>> Now, if I could make it download some more sheep... (You'd think 350 
>> would be enough. However, it seems to be more like 15 actual images, 
>> plus 15! morphs between them. Which isn't so interesting.)
> 
> There aren't morphs for all possible combinations. Nowhere near that.

For what it's worth... I just checked the stats page. Flock 202 (the 
current flock) contains 74 loops and 457 edges.

Weirdly, 74 loops *sounds* like a lot, but doesn't *look* like a lot 
when you see them all at once:

http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/cgi/status.cgi

Also surprising, most of the votes are counted in single figures. I 
would have expected them to run into tens of thousands, but apparently 
not. I'm not sure whether this means each one gets approximately 50% up 
and 50% down votes, or there are only about 10 people voting worldwide...

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> [Hmm, POV-Ray service beureau, anyone?]
> 

I have one.

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> or there are only about 10 people voting worldwide...
> 

Are *you* voting? :)

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>> or there are only about 10 people voting worldwide...
> 
> Are *you* voting? :)

Yes. Quite a lot.

Obviously, I wasn't expecting my few votes to make a difference among 
the many millions of other votes... but now I'm not so sure. ;-)

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Well, it seems [with some difficulty] that it is possible to reconfigure 
my ADSL router to allow inbound connections. I also adjusted the upload 
and download limits on ES to 200 KB each way (was 100).

So far, the most noticable effect is that my outbound has gone from 
about 3 KB to 20 KB.

Also, I notice with some puzzlement that in the evenings my download 
rate is between 9 KB and 20 KB, but in the mornings its 90 or so. 
(Actually, this morning it hit 120 KB. I guess those changed settings 
make a difference...)

I also notice virtually no rendering taking place. I saw a comment 
somewhere in the forums about "I'm keeping the flock quiet in 
anticipation of ES 2.6.7 and high def rendering..." Interesting.

And finally... why does the "number of sheep on this computer" go down 
from time to time?

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Well, today I got home to find that my PC has downloaded 630 sheep. And 
yet, there are only 450 sheep on the machine.

*sigh*

So I increased the cache size, and that seemed to fix the problem. 
However, now some of my favourit sheep are gone. And I can't figure out 
how to get them back. :-( [Most puzzlingly, I can't find them on the 
sheep website either...]

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> Well, today I got home to find that my PC has downloaded 630 sheep. And 
> yet, there are only 450 sheep on the machine.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> So I increased the cache size, and that seemed to fix the problem. 
> However, now some of my favourit sheep are gone. And I can't figure out 
> how to get them back. :-( [Most puzzlingly, I can't find them on the 
> sheep website either...]
> 

The screensaver deletes sheep to keep the cache size within the limit 
you set. Factors to choose which to delete are: older, and less voted. 
The server also deletes videos from the website (it doesn't exactly have 
infinite disk space). Same factors used in choosing.

The preview image and the "genome" are kept on the server for *all* 
sheep, even year-old ones. So try harder and you may find it. If the 
video was already deleted, I could help you re-render it :)

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Orchid XP v7 schrieb:
> Well, today I got home to find that my PC has downloaded 630 sheep. And 
> yet, there are only 450 sheep on the machine.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> So I increased the cache size, and that seemed to fix the problem. 
> However, now some of my favourit sheep are gone. And I can't figure out 
> how to get them back. :-( [Most puzzlingly, I can't find them on the 
> sheep website either...]
> 
Caused by this thread I downloaded electric sheep. Now I'm curious how 
you get the numbers (at least how many sheeps stay on your local 
machine). I'm missing all those statistics terribly. How many sheeps are 
there, how many edges, how many loops... How many frames (or lines of 
them) has my dreaming cpu rendered...?

So - where do you get at least the count of local sheeps?

thanks
kalle

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> Caused by this thread I downloaded electric sheep. Now I'm curious how 
> you get the numbers (at least how many sheeps stay on your local 
> machine). I'm missing all those statistics terribly. How many sheeps are 
> there, how many edges, how many loops... How many frames (or lines of 
> them) has my dreaming cpu rendered...?
> 
> So - where do you get at least the count of local sheeps?

While the screensaver is running fullscreen, press "S" to toggle stats 
on/off.

For your next challenge: Figure out what all these things *mean*. :-S

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> 
> So - where do you get at least the count of local sheeps?

only idea so far: counting the mpegs in win/system32/electric sheep 
cache/ (or similar)

something better?

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