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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning team, that was a *NOT* a fun drive into work earlier, hopefully all this horrible snow vanishes quickly! I suppose a more sensible car would have been prudent, but it's a little late for that choice now!
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in the lunchtime update:
----------------------------------------  TomNuttall 19 years RunTime Gabrielseyi moves above 400,000 in the Points Rankings to #399,478 GrumpyCat moves above 0,800 in the Points Rankings to #799 KrisUK 2000 Results LagunaLoire moves above 400000 in the Results Rankings to #399,051 UK team midday crunch: Hours No. Of Members Active This Morning: Congratulations on New Badges at the last update:
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Barnsley_Tatts
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 3, 2005 Post Count: 291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning team, that was a *NOT* a fun drive into work earlier, hopefully all this horrible snow vanishes quickly! I suppose a more sensible car would have been prudent, but it's a little late for that choice now! And a warm welcome to all of our newest members! After that bad winter 4 years back, I invested in a set of winter tyres. Do they ever make a difference on the white stuff!  |
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Former Member
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Evening!
----------------------------------------Thank-you for the welcome, I'm very new to distributed computing and have decided to put various bits of tech I've gathered over the years to some good use. I only have a few low power consumption devices crunching, a quad core laptop at 1.5ghz per core, a Toshiba Encore quad core bay trail running at 1.4ghz to 2.4ghz per core, a motorola xoom and a Samsung Galaxy S. What I lack in power hopefully I'll make up for in consistency! I'm crunching for FA@H and MCM and am gradually working through forum posts, to get up to speed. The progress reports from the projects are the most interesting thing I've come across so far. Any advice for a newbie, e.g. something you wish you'd known when you started? BTW the other new member (hoolio303) is me as well, registered by accident - it's an inactive account so I've removed it. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 21, 2015 6:04:14 PM] |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Morning team, that was a *NOT* a fun drive into work earlier, hopefully all this horrible snow vanishes quickly! I suppose a more sensible car would have been prudent, but it's a little late for that choice now! And a warm welcome to all of our newest members! After that bad winter 4 years back, I invested in a set of winter tyres. Do they ever make a difference on the white stuff! I did have a look at winter tyres, but I found 2 issues: a) I have absolutely nowhere to store them for the 40-45 weeks of the year I wouldn't use them, and; b) For my car, there's only one choice of winter tyres from blackcircles.com (I know I could get them elsewhere but just wanted a ballpark-figure), and they're a whopping £392 PER TYRE! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I went for snow-socks (which I actually didn't need to use today) instead, as they were considerably cheaper at £70 for a pair... |
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Barnsley_Tatts
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 3, 2005 Post Count: 291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Morning team, that was a *NOT* a fun drive into work earlier, hopefully all this horrible snow vanishes quickly! I suppose a more sensible car would have been prudent, but it's a little late for that choice now! And a warm welcome to all of our newest members! After that bad winter 4 years back, I invested in a set of winter tyres. Do they ever make a difference on the white stuff! I did have a look at winter tyres, but I found 2 issues: a) I have absolutely nowhere to store them for the 40-45 weeks of the year I wouldn't use them, and; b) For my car, there's only one choice of winter tyres from blackcircles.com (I know I could get them elsewhere but just wanted a ballpark-figure), and they're a whopping £392 PER TYRE! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I went for snow-socks (which I actually didn't need to use today) instead, as they were considerably cheaper at £70 for a pair... How much per tyre??! Hells teeth! What do you drive, Big Foot? :) |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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How much per tyre??! Hells teeth! What do you drive, Big Foot? :) Heh, not quite, it's a 13-plate Astra VXR with the Aero pack (it was a demo-car so the garage ticked every single "extras" box they could when they ordered it from Vauxhall). Standard wheels with the Aero pack are 245/35 R20, so they're not exactly subtle (or very good in snow)!  |
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Mamajuanauk
Master Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Dec 15, 2012 Post Count: 1900 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning All...
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Mamajuanauk is the Name! Crunching is the Game!
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Former Member
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How much per tyre??! Hells teeth! What do you drive, Big Foot? :) Heh, not quite, it's a 13-plate Astra VXR with the Aero pack (it was a demo-car so the garage ticked every single "extras" box they could when they ordered it from Vauxhall). Standard wheels with the Aero pack are 245/35 R20, so they're not exactly subtle (or very good in snow)! Good morning Team and welcome to are newest member iamcornhoolio.. LoL, flash car only good for driving on snowy oops sorry sunny days and it does not even come with socks o'dear.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Morning Team!
Ah, winter tyres. Here in Germany it's compulsory that we we have to switch to winter tyres from around Oct/Nov to around Mar/April. I take my car to a local garage who change the tyres and keep the second set for a small storage fee. |
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