UK BOINC Team Forum

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:57 am**

Yes I know its not boincish (is that a word??? If not I want my name credited by the OUD)

Anyone else in this project bit of fun if so hands up for a UBT team

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:09 pm**

UBT - Simon wrote:Yes I know its not boincish (is that a word??? If not I want my name credited by the OUD)

Anyone else in this project bit of fun if so hands up for a UBT team

Yep, i'm in :thumbup:
I'd seen users on other forums with it and noticed yours the other week and decided to join up, I'm a couple of days behind you.

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:21 pm**

What is uptime?

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:26 pm**

A project that measures how long your computer is switched on for, abit of fun really

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:07 pm**

a lot of the guys with stupidly high uptime are the ones that have servers for companies that don't turn off unless for updates

think my record is my current uptime

Simon

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:11 pm**

http://ubt.league.uptime-project.net/

Password is : master

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:45 pm**

UBT - Simon wrote:http://ubt.league.uptime-project.net/
Password is : master

the password might be master but how do I join?

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:47 pm**

UBT - AJS wrote:the password might be master but how do I join?

never mind

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:47 pm**

heh looks like you figured it out

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:51 pm**

UBT - Simon wrote:heh looks like you figured it out

yep, its amazing how easy it is to miss that Join League link

Posted: **Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:47 am**

I've joined

My best uptime will probably be on these crunch weekends when the computer stays on all of the time!

Now I just have to update my sig

Posted: **Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:45 pm**

Francis McDermott wrote:I've joined
Now I just have to update my sig

Now I'm officially UBT Donkey User Of The Day you shouldn't listen to me.

But.. on the uptime page, theres an uptime images link, in there you'll see a bunch of sig images, click the one you like and it will display the BBS code below.
Copy and Paste that into your forum sig box (in your profile) after your current sig code.

Posted: **Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:47 pm**

I'm in, have taken out the clickable link on my sig that they provide was too long to go into my sig

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:44 am**

Cheers, John

Missed that link off my profile screen somehow

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:09 am**

Francis McDermott wrote:Cheers, John

Missed that link off my profile screen somehow

Now all you've got to do is set your UBT stats colour to the same as your uptime stats colour

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:12 am**

I knew I'd be bad at this

But I do turn my computer off at night seeing as it is next to my bed!

What happens when you standby/hibernate?

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:42 am**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:What happens when you standby/hibernate?

don't know about standby but if you hibernate you have to wrap yourself in leaves and hide in a cave :sign5:

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:48 am**

Will everyone please switch of there computers

I need to win you all

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:18 pm**

UBT - AJS wrote:
UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:What happens when you standby/hibernate?
don't know about standby but if you hibernate you have to wrap yourself in leaves and hide in a cave :sign5:

Good one!

Well I'm assuming standby stops the uptime, or people could just standby their computers

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:39 am**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:Well I'm assuming standby stops the uptime, or people could just standby their computers

I dunno really, I never use standby (or hibernate either).
In either case, is the computer still running? processing applications?
Or is it so far down and just waiting for you to do something to wake it up?

As you say, I would think either would stop uptime.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:46 am**

Why does the Team require a password to Join, seems a bit odd to me

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:54 pm**

Hey! I like this uptime thing. Must now try to co-ordinate the colours.

--
Rod

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:09 pm**

RodEllery wrote:Hey! I like this uptime thing.

Damn, there I was thinking a few more hours and I've got the record and along you come with another 2 weeks

Must now try to co-ordinate the colours.

talk to UBT - Brabus SLR, he's got the same colour scheme as you, or he did have, it seems he's turned it off ATM

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:18 pm**

Couldn't stay away, I just had to sign up aswell

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:05 pm**

I'm losing

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:10 pm**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:I'm losing

Ha Ha - I got more than you

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:38 pm**

PiezPiedPy wrote:Ha Ha - I got more than you

Damn it to hell! I had to update my BIOS

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:53 pm**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:Damn it to hell! I had to update my BIOS

yeah sure, thats what they all say

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:57 pm**

UBT - Temujin wrote:yeah sure, thats what they all say

Actually, I really did have to

I just failed to mention I had to do the BIOS update to stop a serious system error occuring again

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:36 am**

Well maybe once I've hit the entire month I'll give someone else a chance to top the team stats. Adobe want to install an Acrobat upgrade and it can't do it a present cos I didn't rebooot after the last one.

Maybe after the weekend!

--
Rod

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:05 am**

RodEllery wrote:Must now try to co-ordinate the colours.

