Zorro - The Anonymous Cruncher

Limited Special Offer : 6 days free crunching!
Now with Bitcoin Utopia Rockminer

THIS OFFER HAS NO EXPIRATION

SOME LINKS FOR HELP

* Getting Started With Crunching
* Additional Help With Boinc
* Using This Forum
* Avatars and Signatures on This Forum - Requires Member-Only Access
* How to get a User of the Day (UOTD) award - an example from Boinc@jamaica
* UOTD.ORG
* SETI.USA UOTD list

INTRODUCTION

Greetings SETI.USA enthusiasts. I am Z-TAC -- Zorro - The Anonymous Cruncher.

Although I have no BOINC credits of my own, and no badges to display, I have a computer with an 8-thread Intel processor to help SETI.USA and its members to achieve their goals.

I make a standing offer to each new forum member who crunches at least one project plus WUprop for SETI.USA:

If you lend me your weak account keys, within 90 days after joining, for a cpu project (required), a gpu project (optional), Bitcoin Utopia (optional), and for WUprop (required), I will crunch these projects for you for 6 days. You will earn all the credits. You may either post your weak account keys only in this topic or send them to me in a private message by clicking on Z-TAC at the top left of this post and selecting Private Message.

Why am I doing this?

1. It's a gift to new members to say, "Thanks for joining the team;"

2. It encourages new forum members to join SETI.USA on the webpages of the projects they crunch;

3. It encourages members to add WUprop to the projects they crunch;

4. It helps members become comfortable in crunching projects for others using weak account keys; and

5. It helps me to stay current on project requirements.

WEAK ACCOUNT KEYS

All BOINC projects have an account key, and almost all have a weak account key. These keys, or the link to them, is on each project's webpage for your account under Account Information and above Preferences.

"Weak" does not mean the encryption is weak. The key is fully encrypted and changes every time you change your project password. 'Weak" means limited access to your account.

The weak account key, which is unique for each project you crunch, lets others attach to your account without giving them the ability to log in to your account or to change it in any way. The only thing anyone can do with your weak account key is crunch work units (WUs) for which you will earn the credits. You may freely distribute your weak account keys, but you should never share your main account key or other log-in information unless you completely trust the person you are giving them to.

For more information about weak account keys, see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Weak_account_keys and http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...count-Key-quot.

So, all I need to crunch for another teammate is the name of a project and its associated weak account key. I put that information into an account xml file and ZTAC01, my computer, links to your account, downloads and crunches WUs and you get the credit!

WUProp (required)

No matter what project you primarily contribute to, you can increase your credits without any stress to your computer by adding WUProp@Home (http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/) to your list of projects. WUProp gathers technical information about the resources BOINC projects use, enabling performance comparisons among CPUs and GPUs. To add the project in BOINC Manager (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Manager), in simple view click on ADD PROJECT, and in advanced view click on TOOLS > ADD PROJECT . . . WUProp is not in the list of BOINC projects, so paste http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ into the project url line and provide the same email address that you use for all your BOINC projects. Then go to YOUR ACCOUNT (http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/home.php), designate your username, and JOIN SETI.USA as your team.

About 200 SETI.USA members crunch WUProp, which you can see at http://boincstats.com/en/stats/98/user/list/0/0/1/.

For more information about WUProp, see http://www.setiusa.us/content.php?12...houldRunWUProp. NOTE: I have no affiliation with the WUProp project, or any other BOINC project.

BITCOIN UTOPIA (optional, but why pass up millions of credits?)

Bitcoin Utopia mines for bitcoins, which it donates to science projects, currently the best-known of which is MilkyWay. The project keeps a 12% cut to cover hardware and Internet costs.

For the BU credits that I crunch to propagate to your account, you must run at least 1 work unit before I attach to it with your weak key. BU runs on Windows and Linux. You can run a CPU WU by setting the appropriate preference settings on the website. Enable CPU, run test applications, and select CPUMiner in your preferences. Run at least 1 CPU WU, then change your preferences by unselecting CPUMiner and selecting cgminer (Campaign #3) (for 20+GH/s ASICs-multitasks). While I am crunching BU for you, please leave your computers unhidden in this project so I can monitor the validation of WUs. Thanks.

For more information about cryptocurrencies in general, see, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...oney,3514.html

Approximately 45 team members are crunching BU for 4 to 5 billion credits a day. See, http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?p...oj=bit&team=10


CHECKLIST

To get free credits:

1. Join the SETI.USA forum. I know the image verification graphic on the registration page is almost impossible to read. Please keep clicking for a new one until you can read it. OPTIONAL: Once you join the forum you can obtain full access to our private areas by following these instructions. Your full membership is approved once you have the red-circled eagle with sunglasses icon under your forum name.

