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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 674 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Make sure you have increased the number of days of WU's you have cached first otherwise you may run out of WU's before the 30th and be forced to reconnect sooner to restock your crunchers food supply.
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Former Member
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I have tried to do that with help I got from deltavee.
----------------------------------------It seemed to help to begin with, but it did not last. I did not have the heart to tell him, but now it's if not urgent then a good opportunity to try to fix it again. I have a PC and a laptop and serve both with one mobile broadband stick - so I always wanted to have a good "food supply", but I'm put on a diet and switching the stick from one to another gives a bit of exercise ...  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 29, 2011 7:26:35 AM] |
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4883 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have tried to do that with help I got from deltavee. It seemed to help to begin with, but it did not last. I did not have the heart to tell him, but now it's if not urgent then a good opportunity to try to fix it again. I have a PC and a laptop and serve both with one mobile broadband stick - so I always wanted to have a good "food supply", but I'm put on a diet and switching the stick from one to another gives a bit of exercise ... lm, Thank you for trying to spare my feelings, but I have been wrong before, and it didn't hurt too badly. Hopefully someone with greater powers than mine can help you. 
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1321 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It is my understanding that challenges are run based on Universal Time. I am in the Eastern time zone of the US, which is on daylight savings now. EDT is UTC -4 hours. So September 29th at 8:00 PM EDT the last day of September challenge begins and runs until 8:00 PM EDT September 30th. Only results returned during that time period will count, is that correct?
----------------------------------------I am very appreciative that this team is being supported so generously. Whether you are a Base Camper just passing through, a visitor, or are here to stay thank you very much. It is not my intent to recruit members from other teams, just non team members. I am working offline to get some new crunchers to join WCGrid and hope to have some positive results soon. It is my experience that people would rather go to the dentist than try software they know nothing about. This software is a no-brainer so I am baffled by all of the resistance.  Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors and be a large fish in a small pond  |
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Sport
Veteran Cruncher USofA Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Post Count: 1022 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It is my understanding that challenges are run based on Universal Time. I am in the Eastern time zone of the US, which is on daylight savings now. EDT is UTC -4 hours. So September 29th at 8:00 PM EDT the last day of September challenge begins and runs until 8:00 PM EDT September 30th. Only results returned during that time period will count, is that correct? @RCC ...that's 100% correct..... @ LM...go to Boinc Advanced and do a quick add up of your WU's " Ready to Start " or "Waiting to Run " TIMES TO COMPLETION to see if you have enough work to last you for as long as you need...actually UTC is Sept 30 as of now so you can start dumping if you need to!!! EDIT: Let's take this to the next level! Imagine if you can that you have a machine that typically produces...say 5 WU's per day; you have suspended network connections to Boinc/WCG for 4 days, therefore you have 20 WU's ready to upload/report, but you are out of work to do...are you with me??? ....BUT the challenge starts tomorrow... if you submit those 20 WU's and download new ones today you miss those 20 going to the Challenge AND you'll only complete 5 or less that are within the parameters of the Challenge!!! you would be better off for the challenge to sit on those 20 until tomorrow, even if your machine has nothing to do for a few hours...does that make sense?   [Edit 3 times, last edit by Sport at Sep 30, 2011 1:35:37 AM] |
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Former Member
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Yes, it does, Sport, thank you.
Life is easy when it fits into a spread sheet. One day some or most Base Campers will move on to other teams - either their home teams or new adventures. That will leave many empty spaces here. We would be pleased, if some of you not-currently-associated-with-any-team-crunchers would join *The Survivors* now and help making this team strong and growing. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
My sparse savings of WUs are shipped for what they are worth; with luck a few more can be ripe before 20:00 UTC.
lm, Thank you for trying to spare my feelings, but I have been wrong before, and it didn't hurt too badly. Hopefully someone with greater powers than mine can help you. I'll gladly stick with you, deltavee, even hurt your feelings if need be ...  Upon opening my Device Manager I have one profile smartly named "Default". When I open that one "Standard Settings" is marked, which confuses me. I mark "Custom Profile" and scroll to Cache which does say 2.0 extra days of work. Then I can cancel or save. As I'm confused, I click "save". It confirms being saved. So I trust that the 2.0 days for my cache is what "default" will give me. But I am confused as to which settings are valid - any "Standard Setting" or my "Custom Setting" called "Default" Here is what I have: PC where I use both CPU and GPU I have only the 8 hours of remaining work on the WU worked on and no WUs waiting on the WCG projects assigned to my CPU. My GPU does Collatz Conjecture and also only has the WU worked on with 6 hours remaining. No stock whatsover. Laptop where I'm only using CPU, I have 38 hours worth of waiting WUs with 10 hours remaining on the 2 WUs worked on - a total of 48 hours, but it should not include the WUs worked on. Still it is some stock and better than no stock. If/when you have the time, I shall be glad to be told what I did wrong |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1321 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My "additional work buffer" is set to 10 days so there are lots of tasks "ready to start". I am waiting for the results to update.
---------------------------------------- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors and be a large fish in a small pond |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1321 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I am happy with the first 12 hours personal stats. Will have to wait until 8:00 PM EDT for the team stats to update. The team challenge is a bit of fun for me as I am trying to squeeze as many results as possible from my PCs. Even if I was in last place in the results this is still winning IMHO.
---------------------------------------- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors and be a large fish in a small pond |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Looking forward to learning of the result, rcc
- I did unload all the little I could - could be lots more, but unfortunately it only takes WUs - not words .... |
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