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[sideband]

Heeeeeee's Baaaaaaaaack...

Well, not at my former crunching power, but I do have 8 CPUs going.... Took a bit to track down the new site, as well... I made a couple posts on the old one, and when I got no replies, I decided to start poking around a little further... guess I found it...

Now to see if anyone actually remembers me. :)
73 de AI8W

[Fire$torm]

Welcome back! Glad you found your way here. Very cool to meet you.

Although I've never met you, I recall having seen your nic mentioned by Beerdrinker. You are a Ham Radio Operator?

Anyhoot, make yourself at home.

Peace,
F$

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://theleadingedgeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/back-to-school-teacher.jpg

[Fogle]

Glad you found your way back here!! :cool: Lot's of stuff going on still, what kind of crunching? Total stones or races?

[sideband]

First, thank you for the replies and the warm welcomes.

Yes, I am an Amateur Extra HAM. I don't have much going in the way of radios right now, but that is all tied in to why I had to stop crunching a few years ago... Finances happened.

I'm interested in crunching mathematics (ABC, PrimeGrid) and astronomy (MilkyWay, Einstein, Orbit). I don't do Biomedical primarily because of the "Who is going to profit feduciarily?" issue.

I remember Beerdrinker and a few others from way back in the day.

Current hardware is an AMD FX-8130 with 32G DDR3-1600 and an nVidia GS550Ti. Current plans are to acquire another 550Ti, and to get one of my older C2Qs going again. I run on Linux, currently Ubuntu.

Back when I was crunching before I had 12 machines going with at least two cores each, and I managed them all remotely while I was on the road (I used to drive a truck for a living.) Now I've got a "real" job that has me working 10-12 hour days fairly constantly.

That's really about it, for now... Need to hop on WoW and do my dailies before work.

Enjoy.

[GregK]

and a truck driver. glad to see you again sideband! welcome to the new forum!:D

[Mumps]

Just got to get your rig back up as your Avatar. :)

Welcome back Sideband!

[trigggl]

There's a few of us who remember. Welcome back.

[Crazybob]

Was wondering what ever happened to your wandering Arse?:) Remeber being able to track you on the road with your cab full of puters and remotes. Great to see you back again!

[Slicker]

How can one forget a team8 from the great intra-team Einstein challenge in which we took 1st place? Welcome back!

[artemis8]

While I wasn't around back then, definitely wanted to welcome you back! Glad you've returned to crunching and found the new boards.

[kmanley57]

Well I was not a member of the team back then, but reverse ping back at you!

[Mike029]

Welcome home Sideband. Take a look at NFS for math. Sweet project.:D

[Beerdrinker]

Could it be.....? Could it really be Sideband?? :confused:


WELCOME BACK!!

I miss alot of the old farts that used to hang around here. But I also made a bunch of new friends in the meantime. I am so glad to have you back!!! You shoulden´t by chance know what happend to Steve and SargeD?


I can remember that cool truck, and you love for Linux and math projects.

You should also check up on Primaboinca. It´s CPU only and gives very decent credit. A C2Q should give you around 9-10.000 credits per day...

http://www.primaboinca.com/index.php

Example of Core 2 Quad:
http://www.primaboinca.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=15515

[Bryan]

Heeeeeee's Baaaaaaaaack...


73 de AI8W

Welcome back SB!!!

73 de NE0V

[DrPop]

So awesome to have you back on board, Sideband! :) I'm actually studying to take my HAM test soon, and one of my patients has loaned me a portable 2M / 440 Yaesu radio to play with. Maybe someday after I get my test done, I'll get big-time enough to work through a repeater and have a rag-chew. :D

[Bryan]

I'll get big-time enough to work through a repeater and have a rag-chew. :D

Man, talk about air pollution :))

[Cruncher Pete]

First, thank you for the replies and the warm welcomes.

Yes, I am an Amateur Extra HAM. I don't have much going in the way of radios right now, but that is all tied in to why I had to stop crunching a few years ago... Finances happened.

I'm interested in crunching mathematics (ABC, PrimeGrid) and astronomy (MilkyWay, Einstein, Orbit). I don't do Biomedical primarily because of the "Who is going to profit feduciarily?" issue.

I remember Beerdrinker and a few others from way back in the day.

Current hardware is an AMD FX-8130 with 32G DDR3-1600 and an nVidia GS550Ti. Current plans are to acquire another 550Ti, and to get one of my older C2Qs going again. I run on Linux, currently Ubuntu.

Back when I was crunching before I had 12 machines going with at least two cores each, and I managed them all remotely while I was on the road (I used to drive a truck for a living.) Now I've got a "real" job that has me working 10-12 hour days fairly constantly.

That's really about it, for now... Need to hop on WoW and do my dailies before work.

Enjoy.

Nice to meet you Sideband and welcome back. Very interesting that our background is similar with regards to Amateur Radio and Computers. I gave up both about 30 years ago for similar reasons as you. I had a 50 ft wind up tower and I used to send so much power up there that the neighbors complained that I should change my voice for it is not very pleasant when they were trying to watch their favorite show. I held an Extra Licences as well and my call sign was VK4ZM. Whilst I will not return to the old days, I am enjoying my computers and friends I met in BOINC.