DIMES News

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:34 pm

See this thread DIMES staff are back now

Edit: Forgot to mention there planning a new website look here

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:02 pm

a few days ago I was literally on the point of packing this project in but then noticed that my stats had started to kick in. Since then, I've been visiting the forum every day to see if there were any posts by the staff. The one day that I didn't check was when this announcement was made. :roll:

That's really good news as after a very slow start, I'm now beginning to move up the ranks in our team. If the thought of being stomped by a Welsh person irritates you then you'd better consider returning to the project to prevent this from happening.

PS Waddya think? That was an attempt at negative recruitment.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:14 pm

You have 3 hosts running which means more DIMES

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:19 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:You have 3 hosts running which means more DIMES

Yes I do. I set it up that way. :?:

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:52 pm

We've just moved up to 26th place in the DIMES stats. Well done everyone!
:wav:

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:15 pm

gregoryw wrote:We've just moved up to 26th place in the DIMES stats. Well done everyone!
:wav:

Fantastic News. :D

One thing puzzles me slightly with my crunching. - Of my three nodes, the one that consistantly turns in the most results by far is the least powerful of my machines - my lappy (AMD 1700) while my AMD 3000 turns in the least.

They've all been set up exactly the same and are left on 24/7. :roll:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:59 pm

Doesn't matter how powerful a PC is, its all to do with Network Bandwidth

Post by **Jeffers** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:56 pm

Seeing as this is now apparently alive and well I decided to do my bit and install DIMES on my machine. That looked to have gone OK, and I gave the UK BOINC team as my group when setting it up.

But now I am getting some strange messages out of my Norton Antivirus, it is coming up saying it has blocked an intrusion attempt, as follows-

Invalid ICMP code
ICMP type: 8
ICMP code: 1 invalid.

The source address for this is my PC's local IP address on my router. It has just started doing it since I installed DIMES. What is it? Do I need to worry about it, and, if not, how do I stop it happening?

Other wise, I'll be uninstalling DIMES pretty sharpish!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:10 pm

ask over at DIMES as to how to get Norton to behave

Post by **Jeffers** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:21 pm

Will do, I'm just getting myself registered there.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:36 pm

Jeffers wrote:Will do, I'm just getting myself registered there.

It will be something really simple like configuring Norton to stop sulking about DIMES every so often

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:34 am

It looks like the DIMES stats are working again now. Well done Martle for passing 100,000!

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:00 am

gregoryw wrote:It looks like the DIMES stats are working again now. Well done Martle for passing 100,000!

Yea they've been out for over a week now but it looks as if they've been sorted now.

100,000 :shock:

Thanx. :P

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:47 am

I forgot to mention that after several weeks stuck at number 26 we actually went up a place. Should hit 24 a little quicker then we're stuck! It'll take a lot longer to rise another place unless we get a lot more people in there!

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/allteams.php?proj=dimes

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:55 pm

I just noticed that UBT - Timbo has joined in on Dimes. Welcome aboard Tim. It seems you joined a few days ago so you must have snuck in while I wasn't looking.

I know I'll regret saying this but Dimes seems to be having its longest trouble-free run that I can remember even with Mike "I must break everything I touch" Jones participating! Our progress up the table has slowed to a crawl and we are threatened by several teams now so we need more members. For those of you unfamiliar with Dimes, it runs alongside Boinc and uses very little CPU time, just a little network bandwidth. So, you can contribute to this project without compromising your Boinc RAC at all.

Your team needs you!

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:31 pm

Did I hear my name mentioned? Just a :angel13: me!

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:34 pm

UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:I just noticed that UBT - Timbo has joined in on Dimes. Welcome aboard Tim. It seems you joined a few days ago so you must have snuck in while I wasn't looking.....

Yup, I snuck in, unannounced as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about....as well as trying to get UBT a bit further up the tables...

Have to say that I'm impressed with the graphics of the client program - BOINC could take a leaf out of their book with regards to "look and feel" !!

