my first milestone for myself

[Crazybob]

Congrats! It can only go up from here. Tell hubby you will get him a really nice video card for his machine to play video games on as long as it crunch's projects while he's not using it. That might work? Can always put sons lappy on something that uses very little resources. He'll never know.

[spingadus]

Lol, gratz.

[Crazybob's Son]

You could ask your hubby to borrow the machines for the next couple days for the simap race as well as then add your machines to FreeHAL as it is not cpu intensive and for all purposes is basically free credit since it runs alongside your other projects.

- Jason aka Crazybob's Son (CBS)

[zombie67]

FYI, you can set BOINC to run at only designated times. For example, you could have BOINC run on their machines only between midnight and 6 AM. That way they would never be impacted by it.

You can also set BOINC to go idle any time anyone touches the keyboard. That too would make it so that they would never be impacted by it.

Just throwing out some options....

[artemis8]

Thanks Jason. I didn't know about FreeHAL. I'll check that out. Hopefully this weekend I'll get something running on some more of the machines in our house.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thanks Jason. I didn't know about FreeHAL. I'll check that out. Hopefully this weekend I'll get something running on some more of the machines in our house.

Apart from FreeHAL, Surveill@Home and WUProp@Home are also non intensive projects and can be run alongside others withour interfering too much with their output or with the use of computers for other things. You might be surprised that a quad computer i.e four cores might appear to be running 7 or more cores at the same time.

[Cappy]

grats !!!! and Welcome to the Darkside !!!!

[trigggl]

I'll probably stick with what I did before, SETI and Rosetta. But since joining I like Collatz Conjecture for all the credits and I think WCG is a really good project for humanity and stuff so I guess those four. Math isn't that interesting to me, but I'll definitely do PG for the challenges. I like the more science or medicine type ones I think. Although a little bit of me is like...hmm I want a big ole signature thing like of the other people so I should do 1 wu from every project just to have a big signature

...and a mega-mile stoner is born. That's how I pretty much started out evidenced by the projects that I have less than 1,000 in.

[denim]

I have the bug bite bad too. Once every couple of months, I have a fight with myself to not buy more hardware.

[trigggl]

You can also set BOINC to go idle any time anyone touches the keyboard. That too would make it so that they would never be impacted by it.

Just throwing out some options....

Sure wish that worked in Linux (or at least in Gentoo).