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Subject: Re: It is now back up.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:02:55 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 22:59:51, Les Fernandez wrote:

>On December 11, 2002 at 14:08:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 11, 2002 at 11:36:52, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On December 11, 2002 at 08:18:18, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 11, 2002 at 07:35:38, George Sobala wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Trying to ftp to ftp.cis.uab.edu I connect OK but there is nothing there - empty
>>>>>directory listing. Where has it all gone?
>>>>
>>>>Crafty must be in bankruptcy.  : )
>>>>
>>>>Bob D.
>>>
>>>Yes, everyone knows that a college Professor can't run a computer properly.  I
>>>guess UAB went bankrupt because of it.
>>>Jim
>>
>>
>>The ftp machine is back up, with a bunch of new tables on it (200+ gigs in
>>fact).
>>
>>A few points:
>>
>>(1) everything is not quite up.  I have the crafty directories with source, and
>>the new
>>tablebase (TB) directory ready to go.  I lost the .tbs files in the crash and
>>will have to
>>get Eugene to send those to me again.
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>Since the .tbs files are very small do you have an idea when you will have them?
> I am sure it is just a matter of emailing them to you since they are so small.
>Also were you able to speak to Eugene about the hardware we spoke about to get a
>rough idea how long the remaining egtb's will take?

1.  I am working on getting the .tbs files that were on the ftp machine
back up, plus the .tbs files for all the new 6 piece files are already on
the ftp machine.

2.  I have not talked with (nor emailed) Eugene yet.  I've been hustling trying
to get the new ftp machine up, as well as playing with this dual 2.8 box some...





>
>Thanks,
>
>Les
>>
>>2.  _no_ engines are going to be able to use these new tables yet.  Eugene has
>>sent me a
>>preliminary version of the new egtb.cpp code to test, and it has been running
>>just fine so
>>far.  He mentioned that he wanted to clean up a few more things before releasing
>>it.  The
>>moral of this is "download all you want" but "do _not_ put the new tables where
>>your
>>engines can see them. "  They will screw things up _badly_ and we don't need a
>>lot of
>>extraneous error reports flying around.
>>
>>3.  There are a few missing files that I need to recover.  The crafty.faq is one
>>if someone has
>>the latest one they downloaded.  Also the crafty documentation files (although I
>>think I have
>>recent copies of these tucked away somewhere, just not on the backup tapes that
>>barely worked
>>this time).
>>
>>4.  I am trying to get a second 100mbit connection to the ftp machine to support
>>better
>>bandwidth, but this will take a while.  At the moment, 100 mbits is all you will
>>get,
>>although that machine can drive the network at near-wire speed...
>>
>>More later.



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