Evaders Squadron Coding [ESC]

Folding@Home: Mid-April

In about 1.5 months, I've contributed 318 WU from 7 processors and total score of 69376, ranking of 41626 of 964937

This is almost double the WU I've sent in since the beginning of March. And ranking up about 20,000 more spots. Now the trick.. cracking the top 10,000. I bet here it really gets saturated with those people who really contribute clusters to folding. We'll see.. perhaps another three months?

I added the GPU2 client with an Radeon HD 2600 Pro and it adds almost 500 PPD!

Folding@Home - http://folding.stanford.edu

Folding@Home

A personal update for my Folding@Home performance

I've contributed a total of 160 WU with a total score of 41551 and a ranking of 60294 of 930764

Wonder how long it will take to crack the top 10,000.

CVS vs SVN

I've really considered moving to SVN (Subversion) several times. Why?
- It's up-to-date, latest with atomic commits, yada
- It has great merging tools
- It works with all many tools like bug trackers.

The only thing that is stopping me is that
TAGS = BRANCHES = COPIES

For Nuke Patched Core, each tag is just that, a tag property written on one individual file in the main trunk.
I can tag for different releases (Patched75, Patched76... phpNuke75, phpNuke76...) and I can see which tags are available. Once I make changes, I just bring the tags up to the current version. (Even add tags as necessary for those that weren't patched but now are)

This kind of system means I can essentially patch different versions in parallel. There are subtle changes between phpNuke versions, so I don't want to share the trunk between all of them.

When SVN tags something, it puts it into a tags folder. There is an ancestry relation, but I have to manually go and look for which tags are out there; find the tag folders and merge them individually. That's a lot of work.
Branches are also tags... they just go into the branches folder.
And all of these are just "cheap copies" of the actual trunk file. Once I edit the trunk, I have to spider through the different revision trees to determine where it needs to be updated.

In CVS, I view the tags and apply them in one step. Easy. And check out the tags for easy packaging by an automated system.
I don't know how I can set up SVN to work the way I want to easily. I know it supports some kind of properties per file, but all the easy shortcuts want a folder(tag/branch) path and a revision number.

Do something nice for the New Year!

You can do something nice for the holiday. And its free too.. no money required.

Donate your idle computer cycles to science. Stanford's Folding@Home project uses your computer to help simulate protein folding.

Every good community has a team. So join our SW:Rebellion Network Folding Team - team# 96904
You can install it no matter what operating system (Windows / Linux / even PS3...). Just install a client and let it go.

AMS Venus T4U Review (3TB in a little black box)

The AMS Venus T4U (DS-2340UBK) is my dream machine. As I have data on lots of random IDE hard drives, this simple 4-bay hard drive enclosure is what I've been sorely needing. While you could make an entire desktop tower with RAID and the works, my primary system has been a laptop. Thus I've survived on single hard drive enclosures, swapping drives in and out when necessary.

Is it worth buying? After a few weeks with it, my answer is yes.
Read on for more details, specs, and images....

QABoom - Open for Discussion

A new site I'm a part of - its a social network mixed with a question and answer site! check it out!

Languages Removed

I removed the multiple languages from the main phpNuke packages. They added a lot of files where most people just use English.

I will have seperate language downloads available, but for now, you can grab them directly from the CVS. They are tagged 'zlang-languagename' for example, French is now tagged 'zlang-french'

Should save the trouble of installing a large amount of needless files. You'll get the English files, and only install the other languages that you want!

Server Downtime and Reset

Sorry for the downtime and reset - I will be restoring CVS services ASAP
More explaination here

Server Downtime

Server is scheduled to go down on Friday, April 7th, starting at approximately 9pm MST (Arizona, no Daylight Savings) for heavy maintenance. We anticipate downtime of possibly 24 hours and hope to keep it down to that or even less.

Thanxs for your patience!

Near Patched 3.2 Release... ?

Unfortunately when I tested this with RavenNuke's team, we found an issue when magic_quotes_gpc is turned on for the server. A proper fix will take a lot more time...

So to release Patched 3.2 as is or not?