Martin 53N 1W wrote:

Stratcat wrote:
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JMNSHO's, as usual. ;-)

Ouch... There's almost too many letters in that to decipher. I'll pass
seti's message onto you or misfit to decode! (;-))

Just My Not-So-Humble Opinion's

<g>

I pretty much agree with everything you said Strat. About the statswhore
thing (love the term BTW), I'm the founder of a team and there are a few
statswhores in it. I (maybe foolishly) advised the team to switch to BOINC
early and I've been getting grumbles over the past week from people saying
they've been crunching 24/7 for a week on fifteen Cray's and have no credit
showing. (Ok, I exaggerate a little). Now I gotta tell 'em they won't get
any credit for that week? Hmm, my popularity rating is gonna be at an
all-time low (and you know how important that is to me <g>).

Maybe I was premature suggesting to the team that moving to BOINC was a good
idea. However I'd been part of the beta-test team and it seemed to be going
well. It had certainly gone on for a while. I don't want to be a
Berkeley-knocker but man, they had quite a few volunteers for quite a while
on the beta project, you think they would have got it right.

Jumping early was a chance for the statswhores in the team to have a bit of
a feed. And for me to push 'my' team, get more members. Because we jumped
early we were actually in the top 100 world-wide for a while and we're only
a small team. I've concentrated all my efforts in the past week or two on
getting as many machines to run as fast as they can and crunching BOINC. I'm
a bit of a statswhore myself, I must admit that I like the idea that a small
team I started and continue to nurture was in the top 100. I have mobo's and
CPU's scattered throughout the house and cables everywhere. (How can I run
two mobo's off one PSU? I'm short of PSU's and funds). So far I've been
relying on force of personality to get members, it would have been nice to
say "Join a top-100 team" and give my over-worked personality a rest. <g>.
Last time I looked we'd slipped to 126 or so, just above Carolyn's Clinic.
(Can't check now, site down).

We don't have members who run the client on corporate machines, just a
couple of small farmers with most guys just running one machine. One guy
bought a new nForce board and Athlon CPU to start his farm a few days ago,
said it's gonna leave him broke for a few weeks.

Anyway, I wish Berkeley would be more communicative. Is the problem fixed
now? Or should I maybe turn my machines off for a night so we can afford to
eat at least once this week?

Cheers,
--
~misfit~