I tried to do that but couldn't quite get the *exact* colour, so got fed up and changed the look entirely

Must get on here in the evenings at some point, seems most people are on then and I can have a more real-time conversation!

Posted: **Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:25 pm**

Noooooo!!!

I was nicely on my way to a week then the wife decided that we should have new shelves up over the computer so had to shut it down and move it

Will have to wait until I move it back again until I can go for the 7-day target again

Posted: **Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:48 pm**

RodEllery wrote:Well maybe once I've hit the entire month I'll give someone else a chance to top the team stats. Adobe want to install an Acrobat upgrade and it can't do it a present cos I didn't rebooot after the last one.

Maybe after the weekend!
Rod

you didn't reboot then

must resist putting some of the work servers on the uptime project
must resist putting some of the work servers on the uptime project
must resist putting some of the work servers on the uptime project
must resist putting some of the work servers on the uptime project

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:03 am**

UBT - Temujin wrote:you didn't reboot then

Bit too busy today. Also no-one sent me a PDF file so Adobe did't remind me.

That said, given the season it's tempting to let it run for 40 days and 40 nights.

--
Rod

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:29 pm**

UBT - Temujin wrote:you didn't reboot then

Ok John, you've got the lead now, But I'll be chasing you!

--
Rod

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:37 pm**

RodEllery wrote:Ok John, you've got the lead now, But I'll be chasing you!

well theres the small matter of keeping running for another 2 weeks to deal with first

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:48 pm**

I'm off to Bucharest in a few days and will leave my computer on when away, I may have a chance of getting near the top

(unless there's a powercut or someone does something to my computer

)

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:23 pm**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:I'm off to Bucharest in a few days

I don't know, flippin students these days, Bucharest indeed!!
We had to make do with a deck chair in the back garden and hope it didn't rain

Have a nice time mate

Posted: **Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:25 pm**

just another few hrs oooooo can XP take it

Posted: **Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:12 pm**

UBT - Temujin wrote:I don't know, flippin students these days, Bucharest indeed!!
We had to make do with a deck chair in the back garden and hope it didn't rain

Have a nice time mate

Thanks, I will

it isn't a 'student' trip, it's a 'my girlfriend currently lives there' trip

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:11 am**

UBT - Brabus SLR wrote:it isn't a 'student' trip, it's a 'my girlfriend currently lives there' trip

I'd sack her and get a local hoe :sex:

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:58 pm**

I wouldn't

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:00 pm**

Watch me kick all you XP'ers butts on or around 11-04-06

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:03 pm**

What's happening then

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:03 pm**

Ohh no my lips are sealed

Posted: **Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:10 am**

he's probably gonna sneak it on a server at work or summint cheating like that

Posted: **Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:00 am**

UBT - Simon wrote:he's probably gonna sneak it on a server at work or summint cheating like that

well I can play that game aswell

Posted: **Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:02 am**

wish i could

havent had access to anything sneaky like that since 2002

damned *:twisted:naughty word:twisted:* of a manager decided he didnt like me and fired me. ach well could of been worse.

Posted: **Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:11 am**

Nothing sneakey at all, all will be revealed in around 4 days

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:11 am**

Just installed XP Pro x64 on another drive, so I got a Dual Boot. But it cocked my record up

But I'll catch yaz yet :albino:

Posted: **Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:27 pm**

hmmn, Fedora Core 5, hmmn

Posted: **Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:02 pm**

Bugger my plan is going to fail I need to restart my computer

Posted: **Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:56 pm**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Bugger my plan is going to fail I need to restart my computer

come on then, what was your plan?

Posted: **Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:58 pm**

UBT - Temujin wrote:
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Bugger my plan is going to fail I need to restart my computer
come on then, what was your plan?

Well in 2 days time Microsoft issues its latest critical updates, I was guessing all of you auto-update, well once that was done you would have had to restart your computers for the changes to be made

Posted: **Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:22 am**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Well in 2 days time Microsoft issues its latest critical updates, I was guessing all of you auto-update, well once that was done you would have had to restart your computers for the changes to be made

Aha, a very cunning plan, of course it fully depends on the MS users installing the updates.
And then theres us Linux users

Posted: **Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:49 pm**

I stay away from the updates, and just throw on the SP's when they come out,

I'd ov slipped straight through your evil plan.

