IgwanaRob Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 For the past couple of days, I've notice my Pulses were not going through, so I checked the Team Stats page, and was confronted with this : http://project-dolphin.net/?p=news Tuesday, January 14, 2003 It's been almost a year since this project was launched publically, and in that time there's been a mixture of fun, excitement, boredom, caring, uncaring, and everything else. Unfortunately, these days I am busy with other goals in life and have let this project fall into the background (you'll have noticed this if you've tried emailing any time in the last few months and not received a response). Some recent changes in my life are making me unable to devote the level of attention a project of this scale has come to require. In addition, it does cost a lot to keep a project like this up and going at the speed and quality expected by its users, and it's an expense that I don't need right now. and: Friday, January 17, 2003 Measured in keystrokes, this particular project lived to be 34,935,065,880 keys old, and saw the participation of some 36,000 users. (Which, by the way, is approximately 1000 times what I'd expected and prepared for!). If every one of your keystrokes was a kilometer, it would take light 32 hours to travel as far as you typed. :( For the developers amoung us, or anyone who wants to play with it, here's the remains of project-dolphin.net: http://project-dolphin.net/remains/ Oh well, it was interesting while it lasted. At least I finished in the top 5 of the Neowin team. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgwanaRob Posted January 20, 2003 Author Share Posted January 20, 2003 Those who wish to continue, there is a new project uderway being developed by one of the people involved with the original one. From the Project Dolphin forums: Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject: Like a Phoenix From the Ashes, Project Dolphin lives on... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- StoneTable from Ars Technica has begun work on the new project dolphin, utilizing the old Project Dolphin client. Though he is working on a new, updated, and hopefully cheat-proof version that will hopefully be released soon. As an aside, StoneTable was the one working on a Linux port, so he has previous experience with the client. You can register for the new server here: http://pulse.battleaxe.net/ There are no stats up yet, but registering gets your name entered into the database, and a web front-end will be added as soon as he and another Ars person get it up and running. There is a forum for the project here: http://pulse.battleaxe.net/forum/index.php Instructions for pulsing to the new server are as follows: *Register on his server (for the moment, keep your old username and password -- one cannot change where the Pulse client retrieves its information, so if you enter a new username and password, it's going to look in the old PD database, not find it, and deny you access -- this will be fixed shortly) *Change the server that Pulse pulses to. Currently it's http://dolphin.bitdevil.com. You need to change it to "http://pulse.battleaxe.net/" -- minus the quotes. You need the trailing slash: another bug that will be fixed shortly. That's about it. Feel free to register on the new project forums and chime in with your input, if you desire. A side note for those potentially concerned. StoneTable is on the Ars team, but he wants this project to continue, regardless of who has the highest numbers. He will also be working to put into place measures to keep cheaters from, well, cheating. We really want to keep this project going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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