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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ? :lol:
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UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ? :lol:
What do ya need to buy a load of Bricks for?
You gonna build a shelter for when the Zombies attack?

;):P:lol:
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Congrats on the 1,000,000 Micky!! :notworthy:  :notworthy:
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Give a warm welcome to Mickyb on joining the 'Pink Club'. Enjoy your visit!
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo looks like im going to be there for ages tooo  :oops: ImageImageImageImage
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NaRyan wrote:Think your number 1 place is safe for about another 2 weeks Chris ;)
Mind you knowing how reliable (ha ha) the dimes server is at times, it probably safe for 3 weeks :P
Hmmm, I think I can hear a fat lady exercising her voice in the wings. :wave:

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LOL, I never noticed I was that close to #1.
I was only checking for stats page to make sure it was working ok. :)

Anyhoot here is some Choc HobNobs to help you on your move ;)

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Post by NaRyan »

Geez Chris I know I have nicked your #1 spot, but did you have to sabotage the Dimes server????

;):lol::P

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Also what the heck, just looked at taskmanager and java.exe was using 429MB ram :?
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A pity I didn't sabotage it a few hours earlier  :D

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UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:A pity I didn't sabotage it a few hours earlier  :D

Chris
Did you forget to put your clocks forward an hour?
:P
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NaRyan wrote: Did you forget to put your clocks forward an hour?
:P
When you get to my age forgetting the clocks on is the least of your worries. I need a list to remind me to put my trousers on in the morning!
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We have just passed 18 million  :occasion5:
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And I have just passed 3 Million :D
Mind you the UBT stat sig is a ikkle bit off :P
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Nice 3 mill Naryan  ....  :wink:
Wish this pink wedge would go away
:oops:
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Ahh only about another 12 days to go Micky :)

Mind you that's 12 days real time, with dimes pooching all the time it's probably 3 weeks "Dimes Time" :?
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Well Done, 3 Million, too much time on your hands! :wink:  :lol:
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3 Million Dimes is nice, however I'm more happy about the 1 Million total Boinc in about 3.5 days :D
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It's bust! :(
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Post by NaRyan »

Is Dimes working again?
As I see the stats are updating, but I cannot visit the website using pipex or plusnet, I can ping and traceroute the site using plusnet, but not pipex.
Also I can get the page to load using an anonymous proxy server...
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I've just mended it for you! :wink:

All OK at 07:00hrs this morning 8)
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20 Million up!

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1 more day of pinkness ...gawd been pink for ages  :oops:
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UBT - mickyb69 wrote:1 more day of pinkness ...gawd been pink for ages  :oops:
Don't like to mention it but dimes is still bust so another day or two in the :oops:  pink :oops:
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Dimes has been down now for over 4 days now. Is Mickeyb destined to be Mr. Pink forever. I reckon he bust it because he secretly likes being a pinko.  :roll:
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:oops:
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They'd better give us the credits for the past four days! I've kept an eye on my agent and it's kept working, just not updating the credits! :roll:
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It's back up at last with full credit given for the last week or so.

The team has gone up another place in the world rankings to 25th place.

Also, welcome to a new team member WTBroughton, glad to have you aboard.

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10 people doing this? Best ever at one time?

Of course the big news is that Mickyb has lost his pink wedge at last!
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UBT - Mikee wrote:10 people doing this? Best ever at one time?

Of course the big news is that Mickyb has lost his pink wedge at last!
I knew there was something else I meant to say  :D

We've had 10 at once on a few occasions. Maybe soon we'll be competing for a wedge.
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Post by NaRyan »

*Falls of his chair in shock!
Wow they finaly fixed it :)
Now 202,336 in one update, if only that happened all the time ;)

Mind you it's not updated in 6 hours, so it's probably broke again :lol:
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Nice One, Jinxy! :wink:

Showing server error, last update 17.56hrs last night! :roll:
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Wooohooooooo  :lol:

Guess they decided "Mickyb's been pink for ages ..lets update "

Then saw the stats and thought " Look he's almost got 2 million Ha ha ha "
:shock:
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melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy! :wink:
Not my fault this time :P
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NaRyan wrote:
melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy! :wink:
Not my fault this time :P
I'll believe you! :lol:

I'm nearly pink in todays breakdown! :shock:

Congrats to Micky for his 2,000,000 and hgblade for his 250,000 :occasion5:  :occasion9:  :thumbright:
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Sooo should we start placing bets on what month they fix the their status update thing?

