Cutting and pasting from Keith's last competition thread starter, and incrementing the posted list by 1 win number. Here we go ----
Another run of this popular past-time.
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•Post in this thread, anything with legible words.
•Stay within the message board rules.
•Empty posts are invalid towards winning.
•You must wait for someone else to post before you can post again, any and all multiple posts are invalid towards winning.
•Have FUN.
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The winner will be the last person that posted, when I have time to check the thread, after one of these events:
•A specific date and/or time occurs
•A specific number of posts have been made
•I get tired of y'all nagging me who is the winner :)
•An event I have chosen occurs (doesn't occur).
Sorry there are no physical prizes, only the satisfaction you played and won and you name added into the winners list. :)
Congratulations to the last winner of the last game, (me!) Krunchin-Keith.
Thanks to swiftmallard for running the last game.
Scorecard Recap of WINNERS of games.
•4 for swiftmallard
•4 for Krunchin-Keith
•2 for Bymark
•5 for John Clark
•1 for Dune Finkleberry
•4 for Mikey
•1 for Ageless
•5 for RandyC
•1 for Alijay
•2 for GasGiant
•1 for DogBytes aka DP (RIP) < Honorary Win
•1 for Cori
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Oh, goody! I claim the first WIN!!!
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Congrats on the win John!
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JohnC I am glad you started the new thread, THANKS!!
I also wanted to tell you that my rac for today is 482,023, so I am almost at the 500k mark. I also built a machine I have had sitting on the floor for awhile now, it is a Dell 270 dual core small form factor pc. I put Windows XP Home on it from a Dell restore cd I have, it restores Windows on Dell pc's using the original Windows number by default. I have both Home and Pro cd's so can handle any Dell pc that way, they let me also install Windows on any other pc but you must put the number from the original sticker in manually if it is not a Dell pc. The hard drive size does not matter with these cd's so I only used a 40 gig hard drive. It is crunching Virtual Prairie for the next week then I will turn it off and instead turn on a single core Linux pc that I also built. I am just making sure they work before offering them for sale on Craig's List I think. I will of course remove Boinc before offering them. The Dell is full of 4 gig of ram and is good enough for a kid of about 12 to 15 years old, but beyond that they are too much into gaming for these pc's.
But for right now I am WINNING!!
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Thanks for starting a new thread, John. The emphasis in the first post suggests you've picked a specific number of posts for the winner of this thread.
But whatever the case, right now, I'm WINNING!
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Thanks for starting a new thread, John. The emphasis in the first post suggests you've picked a specific number of posts for the winner of this thread.
But whatever the case, right now, I'm WINNING!
I think it is this post right now and since I am posting I am WINNING!!
JohnC my rac for today is 483,355, so definitely on the way up. My old stats site now has a message saying they are down for maintenance, but if you donate they will put you in the running for a free mother board and cpu! I just want numbers man, numbers!
I think you will have to PM Keith to lock the old thread and remind him we are still here! He is probably too stuffed watching movies and eating sweet potatoes, the lucky guy!! I saw where season 5 of Dr. Who was out on dvd or blu-ray right now, maybe he is standing in line! Either that or Kmart had another sale and he succumbed to the temptation and is now trying to get it right, AGAIN!!
This morning at 8am, east coast US time, the F1 guys will be in Abu Dabi qualifying for tomorrows race. This is the last race of the season and technically 4 guys can still win the drivers championship, Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. There is 25 points awarded for 1st place and 18 points given for 2nd place etc, etc all the way down to 10th place that gets 1 point. Lewis Hamilton is 24 points behind Fernando Alonso who is leading. Mark Webber is currently in 2nd only 8 points behind and Sebastian Vettel is in 3rd only 15 points behind. Fernando Alonso drives for Ferrari and I would like to see him win his 3rd Championship!
Did I happen to mention I was WINNING, well I AM!!!
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Thanks for starting a new thread, John. The emphasis in the first post suggests you've picked a specific number of posts for the winner of this thread.
But whatever the case, right now, I'm WINNING!
I think it is this post right now and since I am posting I am WINNING!!
JohnC my rac for today is 483,355, so definitely on the way up. My old stats site now has a message saying they are down for maintenance, but if you donate they will put you in the running for a free mother board and cpu! I just want numbers man, numbers!
I think you will have to PM Keith to lock the old thread and remind him we are still here! He is probably too stuffed watching movies and eating sweet potatoes, the lucky guy!! I saw where season 5 of Dr. Who was out on dvd or blu-ray right now, maybe he is standing in line! Either that or Kmart had another sale and he succumbed to the temptation and is now trying to get it right, AGAIN!!
This morning at 8am, east coast US time, the F1 guys will be in Abu Dabi qualifying for tomorrows race. This is the last race of the season and technically 4 guys can still win the drivers championship, Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. There is 25 points awarded for 1st place and 18 points given for 2nd place etc, etc all the way down to 10th place that gets 1 point. Lewis Hamilton is 24 points behind Fernando Alonso who is leading. Mark Webber is currently in 2nd only 8 points behind and Sebastian Vettel is in 3rd only 15 points behind. Fernando Alonso drives for Ferrari and I would like to see him win his 3rd Championship!
Did I happen to mention I was WINNING, well I AM!!!
You mean you WERE winning. Bump the post count one more time and I am...
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Thanks for starting a new game.
What a nice day. It only says its 60F with a lite breeze, but in the sun its hott. Been out gardening and I think I got sun burn.
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[Fernando Alonso drives for Ferrari and I would like to see him win his 3rd Championship!
So would I. I support anyone who drives a F1 Ferrari.
WINNING, like Fernando Alonso aspires to do!
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...I saw where season 5 of Dr. Who was out on dvd or blu-ray right now, maybe he is standing in line!...
No lines for me, I found a copy in my mailbox just now. Unfortunately I'm behind in my watching, so it goes in the pile of unwatched, just behind the previous set of "specials" which came between season 4 and 5.
Last month was Horror month, got all of them watched by Halloween. I'm a little Horred out, so its on to History.
I'm doing History, but only the dvd collection, no laserdiscs. Starting at One Millin BC and working forward. I'm on the 5th century now. I want to have all these watched by the end of the year. Next time around i'll watch history in order doing both dvds and laserdiscs. That will be about four years from now.
Maybe then i'll watch some new ones in the new year, but then i've got to finish off watching the dvd's which might take 3 more months. This will complete the section of dvd's i'm taking out of those bulky plastic cases and putting in sleeves. I have boxes that hold about 80-90 dvd's taking up the space of 10 in the case. Big space compression there. Then i'll still have a bunch of tv series to go through that i haven't seen in at least 3 years, but all of those i'm keeping in their boxed sets.
Other fun for today. Cutting away dead plant parts. Harvested a big bag of lettuce seeds, basil seeds and some flowers all put away for next spring.
Then i went on a sweet pototo hunt, which wasn't too hard since 3 are sticking out of the dirt some. I only dig up the one i'm gonna eat, tonight. It was about the size of a softball and weighs in at 14 oz. the biggest i've had was a 15oz'r. There are still 3 more in that same pot, another pot with at least 1, and another pot with maybe two. plus i'm hoping some have regrown where i've dug up some already. I must have had about 8 so far this year, that i've eaten.
Still plenty of green bell peppers too. And the flowers, trees, tomaotoes and pototoes are still flowering !
I'm also trickin' out my new android. I upped the microSD from 8GB to 32GB, added a higher capacity battery which is chargin now and then a new blutooth earpiece. I also bought a cheap $3 usb/micro SD adapter so i can use the old 8GB as a half-thumb drive, replacing the bigger thumb drive i carry now, same capacity, only this will be less bulky.
time just enough to squeeze in some WINNING !
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Randy, I don't know if you are in the path of the snow that I just got, but if so, watch out. It is some of the heaviest stickiest crap I have ever seen. The driving today was awful.
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Winning while we can walk the dogs up offroad country lanes (green lanes) as it's sunny, cloudless, windless and the temperature is a tropical 7C.
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Winning while we can walk the dogs up offroad country lanes (green lanes) as it's sunny, cloudless, windless and the temperature is a tropical 7C.
Really nice weather you are having there JohnC! Currently it is 35F outside but it is going up into the mid 60's later on, just like it has been doing for the last week! Only on Tuesday when SwiftMallard's and RandyC's snow comes my, as rain of course, will my weather head back down towards a more normal mid 50's during the daytime. But this time next weekend my highs are only supposed to be in the mid 40's, but since that is a week away yet and the weather man can't tell me for certain what it will do later on today, I am not doing any planning!!
JohnC my rac for today is 483,940, up a little but all my projects were on cruise control yesterday, hopefully today they will get their acts together again!
Keith one of my hot pepper plants is dieing, I am not watering either of them any more, so it is not a surprise, but one of them is doing just fine and that IS a surprise! The one doing fine is not protected, watered, nothing, just sitting about 2 to 3 feet away from the other one! Oh well eventually it will die too and then I can take the dirt down to the compost pile and leave it for next year!
Hey SwiftMallard I am thinking of getting an electric 'snow shovel', have you ever heard of them? Here near DC we do not get the kind of snow you guys get, usually just a few inches a couple of times per year and a manual shovel works just fine. But I was thinking 'what if'!
Hey are you guys running the Malaria 'A' units yet? They are much shorter and my rac is climbing again now!!
Right now I am back to my WINNING ways!!
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Randy, I don't know if you are in the path of the snow that I just got, but if so, watch out. It is some of the heaviest stickiest crap I have ever seen. The driving today was awful.
The 5-day forecast doesn't call for any of the white-mud earlier than Thursday.
WINNING!!!
Because I'm not getting sn*w today or tomorrow!
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Hey are you guys running the Malaria 'A' units yet? They are much shorter and my rac is climbing again now!!
I run whatever the system sends me. Looking at my completed WUs, they all say Branch B v6.47...of whatever is being sent.[/edit]
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Just downloaded some more WUs. They say Branch A v6.49[/edit2]
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Hey SwiftMallard I am thinking of getting an electric 'snow shovel', have you ever heard of them? Here near DC we do not get the kind of snow you guys get, usually just a few inches a couple of times per year and a manual shovel works just fine. But I was thinking 'what if'!
I don't like either the electric or gas powered shovel. They are little more than brooms, actually I would prefer a broom. Save yourself the expense. I'm guessing that the snow you get is not the light, fluffy variety, the low moisture content stuff. That is what the power shovel does "best". If you get anything heavy, if your back aches when using a regular snow shovel, then get a proper snow blower. Something with a 5 hp engine, 21 inch cut, probably a single stage model would be fine. If you get one, you will be WINNING!
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I use a teaspoon as a snow shovel, around here that is even too big.
WINNING while basking in the sun, it's warmer today than yesterday, showing 62 so far.
Somehow latetly I've been on a bathroom improvement thing.
I got a new washer. My laudnry kloset is in the master bathroom. I love this one, its so kool and kwiet and kwick. I kan't get enough clothes dirty to fill it up each week. I got an LG top load model, with glass lid. Kool I can watch my clothes go around in circles. It's more energy efficient than my old washer was and it was pretty good for that back 10 years ago. LG has built this with such care and extra features I can't find any flaws except it does not also dry your clothes, but then none of them do. Wonder why that is. It seems to me they could add a hot air blower and spin them in the same basket and dry them somehow. I've also switched to using the kold water cycle, as this one as an easy to push button. It might also remember that as a favorite setting but i haven't played with those yet, it so almost too easy to run as it is. I went with LG as I was so impressed with the quality and detail they put into a blu-ray player I bought last year I had decided any new electronic items I would check them out. So instead of looking at the old brand, I looked at LG first and like what I saw so much I only looked at the one. As an added precaution I got one of those $30 power line spike protectors. With these things having electronics in them, they need some extra protection against power surges.
Then while browsing on amazon for something I found a dual flush for the toilet. Hard to get excited about that but this thing is also kool. It was easy to install, 5 minutes and without turning the water off. It has a dual push button, so you push the small button for liquid only which is a reduced flush using less, about 1/3rd the water, and then the full button for bigger loads. Not that around here we have a water shortage, but it might help on the water bill since we ahve to pay for it and also reduce water put into the drain field.
Next I had to get a new shower head. i had one of those shower massagers that broke, kept falling off the holder. I had it held up with a giant rubber band, but then cound not use it as a hand held anymore. I only paid $13 for it 12 years ago. So I got a new one which has a reduced water output. Paid $30 for it and it is of a poorer design, even though it was by the same company. That is how things are these days, they raise the price for less quality. The problem with this one is it is too heavy for the holder whcih is on a swivel, so it flops down. I had to put a soda can in between that part and the wall to hold it up. Then the shower head barely fits in the holder. Any bumping of it or the hose and it pops out. They way it was packaged this was hidden from view. I wish I ahd got something else but I already got this one hooked up and with some klever modifications made it work.
I think too I'll put in one of those korner kaddy's. i hads one years ago that was cheap and rusted out. I found a good quality one, unfortunately its not cheap but I seems better built and will last. Since i rent I can't put any holes into the walls, so this will be better.
I'm also gonna redo my little 5g fish tank and put that in there in an empty space that is the perfect size. I found the perfect metal open grid shelf to fit the spot.
I din't really plan on a make-over, it kind of just happened all at once.
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Hey SwiftMallard I am thinking of getting an electric 'snow shovel', have you ever heard of them? Here near DC we do not get the kind of snow you guys get, usually just a few inches a couple of times per year and a manual shovel works just fine. But I was thinking 'what if'!
I don't like either the electric or gas powered shovel. They are little more than brooms, actually I would prefer a broom. Save yourself the expense. I'm guessing that the snow you get is not the light, fluffy variety, the low moisture content stuff. That is what the power shovel does "best". If you get anything heavy, if your back aches when using a regular snow shovel, then get a proper snow blower. Something with a 5 hp engine, 21 inch cut, probably a single stage model would be fine. If you get one, you will be WINNING!
I needed one of those gas powered one last year but I am not sure about this year. And YES my back does hurt after shoveling, that is why I was thinking of the 'power shovel'. I actually had a FREE 2 cycle snow blower but it just sat in my garage for 4 seasons before I gave it back to the guy who gave it to me. It is still sitting in his garage, so I could get it again I guess.
Keith I have one of those rain shower shower heads and it is WONDERFUL, it uses ALOT of water but is definitely worth it! It has an arm that sticks out from the wall and the water comes right down onto your head and body, kind of like a waterfall. I liked it so much I went out and bought 2 more, they are in storage for my next home!! I put one in my 2nd bathroom but the kids didn't like it so I went back to one of those turn the dial water massaging type heads, they like it better.
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Mikey, I got one of those hand-held shower massagers with a dial, ahs 9 combinations. The difference over my old one is this has a reduced water saving flow. I kind of miss the fire hose effect, but it functions and get the job done. Also with the handle in the holder it sticks up over my 6 foot high head. When I go visit my parents I have to scooch down to get my head under the water less than 6 foot high shower head. What went worng with this ones design is the holder. You stick the hand held head by the hose coupling, which is sort of cone shaped, into the holder, it only goes down about 1 inch, which is half of the distance it should go, and it is not a tight or even snug fit. If you touch the unit or bump the hose, it lifts up and will fall out, as it is too top heavy. And without that can to hold it straight up it was worse. All they needed to do was make the arm holder claw like piece larger so it would slide down further, then if you bumped it it would have room to move without falling out. You would have to bump it really hard in that case. Also the head needs to be lighter since the swivel won't hold itself up with the head in palce. Now it is too easy, just a burst of air seems like it will blow it out. You can't force it to fit tighter, there is no give and the slickness of the plastic does not help, maybe if it was rubber. i'm afraid to force it too much as it might breakr the claw part, which is what broke on my old unit, although that was after 12 years. but it held the hand held head unit very securly and any bumping of the hose didn't even make it move.
Where i went wrong was to not shop online. Actually I looked at some, but the photos were poor, only one view, so I decided to shop locally so I could look at them close up, only where i went wrong was to buy one without going back home and reading the online reviews first and comparing choices. Also the way it was packaged, you could only see the hand held head and not the hose or bracket. It was the same brand as my old one which held up well for 12 years, so I figured it was about the same, being wrong again. As far as price it was within a buck or two so that is not a real big issue. I would have taken it back, but I bought this at that place i've had lots of trouble with, and I'm not going back in there, even if i won that million point shopping spree I would not. So i'm stuck with this not so perfect item.
After my modification it is not all that bad. What i'll have to do is either use that soada can and paint it white or maybe a plastic bottle or rod cut to length and painted white if needed. The can was just something nearby and fit exactly. Being aluminium it won't rest. Painted i doubt anyone would even notice it. I think there is some old white PVC water tubeing outside I could cut a piece off, even notch the one end a little and it would fit and look more like part of the unit. Whatever is the least amount of work for me is usually what I go with, keep it simple.
speaking of simple, it is like WINNING.
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Well the free computer didn't work out. After the power outage yesterday it was nothing but problems. I wouldn't make through the POST and start all over. I took it down and Best Buy took back the GPU and HD I bought for it. Whew!
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Well the free computer didn't work out. After the power outage yesterday it was nothing but problems. I wouldn't make through the POST and start all over. I took it down and Best Buy took back the GPU and HD I bought for it. Whew!
Hope you wiped any sensitive info from the HD before you returned it.
It feels kinda funny not listing a 3-digit number to win...
WINNING!!!
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I put nothing on but Windows XP and Boinc, it was just a cruncher.
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Winning while I look at wonder over the frost on the lawn and car windscreen and the ...
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Winning while I look at wonder over the frost on the lawn and car windscreen and the ...
I thought you said it was WARM?!!
JohnC my rac for today is 486,293, the problem yesterday was that my wife had TURNED OFF her pc and I had not noticed, AARRGGHH!!!! I will yell at her today when she wakes up!!
Keith I do the same thing sometimes, I go to the store 'just looking' and end up coming home with the item, then get 'buyers remorse' and WISH I had done something else instead!! I often just live with it though, teaching myself a lesson everytime I see my 'mistake'!
WINNING!!
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Winning while I look at wonder over the frost on the lawn and car windscreen and the ...
John...John...John...sigh...
There is one unwritten rule that you are forgetting: the person that runs the game cannot win.
WINNING!!!
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Well friends, Guess what. Some more stuff is missing from stock this morning, it was here Thursday or Friday. In fact the two items were jsut received in only a few days ago. The boss man was here on Saturday but had no sales. One was a brand new item we jsut received 3 of, we sold one on the day, put one on dispaly and put the third in stock, where there now is an empty spot. The other item we already had two, I remembered stacking it on the bottom and definately therre were 3 there, that was just thursday. The cash is not missing because i did away with the cash register. Twice since I moved out front all the cash disappeared over a weekend. Now its hidden and I only told the boss man were I keep it. We only keep about $100 for change purposes. Now before i've noticed inventory misiing, but since we do not have a good count (u-hum) it is hard to tell. And twice before in the past a computer, dead one with no cpu, memory of hd, dissapeared and then thos new parts out of my desk. I told the boss man every time and that he should change the locks, guess what he is having done today. It is either an employee or an x-employee, as several no longer work here and he never changed the locks. He can get a key back, but that doesn't mean thay didn't make a copy. And without a good count, i wonder how much inventory has been dissapearing over hte years and the cash as no one ever counted the register, until i moved out here. Sorry, but I told him so. He never listens to me.
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Hmm, strange feeling I am in top 3 rac here, newer done that before.
This must be my win today............
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I can win on a post but not the game.
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Hmmm...Should I stick with Satellite TV and DSL internet? Or should I go to cable for both? Cable is significantly faster, but speed is not too big an issue for me. Costs are about the same, all told. My current set-up is not giving me any problems. A little voice keeps telling me, "If it aint broke, don't fix it!" Yet the sirens are singing their song....
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Hmmm...Should I stick with Satellite TV and DSL internet? Or should I go to cable for both? Cable is significantly faster, but speed is not too big an issue for me. Costs are about the same, all told. My current set-up is not giving me any problems. A little voice keeps telling me, "If it aint broke, don't fix it!" Yet the sirens are singing their song....
I personally will NEVER go satellite due to a vacation I took once...we were at this really nice place in upper Georgia and while watching a really good movie a thunderstorm came thru and for the next 3 hours all we could was play video games that were built into the box! Soooo unless there is NO OTHER CHOICE I will NOT go to satellite. I have had Comcast and Verizon Fios, I can tell you Fios is MUCH better but so is the company and that may be part of the reason I like them. Even though Fios does not have a local office, and the Comcast one is less than 10 minutes away, Comcast is BAD!! I also know that in most places it is a monopoly and you do not get a choice, I guess I am one of the lucky ones!
JohnC my rac for today is 489,090, so it is going up again and hopefully it will stay that way!!
Keith you might want to invest in a video camera too, maybe one that runs off one of your current or even spare pc's and thru a webcam just records to a hard drive. There are some VERY fancy system but they can cost tons and tons of money and unless you guys win the lottery, imo not worth it for you. You can point it at the front or back door and see who comes and tried their old key, or you can point it at the inventory section and see who is stealing. If you guys meet with the local cops they might even help you chose an inexpensive solution. At my old work EVERY TIME an employee quit, got fired, left for whatever reason, the code to the doors for that office was changed!! They have electronic locks everywhere and one time 3 people left within a 2 week time span, lots of people got locked out until someone would come that knew the new code! Usually a higher up with a blackberry that got their emails on it would let everyone in as they would always email the new code to everyone that was currently working.
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[Keith you might want to invest in a video camera too, maybe one that runs off one of your current or even spare pc's and thru a webcam just records to a hard drive. There are some VERY fancy system but they can cost tons and tons of money and unless you guys win the lottery, imo not worth it for you. You can point it at the front or back door and see who comes and tried their old key, or you can point it at the inventory section and see who is stealing. If you guys meet with the local cops they might even help you chose an inexpensive solution. At my old work EVERY TIME an employee quit, got fired, left for whatever reason, the code to the doors for that office was changed!! They have electronic locks everywhere and one time 3 people left within a 2 week time span, lots of people got locked out until someone would come that knew the new code! Usually a higher up with a blackberry that got their emails on it would let everyone in as they would always email the new code to everyone that was currently working.
Well I agree but it would not be my decision. Besides a video of someone trying a key now in the lock would not be evidence of past guilt, although it probablly would be that person.
The list of suspects has been reduced. One former person has moved out of state, way far away, a few months ago and the problem still went on after that, so I kinda eliminate that person off the suspect list. The list is shorter, no former employees have a new key, that only leaves 4 active keys. Me (been here 29 years), the boss and the senior tech are elimanated. I do not suspect the other person, but he is younger. The one other still active employee does not have a new key.
Now just think, the two items missing recently, probably total a little more than a 1000 bucks cost, plus a couple of times of cash missing, about 100 bucks each time. Then not to mention how much other stuff or cash we don't know about. All this could have been avoided possibly (unless its still an active employee) if he changed the lock and keys for 60 bucks like i suggested over a year ago. after those computer parts dissapeared out of my desk.
Gontta go do some w&*k, hope I'm still WINNING when I get back.
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Hmmm...Should I stick with Satellite TV and DSL internet? Or should I go to cable for both? Cable is significantly faster, but speed is not too big an issue for me. Costs are about the same, all told. My current set-up is not giving me any problems. A little voice keeps telling me, "If it aint broke, don't fix it!" Yet the sirens are singing their song....
I personally will NEVER go satellite due to a vacation I took once...we were at this really nice place in upper Georgia and while watching a really good movie a thunderstorm came thru and for the next 3 hours all we could was play video games that were built into the box! Soooo unless there is NO OTHER CHOICE I will NOT go to satellite. I have had Comcast and Verizon Fios, I can tell you Fios is MUCH better but so is the company and that may be part of the reason I like them. Even though Fios does not have a local office, and the Comcast one is less than 10 minutes away, Comcast is BAD!! I also know that in most places it is a monopoly and you do not get a choice, I guess I am one of the lucky ones!
I'm one of those unlucky enough to be in a Comcast Monopoly zone. I considered the ATT U-verse package, but the phone lines in my area cannot support DSL let alone the bandwidth for U-verse. :(
Considering that I have 3 HD sets plus a PCTV card connected to another cable box, I guess I'm OK. But between the cable TV and the internet I'm paying close to $160/mo for service. Man what a rip-off!
Well, I know at least ONE place where I'm...
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I'm one of those unlucky enough to be in a Comcast Monopoly zone. I considered the ATT U-verse package, but the phone lines in my area cannot support DSL let alone the bandwidth for U-verse. :(
Considering that I have 3 HD sets plus a PCTV card connected to another cable box, I guess I'm OK. But between the cable TV and the internet I'm paying close to $160/mo for service. Man what a rip-off!
Well, I know at least ONE place where I'm...
WINNING!!!
Winning is like your internet connection, it comes and goes. Yours seems to be out at the moment, so i'm WINNING.
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I'm one of those unlucky enough to be in a Comcast Monopoly zone. I considered the ATT U-verse package, but the phone lines in my area cannot support DSL let alone the bandwidth for U-verse. :(
Considering that I have 3 HD sets plus a PCTV card connected to another cable box, I guess I'm OK. But between the cable TV and the internet I'm paying close to $160/mo for service. Man what a rip-off!
Well, I know at least ONE place where I'm...
WINNING!!!
Winning is like your internet connection, it comes and goes. Yours seems to be out at the moment, so i'm WINNING.
Up and running! Evening shift reporting for a...
WIN!!!
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[Keith you might want to invest in a video camera too, maybe one that runs off one of your current or even spare pc's and thru a webcam just records to a hard drive. There are some VERY fancy system but they can cost tons and tons of money and unless you guys win the lottery, imo not worth it for you. You can point it at the front or back door and see who comes and tried their old key, or you can point it at the inventory section and see who is stealing. If you guys meet with the local cops they might even help you chose an inexpensive solution. At my old work EVERY TIME an employee quit, got fired, left for whatever reason, the code to the doors for that office was changed!! They have electronic locks everywhere and one time 3 people left within a 2 week time span, lots of people got locked out until someone would come that knew the new code! Usually a higher up with a blackberry that got their emails on it would let everyone in as they would always email the new code to everyone that was currently working.
Well I agree but it would not be my decision. Besides a video of someone trying a key now in the lock would not be evidence of past guilt, although it probablly would be that person.
The list of suspects has been reduced. One former person has moved out of state, way far away, a few months ago and the problem still went on after that, so I kinda eliminate that person off the suspect list. The list is shorter, no former employees have a new key, that only leaves 4 active keys. Me (been here 29 years), the boss and the senior tech are elimanated. I do not suspect the other person, but he is younger. The one other still active employee does not have a new key.
Now just think, the two items missing recently, probably total a little more than a 1000 bucks cost, plus a couple of times of cash missing, about 100 bucks each time. Then not to mention how much other stuff or cash we don't know about. All this could have been avoided possibly (unless its still an active employee) if he changed the lock and keys for 60 bucks like i suggested over a year ago. after those computer parts dissapeared out of my desk.
Gontta go do some w&*k, hope I'm still WINNING when I get back.
Keith if those 1000 dollar items and some money once in a while are what's missing, then it is probably an inside job. Meaning someone knows it is there and taking it because they can move it for cash quickly. I am NOT casting any doubt on anyone, but my guess would be a current employee as opposed to a random event where someone is just browsing and got lucky. Someone KNEW those items were in there and that is why they got taken, no other stuff missing is why it kind of rules out a random crime. But I do agree that changing the locks was a good idea and the boss should have done it MUCH sooner! Now he must KNOW who he gives keys too and that they are NOT duplicated!! The computer parts missing off of your desk also points to someone currently working there too.
RandyC I too pay close to that, I have 3 tv's, 2 of which are hd, 2 dvr's, internet, phone and tv all on one bill. Actually my wireless phone is on the bill too but that is another cost, Verizon was nice enough to only send me one bill per month but it is HUGE!!
JohnC my rac today is 491,180, so I am getting very close to the half a million cobblestones per day mark! I NEVER would have thought that was possible when I started!!
That DEFINITELY means I am WINNING!!!!
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Yeah, Mikey, it definately was an inside job, or at least someone that worked here. Like i said, you can get rid of someone, get the key back, but that doesn't mean they don't have a copy of the key. Not changing the lock is just not intellegent. In the past though, we had so much stuff and people, if an item went missing once and a while it was hard to tell and no one was watching. With sales being down, again this year for the third year in a row, we don't keep as much stuff, have less people, so there is less to watch over, it becomes more apparent. Also not haveing an accurate computer inventory, not my choice, it is hard to monitor and doing half of all sales on paper or in your head is not helping any. Maybe after 30 years of nagging the boss, he will change his ways. Do ya think ?
The change of the lock i'm sure will stop the problem, if not then the list of suspects is very short, only 4 people have keys and we only have 5 employees, including the boss, its a short list.
It's kind of stupid to steal from your employer though, as that is lost money he has to make up some other way, which can usually mean a cut in benefits or pay for everyone.
I can't see this morning, everything is going fuzazy with or without my glasses, my eye jsut won't focus in on anything.
WINNIG I think, i'm not sure what i jsut typed.
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Looking in to sww what progress has been ....
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Yeah, Mikey, it definately was an inside job, or at least someone that worked here. Like i said, you can get rid of someone, get the key back, but that doesn't mean they don't have a copy of the key. Not changing the lock is just not intellegent. In the past though, we had so much stuff and people, if an item went missing once and a while it was hard to tell and no one was watching. With sales being down, again this year for the third year in a row, we don't keep as much stuff, have less people, so there is less to watch over, it becomes more apparent. Also not haveing an accurate computer inventory, not my choice, it is hard to monitor and doing half of all sales on paper or in your head is not helping any. Maybe after 30 years of nagging the boss, he will change his ways. Do ya think ?
The change of the lock i'm sure will stop the problem, if not then the list of suspects is very short, only 4 people have keys and we only have 5 employees, including the boss, its a short list.
It's kind of stupid to steal from your employer though, as that is lost money he has to make up some other way, which can usually mean a cut in benefits or pay for everyone.
I can't see this morning, everything is going fuzazy with or without my glasses, my eye jsut won't focus in on anything.
WINNIG I think, i'm not sure what i jsut typed.
Maybe it is just foggy at the beach this morning!
Keith there are people that think they are 'owed' more than they are getting from their employers so they readily take anything they think will make up for some of what they think they 'should' be getting. To take that to the next step and think about the business closing and them losing their job as a result is not usually a part of the process. They think they are 'owed' more than they are getting and therefore they will take it, end of thought process. 'Insurance' just pays for it anyway, the thefts I mean, at least in their mind!
JohnC my rac today is down because Dnetc is not issuing any units right now, so I am now down to 469,035! I did put all of my gpu's over to Collatz but it will take a few days for its rac to come up.
WINNING!!
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Online shopping pitfalls:
Last night I got a call from my oldest daughter. She was in tears and basically hysterical. She had just placed an online order for one of those Turkey Fryers (deep fry the whole turkey)...fairly expensive anyway. Apparently after she clicked the confirm order screen and the order summary page came back she discovered the expected delivery date was Dec. 2!
Since she had used a gift card for partial payment the customer service center was unable to cancel her order. She had rushed it through thinking she was getting a good deal because of Free Shipping. Well, free shipping usually means - send it the cheapest, usually slowest, way possible.
You live and learn...I told her it wasn't the end of the world - mistakes happen. And if Tommy was mad at her...well, he'd get over it.
This morning I told my wife that if she had a chance to talk to her, to remind her that Thanksgiving isn't about food, it's about Family!.
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This morning I told my wife that if she had a chance to talk to her, to remind her that Thanksgiving isn't about food, it's about Family!.
WINNING!!!
Sorry to interrupt (and being offensive),
but isn't Thanksgiving the one holiday which *is* about food?
(At least here.)
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This morning I told my wife that if she had a chance to talk to her, to remind her that Thanksgiving isn't about food, it's about Family!.
WINNING!!!
Sorry to interrupt (and being offensive),
but isn't Thanksgiving the one holiday which *is* about food?
(At least here.)
Michael
You are just misguided.
Your comment is just like saying that Christmas is "all about the presents".
WINNING!!!
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POETS Day again, we say!
But, is it hip-hip hooray?
Or is it a tedious task,
to rhyme things just when asked?