2. Make sure SETI.USA is selected as your team in the project(s) you want me to crunch.

3. Join WuProp and make SETI.USA your team.

4. Either post in this topic or send me a private message including the name of each project you want me to crunch and each weak account key. You may request 1 CPU project, 1 GPU project (Einstein, Albert, Collatz, SETI or SETI beta, only), Bitcoin Utopia, and WUprop. Make sure your project preferences are set to use CPU and Intel GPU (if available as an option).

5. (Optional) If you want me to encourage others to vote for you as User of the Day, send me the link to your profile in at least one, but no more than three, accounts.

6. (Optional) You can check the webpages of your projects to see that ZTAC01 has been added as a computer on your account. It may take a few hours before your account shows them.

That's it! I'll crunch your projects for 6 days and you'll get the credits just as if you had crunched it yourself. :) Hopefully WUs will be available during the entire run. Please note that if you change the password for one or more of the projects after giving me your weak account key, I will be disconnected from the project(s) because changing your password changes the weak account key. Also, you enter the queue for free crunching when you provide your keys and not before. Finally, please leave your computers unhidden on the projects I crunch for you so I can monitor the validation of WUs.

CREDIT AMOUNTS

The amount of credits will depend on the project. WUprop awards 50 credits a day. Here is a sampling of others based on 7 cores/threads (* have badges):

*Asteroids - 23,500/day
Bitcoin Utopia - 50+ million/day (rockminer)
*Collatz - 35,000/day (GPU)
*Collatz - 13,000/day (CPU)
Einstein - 7,000/day (GPU)
*Enigma - 9,000/day
eon - 4,500/day
*Milkyway - 13,000/day
*NFS - 4,000 to 14,500/day depending on the subproject.
*Numberfields - 14,000/day
POEM - 10,000/day (CPU)
Primaboinca - 17,500/day
SETI - 1,700/day (GPU)
SETI - 3,500/day (CPU)
SIMAP - 3,800/day
*the SkyNet POGS - 14,000/day

My GPU is an Intel 4000, so it doesn't produce many GPU credits.

For more information about projects with badges, see http://signature.statseb.fr/ and http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...Project-Badges.

A FINAL CONSIDERATION

The team participates in lots of challenges, a list of which is at http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/overview. If a challenge is in progress, or soon will be, and the project is one that you would like to crunch, please choose it as a project for me to crunch. It will help both you and the team.

A FINAL REQUEST

Please PM me with questions, complaints, suggestions or corrections about this post. I prefer not cluttering the topic with issues that can be resolved. :) It's only a request, and all members have equal rights.

Also, I encourage all members to refer new forum members to this post. Thanks.

And thanks for being a member of SETI.USA ^:)^ ^:)^

Attachment 1641

It is a very good idea Z-TAC, just tell me if you need some help.

Thank you for the offer Z-TAC. Nice incentive for new recruits.

Gratitude.

Looks like a neat thing, I really hope some new crunchers take you up on the offer! We've had quite a lot of new folks join up the last few months, this is great stuff, Thank You Z-TAC and thank you to the fledgling SETI.USA members! :-bd

Feb 8 -15: Galileo Galilei - 450 anniversary of the birth - theSkyNet POGS Challenge Special Offer

The first forum member who joins between January 8 and Feb 15, and agrees to crunch POGS for the Galileo Galilei - 450 anniversary of the birth - theSkyNet POGS Challenge, will receive SEVEN days free crunching (instead of the ususal 4 days) on POGS and WUprop. Click here for details!

Forum members click here for more about the current challenge, here to read about the last challenge, and here to learn how to bunker.

Attachment 1643

Zorro: [after making a "Z" mark on Armand] So the devil will know who sent you.
http://images.static-bluray.com/revi...81_5_large.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Big_smile.png

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

The first forum member who joined within the past 30 days and who accepts this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Thank you for your contribution to the team, O anonymous one!


Vic (mobile)

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member jgillett.

Next Up: finalfugue.

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 2.

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member finalfugue.

Up Next: MindCrime

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 9.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Z-TAC

Limited Special Offier: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member finalfugue.

Up Next: MindCrime

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 9.

---

If I go and return can I have all those days of crunching Z-TAC? :o

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member finalfugue.

Up Next: MindCrime, then Aleus

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 16.

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member MindCrime.

Up Next: Aleus

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 16.

I commend your Efforts Z but wouldn't this Thread be better Served in the Welcome New Members Forum since it has Absolutely nothing to do with the Milestones, Achievements, and Leaderboards Forum, at least to me it doesn't anyway ...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by STE\/E

I commend your Efforts Z but wouldn't this Thread be better Served in the Welcome New Members Forum since it has Absolutely nothing to do with the Milestones, Achievements, and Leaderboards Forum, at least to me it doesn't anyway ...

---

Thanks Ste\/e. Point well taken. I started the thread here on the recommendation of a senior forum member. However, I have no objection to the thread being moved, or restarted in another location. Whatever members and the forum administrators think best is fine with me.

It was my fault Z-TAC but it was with good intention since the Milestones, Achievements, and Leaderboards Forum is a everyday post forum of mine on Team Stones of The Day, that I divided with you with much pleasure.