Or have I gone and jinxed it big time?
*locks cat in other room, so if he has to run he don't trip over the darn thing.....
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Post by Ben »

You forgot about the other one still stuck in the fan  :lol:
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Ben wrote:You forgot about the other one still stuck in the fan  :lol:
OH POO!!!
I forgot the poota in that room has the biggest fan!!!
*runs off to rescue poota err I mean cat.....
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It would seem that extracting the cat from the fan has, somehow, repaired Dimes! :shock:  :lol:

Well Done, That Man! :D
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Nah it's only working cause I uninstalled it from ma pootas :P
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And so they break again.....
perhaps they should upgrade to 386's :P
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Only 8 days since the last update but it's back again now.

Those that were using Free-DC stats should now use http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... proj=dimes
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Milestones Today
UK BOINC TEAM passes 25,000,000
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UBT - Mikee wrote:
Milestones Today
UK BOINC TEAM passes 25,000,000
Yippppeeeeee!!! Nice One, team!

This is the only non-BOINC project I'm crunching now, given up on F@H since the 10 gazzillion credits/day lads took over! :lol:

How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes? :roll:
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How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes?
LOL!!!!!!
Now that would be funny to see :P
A project that can be run on a poota that can't run Boinc (all it needs is to be able to run windows 2000) :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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Not that I'm one to tell tales, but I don't want to be Mr. Double Pink again!

Ian! Best you get going again as you're gonna lose your #1 spot! (I'll still be Mr. half pink but but it's better than being a total pinky!

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

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UBT - Mikee wrote:Not that I'm one to tell tales, but I don't want to be Mr. Double Pink again!

Ian! Best you get going again as you're gonna lose your #1 spot! (I'll still be Mr. half pink but but it's better than being a total pinky!

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

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He He never seen a Pink Dalek before ;)
And geez that's someone just about to overtake me!?!?!
Took you long enough! :lol:

As for running Dimes again, nooooooooo thanks, I get niffed off having to got slap my Router about, due to it thinking, that all those pings was an internal attack, and locking all moi pootas out from the internet!
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Long time no post!

Just having a look at how we're doing... http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... proj=dimes and http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

Not too well! Which is weird as I've been doing these for years!

http://www.netdimes.org/new/?q=node/10 reveals the problem. If you've got Windows 7 and using the Windows firewall - it's blocked! You have to manually adjust the firewall settings - which is a bit of a faff! README file explains how to do it - sort of. It doesn't tell you that ICMP has to be a 'custom' rule and that there are 2 versions of it!

I've done the rules and it seems to be doing it's thing again though I won't know until after tomorrows update.

If I start getting weird things happening due to the new rules (which may be allowing things through that shouldn't) then the rules are coming out and Netdimes is going!
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Stopped crunching this ages ago. The stats weren't updating at all so I got fed up with it!
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Just encase anyone cares.
The team just passed 45,000,000 :)
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Do dimes credits add to my BOINC total? Just, im considering joining it, but don't know if I want to if they don't add to my combined total - not yet, anyway...

thanks
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No - totally separate. Didn't know it was still going!
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ok - thanks, and haha!

Is it worth asking DIMES to join BOINC - they would get more volunteers, and it would boost our credits on UBT's BOINC, making it a win-win situation?!
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The problem is that BOINC tends to award credits based on CPU usage or computing power donated. Dimes uses practically no CPU power. It sends out a routing packet onto the internet and awaits its return to plot the structure of the internet. It then idles for 30 seconds (or whatever time you set it to) and repeats. You get one point for every packet sent. Because of this, my old dilapidated laptop scores as many points as my fast(ish) quad processor. This is an ideal project for someone with slow hardware because they can compete with the best of them.

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thanks, Chris :D is the DIMES project working again, yet?
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It's still down at the moment.

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ok - will you drop me a PM when it is back up?
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