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Online shopping pitfalls:
Last night I got a call from my oldest daughter. She was in tears and basically hysterical. She had just placed an online order for one of those Turkey Fryers (deep fry the whole turkey)...fairly expensive anyway. Apparently after she clicked the confirm order screen and the order summary page came back she discovered the expected delivery date was Dec. 2!
Since she had used a gift card for partial payment the customer service center was unable to cancel her order. She had rushed it through thinking she was getting a good deal because of Free Shipping. Well, free shipping usually means - send it the cheapest, usually slowest, way possible.
You live and learn...I told her it wasn't the end of the world - mistakes happen. And if Tommy was mad at her...well, he'd get over it.
This morning I told my wife that if she had a chance to talk to her, to remind her that Thanksgiving isn't about food, it's about Family!.
WINNING!!!
Here in Virginia we have a 3 day Federal 'oh sh!t I didn't really do that did I' time frame. That means that ANYTHING I buy has a 3 day call them up and I can cancel the deal time frame. I used it once to cancel some 'free' magazines that were ending up costing me $100.00 a month!!
And RandyC we always try to make Thanksgiving about 'family' trying to get everyone together for it because at Christmas all the relatives want you too! Now we do eat alot of food too but it is about 'family' first. We have even done Chinese take-out at Christmas!!
JohnC my rac today is 472,101, but Dnetc IS back up and I am crunching for them again. Although one of my pc's, the one with the 5550 gpu in at about 4k per day, died! It will not be until at least the weekend before I can get it in another pc, my wife is getting an award at her work and I was told I WILL be there! There may be a small window this afternoon but I will have to see but it will be pretty small.
As for Poets Day:
I am just not a rhymer
although I am a rac climber
so while my rac is climbing
I am not whining
WINNING!!
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Once again it's time to go,
but we need others to help make it so.
Back at the ranch things are picking up,
and we have milk from out cow, Butter Cup.
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Once again it's time to go,
but we need others to help make it so.
Back at the ranch things are picking up,
and we have milk from out cow, Butter Cup.
Awwww....say hi to the beast!
JohnC my rac right now is 476,143 but later this morning it should start to go up again as I move a couple of gpu's around. I will take an Nvidia out of one machine and replace it with my ATI 5550 out of the machine that stopped running for some reason. I will then put the Nvidia in my Server, I will try to anyway. If that doesn't work then the Server will stay without a card.
Hey just a work of warning alot of my Malaria units are coming thru with a zero time to crunch, meaning I am downloading a TON of units I can't possible finish within 3 days! You can't fill the cache with units that take no time to crunch!! I have set my pc to no new work for right now. These are the A units that have the current problems.
I am WINNING!!
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Hey just a work of warning alot of my Malaria units are coming thru with a zero time to crunch, meaning I am downloading a TON of units I can't possible finish within 3 days! You can't fill the cache with units that take no time to crunch!! I have set my pc to no new work for right now. These are the A units that have the current problems.
I am WINNING!!
It may be just a co-incidence, but I downloaded more WUs on my primary system just before bedtime last night and when I woke up this morning I found it had frozen about 20 mins after I went to bed. It was working on a B-unit.
Restarted and things seem to be running again.
WINNING!!!
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Kooling off again, after a week of the temperature rasing some each day from 60F up to 70F over the last week, it has now begun kooling again, only 66F today.
I'm going to start bringing some more of the plants, as i'm afraid the nights are starting to get too kool for them.
Gotta run, need to make some more kup kakes. The last batch was karrot kup kakes with kream cheese frosting, but they ran out on thursday.
time just enough for some WINNING before baking.
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[quote] later this morning it should start to go up again as I move a couple of gpu's around. I will take an Nvidia out of one machine and replace it with my ATI 5550 out of the machine that stopped running for some reason. I will then put the Nvidia in my Server, I will try to anyway. If that doesn't work then the Server will stay without a card. [quote]
I found a major flaw in my idea, 2 actually, first it is NOT 5550 gpu it is a 4650 cpu, second it is an agp card NOT a pci-e card! I have working for 3 hours to make a mahcine come up that has an agp slot in it but it is being a real pain!!! First I put Linux on it, well the problem is I DO NOT know ANYTHING about Linux and couldn't figure out how to 'extract' the drivers, so I am now onto Win7, but sicne the machine is only a single core pc it might not work either!!! In the words of some famous pirate.....ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WINNING I guess.
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I'm wiped out.
Spent about 4 hours moving just the pepper palnts indoors. Only 7 pots. Had to do them one at a time. First it is untangle the stalks, remove any ropes and bungee's holding them up. Next carefully move one pot inside, which usually required me holding the tops with my one bad hand and pick up the pot with the other good hand. Then once inside I tied them up to a stake, whcih was not easy on some. There was some unintentional damage. Some of these being so tall and overlaoded with heavy peppers, then ended up breaking. There is now a pile of peppers in the kitchen to be used pronto. But that was only a small amount of the ones left. One snapped but not al the way through. it should survive. Fortunately I was tieng it off when it did which kept it fronm kompletely breaking. some of the other that brok off were already half broken. this is why I think the one will survive because of the other broken plants were still growing peppers above the break.
I gave up for the day, have dinner baking.
Tomorrow I will have to position the pepper plants in their final position.
There is still more to bring in, maybe tomorrow or during next week.
It was such a nice day today too, i had the front door wide open the whole time I was working in or out. It's still 66F outside.
WINNING before I pass out.
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8.7 credits for 1.5 hours of CPU time...harrumph!
I'm guessing something is not quite right at Malaria Control Central!
https://malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=24708763
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I guess I was asleep!
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8.7 credits for 1.5 hours of CPU time...harrumph!
I'm guessing something is not quite right at Malaria Control Central!
https://malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=24708763
While I got this:
https://malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=24824700
I sent a PM to Maire, he should be able to figure it out come the new week.
JohnC my rac right now is 477,755 but it will probably go down some more! 8-(((
My machine that I put thsa 4650 agp gpu in just will not recognize it, it is probably because the motherboard is too old! I got 32bit Win7 with 2gb of ram loaded and it works fine but the single core cpu means the bios is old and it just doesn't work. It loads but then after the necessary restart the ATI drivers fail, I used both the ones from the cd AND the ones from the website AND the ones windows itself tried and it just doesn't work! I MAY try a bios update later on today but I am not sure even that will work right now!
Keith what do mean 'bad hand'? I don't remember you saying anything about hurting your hand?! Did you hurt it doing inventory?
I am WINNING for now!
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8.7 credits for 1.5 hours of CPU time...harrumph!
I'm guessing something is not quite right at Malaria Control Central!
https://malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=24708763
While I got this:
https://malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=24824700
I sent a PM to Maire, he should be able to figure it out come the new week.
For this Branch-A WU I got mucho! While for this Branch-B I got much less.
Anybody know why MCN is not showing all tasks for a WU until AFTER it validates?
WINNING!!!
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Anybody know why MCN is not showing all tasks for a WU until AFTER it validates?
I'm fairly certain it's a feature of the latest server-side BOINC software that they are implementing. The crazy credit calculations and run-time estimates are another spin-off of that. Similar issues arose when this was rolled out at SETI@home.
It should settle down after a while ... but they certainly have a few problems at the moment! And being the weekend, nobody is around to do anything about it.
The most important issue, though, is that I AM WINNING! :)
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Yeah i'm sure all the problems are related to the new server code for the new and improved fairer credit system. They will get it worked out soon i'm sure. Remember too they need the week-end off just like everybody else.
It is however reaking havoc on stats. for instance my mc.n crac jumpmed from about an average over the last 30 days of 2k to 7l, yet my position in the stats fell 4 places. Huh ? And I hadn't made any changes in my krunching pwoer or allocations amognst projects.
@ Mikey,
By my bad hand I mean the one with the weak wrist, my left side. Also once I was thrown a box, and caught it off guard which ripped my back muscle. The pain in the wrist might actually be a result from that injury and not really CTS. I broke my fore finger once on the left hand and it is not perfect either. Although my CTS, if that is even what it is had been acting up again after a 2-3 year painless spell. From about May when I did a lot of extra moving at the office up until maybe mid-September it got the worst it had ever been. Since then I made some changes to how i sit and work and also have been taking it easy at home and being extra careful how i pick up things. It has been improving rapidly over the last two months and all the pains are mostly gone. Only thing that I can think of making it better is a constant supply of Brownies.
I was wiped out yesterday, had dinner at 4pm and laid down after that and dozed in and out.
Today I did a little more moving and rearranging, but some more of the plants are going to stay out a while longer.
I did something differrent this year, instead of putting the plants on tables or the floor klose to the winderz, i put them in two rows, 2-4 feet back into the room, with the short ones in front. They are getting more sun. And with my windows that are large and the half-moon over top of them, they get various amounst of sun from about 8am til 3pm, even the 7 foot tall one. Not only that it is easier to get around them for watering and care and we can hide behind them so people outside can't see into the house, even the the blinds are all the way up.
I have a good southern exposure and the larger winderz gives me a better than average indoor winter growing cycle.
It is 68F today, so far !
Now i'm gonna go make a Karamel-Drizzled Pumpkin Poke Kake. I was going to make some kup kaes or more brownies, but saw this recipe and I've been trying to use up exsisting pantry stock, well guess what, i've got almost all of the ingredients for this in the pantry or frig. Some are close matches so i'm gonna punt and make it with what I got instead of buying more.
WINNING while thinking should I go put shorts back on.
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To get an idea of the magnitude of the credit problem, check out the MC stats on BOINCstats!
I'm digesting my dinner, in which a juicy roast chicken and roast potatoes were accompanied by homegrown broccoli, baby marrows, and spinach. YUM! Preceded as it was by a single malt Scotch, and washed down with a five-year-old Shiraz, it has engendered a substantially mellow Sunday evening feeling!
Oh, and I'm winning again!
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Are you ready for Thanksgiving, A holidy to give thanks to those that have provided for you, friends and family. It's not just about stuffing turkey into your pie hole !
And of course all the stores should have and after day sale. I already got a coupon in my email fo 50% one item at ACE Hardware. I'll check other local stores and see if I can make Saturday a time to go shopping and get some extra good deals.
I saw Christmas trees going up for sale today. Some places now start putting out the Christmas stuff before Boo! Day. These holidays have become too commercialized and lost thier meaning.
The kake is now kooling. Not hard to make. I used up the pumpkin left from the previous brownie batches, only it was not enough so I had to open another kan. Also I got rid of a box of kake mix, kan of kondensed milk, jar of hot fudge goo and some nuts. Only drawback is now i've got more pumpkin to use. Hummmm. I think it is just enough to make two more batches of those evil pumpkin filled brownies, which due to a recent relapse on a shopping trip I bought two more boxes of fudgey brownie mix, at least it was a BOGO. Oh well, i'll just have to suffer, make and eat them all. Life can be so krewl sometimes.
See now it has made me WINNING.
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My rac place here got from 4 to 168, not my win today....
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It looks like I've started to win with the rest of you.
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Morning shift checking in for a WIN!!!
...stiff and sore from raking leaves yesterday. This week's trash pick-up is the last one where they accept yard waste until next spring. I've only got 'til Friday to finish the job.
...wishing I was 20 years younger.
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Morning shift checking in for a WIN!!!
...stiff and sore from raking leaves yesterday. This week's trash pick-up is the last one where they accept yard waste until next spring. I've only got 'til Friday to finish the job.
...wishing I was 20 years younger.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!! Man I wish I had finished up some of the outdoor projects sooner, I CAN still do them but I pay dearly for it for the next SEVERAL days afterwards!
JohnC my rac today is 482,454, so a slight uptick but nothing special. The AGP gpu is STILL not producing anything although I will work on it alot today. If it doesn't work I will have to just get another 5770 to replace it.
Keith my wife had 2 hand surgeries for CTS and is very happy she did! No pain no nothing, so if yours is there my advice is to go check it out NOW!!! I wonder if the pumpkin is making it better, something in the chemical makeup of pumpkin? I am a diabetic and if I use just a little bit of cinnamon my numbers ARE lower!! I got a grinder and usually put it in my coffee but I got some new creamer I will be trying next week that is 'cinnamon vanilla', I LOVE vanilla flavored coffee so it should be a good combination. I also got some Bailey's flavored coffee creamer yesterday, it was on sale and the neighbor gave me a coupon, we went to the store together after breakfast, so I couldn't refuse! It is non-alcoholic which is a good thing for non vacation mornings!
I got a PM back from Nick saying they will be adjusting the credits downward soon for those of us that got the bonus. They think they know what happened and are working on a solution.
WINNING!!
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Mikey is winning with a rising RAC and many many Malaria credits.
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I am in top 100 again by rac, I hope they fix this soon.......
My win Today for rac place 98 here.
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Woohoo, I hit the jackpot, finally.
i've only been getting normal creidt around 150-200 per task.
I finally got the 10X bonus with one at 23,000
I know they will taqke it abck, but it's nice to be a WINNER
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Woohoo, I hit the jackpot, finally.
i've only been getting normal creidt around 150-200 per task.
I finally got the 10X bonus with one at 23,000
I know they will taqke it abck, but it's nice to be a WINNER
No such luck for me. However, I've still got 4 pending so I may get one yet.
WINNING!!!
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Mikey is winning with a rising RAC and many many Malaria credits.
Yes but as stated they WILL be taking them all back, all the ones I don't deserve anyway!
And yes my rac is still rising, today it is 483,782, so it is slowing down, the rate of rise is slowing down anyway! I hope that doesn't lead to some back sliding but it probably will. That pc I was working on with the agp slot is a Soyo motherboard and they have shut down their website and I can no longer update the bios! There are sites that are still around where you can re-flash what you have but no updates at all anywhere! So the machine is being used a hard drive wiper right now, I use the program DBAN, it stands for Darik's Boot And Nuke and is a free hard drive wiper to NSA specs. No I do not need the NSA spec part but it is free and I use it on EVERY hard drive as I put them on the shelf. I have used it for years and wipe EVERY hard drive of pc's I get that used to belong to someone else, NO EXCEPTIONS!! I do not even boot up the pc before wiping the drive if the data on it is not important to them!! It will not wipe bad drives though, so on though I try Spinrite and if it fails the drives go in a pile waiting to have holes drilled in them and then they will be trashed.
SwiftMallard I see you got a new Coach yesterday, I hope he works out for you guys! I think the next step is to send the QB packing too and just start working on next year, this one is so far gone as to not even be worth saving, IMO! Even if you guys did make the playoffs who do you think you can beat, the Patriots or Colts? It is kind of like my team the Redskins, they are better than last year but have some SERIOUS needs to fill, and just need to get better at teamwork right now!
WINNING!!
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Looks like we're back up. I kept getting message "Project down for maintenance".
They were probably fixing the credits and Mikey will be back down to a reasonable score...
WINNING!!!
@Mikey: are you saying that there is a downturn in the upturn of the downturn of your RAC increase (or something like that!)?
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SwiftMallard I see you got a new Coach yesterday, I hope he works out for you guys! I think the next step is to send the QB packing too and just start working on next year, this one is so far gone as to not even be worth saving, IMO! Even if you guys did make the playoffs who do you think you can beat, the Patriots or Colts? It is kind of like my team the Redskins, they are better than last year but have some SERIOUS needs to fill, and just need to get better at teamwork right now!
You will get no argument from me. And many here agree too. Getting Favre was part of Wilf's plan to get public funding for a new stadium. That plan is going down in flames.
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SwiftMallard I see you got a new Coach yesterday, I hope he works out for you guys! I think the next step is to send the QB packing too and just start working on next year, this one is so far gone as to not even be worth saving, IMO! Even if you guys did make the playoffs who do you think you can beat, the Patriots or Colts? It is kind of like my team the Redskins, they are better than last year but have some SERIOUS needs to fill, and just need to get better at teamwork right now!
You will get no argument from me. And many here agree too. Getting Favre was part of Wilf's plan to get public funding for a new stadium. That plan is going down in flames.
Yes that is what ESPN and others are saying, but I think Favre is going to not get another start past this coming Sunday, against MY Redskins, unless he does well! I think he is going to find his services are as a backup if he plays badly again!! I AM hoping he plays badly!!!!!!!!!
RandyC said:
"@Mikey: are you saying that there is a downturn in the upturn of the downturn of your RAC increase (or something like that!)?"
Yes I am! Nick said that as soon as the current batch of units is run thru they will make the change, just so they don't have to do it multiple times.
JohnC I am helping a lady buy a new laptop and she gave me a check today, WOOHOO!!, and I went right out and spent it! I bought an AMD 6850 and have already set a pc using an Nvidia card to NNT, and aborted all current tasks, for DNETC and will install it tommorrow!
I AM DEFINITELY WINNING!!!!
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The AMD 6850 is about 40% faster than an ATI 5750 (from reports). So, I am assuming you are determined to overtake me, then?
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Yes that is what ESPN and others are saying, but I think Favre is going to not get another start past this coming Sunday, against MY Redskins, unless he does well! I think he is going to find his services are as a backup if he plays badly again!! I AM hoping he plays badly!!!!!!!!!
Favre's only in it for the 300. End of story.
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RandyC said:
"@Mikey: are you saying that there is a downturn in the upturn of the downturn of your RAC increase (or something like that!)?"
Yes I am! Nick said that as soon as the current batch of units is run thru they will make the change, just so they don't have to do it multiple times.
JohnC I am helping a lady buy a new laptop and she gave me a check today, WOOHOO!!, and I went right out and spent it! I bought an AMD 6850 and have already set a pc using an Nvidia card to NNT, and aborted all current tasks, for DNETC and will install it tommorrow!
I AM DEFINITELY WINNING!!!!
Whoopie! I just got 3 of the big-credit ones. Too bad it won't last. RAC is up to 9.8K when it is normally about 150.
WINNING!!!
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I didn't think I could make something more better than those pumpkin brownies.
Boy, this latest desert is the evilest. I decided to slice it into 15 pieces, instead of the 20 it called for. One piece and i'm about to pass out.
It's pumpkin poke cake, yellow cake mix with pumpkin added, so it comes out pumpkin colored, and tasting too. After it bakes you poke holes in it while it is hot. poor in evaporated milk, then hot fudge. Then after it cools you coat it with frosting, pecans and the caramel toping.
It definately is not a lite desert. It might even quality as a meal by itself.
I made mine slightly different than the actual recipe, only because i had some stuff i wanted to use up so i went for it making substutions. I don't think mine is all that bad. I did do it slightly differently by putting some of the hot fudge in the holes and then also the rest as a thin layer all across the top. Only difference is i only used 16 ounces instead of the 24 ounces it called for. Think what if I used the required amount, i'd be on sugar overdrive. I coated it with vanilla frosting.
After, IF, I finish this off, I'll be making one of my Pumpkin Cheesakakes. I've got some killer cheeskake recipies. I make some of the best deserts and I think the pumpkin ones are the best. Then i'll have to make some more brownies. I wonder if pumpkin and peanut butter go good together.
WINNING before I pass out.
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Looking in for a frozen (-2C) win.
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Looking in for a frozen (-2C) win.
Definitely frozen here @27F. Will have to go out to the car early to scrape.
WINNING!!!
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The AMD 6850 is about 40% faster than an ATI 5750 (from reports). So, I am assuming you are determined to overtake me, then?
ABSOLUTELY!!!! My rac today is 484,576, so only up 1k from yesterdays but that should change later on. I have to remove a power supply from a non working machine and put it in a machine that is currently running fine but the power supply is not big enough to handle the 6850. So it is not a simple cut and paste but sorta, kinda it is. I will also do the same thing with the machine that can use the agp card, it is a Dell and the power supply is only a 250 watt one so I am hoping if I put in a bigger one it will handle the dual core and the gpu crunching too. It ran for a while but now dies after a couple of hours if I put the gpu in, so since the other machine wouldn't work, I am now down to grasping at straws!
SwiftMallard I hope Favre does not make 300 because since he is on #295, I think, he just might make it! That would mean up to 5 more loses for you guys and no chance for the playoffs this year or probably next either, although low standings does mean higher draft picks! Although together they often mean 'rebuilding' years!
Keith I think you are on a sugar high and need to stay up there THRU the Holidays!! I too like pumpkin, though clearly not as much as you do, and I like peanut butter, so yes it might make a good combination, after all it all mixes together further down in the stomach anyway!
RandyC and JohnC it is chilly hear today, again FINALLY, but it is still in the mid 40'sF right now and I will have highs in the mid 50's all week long. It will drop into the low 40's to upper 30's at night though, I LOVE IT!!
WINNING!
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WINNING in the sun. Although kooler today, it is still in the 60F's. i'm still wearing short sleeve shirts.
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It was sunny here yesterday but it clouded up again. Expecting slushy snow later this afternoon and evening. Harrumph!
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This picture show it all here from Turku, in Finland.
Cold, snow and dark,
Winning, my rac is still growing?
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So was mine before the credit correction of a few hours ago. Just leaves a bloated RAC
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So was mine before the credit correction of a few hours ago. Just leaves a bloated RAC
WOW!!!! NICE RAC!!!
Hey John my new 6850 is doing units faster than a 4670 but they seem to be slower than a 5770. It is ONLY the first day so it may do better soon!
It is going to rain later tonight but no freezing temps and no rain tomorrow. Friday the rain comes back but the temps stay in the 50's.
I hope everyone has NICE Thanksgiving, and remember even if your Country does nto celebrate it, we do so you CAN!!! We like to share Holidays that way!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm thankful for the opertunity to be able to give (my computer time) to science and humanity.
I'm thankful for the invention of brownies !
I'm thankful for the chance of WINNING !!!
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Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm thankful for the opertunity to be able to give (my computer time) to science and humanity.
I'm thankful for the invention of brownies !
I'm thankful for the chance of WINNING !!!
Happy Turkey Day everybody...unless you're having ham or roast or some vegetarian (ugh!) meal for the day!
I hope everyone has a chance to be with friends and family to celebrate this holiday.
And I too am thankful for...
WINNING!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm thankful for the opertunity to be able to give (my computer time) to science and humanity.
I'm thankful for the invention of brownies !
I'm thankful for the chance of WINNING !!!
Happy Turkey Day everybody...unless you're having ham or roast or some vegetarian (ugh!) meal for the day!
I hope everyone has a chance to be with friends and family to celebrate this holiday.
And I too am thankful for...
WINNING!!!
My sister in law used to be a vegetarian until her Doctor told she would be dead if she didn't start eating meat, she apparently was a terrible vegetarian and did not make good choices! Anyway one Thanksgiving we were all at my mother in laws place and my sister in law maybe a 'tofu turkey' for everyone to eat! We went for Chinese take out instead and she was mad, MAD, MAD!! We told her she could have made 2, one tofu for her and one regular for us, but she just could not see the point. Fortunately now that her diet has changed that is no longer a problem and we all eat 'normally'! That is something I am THANKFUL for!!!
JohnC my rac today is up to 494,816 and still rising. The new card is not blazingly fast though, and I think I need to do some research into why. AND the pc that has the agp card in it seems to have stopped again, ARRGH!!!
But it is Thanksgiving and I am winning and we are going out to some friends, so no cooking for us! That makes we REALLY WINNING!!!
I hope everyones Thanksgiving is a good one!!!
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Was going to work out on the porch some today, but its a little chilli for bare feet. Its only 60F. Tomorrow will be better if it doens't rain, but then it drops into the 50's.
Anyway I've been getting some of those (free) recycled buckets, well they are actually dry chemical containers.
I've got a couple that hold 6 gallons of water, if it ever rains again. When I got them I didn't get the lids because I din't think i needed them.
Then recently I got two more, and didn't get the lids again, now i wish i did.
I have dirt stored in two of those gray plastic rectangular rubbermaid type bins like you buy. I've wanted more but never got around to buying some. Now i'm gald i didn't do that either.
After I got the last two buckets without the lids, I thought, gee why don't i get some more of these free things with the lids and just use them.
So yesterday when i dropped off the recycling i found some more. But i got some extra huge size i had not seen there before, they hold 100 pounds of dry whatever came in them. I estiamte it would be about 12-15 gallons of water space. I started filling one with dirt from one bin to see how much fit, it took it all and then some more room to spare. Plus I got the lids this time so I can seal them up.
I have one bucket I painted gray to use as a plant stand.
I'm thinking i need some more of these extra huge buckets to use for water storage. Those 33 gallon barrels are a little heavy to move when full. These I could manage a little better to put out when (IF) it rains and then with the lids seal them off when full, so skeeterz don't play in there, plus they are stackable that way. Also they look rather nice as plant stands when turned downside up and are heavy duty, and just need a little painting to cover up they labeling printed on them.
I've painted a couple gray so far, they blend in nicely will all the gray pots.
I'll go over Saturday, they are closed for some holiday, and get some more while they are there. There is a section where they get set aside for people to take and use. Different sizes so I can use them as plant stands, pots, dirt bins, rain water storage or buckets.
Another use is one will be for extra hoses and small tools to hide all that stuff.
I'm also thinking for next year of making some kind of tiered shelf like stand for the plants, to get them up a little higher and off the deck. These would work good as supports and then just some boards across two or three.
Bonus is if they eventually break, i'm out nothing, except maybe some paint.
Sometime this week end I need to finish reaaranging the dining room, where the plants are now. I've got to move them all and put down some extra carpets where they are, so water or leaves don't ruin the permanent carpet.
Also too I wanted to work on the diminishing Aloe plant collection and repot all of them in fresh soil, mixing the old from them back into the old I now have in the dirt bins. I use that as filler in the bottoms of pots and also mix in dried leaves and stakes from the veggie plants so it can decompose and add something back. It depends on they type of plant I put in a pot, some of them don't grow very deep roots, so half old dirt and half new works just fine.
I intend to use those two gray bins as sweet potato pots for next year. Those need some place for the 'toes to grow, but the plant which is a vine, can grow up and along the railings or hang down all across the front railing. Not like a bushy plant where all the growth is direcly overtop the root space.
WINNING the recycling race !
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I went - Aaarrrrgh! - when I saw my total credit just a few minutes ago, and see @Mikey has been cut off even more at the knee. I thought I would never win again, but a long nose around the NC threads has quietened my pounding heart.
Queeping back for a sneaky little win, and a hoped for restoration of RAC in the next few days.
In the mean time, I can luxuriate in a bloated RAC win until the BOINC RAC calculation restores this to normal quite rapidly in the next 2 weeks.
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Yeah someone goofed BIG TIME. My 2.5 Million has been reduced to 11K.
I'm protesting this fiasco by stopping all work.
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Yeah someone goofed BIG TIME. My 2.5 Million has been reduced to 11K.
I'm protesting this fiasco by stopping all work.
My loss is +5 million in credit here, my win today.
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Morning Shift reporting in...time for a WIN!
Forecast today: highs will be below freezing. :(
A few flurries through 11:00 am, then light snow showers. :(
Warming (if you can call it that) over the weekend to the low 40sF.
Overnight lows will still be below freezing. :(
WINNING!!! anyway!
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Morning Shift reporting in...time for a WIN!
Forecast today: highs will be below freezing. :(
A few flurries through 11:00 am, then light snow showers. :(
Warming (if you can call it that) over the weekend to the low 40sF.
Overnight lows will still be below freezing. :(
WINNING!!! anyway!
Sam's Club has on sale for only 160 bucks an electric snow blower that is 20" wide, I think my wife ordered it for me for Xmas! It is too big for the normal snows we get around here but it is perfect for those BIG snows we get some times, being electric it will start right up and require little to no maintenance!
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=prod1560116&iid=DATE|Landing|Snow%20Joe%20Electric%20Snow%20Thrower%20with%20Light
As for the credits I lost 4,808,534 YESTERDAY! I AM still crunching but with only a single core of my laptop though! They NEED to fix this latest deduction!
JohnC my rac for today is 504,870, so the new card IS working! Also I made the machine with the agp card in it not do hyper threading, so it is a single core right now and made it thru 24 hours without crashing. I will have to tack the cpu off and put some new Artic Silver on it maybe later today, maybe not today. I am feeling bad due to my allergies today, so may just nap and play couch potato it all day instead!
Keith make sure you wash out those buckets before you use them, I use simple green but you can use anything that makes suds and then rinses away without leaving a residue. Also won't you need to put some holes in the bottom of the ones you want to use for the potatoes? They will get too wet when it does rain, won't they? My local dump also has a paint section, lots of cans of different colors of paint and some spray cans too! If you have an electric sprayer you can get any old paint and make it spray paint, then the paint is free too!
I am now WINNING but just barely!!
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@Mikey
I presume the new HD6850 is not as fast as yout HD5770?
I am assuming your new stabelised toral RAC will head to about 650K, from ~500K.
Winning as Mikey closes in to my total.
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My gain +5 million in credit here, my win today.
Still at strike, waiting for 1 week or so to stabilizability.
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Yeah, my credit has been restored (?) and I guess an acceptable amount granted (?) for all the recent miscredited ones, only thing is they did not correct the individual results showing under your account tasks list, so you can't tell what they granted and a lot still show pending. I'm not totally convinced a fair amount was credited since you can't see what was done. They are hiding something, maybe they just took the easiest way out of the whole, but not showing the volunteeers how they got out is not a good thing.
I'm taking a break from all this, its too stressful.
See you guys later, sometime, in the future.
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@Mikey
I presume the new HD6850 is not as fast as yout HD5770?
I am assuming your new stabelised toral RAC will head to about 650K, from ~500K.
Winning as Mikey closes in to my total.
You know John I am not sure it is faster but my rac IS going up quite quickly now, today it is at 513,102, so up around 9k since yesterday! Another few days like that and you will be 'in my dust' as far as rac goes!! I still have a ways to go to pass you in total cobblestones! Speaking of total credits MCDN did return most of the 4.8 million credits they took away the day before, I am guessing the missing ones are due to the units that got too much credit! I am now a happy camper again!!!! My dcf is now down to just under 60 and the units are running in normal mode again!! They still think they are going to take 32 hours per unit but they are in fact only taking about 1 hour! And of course just as I typed that Boinc finished one unit and immediately went into high priority mode on the next unit!!
My wife did NOT order the snow blower for me! 8-(( We talked about it and she may yet, we will see. If not she will get ALOT more grief when it comes time to shovel and she takes her sweet a$$ time putting her boots on!! I swear the house could burn down around her ears before she can get out the door for 20 minutes of work!
Keith come back!!!! It will be okay soon, I hope!
I am now WINNING!!!
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My wife did NOT order the snow blower for me! 8-(( We talked about it and she may yet, we will see. If not she will get ALOT more grief when it comes time to shovel and she takes her sweet a$$ time putting her boots on!! I swear the house could burn down around her ears before she can get out the door for 20 minutes of work!
Keith come back!!!! It will be okay soon, I hope!
I am now WINNING!!!
I ran over to Sams yesterday after I read your post (it's only 1 1/2 miles away). Apparently the snow blower is only available on-line. They didn't have a single snow-blower in the store!
So I did my normal Saturday morning shopping yesterday and slept-in today...
WINNING!!!
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Clear and cool here today, 15°C/-9°C Thanksgiving went well. I had to go to a funeral yesterday and that went as well as those things do. I am pleased to say that neither my wife nor I stepped into any sort of retail establishment yesterday, Buy Nothing Day. My pheasant season was shorter than I would have liked, but it was successful. I have noticed that every time we pass a liquor store, my wife asks what I would like for Christmas. Hmm...
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Not as cold tonight as where you are swiftmallard - just -5
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My wife did NOT order the snow blower for me! 8-(( We talked about it and she may yet, we will see. If not she will get ALOT more grief when it comes time to shovel and she takes her sweet a$$ time putting her boots on!! I swear the house could burn down around her ears before she can get out the door for 20 minutes of work!
Keith come back!!!! It will be okay soon, I hope!
I am now WINNING!!!
I ran over to Sams yesterday after I read your post (it's only 1 1/2 miles away). Apparently the snow blower is only available on-line. They didn't have a single snow-blower in the store!
So I did my normal Saturday morning shopping yesterday and slept-in today...
WINNING!!!
My wife said that they won't ship it to the store for pickup either, that would have meant FREE shipping! I don't know how much shipping is but I will push her today into ordering it, if she hasn't already! Her back will LOVE IT!!
Right now it is only 30F outside but it is supposed to go around 50 today, be in the mid 50's tomorrow and in the low 60's by Tuesday, THANK YOU for the warm winds guys!!
