Further info:
Accessing the client's configuration menu once it's running on the taskbar, or once it's running in hidden mode
If the client is running as a cow icon on a Windows System Tray, double-click on the cow and it will bring the client up in a window. If the window shows a little green-on-black graph, click View>Console on the menu bar at the top. Once it is showing the Console view (black text on a white background), you can right-click in the window and chose a variety of options, including Configure.
If the client is running invisibly in "hidden" mode, or if it's been installed as a Windows service, go to the Start>Run box, browse to the Distributed.net folder, and run dnetc.exe -config and the client will pop up with the configuration menu.
edit: I have experienced a bug with my client where I double-click the cow and it leaves my System Tray and becomes a button on my Taskbar,
but there is no window. In this situation, I right-click the Taskbar button and choose "Maximize," which makes the client go full-screen. Clumsy, but workable.
Making the changes that get you the good stats!
The client ordinarily gets its work units directly through a Distributed.net keyserver, which in turn got them from the keymaster. The AnandTech team has a set of dedicated "proxies" which add another step between you and the keymaster. If you use the Team Proxy your work units still are credited to you, but the Proxy also keeps much better stats. Currently it gives updated statistics every half-hour.
To use the Team Proxy, get the client to the Configure screen and you will see a menu. Choose
2) Buffer and Buffer Update Options, and next
6) Keyserver<->client connectivity options, and finally set
2) Automatically select a distributed.net keyserver? ==> yes to "no".
Now you will be able to enter proxy.teamanandtech.com as the keyserver, like this:
3) Keyserver host name(s) ==> proxy.teamanandtech.com
Now chose the 0 options to exit the menu system, and in the future your client will fetch/flush from the Team Proxy when it is available (which is virtually all the time), and it will still access a Distributed.net keyserver if it can't get the Team Proxy. You can also set
5) Disable fallback to a distributed.net keysever? ==> yes if you don't want it using Dnet keyservers directly under any circumstances.
The upshot is that you will appear on the Team stats pages at the first half-hourly update after you flush blocks through the Team Proxy. The pages are here:
Team Proxy "weekstats" pages, which update on :00 and :30
Team Proxy "fullstats" pages, which update on :15 and :45
One more thing I want to mention: the RC5-64 and the OGR stats both go hand in hand. If you do RC5 and join the Team, any OGR work you happen to do using that email address already credits to the Team as well... you don't have to join again. Ok, LMK if any other questions come up!
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