You know you've Boinc'ed too much

[Sarge104]

Just thought I would share the amusement;

Seems I've been thinking about chrunching too much, it's invaded my dreams...or I guess you can say nightmares. Last night dreampt that one of the WU's spawned a sub project while being chrunched which promptly chrunched on it's own and was submitted to a challenge for credit, where the validation promptly FAILED! Damn you dream wingman!

[Mike029]

hahahahahahaha.

MORE BEER! :o)
I've not yet dreamed about this hobby but do think about it waaaaay too much. :p

[Maxwell]

I knew I BOINC too much when I walked into Best Buy today to buy a battery backup for the Silver Hammer only to find out that they don't actually sell one that's big enough...

[Spankinmonkee]

Well as for me...my moms pc was dying and I gave her one of my systems..a Dell 490 dual quad completely setup for MW and have had to call her to walk thru some Boinc stuff on the phone before, She is in her 70's and tells her friends she is doing scientific stuff on her pc 24/7. My mom keeps an eye on it to make sure its always running. Never forget the email she sent me saying the 5 Boinc icons on the thingy at the bottom right corner of the screen...whats wrong lol..awwh mom just restart it and everythings gonna be fine!! :p

[joker]

I can tell when certain projects are running based on how my computer is "acting" at the time.

[zombie67]

I know there's a problem when it gets too quiet. If the fans slow down, it's not crunching...

[DrPop]

...when 50% of your "friends" are on SETI.USA! :D:cool:

EDIT: ...when your home page is Free-DC.ORG!

...when your electric bill doubles and you didn't add any lights to your house!

...when you talk about crunching something like it's a "good thing". :D

[Maxwell]

...when your electric bill doubles and you didn't add any lights to your house!
...when you think people are crazy because you have never not run a crapton of machines ever since you moved into your current place.

...when you've bought an inverter for your car so your lappy never has to stop crunching on road trips.

[zombie67]

...when you've bought an inverter for your car so your lappy never has to stop crunching on road trips.

Done that on several road trips!

[Dorsilfin]

You are having multiple 20amp 110v lines brought into your command center to balance the load...



Your computer room is warm.... In winter.. with the heat off...*-:)


Your electric bill makes you cry

[trigggl]

...when you think people are crazy because you have never not run a crapton of machines ever since you moved into your current place.

...when you've bought an inverter for your car so your lappy never has to stop crunching on road trips.

This is a foreign concept to me. Why would you even need to take it? My computers run just fine on their own whether I'm in the same state with them or not. Which leads me to my entry.

You know when you take the time to learn scripting so you can administer it remotely and set it to start/stop projects on its own.

I wrote a script to keep all tasks suspended except (No. of cores)+1. After a task completes it resumes another one. That way I don't get 10 tasks partially completed. It's good for challenges to make sure as many tasks get completed on time as possible rather than wasting time on tasks that won't complete.

[Maxwell]

This is a foreign concept to me. Why would you even need to take it? My computers run just fine on their own whether I'm in the same state with them or not.
I take the lappy because I like having a computer with me when I travel to keep up with email, do work, etc...

[Crazybob]

Heat drops by 3 degrees in office, you know the GPU ran out of work.

When you think about how to maximize crunching power for every person that asks you a computer question.

Christmas list is all PSU's, GPU's, cases and motherboards.:)

[trigggl]

I take the lappy because I like having a computer with me when I travel to keep up with email, do work, etc...
Work, say no more. That's something I don't take with me.

[NJCaNS]

I knew I BOINC too much when I walked into Best Buy today to buy a battery backup for the Silver Hammer only to find out that they don't actually sell one that's big enough... One word: daisychain.

[Maxwell]

...when you go out on a date then have to shamefully admit that the only pictures you have on your phone are of your computer.:o

[Maxwell]

...when you're flirting via text message and you use the phrase "hotter than a CPU without thermal paste"... :o

[Slicker]

When you go to Best Buy to purchase a new camera, you end up trying to convince the camera salesman that he needs install BOINC, connect to PG and join the SETI.USA team as soon as he gets off from work.

and later when you get home and read the section of the manual about the camera's "computer connection outlet" (do 3rd graders translate these things?) and you wonder whether it can crunch.

[Fire$torm]

When you go to Best Buy to purchase a new camera, you end up trying to convince the camera salesman that he needs install BOINC, connect to PG and join the SETI.USA team as soon as he gets off from work.

and later when you get home and read the section of the manual about the camera's "computer connection outlet" (do 3rd graders translate these things?) and you wonder whether it can crunch.

1) Did he join?

2) No, not 3rd graders but rather foreign 6th graders and Translated by 3rd graders :P

[zombie67]

When I see this...

91

But my brain sees it as a PC with 4x 5970s....

[DrPop]

When I see this...

91

But my brain sees it as a PC with 4x 5970s....