JohnC my rac today is 520,521!!!!!!!!!! So decidedly over 500k, hopefully to stay!!! That pc with the agp card in it is running consistently as a single core pc and the gpu, a 4650, is putting out 8k rac but that is STILL going up at a steep 45 degree angle! The 6850's rac is STILL going up too but at a MUCH steeper angle, maybe 10 to 15 degrees!
SwiftMallard do you guys have State liquor stores like I do? If so there should be a website that has a list of the sale and special order items listed. Here is mine as an example:
http://www.abc.state.va.us/Pricelist/DISCOUNTS.html
That is the on sale this month list but to the left is the full list under Price List. It is sorted by type and includes everything they sell and the cost.
Right now it is early Sunday morning and I am WINNING!!!
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Outside temperature now at 23F, and it was 8F last night.
A bit colder than we expected, and forcast to be the same tonight. At least the wind isn't blowing.
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SwiftMallard do you guys have State liquor stores like I do? If so there should be a website that has a list of the sale and special order items listed. Here is mine as an example:
http://www.abc.state.va.us/Pricelist/DISCOUNTS.html
That is the on sale this month list but to the left is the full list under Price List. It is sorted by type and includes everything they sell and the cost.
Right now it is early Sunday morning and I am WINNING!!!
The are some municipalities set up like that, but not at the state level. I nice plus is that I can do internet ordering. I have to pay shipping but after only two bottles that more pays for itself because there is no sales tax. That way I am WINNING!
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Late night shift coming through
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Late night shift coming through
Morning shift ready to get up and fighting on a Monday...ugh!
Lots of frost on the front and back windows of the car, but none on the side windows...strange. Much scraping to do before I am...
WINNING!!!
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Outside temperature now at 23F, and it was 8F last night.
A bit colder than we expected, and forcast to be the same tonight. At least the wind isn't blowing.
No wind here but it is only 28F this morning! It is supposed to go up to the mid 50's later on today and into the 60's tomorrow and Wednesday but it should be mostly raining both of those 2 days. It appears America's midsection is full of hot air and it is coming my way! Just what Wash DC area needs, MORE hot air!!
My wife DID order the snow blower yesterday so it should come before the snow. It doesn't normally snow enough to worry about around here until after the first of the year. Don't get me wrong, it HAS snowed a ton in November and December but a White Christmas is not a normal thing for this area!
SwiftMallard I had not even thought of doing the 'internet thing', hmmmm! I usually buy the Canadian Bourbon that is on sale when I need some, I buy by the case so it usually comes out where I buy 5 and get 1 bottle free. I buy the 1.75 liter bottles, and they last a bit but they don't have time go bad either! I would guess that each bottle roughly lasts me about 2 weeks. I have one drink per night, very rarely I have 2, but each drink is in a large insulated glass that I half fill with ice then 2 shots of bourbon then fill it up with ginger ale, DELICIOUS!!
JohnC my rac for today is 527,098, so up 7k from yesterday alone! BUT what that means is that I now have a bigger rac than you do and am FINALLY starting to catch you!! WOO HOO!!! Although all of our rac's should go up later on today when Malaria sends in the weekends numbers, so I could be behind again shortly! You have 6 cores crunching here while I only have 1!
I hope Keith comes back soon, one of the Admins replied directly to his message and I hope he sees it.
RandyC it is frosty on my car windows this morning too but since I am STILL looking for a job, too many College kids still looking makes it impossible for an almost 58 year old overweight guy with no papers to hang on the wall! My health issues, I had 2 foot surgeries and they still hurt, also means I am sort of limited to sit down type work, or at least mostly sit down type work. Oh well it has been fun but in a few more months my unemployment will run out! My wife leaves work on December 9th but due to having a ton of leave she doesn't actually retire until mid January! That means come February we will get a lump sum payment and we will become MOSTLY debt free!! Then we can live comfortably again with no debt except the mortgage! Between my Fire Dept disability payments and her retirement check things should get less worrisome around here! Then come April we will get a HUGE tax return again, my retirement is tax free so it doesn't count come tax time so we always get a huge tax return.
I am WINNING this game right now though!!!
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Yes ... 3.2million apart, but I still WIN
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Yes ... 3.2million apart, but I still WIN
Oh and you will keep winning the game but I am now starting to chomp BIG bites out of your total cobblestone lead. Today for instance my rac is up to 530,999 which is up and 3k from yesterday and I see yours is now down to under 500k as well, so it looks like a double win for me!! My total is now 126,889,946 while your is 129,820,339 so right now we are only 2,930,393 apart and closing!! I am sure however that this will fluctuate between now and when I pass you! SOMEONE is winning over the number of cobblestones we are producing and that is a GOOD THING!!!
Right now it is 48F and it should rain later on today and part of tomorrow. Tomorrows temps should be into the 60's before steadily dropping in the 40's with a chance of snow on Sunday!!
SwiftMallard the Vikings WON ON SUNDAY beating my Redskins like the dirty dogs they are!! I am glad for Leslie Frazier but the Redskins played really badly and should have won. I am amazed that Brett Favre didn't have even ONE turnover, that is the one constant about him that gives other teams a decent chance of beating them!! CONGRATULATIONS and I hope they can keep on winning!! BUT you could have waited just one more week to start that winning streak, couldn't you?!!!
WINNING!!
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That's a nice long win there for you Mikey. But it's over now because I AM...
WINNING!!!
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That's a nice long win there for you Mikey. But it's over now because I AM...
WINNING!!!
It was wasn't it! Thanks for noticing!!
JohnC my rac today is 536,558, so up almost another 7k, WOO HOO! You better just pull over and let me by or you might just get feel the wind as I pass you by, in about 56 DAYS!! But if you decide to fight it it will take longer!
I see still no Keith, I pm'd him and he still didn't come by, he must be really mad! Or busy at work!
SwiftMallard the link you gave in the other thread didn't work for me, is the unit gone now?
I am WINNING!!
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That's a nice long win there for you Mikey. But it's over now because I AM...
WINNING!!!
It was wasn't it! Thanks for noticing!!
JohnC my rac today is 536,558, so up almost another 7k, WOO HOO! You better just pull over and let me by or you might just get feel the wind as I pass you by, in about 56 DAYS!! But if you decide to fight it it will take longer!
I see still no Keith, I pm'd him and he still didn't come by, he must be really mad! Or busy at work!
SwiftMallard the link you gave in the other thread didn't work for me, is the unit gone now?
I am WINNING!!
Keith DID say he was taking a break due to the stress of the credit mix-up. As for me, credit is icing on the cake. I'm here to contribute to the cause, and any credit is just a bonus.
Unfortunately, it looks like the server's out of WUs for right now. It said zero RTS just before I left for work and it says 6 as of this post.
WINNING!!!
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SwiftMallard the link you gave in the other thread didn't work for me, is the unit gone now?
It's many. I'm seeing credits for almost equal computing times vary by a factor of 10+.
661 145092 30 Nov 2010 11:57:02 UTC 30 Nov 2010 13:53:33 UTC Completed and validated 4,146.78 4,013.11 282.85
483 145092 30 Nov 2010 14:21:13 UTC 30 Nov 2010 16:33:05 UTC Completed and validated 5,582.69 5,358.69 23.01
In the example above, 4,013 CPU secs & 282 credits vs 5,358 CPU secs for 23 credits.
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SwiftMallard the link you gave in the other thread didn't work for me, is the unit gone now?
It's many. I'm seeing credits for almost equal computing times vary by a factor of 10+.
661 145092 30 Nov 2010 11:57:02 UTC 30 Nov 2010 13:53:33 UTC Completed and validated 4,146.78 4,013.11 282.85
483 145092 30 Nov 2010 14:21:13 UTC 30 Nov 2010 16:33:05 UTC Completed and validated 5,582.69 5,358.69 23.01
In the example above, 4,013 CPU secs & 282 credits vs 5,358 CPU secs for 23 credits.
Yeah I just read where they will be reverting back to the Boinc standard soon, YUCK on them for that!! But since it looks like their own version STILL doesn't work, I guess there is little else for them to do!
JohnC They said that the Server is sooo busy trying to work thru the backlog they created that the workunit creation part isn't keeping up and they are not able to create units fast enough. Sounds just like alot of other projects, they just don't have enough computing power and need more Servers, and to spread the work out over more of them! I am now trying Gerasim, those units are about an hour each so they might be okay.
My rac today is 539,453 so it is still going up but only about 3k today! I am having trouble finding a good short unit processing time project, I chose Goldbach but they ran out of units, so I tried Eon but they too ran out of units!! I am not looking to go back to one of my old projects that already has a ton of credits but may have to in the end. Both Eon and Goldbach have very short units, in the 2 to 5 minute range which is perfect for my pc's that have minimal, to me, cpu's in them. I mean I can Einstein on a quad core and it takes about 7 to 8 hours per unit, but on these dual core pc's, even if they have more physical memory, it can take 12 hours or more! So I am looking for a project with short units but it seems they all are being overwhelmed by the pc's I bring over! I am bringing 3 or 4 pc's at a time and I guess the projects is not set up for that.
Right now I guess I am just WINNING!!
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Late evening shift attending
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My win today, my rac today 1,153,805, a bad day in my rac...
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My win today, my rac today 1,153,805, a bad day in my rac...
THAT IS a nice rac Bymark?!!!! How's the family? Everyone doing okay I hope?!! Any more little ones on the way yet?
JohnC my rac for today is 542,927, so up only 3k from yesterday but consistently over 500k every day now. I sure hope your guesstimate of around 600k holds true but at 3k per day it will be a long time coming!! AND at 70k per day the 3 MILLION between us is STILL A HUGE GAP!!!!
I am WINNING!!
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TGIFriday! and...
WINNING!!!
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Good afternoon on this Friday
which others know as POETS Day.
The best thing from all of this, my friend,
is tomorrow is a new week end.
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For the next couple of weeks, week-end = overtime for me. There should be plenty of $$$ for new toys in January!
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It's waking and getting up that's the problem with week ends.
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It's waking and getting up that's the problem with week ends.
Ahhh wait until you get older, I am up almost everyday at 5am and when I sleep in, it is only until 6am! I go to bed at night around 11:30pm so it isn't that!
Hey John my rac today is 547,372, so up about 4.5k this time, woo hoo! BUT I am STILL 2.2 million behind you, this passing you is going to take much longer than I had hoped!! I guess I am not a bunny rabbit but instead a turtle!!
SwiftMallard I think that will be a nice bonus for the new year. AND if you don't actually get it until next year, it won't affect this years taxes!
WINNING!!
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Ahhh wait until you get older, I am up almost everyday at 5am and when I sleep in, it is only until 6am! I go to bed at night around 11:30pm so it isn't that!
Hey John my rac today is 547,372, so up about 4.5k this time, woo hoo! BUT I am STILL 2.2 million behind you, this passing you is going to take much longer than I had hoped!! I guess I am not a bunny rabbit but instead a turtle!!
SwiftMallard I think that will be a nice bonus for the new year. AND if you don't actually get it until next year, it won't affect this years taxes!
WINNING!!
All my RAC seems to be stuck in the validator.
Mikey, I'll get paid for it this year, we are being pressured to be caught up before Christmas.
[rant] I don't understand how management thinking works; they don't want to let people go on vacation over the holidays because we are behind. Yet "the numbers" say we are "overstaffed". Three guys are retiring before spring and if they aren't replaced, we'll be even further behind this time next year. But I keep my mouth shut when I'm at w#$k because it's gotten me into too much trouble. Not because I exercise it, that's bad enough. It's worse when you have been proven to be right. They managed their way into the mess we are in, they can manage their way out. Being told to work faster isn't cutting it any more. [/rant]
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We came klose to the record for December 1st here, it got up to 71F, the record, for me being here anyway is 75F om that day, I know becuase I went kayaking in shorts that day.
Kold here now.
Today is in the 40's again for the third day in a row. By Monday we will have low temps just below freezing, 32F, and maybe even snow. Very unusuall for here. Our "winter" is usually only 3 days of kold below freezing, and that is going to happen before the actual winter solstice, ouch, signs its gonna be bad this year.
However the indoor garden is doing great, Have about 3 dozen or more bell peppers growing and more flowers just apepared.
In transplanting some of the sweet potatoes, I found another one, It was a whopper at 18 oz. Biggest one yet. Slighly more than I can eat all at once, but it kept me well satisfied for a day or so. I damaged the first batch a little too much, they ahve lost too many leaves, the ones left look good and it is at the point of either dying or recovering, don't know which so it needs tender care and more sun. Didn't help that we had two days of overcast just after I did it, but I think it will survive. I'm hoping not to damage the others as much, but it is hard to untangle three or four 15 to 25 foot vines and not break them and then move a pot full of palnts with 10 of those ahnging off it.
Se ya L8R, gotta go bring the rest of the plants in and frezze my feet off.
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It's waking and getting up that's the problem with week ends.
Ahhh wait until you get older, I am up almost everyday at 5am and when I sleep in, it is only until 6am! I go to bed at night around 11:30pm so it isn't that!
Hey John my rac today is 547,372, so up about 4.5k this time, woo hoo! BUT I am STILL 2.2 million behind you, this passing you is going to take much longer than I had hoped!! I guess I am not a bunny rabbit but instead a turtle!!
SwiftMallard I think that will be a nice bonus for the new year. AND if you don't actually get it until next year, it won't affect this years taxes!
WINNING!!
I hear ya there Mikey. When I slept in last Saturday I got up WAY late: about 7:30-8:00 am.
Temps up here have been in low to mid-20sF overnight for a week or so, and highs in low to mid-30sF.
6-month car insurance bill due yesterday. I save almost $240 by paying it all at once, but it's still over $2200 on 4 vehicles. Even at that, it's about the cheapest legit auto ins. in MI.
WINNING!!!
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Welcome back, Keith!
While y'all seem to be freezing a bit more than usual, it was a sweltering hot day here in Joburg today!
And now, I'm WINNING!
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Very late night shift looking in
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Late morning shift taking over...
...and winning!
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Ahhh wait until you get older, I am up almost everyday at 5am and when I sleep in, it is only until 6am! I go to bed at night around 11:30pm so it isn't that!
Hey John my rac today is 547,372, so up about 4.5k this time, woo hoo! BUT I am STILL 2.2 million behind you, this passing you is going to take much longer than I had hoped!! I guess I am not a bunny rabbit but instead a turtle!!
SwiftMallard I think that will be a nice bonus for the new year. AND if you don't actually get it until next year, it won't affect this years taxes!
WINNING!!
All my RAC seems to be stuck in the validator.
Mikey, I'll get paid for it this year, we are being pressured to be caught up before Christmas.
[rant] I don't understand how management thinking works; they don't want to let people go on vacation over the holidays because we are behind. Yet "the numbers" say we are "overstaffed". Three guys are retiring before spring and if they aren't replaced, we'll be even further behind this time next year. But I keep my mouth shut when I'm at w#$k because it's gotten me into too much trouble. Not because I exercise it, that's bad enough. It's worse when you have been proven to be right. They managed their way into the mess we are in, they can manage their way out. Being told to work faster isn't cutting it any more. [/rant]
I too HATE when management does things they KNOW won't work but they do them anyway!! Most managers forget that without the workers there is no work being done at all! Sure we need the managers to be the buffer between the bosses and the workers, but sometimes they need to stick up for us workers too! I 'feel' your pain SwiftMallard!!
JohnC my rac today is 551,003, so up 3.5k from yesterday. I have stopped crunching for Malaria right now, my rac is high enough that I can still post and they are still having some problems with the credits! Also your signature graphic changed, no Boinc totals anymore. I just noticed, MINE EITHER, so I changed it to a different one. But this one is missing some Projects, so some of my rac!!
Keith WELCOME BACK!!! I am glad you decided to come back after your little vacation!!! And I am also glad you are finally getting some of this cold weather the rest of us are seeing!! It is in the low 30's outside for me right now going up to the mid 40's later on! Both my kids are coming in town by weeks end for my wifes retirement party and we had hoped to do some outside work, but the high is supposed to only be in the mid 30's!!!
JohnN NO BRAGGING about the weather!! We know it is sooooo hot 'down South' right now, but you also know we would trade you in a heartbeat!! I hope you are far enough from the local wildlife that you don't get eaten!!
RandyC you must either have some VERY nice cars, some teenagers, some tickets/accidents or something because 4k per year seems like alot!!
WINNING!!
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RandyC you must either have some VERY nice cars, some teenagers, some tickets/accidents or something because 4k per year seems like alot!!
WINNING!!
I wish! No, it's Michigan, where the lawyers and ins. co.s own the government. (Although I seem to have heard that about other places as well). It's a no-Fault state too.
Two Prius ('04 and '05), an '05 Scion, and an '03 Mazda Protege. Youngest daughter is counted toward the cost (22 YO - 1 accident; actually 23 as of early Nov, but they calc the cost before then.). Cost of the car she's listed as driving: ~$946. Two others are ~$517 and the last is ~$493.
To top it all off, some moron side-swiped her a couple of months ago and didn't stop. That ran to > $2500 and I'm sure it will show up on my bill later.
Whining...
er, I mean...
WINNING!!!
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@Mikey
How's the RAC doing?
I thought of a post number not 200 to 250 from here which may be occupied by the winner. What and when is it?
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@Mikey
How's the RAC doing?
The rac today is 555,163, so up about 4k from yesterday. It is still going up and that is the whole point of the new card. The new card was purchased because I am helping a friend of a friend buy a new computer and after about 3 hours of 'talking' and 'working' on her 2 pc's she gave me a check for 150 bucks! She has a very old Dell desktop and an even older, as in 8 years old, laptop. She travels between 2 homes and her sister and nephew, who both live in the area, bought Mac's so we are leaning that way. We are looking at her spending about 3 grand for a 17" laptop which will be her only pc and she will take it back and forth with her between the 2 homes. She lives at the beach in the summer time but in the city in the winter, she also travels between them once a week in the summer time. The advantages of a Mac are: the warranty though expensive, the local tech support though not me, the ease of use, the one year of unlimited one on one training for only 100 bucks, her lack of computer skills, etc make it better than a Windows machine. She worked for the US Government in a 'high level position', that's all she will say about what she used to do, and her computer skills are not why they hired her. She really has no clue about alot of things people do but wants to play her game, do emails and do pictures. We are looking at this as a 5 year investment at which time we will reevaluate her situation, she is in her early 60's. There is more I am going to help her with for instance she was paying AOL, Verizon DSL AND Comcast all at the same time for her to have internet in EACH of her homes!! She was paying 3 times for the same thing!! She is now down to just Comcast in the city and will cancel AOL, the pay section, shortly. She has already canceled Verizon DSL up here and will cancel it in the Spring at the beach. She has a plan and to get her to vary it too much is not to her liking, so the Verizon DSL stays at the beach even though she is not!! They do have cable down there that is MUCH cheaper and faster than what DSL is costing her, but someone else told her not to change until she goes back down there, so she is not! Anyway I am just kind of consulting and validating and consolidating her plans that she has gotten from several other people. Everyone knows a little bit but we are going thru all the things and trying to make sense of who said what and what each thing might mean for her own situation. Basically I am holding her hand as she transitions from a Windows pc to a Mac, and she is paying me to do it! I DO NOT charge her, she gives me what she thinks my advice is worth. I DO NOT charge anyone, my advice is free but I do accept donations.
RandyC I had forgotten about your Prius's but it looks like your daughter is the reason for the high costs. I have a son that is the same age, his birthday is the 18th of November, and he costs me alot too! Here in Virginia there is no 'no fault' insurance but people can buy 'uninsured motorists insurance' which basically means you pay alot for your tags and any accident costs are paid out of a pool to the other drivers, but you get nothing towards your car repairs.
I thought of a post number not 200 to 250 from here which may be occupied by the winner. What and when is it?
I think somewhere around that is a good number, how about 222?
I am now WINNING!!
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RandyC I had forgotten about your Prius's but it looks like your daughter is the reason for the high costs. I have a son that is the same age, his birthday is the 18th of November, and he costs me alot too! Here in Virginia there is no 'no fault' insurance but people can buy 'uninsured motorists insurance' which basically means you pay alot for your tags and any accident costs are paid out of a pool to the other drivers, but you get nothing towards your car repairs.
I am now WINNING!!
My Internet connection died about an hour before bedtime last night. Luckily, it was running again when I got up this morning. [sarcasm]Don't you just love Comcast?[/sarcasm] And they wonder why I don't get Internet phone service!
We've been having some snow 'squals' zip through the region since early last evening. (So Comcast MAY have an excuse!). Nothing significant...mostly a dusting here and there, but some roads had a coating while others were bare.
According to Toyota, the plural of Prius is--Prius! But at the website I go to for Prius info (priuschat.com), people use Prii (like the plural of virus).
I have 'uninsured motorists insurance' too. State Law requires me to buy it. And Property Damage Liability insurance (between the two, I foot the bill for those motorists that don't insure their own cars...why I should pay for someone else's neglect is a mystery to me!). It also requires me to buy 'PIP' insurance--that's Personal Injury Protection. As if my Major Medical insurance didn't exist! I'm probably paying twice for about 2/3s of the items on my car insurance bill.
WINNING???
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Climbing slowly as seen here at position 252
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Climbing slowly as seen here at position 252
And I am at #259 and S-L-O-W-L-Y closing in on you! You had one heck of a day yesterday though, almost 813k rac!!! MUST be nice!!!! Today my rac is 559,020, so up 4k from yesterday, at least it is still going up. I dropped my Goldbach workunits, over 1,000 of them!, because the project is STILL inaccessible and I figure there is no way I am going to get any credits for them anyway after several days of the Project being down!! Fortunately Gerasim is doing just fine and I am crunching them in about an hour on my laptop and getting ok credits for them too.
RandyC one of my neighbors owns 1 Prius and it was just recalled for the waterpump, yours probably will be included too. As for insurance yeah it is a crime when some have to pay the way for everyone! I agree with you, if you own a car you MUST carry insurance on it but paying twice for the same thing is not right either! They need a way for you to prove you already have for instance PIP coverage thru your health care and then not make you pay again!! Seems like a left hand, right hand situation!
WINNING!!
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RandyC one of my neighbors owns 1 Prius and it was just recalled for the waterpump, yours probably will be included too. As for insurance yeah it is a crime when some have to pay the way for everyone! I agree with you, if you own a car you MUST carry insurance on it but paying twice for the same thing is not right either! They need a way for you to prove you already have for instance PIP coverage thru your health care and then not make you pay again!! Seems like a left hand, right hand situation!
WINNING!!
I've scheduled appointments to have the water pumps replaced over the Christmas Holidays (1 on Monday, the other on Tuesday).
I pulled the maintenance history on my wife's car from before I bought it and the pump may have already been replaced. I'll have them check it before they do any work.
When you have major elected officials that have been convicted of crimes, and even gone to jail for it, being re-elected...what does that say for the condition of government? I guess Detroit and DC are pretty much the same, eh?
As bad as it seems here (and I'm NOT going to retire in this area), some of the governments in Europe are even more corrupt (brings to mind Italy and Greece).
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So who is still stuck with the snow then?
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So who is still stuck with the snow then?
I've only had flurries and occasional snow showers/squalls come through here for the past week or two. The forecast for Thursday night is for 1-3" of snow however.
WINNING!!!
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RandyC one of my neighbors owns 1 Prius and it was just recalled for the waterpump, yours probably will be included too. As for insurance yeah it is a crime when some have to pay the way for everyone! I agree with you, if you own a car you MUST carry insurance on it but paying twice for the same thing is not right either! They need a way for you to prove you already have for instance PIP coverage thru your health care and then not make you pay again!! Seems like a left hand, right hand situation!
WINNING!!
I've scheduled appointments to have the water pumps replaced over the Christmas Holidays (1 on Monday, the other on Tuesday).
I pulled the maintenance history on my wife's car from before I bought it and the pump may have already been replaced. I'll have them check it before they do any work.
My neighbor is the same, next week the Dealer will be replacing her water pump. She just had both of her keys replaced, she has the proximity key feature where you do not need to actually put it in you just need to be close. She and her husband carpool and she wanted coffee so stopped at Starbucks while he needed cigarettes so got in the drivers seat and drove to the local 7-11 while she was in Starbucks. Turns out he did not have his key with him and the car STILL let him drive almost 2 miles away to the 7-11 and did fine except wouldn't restart after he got out. It is not supposed to let you drive away without the key being close. One of his kids had borrowed the car, without his knowledge, and not returned his key to him. She was not happy at the costs involved but is happy that the car is secure again!
When you have major elected officials that have been convicted of crimes, and even gone to jail for it, being re-elected...what does that say for the condition of government? I guess Detroit and DC are pretty much the same, eh?
As bad as it seems here (and I'm NOT going to retire in this area), some of the governments in Europe are even more corrupt (brings to mind Italy and Greece).
I agree some of those 'foreign' Governments can be pretty bad!! For all of its corruption and wheeling and dealing the US system does mostly work. We just need some term limits IMO!!
Hey no snow for me this weekend after all, their is a warm front coming in on Sunday and it will be in the upper 40's, so just some rain for me. WOO HOO!! Although my snow blower is here and looks good, I may plug it in today if I get a chance, my wifes retirement party is at work tomorrow and there are some things I have to do today to get ready for it!
JohnC my rac today is 560,103, so up only about 1k since yesterday, I will have to see if I can figure out why! A friend got his new i7 the other day and I put Einstein on it yesterday, 8 cores all crunching flat out at almost 3ghz, it should make my rac go up faster!! Hmmmmm!!
WINNING!!
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My neighbor is the same, next week the Dealer will be replacing her water pump. She just had both of her keys replaced, she has the proximity key feature where you do not need to actually put it in you just need to be close. She and her husband carpool and she wanted coffee so stopped at Starbucks while he needed cigarettes so got in the drivers seat and drove to the local 7-11 while she was in Starbucks. Turns out he did not have his key with him and the car STILL let him drive almost 2 miles away to the 7-11 and did fine except wouldn't restart after he got out. It is not supposed to let you drive away without the key being close. One of his kids had borrowed the car, without his knowledge, and not returned his key to him. She was not happy at the costs involved but is happy that the car is secure again!
WINNING!!
It's called SKS for "Smart Key System", and both my cars have it. Yes, it can be VERY expensive to replace those keyfobs if they get lost...from $180 up to "ouch!" depending on the stealership you go to. The salesman for MY car let me have his employee discount to purchase a second key ($180) because when I bought my car it only came with one keyfob. He even arranged to have it programed for free (normally $50-$100 charge). He didn't have to do ANY of that! My wife's car came with two keyfobs, but one died soon after we got it and the salesman (head of used car lot) replaced it and had the programming done for free.
No, you can drive the car just fine without the key present in the vehicle. It's only required for starting the car. But once you turn it off (like your neighbor did apparently), the car's just a lump of plastic and metal. My key never leaves my pocket (unless the battery dies)...just touch the door to lock/unlock...press the Power button to start/shutoff the car.
WINNING!!!
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I see the night shift went to sleep.
BUMP!
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My neighbor is the same, next week the Dealer will be replacing her water pump. She just had both of her keys replaced, she has the proximity key feature where you do not need to actually put it in you just need to be close. She and her husband carpool and she wanted coffee so stopped at Starbucks while he needed cigarettes so got in the drivers seat and drove to the local 7-11 while she was in Starbucks. Turns out he did not have his key with him and the car STILL let him drive almost 2 miles away to the 7-11 and did fine except wouldn't restart after he got out. It is not supposed to let you drive away without the key being close. One of his kids had borrowed the car, without his knowledge, and not returned his key to him. She was not happy at the costs involved but is happy that the car is secure again!
WINNING!!
It's called SKS for "Smart Key System", and both my cars have it. Yes, it can be VERY expensive to replace those keyfobs if they get lost...from $180 up to "ouch!" depending on the stealership you go to. The salesman for MY car let me have his employee discount to purchase a second key ($180) because when I bought my car it only came with one keyfob. He even arranged to have it programed for free (normally $50-$100 charge). He didn't have to do ANY of that! My wife's car came with two keyfobs, but one died soon after we got it and the salesman (head of used car lot) replaced it and had the programming done for free.
No, you can drive the car just fine without the key present in the vehicle. It's only required for starting the car. But once you turn it off (like your neighbor did apparently), the car's just a lump of plastic and metal. My key never leaves my pocket (unless the battery dies)...just touch the door to lock/unlock...press the Power button to start/shutoff the car.
WINNING!!!
But my neighbor said that if the key is in your pocket and you get out of the car and go more than x feet away, and your wife gets in the car without a key, it is not supposed to drive away, but hers did, which is why they got new keys. She did not tell me the costs but said it was ALOT!! I have had dealings in the past with the local Toyota dealership, they are a Toyota/Dodge dealership and I had 3 Dodge minivans. They are the absolute worst dealership and will lie cheat and steal right to your face!! I did buy another Toyota, for my youngest son, but went to a dealership over 20 miles away to do it. It is a used car and I get it serviced by my local mechanic, no more that local dealership for me!! I own 2 Honda's as my cars, I drive a Honda Pilot and my wife drives a Honda Accord. Both were purchased in 2004 and both are paid off, the Pilot only has 68,000 miles on it but the Accord has almost 110,000 miles on it. My wife was putting almost 50 miles per day commuting but after today that stops, so the mileage should stop accumulating as much. She is already thinking of getting a new job though, the State has an opening for a boss in the same thing she did for the local government and she has told them she is interested. The State is also creating 5 mid level positions in the same program area too so she could get one of those instead. She is the most knowledgeable in the whole State at what she does and everyone in the whole State comes to her for advice on how to do this or that. Basically she handles all Medicare cases for minors for the local government and since it is a Federal and State funded program that the local government pays money out of, everyone operates under the same rules.
JohnC my rac today is 560,488, so up only a few hundred from yesterday! I found one problem with one pc, it was crunching but getting no credits from the project. I dumped all the units and reattached to Einstein on that pc, it was on Gerasim. My other pc's on Gerasim are doing just fine, it just wasn't. It is doing just fine on Einstein now.
I see Keith has left us again, I hope he is okay and his inventory is almost done! I need to order something from his store again so I can get another calendar of pretty girls in bikinis. He calls them the 'installation team', but I think they are just barely clad models! They would certainly fall out of their clothes anyway if they came dressed like their pictures! I guess they could be the 'distraction installation team'!
Oh they are now calling for a clipper to come thru here early next week dropping snow starting on Sunday night and continuing into Monday morning!! It's a good thing my new snow blower is here!! The highs are only supposed to be in the low to mid 20's from Monday thru Wednesday as of right now!!
WINNING!!
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No, you can drive the car just fine without the key present in the vehicle. It's only required for starting the car. But once you turn it off (like your neighbor did apparently), the car's just a lump of plastic and metal. My key never leaves my pocket (unless the battery dies)...just touch the door to lock/unlock...press the Power button to start/shutoff the car.
WINNING!!!
But my neighbor said that if the key is in your pocket and you get out of the car and go more than x feet away, and your wife gets in the car without a key, it is not supposed to drive away, but hers did, which is why they got new keys. She did not tell me the costs but said it was ALOT!! I have had dealings in the past with the local Toyota dealership, they are a Toyota/Dodge dealership and I had 3 Dodge minivans. They are the absolute worst dealership and will lie cheat and steal right to your face!! I did buy another Toyota, for my youngest son, but went to a dealership over 20 miles away to do it. It is a used car and I get it serviced by my local mechanic, no more that local dealership for me!! I own 2 Honda's as my cars, I drive a Honda Pilot and my wife drives a Honda Accord. Both were purchased in 2004 and both are paid off, the Pilot only has 68,000 miles on it but the Accord has almost 110,000 miles on it. My wife was putting almost 50 miles per day commuting but after today that stops, so the mileage should stop accumulating as much. She is already thinking of getting a new job though, the State has an opening for a boss in the same thing she did for the local government and she has told them she is interested. The State is also creating 5 mid level positions in the same program area too so she could get one of those instead. She is the most knowledgeable in the whole State at what she does and everyone in the whole State comes to her for advice on how to do this or that. Basically she handles all Medicare cases for minors for the local government and since it is a Federal and State funded program that the local government pays money out of, everyone operates under the same rules.
WINNING!!
Well, I did refer to it as a stealership didn't I?
