Yup I got up at 4:30am my time so I could make my coffee and watch it live starting at 4:55am my time, it was very early in the session and ALOT of the covers weren't tightened all the way as they were waiting to see how long it would take to check the over 300 on the circuit. They have some kind of spreading arms that are supposed to keep it tight to the ground as the F1 cars generate soooo much downforce the ferrari went over the man hole cover just seconds prior to Georbe Russell in the Williams did and you could see the cover lift as the Ferrari just barely went over it. As the Williams went over it with the center of the car the front wheels lifted off the ground and then smashed back down again as it sucked the cover right out of the hole and up against the bottom of the car!! The downforce is part of why the F1 cars can slow down from over 300kph to about 40kph in less than 100 meters and still go around the corner looking like it's on rails!! The rookies tend to hit the brakes at the 100 meter mark as they come to the corner, the top drivers and cars can wait until about the 75 meter mark to start their braking. They use carbon brake pads and carbon brake disks that stay hot enough to catch fire if they don't have air flowing over them as cold ones are like skating on ice, they are ultra expensive but will stop your vehicle on a dime and give you 9 cents change! For you non US folks a "dime" equals 10 cents and is about the size of your thumb nail. To make carbon/carbon brakes can take over 36 hours per wheel and costs well into the thousands of dollars apiece as they are made atom by atom building them up over the pad or disk sort of like 3d printing.
If this thread is based on number of posts, it will never get a winner at this rate. (I am not necessarily admitting the winner will be selected on post number).
I know Mikey posts regularly, but if no one else posts, he can't contribute either.
Eventually this winner will get so frustrated if no one posts that just to be done with it, he will declare a winner so he can get rid of the albatross around his neck.
Okay, so it's content you want? Here's some stream of consciousness content...
Huh, I never knew that about carbon/carbon brakes or the vacuum effects of downforce Fascinating!
Albatross. The graphics in the original Rime of the Ancient Mariner are awesome. How can someone be that talented?
I'm bored. My new PC build is nicely tuned and crunching as efficiently as I can get it. Nothing left to do. Feeling a bit down. It would be fun to build another host! Nah, too expensive. Where would I put it? Can I run an ethernet cable there?
Should I watch Netflix, Hulu, HBO, or Amazon? Or maybe that episode I downloaded from rarbg.
This beer is tasty.
Gawd, won't this cat ever move?
I wonder what's going on over at the AMD and Radeon VII discussion groups........
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Okay, so it's content you want? Here's some stream of consciousness content...
Huh, I never knew that about carbon/carbon brakes or the vacuum effects of downforce Fascinating!
Albatross. The graphics in the original Rime of the Ancient Mariner are awesome. How can someone be that talented?
I'm bored. My new PC build is nicely tuned and crunching as efficiently as I can get it. Nothing left to do. Feeling a bit down. It would be fun to build another host! Nah, too expensive. Where would I put it? Can I run an ethernet cable there?
That's how I started growing my 'ranch' too, my 1 pc was doing soo well it convinced me to put another pc online, then since I learned how to replace parts my friends and neighbors, and even complete strangers, started giving me their excess pc parts and I built even more pc's. I can tell you that without a Server 23 pc's is all you can have before they start serious infighting as to who's in charge of the IP addresses!! When the Federal Government replaces their pc's the stuff they throw away is NOT always worth taking home!! My son brought home a Server his IT class in high school was scrubbing and even though it still had the Server software on it it wasn't worth the trouble it caused me in the long run. I had to buy more than a few SCSI hard drives for it and even then they weren't big enough to use as storage drives, trying to remember where everything was was not fun when I was in a hurry. Today when I drive around I still pick up pc's that are on the curb for the trash man and am STILL amazed that people will leave a harddrive in it with all of their personal info on it!! I don't look at the data, I first try to see if the machine boots, which is when I see that their stuff is still on it, then run a wipe the drive program that writes zeros, then ones, then zeroes on every spot of the hard drive effectively wiping out any trace of their data. I boot it up first just to see if the harddrive is worth using or if it's crashed and not worth the trouble. Most of the time I then cannibalize the pc for screws, parts whatever I may need and then recycle the rest. Most of the time even the cases aren't worth saving, some are and they go on the shelf for my next build, as they are older pc's without very good airflow. Lately I've preferred the cases that have bottom mounted power supplies and top mounted fans too and of course room for a new motherboard of a non case specific type. That way i can choose whether to put an Intel or AMD cpu based system together depending on the costs at the time, or the parts I have in the drawers. For instance just after New Years I built an AMD system, 12 cpu cores/24 thru hyper-threading, that is screaming thru workunits. I used a case off the shelf and the only things I had to buy were the cpu itself, on sale of course, the motherboard and the ram to go in it, all the rest I had on the shelf including the 1080Ti gpu I put in it. I did have to add the fans to the case, I used recycled fans, as the original fans were really stuck. A friend long ago taught me to use CRC electronics cleaner spray as once it's dry it won't hurt to plug it in and it does free things up very well. I use it on all the recycled fans and it works great, but once you start spraying you can't ever stop as it also flushes out any original lubricant in them. So if they start making noise they come out and a different one goes in and the pc is backup and crunching in just a few minutes, while I take the noisy fan and spray it and put it back on the shelf for next time. I do buy new fans when I can get them on sale and then I do replace the ones that are the oldest, some are just noisy due to wear and tear and they get replaced with new ones too.