WHO can afford the FUEL for that thing??? I remember when my Dad had a single Mercury BlackMax 250 outboard on our Whaler and on "cruise" it burned 16GPH. I can't imagine what that sucker above burns per hour! :-o

[zombie67]

WHO can afford the FUEL for that thing??? I remember when my Dad had a single Mercury BlackMax 250 outboard on our Whaler and on "cruise" it burned 16GPH. I can't imagine what that sucker above burns per hour! :-o

That picture was forwarded to me with the following "internet" story. No telling if it's true, and I usually assume it's not.


2,000 HP Outboard Inflatable ...
Here's the latest drug runner toy from B.C ...
This thing belted across the English Bay channel 3 times
per week, and was just a blur on the Radar of the
British Columbia Coast Guard.
They were so astonished by the speed of the
unknown craft that they brought in a special high-
speed Helicopter to chase it.
Drugs were found on board. Of course, you'd have to be on
drugs to push the throttle down on this thing!!

[Zytozux]

Snopes says it's true.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/drugrunner.asp

[Dandasarge]

Those boats are more common then you think. the coast guard around here run light boats with 4 300's (mod's) on them. I can deffently see the 4 video cards though! :-|

[Maxwell]

You know you've BOINC'ed too much when you watch an episode of Eureka and get really excited because they are talking about using sleeping humans as a distributed computing system...

[Maxwell]

...when you read license plates that start "H##..." and your immediate thought is of a new model water cooler for the CPU.
...when you buy a video card because you don't want to lose all production when you have to RMA your other video cards.

[joker]

When you are all but unemployed yet spend your entire tax return on upgrades so you can crunch more.

[zombie67]

When you are all but unemployed yet spend your entire tax return on upgrades so you can crunch more.

(Yeah, I'm gonna be THAT GUY....but it's tax time, and it needs to be said at least once.)

You gave an interest free loan to the government? They (we) would not do the same for you.

[joker]

So it is better to owe the government at the end of the year? Not sure I understand that logic. No matter how you file it will all end up the same. They will either charge you the taxes at the end of the year or you will get "some" back. I would rather get a check from them then have to write one. Yes, they get a free "loan" for the year but my tiny amount of taxes probably does not buy an F-15.

[zombie67]

So it is better to owe the government at the end of the year? Not sure I understand that logic. No matter how you file it will all end up the same. They will either charge you the taxes at the end of the year or you will get "some" back. I would rather get a check from them then have to write one. Yes, they get a free "loan" for the year but my tiny amount of taxes probably does not buy an F-15.

It's not the difference to the government that matters. It is the lost interest (at worst), or lost investment gains (better) that you could have made on that money had it been in your pocket for a year, rather than theirs (ours).

Edit: Think about it this way: You could kept all the same cash you eventually ended up with anyway, PLUS a GPU paid for with the interest/gains you earned on your own money.

[joker]

Ok, I could see your point if your are owing/getting 10s of thousands of dollars, but I personally would not see much "return" on a $700 annual investment and as I stated before, my $700 is not going to get the government a whole lot either. Even if I invested that $700 and made a whole...lets say.....$28 then guess what....they tax me on that! And I still have to pay them them the $700 at the end of the year plus the tax on the $28. I am guessing that you make way more money then I do.

[Maxwell]

You know you've BOINC'ed too much when you have 230k credits randomly show up on a project you haven't crunched in a couple months...

[trigggl]

Instead of your Social Security Number, you have your Cross Project ID memorized.

[dan]

I knew I BOINC too much when I walked into Best Buy today to buy a battery backup for the Silver Hammer only to find out that they don't actually sell one that's big enough...

Been there done that. I have a Best Buy one block from my home. I find myself there during challenges. I never get anything, cause they are too expensive and not good performance equipment. Now if there was a New Egg one block from my house...

[Slicker]

When you get depressed because your RAC will drop by 15K because someone turned off the computers that were crunching in your cubicle -- even though you quit working there 45 days earlier!

[Clank [MM]]

That's easy:


When your throwing breakers.

Your utility bill doubles.

You don't use your primary computer because you don't want to lose credits.

You check your machines when your on vacation.

You buy upgrades only so you can crunch more.

You leave the AC on 24/7.

The word farm has a totally different meaning.

You start eyeballing machines at work.

You bought a calculator just for figuring credits.


And last - you know your crunching to much when everybody around you doesn't understand what the hell your doing.

Patrick

[DrPop]

. . . someone turned off the computers that were crunching in your cubicle -- even though you quit working there 45 days earlier!

hahahaha! :)) :D

[Bryan]

I don't get the humor Patrick ... isn't that what everyone does? :))

[Fire$torm]

;20594']........you know your crunching to much when everybody around you doesn't understand what the hell your doing.

=)) Oh yeah, tell me about it!

[trigggl]

=)) Oh yeah, tell me about it!

I don't even bother to try. Every time my wife asks me what I'm doing, "Nothing".

Obviously, she doesn't understand why I have a playstation running 24 hours a day that I can't play games with and can't watch netflix with. In fact, it's not even hooked up to a monitor, just power and ethernet.

