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Last week in our team chat, there was some desire to have a team history on the team website. Since our team captain has been quite busy with his work schedule, I decided to sort through the Team Forum and find the sequence of MyOnlineTeam team threads since the project began. Here is the list I came up with (starting with 5 members, 2988 points per day):

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=833 (3 Dec --> 4 Mar -- 745 Posts -- 126 Members -- 133,189 points per day)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2102 (4 Mar --> 5 Apr -- 540 Posts -- 153 Members -- 178,804 points per day)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2396 (5 Apr --> 23 Apr -- 453 Posts -- 162 Members -- 185,386 points per day)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2567 (23 Apr --> 1 Jun -- 627 Posts -- 164 Members -- 236,866 points per day)

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2928 (1 Jun --> Present -- 543 Posts and counting -- 194 Members and growing -- 224,537 plus points per day)

That's 2308 posts in our team threads! I browsed some of the threads and there is a lot of interesting stuff that has gone on. It is interesting to see the greetings of the then new members that are now familiar friends in here.

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Date....................Runtime...................Daily Points.......Daily Results.........Place
07/14/2005..... 1:000:17:36:59.......... 216,903............. 1,084................. #2
07/13/2005..... 1:003:06:01:27.......... 224,537............. 1,081................. #2
07/12/2005..... 1:050:00:09:41.......... 247,855............. 1,116................. #2
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(Stats-Image Generator by WCG Member Börni)

Now that I have a couple of dedicated crunching machines I've been getting tired (read lazy) trying to directly moniter each so I started looking for a remote admin program. I'm running Windows ME on these machines so XP remote desktop was not an option and I'm not really a network guy. I have used Citrix in the past through work but didn't want to really pay for the software. I ran across a program called RealVnc at http://www.realvnc.com/what.html
and it seems to work pretty good. My network currently has a wireless router and one 8 port switch with the two machines (room for 5 more machines!). I had no issues setting this up - server on machine I want to monitor, viewer on the laptop in the living room so I can watch TV at the same time - did I mention I was lazy?.

Anybody know if there are issues with this program? I am not installing this on machines I care about and I am behind a fiewall so security is not a real issue. The free version has password but is not encripted. I'm also not looking to access it from outside my local LAN. Is there a better free or cheap program?

Thx