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Hey, Joolz! 437 units and counting on this machine so far...

Nice one, Peet
My machine has been unwell over the last 5 days I should have hit 300 on tuesday, but only went onto 297 last night. Still, nearly there

When I get "easy" units, this thing can turn out two a day without any special "tweaking"... Apparently, I can almost double that if I fire up a couple of command-line copies of Seti@Home and set them both to "Real-time" task priority. If I ever go away for more than a day or so, I'll probably try that!

I think I have some catching up to do. I'm now on ten units, which isn't bad for the time I've being running it.

Ardzil, I built this machine for running Photoshop and Lightwave; a good Seti performance is just one of the more pleasant side-effects!

You built your own machine, I'm impressed. I think I'm a long long way off being able to do that.

Nowadays, it's just like Lego for grown-ups

The case comes with instructions for fitting the motherboard, the motherboard comes with instructions for installing everything else...

Of course, my 17 years as a computer engineer helped a little too

What a guy
By the way, Ardzil, congrats on keeping off the dole
The PC in the house should be processing it's 300th unit as we speak (barring any lock-ups, crashes etc, as has been happening this week )

That last unit was a toughie! It took almost two days running continuously on a dual-600 system!

Cheers B-17.

Yuk, Peet. Out of curiosity, what was the 'Angle' on it?

You're welcome Ardzil Mail when I can, ok?

Sorry, Joolz - I didn't take a note of it.

Just curious Peet, because if I have a unit with an angle of about 0.022 degrees, it takes about 20hours to run, on average.
Anything over 1 degree is great, because they are about 10 hours.
My best unit yet is 7.8something, but with this newer client, doing more work, it takes a lot longer. i think my best all time fastest unit so far was about 6 hours.

Cool

I once downloaded a unit which was exactly 1.420000000 Ghz.
I thought that was pretty
Then about a week later, I got another one!

I felt like I'd won the lottery!

Heeheehee, nice. Just completed unit 320 this morning.
But the PC is playing up again. I appear to be losing time. Approx 4 to 5 mins a day. can't be good. Wonder what is wrong.
Looking to try and overclock the cpu anyway. Especially sinc emy pal has just replaced the MB & chipset on his and now races thru units at about 6-7 hours each. he is racing away from me again, now over 100 units ahead. Still, all good for the group. ie the 2 of us since the others have done a madssive 14 between them. *sigh* just can't get the commitment these days.

6-7 hours each!
My units take me 60+hours!

Still I have been credited for 191 units now, although I have actually done over 320, but the last bloke I lived with, when we split, he took the units we had been doing together under his email address. I started under my own email addy from scratch
Glad I did now though.
I haven't complained as the units are still in the Researchers Group.
Although he's told me he's not doing it anymore.

I was looking at new pc's with Steve yesterday in Time.
He has ordered one with a Pentium 4 and 128MB and a 56K modem.

He got it for £35 a month for a year, then he can pay the balance, with no interest charges.


I was going to make my next big purchase a new telly, as I currently have my parent's old set, from their recent upgrade.
But I was sodrooling over this new pc that Steve bought, I'm seriously considering getting one and flogging this old one to my son or daughter.
In the meantime as soon as Steve's machine is delivered I'm gonna go round & instal seti@home on it.
I'll also get him to join the seti Reseachers.
See how fast it does the units.
He joined h2g2 the other night, btw.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U180752 if you want to say hi or lurk.

Oh to be able to afford to either upgrade or buy new. *sigh*
(really need one of those smileys, seem to be using it an awful lot this week ) I could also do with a nice big telly, tho I haven't watched it much over the last few months. More for videos or DVD's.

Have been over to see Steve just now. I said Hi in his first journal entry, just to be different, well you know me. Don't you

So tell me, what exactly did you do to be branded a tart. Or is it so sordid you'd be moderated the second you posted

Tell you in the morning, mate. Need sleep. See journal entry called 'End of an era' and the one below that.
Catch up with you tomorrow.
J.