[Tilesathome] t at h server updates

[Christophe Cattelain]

I don't know if the problems come from a bad configuration, a bug or
something else, but it could be interesting to read about the SETI at Home
experience...  ;-)

I read an article by David Anderson in "Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the
Power of Disruptive Technologies" (O' Reilly) (I think) explaining the
trouble he had with (unexpected) cheating.

There are articles on the web too :

    http://www.google.be/search?q=david+anderson+seti%40home+cheat


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Christopher Schmidt a écrit :
> 1. The user requesting a tileset is now recorded...
> 2. Which let me find out that some clients were requesting a huge number
>    of requests, which let me find out that...
> 3. The t at h server has not been correctly handling re-requests since
>    mid-August. This is now fixed.
>
> Some clients are still requesting a huge number of requests and
> returning them as broken tiles, or not returning them at all. user 
> 'jaiku' is a case of the latter.
>
> In order to handle this, I've added a column to the users database:
> 'disabled'. This allows you to mark a user as 'disabled': if this is the
> case, the t at h client will get a "We have no work for you" response.
> Anyone with access to the database can update this flag from true to
> false or false to true, and it is displayed on
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Credits/ .
>
> robfitz and jrreid both have clients which are shoving lots of
> Rerequests on empty tiles: robfitz's client reports "TooBig" (Which
> isn't in the client in SVN), and jrreid reports 'BadSVG'.
>
> jaiku is currently disabled -- the others are not, but should probably
> see if their clients are doing okay.
>
> To jaiku: If you can ping me sometime, so we can watch what your client
> is doing, we can turn your client back on and watch it. If anyone knows
> who this is and can pass this along, that would be good. (I have no clue
> if the user in question is on this list.)
>
> Regards,
>