Your neighbor is mistaken, or was told incorrectly. Getting new 'keys' will not change this behavior. Once the vehicle is running, it will continue to do so regardless of the location of the 'key'. This is to emulate the ignition lock of a vehicle with a metal key. Once you start a 'regular' car and put it into gear, you cannot remove the key from the keyhole unless you shutoff the car and put it into park. And if you're moving, you could shutoff the engine, but you can't put it into park at moderate-to-high speed; there's a lockout.
Think about it...if you're driving down the road at 60 mph and your passenger goes wacko: tries to remove the key and throw it out the window--they can't. And of course you don't want to be driving at high speed with a vehicle suddenly shutdown and the steering wheel locked, do you? Now if you have a 'key' that isn't even inserted into the key-slot, you can't just kill the engine if that same passenger grabs it and throws it out the window can you?
I'm pretty fortunate that my dealership is pretty knowledgeable about this car and has always treated me well. I've now bought 4 vehicles from them, so they better treat me right! Luckily, the Prius is so well built that it hardly ever needs anything beyond normal maintenance items: oil change/fluids, etc.
WINNING!!!
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The winning post has come to stay,
on this, another POETS Day.
But, RandyC and Mikey's pain
is another go with Toyota's Pius train.
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Well, I did refer to it as a stealership didn't I?
Your neighbor is mistaken, or was told incorrectly. Getting new 'keys' will not change this behavior. Once the vehicle is running, it will continue to do so regardless of the location of the 'key'. This is to emulate the ignition lock of a vehicle with a metal key. Once you start a 'regular' car and put it into gear, you cannot remove the key from the keyhole unless you shutoff the car and put it into park. And if you're moving, you could shutoff the engine, but you can't put it into park at moderate-to-high speed; there's a lockout.
Think about it...if you're driving down the road at 60 mph and your passenger goes wacko: tries to remove the key and throw it out the window--they can't. And of course you don't want to be driving at high speed with a vehicle suddenly shutdown and the steering wheel locked, do you? Now if you have a 'key' that isn't even inserted into the key-slot, you can't just kill the engine if that same passenger grabs it and throws it out the window can you?
I'm pretty fortunate that my dealership is pretty knowledgeable about this car and has always treated me well. I've now bought 4 vehicles from them, so they better treat me right! Luckily, the Prius is so well built that it hardly ever needs anything beyond normal maintenance items: oil change/fluids, etc.
WINNING!!!
I will tell her, she will NOT be a happy camper having just paid for new keys to solve a problem that wasn't there! Thanks!
JohnC my rac today is 562,684, so only 2k from yesterday but I had a HUGE day at Dnetc, so tomorrows rac should be better! Yesterday alone at all my projects I did 665,998 total credits!!
My wife is finally gone from her w*&k, although she is on leave until early next month, so she isn't REALLY gone. No word on the State jobs yet though, that may take a while. The party was very nice, her co-w*&kers threw her a going away party and we now have a TON of leftover food, the fridge is full. Since I used to w*&k for the same Agency alot of them came and said hi to me and asked how I was doing, it was nice in that way too. I miss the people but not the getting up and going in every day!!
WINNING!!
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Early Saturday shift stumbling in
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Early Saturday shift stumbling in
And on that note, I'm heading to bed!
Dreaming of...
WINNING!!!
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Early Saturday shift stumbling in
And now the Early Sunday morning shift is here!
JohnC my rac today is 564,435, so only up about 2k from yesterday.
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Talking about vehicles, Someone told me of a guy who had too many dui's. But somehow after a period was able to drive again, but under a restriction. They put a breathalizer in his car tied to the ignition. To start the car he had to breathe into it. After 1 hour of running the car would cut off and, and he would have to pull over and wait 15 minutes before he could breathe into it again to start the car again.
It's warming again here for a while. Today is near 60F. Great for shopping. But we had aboout five days of temps with lows below freezing and very harse north winds. I'm told it will repeat even worse next week. It's going to be a harse winter if we've alreayd had a record number of cold days before winter even gets here. Maybe it will be like that year we got lots of snow and the sound froze over, you could walk all the way across from my side to Roanoke Island.
I've turned another cruncher off. It dies when running any boinc app. Just boinc with no apps running is fine. Most other programs run, but sometimes on startup of one it dies. Not having time to fully diagnose it I made the decision to remove boinc for now. I have some others I cut off or scaled back, like our server. I don;t wnat it to die too and i'm so swamped with iother things any repairs would be devastating to my schedule and sanity. I think after 6 years it has taken it's toll on them and me. I still have the two dead home computers I haven't fixed yet either. Another of my work computers was making funny whineing noises but only when boinc was running the cpu at full power, half power seemed ok. Maybe its just a fan problem but it seems to me sooner than later these things die and I think the stress of a 100% 24/7/365 run is too much after several years. Sorry to go but for a while I jsut can't deal with this.
I went home early yesteray. Started feeling like I was getting the flu. I told the boss it was from eating contaminated popcorn, as a joke, ya see, one of our vendors sent us a big bucket of popcorn with three varities in it just a couple of days ago. I took a shot of Peppermint Mocha Kahlua and after I went to sleep I felt better after a few hours. I did wake up at 3am and felt ok, but I went back to sleep til 8am. I feel ok now.
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Randy, if you are in the path of this blizzard then you are in for a fun time. They even pulled plows off the highways because of the white-out conditions. If it's too dangerous for those guys, I just stay home.
Keith, hope you fell better soon, it's awful being sick over a holiday.
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Randy, if you are in the path of this blizzard then you are in for a fun time. They even pulled plows off the highways because of the white-out conditions. If it's too dangerous for those guys, I just stay home.
Keith, hope you fell better soon, it's awful being sick over a holiday.
They're calling for 2-4" of that white stuff.
Temps are currently in the upper 30sF, but due to drop to ~33F by mid-evening. Rain and snow mixed, turning to all snow overnight. Looks like we'll be on the southern edge of the snow area, with rain just to the south of us.
High on Monday is supposed to be 18F, with lots of wind: wind chill near zero F.
What they're saying is that the back draft (winds rotating around the storm) is supposed to bring us a blast of extreme cold. Only flurries once the snow quits late tomorrow.
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Talking about vehicles, Someone told me of a guy who had too many dui's. But somehow after a period was able to drive again, but under a restriction. They put a breathalizer in his car tied to the ignition. To start the car he had to breathe into it. After 1 hour of running the car would cut off and, and he would have to pull over and wait 15 minutes before he could breathe into it again to start the car again.
It's warming again here for a while. Today is near 60F. Great for shopping. But we had aboout five days of temps with lows below freezing and very harse north winds. I'm told it will repeat even worse next week. It's going to be a harse winter if we've alreayd had a record number of cold days before winter even gets here. Maybe it will be like that year we got lots of snow and the sound froze over, you could walk all the way across from my side to Roanoke Island.
I've turned another cruncher off. It dies when running any boinc app. Just boinc with no apps running is fine. Most other programs run, but sometimes on startup of one it dies. Not having time to fully diagnose it I made the decision to remove boinc for now. I have some others I cut off or scaled back, like our server. I don;t wnat it to die too and i'm so swamped with iother things any repairs would be devastating to my schedule and sanity. I think after 6 years it has taken it's toll on them and me. I still have the two dead home computers I haven't fixed yet either. Another of my work computers was making funny whineing noises but only when boinc was running the cpu at full power, half power seemed ok. Maybe its just a fan problem but it seems to me sooner than later these things die and I think the stress of a 100% 24/7/365 run is too much after several years. Sorry to go but for a while I jsut can't deal with this.
I went home early yesteray. Started feeling like I was getting the flu. I told the boss it was from eating contaminated popcorn, as a joke, ya see, one of our vendors sent us a big bucket of popcorn with three varities in it just a couple of days ago. I took a shot of Peppermint Mocha Kahlua and after I went to sleep I felt better after a few hours. I did wake up at 3am and felt ok, but I went back to sleep til 8am. I feel ok now.
My wife feels bad too, she is coughing and hacking alot!! She thinks it is the changeable weather right now, warm one day, cold the next, etc, etc. I don't know but I started to feel bad one day but took some Thera-flu and felt much better, now I am just fighting my usual stuffy nose and I take Sudafed PE for it and it seems to help. It is the little red pills that work for me the most.
Keith I love the sound of the Peppermint Mocha Kahlua, is that store bought or home made, or a combination of the two?
And Keith I too have several pc's off right now, I tried working on a couple the other day but the circuit breaker popped so I quit. I have a 20 amp circuit just for my pc's and with all the pc's and gpu's running I am apparently at the limit. This is in my basement, the other pc's that are spread around the house are okay. I have a row of pc's, like 7 or 8 that could be running but need some kind of work put into them and a circuit to run on. Some of those are single core pc's so are mostly parts machines though. BUT they are generic enough of a box that I could swap out the motherboard and have a new pc up and running in about an hour or so, if again I had the electrical circuit and money to purchase the parts.
JohnC my rac too is going down again, I am down to 553,288 today! I don't know why either!! I like you upside down text, I looked but don't see how you did it. It must be a cut and paste from another program, right?
SwiftMallard and RandyC it is raining here right now and is supposed to be almost 45F later on, so no snow today but tonight and tomorrow it is supposed to get very cold, thanks guys!, and I should see some flurries from your storm!!
I think it is going to be VERY cold at the Green Bay football game today and it is a good thing the Vikings play indoors!! BUT the game is postponed until Monday night anyway, apparently you just can't get there right now!!
WINNING!!
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SwiftMallard and RandyC it is raining here right now and is supposed to be almost 45F later on, so no snow today but tonight and tomorrow it is supposed to get very cold, thanks guys!, and I should see some flurries from your storm!!
I think it is going to be VERY cold at the Green Bay football game today and it is a good thing the Vikings play indoors!! BUT the game is postponed until Monday night anyway, apparently you just can't get there right now!!
WINNING!!
It is ~7:30am ET and I have ~1/2" of semi-slushy stuff on the cars and driveway. The storm is rotating around a point in Western MI, with currently warmer air being pulled up from the south...keeping me out of the deep-freeze for a while. The cold front is getting nearer and nearer.
Current forecast is for steady snow (once it gets here in a couple of hours) through mid-pm, then flurries through Monday am. Total accumulation now forecast as 4-8". Now the fun part: low tonight will be 9F!!!! Any wet stuff out there is going to be solid ICE by the time I need to go to work tomorrow!!
WINNING!!!
But about to get clobbered! ...but that's ok, 'cause swiftmallard and I are sending it all down to Mikey and Keith. ;-)
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I'm hosed. 20" of wind packed snow and my snow blower died. The shaft turns but the auger does not. When the engine is off, it does not spin freely either, it's locked up. The only thing between the shaft and auger is the gear box so that has to be it. For a twenty year old machine, it's not worth spend lots of money for parts. Parts machines on craigslist are over $150. My neighbor & I are looking at going in on a new one.
Mikey, the Metrodome roof collapsed this morning! Looks like Favre will have to wait to get his @$$ kicked again!
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I like you upside down text, I looked but don't see how you did it. It must be a cut and paste from another program, right?
Yes Mikey
You are correct that is a cut and paste from another programme, which you can find here.
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I'm hosed. 20" of wind packed snow and my snow blower died. The shaft turns but the auger does not. When the engine is off, it does not spin freely either, it's locked up. The only thing between the shaft and auger is the gear box so that has to be it. For a twenty year old machine, it's not worth spend lots of money for parts. Parts machines on craigslist are over $150. My neighbor & I are looking at going in on a new one.
Mikey, the Metrodome roof collapsed this morning! Looks like Favre will have to wait to get his @$$ kicked again!
I JUST saw that, I am shocked!!! NOW you guys are going to have to pay EVEN MORE for this storm just to fix IT!!! I FEEL your pain!!!
RandyC we DO NOT need any of your kind of snow, thanks for the offer though!! We don't mind a slight dusting but if it is enough to break a snow blower, we don't want it thanks!
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Was sunny this morning but now raining off an on here with a big blotch of rain heading in.
I've been busy updating my bathroom. Besides the new LG clothes washer, which I love, I'm adding a small table with my 5G fish tank on it for decoration between the toilet and shower. I added the reduced flusher to the toilet. The new shower head/hand held water spay thingy. I put in a corner shower caddy, heavy duty model with three basket shelves, and added a mirror to it, not sold by the pole maker. Then I got a new manscraper. I've been busy too writing product reviews and having discussions on these.
This time of year too I add some stuff to my kitchen collection. A new bread maker, Calphalon roasting pan and a Calphalon cheese cutting board set. Only problem is where to put them as the cabinets and counter are already at 110% capacity. Bread maker won't be much of a problem as I have to pull the old not so good working one out and maybe there is some other stuff I no longer use that should go. But hey, I've got a widget or pan for any need in there somewhere. Remember though I've only got half the kitchen for my use as I have to share with my house-mate and we each have our own stuff.
I'm allowed at my house to open my christmas presents early as long as I keep my eyes closed so I don't see myself doing it.
Back to causing trouble at home, hope I don't catch myself.
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I JUST saw that, I am shocked!!! NOW you guys are going to have to pay EVEN MORE for this storm just to fix IT!!! I FEEL your pain!!!
Even more is right, my wife and my neighbor want the expensive machine. Two stage, 7 hp engine and a 28" cut.
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I JUST saw that, I am shocked!!! NOW you guys are going to have to pay EVEN MORE for this storm just to fix IT!!! I FEEL your pain!!!
Even more is right, my wife and my neighbor want the expensive machine. Two stage, 7 hp engine and a 28" cut.
Going back to the game, I just heard on the radio that it will be played Monday night here in Detroit. And the tickets are FREE!!! It will be broadcast on Fox network, but only in the teams' home market.
WINNING!!!
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Going back to the game, I just heard on the radio that it will be played Monday night here in Detroit. And the tickets are FREE!!! It will be broadcast on Fox network, but only in the teams' home market.
WINNING!!!
Those here who bought their tickets from the Vikings or Ticketmaster will get full refunds. Those who bought them from Stub Hub or elsewhere will not. You should hear the howling!
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I JUST saw that, I am shocked!!! NOW you guys are going to have to pay EVEN MORE for this storm just to fix IT!!! I FEEL your pain!!!
Even more is right, my wife and my neighbor want the expensive machine. Two stage, 7 hp engine and a 28" cut.
Going back to the game, I just heard on the radio that it will be played Monday night here in Detroit. And the tickets are FREE!!! It will be broadcast on Fox network, but only in the teams' home market.
WINNING!!!
FREE...must be nice, I guess the concessions will more than make up the costs for Detroit though! And since you did have a game on Sunday it is not like the tv guys have alot of exra work to do! Yeah I think it will be a good game and it is too bad only you guys get to see it!! Maybe they will have hi-lites during the 'other' game.
Keith I though you were renting? That is alot of work for a renter!! But I do like the bread maker and Caphalon type pans, they do look nice in the ads.
SwiftMallard I too would buy a MUCH better snow blower than I did if I lived where you do. I got this one for the once every 5 to 10 year snowfalls that are just killers for us, which is the every year stuff you get!! This morning there is a very thin layer of snow on everything, not measurable but pretty! It is probably just making all the roads slippery enough to make rush hour exciting!!
SwiftMallard said "Those here who bought their tickets from the Vikings or Ticketmaster will get full refunds. Those who bought them from Stub Hub or elsewhere will not. You should hear the howling!"
I would be howling too, Stub Hub needs to step up and take care of the people that gave them their money and got nothing in return! Maybe tickets to a future game, something! But if the Vikings are giving the money back...so should Stub Hub! Makes me want to run right out and give Stub Hub my money doesn't it?!!
JohnC my rac today is 555,080, so up slightly from yesterdays down day. I figured out why my numbers were down yesterday though, one project ran out of work, it is still out but some of my machines do have some from it. I have switched all of them to WCG so at least they will be crunching again!
WINNING!!
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The drive in to work this morning was interesting, but not particularly nasty unless you routinely do stupid things. I had one guy in a pick-up with a snow plow on the front tailgating me for a while. I moved over into the next lane (no reason HE couldn't have done that himself) and he zoomed on past me. I moved back after he went by. Other than that, I guess the rest of the idiots were sleeping in.
High today 18F, with occasional flurries and wind-blown snow. Overnight lows tonight and tomorrow in the single digits. Below freezing temps all the way through this weekend.
I went out last night after the temps dropped into the mid-20sF and scraped off the car. The slushy stuff from earlier had frozen, but not too hard yet, so it wasn't too bad getting it off. If I had waited until this morning I'd have needed a sledge-hammer to get it off.
WINNING!!!
Took the wife to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie yesterday morning. Had a good time, since lots of people were apparently scared of the weather. Less than a dozen people in that theater showing. Room capacity was probably >200.
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There is some white fluffy stuff falling from the sky ?
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All the white stuff that fell has gorn from here. But, a new load is forecast for Thursday evening.
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The drive in to work this morning was interesting, but not particularly nasty unless you routinely do stupid things. I had one guy in a pick-up with a snow plow on the front tailgating me for a while. I moved over into the next lane (no reason HE couldn't have done that himself) and he zoomed on past me. I moved back after he went by. Other than that, I guess the rest of the idiots were sleeping in.
I hate when people do that, it is like they just zone in and just can't seem to figure out that they too can change lanes! I see that even on sunny days, I usually try slowing down but eventually move over like you did!
High today 18F, with occasional flurries and wind-blown snow. Overnight lows tonight and tomorrow in the single digits. Below freezing temps all the way through this weekend.
I went out last night after the temps dropped into the mid-20sF and scraped off the car. The slushy stuff from earlier had frozen, but not too hard yet, so it wasn't too bad getting it off. If I had waited until this morning I'd have needed a sledge-hammer to get it off.
NICE!!
WINNING!!!
Not anymore!
Took the wife to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie yesterday morning. Had a good time, since lots of people were apparently scared of the weather. Less than a dozen people in that theater showing. Room capacity was probably >200.
Hey I'll bet it was even quiet with no cell phones going off! Around here alot of the theaters are going with those cell phone blockers, they have MANY signs announcing that they block them on your way in. Some of our local schools are going with those too, they have a switch and during tests they turn the blocker on, it doesn't reach much beyond the classroom, but it stopped alot of the texting during tests. Teachers want it permanent but too many parents don't, so it is used only during testing right now.
No more white stuff for me since yesterday morning, and even then it happened while I was sleeping. I did have to go out and blow the leaves off my yard yesterday though, it was only about 30F but it only took me about 45 minutes so it wasn't too bad! The yard guy called and said he was coming again on Wednesday and couldn't put down the final treatment of the season with all the leaves on the yard. I am guessing I will have to do it again but at least most of them are gone now. I have a section of my yard that is wooded so I just blew them into it.
Keith that 'white stuff' you saw is called snow and you should be very careful NOT to get any down your back when you are out investigating it! It will be really, REALLY cold if you do!! Oh and drivers will drive like they have just noticed that you guys are giving away free boats and MUST get out on the roads to go there NOW!!
JohnC my rac for today is 554,136, I added my sons pc back online, at Einstein, and will put in an Nvidia gpu I took out of another pc to put my new ATI 6850 up and running. I have to change the power supply though, but it is just a simple swap that will take around half an hour tops. The pc has a 450 watt power supply in it now but no extra power plugs and no 6 pin plug at all, I do have an adapter but with no extra power plugs it is useless. I will be putting in a 580 watt unit that I have laying around.
WINNING!!
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Early evening WIN! No snow here, but lots of thunderstorms and rain! (Here on the Highveld, we get our rain in summer.)
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Winning while it chills and the snow is forecast in the next 48 hours. At least the power supplies are adequate at 650w and 800w.
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Morning shift checking in. Drove to w#^k this morning in a deluge! Good for the veggie garden!
"Winning in the rain, just winning in the rain..." :)
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Morning shift checking in. Drove to w#^k this morning in a deluge! Good for the veggie garden!
"Winning in the rain, just winning in the rain..." :)
No rain, no snow...just COLD!!! Warming up today...up to 25F! Woo Hoo!
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No rain, no snow...just COLD!!! Warming up today...up to 25F! Woo Hoo!
WINNING!!!
LOL! I wish we would get up to 25°F. I still have 3-4 feet of drifted snow on my deck and I can't get out the door. Clearing that is my project after w@#k today.
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No rain, no snow...just COLD!!! Warming up today...up to 25F! Woo Hoo!
WINNING!!!
LOL! I wish we would get up to 25°F. I still have 3-4 feet of drifted snow on my deck and I can't get out the door. Clearing that is my project after w@#k today.
I understand completely. I saw the radar map when that storm came through and you were on the northern side. I got mostly rain until the SW backflow of cold air came through, but you got all snow.
I've got about 3-4" of snow on the ground, but the secondary roads are all ICE. With all the traffic on the hwys, the ice managed to melt off of them. But with air temps below twenty since the storm hit, salt just won't melt the ice on lesser traveled streets. Maybe a chance of melting today.
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No rain, no snow...just COLD!!! Warming up today...up to 25F! Woo Hoo!
WINNING!!!
LOL! I wish we would get up to 25°F. I still have 3-4 feet of drifted snow on my deck and I can't get out the door. Clearing that is my project after w@#k today.
I hope that is NOT a 2nd story deck or that you have 6x6 posts holding it up!!
It is C-O-L-D here this morning, 12F but no moisture, tomorrow they say we might get some snow though, I hope it is light if at all!! No need to rush into this, I think it is better to ease into snow shoveling!! I talked to people that were on the roads on Monday morning when we had our latest dusting and they said it took over twice as long to get to w*&k, and that was just a DUSTING!! I am SOOOOO glad I do not have to fight that traffic anymore!!
JohnC my rac today is 561,285 and I found the problem with why mine has been going down, it is Dnetc!! They have been negligent in keeping up but now the points are coming thru just fine again! No I do not know why they had problems but they seem to be solved right now, yesterday I did over 590k just from them alone!!
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I hope that is NOT a 2nd story deck or that you have 6x6 posts holding it up!!
It's four steps above ground level, about 30". The posts are 4x4 but there are four more than code requires and they are resting on 42" belled frost footings. When I poured the concrete for the footings I got rid of some old rebar by shoving them done into the mud. The guy who has to dig 'em up is going to have a fun time. I could enclose it to make a three season porch or even an outright extra room if I wanted.
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Conditions have mostly settled down. Roads are clear for the most part, except residential of course! Highs for the extended forecast are still in the mid-20sF.
No significant snow expected...occasional lake-effect flurries.
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I hope that is NOT a 2nd story deck or that you have 6x6 posts holding it up!!
It's four steps above ground level, about 30". The posts are 4x4 but there are four more than code requires and they are resting on 42" belled frost footings. When I poured the concrete for the footings I got rid of some old rebar by shoving them done into the mud. The guy who has to dig 'em up is going to have a fun time. I could enclose it to make a three season porch or even an outright extra room if I wanted.
Ahh that sounds like it is perfect!! Around here ALOT of builders used 4 x 4's to build 2nd story decks and then when the snow comes or the residents have a big party the deck comes down!! I too built my own, a 2nd story one, but used 6 x 6's and 18" by 18" by 18" concrete footers. The hole is 18" square but is actually 36" deep but only has 18" of concrete, the hole was then filled back up with dirt to help hold the post steady. My deck is all one level and is 14' by 26'. I used 2 x 10's as floor joists so it will be there a VERY long time. I also used 5/4" decking and have let it go grey but it does need cleaning and sealing again. The deck was actually built by a friend of mine who built decks for some million dollar homes and I assisted as a laborer. It is still all original wood but in the next couple of years I might replace the actual decking with some fake wood, just so it won't ever need any more maintenance.
Hey guys they are now talking around 2" of snow for me starting late morning and ending tonight! EVERYONE is lining up at the grocery stores and the tp, milk and bread is being scooped by the armload into grocery baskets!! People seem to think they are in this for WEEKS, the mindset is just ridiculous!!
JohnC my rac is essentially the same as yesterday 561,876 and Dnetc may again be the culprit. They seem to grant credit in batches as opposed to steadily.
Right now it is just 19F outside and slightly overcast, they do look like snow clouds but you never know here. That means I am now WINNING!!!
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Overnight, exactly 100 mm (4 in) of rain fell in my garden. A further 18 mm (¾ in) has fallen since then. It is very wet in Joburg!
But I'm still winning!
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Getting icy out there, @ -5C (23F), but the snow is keeping away ATM. It's all over on the West coast.
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Overnight, exactly 100 mm (4 in) of rain fell in my garden. A further 18 mm (¾ in) has fallen since then. It is very wet in Joburg!
But I'm still winning!
That is the equivalent of 4.75 FEET of snow, or so the weather man says when it rains here. I am both glad you like it and that it is NOT falling here!! Even 4.75 inches of rain would make for a very bad day for most areas!!
I got about 2 inches or so of snow yesterday but since my wife REFUSED to even move off the couch it will stay there until it melts! I told her now that she is retired and isn't doing ANYTHING around here that she had to help, after all she lives here too.
JohnC my rac today is the same as yesterday, 561,642, so Dnetc may not be all the way back yet after all.
SwiftMallard it looks like the Metrodome will stay closed until the nice weather comes along, the Vikings will play this week at the U of M and then their last 2 games are on the road anyway, so there is no hurry now. EXCEPT of course for the fairly full schedule they had:
http://www.msfc.com/events.cfm?ThisDate={ts%20%272010-12-17%2005%3A34%3A52%27}
I hope you taxpayers don't get stuck with the bill AGAIN!! Where is Jesse 'the body' Ventura when you need him?! Have you volunteered to help shovel the U of M out yet?
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No snow here really, just very very cold rain.
One day someone said they saw snow, I didn't
Yesterday we had some flakes for a while but it turned to just wet drops of water.
So far we've had about 4-6 days below freezing and 12 days total of near freezing temp.
What will the winter be like ? We're only suppose to have 2 days of below freezing for out winter.
Weird thing my wrist has been getting better since September, It felt almost normal again, except yesterday. It began to pain me in the morning and I didn't remember doing anything on Wednesday that would cause it. If I sqooze my hand it haurt, felt like it was bruised. Last night I was scratching a spot, and I heard and felt what sounded like a lot of bones popping in and out of place. Didn't really hurt much. It still felt bruised on the inside. Woke up this morning and its perfectly fine again, no pains or brusied feeling. Feels like it di before that weird pain started.
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SwiftMallard it looks like the Metrodome will stay closed until the nice weather comes along, the Vikings will play this week at the U of M and then their last 2 games are on the road anyway, so there is no hurry now. EXCEPT of course for the fairly full schedule they had:
The Vikings say they want an outdoor stadium, now they have one! Jackson is out so they are starting the third string QB, Joe Webb. This is the first time many here have even heard of him. All hope abandon....
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Mikey,
I'm close to finish on the pre-inventory. I got slowed down for a while and thought I woudl not make it. Then I hit a bunnch of bins that were easier to do. So bins have 1-3 items in them, some have several dozen. Not only am I counting them and recording thier location in the invenory, but also i've been adding any not previously done into my online amazon store. I'm really close, one more page to enter into the pre inventory for the quantities, all the editing is done and most are listed.
I was a lot of trouble at first, I would go to the back and count, writing every thing done on paper, one bin at a time. If i got inturrupted I had to go to the front, the go back. Then when I was done went and entered that into the computer. Sometime I would have to walk back and check an item, and then again, and again and then the next item and so on.
After A while I got a box, put every thing in one bin in the box, took it to my desk. Then as each item came out of the box, counted it and looked at the computer making any updates, wrote it on a paper list. This made it easier as I could see the item and any missing numbers in the computer that would help identify it.
After I did a bunch of bins, like in 1 stack, then the quantites get updated with my special cheat and import script. Todays page I ran out of time and will import Monday.
Then I'm done until the end of the year for the real count.
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It looks like Saturday outside, and freezing (-7C).
Shall I return to the pit or take the pooches for a 2 mile walk?
Decisions
Decisions
Decisions
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Go for the walk, you'll feel so virtuous afterward.
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It looks like Saturday outside, and freezing (-7C).
Shall I return to the pit or take the pooches for a 2 mile walk?
Decisions
Decisions
Decisions
Go for the walk, you'll feel so virtuous afterward.
And the dogs will love you for it.
Cold and windy. Not very nice for moving a truckload of furniture across town. But it gets my youngest daughter out of the house!
WINNING!!!
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Mikey,
I'm close to finish on the pre-inventory. I got slowed down for a while and thought I woudl not make it. Then I hit a bunnch of bins that were easier to do. So bins have 1-3 items in them, some have several dozen. Not only am I counting them and recording thier location in the invenory, but also i've been adding any not previously done into my online amazon store. I'm really close, one more page to enter into the pre inventory for the quantities, all the editing is done and most are listed.
I was a lot of trouble at first, I would go to the back and count, writing every thing done on paper, one bin at a time. If i got inturrupted I had to go to the front, the go back. Then when I was done went and entered that into the computer. Sometime I would have to walk back and check an item, and then again, and again and then the next item and so on.
After A while I got a box, put every thing in one bin in the box, took it to my desk. Then as each item came out of the box, counted it and looked at the computer making any updates, wrote it on a paper list. This made it easier as I could see the item and any missing numbers in the computer that would help identify it.
After I did a bunch of bins, like in 1 stack, then the quantites get updated with my special cheat and import script. Todays page I ran out of time and will import Monday.
Then I'm done until the end of the year for the real count.
Tell the boss you need an Ipad or at least a laptop or tablet for next year! Hey he could even get one of those smart phones with the barcode scanner on it, yes I remember alot of your stuff do not have barcodes on them. But that way you wouldn't have to walk back and forth or take stuff from inventory to your desk and then back again! What about the missed sale of the one item you are inventorying that another salesperson wants to sell but isn't there?! I NOW I am reaching, but you get the idea, make it easier on Keith and the inventory might get done more often!!
Hey RandyC I too would be out with the truck in that situation, CONGRATULATIONS on finding a way to make it happen!!
SwiftMallard....Joe who? That is sort of like my Redskins demoting McNabb for the rest of the season!! I understand the thinking but man they have no clue how to do publicity, this has turned into another bad PR nightmare for the Team!! They COULD have NOT told us EVERYTHING they told McNabb about next season, and things would have been sooo much better!! But to say on tv that he might not even be here next season is just plain stupid! The idea of viewing your players in game situations when they have nothing but pride to play for is not a bad decision, but to come out and say your starting quarterback may not have a job next year is just plain stupid! If you felt that way why give him a new contract mid season?!! The left hand and the right hand need to talk more often!!
JohnC my rac today is 563,571 and Dnetc came thru nicely yesterday, they may indeed be back, again! As for the walk or the pit...take the walk, the pit will always be there AND the dogs will be all pooped out and snoozing for a long time afterwards, giving you more time in the pit!!
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Mikey,
I'm close to finish on the pre-inventory. I got slowed down for a while and thought I woudl not make it. Then I hit a bunnch of bins that were easier to do. So bins have 1-3 items in them, some have several dozen. Not only am I counting them and recording thier location in the invenory, but also i've been adding any not previously done into my online amazon store. I'm really close, one more page to enter into the pre inventory for the quantities, all the editing is done and most are listed.
I was a lot of trouble at first, I would go to the back and count, writing every thing done on paper, one bin at a time. If i got inturrupted I had to go to the front, the go back. Then when I was done went and entered that into the computer. Sometime I would have to walk back and check an item, and then again, and again and then the next item and so on.
After A while I got a box, put every thing in one bin in the box, took it to my desk. Then as each item came out of the box, counted it and looked at the computer making any updates, wrote it on a paper list. This made it easier as I could see the item and any missing numbers in the computer that would help identify it.
After I did a bunch of bins, like in 1 stack, then the quantites get updated with my special cheat and import script. Todays page I ran out of time and will import Monday.
Then I'm done until the end of the year for the real count.
Tell the boss you need an Ipad or at least a laptop or tablet for next year! Hey he could even get one of those smart phones with the barcode scanner on it, yes I remember alot of your stuff do not have barcodes on them. But that way you wouldn't have to walk back and forth or take stuff from inventory to your desk and then back again! What about the missed sale of the one item you are inventorying that another salesperson wants to sell but isn't there?! I NOW I am reaching, but you get the idea, make it easier on Keith and the inventory might get done more often!!
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I've got a smart phone with bar code scanner, the HTC EVO or probbaly any android, which mine is can do that, only problem is it would need a custom app to make a file of barcodes and count, and then a custom script in our system to do the import, which it could as barcodes are stored for each item,b ut then there is the problem of all the ones not coded.
