera actually coding up the client, and putting many long hours into creating it, testing it, recoding it, testing it some more, releasing it, getting countless PMs, tweaking it, testing it, re-releasing it...ad nauseum, then we'd still be here, in the same situation as we were since July last year. Which essentially was "Hey, has anyone tried FIVECOWS?" and the resultant barbecuing which followed it.

The persistence of both Guin and Chimera basically means that they deserve a lot of the thanks, and any "credit" that'll result from the solving of this card. However, from what I know of them both, they will likely just be happy that the entire community came together and actually achieved this huge accomplishment (as and when it happens) - because it's just that, a community task, collaborative and designed to be completed as a group. It's not a contest to see who can pee highest up against the wall...the only distinction that should be made is for the people who actually managed to rouse the collective into carrying out the task. The whole "Do First Solves actually mean a damn thing?" debate isn't one for this thread - but in the case of this card, it's a good method of giving a little credit where it's due. It's that simple.

J

[Frenzy]

Amen to that.

And 3ed for whoever's computer actually crunched the solve (just for fun )

[Dranioth]

[ryandrew]

I say that after Chimera, Guin and whoever's computer solves it, the answer should just be put up and whoever makes the leaderboard makes it. Anyone else after those three (and this isn't meant to sound callous or negative) don't really have a right to feel like they deserve it. People can just be glad that this beast of a puzzle is solved.