Fear of installing new programs/updates because you might have to reboot.
Not rebooting till the current WU is finished.
Fear of power/cable outages.
Limiting the amount of time you play games.
Getting the shakes because your running Prime95 to test your overclock and not running DC.
Not rebooting till the current WU is finished.
Fear of power/cable outages.
Limiting the amount of time you play games.
Getting the shakes because your running Prime95 to test your overclock and not running DC.
searching through the house for a "working" agp video card to temporarily replace the TI 4200 in the "kids" machine then finding an old TNT (1) card with 16 megs & thinking - Cool - now I can get seti running again while I wait for that RMA!!!!
that was my life just yesterday - the fan quit on the Abit Siluro TI 4200 & even though it's out of warranty they will replace the card for $25.00
I found out the vid card had died when the computer froze & refused to reboot.
Process of elimination quickly brought me to the vid card - if I knew the Epox error codes better it would have been faster, it showed a "25". I found I got a different error when ram was removed so that wasn't it, then wiit vid card removed it was either a "25" or a "26" can't remember so that's what I guessed & then putting in the old TNT card it booted fine. Just reload the Nvidia driver & off to the crunching arena
that was my life just yesterday - the fan quit on the Abit Siluro TI 4200 & even though it's out of warranty they will replace the card for $25.00
I found out the vid card had died when the computer froze & refused to reboot.
Process of elimination quickly brought me to the vid card - if I knew the Epox error codes better it would have been faster, it showed a "25". I found I got a different error when ram was removed so that wasn't it, then wiit vid card removed it was either a "25" or a "26" can't remember so that's what I guessed & then putting in the old TNT card it booted fine. Just reload the Nvidia driver & off to the crunching arena
Your DC farm is used to heat a room. Or two.
You have evaluated the $/WU ratio of a new computer purchase.
You buy WUs on ebay...
Guilty on all counts.
You have evaluated the $/WU ratio of a new computer purchase.
You buy WUs on ebay...
Guilty on all counts.
RaySun2Be
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Wolfsraider
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I hate to pop your bubble guys but this thread seems to be a ripoff of another "like named" thread at Distributed Computing Arcana at Ars Technica: http://episteme.arstechnica.co...97561&m=1650910435
Jammy
Jammy
Hah! That's a laugh! I'll wager that if anything, they got the idea from us - yeah, that's right.. there's been a thread like this every year I've been with Anandtech.
You come to these forums to see how many of your friends have already posted, and if they had anything new to say.
/me waves
SD
/me waves
SD
Fardringle
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You keep running SETI on every computer you can find for your TeAm even though you haven't posted on the team's forums in well over a year. Then you come back to (semi) active posting on the forums to keep up on the status of the project when you find out that the TeAm is in a very tight race for at least the fourth or fifth time with the heathens from BBR. Only this time the race is 'for real' since the winner of this final race will be the permanent winner once the classic SETI project ends.
Yup, I was AWOL for about 16 months but never stopped running SETI on any computer I could get my hands on for long enough to install the client. With permission of course.
Oh yeah, and you get mad at people you don't even talk to or see more than once a month because they turn their office computers off at night so they aren't crunching work units nearly as fast as they could be...
Yup, I was AWOL for about 16 months but never stopped running SETI on any computer I could get my hands on for long enough to install the client. With permission of course.
Oh yeah, and you get mad at people you don't even talk to or see more than once a month because they turn their office computers off at night so they aren't crunching work units nearly as fast as they could be...
I honestly thought this was my idea...(kinda funny in retrospect, actually). It's not like I searched the forums either here or ArsTech to see if anybody had made a similar post, so accusing me of ripping it off is just incorrect. NTM that the last addition to that thread was 2 months ago which means it was dead and buried. BTW, I'm certainly not getting into a flame war with anybody - ever, much less here, so a response is not necessary.
ROFL @ Networkman's licence plate!! That rules!
BTW... you know you're addicted to DC when you reprogram your car's Sat Navigation to crunch WUs and go back to using the old paper Street Directory!
Pie
BTW... you know you're addicted to DC when you reprogram your car's Sat Navigation to crunch WUs and go back to using the old paper Street Directory!
Pie
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Originally posted by: Wiz
Ha!!
I'll bet Assim1 could look up a lot of past instances of this
Funny you mention that!
You know you're addicted to distributed computing when.... ? TA DC Nov 1999
[edit]only just noticed this was posted over 2months ago!
Jammy
We got 'em beat by about 3yrs on that one
Though I bet these sort of threads having been appearing independantly in DC forums since DC started
Hi Fardingle
Superkdogg
Don't worry ,we love these threads & its always good to see new ideas
You might be addicted to DC if.... you resurect 9 week old "You might be addicted to DC if...." threads
Cool link Assim :thumbsup:
Cool link Assim :thumbsup:
You might be addicted to DC if.... all you need to open up a cyber cafe in your house is another coffee maker.
I'm not laughing ... I have two cars and the electric bill exceeds the payment on both of them + my phone bill + my xDSL bill + my satellite TV bill + ad nauseum ...
Assimilator1
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How would that affect you? What does that do? Of course my computers have backup UPS with automatic line volatage control (furnace in this house killed two computers and a microwave).
I would find it an interesting post on how you did that. I find most of the low end computers I find don't have much ability in the way of overclocking. Maybe its my newbish knowledge.
That is a good thing from my perspective, but I live in a colder climate.
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