Posted: **Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:24 am**

On 4th April UBT - Temujin wrote:well theres the small matter of keeping running for another 2 weeks to deal with first

Only one week to go now John

--
Rod

Posted: **Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:45 am**

RodEllery wrote:
On 4th April UBT - Temujin wrote:well theres the small matter of keeping running for another 2 weeks to deal with first
Only one week to go now John

Posted: **Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:12 pm**

Number 4

Just waiting for you lot to crash and that damn Linux box too

Posted: **Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:52 pm**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Just waiting for you lot to crash and that damn Linux box too

Linux crash?

oh, I forgot, you're on windows aint ya

Posted: **Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:57 am**

I curse the chips of RodEllery's PC so that I may have the power to swoop in on 2nd :hiding:

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:43 pm**

damn it, just had a power cut :banghead:

thought I'd lost me linux machine, it took about 10min to check memory.

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:47 pm**

Yes the Linux has crashed move over Linux, Super XP is here to save the day

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:26 pm**

Hey Temujin,

JUst found 2 Solaris boxes that've been running for ages. Know how I can tell how long they've been running? Top doesn't work. Must see if any uptime clients available.

Also found a AIX 4 box, same question.

Our Linux mail server unfortunately clogs fairly easily. (some connections don't get closed properly) so that is set to reboot nightly.

Also got a couple of HP-UX boxes situate in California and a NCR_UX box. must investigate further.

--
Rod

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:47 pm**

only used solaris on a test machine we had years ago, its unix ish aint it?
never seen AIX but isn't that unix ish too ???
would've thought uptime was on both
if they are unix ish, you could try ps -ef | grep init, although thats likely to just give you a month or maybe (if your very lucky a year) rather than a definate uptime figure.

I'm warning you though, 2 can play at that game mate :D
definately got some linux boxes that have been running over a year, maybe longer
and then there's the DEC Alphas
and the Sage boxes

:D

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:52 pm**

OK we'll call it quits on the Unix boxes and just use our main machines. Anyway Have to install SSH server on them soon, plus CVS version control. Will probaly have to reboot anyway,

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:13 pm**

damn it, just had a power cut

that flippin power cut also took out 8 PCs at work.
none of em started up when the power came back so had to wait till I got in this morning.
Some 8-9,000 credits lost

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:59 pm**

Temujin wrote:Some 8-9,000 credits lost

That amount of credit would take a month on my machine owwwww

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:59 pm**

UBT - PiezPiedPy wrote:That amount of credit would take a month on my machine owwwww

thats what comes of having nice colleagues that let me run seti on their P4Ds :D

Posted: **Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:46 pm**

Come on, we need some more to join up to this one :D

Posted: **Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:48 pm**

DJH@GB-Ro wrote:Come on, we need some more to join up to this one :D

I have stopped with this I don't get anything out of it

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:57 am**

I joined.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:36 am**

Someone else needs to join as well with an XP machine, manning the defenses here on me tod

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:52 am**

I could join with my WinXP machine but I doubt it would every be up for more than 1 day.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:07 am**

wow, thats the most active members there's been for ages.
Nice to see another linux machine in there Gary :thumbup:

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:13 am**

ime in with a xp machine :)

b.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:49 am**

OK as you all seem to be having soooo much fun here I will join with a XP machine

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:58 am**

I've joined :D

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:36 am**

Oooooo - A bit of compitition

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:57 pm**

Bloody Hell i'm actully 1st in something :lol: :lol:
http://ubt.league.uptime-project.net/

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:22 pm**

It won't last long ajs will have you off eventually :lol:

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:57 pm**

I know but it's a first for the time being just gotta keep xp stable :laughing5: :laughing6: :laughing7: :laughing9:

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:09 pm**

Terry Caney wrote:I know but it's a first for the time being just gotta keep xp stable :laughing5: :laughing6: :laughing7: :laughing9:

I got to 29 days a while ago but wasn't running the uptime client just had a yahoo widget

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:14 pm**

Longest ever for my pc was about 40 days b4 was in uptime so we'll see
at worst it'll go bang

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:16 pm**

Terry Caney wrote:Longest ever for my pc was about 40 days b4 was in uptime so we'll see
at worst it'll go bang

Before uptime project I bet mine never went past a week :lol: now I actually try to not have to restart :oops:

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:19 pm**

Same here it's a bit of fun dunno if pc likes it but got good anti virus etc and know someone who can fix it when i brake it ha ha :lol: :lol:

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:49 pm**

Poo bottom bottom Poo, had a blasted power cut this morningat 0640 power only just back on 1600 so there goes my best uptime score on the main cruncher :crybaby:

Posted: **Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:39 pm**

I may not have the highest uptime, but I do appear to have the most recent Linux kernel :D

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