I'm actually only running DIMES when I'm running non-critical stuff on my PC, so, I'm not doing much with it....a bit here and there, sometimes...

regards

Tim

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:50 pm

Welcome aboard to Terry Caney.

A wee tip to any newcomers, if you install Dimes as an agent then you can click on Agent/properties/Network and slide the pointer down to 15 to decrease the gap between measurements. This will increase the number of Dimes you record.

I think you can also change it if you have it installed as a service but you have to log on to the web site and sing the right incantations with which I am not familiar.

Hope that helps,

Chris.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:13 pm

This is mossad spying on you :lol:

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:19 pm

UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Welcome aboard to Terry Caney.

A wee tip to any newcomers, if you install Dimes as an agent then you can click on Agent/properties/Network and slide the pointer down to 15 to decrease the gap between measurements. This will increase the number of Dimes you record.

I think you can also change it if you have it installed as a service but you have to log on to the web site and sing the right incantations with which I am not familiar.

Hope that helps,

Chris.

Hi Chriss Thx for the welcome i'm sure i'll sus it but thank you any tips welcome :D

Terry

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:40 pm

Never heard of this before but after doing a bit of reading it seems worthwhile so I'm on-board too.

Picked up on your tip to Terry Chris, so now I guess I just leave it be and get on with my knitting

Gary.

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:00 pm

Think so Gary thats kinda what ive done :)

Terry

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:32 pm

Twice I've looked at the Dimes stats and twice there's been a new member. Welcome aboard Rockinfroggi. This is getting so exciting I think I'll have to go and have a little lie down.

Chris.

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:42 pm

UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Twice I've looked at the Dimes stats and twice there's been a new member. Welcome aboard Rockinfroggi. This is getting so exciting I think I'll have to go and have a little lie down.

Chris.

LOL, It's been a life time since I last caused anyone any excitement and I'm not sure if I should be honoured, pleased or worried :? but for now I'll just browse the Dimes forum and see what I can pick up (nothing contagious hopefully).

Gary.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:09 pm

Well I have had a look and added myself to the list of UBT members!

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:11 pm

Timby wrote:Well I have had a look and added myself to the list of UBT members!

:wav: :wav:

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:53 pm

Seems I'm having problems with dimes, looked like everything was ok yesterday now I'm just getting a mass of red messages, the main problem seems to say "Warning KeepAlive communication with server failed: dimes.comm2server.ConnectionException: Could not connect. Underlying exception: java.net.UnknownHostException:

Any ideas as to how i broke my new toy?

Ok, update, I seem to have got it going again by refreshing the interface list
:dontknow:

Gary.

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:57 pm

Rockinfroggi wrote:Seems I'm having problems with dimes, looked like everything was ok yesterday now I'm just getting a mass of red messages, the main problem seems to say "Warning KeepAlive communication with server failed: dimes.comm2server.ConnectionException: Could not connect. Underlying exception: java.net.UnknownHostException:

Any ideas as to how i broke my new toy?

Gary.

Hi Gary sorry aint got a clue mine doesn't even show on the task bar but when i click the icon on desktop it just says it's already running

Terry

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:31 am

Terry Caney wrote:
Hi Gary sorry aint got a clue mine doesn't even show on the task bar but when i click the icon on desktop it just says it's already running

Terry

Mine does that after a few days. I've had a look in the 'task manager/processess' and couldn't see a file that looks like the Dimes process. Probably is there but I wasn't going to shut off anything that might be right is case it crashed everything. If you're desperate to see it a reboot gets it back.

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:00 am

UBT - Mikeejones wrote:
Terry Caney wrote:
Hi Gary sorry aint got a clue mine doesn't even show on the task bar but when i click the icon on desktop it just says it's already running

Terry
Mine does that after a few days. I've had a look in the 'task manager/processess' and couldn't see a file that looks like the Dimes process. Probably is there but I wasn't going to shut off anything that might be right is case it crashed everything. If you're desperate to see it a reboot gets it back.