Well this is actually a one time thing, that is the pre-inventory. Everything is now set and new items received will be adjusted accordingly at that time. Next year there will not be any need for a 9 week editing session.
Ipad sounds good, but this gives me an idea for something I had forgot about. My third computer, which reminds me I never posted the new office photo, so here it is.
My Desk
My desk with two main screens, blue.
Two computers on right.
You can see the custom built platforms to hold the two mini keyboards and the screens which is above counter level. That had to be done because of a vertical side built around that one top section, like to block off the area for a cash register. Identical one at the other end whre the POS station is.
Printer #1 on Left.
Third computer screen below printer.
Two more printers are below Third computer screen
Third computer is right of those with the two back-up supplies
I sort of ahve a view out the window, I can barely see over the tops of the screens, but I do have a view when standing up, as you can see.
All my shipping supplies are to the left out of photo and the wall is there.
To the right is my workspace counter with the built in hutch like part and the showroom is beyond that.
Behind where i'm standing would be the forth computer which is the point of sale station and the exit from the counter area.
Oh back to my third computer and Mikey's idea. I forgot that one, besides being a touchscreen, is also a removable battery powered wireless lcd. It has on screen keyboard but also a separate portable battery powered wireless keyboard with touchpad.
I already have our software installed on that computer, so I could actually do inventory live by using that and just walking around and counting. Set the screen to near where I am and just hold the much lighter keyboard.
The thing about the way I did inventory was set up locations for all items. Each group of items, like on one rack, one shelf or in one bin has a location code, so items are grouped together and sorting of the update file can be done by location, thus most items would be on screen at one time for counting within each section. Actually that was by my design to make this task easier.
However it is old and the battery does not last all that long, so maybe a second choice would be to take my netbook in, which is smaller. It has windows and wireless, although I would have to hook up and setup a wireless router. The other has a private setup. I'm not sure I can tap into it. My netbook can run 9 hours on battery and I would not need to install the software, as with windows I can use remote and just operate my main computer through the netbook. I may carry that with me next week and if I find the time, set up the wireless or if i'm really lazy, just use a 50 foot netwook cable and drag around, i have two places I could tap in, one out front and one in the back so I could reach every spot needed with only a small inturruption during a cable relocate. I think the hard wire cable is a better and easier way to go at this point.
It might actually go better for me to just recount everything myself than to enlist the help of other employees whom probably won't do a perfect job. If you want it done right, do it yourself. I also could do it on a day we were closed and no one else was in the building with overtime pay of course. I'll propose that to the boss man.
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JohnC my rac today is 563,571 and Dnetc came thru nicely yesterday, they may indeed be back, again! As for the walk or the pit...take the walk, the pit will always be there AND the dogs will be all pooped out and snoozing for a long time afterwards, giving you more time in the pit!!
WINNING!!
@Mikey
You were winning, and I did get up and take the dogs for a 2 mile walk (walked three quarters of an hour). The temperature was -4C, but the wind chill made it seem more like -8C and my ears nearly fell off.
Although you say that DNETC is delivering, but your RAC is falling to mine.
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Hey RandyC I too would be out with the truck in that situation, CONGRATULATIONS on finding a way to make it happen!!
Well, it's over now. And it only cost $58.94+$20 gas...along with hard labor and my time. And that doesn't mean they've cleaned out their rooms either. Just the big furniture that can't be moved in a car. My old pick-up truck could have done the job, but it would have been several trips to move everything.
Technically, I'm still paying out the same $$ or more than I was before I swapped the Ranger for the Prius. The loan on my wife's car is 8.35%, so even though I only have to pay ~$170/mo, I'm paying $300/mo to get it paid off soonest. The loan on MY Prius is only 4.9%, but the monthly payment is also $300. Once I get her car paid off, the extra can be put on my loan.
The big advantage is that I get 3x the mpg from her car as we did out of the pickup.
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Mikey,
I'm close to finish on the pre-inventory. I got slowed down for a while and thought I woudl not make it. Then I hit a bunnch of bins that were easier to do. So bins have 1-3 items in them, some have several dozen. Not only am I counting them and recording thier location in the invenory, but also i've been adding any not previously done into my online amazon store. I'm really close, one more page to enter into the pre inventory for the quantities, all the editing is done and most are listed.
I was a lot of trouble at first, I would go to the back and count, writing every thing done on paper, one bin at a time. If i got inturrupted I had to go to the front, the go back. Then when I was done went and entered that into the computer. Sometime I would have to walk back and check an item, and then again, and again and then the next item and so on.
After A while I got a box, put every thing in one bin in the box, took it to my desk. Then as each item came out of the box, counted it and looked at the computer making any updates, wrote it on a paper list. This made it easier as I could see the item and any missing numbers in the computer that would help identify it.
After I did a bunch of bins, like in 1 stack, then the quantites get updated with my special cheat and import script. Todays page I ran out of time and will import Monday.
Then I'm done until the end of the year for the real count.
Tell the boss you need an Ipad or at least a laptop or tablet for next year! Hey he could even get one of those smart phones with the barcode scanner on it, yes I remember alot of your stuff do not have barcodes on them. But that way you wouldn't have to walk back and forth or take stuff from inventory to your desk and then back again! What about the missed sale of the one item you are inventorying that another salesperson wants to sell but isn't there?! I NOW I am reaching, but you get the idea, make it easier on Keith and the inventory might get done more often!!
....
I've got a smart phone with bar code scanner, the HTC EVO or probbaly any android, which mine is can do that, only problem is it would need a custom app to make a file of barcodes and count, and then a custom script in our system to do the import, which it could as barcodes are stored for each item,b ut then there is the problem of all the ones not coded.
Well this is actually a one time thing, that is the pre-inventory. Everything is now set and new items received will be adjusted accordingly at that time. Next year there will not be any need for a 9 week editing session.
Ipad sounds good, but this gives me an idea for something I had forgot about. My third computer, which reminds me I never posted the new office photo, so here it is.
My Desk
My desk with two main screens, blue.
Two computers on right.
You can see the custom built platforms to hold the two mini keyboards and the screens which is above counter level. That had to be done because of a vertical side built around that one top section, like to block off the area for a cash register. Identical one at the other end whre the POS station is.
Printer #1 on Left.
Third computer screen below printer.
Two more printers are below Third computer screen
Third computer is right of those with the two back-up supplies
I sort of ahve a view out the window, I can barely see over the tops of the screens, but I do have a view when standing up, as you can see.
All my shipping supplies are to the left out of photo and the wall is there.
To the right is my workspace counter with the built in hutch like part and the showroom is beyond that.
Behind where i'm standing would be the forth computer which is the point of sale station and the exit from the counter area.
Oh back to my third computer and Mikey's idea. I forgot that one, besides being a touchscreen, is also a removable battery powered wireless lcd. It has on screen keyboard but also a separate portable battery powered wireless keyboard with touchpad.
I already have our software installed on that computer, so I could actually do inventory live by using that and just walking around and counting. Set the screen to near where I am and just hold the much lighter keyboard.
The thing about the way I did inventory was set up locations for all items. Each group of items, like on one rack, one shelf or in one bin has a location code, so items are grouped together and sorting of the update file can be done by location, thus most items would be on screen at one time for counting within each section. Actually that was by my design to make this task easier.
However it is old and the battery does not last all that long, so maybe a second choice would be to take my netbook in, which is smaller. It has windows and wireless, although I would have to hook up and setup a wireless router. The other has a private setup. I'm not sure I can tap into it. My netbook can run 9 hours on battery and I would not need to install the software, as with windows I can use remote and just operate my main computer through the netbook. I may carry that with me next week and if I find the time, set up the wireless or if i'm really lazy, just use a 50 foot netwook cable and drag around, i have two places I could tap in, one out front and one in the back so I could reach every spot needed with only a small inturruption during a cable relocate. I think the hard wire cable is a better and easier way to go at this point.
It might actually go better for me to just recount everything myself than to enlist the help of other employees whom probably won't do a perfect job. If you want it done right, do it yourself. I also could do it on a day we were closed and no one else was in the building with overtime pay of course. I'll propose that to the boss man.
I LIKE IT!! Have you thought about barcoding the bins instead of the items? If you barcode the bin then you would need a text label too but at least people would know where to put stuff and maybe things would have a home instead of wherever they put them. When I was still being a firefighter I was working on the air masks and we came up with a barcoding system so we could keep track of what parts we used to repair each air mask. Basically we barcoded each bin of the parts drawers but we also had a book of barcodes for the things that didn't quite fit in the bins. We got a long cord for the barcode scanner, this was before smart phones, and as we pulled the parts for a job we scanned the parts into the system and then after reviewing them saved them. At the end of the month the boss could print out a list of what we used and check the numbers of what was left in inventory, it worked pretty well, but like most systems depended on everyone doing a perfect job. We even created barcodes for things like testing so we could justify the time we spent working on them. We repaired the masks on a part-time basis and while we were on duty, so if the bell rang we were off to a medical or fire call and then came back afterwards to finish up.
RandyC if the note is too long maybe you could refinance to a lower rate? If you only have a short time to go it probably isn't worth it, but checking into it IS free. I just paid off my last car, so I am auto debt free right now!!!!!!!
JohnC my rac today is 564,874, and I have no idea what the problem is, all the machines are crunching but some are just taking 3 times as long to do some units! Some units are taking 30 minutes while others are taking 1 1/2 hours, I am not seeing 3 times the credits for the longer units though! Part of it is that I have both Nvidia and ATI cards crunching and I have to check to see if that is the difference. I know ATI cards are faster so it could be. I brought up that Nvidia card I replaced recently and the first power supply was bad so I am using a 600 watt one now but it has a bad fan and it is N-O-I-S-Y!!! It is a Cooler Master brand and has a replaceable fan and I will try to do that this week.
JohnC I am also glad you took the dogs for their walk but I am sorry your ears got cold! I guess that is one more thing you will have to take care off now that winter is here, maybe you could get a pair of over-the-ear headphones and just 'rock out' as you walk along. I can see it now...JohnC bee bopping along as he walks the dogs! *LOL*
WINNING!!
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JohnC I am also glad you took the dogs for their walk but I am sorry your ears got cold!
It was the wind, and wind chill, that did for my ears yesterday. Temperature about -4C, but became really cold when I was walking back to the car and in to the wind.
We have had a similar day today - sunny, no clouds, no wind (under a high pressure system) and day temperatures now constantly stuck at -6C. At least the lack of wind means my ears are still hanging on each side of my head.
We had temperatures last night in the countryside of nearly -20C (-4F), and these went up to -10C (14F) about 8.00 am this morning. The temperature then settled to the current -6C.
A chilly win from here.
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[quoteI LIKE IT!! Have you thought about barcoding the bins instead of the items? If you barcode the bin then you would need a text label too but at least people would know where to put stuff and maybe things would have a home instead of wherever they put them. When I was still being a firefighter I was working on the air masks and we came up with a barcoding system so we could keep track of what parts we used to repair each air mask. Basically we barcoded each bin of the parts drawers but we also had a book of barcodes for the things that didn't quite fit in the bins. We got a long cord for the barcode scanner, this was before smart phones, and as we pulled the parts for a job we scanned the parts into the system and then after reviewing them saved them. At the end of the month the boss could print out a list of what we used and check the numbers of what was left in inventory, it worked pretty well, but like most systems depended on everyone doing a perfect job. We even created barcodes for things like testing so we could justify the time we spent working on them. We repaired the masks on a part-time basis and while we were on duty, so if the bell rang we were off to a medical or fire call and then came back afterwards to finish up.
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Well somewhere in there you hit the nail on the head. Barcoding bins would do me not much good. They are labeled and each of these labels is the location code, that is part of the item in inventory. The problem being wether the system is manual entry or barcoded, they have to WANT to use the system. As of know they rarly use it to look up anything, getting them to look up where an item is suppose to go would be a double wammy. The boss wanted barcoding a long time ago. He asked once recently if I had made any progress on setting up barcoding and I said yes BUT it will do no good unless you or someone else learns how to use the system first. Actually our system is so simple barcoding every thing not barcoded would just be a waste of time. Msot checks outs are like one or two items, maybe four. It's not like a grocery store where someone buys a cart full. Everything about the item is searchable for pulling it up to add to a ticket, I mean part number, alternate numbers on the box, barcode, UPC, description, model number, brand, anything else. It is so simple to jsut search and enter in a few numbers off the item and you don't get that many chocies to pick from, sometimes only one. It is too simple.
The boss still tries to use customer numbers on stuff. Our system searches so well it is easier to jsut forget all those and search on the name or part there of. Most the time I search on three letter combos like MIK AND would fnd Mikey. Maybe a few others with siilar names, but then by that time you could look at the list and pick out the one by city. You can search by address, cities, phone, cell, mobbile, fax, notes, boat name, wife's name, email and whatever else is in there. I find short 3 letter combos work best and this sometimes finds people whose names were misspelled. A good one also is to leave off the fisrt letter to OB would be for eithr ROB... or BOB, T OM would match Tom or Thomaas, etc, wheras TOM would match TOM but not Thomas. It is too simple.
The onlt thing to learn is how to search and basically you've masterd more than half of what you need to know. Shorter combos often work better than full words for a start, if you get too many choices, then add some more.
I can start a ticket, find acustomer, add several items and have a correct total, with appropiate tax before the boss man could even write out the customers name on a paper ticket. He forgets to write down a lot of serial numbers, no problem with the computer entry because it only askes when necessary for one. No forgetting.
The other thing is then the work is done once no chance of it getting lost on someones desk or having a second person go behind and enter it, saving lots of time all around which would also free up manpower to be put to more productive use (saving money).
Did I tell yopu about the sales tax nightamre. Our state decided to change the way business handle tax colelction. in the past for any sales in state we ahd to collect tax at our counties rate unless the person has an exemption, which a lot of our custoemrs due for comemrcial fishng or reslae for businesses. Well anyway for sales to cunsumers we now have to collect the appropiate rate for our county if sold at our store OR if it ships to them for the county of destination. To make this more complicated there are 100 counties in NC. 84 have then same rate, 15 others have a higher rate and 1 other has a transit tax. But the complicated part now is we have to report each county separately. Yes there is now a form with 100 boxes on it to fill out each month, instead of 1 lump sum. Fortunately our system was sort of already ready to handle this. It does not have counties, but I was able to cheat around this. I have to look up once on the internet the city to find what county it is in. Then i made a city to county index as tax codes, each one is done as needed, so any repaeats are easier. This piece of data goes in the customer tax code box. Each tax coe points to a rule. You can have multile codes point to the same rule. So as I add each city within a county they can all point to the same county rule. One per county to charge the correct rate and keep a separate total per county. Yes I had to make 100 rules. Then I had to go back and edit every single in state customer and give them the new rule. And yes in the future when the rates change I have to go back and make 100 edits. This made my report at the end of the month show the subtotal for each county. I had to make a small change at the total section to subtotal each like rate, which I hard coded those three in for now instead of figuring out a complicated automatic thing. Any changes in the future to county rates I'll just have to go and code in another line. All in all it actually worked out better than I thought it would, only took me three hours to set up, and not days like I thought. It would ahve been easy to add a county to the database, but the tax rules won't use any custom fields so that would not really help. So the state government choose to do this nearing the busy holiday season, not to mention the first notice we got was in mid November with the forms to complete October's total, yeah it started a month before we were notified. Fortunately though we do not do that many out of county state sales. most of ours are either in store or ship out of state were there is no tax colelction by us. Oh I hope the feds don't impose some stupid rule whre we then have to collect and report each state or worse every copunty in every state. This would mean an end to a lot of internet sales for those that could not even figure out how to do the paperwork.
Any business is now doing more and more paperwork for the government, I think the government should pay for my time to fill out the form and do their reporting. This is another reason a flat tax on everything for everybody, no exceptions, would make life easier for everyone involved, customer, business and government. There is so much waste in time and manpower now.
Back to wapping krismouse presents, but first some more holiday Kahlua to get in the spirit. This years flavor is Peppermint Mocha.
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Ah, Monday morning. Time for a period of mourning?
WINNING!!!
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Ah, Monday morning. Time for a period of mourning?
WINNING!!!
For Minnesota vikings fans, that will be this evening just after LOSING!
WINNING!
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Ah, Monday morning. Time for a period of mourning?
WINNING!!!
For Minnesota vikings fans, that will be this evening just after LOSING!
WINNING!
Probably but I am surprised to see the players complaining about the frozen field, ESPECIALLY some kicker! They get paid millions of dollars, at least most of them are, and they need to just be men and think of the old days when players like Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Alan Page, etc, etc played and then be grateful they don't have to do it every week! Jim Otto the great center from the Raiders who used to wear number double zero has knees that are so bad if he steps off a curb he goes straight to the hospital! There is nothing in his knees except bone on bone yet his pension is almost non existent and his medical care is only partially covered. These young guys are wusses!
My Redskins actually made a decent game of it yesterday, they still lost but hey what else is new! The quarterback controversy is expanding and will not get any better anytime soon!
Keith I agree that if everyone is not on board then barcoding, using the computer to track stuff is just impossible and no money will be saved in the long run. The boss sets a very bad example by not doing it the right way and of course it is a monkey see, monkey do environment. That is pretty cool about how you handled the County tax changes though!
JohnC my rac for today is 559,166, so down again! I added another gpu to the mix and my rac is STILL going down, it MUST be a project thing! I have been told that PrimeGrid is giving out some EXCELLENT credits for their gpu work right now, I may switch some of my Nvidia cards over to see if that helps any. And after some initial user setting adjustments I now have a bunch of 45 minute units from PG. That is MUCH better than the 3.5 hour units I was crunching for Dnetc!!
JohnC take care of those ears, I used to live in Alaska as a kid and I can tell you frostbite is no joke and can lead to long term problems!!
WINNING!!
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Winning after walking the dogs at -8C (17F) this morning. Temperature has now dropped to -12C (10F)
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Last three days of work this year... Taking time off, but not enough $ to go anywhere. :(
Bright spots:
Kids are out of the house.
The DOG is gone TOO!!!!!!
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Winning after walking the dogs at -8C (17F) this morning. Temperature has now dropped to -12C (10F)
You have now found the joys of owning a pet fish sometimes outweigh the joys of owning of a more traditional pet!!
My rac today is 561,337, up a little from yesterday but not much!! And not NEAR yours, what the heck is going on?!!!! I did move 3 gpu's, my Nvidia ones, over to PrimeGrid and they seem to be doing MUCH better so far. Here are the stats for just one unit: 4,893.09(run time) 101.76(cpu time) 2,311.00(credits awarded).
RandyC BOTH of my kids will be here for Christmas and one will be bringing his dog and girlfriend! So I am the opposite of you this year, I will have both kids and pets coming to visit. Oh and my mother-in-law will be coming, as well as my sister-in-law and her husband and kid too! The in-law side will only be here for one day though then they have to go back home again, but my kids will be here for several days.
WINNING!!
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@Mikey
Your RAC is starting to rise quite rapidly - 576K. But I am winning.
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@Mikey
Your RAC is starting to rise quite rapidly - 576K. But I am winning.
YES IT IS isn't it!!! Today it is 576,338 but that is because I have moved my Nvidia cards over to Prime Grid for right now. In fact I had a 707,115 point day yesterday!!
My newest machine, my backup machine with my ATI 6850, has decided to stop running though. Today I will be working on it to figure out why!! I think I know why, the card is too long and really, REALLY close to where the drives are, and in fact only 1 sata connection is available. I may end up swapping with another machine today as I REALLY want to keep my backup machine running!!
As for my weather they are now saying I should be getting 'some' snow on Christmas Day and the day after too. That might affect my Christmas as I have family coming into town on Christmas Day and then leaving the next day. We will have to wait and see, it is in the Plains right now after leaving California and dumping ALOT of rain and snow out there. They are saying maybe 1 to 2 inches of snow, but when they say that it can easily turn into a 100 year blizzard, or be nothing at all! The projected snow goes from Tennessee thru Virginia so that SEEMS like more than an inch or two!!
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Winning after walking the dogs at -8C (17F) this morning. Temperature has now dropped to -12C (10F)
You have now found the joys of owning a pet fish sometimes outweigh the joys of owning of a more traditional pet!!
Not for me, my fish were tiny, 1 inch guys 'n gals, they don't weigh much.
Actually i've not had my fishy tank running for quiet some time and wanted to relocate it. I've only got a small 5g tank. So in looking I found a spot in the bathroom where it exacatly fits between the the shower and the toilet. Next challange was to find a table to hold it, which by a miracle I found an exact fit. It will be a while for me to finish the setup as I have to find all the pieces and dust them off, get it going and then get some more fishies, maybe in the spring i'll be ready for them. It fits nicley in the bathroom since the motief in the is animals, i have lots of pictures or fake small little critters like owls, fish, birds, snakes, tuttles, butterflies on my towels and a fish shower curtain.
Time for w%&K to ruin a good day.
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Winning after walking the dogs at -8C (17F) this morning. Temperature has now dropped to -12C (10F)
You have now found the joys of owning a pet fish sometimes outweigh the joys of owning of a more traditional pet!!
Not for me, my fish were tiny, 1 inch guys 'n gals, they don't weigh much.
Actually i've not had my fishy tank running for quiet some time and wanted to relocate it. I've only got a small 5g tank. So in looking I found a spot in the bathroom where it exacatly fits between the the shower and the toilet. Next challange was to find a table to hold it, which by a miracle I found an exact fit. It will be a while for me to finish the setup as I have to find all the pieces and dust them off, get it going and then get some more fishies, maybe in the spring i'll be ready for them. It fits nicley in the bathroom since the motief in the is animals, i have lots of pictures or fake small little critters like owls, fish, birds, snakes, turtles, butterflies on my towels and a fish shower curtain.
Time for w%&K to ruin a good day.
You know you COULD just go out in your kayak and catch some to put in the tank! I have a friend who has a salt water fish tank and he loves it, he has little Nemos in it and other stuff.
Keith I hope your w*&k is very easy today and for the rest of the year!! All the rest of you guys too!!! I have gotten over the fact that I am unhireable and am in the totally retired mode now, and LOVING IT!!
JohnC my rac today is 587,534, so up from yesterday but I am very surprised at that!! My wifes pc, that I built for her, stopped running and when I opened it I found POPCORN INSIDE THE MACHINE!!! Needless to say it was just PACKED full of dust and other stuff so I sent her out to get a new case fan, as that was the worst problem. She came back with the right one, I put the old one in a baggie for her to take to the store, and after plugging in the new fan I plugged the pc in and FLASH there was an electrical short from something and her pc is now out of commission!! Her pc has a quad core and a gpu all crunching, so I had to make up a new pc, a dual core, for the gpu and to replace at least some of the cpu. Remember I also had problems with my 6850 gpu card, well I moved it from one machine to another and moved the gpu from that machine to the one that the 6850 came out of. Basically I just swapped 2 gpu's around but one was an ATI and one was an Nvidia so it was more than just a swap! I ended up aborting units and everything, I do not like doing that but sometimes you just have too! And did I mention it is almost Christmas and I have to go to my sisters on Christmas Eve for my families Christmas and them my wifes side of the family is coming to my place on Christmas Day!! Oh and TODAY is my birthday, so LOTS going on these few days!!
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Keith I hope your w*&k is very easy today and for the rest of the year!! All the rest of you guys too!!! I have gotten over the fact that I am unhireable and am in the totally retired mode now, and LOVING IT!!
JohnC my rac today is 587,534, so up from yesterday but I am very surprised at that!! My wifes pc, that I built for her, stopped running and when I opened it I found POPCORN INSIDE THE MACHINE!!! Needless to say it was just PACKED full of dust and other stuff so I sent her out to get a new case fan, as that was the worst problem. She came back with the right one, I put the old one in a baggie for her to take to the store, and after plugging in the new fan I plugged the pc in and FLASH there was an electrical short from something and her pc is now out of commission!! Her pc has a quad core and a gpu all crunching, so I had to make up a new pc, a dual core, for the gpu and to replace at least some of the cpu. Remember I also had problems with my 6850 gpu card, well I moved it from one machine to another and moved the gpu from that machine to the one that the 6850 came out of. Basically I just swapped 2 gpu's around but one was an ATI and one was an Nvidia so it was more than just a swap! I ended up aborting units and everything, I do not like doing that but sometimes you just have too! And did I mention it is almost Christmas and I have to go to my sisters on Christmas Eve for my families Christmas and them my wifes side of the family is coming to my place on Christmas Day!! Oh and TODAY is my birthday, so LOTS going on these few days!!
WINNING!!
First, Happy Birthday Mikey!
Next, youngest daughter's SO that just moved out, called yesterday. Seems his computer gave out a loud pop and shutdown. He restarted it and it shutdown again about two minutes later. Third try and it only stayed up about 30 seconds. Since I'm not onsite to look at it, I can't really diagnose it, but I suspect something worked loose in the move. We're scheduled to go over there tomorrow evening, so I'll look at it then.
Today is my last day at w@^k this year! Will be off until January 3rd.
Christmas Day plans are to go to Oldest daughter's house in am, and have lunch with them. Then come home and fix supper for youngest daughter's crew.
Taking the wife to see the new TRON movie after w@^k today. Two of the big bosses are out today. There are rumors it will be getting foggy about an hour before quitting time. Foggy enough that the bosses can't tell who's at their desk or not. Kindof a discretionary thing that happens before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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JohnC my rac today is 587,534, so up from yesterday but I am very surprised at that!!
I hope your Birthday was good, and the day went well despite your wife's crook PC.
Yes, you had a 730K total from BOINCStats and the RAC rose to 591K. Very good.
What are you crunching to get these good returns?
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Happy Festivus Everyone!
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JohnC my rac today is 587,534, so up from yesterday but I am very surprised at that!!
I hope your Birthday was good, and the day went well despite your wife's crook PC.
Yes, you had a 730K total from BOINCStats and the RAC rose to 591K. Very good.
What are you crunching to get these good returns?
Thanks John, yes it was a good day yesterday. I now have most of my Ati gpu's, 6 of them, at Dnetc. I then have my Ati 6850 at Collatz and my 3 Nvidia gpu's which are over at Prime Grid doing the "Proth Prime Search (Sieve) v1.37 (cuda23)" units. The PG units did 207,990 credits yesterday all by themselves! And NO my Nvidia gpu's are NOT top of the line, I have 2 9600's and a 9800 but they zip thru the units getting credits like this for each one:
"2,150.37(total run time) 42.07(gpu time) 2,311.00(credits granted)"
The Ati 6850 at Colaltz is doing this:
"521.17(total time) 519.32(gpu time) 812.51(credits granted)". I got 115,792 credits from Collatz alone yesterday!!
I have my cpu's mostly at Einstein, yesterday the 11 pc's did 22,102 credits. I also have 1 core of a laptop crunching for Malaria and 1 dual core pc crunching for WCG, the last 2 projects combined for 1694 credits yesterday.
RandyC THANKS for the birthday wishes, it was a nice day for me! I got to work on my pc's in the morning and then my older son and his girlfriend and their dog showed up, about noon, and we just hung out here at home all day. My younger son showed up about 5pm and then we had dinner, they went to a movie and I watched the hickey game on tv. They guys lost the hockey game but they played really well and if they play like that from now on, things should look up for them!
I did have to take out a gpu, an Ati 4670 because the pc it was in stopped working, I took out the card and the pc started back up again, hmmmm! That was the same card that was in my wifes pc when it sparked! I am now thinking it might be the card and not the whole pc that is bad for my wifes pc, I won't know until the day after Christmas as there is just too much going on until then to work on it, but it could be promising!! I might even get a new gpu out of all this, and go from around 30k per day of credits to 5 times that if I upgrade to an Ati 5770! My wife would like the upgraded card as her pictures will look better on a better card, or so I will tell her anyway! She wants another new dslr camera and has been saving her money, but 2 years ago she got the one she has. Her current one cost 1000 bucks and now the one she wants also costs 1000 bucks!! This would be her 4th 1000 dollar camera in 6 years!! She HAS been able to sell her old cameras for some money so it has not been a total loss, but it still is ALOT of money!! And NO I am not going to compare her hobby costs to mine, although I DO make some money working on pc's while she has NOT made any money from taking pictures!!
Thanks SwiftMallard, same to you!!
I am WINNING!
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@Randy, if you get the snow that I just got, it's not a big deal. It's light, fluffy, easy to clear but it makes the roads slick. My new snow blower works great, tried out the electric start this morning, WOW! No more shoulder wrenching for this guy.
@all MC crunchers, you have my best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. For it is then that we are all WINNING!
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@Randy, if you get the snow that I just got, it's not a big deal. It's light, fluffy, easy to clear but it makes the roads slick. My new snow blower works great, tried out the electric start this morning, WOW! No more shoulder wrenching for this guy.
@all MC crunchers, you have my best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. For it is then that we are all WINNING!
No significant snow in the forecast...a few flurries and a shower or two maybe. The really nasty stuff is coming across Chicago and into Ohio...south of here.
My wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all as well.
WINNING!!!
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my 3 Nvidia gpu's which are over at Prime Grid doing the "Proth Prime Search (Sieve) v1.37 (cuda23)" units. The PG units did 207,990 credits yesterday all by themselves! And NO my Nvidia gpu's are NOT top of the line, I have 2 9600's and a 9800 but they zip thru the units getting credits like this for each one:
"2,150.37(total run time) 42.07(gpu time) 2,311.00(credits granted)"
The Ati 6850 at Colaltz is doing this:
"521.17(total time) 519.32(gpu time) 812.51(credits granted)". I got 115,792 credits from Collatz alone yesterday!!
@Mikey
I have not looked at PrimeGrid before, so I thought I would now as I have 2 x NV 9500GT cards in my dual P3 on a PCI bus.
I attached, via BAM, and got the GPU work which immediately errored out several times. This rig runs the Win2K pro OS and BM 6.10.58. The NV drivers are recent and 256.96.
Do you have any pointers for me to correct this? Until I do I have NNTed the project and continue crunching a small amount of Collatz.
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First, Happy Birthday Mikey!
Next, youngest daughter's SO that just moved out, called yesterday. Seems his computer gave out a loud pop and shutdown. He restarted it and it shutdown again about two minutes later. Third try and it only stayed up about 30 seconds. Since I'm not onsite to look at it, I can't really diagnose it, but I suspect something worked loose in the move. We're scheduled to go over there tomorrow evening, so I'll look at it then.
OK. I know I'm talking to myself, but I figured some of you might like a follow-up.
Went over to visit youngest daughter in her new apartment this evening. While there, I had a look at SO's computer. I figured something had worked loose in the move, but he swore it had been running for three days before it started having problems.
Took the cover off and started looking around. Started by feeling various components to see if they were loose; pushed down on memory chips and various cards to make sure they were down tight. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary; I gently moved the heatsink and it seemed firm to me. It was then I noticed that the clips to the heatsink weren't fastened properly.
My guess is that one side worked itself loose and released with an audible snap! I got the clips back on properly, rebooted and voila: it worked!
In addition to all this, he was having weird things happening with his internet connection. Seems that if he hooked the ethernet cable from the modem directly into the router it wouldn't work, but if he first plugged it into his hub, THEN into his router, everything came up fine. I disconnected the ethernet cable coming out of the hub into the router and plugged that one directly into the cable modem. Again--voila: it worked. My guess is that the ethernet cable that Comcast (yeah, those guys) connected to the router was a cross-over cable rather than straight-in. Using a different cable going from the modem to the router resolved the problem.
Within 30 mins of arriving at the apartment I managed to resolve two issues they couldn't fix on their own. Well now Dan's a reasonably knowledgeable guy, but like many not-quite-computer-geeks, he's more of a user than an expert. Besides, it's a heck of a lot easier to troubleshoot HW problems onsite than over the phone.
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Good morning RandyC, and a Merry Christmas Day to you and others as they may pop in.
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my 3 Nvidia gpu's which are over at Prime Grid doing the "Proth Prime Search (Sieve) v1.37 (cuda23)" units. The PG units did 207,990 credits yesterday all by themselves! And NO my Nvidia gpu's are NOT top of the line, I have 2 9600's and a 9800 but they zip thru the units getting credits like this for each one:
"2,150.37(total run time) 42.07(gpu time) 2,311.00(credits granted)"
The Ati 6850 at Colaltz is doing this:
"521.17(total time) 519.32(gpu time) 812.51(credits granted)". I got 115,792 credits from Collatz alone yesterday!!