Thank you my friend for all the help you are giving for the team and to the new crunchers. Tell me if you need some help on your crunching for new team members. I know that me and other Team Members will be willing to help you.

VERY GOOD JOB Z-TAC

No fault or blame, Duke_B. Your assistance is very much appreciated.

I think soon you will Godric Z-TAC, you can visit his profile page and let a message there or maybe one Private Message.

Be happy my friend, new users come in waves.:o

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham

I think soon you will Godric Z-TAC, you can visit his profile page and let a message there or maybe one Private Message.

Be happy my friend, new users come in waves.:o

---

Thanks, Duke. I have been leaving a private message for every new forum member since MindCrime -- usually on the same day of joining the forum.

Godric is in the forum reading "Today in History:

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member Aleus.
Extended to a 15th day!

Please vote for Aleus, aka Bryan, as User of the Day HERE, at Seti@Home.

Up Next: _____________ :(

The next available slot for free crunching begins on March 24.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Z-TAC

Limited Special Offer: SIX Days Free Credits

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive SIX days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member Aleus.
Extended to a 15th day!

Please vote for Aleus, aka Bryan, as User of the Day HERE, at Seti@Home.

---

I send just send you PM for Crunch
and I also voted for Bryan. :D

http://img0.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...26aa091abd.png

Not to take away from Godric's luck but maybe we could have something to "fall back" to but still be anonymous? Like a hydra or something with the team name in it?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MindCrime

Not to take away from Godric's luck but maybe we could have something to "fall back" to but still be anonymous? Like a hydra or something with the team name in it?

---

Good to hear from you, MC. I've thought of several things that could be done after 6 days, but the easiest thing for me is to continue crunching for the new member. The team always gets credit because all Z-TAC crunching is on projects where the forum member is also a team member. When the team is participating in a challenge, I encourage Z-TAC participants to crunch the challenge project, and so far, all have. :) Since continuing crunching beyond 6 days is easiest for me and consistent with the goals of encouraging new memberships, engaging them in participation and rewarding them for both, I am content to continue in this way, but I'm always interested in new ideas. :-bd

pons66 a new member for you to crunch Z-TAC, I am happy for you both. Go to his profile page and post there a nice message as I did my friend.

AND KEEP WITH THE GOOD WORK.

Once Haunted Forest gets his full forum membership, I'll nominate him!

Ok, I just posted for membership. this offer still good?

Mark

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by cineon_lut

Once Haunted Forest gets his full forum membership, I'll nominate him!

---

Hi cineon_lut. It is not necessary for Members to nominate new members for free crunching. New members simply say that they want the free crunching by posting here or sending me a PM. Once they send me their weak account keys, I can start crunching for them. I can't do anything for them without their weak account keys, not even if current members nominate them :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Haunted Forest

Ok, I just posted for membership. this offer still good?

Mark

---

Sorry I missed this. The offer is still good. I am only crunching POGS now for the Pentathlon, so if you don't have an account with POGS, you can create one and send the weak account keys for it and WUProp. I'll be able to switch over to your account sometime on May 5.

Limited Special Offer: 20 Days Free Credits!

Forum members who joined within the past 30 days and who accept this offer will receive 20 days free crunching! Click here for details.

Now crunching for new forum member Godric.
Extended for a 50th day!

Please vote for Godric, aka Jon Snow, as User of the Day HERE, at Seti@Home.

Up Next: _____________ :(

The next available slot for free crunching begins May 12.

ZTAC01 Stats for Godric on Final Day of Free Crunching
Attachment 1736

Come on people, don't be shy.....

I'm new. Honest. :-)

Maybe, rather than crunching for anonymous, how about for the Hydra? Just a thought, because that could raise awareness of that project and maybe generate a little bit of interest there again as well.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Mumps

Maybe, rather than crunching for anonymous, how about for the Hydra? Just a thought, because that could raise awareness of that project and maybe generate a little bit of interest there again as well.

---

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't understand the concept behind hydra. Why give credits to a virtual entity when they can help teammates with their MM and other goals? The hydra project has been inactive for months, with small exceptions in April and May.

When I crunch for anonymous, I crunch for a team member. My first priority is to crunch for new forum members. I think what I'll do is expand the definition of "new."

Your decision, courage and character are very big, congratulations my friend, it is a pleasure to have you in the team Z-TAC.

And one opinion, crunch for yourselfe, no one deserves it more than you.

I'm sure soon Haunted Forest will take you up on that, maybe get some NFS or Primegrid badges. (cough cough, hint hint...@HF you listening?) :)

Heck, if HF stalls any longer, he'll no longer be considered a "New" member. :)

z-tac u crunching for anyone if im still considered new ill take ya up on the offer

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dave c

z-tac u crunching for anyone if im still considered new ill take ya up on the offer

---

That's great, dave c! You are still new. Just follow the checklist in this post and lend me the weak account keys in the projects you want me to crunch.

pm sent