you can see the progress
http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/byid/1597/

here is how I setup it:
tilesathome running on xhema.flossk.org
tilesathome is a great project to help openstreetmap.
you should run it on all computers you can instead of downloading torrents all day.

you can see the people running it here:
http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/?order=last

Here my My id:
http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/byid/1597/

How to install :
sudo apt-get install xmlstarlet subversion libgd-gd2-perl libmath-vec-perl inkscape pngcrush perlmagick zip libwww-perl ttf-dejavu xfonts-thai libxml-writer-perl libset-object-perl libappconfig-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxml-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-perl pngnq optipng liberror-perl libipc-run-perl libclass-accessor-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl
466 sudo mkdir /var/openstreetmap
467 cd /var/openstreetmap
469 sudo chmod a+rw .
470 svn co http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/tilesAtHome-dev/tags/Ulm tilesAtHome
472 cd tilesAtHome/
487 cat tilesAtHome.conf.linux
488 cp tilesAtHome.conf.linux tilesAtHome.conf
489 vi tilesAtHome.conf
490 cp authentication.conf.example authentication.conf
491 vi authentication.conf

here you put your email that is listed here:
osm.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/account
where you put your username and not h4ck3rm1k3
and your password.

510 nohup perl tilesGen.pl loop
517 cat nohup.out

http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/03/tilesathome-running-on-xhemaflosskorg.html