There are a few things I must say, and I know I am going to get flamed for this but I dont care so go right ahead.
Dnet: They are the ones who had the bright idea of setting up their clients so that the ONLY active project gets lowest priority, which would be fine as long as they didnt reintroduce new projects without warning people about it and about how the blocks they are cracking are not only for another competition but are invalid. how fscking wonderful of them.
I understand they are volunteers but there is no better way to chase people away from a project than by changing what they are doing without even telling them. Smart move there dnet, I came very close to saying screw you.
The TA RR: Yes the wonderful idea that was conjured up to prevent us from cracking randoms when Mika's goes down. Sure it works great until Mika's actually goes down. I completely removed my dnet clients and proxy today, and had them off most of the day (when I upgraded to the 318 proxy my clients couldnt receive blocks, I take the blame for that) and when I load them all back on I go to get me some blocks from Mika's, its down. No biggy I say Ill just try out that new TA RR everyone is touting so much. Well youll never guess what, After 4 tries I still hadnt downloaded a single block, why you may ask? Because every proxy it tried was out of RC5 blocks, couple had OGR, but Im not an Ogre, Im a crack baby. So what did I do? I connected to the trusty Dnet servers. So you RR creators, either fix your RR so it doesnt send people to proxy's without blocks or drop it, its worthless when Mika's goes down.
Dnet: Ive got another problem with them, All my clients are set up to crack 2^33 blocks, well their server only feeds my proxy 2^28 blocks and thus Im still cracking 2^28 blocks. Now if your going to tell everyone that you would like it if they cracked 2^33 blocks maybe you should make it so we could acctually receive 2^33 blocks?
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Now Im going to go play a little UT while the flames roll in
Dnet: They are the ones who had the bright idea of setting up their clients so that the ONLY active project gets lowest priority, which would be fine as long as they didnt reintroduce new projects without warning people about it and about how the blocks they are cracking are not only for another competition but are invalid. how fscking wonderful of them.
I understand they are volunteers but there is no better way to chase people away from a project than by changing what they are doing without even telling them. Smart move there dnet, I came very close to saying screw you.
The TA RR: Yes the wonderful idea that was conjured up to prevent us from cracking randoms when Mika's goes down. Sure it works great until Mika's actually goes down. I completely removed my dnet clients and proxy today, and had them off most of the day (when I upgraded to the 318 proxy my clients couldnt receive blocks, I take the blame for that) and when I load them all back on I go to get me some blocks from Mika's, its down. No biggy I say Ill just try out that new TA RR everyone is touting so much. Well youll never guess what, After 4 tries I still hadnt downloaded a single block, why you may ask? Because every proxy it tried was out of RC5 blocks, couple had OGR, but Im not an Ogre, Im a crack baby. So what did I do? I connected to the trusty Dnet servers. So you RR creators, either fix your RR so it doesnt send people to proxy's without blocks or drop it, its worthless when Mika's goes down.
Dnet: Ive got another problem with them, All my clients are set up to crack 2^33 blocks, well their server only feeds my proxy 2^28 blocks and thus Im still cracking 2^28 blocks. Now if your going to tell everyone that you would like it if they cracked 2^33 blocks maybe you should make it so we could acctually receive 2^33 blocks?
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Now Im going to go play a little UT while the flames roll in
As for your block size problem, it's not all Dnet's fault. By the looks of it, we're nearing the end of a keyspace block, which menas Dnet needs to finish it before moving on to the next. However, most of the missing parts are 2^28 blocks, so those have to be finished in order to move it. There's also the issue with pproxies(which can break up blocks to get the small ones people ask for), so your stats addicted neighbor that uses 2^28 blocks on a Athlon 1ghz is also to blame here.
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