I currently have 15 pc's here crunching with nothing less than a 6 core AMD cpu in it and every pc also has a gpu in it that can crunch workunits from someplace. Not all gpu's are very powerful so they crunch short units like the Milkyway or Primegrid units while the better gpu's crunch things like Einstein, Collatz, GPUgrid or Ammicable Numbers, although Primegrid does have some long gpu workunits as well that I have crunched. Most of my cpu cores are on World community Grid at the moment so I can increase my badge sizes but they will spread out to other Projects as those goals are reached. And NO you don't want to know what the electric bill is every month.
You, sir, are an inspiration. So when I begin collecting recycled parts and ordering new components and my wife says, "I though you said you were done with that stuff.", I'll just say, "I thought so too, but look what Mikey does!", and show her what you wrote, and then she'll see it my way. Yup.
Mikey wrote:
...so I can increase my badge sizes ...
Huh?? What's are badges and how big are they?
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
What do you feed them to make them grow? Can you bread them so they have babies? Where do you go to find them? Can you hunt them or do you have to steal them?
You, sir, are an inspiration. So when I begin collecting recycled parts and ordering new components and my wife says, "I though you said you were done with that stuff.", I'll just say, "I thought so too, but look what Mikey does!", and show her what you wrote, and then she'll see it my way. Yup.
Mikey wrote:
...so I can increase my badge sizes ...
Huh?? What's are badges and how big are they?
For instance on World Community Grid I just got my 2 year badge on the Microbiome Immunity Project for my 2nd account there, my first account has a 10 year badge. I messed up when I joined there and ended up with 2 accounts and after putting in alot of time on the first account I decided to go back and get bigger badges for my 2nd account too. I also have my 2 year badge for helping find the cure for the Zika virus and am working on the 5 year badge for it. They have several other humanity friendly projects too such as Mapping Cancer Marker, looking for the cure for TB and looking for the cure for Aids as well.
Prime Grid has alot of sub-projects within it and I have at least a Gold badge for each of them, that being 500k credits, and I'm slowly working on getting the next badge which is the million credit mark and is the Amethyst badge. I have several Sapphire badges there too which is the 20 million mark and I have one badge there which is the Double Silver and is 250 million credits. Primegrid sub-projects are a mixture of cpu only or cpu and gpu tasks or even several that are gpu only tasks. Some tasks take under 15 minutes to run while others can take several days or more to run. Here's a Free-DC link to my overall stats on Primegrid:
If you click on this link from the stats site Free-DC you will see my current badges from the various projects that have badges since I started crunching:
Everyone can do the same thing for your own account if you just change the part after the equals sign to your own "Cross Project Identifier".
I don't see any badges for Einstein on there so don't think they have any. Badges are a way of encouraging competition between users or a measuring stick for how much you have contributed to a given project and how far you need to go to get to the next one. But much like credits they aren't worth anything at the local store though.
If you click on this link from the stats site Free-DC you will see my current badges from the various projects that have badges since I started crunching:...
Okay, all the more impressive. Well that explains your cryptic signature banner. And here I thought you were the Grand Poobah of a resurrected ancient secret society chapter or some such. Heh, heh. Whew!
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Winterknight wrote:Mikey
Yup I got up at 4:30am my time so I could make my coffee and watch it live starting at 4:55am my time, it was very early in the session and ALOT of the covers weren't tightened all the way as they were waiting to see how long it would take to check the over 300 on the circuit. They have some kind of spreading arms that are supposed to keep it tight to the ground as the F1 cars generate soooo much downforce the ferrari went over the man hole cover just seconds prior to Georbe Russell in the Williams did and you could see the cover lift as the Ferrari just barely went over it. As the Williams went over it with the center of the car the front wheels lifted off the ground and then smashed back down again as it sucked the cover right out of the hole and up against the bottom of the car!! The downforce is part of why the F1 cars can slow down from over 300kph to about 40kph in less than 100 meters and still go around the corner looking like it's on rails!! The rookies tend to hit the brakes at the 100 meter mark as they come to the corner, the top drivers and cars can wait until about the 75 meter mark to start their braking. They use carbon brake pads and carbon brake disks that stay hot enough to catch fire if they don't have air flowing over them as cold ones are like skating on ice, they are ultra expensive but will stop your vehicle on a dime and give you 9 cents change! For you non US folks a "dime" equals 10 cents and is about the size of your thumb nail. To make carbon/carbon brakes can take over 36 hours per wheel and costs well into the thousands of dollars apiece as they are made atom by atom building them up over the pad or disk sort of like 3d printing.
Come Come people! If this
Come Come people!