@Mikey
I have not looked at PrimeGrid before, so I thought I would now as I have 2 x NV 9500GT cards in my dual P3 on a PCI bus.
I attached, via BAM, and got the GPU work which immediately errored out several times. This rig runs the Win2K pro OS and BM 6.10.58. The NV drivers are recent and 256.96.
Do you have any pointers for me to correct this? Until I do I have NNTed the project and continue crunching a small amount of Collatz.
I do not use BAM, can you try connecting without it? I am using different versions of the Nvidia drivers so it can't be that, but I can say that my Ati gpu's did NOT work when I attached them to PG. I am also running 6.10.58 so it can't be that either, I am thinking it could be BAM. I know it has had problems with other projects and am wondering if maybe it is causing this one. I know it also works most of the time just fine, so it is a little confusing. Oh...what projects are running at PG? I am ONLY running the "Proth Prime Search (Sieve)" units, NOTHING else, how about you?
My rac for today is up to 617,120 but still way below yours, how am I supposed to catch you if you keep speeding up?!! No fair raising the bar as we go along!!
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SwiftMallard and RandyC I am sooo glad you guys live in the 'snow belt' and I don't!! I am supposed to get a dusting of snow today and tonight and everyone is running around pre-treating the roads like crazy!! The grocery store shelves are being stripped of tp, milk and bread AGAIN too!! It is like a ritual these nuts go thru, stocking up thinking they are in the middle of a shortage of something!!
RandyC I am glad you got the pc working so easily!! And I do not like trying to troubleshoot a pc over the phone either, I too look at way too many things to try and tell someone over the phone what to do!
And I too hope EVERYONE has a VERY Merry Christmas and gets EVERYTHING they want under their tree!! I got my usual money from my parents yesterday so will be buying a new video card in January!! It is nice when you get to have TWO Christmas's, but wow what a hassle too!! It has been a very busy week but when everyone leaves tomorrow morning, and after we meet at the local Ihop for breakfast, everything will get back to normal for me again!!
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MERRY KRISTMAS
Santa left me a package by my feet during the night, I guess he could not figure out my garden was kristmas trees in disguise. It's time to eat the decorations, too many red bell peppers. It seems santa klaus shopped in maui this year. I've got a friend that travels somewhere each year, so every kristmas i get gifts from some far off place. My package actually arrived yesterday, but i waitied until this morning to open it. Normally i would open it and wait until today to open the gifts, but this time i waited and didn't even open the whole package until today.
It is interesting that during the summer, I had many orange ones, I was assuming from cross polination from the mini orange tomatoes, as I had some orange flowers too and other tomatoes that were not orange in the past were orange this year. Now that they are indoors and there are only a couple tomato plants and little wind, bees or whatever to cross polinat, all the peppers are now red. I've got about a dozen big ones, fist size at least, and same again or more in small ones. One plant I broke during moving continues to look healthy but all the peppers stopped growing so it has about 2 dozen mini gold ball peppers. they are good to eat too but more work to handle and disect.
The frig is over stuffed with leftovers already, good thing i'm not cooking kristmas dinner this year. We had a lot of companies or people give us food at my palce of work. We are fewer people, 4 now and one of those was barely there the last few days and then out of town. I got half at least of everything and took home all the leftovers. I had a honeybaked smoked ham, the hambone goes into the krockpot tomorrow with some beens for soup. Then there is the big bucket of three flavored popcorn still half full. I brought home two platters of nibbles. One was shrimp which is mostly gone and a bunch of grape tomatoes and lemon slices and a tub of red sauce. The other was still 2/3rd's full and had swiss cheese, smokey chedder cheese, yellow-n-white cheese, kantalope, honey-do mellon, green grapes, purplish grapes, strawberries, raspberries, an orange that was cut fancy and another mini cheese wheel plus the lettuce on the bottom. I've been eating that for three days for lunch at work. Last night I kooked some pork, made a salad some of the lettuce and tomatoes and with the some fruit and cheese nibbles, plus a slice of my kranberry bread had a meal. Then just yesterday someone brought in a cake, maybe rum kake, and a bag of chocolate koated peanuts. I got both of those whole, no one else but the boss showed for work yesterday, but it was only a half day anyway. My frig is packed full, top to bottom now. I could not fit the platters in my frig, so I had to separate all the stuff and zippy-bagged each one. I'll be nibbling on stuff for weeks. Oops I forgot the two boxes of krackers. If anyone tries to give me any more leftover's i'll have to decline. I could not pack a sardine in there.
kold again today, 32F/0C now but it might warm up to 46F. There might be some rain later and a chance of a snow flake again tomorrow. I don't mind the kold so much. It actually gives me a chance to wear some of my sweeters, including some my mother made for me. I've actually been wearing those to work last two weeks, but with no shirt underneath. No so good for outside as the wind will poke though any holes, but inside it keeps me warm without being too hot and I also look well dressed, not like a bum wearing a raggy t-shirt like some other people.
Yesterday I washed a load of sweeters in my new LG washer. They came out perfect and were so dry-ish I didn't need to put them in the dryer, which i don't think i would do anyway. i hung them on a drying rack, which i set in the shower/bath tub and there it is in the path of the heat vent so they were completely dry an hour maybe. Saved some electricity for the dryer and also some by using kold wash.
Nothing else to do today excet drink kristmas kahlua and eat on leftover nibbles.
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my 3 Nvidia gpu's which are over at Prime Grid doing the "Proth Prime Search (Sieve) v1.37 (cuda23)" units. The PG units did 207,990 credits yesterday all by themselves! And NO my Nvidia gpu's are NOT top of the line, I have 2 9600's and a 9800 but they zip thru the units getting credits like this for each one:
"2,150.37(total run time) 42.07(gpu time) 2,311.00(credits granted)"
The Ati 6850 at Colaltz is doing this:
"521.17(total time) 519.32(gpu time) 812.51(credits granted)". I got 115,792 credits from Collatz alone yesterday!!
@Mikey
I have not looked at PrimeGrid before, so I thought I would now as I have 2 x NV 9500GT cards in my dual P3 on a PCI bus.
I attached, via BAM, and got the GPU work which immediately errored out several times. This rig runs the Win2K pro OS and BM 6.10.58. The NV drivers are recent and 256.96.
Do you have any pointers for me to correct this? Until I do I have NNTed the project and continue crunching a small amount of Collatz.
Quite possibly the "GT" is not capable of the tpye of work provided by PG. there are different version of most gpus, like GSO and GT. Usually one of those has a lesser something than the other and often this means it will not krunch certain work. You'd be best to visit PG forum and see if they have a list of compatible kards and minimum requirements.
Also are the two GPUS in SLI mode (gamers mode), chained together. BOINC will not work in this manner, they need to be separate, or at least last time I checked on this issue they did, i'm getting out of touch with tech issues.
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Quite possibly the "GT" is not capable of the tpye of work provided by PG. there are different version of most gpus, like GSO and GT. Usually one of those has a lesser something than the other and often this means it will not krunch certain work. You'd be best to visit PG forum and see if they have a list of compatible kards and minimum requirements.
Also are the two GPUS in SLI mode (gamers mode), chained together. BOINC will not work in this manner, they need to be separate, or at least last time I checked on this issue they did, i'm getting out of touch with tech issues.
No Krunchin, the 2 x NV 9500GTs are in single card mode, no SLI, and have crunched at Collatz for over 5 months without trouble up until now.
I am convinced that these cards can crunch PrimeGrid's "Proth Prime Search (Sieve)" WUs as I found this cruncher has his video cards doing the work I want to. The only difference is his version of Windows is a much much newer than mine. As you can see the PrimeGrid work crunched is the same as Mikey works on and that I want to try.
I have PMed him for advice, but as it is Christmas Day ...?
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MERRY KRISTMAS
The frig is over stuffed with leftovers already, good thing i'm not cooking kristmas dinner this year.
I used to love that part of working as a firefighter, people would bring stuff in and me being a family guy used to get all of the leftovers to take home. Single guys just weren't interested, they were mostly young guys and did more of the dating scene so didn't want all that food in there fridge.
Nothing else to do today excet drink kristmas kahlua and eat on leftover nibbles.
I gave my son your recipe and he said he will make it and give me some. He did said though that the recipe was easily reduceable as he said 14 pints was just too much for him. I told him it was no problem for me and I could always just put it aside, but he said he didn't want to make that much.
JohnC it could be your OS but it shouldn't be. If the card works it should just work as the units are not crunched by the OS but by Boinc and the gpu.
My ra for today is 628,546 and that is an 11k jump from yesterday, I am not up to you yet but I am getting closer. I got ANOTHER check yesterday so my be buying several new gpu's shortly!
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JohnC it could be your OS but it shouldn't be. If the card works it should just work as the units are not crunched by the OS but by Boinc and the gpu.
This problem is a real puzzler.
I can crunch Collatz (done so for 4 months) and DNETC (not desirable), but no double precision so no Milkyway.
A poster suggested it might be the DirectX I am using on the Win2K system (DirectX 9), but Microsoft limit the DirectX on that OS to 9. Anyway it works with all displays, graphics and audio fine.
I have asked if the GPU can use any other of the sub-prime projects other than Proth Prime.
With all this going on, I am juddering to a halting win.
At least Kristmas was good, as was the company. I hope the other posters here had an equally good time and family gathering
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Post-Christmas consequences:
I bought my wife a Media Conversion unit (vinyl, cassette tape, and 'aux' input to CD). We have a ton of vinyl records (and no idea whether they're any good still) that we can't...or rather couldn't play. And a bunch of cassette tapes in basically the same situation.
She CLAIMS she's willing to learn how to do the converting, but we'll see how that works out. Now I've got to run out an buy a bunch of blank CD-Rs and probably a couple of CD wallet cases (200+ each). More $$$. The CD-Rs are onsale at MicroCenter for $3.99 a 50-pack (Phillips brand). Probably pick up 2-4 packs.
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I gave my son your recipe and he said he will make it and give me some. He did said though that the recipe was easily reduceable as he said 14 pints was just too much for him. I told him it was no problem for me and I could always just put it aside, but he said he didn't want to make that much.
Yes it is easily reducable, since all ingreadients are in 6's, either 6 cup, bottle or 60 ounces (well almost the 1.75L bottle is like 59 dot something), so it is easy to make 1/2 or 1/3 a batch, although as it is a lot of work, I think it is worth the effort to jsut do a full batch. Plus if you bottle the pints, the 6 syrup bottles, wrap them in x-mas paper they make nice gifts, then you keep the about 8 pints left (1 gallon) for yourself, or whomever is making it. Believe me once you get addicted (warning, health hazard) to this stuff, it will be easy to consume that much in a year, without over doing it.
She CLAIMS she's willing to learn how to do the converting, but we'll see how that works out. Now I've got to run out an buy a bunch of blank CD-Rs and probably a couple of CD wallet cases (200+ each). More $$$. The CD-Rs are onsale at MicroCenter for $3.99 a 50-pack (Phillips brand). Probably pick up 2-4 packs.
Truthfully you might just considder duplicating them to a hard drive, if your conversion thingy can be input to a computer. At 192k bps I have like around 900 plus of my CDs all in ripped and stored into about 78 GB of ahrd drive space. My collection of music and audio books and to me the sound quality is just fine at theat rate. I've got several copies, for backup, but on those small 500 GB portable, usb powered, external drives like an iomega eGo, which I can fit that drive in my shirt pocket, as opposed to the 6 foot tall by 4 foot wide rack they used to occupy. I can carry that with me and my netbook when I travel. Try fitting 900 CD's in your luggage. Now all the physical CDs are removed from those bulky jewel cases and packed in those case logic cd sleeves and into "Really-Useful" brand name boxes, whic h each box holds about 80 CDS or DVDs in about the same physical space that either 18 CDs or 10 DVDs in the case would take up. I've got my CDs stored in 15 of those boxes in a space 21 inches wide x 30 inches high. I'm working on storing the the DVDs too in 9 boxes. So far i'm on about box 5. As I watch 'em i remove the case and pack them in a box, cataloging them on my computer by scanning the artwork and saving in in a folder, one folder for each box, so I have an index to the boxes on the computer, making it easier to find what is where. I don't think i'll ever play the CDs again, but I have those jsut in case I need to re-rip one. When I get done packing the DVD's I'll take a picture of the empty case pile and the compact pile of Really-Useful boxes of DVD's.
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Today's weather report, it [bleep]. Which someone said (not to mention any weather person's name) was to produce 1-2 inches of flakey stuff by now is WRONG. However it is brutally kold, 36F'ish/2C's but the wind is howling like a banshee out of the north and then there is this hard, kold pounding, wind driven rain, making it seem much worse. It's awful out there.
I know as I had to run (drive the kar) to the groceryless store to get some missing ingredients for my ham-bone soup, of which is now Celeryless Ham-bone krockpot soup. Yeah I could have gone to anyother farther away store, but jsut decided to kut my losses and punt. So I changed the recipe some, making up my own. Start the krockpot a warming. Usually this is were a shot of kahlua goes in, not the krockpot, but my mouth. But being it was way before Kahlua:30 I skipped that step, insead having some more koffee. Then fill the krock pot with Ham-bone with some ham left on it. About 2 kans khicken broth (one was slighly used italian seasoned taking up a space in the frig, the other was full but plain), 2 kans water. About a kup of navy beans that had been soaking overnight. NO CELERY. One large karrot, sliced. About 8 smallish russet pototoes, diced (keeping the larger ones to bake for meals). An onion. diced. 1/4 tsp each of garlic powder and black pepper. Its been kooking an hour on high now, so then I turn it down to low for the rest of the day. Later on i'll add as a substitue for the Celery, 1 each Red, Orange (last one) and Green Bell-Pepper just picked off the indoor garden. I hope it comes out tasty. It's sort of a kombination for several recipes I read, but with some improvisation on my part.
And then start another loaf of Kranberry bread in the breadmaker.
Why do dried Kranberries look like legless roaches ? They taste good anyway. I only hope it is a bag of Kranberries.
If the smell of those doesn't wake the room-mate up, he's dead. He came back early from Delaware yesterday, 'cuase he herd it was gonna snow 6 inches up that way, and didn't want to be driving in all that mess.
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Weather update:
SNOW. Started a little belore noon. For a while we had slushy coming down. Its flaking good now, heavy duty flakes, everything is white. And the wind is blowing good, the flakes sometimes go sideways, in swirls and even up.
I hope in the morning I can find my white kar. Guess if it is camoflaged and I can't find it I don't have to go to w&%K, think the boss will fall for that ?
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Weather update.
It's still a blizzard a blowin' out there. We might have 2 inches by now. The temp is down to 28F / -2C as in Cold.
Good news is I have 2 containers of Navy Bean Ham Celeryless Soup, minus 1 bowl and a load of Kranberry bread. Yum. Those both came out better than excellant. Sometimes I amaze myself at my kreations.
Sleepy time now, it was a lot of work making a krockpot of soup that took 10 hours to kook and filling the bread machine for it to bake bread. I'm wiped out.
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Weather update.
It's still a blizzard a blowin' out there. We might have 2 inches by now. The temp is down to 28F / -2C as in Cold.
Good news is I have 2 containers of Navy Bean Ham Celeryless Soup, minus 1 bowl and a load of Kranberry bread. Yum. Those both came out better than excellant. Sometimes I amaze myself at my kreations.
Sleepy time now, it was a lot of work making a krockpot of soup that took 10 hours to kook and filling the bread machine for it to bake bread. I'm wiped out.
I am sooo glad you like the soup and bread, I hope you like the snow too! All I got was a dusting so far with alot of wind thrown in. Today is supposed to be windy, and I can hear it blowing around out there, but the roads are clear and my driveway and cars have a very small amount of snow on them. That might even blow off today with the wind!
Keith you know they make Celery Salt that tastes sorta like Celery that you can use in an emergency, not nearly as good as the real thing but in a pinch.
I got my wife a Kindle electronic book thingy, she has charged it up and says she read the manual. We will find out today as I told her to bring it downstairs so I can set up the wireless connection in it. I got the wifi but not the 3g version for her. 2g would have meant a data plan whereas wifi just means she needs to download her stuff at home, McDonald's, Panera Bread, etc, etc. It can hold like 250 books in its onboard memory and of course a pc can hold bagillions! I think she will be fine once she actually starts using it. One of my sons gave her an Amazon gift card so she can buy some books but I also told her about the Gutenberg Project that is digitizing every book known to man that is not currently copyrighted, I will make a webpage link for her to it.
JohnC my rac for today is 640,678, so up some 12k from yesterday! Now if this trend could just continue I would be REALLY happy!
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Weather update.
It's still a blizzard a blowin' out there. We might have 2 inches by now. The temp is down to 28F / -2C as in Cold.
Good news is I have 2 containers of Navy Bean Ham Celeryless Soup, minus 1 bowl and a load of Kranberry bread. Yum. Those both came out better than excellant. Sometimes I amaze myself at my kreations.
Sleepy time now, it was a lot of work making a krockpot of soup that took 10 hours to kook and filling the bread machine for it to bake bread. I'm wiped out.
I am sooo glad you like the soup and bread, I hope you like the snow too! All I got was a dusting so far with alot of wind thrown in. Today is supposed to be windy, and I can hear it blowing around out there, but the roads are clear and my driveway and cars have a very small amount of snow on them. That might even blow off today with the wind!
Keith you know they make Celery Salt that tastes sorta like Celery that you can use in an emergency, not nearly as good as the real thing but in a pinch.
I got my wife a Kindle electronic book thingy, she has charged it up and says she read the manual. We will find out today as I told her to bring it downstairs so I can set up the wireless connection in it. I got the wifi but not the 3g version for her. 2g would have meant a data plan whereas wifi just means she needs to download her stuff at home, McDonald's, Panera Bread, etc, etc. It can hold like 250 books in its onboard memory and of course a pc can hold bagillions! I think she will be fine once she actually starts using it. One of my sons gave her an Amazon gift card so she can buy some books but I also told her about the Gutenberg Project that is digitizing every book known to man that is not currently copyrighted, I will make a webpage link for her to it.
JohnC my rac for today is 640,678, so up some 12k from yesterday! Now if this trend could just continue I would be REALLY happy!
WINNING!!
To amaze you, my android can do kindle. It's not as big but pages would still be readable a little at a time. I don't subscribe but it is doable and cheaper since I would not have to buy a kindle only the service.
Now for bread, YUM.
Now for soup. The celery was not for taste so much. Good idea, i think i ahve celery salt.
Now for the snow. Yuk. Well its not that bad except two of my fingers have frost bite. I took 45 minutes for me to get to work this morning. first all the car doors were frozen shut. I had to pull, kick, pull, kick hard, kick some more, pull and finally got one loose and open. Then i could start the kar and the deicing. Which I was too lazy to go back in and get any gloves so as snow or ice got on my fingers, they got the ouchies. They feel better now after some hot koffee. Now for the road. It is a sheet of ice from my house south for about 7 miles. My top spped was 30 and i passed many people. I've got 4WD. Going straight was ok. I saw several cars had spun out and into ditches. i think i even ran a red light, well all three were white. Onve i got by the big sand dune the road cleared and the last two miles were better.
The boss i called and told to stay home, he ahs to go across a bridge and i don't know if they cleared it or not.
I doubt we will ahve any business today.
I get another day of peace, working alone is not bad. I've got three internet orders to fill and drop off at the post office if is open then i'm going back home for hot soup.
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Weather update.
It's still a blizzard a blowin' out there. We might have 2 inches by now. The temp is down to 28F / -2C as in Cold.
Good news is I have 2 containers of Navy Bean Ham Celeryless Soup, minus 1 bowl and a load of Kranberry bread. Yum. Those both came out better than excellant. Sometimes I amaze myself at my kreations.
Sleepy time now, it was a lot of work making a krockpot of soup that took 10 hours to kook and filling the bread machine for it to bake bread. I'm wiped out.
I am sooo glad you like the soup and bread, I hope you like the snow too! All I got was a dusting so far with alot of wind thrown in. Today is supposed to be windy, and I can hear it blowing around out there, but the roads are clear and my driveway and cars have a very small amount of snow on them. That might even blow off today with the wind!
Keith you know they make Celery Salt that tastes sorta like Celery that you can use in an emergency, not nearly as good as the real thing but in a pinch.
I got my wife a Kindle electronic book thingy, she has charged it up and says she read the manual. We will find out today as I told her to bring it downstairs so I can set up the wireless connection in it. I got the wifi but not the 3g version for her. 2g would have meant a data plan whereas wifi just means she needs to download her stuff at home, McDonald's, Panera Bread, etc, etc. It can hold like 250 books in its onboard memory and of course a pc can hold bagillions! I think she will be fine once she actually starts using it. One of my sons gave her an Amazon gift card so she can buy some books but I also told her about the Gutenberg Project that is digitizing every book known to man that is not currently copyrighted, I will make a webpage link for her to it.
JohnC my rac for today is 640,678, so up some 12k from yesterday! Now if this trend could just continue I would be REALLY happy!
WINNING!!
To amaze you, my android can do kindle. It's not as big but pages would still be readable a little at a time. I don't subscribe but it is doable and cheaper since I would not have to buy a kindle only the service.
Now for bread, YUM.
Now for soup. The celery was not for taste so much. Good idea, i think i ahve celery salt.
Now for the snow. Yuk. Well its not that bad except two of my fingers have frost bite. I took 45 minutes for me to get to work this morning. first all the car doors were frozen shut. I had to pull, kick, pull, kick hard, kick some more, pull and finally got one loose and open. Then i could start the kar and the deicing. Which I was too lazy to go back in and get any gloves so as snow or ice got on my fingers, they got the ouchies. They feel better now after some hot koffee. Now for the road. It is a sheet of ice from my house south for about 7 miles. My top spped was 30 and i passed many people. I've got 4WD. Going straight was ok. I saw several cars had spun out and into ditches. i think i even ran a red light, well all three were white. Onve i got by the big sand dune the road cleared and the last two miles were better.
The boss i called and told to stay home, he ahs to go across a bridge and i don't know if they cleared it or not.
I doubt we will ahve any business today.
I get another day of peace, working alone is not bad. I've got three internet orders to fill and drop off at the post office if is open then i'm going back home for hot soup.
Keith the problem with bridges is that the air can circulate all around them so they can freeze pretty solid whereas the main roads have the Earth underneath them to help keep them warm. So clear bridges is not always the key. When I was a f/f I had to stop on a bridge once in the firetruck, it was icy and we were sliding towards the edge and we WERE going to go off if we couldn't stop!! The guy next to me told me to put the chains down, most have automatic chains now, and to stop the tire on top of it. IT WORKED, the weight of the firetruck on top of the chain dug right thru the ice down to the pavement and we stopped sliding. The bridge goes right over the railroad tracks and we would have gone right off if we had not stopped!! That would not have been a pretty sight at all!!!
JohnC my rac today is 654,446, so I am still moving up although I am not up to you yet! My wife will deposit my Xmas checks today so I can start spending them, woo hoo!
It is 25F outside right now but going up to a high in the low 40's later on, that is a good thing and when the mid 50's hit this weekend it will be a very nice relief!!
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Keith the problem with bridges is that the air can circulate all around them so they can freeze pretty solid whereas the main roads have the Earth underneath them to help keep them warm. So clear bridges is not always the key. When I was a f/f I had to stop on a bridge once in the firetruck, it was icy and we were sliding towards the edge and we WERE going to go off if we couldn't stop!! The guy next to me told me to put the chains down, most have automatic chains now, and to stop the tire on top of it. IT WORKED, the weight of the firetruck on top of the chain dug right thru the ice down to the pavement and we stopped sliding. The bridge goes right over the railroad tracks and we would have gone right off if we had not stopped!! That would not have been a pretty sight at all!!!
Yes I know about bridges, all I meant was he comes from a different direction. This one may not be as bad, as it is mostly a domed bridge, it goes up then goes down, no level spots, but it has been closed before due to ice.
I did some mild work, processed 3 internet orders. The phone never rang and no one came in so I went home at 10:30.
When I went home the roads were better, except the center turn lane was still iced over, so slowing down and turning off was not good. There were more stupid drivers out there. Someone almost rear ended me when I went to slow down and turn off.
The boss called me just as I got home and told me that another person reported to him bridge was not very bad, but the causeway, after the brige was iced over from the overwash from the wind driven water out of the sound as there were some accidents piled up along it. it is only about 1 mile long.
Hey, I got a free day off with pay.
Today most everything has melted away so driving at least was better, all lanes were clear.
Due to lack of interest I think we close early today.
I've recently added some more non-marine leftovers to my amazon store. There's a few computer thingys, some SD cards and a camera lens. I already sold a ham radio speaker that I listed only thursday.
Today will be light duty work.
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Yes I know about bridges, all I meant was he comes from a different direction. This one may not be as bad, as it is mostly a domed bridge, it goes up then goes down, no level spots, but it has been closed before due to ice.
I did some mild work, processed 3 internet orders. The phone never rang and no one came in so I went home at 10:30.
When I went home the roads were better, except the center turn lane was still iced over, so slowing down and turning off was not good. There were more stupid drivers out there. Someone almost rear ended me when I went to slow down and turn off.
The boss called me just as I got home and told me that another person reported to him bridge was not very bad, but the causeway, after the brige was iced over from the overwash from the wind driven water out of the sound as there were some accidents piled up along it. it is only about 1 mile long.
Hey, I got a free day off with pay.
Today most everything has melted away so driving at least was better, all lanes were clear.
Due to lack of interest I think we close early today.
I've recently added some more non-marine leftovers to my amazon store. There's a few computer thingys, some SD cards and a camera lens. I already sold a ham radio speaker that I listed only thursday.
Today will be light duty work.
I figured you knew about bridges I was just making sure, I am glad you got most of yesterday and today off, nice paid Holiday time for you!!!
Hey your Ebay site is empty, I figured it would be, how many pages is your Amazon site, I got thru 14.
Hey JohnC I got my wifes computer up and running, the flash may have been the power supply. I tested it and it does NOT work so I tested a 500 watt one and it worked and after putting it in the pc came right up. I do NOT have the gpu in it but at least the cpu is up and crunching right now. I will go out tomorrow and buy a brand new 600 watt one and put it in there. The pc will have one gpu, non powered at least for now, 2 hd's and 1 dvd and an Intel Q8300 cpu, so a 600W one should do just fine.
That DEFINITELY makes me a WINNER!!
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Hey your Ebay site is empty, I figured it would be, how many pages is your Amazon site, I got thru 14.
Ya, we don't have anyone to do ebay right now. Don't look at me, my plate is full.
On amazon I have 1062 product listings, but only 568 show up as the rest are out of stock at this time.
For me it is 11 pages of 100. For you it would be 24 per page so about 24 pages. Sorry about that. For a short list of non-marine items, search on these vendors once in my store. Sony, Logitech, Crucial, Altec Lansing, Lexar, Mitsumi. Thanks for looking.
If I had to guess, what I have done now is about 1/2 of the unwanted (junk) we have/had in stock. But that is only a small portion of the about 33,000 items in our database which does not include every item we could buy, probabbly less than 1/2. I'm not doing all those. When the junk, to be polite, is gone, i'm done.
Sometime soon I have to start doing more of my own person collectibles, i don't own junk, and clean out my garage. I've hesitated because in the past it has not been easy for me to get to the post office to mail packages and stand in line. Only recently amazon added a feature that buys and prints postage for the order, address already filled in. so its like only 5 clicks plus insert a sticky label in the printer. Much less work than retyping the address back into some other software. It only costs 7 cents extra over the psotage, not bad. I've been using it at work switching a lot of orders from UPS and since the bossman goes to the post office every day he drops the parcels off for me, no waiting in line since they are prepaid. I can do my home orders now much easier and just carry them in and add them to the pile for him to take. So maybe soon i'll get motivated and make a bigger effort on my home stuff.
Now for dinner, lets see what i got. Oh boy, left over ham bone soup, leftover salad, leftover fruit, leftover cheese and leftover somekind of kake htat is really good and almost dripping wet, it might be like a rum cake but it didn't taste rummy to me, it is really moist.
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Hey your Ebay site is empty, I figured it would be, how many pages is your Amazon site, I got thru 14.
Ya, we don't have anyone to do ebay right now. Don't look at me, my plate is full.
On amazon I have 1062 product listings, but only 568 show up as the rest are out of stock at this time.
For me it is 11 pages of 100. For you it would be 24 per page so about 24 pages. Sorry about that. For a short list of non-marine items, search on these vendors once in my store. Sony, Logitech, Crucial, Altec Lansing, Lexar, Mitsumi. Thanks for looking.
If I had to guess, what I have done now is about 1/2 of the unwanted (junk) we have/had in stock. But that is only a small portion of the about 33,000 items in our database which does not include every item we could buy, probabbly less than 1/2. I'm not doing all those. When the junk, to be polite, is gone, i'm done.
Sometime soon I have to start doing more of my own person collectibles, i don't own junk, and clean out my garage. I've hesitated because in the past it has not been easy for me to get to the post office to mail packages and stand in line. Only recently amazon added a feature that buys and prints postage for the order, address already filled in. so its like only 5 clicks plus insert a sticky label in the printer. Much less work than retyping the address back into some other software. It only costs 7 cents extra over the psotage, not bad. I've been using it at work switching a lot of orders from UPS and since the bossman goes to the post office every day he drops the parcels off for me, no waiting in line since they are prepaid. I can do my home orders now much easier and just carry them in and add them to the pile for him to take. So maybe soon i'll get motivated and make a bigger effort on my home stuff.
Now for dinner, lets see what i got. Oh boy, left over ham bone soup, leftover salad, leftover fruit, leftover cheese and leftover somekind of kake htat is really good and almost dripping wet, it might be like a rum cake but it didn't taste rummy to me, it is really moist.
The only problem I have with the USPS and packages is that the driver can decide not to deliver a package until he feels like it. I ordered coffee from amazon two weeks ago and it sat in the local post office for 10 days because the driver decided it was too big to bring to me, it didn't fit on the truck with all the other stuff! My wife tracked the package, she ordered it for me, and after putting in a package tracking request the guy brought it out the next day. I have a Keurig coffee maker and the coffee is cheaper buying it from Amazon than it is locally, although in this case I did have to buy some locally to tide me over until the guy delivered it. IF he had brought the package when it first came to my local post office I would not have had to spend the extra money. It is about 34 cents a cup of coffee thru Amazon, but 50 cents a cup locally.
Keith I LIKE your dinner choices, I will have to put beans on my grocery list for next week! I already have a Honey Baked Ham bone that has been in the freezer for a while now just waiting for the right time and I think now is it!!
JohnC my rac today is 666,075, so up again and my wifes pc is still running this morning! Today I will go out and get a new power supply for her and look at video cards too, they are expensive at my local mom and pop store though! I have never been to the new HHGregg store though so I will stop in there and see what they have, if anything.
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Yesterday was my wife's birthday AND it was our 27th Anniversary. Babysat the older granddaughter from noonish 'til near suppertime, then took the wife out for dinner. THEN got a call from older daughter...could we please watch granddaughter AGAIN last evening while she and SO went out to the movie (TRON)???
We watched the new version of True Grit at the theater Monday morning (really good!), so last night I went to Blockbuster and got the John Wayne version and we watched it. Kim Darby has NOTHING on Hailee Steinfeld's performance as Mattie Ross. If you have a chance, see the new version...heck, watch them both, especially if you haven't seen the John Wayne version recently.
WINNING!!!
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Got the Media Conversion center set-up yesterday and dragged some vinyl records out of the garage to test out. The first I tried was some VERY old Columbia records with Beethoven on them. Scratched to bits and very noisy. Skip those...
Next was a much more modern record of the Byrds. Copied it to CD with minimal problems (mostly Operator-in-Training glitches). Looks like I'll be able to get about 2 LPs onto a CD.
Actually, the wife is supposed to get this done...yeah, right!
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Yesterday was my wife's birthday AND it was our 27th Anniversary. Babysat the older granddaughter from noonish 'til near suppertime, then took the wife out for dinner. THEN got a call from older daughter...could we please watch granddaughter AGAIN last evening while she and SO went out to the movie (TRON)???
We watched the new version of True Grit at the theater Monday morning (really good!), so last night I went to Blockbuster and got the John Wayne version and we watched it. Kim Darby has NOTHING on Hailee Steinfeld's performance as Mattie Ross. If you have a chance, see the new version...heck, watch them both, especially if you haven't seen the John Wayne version recently.