Thanks but not too worried i know it's working.

Terry

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:29 am

As I recall, it doesn't show on the taskbar if it is installed as a service. If it is installed as an agent then it shows for a while and then hides itself. You can get to it quite easily by clicking on the double left arrow to show hidden icons (or at least I can).

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:26 am

Just a few more days before I finish with this. Just trying to get to #3 or just over a million!

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats. ... BOINC+TEAM

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:07 am

UBT - Mikeejones wrote:Just a few more days before I finish with this. Just trying to get to #3 or just over a million!

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats. ... BOINC+TEAM

I had forgotten all about this since stopping it when they lost so much work months ago, used to take me ages to choose which "www's" to trace and it certainly slowed down the machine it was running on .

So a million is pretty good going, congratulations

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:27 pm

I thought I'd give this a go again and looking at the the team position here it seems I'm the only one doing it!

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats. ... BOINC+TEAM

It's not a BOINC project so you won't get BOINC credits for it. Should run in the background quietly going about it's business. It used to have cool graphics but they seem to have gone by the wayside now.

Download here and if you're new don't forget to join the team wherever you join things. I can't remember how (it's probably earlier on in the thread somewhere!), it automatically rejoined when I reloaded.

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:19 am

This used to be my favourite project but it kept going t*ts up so often I gave up on it. I think I might give it another go and see if it has settled down now.

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:01 am

Just thought I'd bump this as there's only 2 of us doing it!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:25 am

Meh I installed it to give it a go (to see how long before I break it)
I take it's just an install and forget about thing (apart from the usual kick these things need)?

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:27 am

NaRyan wrote:Meh I installed it to give it a go (to see how long before I break it)
I take it's just an install and forget about thing (apart from the usual kick these things need)?

I ended up uninstalling it the thing never seemed to do anything and like the post above yours says "it keeps going t*ts up.

Terry

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:30 am

NaRyan wrote:Meh I installed it to give it a go (to see how long before I break it)
I take it's just an install and forget about thing (apart from the usual kick these things need)?

That's about it. Good to see you've got it right first time - you're on the score board!

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats. ... BOINC+TEAM

Just make sure 'delay between measurement' is set to 15 at 'network settings'

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:32 am

UBT - Terry wrote:
I ended up uninstalling it the thing never seemed to do anything and like the post above yours says "it keeps going t*ts up.

Terry

It might have looked like it wasn't doing anything but you got to 48,000 so you must have been doing something right!

UBT - Terry · Post by **UBT - Terry** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:34 am

Must have been me then lol
Ok reinstalled it and I guess just let it do it's thing

Terry

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:04 am

Well I did manage to break it once already.
*ahem* Too many butons too push, ended up with it moaning about the graphics display window not working, but a re-install fixed that

Only complaint about the prog is the team finding bit, geez took me ages to find UBT (twice).
Well not like I was going to join a buch of weird peeps..... oh wait!

*edit*

Is the program supposed to go nuts after a system reboot?
it sorting through whobunchofnumbers.results.out and has one of the CPU cores at 100%

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:28 am

Trying it again.
Read in one of the message board posts that java can be a bit thick with directorys with spaces in it.
So I installed it into one without

Also how come my stats aint showing on my sig pic thingy?
Is it because my username has spaces in it or have I got that wrong too?
And who do I inform that I donated some pennies to UBT so I can get ma nice £ symbol

And why am I asking so many questions?

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:03 pm

NaRyan wrote:
Also how come my stats aint showing on my sig pic thingy?
Is it because my username has spaces in it or have I got that wrong too?
And who do I inform that I donated some pennies to UBT so I can get ma nice £ symbol

And why am I asking so many questions?

Ask away!

1 - You have to add your NetDimes username in the field at the bottom of the projects tab on Darren's site. Spaces shouldn't be a problem as mine has them.

