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    Dead/dying Antec NeoPower 480?

    Hey, figure that this is a good place to try to figure out what's wrong with my box. I bought an Antec NeoPower 480 power supply for my computer about 6 months ago. It has been rock solid up to this point. I was doing some misc. computer work today (DVD-RW firmware flashes, mobo flash...
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    UD: servers down (update: back up!)

    Due to an electrical problem, the UD servers have been down for about an hour now... More info in their forums: http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=13537 Is there anything like Setiqueue for UD? I'm losing production today because of this ;)
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    I can't afford DC!

    So I moved into a place that already had two people living in it. Their electricity bill was $30 for every two months (about 350 KWh over two months). I moved in halfway through a billing period, so for the first bill we got, I only influenced one month out of two. That bill was $60, or about...
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    UD: getting there

    Looks like I'll be in the top 25 in 2 days (26Jan)... quite a bit ahead of my expected schedule. That'll be one day before I pass 2.2M points. And this is running seti on a couple of my home boxes, too ;)
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    seti: contributions from other teams

    This is the official thread for following the development of the contributions from other teams to the seti project. Here's the outstanding questions that I need answered: 1) How are we going to track relative processor speeds? An hour's worth of time from a 3 GHz processor is worth more than...
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    UD+Seti play well together

    ... but only in strange circumstances... I encountered some strange behaviour while running UD and Seti together on my Workstation. Here's the system setup: Athlon XP 2700+ 1 gig ram Linux 2.6.0 (Gentoo) VMWare 4.0.5 (10 gig virtual hdd, 640 meg virtual ram) I boot XP on the vmware image...
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    UD: passed 2,000,000 points today!

    Although I joined the TeAm only recently (384,000 points worth), I have been contributing to UD for a while... Today sometime I will reach 2,000,000 points! First million: ~ 2 years Second million: 8 months, 3 days I like the trend here :D Edit: as a gauge, 15 years, 205 days processor time...
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    Debian Sarge installer

    Anyone tried the new x-based Sarge installer? Anything I should look out for or be extra careful while playing around with? (dselect from the woody installer comes to mind)