WINNING!!!
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Got the Media Conversion center set-up yesterday and dragged some vinyl records out of the garage to test out. The first I tried was some VERY old Columbia records with Beethoven on them. Scratched to bits and very noisy. Skip those...
Next was a much more modern record of the Byrds. Copied it to CD with minimal problems (mostly Operator-in-Training glitches). Looks like I'll be able to get about 2 LPs onto a CD.
Actually, the wife is supposed to get this done...yeah, right!
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY RandyC!!!!!!!!!!! No matter what you did I know it was a good one, you survived to live another day anyway!!
I have a question for you...can you pop those new cd's, with the 2 records on them. into the car and play them? I too have a stack of vinyl records laying around and ALWAYS find them as giveaways at yard sales and estate auctions. Heck I have given boxes and BOXES away so my buddy could use them as target practice!! He doesn't want any more though, says they aren't decomposing and the pile is getting too big!
Oh and a postive note for my wifes pc, I went to the store today and got her a 750 watt power supply. It was the same price as the 650 watt ones and has a lifetime warranty too. I put it in the pc and after uninstalling and then reinstalling the ATI software it is crunching with both the cpu and the gpu again!! WOO HOO!!
While I was at the store I bought an ATI 5770 gpu that they reduced in price to internet cost plus 5 bucks, I couldn't pass it up. It will go into a pc probably tomorrow.
Hey one more thing...the guy at the store told me NewEgg was going public with an IPO soon, that means they will become a publicly traded company. He said to buy your pc parts now as the prices will go up to keep the stock holders happy, no clue if he is right or wrong but it sounds interesting anyway. NO stock buying advice from me though!! OH he also said CompuUSA was opening stores as TigerDirect in Florida! Tiger bought CompUSA and has been selling stuff as an internet only company ever since.
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Oh! Well, Mikey
That was a good win.
But ....
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Got the Media Conversion center set-up yesterday and dragged some vinyl records out of the garage to test out. The first I tried was some VERY old Columbia records with Beethoven on them. Scratched to bits and very noisy. Skip those...
Next was a much more modern record of the Byrds. Copied it to CD with minimal problems (mostly Operator-in-Training glitches). Looks like I'll be able to get about 2 LPs onto a CD.
Actually, the wife is supposed to get this done...yeah, right!
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY RandyC!!!!!!!!!!! No matter what you did I know it was a good one, you survived to live another day anyway!!
I have a question for you...can you pop those new cd's, with the 2 records on them. into the car and play them? I too have a stack of vinyl records laying around and ALWAYS find them as giveaways at yard sales and estate auctions. Heck I have given boxes and BOXES away so my buddy could use them as target practice!! He doesn't want any more though, says they aren't decomposing and the pile is getting too big!
WINNING!!
Yes, they'll play anywhere an audio CD will play.
If you're really interested, this is what I got her. I actually got it at Kohls, but found this link online. After taxes, that's about what I paid for it too.
It can play radio, CD, cassette, records, and aux-input. It can record the last three, so if you have another radio and/or CD player you can record them too using the aux-input.
WINNING!!!
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Since turn-table systems are getting extremely scarce, you should be aware that replacement needles are pretty expensive. The cheapest I found was here for $16.95 + shipping.
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Hey your Ebay site is empty, I figured it would be, how many pages is your Amazon site, I got thru 14.
Ya, we don't have anyone to do ebay right now. Don't look at me, my plate is full.
On amazon I have 1062 product listings, but only 568 show up as the rest are out of stock at this time.
For me it is 11 pages of 100. For you it would be 24 per page so about 24 pages. Sorry about that. For a short list of non-marine items, search on these vendors once in my store. Sony, Logitech, Crucial, Altec Lansing, Lexar, Mitsumi. Thanks for looking.
If I had to guess, what I have done now is about 1/2 of the unwanted (junk) we have/had in stock. But that is only a small portion of the about 33,000 items in our database which does not include every item we could buy, probabbly less than 1/2. I'm not doing all those. When the junk, to be polite, is gone, i'm done.
Sometime soon I have to start doing more of my own person collectibles, i don't own junk, and clean out my garage. I've hesitated because in the past it has not been easy for me to get to the post office to mail packages and stand in line. Only recently amazon added a feature that buys and prints postage for the order, address already filled in. so its like only 5 clicks plus insert a sticky label in the printer. Much less work than retyping the address back into some other software. It only costs 7 cents extra over the psotage, not bad. I've been using it at work switching a lot of orders from UPS and since the bossman goes to the post office every day he drops the parcels off for me, no waiting in line since they are prepaid. I can do my home orders now much easier and just carry them in and add them to the pile for him to take. So maybe soon i'll get motivated and make a bigger effort on my home stuff.
Now for dinner, lets see what i got. Oh boy, left over ham bone soup, leftover salad, leftover fruit, leftover cheese and leftover somekind of kake htat is really good and almost dripping wet, it might be like a rum cake but it didn't taste rummy to me, it is really moist.
The only problem I have with the USPS and packages is that the driver can decide not to deliver a package until he feels like it. I ordered coffee from amazon two weeks ago and it sat in the local post office for 10 days because the driver decided it was too big to bring to me, it didn't fit on the truck with all the other stuff! My wife tracked the package, she ordered it for me, and after putting in a package tracking request the guy brought it out the next day. I have a Keurig coffee maker and the coffee is cheaper buying it from Amazon than it is locally, although in this case I did have to buy some locally to tide me over until the guy delivered it. IF he had brought the package when it first came to my local post office I would not have had to spend the extra money. It is about 34 cents a cup of coffee thru Amazon, but 50 cents a cup locally.
Keith I LIKE your dinner choices, I will have to put beans on my grocery list for next week! I already have a Honey Baked Ham bone that has been in the freezer for a while now just waiting for the right time and I think now is it!!
JohnC my rac today is 666,075, so up again and my wifes pc is still running this morning! Today I will go out and get a new power supply for her and look at video cards too, they are expensive at my local mom and pop store though! I have never been to the new HHGregg store though so I will stop in there and see what they have, if anything.
WINNING!!
The ham bone soup is em em good, even without celery.
Tonight is some beer and cheese potato soup. Another krockpot batch I had made a while back. Again i use the bigger potatoes for a meal, because they microwave easily, and then save all the smaller ones for something like this. Since after they kkok they get mashed up anyway, size is not important. Then along with that some more leftovers fruits, cheeses and salad and more bread. Getting low on some of those, but not out yet. Should be able to put together dinner in 10 minutes or less.
As for the psot office, I ship my office orders all via priority mail, so delivery is GUARRANTEED in 2-3 days, not to mention I get free boxes from the USPS for that. Usually though this is only small items, 5 pounds or less. Larger items are better and usually cheaper via UPS Ground.
Home orders I send the cheapest way, even first class sometimes. One thing I did was buy a bunch of sheets stamps, in different amounts like 1,2,3,5,10,26,39,41,60,75 and $1, so I could easily make up any combination. Some people won't buy the big value ones and end up sticking like 19 - 10 cent stamps on there. I can usually make up any combination with 4 or 5 stamps. Although with the new option, it may be easier to print labels and buy the postage through amazon. I'll see when i get around to it.
You do have to watch buying on amazon, not everything is a good deal. But I get some good prices on stuff, especially since most of it can't be found locally here at the edge of the world. As for groceries I get some of those too, but those you really have to watch.
WINNING, did some one say I was WINNING !
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Who was the last to leave the light on?
You were John but now I am in charge of it!
Hey JohnC my rac today is 670,573, so going up nicely even BEFORE I add my new gpu today! As I said earlier I got my wifes pc up and running, thank fully, and bought a new gpu while I was at the store, today I will install it in a pc, I just need to figure out which one. The slowest one is of course not in the best pc for the new card, an Ati 5770. One of my Nvidia gpu will be replaced, they are the slowest, but not all 3 machines have room, and a big enough power supply, for a 5770. Decisions, decisions!!
Keith I am glad you put the 2-3 day shipping on things, it makes things much nicer for the person getting the order!!
RandyC I will pass that along to my wife along with todays coupons at Kohl's. Thanks! http://slickdeals.net/kohls-coupons/
WINNING!!
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Whose had a long win then?
I'll be wrapping up the old year with the final...
WIN!!!
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Whose had a long win then?
I'll be wrapping up the old year with the final...
WIN!!!
Maybe later on but not right yet.
Hey JohnC I had a fan in a power supplu go bad today, it was whining so bad I thought it was going to explode right there inside the machine! I have taken it out and lubed it, hopefully that will hold it until I can get a new one. My rac today is 691,768, so going up nicely now!! I took 2 gpu's off line and put one 5770 online, I know have a total of 3 5770's crunching, plus various other gpu's. I see your rac went up too, do I have to bring them back on line to catch you my friend?!!
WINNING!!
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Happy new year in advance, as I'm gonna pass out now.
Mikey,
Inventory count is finished. I HOPE.
I took the netbook in this morning, having not tested it, hoped it would remote to my other computer. I can't install our software on it as the netbook is windows home edition and to use the software it needs to be pro so it can be a domain computer. But luckily I was able to just use windows remote conenction and attach to one of my workstations which has the software and run it that way. Since I don;t have wireless setup yet, i used a hardwire, which worked ok. I have a network switch by my desk so was able to jack in there, remote in, count everything in the front area, then logout, unplug, move to the abck wher I was able to plug in and repeat for the back area.
No one else was there and i locked the door so no customers could distract me.
First step copies the actual inventory to a work file. All I really had to do was start somewhere and move along counting each item and comparing it, checking it off if it was correct. If not just enter the correct quantity and check it off as counted too. A lot can be done visually without actually having to handle each item. I liekd the ones we all have ONE of, made it easier.
The precount and setup of locations really helped.
Actual count went realativly smooth, there were some items that had fewer and some that now had extras. A few quantites were off. The boss man probabbly cleaned out under his desk and put back a bunch of sufff laying in hiding.
After the count of about 1200 items was into the temp file, then I zero'd all the items that had a quantity of non-zero that had not been counted, about 700 of those. This is easy with a filter on the file. So I didn't have to read through the 27K other items in the database that we don't have or never sold.
Netbook worked good using about 4 hours of the 7 of battery power. It's rechanging now as i did not take the wall adapter with me, 'cause its too much to untangle it from under the desk and get it out.
Next was to import back to inventory. this worked mostly. There was an error. This I don't under stand as when I used it for the pre-count, it never errored, but those were done page by page and not everything. The error may be in one of the zero items, i thin ksoemwhere I entered -0 which should not cause an error but ya never know with thsi crazy system. i'm not sure what would cause the error it gave me exactly. I did not account for something, i don't know what, in my script. It appears to have imported/updated all the quantities correctly, but the transaction history log did not update showing the changes. Not a really big deal, but I really wanted the history to show the entry for any correction this time beacuse I also counted a bunch of zero items and i wanted it to show if it added some, some were lost or no change.
I printed some reports, but by this time of the day i was getting tired. i have to look over that good to be sure, but i think it is all correct.
I wish i could get those transactions listed. Only thing I can do is try to restore a backup, but that would wipe out the count file, so I need to save that, save the database and see if I can restore the database file to another dataabse and then maybe i could copy out just then inventory quantity file and put it back into our working copy, then fix the script if i knew what was wrong and run the physical count update again. I may try tomorrow but if it takes more than 1/2 hour i'll give up.
Good news is boss man said he would give me a big overtime check for all the work on this.
For now is kake and kahlua then a knap, hoping i wake up to see the new year.
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I see your rac went up too, do I have to bring them back on line to catch you my friend?!!
WINNING!!
A Happy New Year to all of you, a time we reach in about 2.25 hours
No Mikey.
I am having trouble withh my Penryn quad and getting an ATI driver/Catalyst Control Centre which works. I updated to 10.12 aand since it all went horribly wrong. Don several uninstalls, clean out (including egistry) and reinstall. Still not right, that's why today's output dropped by about 70K.
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A Happy New Year to all of you, a time we reach in about 2.25 hours
And a Happy New Year to everyone on the far side of the pond. Another 3 3/4 hrs to go over here.
First WIN of the New Year!!! (UTC that is...)
WINNING!!!
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I see your rac went up too, do I have to bring them back on line to catch you my friend?!!
WINNING!!
A Happy New Year to all of you, a time we reach in about 2.25 hours
No Mikey.
I am having trouble withh my Penryn quad and getting an ATI driver/Catalyst Control Centre which works. I updated to 10.12 aand since it all went horribly wrong. Don several uninstalls, clean out (including egistry) and reinstall. Still not right, that's why today's output dropped by about 70K.
Hmmmm....you say you are down by 70k but are still doing 720k, while today my rac is only 698,387, but you say I have nothing to worry about in catching you, hmmmmm! It is a good thing then that my total cobblestones yesterday were 822,266! Have you tried Drive Sweeper yet? It is available here, http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-%28Setup%29-download-1655.html supposedly it totally removes all Ati drivers, files, everything, so you can reinstall. I have had no troubles lately, I am knocking on wood right now, moving up to 10.12 for all my newest installs, but I am still using older versions with some older cards. Basically I have not upgraded the software since the original installation of the cards, of course there are a couple of exceptions but not for the most part.
KEITH if all the lines check out can you just add a line manually to the transaction list? That way you can report the error for later on when you think of maybe an idea of why it did what it did. It could be months down the road before you come across an idea that makes sense, maybe a data quirk you see then that you don't see now. HOPEFULLY the boss man will be happy now that the inventory is done! Now if there was just a way to keep it that way!!!
RandyC it is now 6:30AM East Coast US time so it is now DEFINITELY 2011!!! Remember to change the date when writing those checks!! I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve party and got home safely and is now ready to WATCH SOME FOOTBALL!!! There are SIX College Bowl Games on the tv today along with a full slate of Pro football games on tomorrow and a Monday Night Game, so we should all be footballed out by Tuesday!!!!!!!
WINNING!!
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RandyC it is now 6:30AM East Coast US time so it is now DEFINITELY 2011!!! Remember to change the date when writing those checks!! I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve party and got home safely and is now ready to WATCH SOME FOOTBALL!!! There are SIX College Bowl Games on the tv today along with a full slate of Pro football games on tomorrow and a Monday Night Game, so we should all be footballed out by Tuesday!!!!!!!
WINNING!!
Yuck Mikey. @6:30am I was just dragging myself out of bed. Only today and tomorrow left and then it's back to w@^k for another year. Gonna be hard getting up two hours earlier than I've become used to the past week and a bit.
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Older daughter and granddaughter are coming over for New Years dinner. Going to have roast beef and potatoes...and make stew out of the leftovers.
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KEITH if all the lines check out can you just add a line manually to the transaction list? That way you can report the error for later on when you think of maybe an idea of why it did what it did. It could be months down the road before you come across an idea that makes sense, maybe a data quirk you see then that you don't see now. HOPEFULLY the boss man will be happy now that the inventory is done! Now if there was just a way to keep it that way!!!
NO.
The way the script works it uses a temp file. It writes the changes from the import to a temp file, then updates the quantities into the real inventory, then writes ONE line for each item into the transaction log. the temp file is the deleted. This temp file is internal to the database and not accessible. There are ways to back off the entire process, but my script is not that advanced. there are ways to do a trial run, and if not erros commit, but my script is not that advanced, as no time to write that much code. So to record the transactions manually I would have to write 1930 lines and also I do not know what the quantity was before, that is waht that missing transaction line was to record, the difference. Since part of the script ran, the old quantity was overwritten by the new correct quantity. The only way I coudl do it now, is restore from a prior daily backup, which i've never done so i'm not even sure how to. I don't know if it overwrites everything or not. If it overwrite everything then it destroys the count file and I would have to recount. if I can restore the backup to a new database, then I could use the backend system, a manual method and copy back all the quantities only from the restored backup to the original, then possibly debug my script and find what item caused the error and fix. It would be nice to have arecord in the hsitory, but really at this point more trouble than I have time for, i'm still sleepy today. This stuff burns me out. I could use more overtime, but it my brain is mush, no progress is made. I may look at things alter, i can do this from home. But if I can't figure it out before Monday morning it will be too late as business msut go on. This is the drawback of me being the only person doing everything. No time to work on anyone thing, a lot of short cuts myust be taken.
Then boss man only cares about having the total be correct for the 1 second at the end of the year, the rest of the year it can be off and incorrect.
Happy New Year, New Year, Same old problems.
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Have you tried Drive Sweeper yet? It is available here, http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-%28Setup%29-download-1655.html supposedly it totally removes all Ati drivers, files, everything, so you can reinstall.
Yes I do have that, and used it when trying a clear out and reinstall of drivers/CCC. Did this several times, with the intention of getting 2 ATI GPUs on the same PC recognised and used by DNETC. This has failed sofar, and will now wait until Monday before another session of choosing.
Winning now
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Sunday morning shift checking in for a win...
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RandyC it is now 6:30AM East Coast US time so it is now DEFINITELY 2011!!! Remember to change the date when writing those checks!! I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve party and got home safely and is now ready to WATCH SOME FOOTBALL!!! There are SIX College Bowl Games on the tv today along with a full slate of Pro football games on tomorrow and a Monday Night Game, so we should all be footballed out by Tuesday!!!!!!!
WINNING!!
Yuck Mikey. @6:30am I was just dragging myself out of bed. Only today and tomorrow left and then it's back to w@^k for another year. Gonna be hard getting up two hours earlier than I've become used to the past week and a bit.
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Older daughter and granddaughter are coming over for New Years dinner. Going to have roast beef and potatoes...and make stew out of the leftovers.
WINNING!!!
Sounds delicious!! I am a meat and potatoes kinda guy! Ummmm you are making me hungry!!
I get up every morning around 5:00 to 5:30, so being up that early is 'normal' for me. Now I do take afternoon naps now but I go to bed around 11:30 at night so I get about 8 hours total, it is just split up into a couple of sections. Every once in a while I will sleep longer, like last night I went to bed at the usual time but got up at 6:15 this Sunday morning. I am fighting allergies and my sinuses hurt so I took a pill and it sometimes makes me sleep longer.
JohnC my rac today is 710,683, so I am almost caught up to you. Over the next few days I should catch and pass you, I hope!! On your gpu problem have you tried putting once gpu in and get it working? Then adding the 2nd one in? Also you do know that you have to load the drivers TWICE right? Once for the 1st gpu and then again when you add the 2nd gpu? If you are trying to cross-fire them try it without the cross-fire, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Keith I think the boss will be happy, as you said once a year he knows what he has, his tax man should be happy now too.
Keith I got my first seed catalog the other day, I am looking at getting some new kinds of tomatoes, ones that are better once chilled, which is the way I eat mine. They are still the Cherry Tomato kind but a different variety than I have been growing, we will see as the other catalogs come in.
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OK, here goes my attempt to restore database. From home using remote connections.
Looks like I can restore one database to another name, so I do not write over current active database.
Actually I need to do this anyway and make a 'practice' database that I can let other users play with so they can be taught without worries of flubbing something up.
Since I've never restored one in the 6 years of having this system, this is also a good exercise for me.
First I must uncompress the backup from the night before I started my count. Then give the backup set the proper name, I rename them. I had done some other work, posted payments, so this is why i can't restore it over the real databasse and also that would wipe out my count file meaning I would have to spend 4-5 hours recounting again.
OK that is solved. Next the restore.
I wonder how long it takes to restore. Well while that does that, i'll review my script and my count file. about 5 minutes.
Advantage here of having two computers at work and two at home. I have two remote conenctions going, and actually one of those also has a remote to the server, so at the moment i'm running 5 computers at once. More KOFFEE, my brain cell is overheating.
OK All done SUCCESSFULLY.
Restored the database to another name.
Then was able to copy the single table from the restored copy to the real copy, I used another table name to preserve the numbers, then updated only the quantities from the copy into the actual table (so if i needed to it again the numbers were saved), which i did during several trials.)
Reset some flags in my count file.
No for debugging. How. well I commented out some sections. run script. Got error. What is odd the error was telling me a field was set to null, esentailly empty and inserting nulls is not allowed, but what is wierd is my script sets that fieled for every item to 1. So here's where i'm stuck, how to find the erroring data.
Quick fix, add a line to select data lines not = 1.
This came out empty.
Scratch brain cell and drink more KOFFEE.
OK, cheat, add a filter to the update line to only update lines where this qty =1 since I set them all to 1 this should be all lines, except the phanton null line. This worked.
Some phanton data in there somewhere.
A few more tweeks to add some more reporting lines now i see i need from all this.
Clean up the mess made by the trial runs.
Set the quantites back one last time, reset flags and set date backwards to 12/31/2010
Run script to update quantites and record transactions.
Check some items I know changed, they now have correct quantity and a history line of the event.
Yahoo !! SUCCESS.
All quantites are now correct and all transaction changes, weather minus,plus,or zero are recorded for the end-of-year event.
Also I made a copy and saved to disk of the output, which now shows before, after and difference quantities. It's not a fancy report, but it has the essentials.
So the entire exercise was for the better.
I did notice that out of 1931 records, only 1926 were modified, but how to find those missing 5. I'll figure a way to modify the script to let me know what didn't copy, because really the way it is, everything is suppose to (???). But for now, who cares, 99.7% success is close enough.
Total effort time was about 5 hours, I started at 6AM but i'm finished now. Remote connection is not quite as fast as being there andthere were several trials. Also at least I know I can restore backups from the compressed files. And I learned a few new tricks.
I'm happy plus I get a BIG overtime check. Double overtime for Sunday.
I can relax the rest of the day, which I need because tomorrow will be busy, then I've got to print out reports and statements, about 2-3 hours of work, then start catchup on order filling, i've had 3 internet orders yesterday.
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Just bought/installed a GeForce 9500 GT in my primary system. It has 512 MB and definitely isn't the fastest thing around, but it's an upgrade from the GeForce 7100 GS w/128 MB memory. I don't plan on using it for crunching CUDA units...this is the system I use for video capture/editing. Cost came to $49.99 with a $35 MIR. So net will be around $15 (plus them tax thingys). If I had gone to MicroCenter yesterday it was on sale for $10 less...bummer!
My stepson gave me a Hauppauge HD-PVR for Christmas and I've been fighting to install it all weekend on the dual-boot side of this system. Finally I realized that the video card just wasn't up to the bit-rate of the HD video. It would capture 720x480 resolution, but anything higher kills the capture module. But what-the-hey, I needed a better video card anyway. And I can't claim success yet, 'cause I just got the card installed and haven't retried video capture yet.
I also bought a 1GB hub for my LAN. It was $29.99+tx. I've upgraded several of my MBs the last few years and didn't realize the ethernet ports supported 1GB xfer rates. Even though the Cable Modem only supports 10MB xfers, I've seen a marked improvement in page response since I installed it...and that was before I upgraded the video card!!!
WINNING!!!
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@Mikey
Got your PM, and will digest it over the next day or so.
Took my brother back, and am a little bushed after a 300 mile round trip.
Winning?
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Success! With the new video card I can now capture native HD video. I was able to capture a test program using the scheduling software (start/stop recording automatically), then take the resulting file and convert it to a format suitable for input to the DVD authoring program.
WINNING!!!
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I feel like I'm digging with the big dogs now! I took out the overworked 350W PSU and installed an almost new 600W. Now...about that new graphics card. Hmmm...perhaps an HD 5850.
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perhaps an HD 5850.
That won't work here, swiftmallard*. I tried and with all my 600 all my ATI GPUs I failed to pick up any Malaria Control GPU clients and work. Still stuck with the 850 hour MC CPU WUs.
However, this post suggests I might be able to have a few minutes on the podium?
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New Year; New Monday; same old w@^k...
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perhaps an HD 5850.
That won't work here, swiftmallard*. I tried and with all my 600 all my ATI GPUs I failed to pick up any Malaria Control GPU clients and work. Still stuck with the 850 hour MC CPU WUs.
However, this post suggests I might be able to have a few minutes on the podium?
Please do, but I do understand that any GPU would not be for use in Malaria Control.
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Success! With the new video card I can now capture native HD video. I was able to capture a test program using the scheduling software (start/stop recording automatically), then take the resulting file and convert it to a format suitable for input to the DVD authoring program.
WINNING!!!
RandyC does that mean you can now setup the machine to be a dvr too? Then you can video capture all the shows you want to keep and put them on dvd.
JohnC my rac today is 701,533, so it is definitely moving on up!! I need to go to the computer store today and get another new power supply AND call Cooler Master about a replacement power supply fan. I checked their website but didn't see any fans for power supplies on it, mine is still very noisy! When I am at the store I will check out the fans and see if they have another Ati 5770 they will sell me at a discount again.
Keith does your end of year report show you what you sold the most of last year? I am sure you guys just order when you sell the last one of something but if you could run a report to tell you what you are selling the most of, and maybe the most profit on too, it might be helpful. I AM VERY GLAD you got the database restored and 'repaired', that is cool!!!! It is always a good thing when you know a restore works like it should!!
SwiftMallard a 5850 will not work for Malaria but it will work for most other projects. AND since it is an ATI card it will be faster than the Nvidia cards, ATI is just faster right now. With a 5850 you can crunch for Milky Way, Dnetc, Collatz, Prime Grid, Seti and a few others too! BUT you CANNOT crunch for Einstein, they do Nvidia cards ONLY!! A 5850 is 'dual precision' meaning Milky Way will love you as opposed to the 5770's that I buy that cannot crunch for them. A 5850 has 1440 Stream Processing Units, that is the equivalent of 1440 cores all crunching at once!!! It would be SUPER FAST!!
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Success! With the new video card I can now capture native HD video. I was able to capture a test program using the scheduling software (start/stop recording automatically), then take the resulting file and convert it to a format suitable for input to the DVD authoring program.
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RandyC does that mean you can now setup the machine to be a dvr too? Then you can video capture all the shows you want to keep and put them on dvd.
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Actually, I've been doing that for years now. The old software had a scheduler too, but it only had composite (3-wire) and S-video input. The new box has component (5-wire) input that allows HD resolution.
So, yes; I record shows from the cable box to my harddrive and then burn them to DVD. I can now burn Blue-Ray format DVDs, but since I only have 1 Blue-Ray player I'm only burning standard DVDs. I promised the wife I would not do a conversion of the DVDs to Blue-Ray format...would take too much time and I've already put in several years converting VHS to DVD.
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[Quote=Mikey}Keith does your end of year report show you what you sold the most of last year? I am sure you guys just order when you sell the last one of something but if you could run a report to tell you what you are selling the most of, and maybe the most profit on too, it might be helpful. I AM VERY GLAD you got the database restored and 'repaired', that is cool!!!! It is always a good thing when you know a restore works like it should!!
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Yeah me too. Like I said I had never restored before in 6 years. The thing is the server writes the backup file nightly by some scheduled tasks. It is one large file like now 773K. Unfortunately I never really knew how to set this up so it saves each file with a name like monday. So after 7 backups it would be back to monday again, but it will not overwrite so then it just skips that day if the file already exists. this is why I rename them adding the date into the name, then I compress it just using the built in windows stuff. It comes out at about 80K. Then I delete the uncompress copy. I keep about 30 days back on the servers raid drives and the rest get moved into my archive, which now might be the time to clean some of that out, it goes back many years. This is where I got nervous, could I successfully uncompress and restore. it seemed to work, but I only looked at the one table I needed and not the 199 in there, so I hope it did everything correctly. I can restore over the current database, or restore to another database. I think i like the restore to another and then copy back only what I think is needed. More work but makes me fell safer as I won't write over something good with something bad that did not uncompress correctly.
As for a report of sales, yeah we can do that, but out market is very seasonal. Also local boat builders are all but mostly shutdown, the economy has killed new boats being built, our business plan has changed somewhat, no reorders, we are concentrationg on installations and repairs. Only we order in what the customer wants after getting a deposit, for large local orders. Even small items and accessories are not worth stocking much of, as in the case of all the stuff I ahve for sale in my amazon store, is a lot for discontinued models. The models change too often, are getting cheaper and then of course every time they change, the manufacurer changes all the accessories too so old ones don't fit new product.
Actually what makes the most profit is not always the best strategy. Sometimes more profit can be made by selling cheaper and thus selling more units. Our products range from 7 cents up to 56K dollars and more.
Last year I had about 32K in internet sales. Most of it was stuff we no longer needed and are glad it is gone. Some of that even we can no longer reorder. Some of it would be current product, lets say about 25% or less. I still have 3 times that 32K up for sale and more to put up. Sales are only good because a lot of prices are very cheap, some we even loose money on to get rid of it. So in this case popularity is irrelavant.
Come spring time I will be reording some accessories, for what i think are popular models, based on the qty i've already sold online, i have my internet sales in a separate spreadsheet from our database, well they are in our database too but my spreadsheet is more precise for the interent stuff, more so I could prove it was a working model. Even with all the fees, selling fees, crdit card fess, postage, supplies liek boxes and selling some things below cost, I made money for the company on stuff that would still be in stock had I not put it in the internet store. I can look up many (like 85%) of those items and see that no local customers bought any in the last 14 months since i started internet sales. Heck the AVERAGE stock time for the items i've sold on the internet is 2.91 years. Some of those items have been in stock since 2003. Just things that are no longer popular locally and even some of our out of state customers or dealers they are no longer popular with. The thing is if no one knows what we have it won't sell. So even the higher fees for the internet sales are worth it becuase it offset advertising costs you might have to do otherwise. I'm hoping when spring comes that many of those internet customers will call us for other needs. We've alrady had i'd guess maybe 5 out of 300 do so. I had like 333 new internet customers last year, we had something like 320 new other customers. We even had soem customers come back that had not bought from us in 5 or more years. For last year that was the highest increase in new customers.
As for now, the reordering process is a gut feeling and an as needed basis.
As for now i'm not WINNING as I've got to go to w^&k, print out reports then fill 4 internet orders, which by that time i'm sure someone else will have piled work on my desk. And toda we are switching credit cards processors, so they come to reprogram the machine today. Plus Monday is always the heaviset day of processing mail, checks nad bills. Today is going to be very exhausting.
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SwiftMallard a 5850 will not work for Malaria but it will work for most other projects. AND since it is an ATI card it will be faster than the Nvidia cards, ATI is just faster right now. With a 5850 you can crunch for Milky Way, Dnetc, Collatz, Prime Grid, Seti and a few others too! BUT you CANNOT crunch for Einstein, they do Nvidia cards ONLY!! A 5850 is 'dual precision' meaning Milky Way will love you as opposed to the 5770's that I buy that cannot crunch for them. A 5850 has 1440 Stream Processing Units, that is the equivalent of 1440 cores all crunching at once!!! It would be SUPER FAST!!
WINNING!!
MW is what I reeeeeeely would like to crunch. Are there any cards that would let me crunch both Milky Way and GPUGrid?
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MW is what I reeeeeeely would like to crunch. Are there any cards that would let me crunch both Milky Way and GPUGrid?
For speed the ATI HD5850 (cheapest), the HD5870 (faster) and the dual HD5970 (expensive);
Cheaper alternatives, with less output, lie in the previous generations of ATI GPU cards - HD4850; HD4870 and HD4970;
For P4 PCs with AGP slots the HD3850 and HD3870 are possible but getting scarce.
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ATI HD 5870 on order!
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ATI HD 5870 on order!
Hope it works good for ya... I used an ATI All-in-Wonder card for many years and liked it a lot. Too bad they never followed through with a PCI-e version at a reasonable price. Mostly using nVidia cards now.
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ATI HD 5870 on order!
Did you order this one:
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB $200 AR Reg $290
This card performs almost as well as the $400+ dollar GTX 480, with WAY better power consumption. Sapphire is generally a reliable brand, with very good customer support.
Edit: Note that it is a very large card, requiring at least a decent mid sized case if not a full sized case.
$290
-60 Promo Code
-30 MIR
$200 Total
Deal expires 1/15/11
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro..._-14102883
The reviews are not as good as some others but will crunch LIKE MAD!!! GOOD LUCK and I will need to keep my eye on you as you WILL be exploding with your rac!!! 1600 stream processors is a good thing!!!
