We getting close to 24th in seti

[danzigrules]

24) Oracle Corporation 365 397341 681.40 years 15 hr 01 min 21.1 sec
25) Team AnandTech 487 391459 488.50 years 10 hr 55 min 53.4 sec

Looks like 5882 w/u ahead as of:

Last updated: Mon Dec 4 09:15:39 2000 UTC

Lets keep it up all. Shouldn't take us to long


<edit> Now how the hell did I miss FD post in the stats <edit>

Think I need smacked

 

[Fardringle]

Hehe. Don't worry about it, I'm used to being 'overlooked' here at work when it comes to promotion time, so I don't let it bother me any more..

Considering the fact that we've been gaining about 1000 WU's per day on the Oracle team, we should be passing them by the end of the week!

 

[networkman]

/me smacks danzigrules with a large trout!

 

[danzigrules]

By the way peeps we need as much help as all you people doing rc5 and ogr

Just had to put that in here!
Shameless way of saying HELP US

 

[BadThad]

...here we come!

Danzig - Did you get the proper screen blanking technique going yet?

 

[danzigrules]

Huh Badthad?

What u talking about?

I'm using the winnt cli

It never has set up a screen saver for me

 

[Robor]

danzigrules: Make sure you're using a screensaver that isn't CPU intensive. Blank Screen works nice.

Rob

 

[BadThad]

danzig - in an earlier thread, you said you just set the monitor to turn off after 15 min. This is not the same as blanking the screen! You need to set the screen saver to &quot;blank screen&quot; in order to save cpu cycles....got it?

 

[danzigrules]

oh Hell I set mine to no screensaver




None of that none stuff

 

[Nighthawk69]

So 'Blank Screen' takes LESS cpu cycles than just switching off your monitor??

Thanks,

 

[ElFenix]

theres a blank screen screensaver? i only see &quot;none&quot; is this a win 98 thing or something?

 

[SilverBack]

Go to the screensaver display box and scroll down to the seti@home screensaver.
In it's propeties change the settings to say blank screen after one minute.

 

[Robor]

I don't think it makes a difference if you're using &quot;None&quot; or &quot;Blank Screen&quot;. I don't use a screensaver on any of my PC's at home or my PC at work. I just switch the monitors off when I'm not using them. I've found that if I use &quot;Blank Screen&quot; sometimes I move the mouse and when it goes away there's a program running in my taskbar called &quot;Screen Saver&quot;. I dunno if that would affect SETI performance or not.

Rob

 

[lhampel]

This is what I do for a &quot;Screen-Saver&quot; In win95-98 use the Power Management feature to turn my monitor off after 10-15 min of idle time. That way the windows screen saver isn't using any resources.

 

[BadThad]

Hummm...you guys have me going on this. The way I see it, shutting off the monitor does nothing, whereas, &quot;blank screen&quot; actually tells windows to STOP sending video input to the monitor (shut off the video card), thus conserving graphics related CPU cycles. Personally, I don't like the power management features in windows, that's for tree huggers LMAO ...I disable ALL those features so I can be sure to suck as much juice as possible running seti. It may be that telling power management to &quot;turn monitor off&quot; actually disables the video card tho since the monitor behaves as if there is no input. But, I certainly perfer &quot;blank screen&quot; because I know 4 sure that it shuts down the video card.

 

[danzigrules]

ok what about the ones that don't have seti listed as a screensaver?

Like my bx6 that has only ran the cli since i got it running. There is NO seti@home screen saver

 

[ElFenix]

yeah, us CLI folks don't have the blank screen...

 

[BadThad]

OK...now this is getting funny as $hit guys.

I just posted a thread on this, my son's 98SE didn't have the option under screen saver, WITH NO SETI@HOME INSTALLED, to choose &quot;Blank Screen&quot;. You guys are getting confused here. There is a standard windows screen saver called &quot;Blank Screen&quot;, I'm not talking about the SETI GUI scr that has that option, I'm talking about every windows PC in the world has a file in c:\windows\system\blank screen.scr. If you don't have it, then add it in from control panel...or give me ur email and I'll send it to you.

I discovered when I installed SE on my son's PC, I was sloppy and didn't install all the options like I usu do. That's why he didn't have it. Also, NT has the same scr file.