The Scottish Boinc Team

Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: Farm Out Of Control!!!

Yikes, My KVM has stopped working! Shocked

Which means that short of an unfeasible amount of cable plugging & unplugging I can't control the 5 PCs in the basement which are the bulk of the farm. Sad

At present my stats are holding up, so presumably all is well even if I can't see anything, but expect some drop off until I get it working again or replace it.
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johnn · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:39 am Post subject:

Here's a nice one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817399045&cm_re=kvm_switch_usb-_-17-399-045-_-Product

but only for 4 PC's sad4

MacDitch · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Farm Out Of Control!!!

Megacruncher · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:40 am Post subject: Re: Farm Out Of Control!!!

captinkid · Cruncher Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Posts: 11

Now did your KVM stop working because it is broken, or because your computers are now self aware, and are trying to take over the world?

You should not leave them unsupervised for long, or we may need to welcome our new crunching overlords.

Laughing

Megacruncher · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:53 am Post subject:

It's alright the Skynet scenario has not come to pass! Laughing

Although after reading your post I did fear to enter the basement lest the farm had found some way of mixing PC spares and bicycle parts to construct a murderous cyborg, all the while arranging a nuclear cataclysm! Shocked

No, all it took was a replacement AC adapter from Maplin to get the errant switch operational again and it's business as usual. Smile

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PinkPenguin · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject:

Reeltime · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:32 pm Post subject:

I wonder how much Boinc is worth annually to Maplin
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UBT - Mikee · Cruncher Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 16

Talking of out of control farms ...

What's happened to Steve?

Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:54 pm Post subject:

Yes the Mighty One's torrent has slowed to a trickle over the last 48hrs: Down from a customary 5 or 6 Meg daily to 302K on sunday & 512 on Monday. Sad

Could be he's caused a melt-down in his local sub-station [again Rolling Eyes

] or a UN Task Force against Global Warming has realised that his house is using more 'lecky than India and China combined & troops have been sent in to switch everything off apart from a laptop running simap?

Whatever Steve, hurry back. UBT are getting further ahead of us, there are the Italians to catch and, for once, a lot of us are gaining on you. And you've got that world #2 slot to secure.
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PinkPenguin · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:48 am Post subject:

aardvark · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject:

Gary Mc · Boincer Joined: 07 Nov 2010 Posts: 105 Location: England

I know whats happened. After months of getting estimated lecky bills in he has finally had a meter reader round and got the correct bill Shocked

Megacruncher · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject:

That's 5 days with minimal crunching and no word from Steve. Sad

The positive spin we can put on this, otherwise worrying, situation is that our daily output is still enough to keep us in the top 40 teams each day - ie even without our star player we remain a world class team.

But, Holy AWOL Big Hitters, what's happened to Aardvark also zilcho for 48 hrs? Shocked

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Gary Mc · Boincer Joined: 07 Nov 2010 Posts: 105 Location: England

DNETC, ANDROintc and to a lesser extent Milkyway have become very unreliable over the last few days. I have been recieving fantastic credit from the first two projects but as they have bee down I have had to rely on Milkyway and docking for credit. If Steve has not been checking his farm this may account for the loss of output......