Add-Ons and unsupported third-party utilities
The following list is provided as a courtesy to our users. None is supported by distributed.net or should not be construed to be an endorsement or recommendation. If you have an add-on that you would like to have listed on this page, please fill out a request in our bug database with the information describining the add-on and where it can be downloaded.
Client related utilities:
| Client logfile analyzers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Webpage | keycheck.pl: A perl script that visualizes what part of the RC5-64 keyspace somebody already crunched (using different colors on how much was crunched). It takes client logfiles (both formats) or personal proxy logfiles as inputs, and outputs a PNG image. | Perl | Last updated: May 24 2002 |
| Webpage | StatsAholic: set of scripts that generate web based statistics for all Distributed.net computing efforts. Designed to handle statistics for larger teams. The Log file history is stored in a database to improve speed of updates. Future add-ons will allow for customization and expansion. Requires a web browser, PHP4, and a MySQL database. | PHP, MySQL | Last updated: Jul 24 2001 |
| Webpage | Cowherder: Gather your distributed.net log files into one depository and use Cowherder to generate some statistics. Cowherder is best explained visually (see demo) | PHP | Last updated: Nov 28 2001 |
| Webpage | rc5Analyzer: a shareware program to track your personal distributed.net RC5 statistics and to care on your dnetc log files. It includes a little bit more functionality than the other dnetc graphers for Mac OS, like functions for printing graphs, saving history files, compacting log files and html export of all views. | Mac OS | Last updated: Jul 20 2001 |
| Webpage | MyCows is a client log-analyser for the dnetc program. It can show statistics, charts and a summary of the RC5-64 and OGR projects. The information is stored in a XML-file and only the newest info of the log-file is read. It is written in Delphi (source available) and works on (almost) all Windows versions. | Win32 | Last updated: Jan 22 2001 |
| Download | LogVis (version 1.3.0): Distributed.net's win32 client log file keyrate Visualizer and source code | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 8 2004 |
| Download | LogVis (version 1.5): Distributed.net's cross-platform client log file keyrate Visualizer written in Java (with source code) | Java | Last updated: Jan 15 2001 |
| Webpage | MacOS distribution of the Java LogVis (above). | Java/MacOS | Last updated: Nov 26 2000 |
| Download | Volker Voss alternate log visualizer utility | Win32 | Last updated: ? |
| Webpage | RC5Keys log analyzer by Nuno Alves | Win32 | Last updated: Feb 24 2000 |
| Webpage | PHP Client log highlighter by Stephen Cope. Works on any webserver with PHP installed. | PHP | Last updated: Mar 14 2000 |
| Webpage | Instructions for making the Mutt e-mail agent put client summaries in your outgoing mail headers. | UNIX | Last updated: Dec 22 1999 |
| Webpage | Simon's client log charter CGI generates a simple chart showing "completed blocks per day", it is similar to the chart show on the "participants history" page on the server. | Perl | Last updated: May 24 2002 |
| Webpage | Skeys 3 analyses client logfiles, gives useful informations, displays zoomable graphs and exports stats to HTML format, now available for OGR-P2. | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 31 2004 |
| Client monitoring and administration utilities | |||
| Download | dnetcServiceScript is a simple VB script to control whether or not the distributed.net service is running. Provides a gui for turning the service on/off without digging through the Administrative Tools / Services of WinXP. | Win32 | Last updated: Apr 29 2005 |
| Webpage | Distributed.net Backup Tool is a small batch program that guides the user through the backup steps for the Windows distributed.net client. The program uses simple steps to make the backup, it's all quite easy. It features pausing/unpausing of running clients, you can choose which drive to copy to and whether to copy buffers, settings or both, and the backup files are verified after the process. | Win32 | Last updated: Aug 8 2004 |
| Download | Moo Man: a very easy to use program. It's designed to make Distributed.net's participants life much better. This application can play a random sound every time the Distributed.net client finishes a packet from RC5-72 or OGR project. Using default set of sounds you can turn your boring set of electronic circuits that makes your PC into your personal cow that loves you and moos time-to-time especially for you :). And that's really something for 'cow projects' fans. It has many, many new features comparing to the Moo Sounds application. | Win32 | Last updated: Apr 15 2004 |
| Download | Graphical Service Controller - Service controller for dnetc. Also available are screenshots and VB6 source. | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 22 2005 |