If this thread is based on number of posts, it will never get a winner at this rate. (I am not necessarily admitting the winner will be selected on post number).
I know Mikey posts regularly, but if no one else posts, he can't contribute either.
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.
Eventually this winner will
Eventually this winner will get so frustrated if no one posts that just to be done with it, he will declare a winner so he can get rid of the albatross around his neck.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Okay, so it's content you
Okay, so it's content you want? Here's some stream of consciousness content...
Huh, I never knew that about carbon/carbon brakes or the vacuum effects of downforce Fascinating!
Albatross. The graphics in the original Rime of the Ancient Mariner are awesome. How can someone be that talented?
I'm bored. My new PC build is nicely tuned and crunching as efficiently as I can get it. Nothing left to do. Feeling a bit down. It would be fun to build another host! Nah, too expensive. Where would I put it? Can I run an ethernet cable there?
Should I watch Netflix, Hulu, HBO, or Amazon? Or maybe that episode I downloaded from rarbg.
This beer is tasty.
Gawd, won't this cat ever move?
I wonder what's going on over at the AMD and Radeon VII discussion groups........
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:Okay, so it's
That's how I started growing my 'ranch' too, my 1 pc was doing soo well it convinced me to put another pc online, then since I learned how to replace parts my friends and neighbors, and even complete strangers, started giving me their excess pc parts and I built even more pc's. I can tell you that without a Server 23 pc's is all you can have before they start serious infighting as to who's in charge of the IP addresses!! When the Federal Government replaces their pc's the stuff they throw away is NOT always worth taking home!! My son brought home a Server his IT class in high school was scrubbing and even though it still had the Server software on it it wasn't worth the trouble it caused me in the long run. I had to buy more than a few SCSI hard drives for it and even then they weren't big enough to use as storage drives, trying to remember where everything was was not fun when I was in a hurry. Today when I drive around I still pick up pc's that are on the curb for the trash man and am STILL amazed that people will leave a harddrive in it with all of their personal info on it!! I don't look at the data, I first try to see if the machine boots, which is when I see that their stuff is still on it, then run a wipe the drive program that writes zeros, then ones, then zeroes on every spot of the hard drive effectively wiping out any trace of their data. I boot it up first just to see if the harddrive is worth using or if it's crashed and not worth the trouble. Most of the time I then cannibalize the pc for screws, parts whatever I may need and then recycle the rest. Most of the time even the cases aren't worth saving, some are and they go on the shelf for my next build, as they are older pc's without very good airflow. Lately I've preferred the cases that have bottom mounted power supplies and top mounted fans too and of course room for a new motherboard of a non case specific type. That way i can choose whether to put an Intel or AMD cpu based system together depending on the costs at the time, or the parts I have in the drawers. For instance just after New Years I built an AMD system, 12 cpu cores/24 thru hyper-threading, that is screaming thru workunits. I used a case off the shelf and the only things I had to buy were the cpu itself, on sale of course, the motherboard and the ram to go in it, all the rest I had on the shelf including the 1080Ti gpu I put in it. I did have to add the fans to the case, I used recycled fans, as the original fans were really stuck. A friend long ago taught me to use CRC electronics cleaner spray as once it's dry it won't hurt to plug it in and it does free things up very well. I use it on all the recycled fans and it works great, but once you start spraying you can't ever stop as it also flushes out any original lubricant in them. So if they start making noise they come out and a different one goes in and the pc is backup and crunching in just a few minutes, while I take the noisy fan and spray it and put it back on the shelf for next time. I do buy new fans when I can get them on sale and then I do replace the ones that are the oldest, some are just noisy due to wear and tear and they get replaced with new ones too.
I currently have 15 pc's here crunching with nothing less than a 6 core AMD cpu in it and every pc also has a gpu in it that can crunch workunits from someplace. Not all gpu's are very powerful so they crunch short units like the Milkyway or Primegrid units while the better gpu's crunch things like Einstein, Collatz, GPUgrid or Ammicable Numbers, although Primegrid does have some long gpu workunits as well that I have crunched. Most of my cpu cores are on World community Grid at the moment so I can increase my badge sizes but they will spread out to other Projects as those goals are reached. And NO you don't want to know what the electric bill is every month.
You, sir, are an inspiration.
You, sir, are an inspiration. So when I begin collecting recycled parts and ordering new components and my wife says, "I though you said you were done with that stuff.", I'll just say, "I thought so too, but look what Mikey does!", and show her what you wrote, and then she'll see it my way. Yup.
Mikey wrote:
Huh?? What's are badges and how big are they?
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
mikey wrote:I can increase my
What do you feed them to make them grow? Can you bread them so they have babies? Where do you go to find them? Can you hunt them or do you have to steal them?
Probably badgers
Probably badgers ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
cecht wrote: You, sir, are
Mikey wrote:If you click on
Okay, all the more impressive. Well that explains your cryptic signature banner. And here I thought you were the Grand Poobah of a resurrected ancient secret society chapter or some such. Heh, heh. Whew!
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.