If she knew what boinc'ing was that's how she would know.

[Mr. Hankey]

So let me put to you like this. If you hadn't noticed, I did add a 3rd computer under the house a few weeks ago that had 2 new nvidia GTX 570s in it. My wife said it was insane and obsessive. I pulled up a listing of steve*'s computers and said no, he has 10 of the machines equivalent or better to the one I just deployed... that is insane. My wife asked for that in writing so that when I get to 10 machines under the house she can pull out the note and have the proof that I am insane and obsessive.

My thought was immediately sweet, I can deploy 6 more machines before I get any significant trouble !!!

[Fire$torm]

So let me put to you like this. If you hadn't noticed, I did add a 3rd computer under the house a few weeks ago that had 2 new nvidia GTX 570s in it. My wife said it was insane and obsessive. I pulled up a listing of steve*'s computers and said no, he has 10 of the machines equivalent or better to the one I just deployed... that is insane. My wife asked for that in writing so that when I get to 10 machines under the house she can pull out the note and have the proof that I am insane and obsessive.

My thought was immediately sweet, I can deploy 6 more machines before I get any significant trouble !!!

I really think your wife does not understand how big a door she just opened for you........ :P

[Beerdrinker]

So let me put to you like this. If you hadn't noticed, I did add a 3rd computer under the house a few weeks ago that had 2 new nvidia GTX 570s in it. My wife said it was insane and obsessive. I pulled up a listing of steve*'s computers and said no, he has 10 of the machines equivalent or better to the one I just deployed... that is insane. My wife asked for that in writing so that when I get to 10 machines under the house she can pull out the note and have the proof that I am insane and obsessive.

My thought was immediately sweet, I can deploy 6 more machines before I get any significant trouble !!!

Oh, man....Opportunities!!!

[DrPop]

...My thought was immediately sweet, I can deploy 6 more machines before I get any significant trouble !!!

@Hankey -- holy smokes man, I THOUGHT your credits were going up at an insane rate again! :D Wondered if you had gotten a hold of some farmin' equipment for another round? ;) hehehe...wow, that is just sweet, another rig under the house. Ah, well, here's to your defending that great #1 spot up there with pizazz! ;)

[Fire$torm]

........when you start laughing at distributed.net Slogans (http://n0cgi.distributed.net/slogans/) like these.... (The ten or so I liked the most)

Well, we just happen to HAVE an infinite number of monkeys!
-jingfired

For The Best Computer Security....Turn It OFF!
-Digtal Mesiah

Neo, Follow the White Cow... moo, moo
-Da geek Kid

The crack is out there
-Clone of a Thousand Nights

No food! No money! No girlfriend! It's ok. No computer? Oh, no!!!
-Pong

When cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography.
-[sp]

We're not nerds. We swear.
-Benjamin Gibson

distributed.net: the only reason my computer is on right now...
-Jason Cate

This is my CPU. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
-Rainman

Your data is only secure until we prove it isn't.
-gopher

Distributed.net, Making Old Computers Feel Useful!
-NebulaX

Improving Encryption by Breaking It.
-ted99

"so long and thanx for all the passwords "
-d3mons33d

[trigggl]

When you run BOINC from a live-cd on the computer on the desk next to yours at work over the weekend. When one of the MIS guys comes to look at what programs are running on it the following Monday. Then, he disconnects it and takes it away.

...and that's the last time I used a work computer.

[STMahlberg]

When you give up internet porn to watch BoincStats instead.

[DrPop]

LOL! :D

[Slicker]

1. When you get depressed that the computers you had crunching at work finally get get shut down two months after you quit even if they were produciing less than 5% of your failty RAC.

2. When you have a computer on the fritz that reboots about once per hour and bypass security measures and set it to automatically login so as not to lose too many credits per day.

[Mumps]

When you find a Dell Latitude D520 with a broken display in the trash at work and get all excited once you know it's a Core2Duo because it'll be a nice little corner cruncher for you!

[trigggl]

When you're telling a guy at church about the 4 computers in your home office. When he asks why I have 4 computers in my office, my reply is "because I couldn't fit 5".

Actually, my office can fit five, but my marriage can't.

I must be getting close to maxing out a circuit.

[DrPop]

...
Actually, my office can fit five, but my marriage can't.

:)) =)):D That is so quotable it's hilarious!

[John P. Myers]

When you wake up from a dream that the Romanian BOINC mafia has been closely watching the Formula BOINC results, and, to fulfill their own agenda, unleashed a 10mil CAS bunker onto CNT to ensure their 3rd place ranking for 2013.

[Duke of Buckingham]

When you wake up from a dream that the Romanian BOINC mafia has been closely watching the Formula BOINC results, and, to fulfill their own agenda, unleashed a 10mil CAS bunker onto CNT to ensure their 3rd place ranking for 2013.

Yhea, I know I have been Boinc'ed too much on FB.
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[Duke of Buckingham]

What?
Don't you see that I am bunkering ...
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