2 - PM Timbo with the details. As far as money is concerned he's usually on the ball. Must be having a lie down somewhere!

BTW - see you're racing up the NetDimes charts! - nice one!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:52 am

1- I have tried adding my user name (UBT - NaRyan) to that but it still shows 0 (or is that just to me, as pipex has a crappy squid inline cache server now and it causes loads of problems!)

2- Done that already, guess when he falls out of bed he will get it done

Yeah noticed I was zooming up on Netdimes, just kind of wondering why I'm getting more than everyone else as I only have it on 1 system.
Mind you Agent mode don't have the stupid crashing bug, but meh nothing to look at if you get bored, :lol:

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:21 am

NaRyan wrote:1- I have tried adding my user name (UBT - NaRyan)

To change your username, you need to get it done by one of the Admins.

Regards, Rick.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:03 pm

New version now available here.

There's also a Firefox extension that allows you to see how long each link on a page takes.

and..

Dimes Graphical Visualizer though I haven't actually got it to do anything yet (Beta).

If you've run this before you'll have to re-register to the team, agent details and properties - not a big deal though. If you're new to the project don't forget to join the team/group - 'UK BOINC TEAM'.

There is a couple of minutes delay as it gets going so don't panic if it looks like nothing is happening.

Stats available here. Currently 27th in the world. Click on the team name to see individual stats - updates sporadically throughout the day.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:27 pm

Right im in .

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:00 pm

What the heck is going on with Dimes?
Acording to the stats everyone has done way more in 6 hours than they usualy do in a day!

just look at mine!
22,508 in 6 hours when my daily average is 13,534

Even the main stats stuff (ha ha), on the dimes site is showing silly numbers for me.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:50 pm

I've noticed that it does happen occasionally. Not complaining are you?

Mickyb69 - you've joined but there's no credits yet. You given up on it all ready!?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:31 pm

Nah not a moan from ikkle me

Should help me move up the team rankings a bit quicker :lol:
Well considering I am getting 4x the normal "points"

oh drat it's gone back to normal, oh well nice while it lasted, he he

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:42 pm

I don't think it worked.
It just stopped when i was doing my account for about ten mins.
I'l try again .

I must be doing something wrong .
i get to Updating agents name and it stops .
Any ideas ?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:19 pm

Make sure your Java is upto date.
don't install it into a directory with spaces (stoopid java bug that fred flinstone discovered....)

If you have a firewall check it's logs to see if it's blocking it.
If you have a firewall with the name of Symantec in it, I'll get my mum to beat you up with her walking stick of death!

shout, swear, give pc evil looks.
pass wind and blame it on the cat/dog/gerbil
say your going to buy a real computer, buy a mac, then upgrade it to a 99p calculator
None of that will work but meh what do I know

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:05 pm

oooh you got it working then

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:02 pm

Now there's 2 Mickyb's!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:05 pm

What have we done to deserve that?!!

:lol:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:24 pm

oops

Think i got it now .....Just load java 6 times then bingo

How do i get the stats on my sig ?

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:09 pm

Great! Got so many people doing this I've been relegated to being a pink wedge! Would someone else like to join so I can get rid of it!?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:11 pm

PMSL @ pink boy

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:12 pm

<snigger!>

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:35 am

Glad i got a nice green colour :lol:
Put everything on it and its doing its thing ....might tail NaRyan for a bit ..
Anyone fancy racing to top 100 ?

:lol: :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:31 am

He he Mr Pink

Well I'll get to #100 in 245 days lol, but I'll get to #1 in 7,122.5 days, WOOT!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:27 pm

Mind you reds a bit of a girls colour :shock:
Only 645.1 days for me ......I expect it to go down soon ..Only been doing it 6 days :P :P :P

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:32 pm

Mind you Green suit you.
Out on the pastures where the old peeps belong

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:25 pm

PMSL ....congrats on the 1/2 million m8
I aint that much older than you ffs

Shame more team m8's don't join in

5 of us doing it and we should hit 2 million a month ..........

