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distributedcomputing.info updates for December 2, 2004
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| | From: | Kirk Pearson | | Subject: | distributedcomputing.info updates for December 2, 2004 | | Date: | 2 Dec 2004 17:59:20 -0700 |
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 | The following updates are from the distributedcomputing.info website
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ ). These updates cover public distributed
computing projects (projects in which anyone can participate).
December 2, 2004
- distributedcomputing.info updates are now available in a
( http://distributedcomputing.info/updates.xml ) RSS 2.0 feed
- new active Internet project:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-internet.html#spam ) Make Love Not
Spam attempts to shut down known spam websites by overloading their
bandwidth through distributed attacks
- new active knowledge project:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-knowledge.html#wikinews ) Wikinews
will "collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a
neutral point of view"
- a cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed for the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#boinc ) BOINC core client
as of November 21. The GUI will allow the user to "suspend/resume projects
and results, and project-specific web links. It uses a socket-based GUI RPC
mechanism, which makes it possible to develop other GUIs, including ones
that control many hosts."
- the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#15k2n1 ) 15k Prime
Search has found
( http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=45583#post45583 ) 96 primes
since November 22
- version 1.6 of the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#sigps )
SIGPS genefer80 client is available for Linux and Windows as of November 26.
Source code for the client is available as of yesterday. The project
started looking for primes of the form b^16384 + 1 today.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#cyclotomic ) Factorizations
of Cyclotomic Numbers completely factored Phi(104) by November 30
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041129-2 ) news article:
Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers' bills
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041129 ) news article:
Wikipedia Creators Move Into News
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041126 ) news article:
Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041202 ) news article: one
of the spam websites targeted by Lycos Europe's
( http://www.makelovenotspam.com/ ) makelovenotspam.com project redirected
traffic back to makelovenotspam, which could have shut down the site
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041124 ) news article: an
overview of ( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#wcg ) World
Community Grid, compared to
( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#boinc ) BOINC
--
Kirk Pearson, editor of http://distributedcomputing.info (news and information
about public distributed computing projects)
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." -- John Lithgow
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