Yes you are correct I had forgotten about Lawrence But he does not comment very much---I stand humbly corrected

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 09/18 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
CompuDude                         1          0      14,941,753           9,087
nl59056                           2          0      13,422,281           5,956
marysduby                         3          0       9,977,651          37,317
Ploetner                          4          0       9,026,927               0
Fermez-WCG                        5          0       6,201,015               0
parmesian                         6          0       5,779,617           8,578
Graham                            7          0       3,946,397           2,153
cyberwire                         8          0       3,884,323           1,878
Coingames                         9          0       2,931,380           5,477
Fanie                            10          0       2,253,400           4,490
frans6nl                         11          0       2,229,295           5,034
PohSoon                          12          0       2,182,467             881
joshuabayer                      13          0       2,044,538             847
Rasse                            14          0       1,782,440             534
Vuj                              15          0       1,637,554               0
spikey_richie                    16          0       1,472,416               0
lawrencehardin                   17          0       1,337,301           1,935
Alain Bryden                     18          0       1,276,356           4,201
Dave Bell                        19         +1       1,243,507           6,364
MikeOD                           20         -1       1,239,425             455
siseberg                         21          0       1,197,434           2,655
bl1nxz                           22          0       1,161,769             694
Silver Surfer                    23          0       1,148,089           2,366
txjallen                         24          0       1,113,697             813
John Parker                      25          0       1,079,530           1,336
Rulkethecharon                   26          0       1,055,967               0
largethunder                     27          0       1,030,366             698
Wunderwuzzi                      28          0       1,028,257           1,162
smcclarigan                      29          0         930,870             835
finman                           30          0         840,070             967
AStafford                        31          0         800,914             902
kkelson                          32          0         797,991           2,836
newtod                           33          0         750,581             713
SteelDragon                      34          0         722,619             327
Tomwp                            35          0         718,086               0
keithhenry                       36          0         686,829           4,861
Pandas Dad                       37          0         509,722               0
Sunny L. Kae                     38          0         492,382             854
SAKU1303                         39          0         423,877               0
JerBlock                         40          0         419,515             699
Edward McCoy                     41          0         416,816             434
laughing66607                    42          0         405,872             533
Barramundi                       43          0         401,949               0
dkrawczynski                     44          0         399,168               0
Airwolf_Liu                      45          0         371,545             496
dtype                            46          0         359,578             360
Kevin Deslauriers                47          0         353,492               0
wrr                              48          0         319,176             820
Mr. Plates                       49          0         306,352               0
Blueprint                        50          0         293,540             804
simonbendall                     51          0         284,626             603
WARDSTAR                         52          0         251,308               0
sulcata                          53          0         242,048           1,288
RetiredPB                        54          0         238,667               0
Bon Kuhlman                      55          0         196,047             377
Lanscader                        56          0         187,705               0
elpe                             57          0         186,438             406
John Conrad                      58          0         181,897               0
barney15c                        59          0         176,433             839
MSH22                            60          0         161,655               0
amusic20                         61          0         161,049             475
Verhaegh                         62          0         152,679             464
neclord                          63          0         149,145               0
shinob925                        64          0         142,130             310
pramodp                          65          0         134,827               0
harry_i_c                        66          0         130,713             353
mapplebeck                       67          0         128,716               0
cknotty                          68          0         127,802             859
Calamity                         69          0         121,392             297
johng                            70          0         120,806             435
lenmccart                        71          0         110,405               0
Hintsala                         72          0         101,751           1,114
xZeddx                           73          0          88,939               0
shawnangelo                      74          0          83,779             690
jan.fratric                      75          0          82,235               0
Harry de Swart                   76          0          77,646               0
Natalino                         77          0          74,177             283
platinumbus177                   78          0          71,766               0
madambaster                      79          0          70,608             512
PioPicone                        80          0          68,828               0
- dc                             81          0          51,312             350
Dataman                          82          0          34,823           7,544
Daragaaz                         83          0          19,713               0
sammercer                        84          0          17,990             477
WoytaZ                           85          0           8,869             278
Silbo                            86          0           6,070               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Ten active members returning points today:
01: marysduby - 37,317 points
02: CompuDude - 9,087 points
03: parmesian - 8,578 points
04: Dataman - 7,544 points
05: Dave Bell - 6,364 points
06: nl59056 - 5,956 points
07: Coingames - 5,477 points
08: frans6nl - 5,034 points
09: keithhenry - 4,861 points
10: Fanie - 4,490 points

Total points returned today: 139,306
Active members returning points today: 58
Average points per member active today: 2401.82759

Yarrr -- where be our pirate lot this day?

i'm not sure about the "ICON" status, but there are more of us old timers around than you might think

wow, i haven't posted to the forms in nearly a year. it may be that long before i do again. until then i'll just keep on crunching.

Okay, first, the “Active team members report” includes team members who have returned a validated result in the past 30 days. It is possible for folks to drop out of and back in to the list based on that. When someone drops out, everyone below them moves up one. When someone drops back in, they do so based on their current points level so folks with fewer points will move down one. That would explain your "bouncing around" with zero points. Yes, the other report is all team members.

As for building your own machine, I believe as long as you run an operating system on it that BOINC supports, you'd be able to run BOINC there and use that machine for crunching. You may also want to check around too. I've seen Tiger Direct offer dual core kits for about 300 USD. I believe that gets you the CPU, motherboard, power supply and minimal memory (the basics) and you can add more memory, displays, keyboards and such. If you're looking to have dedicated crunching-only machines, you probably don't need keyboards, displays and the like for each. You may be able to use switches to swap a kayboard and display from one machine to the next as needed. If you include wireless capability in each, you may not need to deal with networking them and have them share one connection to the net. I know you can get wireless routers that can handle at least eight machine (4 ethernet, 4 wireless) easily and cheap. I would expect you could get better. On the otherhand, one large machine may end up being cheaper. You'll want to compare your options. Another thought, with one monster machine, if something goes out, there goes all your crunching capacity. With a series of dedicated machines, one going out is just an incremental impact.

Now, for BOINC, you won't learn it overnight. Take your time and look around. There's a lot of information out there. The main BOINC site has a page with links to other sites. The BOINC WIKI is one good place to use as a sort of "reference manual" to look up something specific about BOINC and learn more about how it works. Of course, you have the BOINC Agent Support forum here you can read thru and keep up with. Like the way the UD agent was, BOINC is also more of a load and forget sort of thing. Generally, once you have it running the projects you want in the "shares" you want, you won't need to change anything. You'll just want to check on it from time to time in case you start getting errors for some reason (you change something on the machine itself, you have connectivity problems getting to the net, etc.). As for the other DC projects out there, your best bet is to go to their web site and find their description of the project. It will be a bit brief but should tell you what that project is for/about. Which projects you crunch is entirely up to you and is purely a personal choice. I've mentioned before the other projects where we have a MyOnlineTeam at that project. Those are independent of MyOnlineTeam here at WCG in that you can't get credit here for crunching you do on another project. It does allow you to crunch with the same team though. I think that "consistency" is a good thing.

You can certainly ask all the questions you want here and we'll do what we can to help or point you in the right direction. If we've done the same thing, we can share our experience with you ahead of time so that you can benefit from that.