| Webpage | Bovine: Graphical control of the Mac OS X distributed.net client by Patrick Valenzuela. Bovine is made for advanced users of dnetc who want an easy way to start, restart, and stop the client. Features a Dock Menu, a controls window, and the ability to start dnetc when Bovine is launched. | Mac OS X | Last updated: Nov 29 2003 |
| Download | Beregn: This java source code written by Sverre Eldøy is for a really small and simple program that outputs to stdout how many r72-blocks there are in buff-out. It can be used as a component in .bashrc to get the number of blocks everytime you log on. | Java | Last updated: Oct 31 2003 |
| Webpage | Xdnetc: This Cocoa wrapper written by Stephane Leon provides a GUI front end for dnetc running under Mac OS X. | Mac OS X | Last updated: Oct 16 2003 |
| Webpage | Distributed Cows is a "remote cow" alike program, that is, it is able to install/remove/start/stop a dnetc service on another machine. It has features like automatic network discovery etc. Can be used for client deployment and versioning in a Windows2000 environment. | Win32 | Last updated: Apr 14 2003 |
| Download | Agfun - Run the Distributed.net Mac OS X client as your screen saver. Homepage | Mac OS X | Last updated: Oct 17 2003 |
| Webpage | COWPump uses WinAmp's Visualization plug-ins to visualize a Distributed.net clients performance. Almost any Visualization plug-in can be used (you only need COWPump and the Visualization .DLL to run, you don't actually need WinAmp). | Win32 | Last updated: Mar 17 2003 |
| Webpage | Crunching Cows 1.2: Crunching Cows is a GUI front-end to the Mac OS X command-line client for distributed.net's projects. | Mac OS X | Last updated: Apr 27 2002 |
| Webpage | distributed.net screensaver: Screensaver which uses DirectX8 to show off your distributed.net log (kinda like logvis.exe on caffeine) while saving your precious pixels at the same time! Runs smooth, and puts as much processing load as possible on the video card leaving your processor more crunching power. Source code is included so you can modify it to your own will and make my code even better (not that you will get me to admit it isn't perfect). | Win32 | Last updated: Dec 2 2001 |
| Download | Mac OS X dnetc Wrapper: This wrapper written by Nigel Pearson provides a GUI front end for dnetc running under Mac OS X. Version 6 is a lot more reliable, allows the output window's font to be changed (Window -> Change Font), and displays progress information from the client (e.g. ...50%...). | Mac OS X | Last updated: Jun 26 2002 |
| Webpage | dnetcup: Utility to assist managing large (or not so large) installations of dnetc. Can do automatic upgrades of dnetc and centralized distribution of the dnetc configuration file. | Perl | Last updated: Sep 30 2000 |
| Download | MooSounds (version 1.0): Distributed.net's add-on that provides the audible "Mooing" to your Win32 clients that was previously available within the Win32GUI client. MooSounds can also be used with new clients that have been installed as a hidden service. source code | Win32 | Last updated: Dec 5 1999 |
| Download | MooSounds for Perl: This is a Perl script that provides similar functionality as the Win32 MooSounds program listed above. This script polls your client logfile, looking for block completions and triggering a sound file to play when it detects that has occurred. This Perl script is intended primarily for UNIX systems, but it can be modified for other systems. | Perl | Last updated: Dec 4 1999 |
| Download | Remote Cows, the remote installer for client-as-NT-service (executable only, local copy, patched) text file | WinNT | Last updated: Nov 20 1999 |
| Webpage | Remote service control center. A management utility to control and deploy clients on a WinNT network, similar to Remote Cows. | WinNT | Last updated: Jan 12 2001 |
| Download | Microsoft WinTop - cpu utilization monitor for win95/98 (executable only, from kerneltoys, local copy) | Win9x | Last updated: Nov 20 1999 |
| Download | RC5_Log_screen saver. A simple screen saver for Win95/NT4 that periodically checks the specified file for changes and redisplays the tail portion of it on screen. Includes Visual C++ source code. | Win32 | Last updated: Feb 18 1998 |
| Webpage | CowControl by Mark Doeswijk. Monitors the status multiple networked client installs by polling netshared client log files (also includes support for new log file format). New version (1.25) of the program has RC5-72 support. | Win32 | Last updated: Jan 27 2003 |
| Webpage | Ovine by Julius Welby. A python script that allows people (such as those who use the email fetch@distributed.net gateway) to automatically swap in other in-buffers when the client exhausts its current one. | Python | Last updated: Dec 8 2000 |
| Webpage | LCDProc Perl scripts by Mad Matt. Allows you to display your current client or proxyper keyrates on an LCD display screen. | Perl | Last updated: ? |
| Webpage | GKrellDnet is a client monitor plugin for GKrellM. Requires Unix, X11, and GTK. | Unix/GTK | Last updated: Nov 4 2000 |
| Webpage | Dnet Predictor helps to predict how many rc5-72 / ogr packets you need for 1 machine to an entire network. | Win32 | Last updated: Feb 19 2003 |
| Client launch/shutdown utilities | |||
