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bigmcguire@fastmail.com
Cruncher Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Post Count: 29 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the warm welcome Diana G! I've got an Intel Q6600 desktop (2.4Ghz quad) and a Dualcore 1.8Ghz laptop. They should be running full speed every night. Looking forward to contributing!
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bigmcguire@fastmail.com
Cruncher Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Post Count: 29 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Congrats lighthouse!!! 2,000,000 points is a LOT.
----------------------------------------Regarding Vista or XP/Pro - I'd go with XP. Sure Vista looks better but it takes a lot more resources. Game benchmarks on Vista vs XP show XP is a bit faster. XP SP3 should prove even faster than SP2. So if you can stand going without the eye candy (Vista) I'd get XP. ![]() |
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Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the warm welcome Diana G! I've got an Intel Q6600 desktop (2.4Ghz quad) and a Dualcore 1.8Ghz laptop. They should be running full speed every night. Looking forward to contributing! Yup, they will make a nice contribution I'm looking into another dualcore or just going for the quad...I'm still researching to make the best choice :) Glad to have you crunchin' with Christians! Have a blessed day BigMcGuire ![]() Diana ![]() |
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USAFA 82
Veteran Cruncher Colorado Springs, Colorado Joined: Jan 20, 2005 Post Count: 1001 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm looking into a new high-end computer. One question: Vista or XP/Pro? XP. As an IT guy, I've had to work on a lot of Vista problems in the past year. M$, according to an article at InformationWeek, has all but ditched Vista. They are pouring resources into their next version of Windows due to come out in 2010 (so that means 2011 or 12). Congrats on the milestone! And welcome to BigMcGuire and MobileTurionX2! |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My day started badly today I was supposed to be on the road by 4am so I could be half way up the country at a training course by 9am.
----------------------------------------I woke up at 6am and my alarm clock was switched off (I don't recall doing this) any way at 6am my day is already a right off. So to make the best of it I email myself at work some important documents I have been working on which hopefully will result in a long term contract both for the suppliers and me. I get to work make all my apologies and log in - no emails! Work is firewalled so the great logmein doesn't work. I have to go home again and my commute is 65 Miles to send those emails again. On the way back to work for the second time that day I'm really not a happy bunny (We've all been there) As I'm driving along in my grump there's this estate car (Station wagon) in front of me - white, well it would be if it wasn't covered in the rocksalt grime we have at this time of the year. Someone had written words in the grime with their finger. Normally they say ironically "Please Clean Me" which on days like today would be a good prayer to pray but today it said... SMILE, Jesus loves you . How great is that? Thank you Jesus for making my day a great one. Dave ![]() |
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Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Praise God, David, He never leaves us, nor forsakes us! He is our ever present help in time of need :)
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Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Final Top 20 in:
----------------------------------------Challenge Name: CPU Warmth 40 Days. by Points Start Date: 01/17/2008 End Date: 02/27/2008 1st: France with 24,045,725 points 2nd: Christians with 10,798,374 points 3rd: Prohardver Team! with 7,363,941 points 4th: ___In2My.Net___ with 6,494,360 points 5th: Bulgaria with 4,570,343 points 6th: Indian River Community College Students with 3,743,101 points 7th: Vulture Central III with 3,380,323 points 8th: IBM Brasil - Global Command Center with 3,132,911 points 9th: christianflights.org with 2,616,059 points 10th: CSC-LIU with 2,350,055 points 11th: IBM ITSO Austin with 2,181,305 points 12th: Jay's Massively Mediocre Distributed Computing Inc with 1,603,470 points 13th: USA with 1,310,951 points 14th: hikojpn with 1,289,045 points 15th: Team Tapper with 1,252,928 points 16th: MERO_SPE with 1,200,312 points 17th: Lubaczow with 1,067,804 points 18th: German Help for Health with 946,574 points 19th: Micro Strategies with 933,018 points 20th: Bravo Fleet RPG Group with 923,856 points - Challenge Name: CPU Warmth 40 Days by Run Time Start Date: 01/17/2008 End Date: 02/27/2008 1st: France with 42 years, 284 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, 33 seconds 2nd: Christians with 23 years, 9 days, 11 hours, 23 minutes, 41 seconds 3rd: ___In2My.Net___ with 11 years, 105 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes, 45 seconds 4th: Prohardver Team! with 9 years, 148 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes, 