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if you can answer my post in the maths based section about my collatz WUs? either 4 seconds with a computational error or 20 minutes. its messing my collatz RAC up no end and i have people like Mark and Damien to over take ;) I wish I could answer - but I don't have an answer. I could guess and sug...

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Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:25 pm

Just gone and cracked another beeeellllion. Go me. that one was a lot slower.

Excellent post.....very well done.

So, do you fancy sponsoring a sweep-stake on when you will crack the 7 beeeellion mark ??

regards
Tim

i have to say i have never had that error ever Hi Neil Thanks for the feedback - which is very worthwhile. We've had one or two issues in the past with the forum - mostly the issues have been about access and sometimes there have been some problems when the forum software was upgraded... But finger...

Hi all It looks like the forum database is being affected by too many spider-bots crawling all over it (which is a good thing as it's a sign of it's popularity !) - however the downside is when "real" users want to access it and the error "Too many connections" is displayed. So, I've disabled all bu...

Happy Birthday Mikee

Hope you have a great day and go easy on the falling down juice

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Tim

Nice one Jeff....

Way to go !!!!

Another little celebration for you to enjoy a nice tipple over ?

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Tim

Hi Mike Thanks for the input. Handbrake is video conversion software that can be used to convert from one video format to another. I've used it in the past but it only works "on demand" - ie you have to load up the software, put in the disc and then instruct the software what you want to do with it ...

Hi Francis Very well done !! Hope you get a nice pressie to reward yourself with :-) Hitting those sorts of targets always gives me a sense of achievement - so it's good to see that you've got there even if it has taken a while. I've still got a few projects I need to work on to hit the half mill or...

Hi Chris Thanks for the suggestion...and those are fine for the newer films that are coming out (or have been made available online). However, I have a lot of concert DVDs (featuring bands I like) that are not available and I just want to put them on a NAS box so I can access whenever I want rather ...

Hi all I'm just interested to know what sort of solutions people are using to "rip" their music and video (DVD) collections to a NAS box? Part One: I've been using VortexBox to rip CDs but have found that in quite a few cases, the titles of the tracks and even the name of the artist and the album ha...

I'm shown as joining Seti in 2003, which I guess would be the first project many of us participated in. Hi Jeff Similar story for me, though I did start crunching the original (non-BOINC) SETI@home screensaver, back in summer 1999 - that was in the days of dial-up !! Each task was about 350kb in si...

Hi Jeff WOW - simpy WOW....I really cannot understand how you've never got one before now....exactly how long have you been crunching ??? So, I checked...and this is your SECOND !! Look here: http://uotd.org/show_participant.py?cpid=0508b7a3d82c89c8827c430e13466b16 And the first one was on....ROSETT...

Hi Mark re: DOS version As I recall, one can also pass a "project URL" into the batch file using the "%1" parameter So: SET PROJECT=https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ becomes SET PROJECT=%1 and then you can start the batch file with: bunker https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ So, this means you...

Hi Mark Excellent news and thanks for the heads up. :-) I've crunched some tasks for this, but not that many, mainly due to Sprints and other project targets. But having the #1 UK Team placing is worthwhile, even though I suspect this project is quite far down most peoples list of "most do" projects...

BOINC message system is not for SETI-germany SPAM messages.. Hi Chris This isn't a spam message - it's a kind invitation from Terminator (on behalf of S.Germany) for UBT to participate in their forthcoming WCG Challenge. Terminator has sent us many invitations in the past, both directly through thi...

Hi all

I've entered the Team for this Challenge, so all you need do is to crunch some WCG tasks during the dates specified and your credits will be included in the team total.

regards
Tim

Hi Penny

Excellent stuff - very well done for achieving your Gold badge too...

And just in time for the weekend and a few bevvies to celebrate (if you feel so inclined )



regards

Tim

Hi Jeff

Oh, very well done that man.

Always nice to receive badges from the projects and a Gold badge must mean something better than a plastic or cardboard badge

I think that deserves some liquid refreshment

regards
Tim

I still don't understand how it can give so much higher scores than other projects. HI Damien As far as I know, each project decides how many credits they want to offer, which could be based on BOINC's own CreditNew function. Or it could offer some other basis for awarding credits, which is what Bi...

Looks good Chris, good find :handgestures-thumbupleft: I could do with a replacement motherboard for one of my Natex motherboards that's getting a bit temperamental. I'd already have the CPUs and RAM, just a little dubious about the heatsinks as they appear to be propriety so I couldn't remove them...