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Date....................Runtime...................Daily Points.......Daily Results.........Place
12/15/2005..... 1:085:17:14:39.......... 279,814............. 1,310................. #6
12/14/2005..... 1:077:04:43:07.......... 274,486............. 1,341................. #6
12/13/2005..... 1:097:19:00:26.......... 286,323............. 1,375................. #6
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(Stats-Image Generator by WCG Member Börni)

Hi MOT mates!!

It's been quite some time since I last posted but I discovered that beginning
my holidays last week meant even MORE work for me. Anyway...

First of all: all the best to brave Dave Bell. Heads up, my friend -- I'm very
happy to hear that the worst thing to complain is the pain and you got a
NEGATIVE biopsy result (which in normal logicc is VERY POSITIVE). Don't
take those stupic pills if they doen't work properly, you already brewed the

best pain killer on earth and you seem to have plenty of it

Then: WELCOME all those new members to our wonderful team MOT and
CONGRATULATIONS to all the cool milestones falling and popping away
almost every day -- you really rock, fellas!!!

While I was silent, my machines (also silently) crunched away at a combined
rate of +20,000 points per day, making tomorow a new big milestone for
me (hi Graham, time to sharpen the digital pencil )

My best machine, my dual XEON 2.8 (with HTT enabled) runs 4 threads
of rosetta (did anybody get HIV work units for BOINC yet or is the
HIV project still only for WIN??) for about 1900-2000 points per day. On
normal working days it also plays either MP3s for me or shows live TV.

Yes, I managed to get a Terratec Cinergy T2 DVB-T box running smoothly
under Linux to show wonderful quality TV on a "spare" 19" flatscreen. Will
have to setup MythTV to get a full featured digital TV/recorder box with
stills (also screenshots), slo-motion, timeshift, EPG (electronic program
guide) with very cool recorder setup (record "Southpark" whenever aired
on this channel / on any channel, record all sport programs, on collisions
look for reruns, etc.). Of course you get videotext! OSD of cast and show
info! Ad cutting! Did I already say that the USB device comes with an
antenna and a full-featured remote control??Way

The DVB-T stations air MPEG-2 streams so on the pro side it's easy to
record (just save) although it's quite big (about 1GB per hour). MythTV
will be a step forward as it encodes to MPEG-4 (more specific: DivX).
On the con side the stream has to be decoded by the CPU to view it
(unless you get a builtin card like a Hauppauge with a hardware decoder).
So I have to admit that while I watch TV, one of the four virtual CPUs is
used up for as much of 25%. That's 1/16 of the full machine which adds
up to some 5-6 points loss per hour!!! I promise not to watch too much TV

Back on Monday to celebrate my second million (will not be on my desk
over the weekend as usual).


Best regards, Stefan!!

Stefan --
Thanks for the kind thoughts. Believe me, I would be consuming my homebrewed painkiller if I could, but the docs have me on an antibiotic and I don't want to risk an infection. When I am off the antibiotic, I do have to address the problem of too many full bottles of beer -- LOL. I actually have about 8 gallons bottled and also have 10 gallons which I need to bottle. I am hoping to feel well enough today or tomorrow to get to my bottling chores.

Thanks Johnny.