Don't know about anyone else ...but this project keeps my 2 wireless comps
online .... I had loads of probs with one of them shutting down (dell) when i had a look at it on tight vnc . :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Tiss running 24/7 since :lol: :lol: :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:06 am

lol I nearly fell off my seat when I see this

Milestones Yesterday
ANCHULA-MARK passes 10,000
ANCHULA-MARK passes 20,000
ANCHULA-MARK passes 50,000
ANCHULA-MARK passes 75,000
ANCHULA-MARK passes 100,000
ANCHULA-MARK passes 250,000

lol was wondering how many he had it installed on

But I guess he just joined with a high number, lol

And poor Mikeejones, he's a pinko on both all users & active users now

And I kind of noticed that Tight VNC and Dimes don't seems to play nice at times, well on my 2 single core systems it's a bit of a muppet...

And yeah you lazy lot get it installed!
It hardly usues any bandwith (you probably waste more clicking on wrong web links or wrong favourite bookmarks in a day

)

Are we #1 UK team on this?

Grinning Grunny · Post by **Grinning Grunny** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:06 am

OK, so we are at the end of a very long line, which is old, breaks at least once a year and we manage download 469 and upload 242. How much are we going to notice dimes using the connection, particularly with 2 computers on line?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:27 am

Probably not notice it at all.
I have it running on a few systems, granted I have a good quality line.
However all Dimes does is use ICMP Ping & Traceroute.

And I have noticed when you connection is idle Dimes gets a higher score, but if you are using the Net or even copying stuff over a Lan Dimes gets a lower score..

I see about 7Mb to 9Mb per hour usage, when my internet connection is idle (combined upload/download) and that includes 4 computers reporting back\downloading Boinc stuff.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:35 am

I have 6 comps running on my 1 line and its made no noticeable difference to
my connection or browsing .

:shock: OMG congrats goes to ANCHULA-MARK for passing 250000 in one day pmsl :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yes it looks like we are uk number 1 8)

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:17 am

This is what I get speedtest wise with Dimes running.

Not mucking things up there is it

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:34 am

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Dimes running on all 6 comps ......
Not bad for the other side of the world .
ISP ...Orange 8meg

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:59 am

New zealand, my speed test to there is slower than yours.
However don't think I have ever downloaded stuff from New Zealand

heh try the one in Bangkok, *snore*

Grinning Grunny · Post by **Grinning Grunny** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:14 pm

OK so I've tried downloading. I am using firefox, click the link in the 1st posting, finding homepage, select download, hit MacOSX. The tab goes white with gobbldegook streaming on it then I cannot get firefox to do anything, the router lights flash to show it's trying but nothing happens. After about 5 mins I can only force quit to get out of it. Any suggestions/advice?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:26 pm

Buy a P.C

I had a look around and but haven't found a thing .

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:22 pm

I think i understand what you are on about. What i do is to goto the link you want and then right click and select 'Save Link As..' and that should work, i think.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:12 pm

Still bloody pink though!

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:29 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote: :shock: OMG congrats goes to ANCHULA-MARK for passing 250000 in one day pmsl :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sadly not I just swopped - for & in the name and the stats reset as if I had just joined

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:26 pm

But you still made made a sleepy me go "EH!!!! WHAT THE!!!!!!?????"

Not to worry Mikee i'll have a Pink wedge (cooer!) in 16 days too.
But only for 0.9 of a day

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:17 pm

Give a big welcome to hgblade, to whom I gratefully pass the pink wedge!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:25 pm

Ha Ha Ha another pink boy :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Please someone put me out of my misery and help me get a nice dimes sig

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:06 am

I like my dimes Sig.
Only cause I can change the text on it

Hey Micky how's this for the New Zealand test

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:42 am

Where did you get it :evil:
I want 1 ...tiss not fair

Glad i don't live there :lol:

How the hell did i get a lattice UOTD ....?????

