1) Tintinnabulation
2) Drinking beer (no, I won't say, it wasn't that great tonight)
3) Eating spicy ginger tray-bake with a teaspoon (don't ask)

Actually it's not been the best of Thursday evenings.


[Well, you did ask!]

My 1st ever (what I consider), serious crunching PC (Q6650, or something like that), began crunching in mid 2009 and it has had some stoppages (more recently due to rising costs of Elecy), but the only component that I have had to replace is the PSU.

Yes I have had failures on more recent systems, but I put that down to 1) Win 7 instability (which has been cured), & 2) cheap components used in cheap PC's (which won't happen again as my next system will be a full self build), so really, despite 24/7 running through sometimes, punishing temperatures and humidity, only the PSU has been effected by long term crunching (cheap & easy to replace), the CPU / GPU & Motherboard on that system still works as well as it ever did.

That said, I do try as much as possible to keep the systems as cool as possible. 1) A minimum of 2 extra fans (not inc CPU or PSU fans). 2) Both sides removed for maximum air flow and heat escape. 3) All PC's next to a constantly open window (and when ever possible, all windows & doors in all rooms upstairs open, to maximize air flow in to and out of the office).

That is probably the solution.......

Morning Team!

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a Personal Milestone in yesterday's crunching:

Steven Langston moves above 12,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #11,982
Soong moves above 4,500 in the RunTime Rankings to #4,495

Scribe moves into the UK top 300 RunTime Rankings at #277

SnaxMuppet 750,000 Points
Labinopper 300,000 Points

SnaxMuppet passes 750,000 Points for the UK team

Labinopper moves above 150,000 in the Points Rankings to #144,998
SnaxMuppet moves above 90,000 in the Points Rankings to #89,203

Scribe moves into the UK top 200 Points Rankings at #196

Labinopper moves above 130,000 in the Results Rankings to #128,163

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs

	Scribe           	Runtime	18:04:29:31	Points	  56,694	Results		
	Labinopper       	Runtime	 8:09:54:57	Points	        	Results		
	aldude52         	Runtime	 2:04:10:47	Points	        	Results		

UK team - Individual Ranking Movements

					        
RunTime     		                Points		                        Results	
DanielMan   	up   1 place  to  42	djerram     	up   1 place  to  28	SomeMate    	up   1 place  to  77
aldude52    	up   1 place  to 142	RupertW     	up   1 place  to  64	SnaxMuppet  	up   1 place  to  98
sapient     	up   2 places to 144	Ari1        	up   1 place  to  92	Ari1        	up   1 place  to 104
SnaxMuppet  	up   5 places to 159	Drus        	up   1 place  to  99	sapient     	up   1 place  to 149
Ari1        	up   2 places to 169	aldude52    	up   1 place  to 105	Labinopper  	up  10 places to 183
Scribe      	up  25 places to 277	SnaxMuppet  	up   4 places to 113	Scribe      	up  18 places to 215
Labinopper  	up  14 places to 283	Labinopper  	up  12 places to 186	Nigel Haines	up   2 places to 303
                	        	Scribe      	up  17 places to 196	seamansgirl 	up   2 places to 311
                	        	Nigel Haines	up   2 places to 247	            	        
endellion   	down 1 place  to  43	c2theOlin   	down 1 place  to 188	bonzer      	down 1 place  to 189
                        	   	bzsmith     	down 1 place  to 114	TheCats     	down 1 place  to 105
                        	   	GB033533    	down 1 place  to  93	The Maestro 	down 1 place  to  78
                        	   	GB096523    	down 1 place  to  29	

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results

			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	1:008:11:18:54	  		8,963		1,330,718		3,016 	
Average per cd  									
September    	          338.0			        8,088		1,272,371		3,745	
August    	          334.4			        8,016		1,228,108		4,228	
									
7day Avg per cd	          353.9	           		8,472		1,309,642		2,685	

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
	RunTime	  1,250 years		      384,895	     71,355	    353.9	  202 days Apr-17-2014	
	Points 	1,500,000,000 		1,298,663,358	201,336,642	1,309,642 	  154 days Feb-28-2014	
	Results	    3,000,000		    2,730,782	    269,218	    2,685	  100 days Jan-05-2014	
								

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       				Total	        62	        out of	117	
				Group 1    	29	        ,,  ,,	 29	
				Group 2    	11	        ,,  ,,	 11	
				Group 3    	16	        ,,  ,,	 19	
				Group 4    	 3	        ,,  ,,	 10	
				InAct New	 0	        ,,  ,,	 11	
				InActive	 0	        ,,  ,,	 34	
				New/Restart	 3	        ,,  ,,	  3