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Posted: **Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:04 am**

Still getting error messages, ie: 'Could not connect to server, underlying exception: java.net.ConnectException: connection timed out. Check internet connection or proxy'. I've made sure Dimes is allowed through my firewall, is there anything else, or have I bust it?

Posted: **Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:52 am**

I got the same thing last night, don't think it is fully back yet/cannot cope with the backlog of uploads

Posted: **Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:07 am**

When i was having that problem i had to reload java about 4 times till it worked. Pain in the bum but i have had to do this on 3 different computers .
Hope it helps :shock:

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:19 am**

Reinstalled Java, restarted Dimes and it worked OK for about 3hrs. Then the error messages started again. A new one is just, 'server not answering'. I think that sums it up!

I'll leave it for a while, I think!

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:49 am**

by the look of the stats things are all over the place so i wouldn't worrie about it and leave it running . I think theres a jobbie in the program that lets it continue searching when the servers down .
Mine have disappeared off my computer and the only way i can get to see the setting/graphs is to stop it and restart it .
Just let it run :lol:

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:48 pm**

I noticed DC were still updating the stats, even though the Dimes Agent said there was no contact with the server!

You've changed my mind, Micky, I'll give it another go and ignore the error messages!

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:42 pm**

meh just ignore the DC stats, it will say "Stats are updating" for hours at a time, when the server is offline.

Just make sure you are running DIMES Agent version 0.5.0, that one has the stuff that lets it keep on running if the server is offline.

The errors you have been seeing are just it moaning about the server not working, when it tries to either upload the info (about every 40 mins), and the automatic get info.

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:27 pm**

Not had any prob's meself I don't touch my installations just in case I break em lol

Terry

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:36 am**

All seems to be running OK now, though nowt on the site about problems!

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:13 am**

Double yay 2 Million now

Took 30 days to get 2nd million.

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:28 am**

NaRyan wrote:Double yay 2 Million now
Took 30 days to get 2nd million.

Nice one!

Mickyb69 is only around 5 days from his next 2 milestones as well - 1 Million and Mr.Pink!

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:45 am**

Well done that man. I'll give you a wave in a few days as I pass the UBT flag to you.

Chris.

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:13 am**

He He Mikee, does that mean once Micky passes you, you will go into hiding since you will be Mr double Pink

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

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:51 am**

NaRyan wrote:He He Mikee, does that mean once Micky passes you, you will go into hiding since you will be Mr double Pink

Big mouth! I was trying to keep that quiet!

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:06 pm**

UBT - Mikee wrote:
NaRyan wrote:He He Mikee, does that mean once Micky passes you, you will go into hiding since you will be Mr double Pink
Big mouth! I was trying to keep that quiet!

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:26 pm**

NaRyan wrote:He He Mikee, does that mean once Micky passes you, you will go into hiding since you will be Mr double Pink

I think you'll find that before Mickyb passes Mikee, Mikee will pass gregoryw so he will be saved the ignominy of double pink.

Chris

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:29 pm**

Still ...double pink even for a day or two hhahahahahahahahaha :lol:

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:39 pm**

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Still ...double pink even for a day or two hhahahahahahahahaha :lol:

Nopes

Mikee passes gregoryw in 28.6 days.
You pass Mikee in 37 days.

However it looks like you will be a pinko for a while

Acording to Free-DC

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:36 am**

Yet another Dimes millionaire

Well done Micky on getting your 1,000,000 Dimes, now spend them carfefully

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:40 pm**

Well done Mickyb. Hope it's the first of many.

Chris.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:24 pm**

Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ?

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:08 pm**

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ?

What do ya need to buy a load of Bricks for?
You gonna build a shelter for when the Zombies attack?

:P:lol:

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:45 am**

Congrats on the 1,000,000 Micky!! :notworthy: :notworthy:

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:21 pm**

Give a warm welcome to Mickyb on joining the 'Pink Club'. Enjoy your visit!

