You might be addicted to DC if....

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superkdogg

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You might be addicted to DC if...

You know that a rig crashed at home because your WU aren't increasing fast enough.

You think the Wu Tang Clan is a great bunch of crunchers from Asia.

Your Seti WU outnumber your *paid* work output 2:1.

You know how to spell B-e-r-k-e-l-e-y only because it's in the url for seti.

You need to take precautions for routine electrical grid maintenence 2000 miles away.

You spent 20+ hours trying to overclock a Pentium 1 from 200 to 225 to increase your WU.

Your DC farm is used to heat a room. Or two.

You have evaluated the $/WU ratio of a new computer purchase.


OK, everybody else's turn.


 
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smaky

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You tell your wife its not good to keep turning off the pc but can't get yourself to tell her the real reason.
 
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natethegreat

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refusing to play your new game because you want that 600 point work unit to finish as soon as possible:)
 
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Wiz

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Heh.... I remember several of these threads


When you run your own setiQ so you can get the instant stats on your network of seti crunchers

When you keep selling off the older mobo's & cpu's to buy the newer faster cpu's & mobo's just so you can crunch more seti WU's

When you run TeAm AnandTech Seti Stats on your own internet web server so you can watch your climb up the team stats {/me up to #85 now } 72 now!

When you check your SETI@home Class page every Sunday morning to see if you moved up {/me up to #60 now } ... 35 now!

When you keep telling the family how much better the computers run when they turn off the monitors, besides it saves all that electricity and keeps the room cooler!!!

When you have a big list of seti bookmarks in your browser's "Favorites" and you visit them at least once a day
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When you can copy paste your entry in one of these threads from years ago... ;)
 
MedicBob

MedicBob

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When you wife states any more computers and she doesn't want to see them. Hence, rackmount-out of sight and out of her mind.
 
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wischeez

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When you buy Hyperthreading machines and tell the wife that it's faster and better for her to use than the old P4 2.6 :D
 
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Soggysocks

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You can't have coffee in the morning 'till you check Team production and Race Stats and Milestones :eek:
 
GLeeM

GLeeM

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When you buy the kids a new game console game, so that they spend less time playing games on the computer. I have a few other tricks too. :)

The stats page shortcut is at the top of the list of bookmarks and TA DC forum is second. Actually the forum is at the top. ;)

When you are away from home you communicate with DC friends by PM because of the ISP. Hi Smoke!

When you fret over lost production in your favorite project because you are helping another.

When you could almost cry because you have to reformat a USB thumb drive that had unsent finished WUs on it. :confused:
 
Wolfsraider

Wolfsraider

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when your homepage is Anandtech Distributing and the visible links in my favorites are all dc related


when you would rather stay home than go out to celebrate... so you can see what you might miss

these are mine but I only have 2 computers


lol

Mike
 
BlackMountainCow

BlackMountainCow

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When you're glad that the F@H servers are unreachable so you can finally play the first level of your newly bought HL2.

:beer:
 
Markfw

Markfw

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You heat your entire HOUSE IN THE WINTER with the F@H computers (heat hasn't been on all winter, and on the days above freezing, I have to open windows to get the temp below 80F) and you electric bill is bigger than your car payment !!!

You have more CPU's in the house (and running 24/7) than your teenagers age !

Edit: and none of them run slower than 3000+ speeds......
 
MedicBob

MedicBob

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LOL, that isn't funny. My Electric and Gas bill is more then my car payment.
 
Markfw

Markfw

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Originally posted by: MedicBob
LOL, that isn't funny. My Electric and Gas bill is more then my car payment.
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Do you own an RX-8 like me ? If so it isn't funny.........

 
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Rattledagger

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Hmm, thinking... ah, got some...

You're using your SetiQueue as the homepage.
But, isn't really any reason to still run setiqueue, since
"Last Result uploaded at Wed 2004 Jun 23 4:33:38 (205 days 11 hr 16 min ago)" ;)

You're using floppy to move wu and results from online to offline computer(s). :beer:

You're running more computers than you've got monitors/keyboards, manually moving cables as needed.

You're posting daily or weekly stats for one or more projects.

You're manually moving VLAR-wu to the NT4-box running v3.08 to maximize production. :cool:
 
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superkdogg

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Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Hmm, thinking... ah, got some...



You're running more computers than you've got monitors/keyboards, manually moving cables as needed.
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Oh, got another one. You just bought a 4 Port KVM switch for the sole purpose of getting more old machines operational to crunch. (At least it wasn't 8 port)! :laugh:
 
Markfw

Markfw

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Originally posted by: superkdogg
Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Hmm, thinking... ah, got some...



You're running more computers than you've got monitors/keyboards, manually moving cables as needed.
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Oh, got another one. You just bought a 4 Port KVM switch for the sole purpose of getting more old machines operational to crunch. (At least it wasn't 8 port)! :laugh:
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I have a 4 port kvm for exactly that pupose (in addition to the other 8 in the house, but they have monitors)
 
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ProviaFan

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When you refuse to let anyone in the house use screensavers, and tell them that turning off the monitors by power management saves power (though you don't say that you mean CPU not electricity)... ;)
 
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Mlani

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When the first thing you do when you come back from work is checking the daily WU production before you say hello to wife/girlfriend and pets(cats)
 
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