| Webpage | dnetc linux is a tiny linux distribution, which fits on a single 1,44mb floppy disk. It is totally built from scratch and not based on any other known linux distribution. The gzipped root filesystem currently has a size of about 180k only. To reach this the whole system relies heavily on dietlibc. Main purpose for this floppy linux is to run the distributed.net client. | UNIX | Last updated: Feb 26 2004 |
| Webpage | Myzar, the Amiga rc5des client front-end | Amiga | Last updated: Jul 3 2000 |
| Download | Load watcher utility allows you to automatically suspend a program after the cpu load on a machine exceeds a certain threshold. text file | UNIX | Last updated: Feb 18 1998 |
| Webpage | Another load watcher allows a single child process to run only when the load on a machine is within certain bounds. When the machines load passes the high load mark, then the child process is stopped. | UNIX | Last updated: Nov 12 1998 |
| Download | Shell script to allow suspension of a client when a user logs in. text file | UNIX | Last updated: Feb 18 1998 |
| Webpage | dnet-wrap is a small add-on wrapper for the *NIX versions of dnetc (should work on any major platforms that have a C compiler and respective libraries, tested on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux) to run the client in a small chroot(2) environment. It is designed to be run SUID root, but this is not a must (may be run as root/via sudo). | UNIX | Last updated: Jan 22 2003 |
| Webpage | Distributed.net KickStarter for Mac OS X is an application to help you get started with participating in the Distributed.net challenges. It provides a graphical front end for setting up the Distributed.net client (called dnetc) which otherwise only has a text-based interface and you have to resort to the Terminal to get at it. Distributed.net KickStarter also offers an easy way to have the Distributed.net client start each time you start your computer as well as a way to start the client right away (when you have made the required settings) as well as easy access to the online statistics of your contribution to the different Distributed.net projects. | Mac OS X | Last updated: Feb 19 2003 |
Other miscellaneous things:
| Statsbox related | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Webpage | RC5-Stats - a stats-tool which grabs your stats webpages for gathering data and displaying it in graphs. Maybe it's something interesting for everybody crunching at dnet-projects. Developed for rc5-72 but functional for all projects. Should run under win98 and above. | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 31 2004 |
| Download | A tcl script for eggdrop. Shows top 10 every night and can show statistics for one user. | UNIX | Last updated: Jan 8 2004 |
| Download | Cruncher, a quick and dirty win32 program that calculates how long it will take you to match or overtake another rc5 participant's stats position, given both of your current blocks completed, and both of your rates, in blocks per day. Help available at white@pridelands.org. | Win32 | Last updated: Aug 25 2002 |
| Webpage | rc5stats.exe, a small tool that provides some extra info about submitted blocks using information from rc5 stats pages. Download file size is 32 KB (zip file), exe file is 105 KB of size. | Win32 | Last updated: Aug 23 2003 |
| Webpage | a small Perl script that creates personal statistics graphs (with gnuplot-3.7) from the personal history web page on stats.distributed.net. | UNIX | Last updated: Oct 29 2000 |
| Webpage | Rawhide: grabs your personal stats from the raw stats page at distributed.net and allows you to display them on your own web page. Requires PHP on your webserver. homepage. | PHP | Last updated: May 30 2000 |
| Webpage | A Facebook application to display, share and compare your RC5 and/or OGR stats with your friends. | Last updated: May 2008 | |
| Multimedia | |||
| Download | Extracted copies of the 5 cow moo sounds used in the old Win32 GUI client (WAV format) | All | Last updated: Jan 24 2000 |
| Download | a BMP logo for the Siemens C35i mobile-phone (by martin.esp@gmx.de) | Other | Last updated: Dec 16 2000 |
| Download | a little Windows game with a cow motif used as one of the default skins. english and german (by BlueBit@Bluebitter.de) | Win32 | Last updated: ? |
| Webpage | Cowhead icons and wallpapers: a collection of desktop pictures with the cowhead in 16 different colours and 4 different sizes that can be used by any OSs, and a collection of icons for Mac OS X (128x128 pixels). | MacOS | Last updated: Sep 18 2002 |
| Webpage | a splash screen for Netscape Communicator 4 (for Macintosh only) that shows the distributed.net cowhead (by sqs@pointmac.net) | MacOS | Last updated: Sep 18 2002 |
| Download | Cow wallpaper by Piotr Chodzinski. You can also download an updated version. | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 14 2003 |
Personal proxy related utilities:
| Personal Proxy Monitoring and Administration Utilities | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Download | proxycontrol is an easy to use shellscript to control your personal proxy. Featues of proxycontrol: control 1 to 3 proxies, start and stop proxy, check if proxy is running or not, examine buffers of the proxy, flush via command. You need only a UNIX compatible computer and a perproxy. | UNIX | Last updated: Feb 15 2005 |
| Personal Proxy Network Connectivity Utilities | |||
| Download | datapipe - allows you to create redirected TCP/IP connections to remote machines and can be used instead of a personal proxy in many firewall environments if this program can be run on a gateway machine (source code only) | UNIX, Win32 | Last updated: Jan 29 1999 |
| Download | rc5.cgi - a Perl CGI script that can be placed on a dual-homed corporate webserver (ie: reachable by both the corporate Intranet and the outside Internet). This script enables distributed.net clients to communicate with the keyservers, and can be used as a substitute for a personal proxy for people who only need connectivity services. | Perl | Last updated: Nov 29 1999 |
| Personal Proxy Monitoring Utilities | |||
| Download | This program is intended to show a chart about the packets received by the proxy. Also, it can proccess the state of the buffers manually and automaticaly and warn if they go out beyond an established bounds. The program needs the console file log from the personal proxy for the buffers, and the packet log file for the chart. At the moment, only RC5-72 chart is avaible. | Win32 | Last updated: Jan 8 2004 |
| Download | rc5rate reports the proxy stats at the command line for rc5-72. | UNIX | Last updated: Jan 7 2005 |
| Webpage | WMProxyPer is a Window Maker docking application that displays the current status of your Personal RC5 keyproxy in a much nicer way than 'tail -f proxyper.log'. | UNIX | Last updated: Dec 17 1999 |
| Webpage | A script for mIRC to process proxy logs and transmit current rates to an IRC channel. | Win32/mIRC | Last updated: Oct 7 2004 |
| Webpage | PM by Spirin Timofey. A Win32 utility to process proxy console logs, allowing you to monitor the buffer levels and last-update times of all connecting clients. | Win32 | Last updated: Sep 18 2000 |
| Personal Proxy Statistics Generators | |||
| Download | Personal Proxy Live Stats - PHP script that shows a package summary from the local logfiles of the personal proxy in the web browser. You can view different projects, team-summary, user's detailed stats and so on. Even forecasts and a review for the day before are included. Multiple language support included (currently german, english). No installation required, just edit the config file and you're done. GPL License by Steffen Ille and Joerg Risse. | PHP | Last updated: Sep 26 2007 |
| Webpage | RC5Stats - Creates a web page displaying your distributed.net perproxy statistics (works best on a home network or other assigned IP network). | Win32 | Last updated: Oct 8 2003 |
| Webpage | RC5-72 Personal Proxy Turbo-Stats - The Turbo-Stats Pack includes: - a high-speed logfile-processor, with runtimes of less then 5 seconds for 10000 new WUs, written in C++ (Unix-Based Systems, Windows-Users have to use Cygwin) - a fully customizable web-output via PHP, using easy to edit Smarty-Templates... The Best Solution for medium and large-sized RC5-PerProxies! See it in action at http://teamproxy.dyns.net/ |
UNIX | Last updated: Sep 1 2003 |
| Webpage | rc5pstats is a statistics generator for distributed.net
Personal Proxies. It reads the the log files produced by the
perproxy server software and produces several textual and graphical
statistics (charts) as html or text pages. Furthermore it is able to
cache, reuse and delete information from previous runs to avoid
reading already analyzed log files in consecutive run. rc5pstats is a pure Java application and was mainly inspired by the Personal Proxy Statistics software written by Kevin Pesce. It is able to integrate "color" themes of ppstats and its icons as well. |
Java | Last updated: Jul 18 2002 |
| Webpage | keycheck.pl: A perl script that visualizes what part of the RC5-64 keyspace somebody already crunched (using different colors on how much was crunched). It takes client logfiles (both formats) or personal proxy logfiles as inputs, and outputs a PNG image. | Perl | Last updated: May 24 2002 |
| Webpage | ppstats - Kevin Pesce's Personal Proxy Statistics Perl Stats analyzer for RC5-64, DES, CSC, and OGR. Webserver and Perl required. | Perl | Last updated: Aug 27 2000 |
| Download | PPStats - Stats generation using the PHP server-side web scripting language. By M. Bakker and K. van den Hout. Webpage. Webserver with PHP required. | PHP | Last updated: Dec 2 2001 |
| Webpage | Ivolution - rc5ppsv - rc5 Personal Proxy Statistic Viewer | Win32 | Last updated: Feb 15 2000 |
| Webpage | NETSEC RC5 Proxy Analyzer | Win32 | Last updated: Sep 30 2000 |
| Webpage | FredZeGreat's AnalyzR - HTML stats generator for RC5-64 (French) | WinNT | Last updated: ? |
| Webpage | PPLogAnalyzer - Vlad Vissoultchev's proxyper Log Analyzer. supports OGR. VB source available. | Win32 | Last updated: Jul 27 2000 |
| Webpage | RC5 Monitor by Michael Gensing - proxyper statistics generator (German) | Win32 | Last updated: Apr 10 2005 |