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:19 am

To get the sig you have to join the Free-DC forum (boo!)
Then go back to a stats page, click on Stats tool config, and there ya go :)

Mind you after you set it up, you might wanna log out of the forum as it kept on displaying the stats weird for me.
Everything was at 10%

...

Oh and welcome back to the pink wedge Mikee

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:30 pm

NaRyan wrote: Oh and welcome back to the pink wedge Mikee

Thanks...

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:31 pm

Just downloaded this and up and running! I need some help though, such as how do I see what's happening? I've found my stats by going through the team stats, but I want to see how many 'points' I'm accruing (as in BOINC Manager) I can't find any link to my 'Dimes page'

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:43 pm

Goto http://www.netdimes.org/new/?q=node/5 and enter yer name in the box...

Or this one http://www.netdimes.org/new/data.php?userName=melter65
Me tinks that you

It's a bit poo (understatement of the year!), however the Team stats page is just as good (or better!!!, as long as your not a pinko

), click on your username and it shows what your getting for each poota it's installed on.
It's updated every hour.

*Me hides from Mikee....

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:46 pm

I look at what ive done on our dimes stats page
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats. ... BOINC+TEAM
Then click on my name ... Probs a better way but no ones told me yet :lol:

Edit (after 1 min )...See told ya :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
But after looking at it ..the team stat ones nicer with pictures :lol: :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:53 pm

Yeah and we can play avoid the Pink Wedge too

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:54 pm

Still glad im not Pink boy :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:55 pm

Thanks to you both, I can now look at the stats. But is there a page for each user to watch their own 'crunching'? How do I know that DIMES is working on my 'pootah?

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:29 pm

melter65 wrote:Thanks to you both, I can now look at the stats. But is there a page for each user to watch their own 'crunching'? How do I know that DIMES is working on my 'pootah?

Hi! Would you like this colour? You can have it!

You're now listed on the Dimes site.
Nothing has come through yet but when it does 'click' on your name and you'll see your own output. I think someone has all ready posted this link but here it is just in case.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:40 pm

A real n00b question I know, but how do I stop and start DIMES on my 'pootah? How do I know DIMES is running, without refering to the stats pages?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:41 pm

He's still showing as 0 on the Dimes site too.
Err you do have the prog running?

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:43 pm

When i can't be bothered to look in the stats i press the green thing (looks like a monster frogs hand with claws ) And a message comes up something like .
"dimes already running " or something like that .
But your deffo in and might have to wait a few hours to get your stats
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/userstats. ... e=melter65

And don't do anything silly like me and try again with a slightly different name e.g (UBT _ mickyb69 ) :oops:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:46 pm

melter65 wrote:A real n00b question I know, but how do I stop and start DIMES on my 'pootah? How do I know DIMES is running, without refering to the stats pages?

Dunno what OS you use.
however on Windows if you run the agent version, there is a icon in the systray, if you are running the service version you need to check running services.

Either by going to start,run and typing services.msc or start, admin tools, services and look for Dimes.

you can also check taskmanager and look for either java.exe or javaw.exe and wrapper.exe.

But on ther non Windows OS's I have not got a scooby doo.

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:51 pm

NaRyan wrote:He's still showing as 0 on the Dimes site too.
Err you do have the prog running?

Sorted! My firewall had blocked the Java upgrade, so as soon as I let it through the DIMES agent finished loading and I got my first 'packet'!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:54 pm

Cool

Stupid firewalls!!!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:54 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:looks like a monster frogs hand with claws

It looks frighteningly like a cactus my Daughter owns, called 'Squishy' (don't ask!)

:lol: :lol:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:57 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:When i can't be bothered to look in the stats i press the green thing (looks like a monster frogs hand with claws )

It's supposed to be a cactus - though a monster, one armed frog does sounds better!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:02 pm

Right i got me dc stat spam thing but as you can see its no good ...what have i done now ???

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