4 seconds 5th: IBM Brasil - Global Command Center with 8 years, 135 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes, 32 seconds 6th: Vulture Central III with 6 years, 110 days, 8 hours, 28 minutes, 35 seconds 7th: IBM ITSO Austin with 5 years, 196 days, 12 hours, 47 minutes, 17 seconds 8th: Ukraine with 5 years, 81 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes, 11 seconds 9th: christianflights.org with 5 years, 13 days, 17 hours, 56 minutes, 12 seconds 10th: CSC-LIU with 4 years, 177 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes, 14 seconds 11th: Indian River Community College Students with 3 years, 147 days, 18 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds 12th: Jay's Massively Mediocre Distributed Computing Inc with 2 years, 260 days, 11 hours, 27 minutes, 44 seconds 13th: hikojpn with 2 years, 173 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes, 8 seconds 14th: Team Tapper with 2 years, 157 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 7 seconds 15th: USA with 2 years, 93 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes, 21 seconds 16th: The Hobbits with 1 year, 344 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes, 19 seconds 17th: German Help for Health with 1 year, 332 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes, 26 seconds 18th: Micro Strategies with 1 year, 282 days, 15 hours, 47 minutes, 27 seconds 19th: MERO_SPE with 1 year, 189 days, 22 hours, 18 minutes, 14 seconds 20th: New Hampshire with 1 year, 170 days, 10 hours, 1 minute, 13 seconds - Challenge Name: CPU Warmth 40 Days by Results Start Date: 01/17/2008 End Date: 02/27/2008 1st: ___In2My.Net___ with 36,574 results 2nd: Christians with 31,407 results 3rd: Prohardver Team! with 20,228 results 4th: christianflights.org with 18,325 results 5th: Vulture Central III with 14,986 results 6th: Lubaczow with 11,020 results 7th: Indian River Community College Students with 9,371 results 8th: IBM Brasil - Global Command Center with 8,939 results 9th: USA with 5,586 results 10th: CSC-LIU with 5,301 results 11th: IBM ITSO Austin with 4,796 results 12th: Team Tapper with 3,808 results 13th: Jay's Massively Mediocre Distributed Computing Inc with 3,264 results 14th: hikojpn with 2,859 results 15th: GridGroup (Germany) with 2,726 results 16th: German Help for Health with 2,558 results 17th: Bravo Fleet RPG Group with 2,136 results 18th: New Hampshire with 1,972 results 19th: Micro Strategies with 1,968 results 20th: CORE with 1,465 results Congrats!!! ![]() |
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Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Team, what a blessed day this is! I emailed Phil at stats.free-dc today to ask about a possible 'expansion update' for our team stats to be expanded from 250 to cover our whole team (which at the moment is 369 members). He expanded it to 408 so now EVERY member is listed!!!!! (this stats website is different than BOINC. This site gives us our WCG points)
----------------------------------------Check stats here: http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=wcg&team=Christians&x=0 this updates later than our last update here and if your new, you will have to go page to page to find yourself. Sooner than you think, you will be moving on upwards!! Any questions about "how to", just ask ![]() Praise God for the increase in every area of Team Christians! Thank you Phil for updating the Christians stats page for us! Your website keeps us drooling because were stats addicts LoL Keep 'em crunching! (((HUGS TEAM))) ![]() |
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Diana G.
Master Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3003 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Upcoming Challenges:
----------------------------------------Saturday 3/1 Challenge Name: Bunny Race Start Date: 03/01/2008 End Date: 03/24/2008 * Challenge Name: March 08 Results Challenge. Start Date: 03/01/2008 End Date: 03/31/2008 - Challenge Name: March 08 Points Challenge. Start Date: 03/01/2008 End Date: 03/31/2008 - Challenge Name: March 08 Run Time Challenge. Start Date: 03/01/2008 End Date: 03/31/2008 * Sunday 3/2 1 day runtime- Challenge Name: 9th Sun.- low electricity demand Start Date: 03/02/2008 End Date: 03/02/2008 . ![]() |
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Lighthouse
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 283 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, it seems that M$ was able to "force" me to buy Vista, rather than XP/Pro. I found an HP system that had most of the features that I wanted at a price that was low enough that I could add my "extras" and still come out below the price of a "custom" system. sigh...
----------------------------------------It sounds like I have something similar to BigMcGuire - an Intel Quad-core Q6600. I'm burning it in with WCG, so my points will spike shortly. Hey, if it's got a flaw, I say cook it out while it is still under warranty. I just hope that most of my software will install on Vista - or the savings for the bargain computer will just flush down the toilet. ![]() |
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