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Tanguero
Tanguero
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14 Dec 2005 16:31:38 UTC
Topic 190370
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    Although I've compleeted WU 2923281 with machine 467182 and two other contributors has already finised their jobs and got credit for it. My machine also claimed for credit but granted only 0.00 credit for this WU. Is this a bug in the database or does my results differ from the other ones. Please be so kind and inform me about this confusing behaviour of the database. Thanks.

    Tern
    Tern
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    No Credit for a finished WU

    14 Dec 2005 16:42:01 UTC
    Message 21426
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      You are running Windows, and the other two computers in your quorum are running Linux. You've been bitten by the "different OS" problem, only in reverse from the normal...

      This happens approximately 0.4% of the time. No bug (other than in Windows not doing math exactly the same as Linux/Mac/Sun) and no way to fix it without making the validation process worthless. Since it affects everybody about equally (actually, Windows users are hit less...) it's just a cost of doing business.

      Tanguero
      Tanguero
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      Thanks for the quick reply.

      14 Dec 2005 19:27:10 UTC
      Message 21427
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        Thanks for the quick reply. Sad but OK, sometimes everyone is bitten this way I guess. Thanks anyway for your time.

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