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:15 pm**

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo looks like im going to be there for ages tooo :oops:

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:24 pm**

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

Hmmm, I think I can hear a fat lady exercising her voice in the wings.

Chris.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:04 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:09 pm**

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

:lol::P

*edit
Also what the heck, just looked at taskmanager and java.exe was using 429MB ram

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:48 am**

A pity I didn't sabotage it a few hours earlier :D

Chris

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:35 am**

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?

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:56 pm**

NaRyan wrote: Did you forget to put your clocks forward an hour?

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!

Posted: **Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:24 am**

We have just passed 18 million :occasion5:

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:32 am**

And I have just passed 3 Million

Mind you the UBT stat sig is a ikkle bit off

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:30 am**

Nice 3 mill Naryan ....

Wish this pink wedge would go away

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:18 pm**

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"

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:48 pm**

Well Done, 3 Million, too much time on your hands!

:lol:

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:05 pm**

3 Million Dimes is nice, however I'm more happy about the 1 Million total Boinc in about 3.5 days

Posted: **Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:11 pm**

It's bust!

Posted: **Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:05 pm**

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...

Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:03 am**

I've just mended it for you!

All OK at 07:00hrs this morning

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:28 pm**

20 Million up!

Chris.

Posted: **Sun May 04, 2008 11:31 am**

1 more day of pinkness ...gawd been pink for ages :oops:

Posted: **Tue May 06, 2008 11:36 pm**

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

pink

Posted: **Fri May 09, 2008 1:29 pm**

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:

Posted: **Fri May 09, 2008 2:24 pm**

Posted: **Fri May 09, 2008 11:14 pm**

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!

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 8:30 am**

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.

Chris.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 9:14 am**

10 people doing this? Best ever at one time?

Of course the big news is that Mickyb has lost his pink wedge at last!

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 9:35 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 1:15 pm**

*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

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2008 6:21 am**

Nice One, Jinxy!

Showing server error, last update 17.56hrs last night!

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2008 9:26 am**

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 "

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2008 11:53 am**

melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy!

Not my fault this time

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2008 7:49 pm**

NaRyan wrote:
melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy!
Not my fault this time

I'll believe you!

I'm nearly pink in todays breakdown!

Congrats to Micky for his 2,000,000 and hgblade for his 250,000 :occasion5: :occasion9: :thumbright:

Posted: **Tue May 20, 2008 6:50 pm**

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.....

Posted: **Tue May 20, 2008 8:00 pm**

You forgot about the other one still stuck in the fan :lol:

Posted: **Tue May 20, 2008 8:45 pm**

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.....

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2008 11:26 am**

It would seem that extracting the cat from the fan has, somehow, repaired Dimes!

:lol:

Well Done, That Man!

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2008 12:31 pm**

Nah it's only working cause I uninstalled it from ma pootas

Posted: **Thu May 22, 2008 2:19 am**

And so they break again.....
perhaps they should upgrade to 386's

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:31 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:08 pm**

Milestones Today
UK BOINC TEAM passes 25,000,000

Posted: **Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:39 am**

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!

How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes?

Posted: **Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:24 am**

How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes?

LOL!!!!!!
Now that would be funny to see

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:

Posted: **Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:37 pm**

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

And there was young Mr. Chris trying to sneak up on you!

Posted: **Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:56 pm**

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

And there was young Mr. Chris trying to sneak up on you!

He He never seen a Pink Dalek before

And geez that's someone just about to overtake me!?!?!
Took you long enough!

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!

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:26 pm**

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!

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:22 pm**

Stopped crunching this ages ago. The stats weren't updating at all so I got fed up with it!

Posted: **Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:29 pm**

Just encase anyone cares.
The team just passed 45,000,000

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:15 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:35 pm**

No - totally separate. Didn't know it was still going!

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:33 am**

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?!

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:13 am**

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.

Chris.

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:11 pm**

thanks, Chris

is the DIMES project working again, yet?

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:38 am**

It's still down at the moment.

Chris.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:49 pm**

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

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