OK, I updated to Electron Microscope 2.5.1 like a good doo-bee, but... It chews up cycles like crazy, apparently attempting to contact Stanford for the latest poinr count. Eventually, I just had to kill it. I've reinstalled and restarted several times, all with teh same effect. I've backed down to 2...

Mucho (*burb*) groucho! I'll sit quietly at SPCR #11 for a bit over a month until being unkindly usurped by Frank Condron. Perhaps I'll make in into the top 500 for the whole project before Hallowe'en.

According to EOC, I'll pass 100K on Tax Day.

Ummm, some might say "69" is a most enjoyable position to be in...

[[ ducking tomatoes as he exits stage right ]]

Well, same behaviour with just "-local".

Quoth Alice: "Curiouser and curiouser."

I'll add to the possibly bizarre behaviout of FahCore79. I have three copies running on two machines at home (both P4 with HT-enabled). Whilst the Core78 is happily running at 100% CPU, The Core79's are cycling between 100% and 2% (or less) -- each with a different but repeating usage pattern. EMIII...

Well, CharlieChan overtook my spot at #6 and mas92264 will soon (1-2 days) take my current #7 spot. Within a couple of weeks, ARM and wgragg will leave me behind. A week later, David_Hays will put me out of the top 10. Whew! I'll be semi-secure at #11 for quite some time, though. As a side-note: Yay...

CharlieChan is due to overtake tragus in two days, and Zhentar in 45 days mas92264 is in the same boat as CharlieChan, with three conquests in the next 30 days or so (tragus, CharlieChan, Zhentar) Somehow, I've managed to stave off CharlieChan's overtake by a day (or at least a few more hours). Ala...

Alas, while I've been happy to rest for a while at #6 on the team, a lot of my computing power is currently dedicated to RealWork (tm)--crunching large amounts of data. I've borged all the computers at the lab and at home, but I've topped out the available cycles. As I am passed by the mighty folder...

Well, I seem to be getting a bit more than my share of Tinkers. I currently have the highest number of WUs (~8600) on the SPCR team -- nearly 2X the second highest. I do notice that my folding points/day/week tends to go down significantly during my Tinker storms.

Ah well, my bit for science.

Quite lovely, crate and all. Is green your preferred colour? Do you keep the works cool enough? Oh, and are you the fetish guitarist or the clockwork hybrid? I'd like to hear some Redresser samples, but the mp3.com.au claimed "The Artist page you wish to view is on hold and temporarily unavailable" ...

Take your time, Zhentar. I'd be happy to keep your #5 spot warm for you for a while.

Well, somewhere I guess I received a whole spate of Tinkers. In the past 12 hours, according to EOC stats, I put in 23, 82.4, 70.9, and 108.6 points worth (gasp!) 334, 346, 353, and 102 work units respectively. I'm still at a reasonably steady point-level, but my WU's are growing by leaps and bounds...

Wiser folks than I have been succinct in their opinions: If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. -- GK Chesterton If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant...

I often describe myself as a Zen agnostic: The fact that I know that I don't know means that I am both knowing and not knowing simultaneously. 8) Hmmm, I might steal that from you. My own usual line is, "I'm a non-practicing agnostic." OK, obligatory Zen joke: Q. How many Zen Buddhists does it take...

haysdb wrote:Not that some of us won't give it the ol' college try though.

Well, I might have a small advantage, still. Perhaps those 8+ years of graduate school haven't gone to waste after all.

As I'm fond of saying, "That's DOCTOR a**hole to you."

Yep, sorting is verrrry nice, though I miss the lovely colored graphs of EOC. A quick sort shows I'm #10 in production. Hmmmm, I think I'll keep looking at total points where I can feel semi-smug for a while.

I've recently heard about roving gangs of Ceramiques, terrorizing little old ladies and stealing candy from babies. These Ceramiques used to be honor students and model citizens before they went bad. Of course, nothing beats mayonaise that has gone bad. Ummm, back to your regularly scheduled forum.

Very sweet. I only wish I had red in my version (or at least, more consistently yellow).

I've used duct tape to good effect. Not pretty, but quite functional and fits my esthetic mantra that "Duct tape holds the Universe together."

[[ not wanting to post my own horn-tooting thread ]]

A pat on my own back for turning ORANGE for the first time, providing my own tiny boost to SPCR's efforts. AND, tangled is no longer a threat to me (heh, heh)... at least for now.

Strictly, you will "lose" the interim results of the current frame when F@H is interrupted. However, since each frame takes 3-12 minutes (plus or minus), not much is lost. F@H saves the results *after* the completion of a frame and otherwise keeps everything in memory. As mormakil mentioned, a disk ...

Well, yipee for me who just hit 40,000 points. I also have had a drop in the past couple of days, though I just added a 3.0 P4 which should give a bit of a boost. Tangled, you'll have to run faster to catch me now.

Orange, here I come...

It does specify values that are obviously wrong, like negative dBA values. E.g. The 12dbA Papst sounds at -7 dBA@5V according to the PDF. Minor quibble/correction: Negative dB values are perfectly reasonable in and of themselves. In your example, it would mean the sound of the Papst is 7 dB below t...

Nuts. I just ordered the PATA version of the 160 MB. Ah well, time for more cablegami.

Down, GamingGod, down. Remember who you're saving yourself for...

Obligatory SPCR mention: Do you suppose the fuzzy fur and stuffing add additional damping and sound isolation? Perhaps this will be a new trend in larger cases to go along with fuzzy dice.

Note that both of these drives are suspended with gaskets in my 5" drive bays. This quiets them down a lot . Sitting in the SLK3700 drive gage they vibrate the case like a big tuning fork (despite the rubber grommets). Another interesting data point re: resonating SLK3700 cases. It appears there ar...

Curiously, I've also noticed significant motor/bearing noise on all three 92mm Panaflo BX samples I have (though the one I fried is absolutely silent). I got mine from coolcases.com, since Digi-Key continues to be out of stock. While I had a 5-10C decrease in temperature over an 80mm Panaflo L1A (on...

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli (popularly, but incorrectly, attributed to Mark Twain)

[I didn't want to start a new thread, so I am just coattailing here.]

I check my stats only to find I finally have a conquest: bkh on Mar 2, 2032 01:00 PM! Well, I hope I live that long!

On the other hand, Cosine is supposed to pass me early in 2006.

Gawd, I love statistics.