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if I could elaborate

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I guess I find the notion that a discussion of hardware rather it be seti or another of the DC projects is off topic is absurd.

I was driving home tonight and happened to come over a hill and glance up at the night sky. My view was conservatively 20% of the night sky, if I recall SETI looks at 2-5%.

The thought occured to me that for thousands of years folks looked at the sky and said duh, thats neat, i wonder how many stars I can count.

Then a few hundred years ago an old italian guy put a couple of lens togeather, hardware so to speak, and increased the number of stars those folks could count by a magnitude of a thousand.

Funny thing that, pretty soon maps that had sea serphants in long island (which i certainly can understand) and peking a bit of a walk west, made no sense.

What in retrospect, made perfect sense, was that a piece of hardware changed forever the world we live in, not just for a few folks counting stars (or sheep, but i wont go there) every night but it enabled with the contribution of lots of other hardware folks, for AAA to make maps and sell them for a ridicrlous price at 2:00 a.m., supposdly near a star dear to my heart, (but i digress)

Seti and the other DC projects by their nature and design, depend on the little guy fiddling with the hardware (a couple of pieces of quartz, damm saturn and moons, who would have thunk it)

Thats kinda where in coming from, and you folks said i was welcome so I elaborate
 
I have to agree with you on that, Joe.

DC is my favorite forum on this board, in large part because of the hardware and software discussions we have here. Many people are interested in learning about how to improve the performance of their computers, but the people here border on an obsession (myself included) to get the absolute best performance possible, in order to produce the most we can for our projects. This results in some excellent discussion and suggestions on what to do in many different situations to tweak every last CPU cycle out of a system.

Also, at least in my opinion, there really isn't much that IS off-topic in this forum, since most computer questions that would be asked here are directly related to systems which will be running Distributed Computing projects.

Feel free to ask anything you want, at any time. If it turns out that noone here is able to solve your problem (highly unlikely!) then at least we will be able to come up with a creative way to pretend the problem doesn't exist.. 😉
 
I totally agree.
This is the only forum that I read. Besides hot deals.
It is good to know to get the most out of our systems since it is directly related to production. The same goes for networking help.
 
i agree about this being my favorite forum. I like it because here, everyone has an opinion, and it is heard and respected to some degree. There are basically no rules, yet we still respect a certain code of conduct/honor. We are true to the cause and the people which is what makes this forum so great.
 
Interesting thoughts Joe! 🙂

And yes, we meant it when we said you are welcome! Hang around and you will see a diverse set of topics, hardware, software, for sale, stats, and even an occaisional off-topic NEF thread. As previously said, most of us are in to tweaking our PCs for maximum performance in order to increase our WU rates, so most hardware and software discussions are directly or indirectly related to distributed processing.

Members tend to post occasional For Sale stuff (private, not commercial) here, giving team members first crack at them, knowing that someone is always looking for an upgrade, building a crack-rack, etc., which all goes to help Team Anandtech in one or more of the DC projects. 🙂

So feel free to post, there aren't any hard and fast rules, some loose guidelines, and we usually let people know when something is just way too out there. 😉😉

😀
 
No dissagreement here!

This has been a great forum to discuss DC hardware, especially the in regards to how certain processors perform better on given projects, and in regards to completely different hardware solutions than a typical PC - anybody remember the TotalImpact site? 😉
 
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