JohnC speaking of rac mine is now up to 727,795, so I AM catching you right now!! I tried for the last several days to get a pc with an AGP slot up and running but it just won't, the pc works fine but when I plug in the card and install the drivers it just fails miserably! I tried putting XP Pro on the pc and it works fine but Win7 would not load at all! I think because it is only a single core pc, although it does have HT, but it just won't do that either. I am now wiping the hard drive and will put the machine aside for possible donation. I now have 3 gpu's that are NOT crunching, hmmmm!
Keith is there a way on the website for a customer to ask if you have a part in stock but not listed for sale yet? Do you have a note saying not everything is listed yet? I am just trying to think of ways to build that side of the business for people looking for something that you might have but haven't listed just yet. I guess though you already went thru and put the most likely to sell items up already. I know when I want something I may look at several sites but if it isn't listed at one site I just move on to another site. Your stuff is more specialized, like a transducer for some depth finder or something that hasn't been made in several years. If someone can't get the part they have to get a whole new system, but the part could be available they just don't know it yet.
We are supposed to get some snow showers the rest of the week, I hope it stays light!!
SwiftMallard I see you guys will be keeping Leslie Frazier as your new Coach? I like him, what do the locals think? Do you guys need a new quarterback, apparently the Redskins are giving theirs up for 'Sexy Rexy' Grossman! ALOT of fans do NOT like that but the Coach is going to do what he thinks is best anyway! The Redskins have one of the longest running stadium sellouts going, if Coach Shanahan doesn't fix this soon that might end as the fans aren't going to put with consistent mediocrity after his promises!
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Good for you swiftmallard.
The HD5870 will crunch Milkyway fine, as it has the double precision MW needs. I believe that GPU should give you a steady RAC of 250K on that project, and 300K on DNETC. Collatz will be lower @ about 200K.
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Keith is there a way on the website for a customer to ask if you have a part in stock but not listed for sale yet? Do you have a note saying not everything is listed yet? I am just trying to think of ways to build that side of the business for people looking for something that you might have but haven't listed just yet. I guess though you already went thru and put the most likely to sell items up already. I know when I want something I may look at several sites but if it isn't listed at one site I just move on to another site. Your stuff is more specialized, like a transducer for some depth finder or something that hasn't been made in several years. If someone can't get the part they have to get a whole new system, but the part could be available they just don't know it yet.
Well, yes, they can send me a message through amazon, like email but it is a webform and my email address is hidden.
Only problem with that is a lot of shoppers won't do that and number two they would have to find my store first. If they just searched for Widget-X and I haven't listed widget-X, they might not have any idea I even exist. Now if they are brighter than the average bulb in the pack, they might click on a similar item, see me and send me a message.
Then again when we had a real internet stand alone store, or even ebay sales, we got tons of messages from people asking for widgets we never even ehard of, or wanting a shipment sent to the phillipines and the would pay us in ressuian rubbles. Most of those ended up being more trouble to reply to than worth as they never wanteed anything we had in stock and always awant some kind of special handling or shipping.
My deal is buy what I got listed and i'll send it to you when I have time. i offer 1 method of shipping, standard only. No rush processing. I think it has done pretty good, except for the two people that have called on the phone to see if they could get it expedidted. NO. And now you ahve wasted my time on the phone I do not have time to ship your order today. I'm sorry, but I'm only one person, we are no a multi-billion employee operation.
Speaking of this, I've had no internet orders all day, not even any for last night. Now while i was here working three came in about 2-3 minutes apart. looks like a busy morning for me tomorrow. Most are small cheap items but one is a 300 buck order.
Oh, now for something strange. i got home to find a big puddle of browish liquid on the floor all around the frig. Could not find anything that had spilled inside and leaked out. Moved the frig out and at least cleaned the floor. The brown was jsut from dirt and a dead roach hiding under neath. Next though is the ice maker hose. it was wet in the back of the frig, but after i got the ice maker to cycle and refill, nothing leaked out the back by this wet spot. Mystery continues. So asw i'm cleaning the compressor and fan cuts on, and it feels like moisture spraying out the back. I figured the wet spot was from this and not the ice maker, it was just a coincidence the fan blows at that spot right by the ice maker pump valve. But after a little while the moisture stops even though the fan is still running, so i'm thinking it was just sucking up some of the water on the floor, since i had moved the frig out and over the puddle. Still puzzled I decided maybe there is something under the frig. So I shine a flash light under there only to see this gray grill like thing. It seems a heard of dust bunnies have moved in. Next comes the attempt to blow them out, but how reach in this small space. the hose on my can of dust off is too short, although it did get some of it. A broom is too big. My arm is to big past the wrist to get it in there. Fianlly my room-mate showed up just in time and he had a swiffer duster which was perfect, flat and long handle to scrub this grill/coil assembly and chase the heard of bunnies away. One may be left but it is much better. i didn't know that was under there and it hasn't been cleaned in the 10 years i've been here. so my best guess is all the dust was acting as an insulator on this coil assembly witch acts like a radiator. I'm guessing all the water was moisture from it overheating ? I know how computers overheat with too much dust, same thing here i guess. We'll see if this contiues or not. Ayway it mostly clean under the frig now.
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Once more uptoo the breach dear friends
the pit cooleth and the call is "get up"
It is 6AM and I have been up for an hour already! Almost done with my first cup of coffee for the day too!
JohnC my rac for today is 740,665, so I am oh so close to FINALLY start reducing the distance between our total cobblestones!! One of my neighbors yesterday gave me an old pc to wipe and possibly donate, I will check it out and see if it has an AGP slot, the kids do not need any more pc's right this minute and I am always swapping one of mine for one that was given to me for them anyway. One time I kept a dual core and gave up two single core pc's instead, they liked that better because TWO kids got computers. I try to keep the specs similar when I keep one that was given to me for possible donation. We are talking pre-teen to about 14 or 15 year old kids for these pc's, these are not designed for kids that know all about pc's. These keep the smaller kids out of the libraries and at home doing homework etc, these can surf the net but are not designed to be gaming machines. These pc's are not for the smartest kids on the block, these kids have been, or in some cases still are, in foster care and have very little ambition or feeling of self worth, giving them a pc can be the high point of their whole YEAR!!!
Hey Keith I keep forgetting you are a one man show there, I know you have co-workers but you are the only guy doing the internet sales, shipping, website, etc. Sorry about that!! And I too would be worried about 'foreign' sales, especially COD orders!! AND I hope that fixed your fridge too!!
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Hey Keith I keep forgetting you are a one man show there, I know you have co-workers but you are the only guy doing the internet sales, shipping, website, etc. Sorry about that!! And I too would be worried about 'foreign' sales, especially COD orders!! AND I hope that fixed your fridge too!!
No, it peed the floor again, but at least it was only water and not brown this time.
I cleaned up. Turned the ice maker off and the water to it but i don't think that is the problem. Also I noticed the switch inside was set to on for "if moisture appears between the doors", someone may have hit it by accident as I don't remember if it was on or off. I could call the maintenance people, but i like to try to solve simple things. I'll see if I can nurse it along until Saturday, when i haqve more time. I'll pull it out, take the back off. Maqybe the drain hose is clogged with a dust bunny and instead of the moisture going into the drain tray, it is going on the floor. Also too i can better blow out any more dust by using the vacuum. Other than it peeing the floor, it seems to be working fine, it is cold inside and in the freezer.
Bedtime now, i'm beat.
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@Mikey
Your RAC has passed mine now, and I am struggling.
Spent 6 hours yesterday on my Penny uninstalling ATI drivers and Catalyst Controls, then completely inpicking any ATI/AMD fragments in the Registry and System 32 flolder. All this leading to multiple reinstalls of different vintage CCC and drivers.
The intention of all this?
To try and get the second GPU in the PC recognised by BOINC Manager - zilch/nassa/etc.
The OS and GPU-Z recognise 2 GPUs, but BM does not, so DNETC was lost and nothing gained. I even uninstalled BM 6.10.58 and downloaded and reinstalled a new copy.
So - Until I can get this GPU recognised I am fixed at the current level of 5 credits per day!
Sortta winning, but not successfully.
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@Mikey
Your RAC has passed mine now, and I am struggling.
Spent 6 hours yesterday on my Penny uninstalling ATI drivers and Catalyst Controls, then completely inpicking any ATI/AMD fragments in the Registry and System 32 flolder. All this leading to multiple reinstalls of different vintage CCC and drivers.
The intention of all this?
To try and get the second GPU in the PC recognised by BOINC Manager - zilch/nassa/etc.
The OS and GPU-Z recognise 2 GPUs, but BM does not, so DNETC was lost and nothing gained. I even uninstalled BM 6.10.58 and downloaded and reinstalled a new copy.
So - Until I can get this GPU recognised I am fixed at the current level of 5 credits per day!
Sortta winning, but not successfully.
Sorry to hear about BOINC not cooperating. Is there a ngpu setting available for the config file? I don't remember from back when I first started using a gpu with SETI. Also, are the two cards both ATIs? I don't know what BOINC would think of a mixed ATI and nVidia environment.
In the meantime, my primary system that does video capture keeps locking up on me. Lost a show last night. Not all that upset about losing that, but I am about losing BOINC processing.
I need to get busy and move everything over to the dual-boot system where I installed that HD-PVR my stepson gave me. Maybe that will fix my problems?? Unfortunately, it's looking like it might be a harddrive problem. On restart, Windows frequently tells me it found invalid lengths for certain files...the same ones usually every time this happens. If it is a harddrive problem, Microcenter is listing some 1-2 TB drives for <$100. Might be worth a shot and then I'd definitely be...
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@Mikey
Your RAC has passed mine now, and I am struggling.
Spent 6 hours yesterday on my Penny uninstalling ATI drivers and Catalyst Controls, then completely inpicking any ATI/AMD fragments in the Registry and System 32 flolder. All this leading to multiple reinstalls of different vintage CCC and drivers.
The intention of all this?
To try and get the second GPU in the PC recognised by BOINC Manager - zilch/nassa/etc.
The OS and GPU-Z recognise 2 GPUs, but BM does not, so DNETC was lost and nothing gained. I even uninstalled BM 6.10.58 and downloaded and reinstalled a new copy.
So - Until I can get this GPU recognised I am fixed at the current level of 5 credits per day!
Sortta winning, but not successfully.
Actually my rac is going down AGAIN!!! Seems Collatz AND Dnetc BOTH had problems a day or so ago and were BOTH DOWN!! Today Dnetc is back up and running but Collatz is not and won't be until at least the upcoming weekend. My rac right now is 751,186, so yes I am ahead of you but since Collatz is not giving out any new work my rac is going down over there! I did download some new Dnetc work for my Ati 6850 but again it thinks it will take 40 hours and that is NOT going to happen!! It will sit idle before I let it sit and crunch one unit for 40 hours, especially when my 5770's are doing the same kind of units in 30 minutes!! I might be looking for another backup gpu project again!!
Keith you NEED to get that thing trained to NOT pee on the floor!! Is it getting old, maybe it just needs some Depends!! I hope you get it figured out soon but it does sound like you are on the right track. First it was dirty brown water now it is cleaner water, that means at least you have the right area cleaned.
My snow flurries for the next few days has diminished to maybe some flurries tomorrow and then nothing until Tuesday, which may or may not be a 'big event'. Right now it is 27F outside going up to a high in the mid 40's later on.
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Keith you NEED to get that thing trained to NOT pee on the floor!! Is it getting old, maybe it just needs some Depends!! I hope you get it figured out soon but it does sound like you are on the right track. First it was dirty brown water now it is cleaner water, that means at least you have the right area cleaned.
Good news fpr now, at least it was bone dry this morning. I checked in front, even ran a paer towel across the floor. The I pushed it out, its on rollers so it moves easily with one person, otherwise I would not be doing this. A dried under with the paepr towl and it was also bone dry. We'll see what happens when I get home. This leaves eiather that switch was causing it to run more to get rid of moisture, and i'm think the drain is clogged some that is why it backs up and overflows and runs on the floor. it still could be the ice maker somewhere, since i've turned the water off. Saturday i'll take the back panel off and clean what i can, see if i can find the drain tube or pan. Then I may turn the water back on. Seeing all the dust, I can see how the drain tube may have gotten clogged with something over the years.
Off to work, more internet orders to ship. And i'm still counting old junk and listing things in the store, so this will keep me busy through the winter.
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Keith you NEED to get that thing trained to NOT pee on the floor!! Is it getting old, maybe it just needs some Depends!! I hope you get it figured out soon but it does sound like you are on the right track. First it was dirty brown water now it is cleaner water, that means at least you have the right area cleaned.
Good news fpr now, at least it was bone dry this morning. I checked in front, even ran a paer towel across the floor. The I pushed it out, its on rollers so it moves easily with one person, otherwise I would not be doing this. A dried under with the paepr towl and it was also bone dry. We'll see what happens when I get home. This leaves eiather that switch was causing it to run more to get rid of moisture, and i'm think the drain is clogged some that is why it backs up and overflows and runs on the floor. it still could be the ice maker somewhere, since i've turned the water off. Saturday i'll take the back panel off and clean what i can, see if i can find the drain tube or pan. Then I may turn the water back on. Seeing all the dust, I can see how the drain tube may have gotten clogged with something over the years.
Off to work, more internet orders to ship. And i'm still counting old junk and listing things in the store, so this will keep me busy through the winter.
Oh boy sounds like fun!!!! I hope your day is easy but not boring!!!
JohnC I figure out how to make my Ati gpu's work on PrimeGrid and am now crunching for it. BTW the 6850 finished a Dnetc unit in just under 30 minutes, not the 40 hours it thought it was going to take, but I switched to PrimeGrid for now anyway, they are even faster I think.
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Keith you NEED to get that thing trained to NOT pee on the floor!! Is it getting old, maybe it just needs some Depends!! I hope you get it figured out soon but it does sound like you are on the right track. First it was dirty brown water now it is cleaner water, that means at least you have the right area cleaned.
Today's training session went well, the floor was dry when I got home today. Then I turned the ice maker and water back on at dinner time.
It seems there was a relapse. A check a minute ago and the floor was all wet, really wet. So I cleaned up again and turned the water back off.
Who needs ice anyway in the winter, i can just go out on the front porch and get some. Ha.
At least I have an idea of what is leaking and maybe this weak end I can find the exact spot.
We have a chance of snow flurries here tomorrow night and then again monday-tuesday.
Now I need to practice sleeping.
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TGIF!
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Keith you NEED to get that thing trained to NOT pee on the floor!! Is it getting old, maybe it just needs some Depends!! I hope you get it figured out soon but it does sound like you are on the right track. First it was dirty brown water now it is cleaner water, that means at least you have the right area cleaned.
Today's training session went well, the floor was dry when I got home today. Then I turned the ice maker and water back on at dinner time.
It seems there was a relapse. A check a minute ago and the floor was all wet, really wet. So I cleaned up again and turned the water back off.
Who needs ice anyway in the winter, i can just go out on the front porch and get some. Ha.
At least I have an idea of what is leaking and maybe this weak end I can find the exact spot.
We have a chance of snow flurries here tomorrow night and then again monday-tuesday.
Now I need to practice sleeping.
My old fridge did that but the water came out the door, where you could get ice and water thru the door. The water supply valve would not stop the water when the tray got full and I would come home, or downstairs, to a kitchen full of water and water running into the basement!! I spent 600 bucks on that da*n thing before buying ice once a week at the grocery store instead! I now have a new fridge with an ice maker but no thru the door ice. My old one was a Maytag while my new one is a cheapy Frigidaire.
JohnC my rac today is 759,150, so I am FINALLY closing down the gap between us again!! I moved several gpu's over to PrimeGrid from Dnetc yesterday and my times have gone from 1.5 to 2 hours for the Dnetc units to around 30 to 40 minutes for the PG units. I loaded the ATI APP software right on top of the regular ATI software so hopefully I can go back and forth at will. I seem to be finishing my Dnetc units and starting and finishing the PG units without any problems anyway.
I also swapped in a 750 watt power supply for a VERY noisy one yesterday, I am going to call the company of the noisy one and see if they will sell me a fan, as that will make it usable again and it is a 600 watt one that I can use for future gpu's. This is my 2nd 750 watt power supply but that is because they are the same price as the 650 watt ones, seems like a no-brainer.
RandyC I hope you and SwiftMallard get ALL the snow out of the next storm coming my way!! You guys can handle that stuff MUCH better than Keith or I anyway!! Keith's current storm is a coastal one and I too am supposed to get a dusting from it, but next Tuesday I think you guys are trying to send me another doozy and I would rather not get it thank you very much!!
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You really are beginning to run away with the new additional GPUs. Nearly 900K as today's output tops mine by just under 100K today.
Still, I can commiserate with some fingers of Tallister and a win here
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My old fridge did that but the water came out the door, where you could get ice and water thru the door. The water supply valve would not stop the water when the tray got full and I would come home, or downstairs, to a kitchen full of water and water running into the basement!! I spent 600 bucks on that da*n thing before buying ice once a week at the grocery store instead! I now have a new fridge with an ice maker but no thru the door ice. My old one was a Maytag while my new one is a cheapy Frigidaire.
Well I'll look at it first. It may be something simple to identify what needs to be fixed.
Sorry I can't think at the moment, I've lost my train of thought, bad day at work.
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You really are beginning to run away with the new additional GPUs. Nearly 900K as today's output tops mine by just under 100K today.
Still, I can commiserate with some fingers of Tallister and a win here
Show off! I received some Crown Royal Black as a birthday present but it is all gone now!
It was DELICIOUS!! I am back to my regular stuff now and it is okay when mixed with Ginger Ale.JohnC my rac is now 770,117 and yesterday I did receive 895,815 cobblestones, so yes it should be going up some more yet. BUT I am STILL over 3 MILLION cobblestones behind you right now, so it will take me a long time at only a few thousand a day to catch you!
Keith what happened at work, it was supposed to be an easy day not a bad one!
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HD5870 installed and running! Milky Way units crunching at a rate of 2:15 per. Gently OCing CPU to crunch Malaria Control, aahh, life is good! A (not so) wee dram of Bunnahabhain later to ward off the cold and I'll be all set for a win!
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Keith what happened at work, it was supposed to be an easy day not a bad
Well it wasn't my work per say. We're is a strip mall. the store next to us sell tobacco and glass pipes. They put in a sound system in the ceiling. The sound is coming through the wall and ceiling, sometimes so loud I can't even here someone standing next ot me. i had ask them to keep it down, but i still hear thump thump thump boom all day long. Like a splitting headache for 8 hours. I'm gonna go insane so next week i'll have to go have a talk with them before I get in a bad mood to see if they can keep it off or sound proof thier store. Then if that doesn't work i'll ahve to call the authorities. My office is right against the wall to thier store. Apparently the walls are made of paper. And also i found out where they installed a speaker in their store is about 3 foot from exactly where i sit. I have little choice of movinf at this point, but i might have to have, meaning we have to rearrange our store to accomodte them. The bad thing is every time they turn it up laod, our boss is out of the office so I can't have him here it too. Even low, the bass is pounding through the wall.
It's hard to do math when you can't hear yourself think.
My brian was on just such overlaod last night I could not think, i didn't really have a headache, it was just overheated.
On to better things. i'm in mr fixit mode. I know i could have called maintenace for this at the landlords expense, but i soemtimes miss this sort of thing from when i owend a home. so at least first i wanted to look at the frig. One i unpwoered it and pulled it all the way out, i was able to get the back lower panel off. Looked mostly good inside. i ble another pound of dust out with the vacuum. The drip try was pretty dry, but awfully dirty brown. So the last leak was not through the drip try since all the water was clear. I did wash off the fan since it too ahd a good build iup of dust on it, it should operate better with less resistance and weight on it now. Then i got to the ice make hose. I noticed a small amount of water around a fitting i could not see betfore. I took the fittigns aprat then reassebled, thinking one of them had jsut vibrated loose after 10 years. it's on top of the lille pump thingy. Then when i turned water back on i noticed where it was spraying out of the hose. Very small pinpoint hole. Where it was was jsut in the right spot, so it sprayed across the bottom side of the top of this compressor/fan area. This is why the water was coming out on the opposite side of the frig from the water pump. this is what had me confused. And the stream was so fine I could abrely see it. Good thing though it was only 3 inches up the hose and there is an extra 3 feet of hose, so cutting 4 inches off was no problem, except then the compression fitting would not go abck on. I had to make a trip up to aAce and but a 16 cent fitting with tax, i bought two so I have a spare . Good thing I took wiht me the old fitting and the piece of hose I cut off as this made finding the exact fit easy. I probally burt more gas thean the cost of the fitting. So I cleaned, dusted and put every thing back together. No leak showing so far. I'll give it 3 hours as that was how long before it took to make a good puddle, but now there should be none. Then i'll cleanup and put my tools all away.
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It's Sunday over here, and time to go to bed!
It is Sunday here too now and it is time to get up! It is 7am already!!
JohnC my rac today is 787,772 and it WILL be going up ALOT more! Yesterday I received over 375k of credits at PG but only have a rac of 184k from them, so up, up, UP my rac will go!! Also as of today I am just under 3 million below you, I am coming your way, finally!!
SwiftMallard I am glad you got your gpu crunching! You should also see a NICE jump in your overall rac now!! Be careful though, that jump comes with the NEED for even more and more, especially since you now see how easy it is to get a gpu up and crunching!
Keith I am glad you found your leak, a common place is right where you found it, but now you have to be careful that the whole how is not dry rotted. A bend, or joint, is the most common place but now that you have played with the hose it may leak again sooner than 10 years. If it is easy, AND CHEAP, you might consider just replacing the whole hose.
My snow 'event' yesterday looked REALLY good for about 20 minutes, then it stopped and after a few more flurries it was over. I got between one and two inches and did not even shovel! My wife went out to the grocery store and said the main roads were not a problem.
My wife even brought home tonight's dinner, bbq pork roast that I am cooking now. I take a roast, pork or beef and I am going to try chicken later on, this time it is pork and put it in the crock pot, covered with water for about 10 to 12 hours overnight on low. Then you pour the water off and using a fork shred the meat back into the crock pot, you add a bottle of your favorite bbq sauce, I use Bull's Eye regular, and cook it for another 6 hours on low. Voila, bbq that is homemade and DELICIOUS!!! If you chose the cheaper cuts it is cost effective too, we always try to chose the meats on sale or the 'day old' ones. My wife also got a head of cabbage so I will make my own coleslaw to go with it. The recipe is uuber simple, cabbage, mayo, sugar and vinegar. The last three you have to mix together before you put them in, a little goes a long way, but you have to taste it to see how much sugar or vinegar makes it taste just right! I always start with a TB of sugar to a capful of vinegar, I don't want it too sweet or too tart either, then I mix that with about 3 or 4 tb's of mayo and check for taste before mixing it into the cabbage. I also put a carrot or two in mine just for some color.
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Keith I am glad you found your leak, a common place is right where you found it, but now you have to be careful that the whole how is not dry rotted. A bend, or joint, is the most common place but now that you have played with the hose it may leak again sooner than 10 years. If it is easy, AND CHEAP, you might consider just replacing the whole hose.
My snow 'event' yesterday looked REALLY good for about 20 minutes, then it stopped and after a few more flurries it was over. I got between one and two inches and did not even shovel! My wife went out to the grocery store and said the main roads were not a problem.
First my snow report. We had snow for about 2 minutes. we got .00000002 inches. Then it was over. I don't think it even rained. The temp outside on my front proched showed 31F, but the intenet weather kept showing 43F.
As for the hose, no it was in a straight run, about 3 inches up from the pump. This is the feeder line into the pump. It goes up and makes a gentle loop back to the wall, no sharp bends. Just a defect in the hose, that took 10 years to burst. There is no other reason, it is in a protected spot behind the frig, meaning it was not touched at all. nothing to bump it or rub on it.
Well if the hose leaks again, i'll worry about it, if I still live here then. After all that is the responsibility of the landlord. Sometimes though, it is easier to DIY than make a phone call, and wait for maintenance to show up. I could mail the receipt for 32 cents to the rental manager, and they would pay me back. But it costs more in postage than I would get back. Also too we've done some of the simple things not reporting them. The only thing the landlord has paid to fixed in 10 years is the microwave, a built in light in the laundry closet and the a/c unit which had a drain leaking, all one time each. So sometimes doing small things in the long run keeps the rent down. Ours does not go up every year, I think since I first moved in it has only gone up 3 times and now it is only 50 bucks higher than then. This works both ways, the landlord keeps it low to keep a good tenant.
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Aaaarrrrrgggghhh!
No matter how I try I cannot get the second GPU recognised by BOINC Manager.
The OS recognises 2 ATI GPUs - Device Manager shows 2 ATI Radeon GPUs with the model series named, and The Display Properties show 2 ATI graphics cards in Settings.
GPU-Z 0.5.0 recognised 2 ATI GPUs, with the primary one crunching, and the other one not loaded.
The Catalyst Control Centre (V10.11) shows 2 ATI GPUs present in the hardware but the second adapter (the one I want BOINC Manager to recognise) is shown as disabled.
How can I enable this GPU??
Aaaarrrrrgggghhh!
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Aaaarrrrrgggghhh!
No matter how I try I cannot get the second GPU recognised by BOINC Manager.
The OS recognises 2 ATI GPUs - Device Manager shows 2 ATI Radeon GPUs with the model series named, and The Display Properties show 2 ATI graphics cards in Settings.
GPU-Z 0.5.0 recognised 2 ATI GPUs, with the primary one crunching, and the other one not loaded.
The Catalyst Control Centre (V10.11) shows 2 ATI GPUs present in the hardware but the second adapter (the one I want BOINC Manager to recognise) is shown as disabled.
How can I enable this GPU??
Aaaarrrrrgggghhh!
I'm no expert on multi gpus, since /i have no systems with more than 1.
First of all, when you start boinc does it show both GPU's in the first lines.
Mine reports:
1/9/2011 12:30:16 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 19745, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 336 GFLOPS peak)
Next you can add lines to the cc_config file, see the wiki.
I would try the
Oh, I just found something kool for my android, an app that can control boinc clients. Sort of like boinc remote control via cell phone. i'll have to get it and try it out, but not now as i'm about to fall asleep.
Just had some homemade bread, I was trying to make cinamon raisin bread, but the instructions are not clear. i misunderstood what they meant in the table listing beep times. i said 2:;5. i thought it meant after 2:55 it would beep. what it meant was when the timer shows 2:55 to go, it nbeeps, so I missed it. i ended up with cinamon raisinless bread. Still it is good.
I also had a krockpot full ofr two meat texas chili, steak and pork that has been kooking in beer for 9 hours.
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Keith I am glad you found your leak, a common place is right where you found it, but now you have to be careful that the whole how is not dry rotted. A bend, or joint, is the most common place but now that you have played with the hose it may leak again sooner than 10 years. If it is easy, AND CHEAP, you might consider just replacing the whole hose.
My snow 'event' yesterday looked REALLY good for about 20 minutes, then it stopped and after a few more flurries it was over. I got between one and two inches and did not even shovel! My wife went out to the grocery store and said the main roads were not a problem.
First my snow report. We had snow for about 2 minutes. we got .00000002 inches. Then it was over. I don't think it even rained. The temp outside on my front proched showed 31F, but the intenet weather kept showing 43F.
As for the hose, no it was in a straight run, about 3 inches up from the pump. This is the feeder line into the pump. It goes up and makes a gentle loop back to the wall, no sharp bends. Just a defect in the hose, that took 10 years to burst. There is no other reason, it is in a protected spot behind the frig, meaning it was not touched at all. nothing to bump it or rub on it.
Well if the hose leaks again, i'll worry about it, if I still live here then. After all that is the responsibility of the landlord. Sometimes though, it is easier to DIY than make a phone call, and wait for maintenance to show up. I could mail the receipt for 32 cents to the rental manager, and they would pay me back. But it costs more in postage than I would get back. Also too we've done some of the simple things not reporting them. The only thing the landlord has paid to fixed in 10 years is the microwave, a built in light in the laundry closet and the a/c unit which had a drain leaking, all one time each. So sometimes doing small things in the long run keeps the rent down. Ours does not go up every year, I think since I first moved in it has only gone up 3 times and now it is only 50 bucks higher than then. This works both ways, the landlord keeps it low to keep a good tenant.
I think you are right there Keith, besides as you said the leak was not easy to find the first time so you might have had to call the guy back several times and that means taking off work etc, etc, etc. I also think you have a good landlord and should try and keep him!! Especially since he is not raising your rent!!!
JohnC my rac today is 802,563, but I have no idea how to fix your problem. And NO I am not holding back just so I can stay ahead of you!!! That would not be fair, ethical or helpful to the whole idea of crunching!!
My snow event for tomorrow has changed, two days ago it was supposed to be enough snow for the rear end of a giraffe to be very cold, now they are talking about maybe an inch!! It turns out that the cold air, from RandyC and SwiftMallard, is going to be here but the moisture, from down Keith's way, will be too far out to sea again. WOO HOO!!!
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My snow event for tomorrow has changed, two days ago it was supposed to be enough snow for the rear end of a giraffe to be very cold, now they are talking about maybe an inch!! It turns out that the cold air, from RandyC and SwiftMallard, is going to be here but the moisture, from down Keith's way, will be too far out to sea again. WOO HOO!!!
WINNING!!
Don't celebrate too much Mikey. Our forecast calls for snow beginning Mid-day on Tuesday with accumulations 2-4". Then it will head your way.
Had to replace my inkjet printer yesterday. Cost $99.99 at MicroCenter for basically the same functionality. However, the ink cartridges for the old printer will not fit the new one. :-(
I tried 4-5 times to fix the printer door/tray with Super Glue. It seems that some plastics just will not adhere to Super Glue. I even bought a package that uses a pretreatment to let the stuff stick. However, the pre-treat stuff comes in a container similar to a felt-tip marker. Now just try using that to coat a jagged break in a piece of plastic! No way! :-(
Also took the wife out yesterday to Bennihana for our Anniversary Dinner. (Since our Anniversary is on her birthday, I have to take her out on separate days to celebrate each). Anyway, we had a great time and the bill came to just over $25 (with tip = $30). If you've never been to one and have one in your area, I really recommend trying it at least once. It's been 30 years since the last time I went...back in your digs, Mikey (N. VA).
WINNING!!!
[edit]Just noticed I passed 4,000,000 CS on E@H on Saturday![/edit]
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All peaceful and quiet today.
I was able to redo the 25 new backup scripts for 2011. Simple, just make a copy of all 2010 scripts and replace all the 2010 with 2011, A Lot of edoting but only have to do it once a year. Only last week on a bad day, I did this in the wrong directory not realizing it and when I ran the scripts the backup erased them. They way this works they are gone, there is no copy in the recycle bin. Well today I did them again in the master directory so when i do the backup it will put a copy of them in the working diredctory where I had done it last week. My fault but I could not think clearly last week.
Finished my work for now. Nothing left to do but eat lunch and watch the radar.
Snow heading my way. Checked radar about 3 hours ago, it is down around Wilmington, heading north. IT might make it here before nightfall. Temp is 0C.
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Don't celebrate too much Mikey. Our forecast calls for snow beginning Mid-day on Tuesday with accumulations 2-4". Then it will head your way.
THANKS Randy!! My snow for today is now down to just a few hours worth, mostly from 4pm or so to midnight with some flurries after that, with a total of maybe 2 to 4 inches! Looks like we dodged another snow storm.
Had to replace my inkjet printer yesterday. Cost $99.99 at MicroCenter for basically the same functionality. However, the ink cartridges for the old printer will not fit the new one. :-(
It is a conspiracy that way!! I have a friend that bought 5 printers at a Computer show for 10 bucks apiece, they came with cartridges and he just throws the printer away when it runs out of ink. The ink is 20 bucks a cartridge and there are 2 in the printer, the printer is a discontinued model but it works just fine.
Also took the wife out yesterday to Bennihana for our Anniversary Dinner. (Since our Anniversary is on her birthday, I have to take her out on separate days to celebrate each). Anyway, we had a great time and the bill came to just over $25 (with tip = $30). If you've never been to one and have one in your area, I really recommend trying it at least once. It's been 30 years since the last time I went...back in your digs, Mikey (N. VA).
I think they are still around here, now it is the Japanese Steak House with a very similar theme, that is getting all the press.
WINNING!!!
[edit]Just noticed I passed 4,000,000 CS on E@H on Saturday![/edit]
CONGRATULATIONS on getting 4 million at Einstein!!!!
JohnC my rac for today is only 781,367! Seems Dnetc went down yesterday and my rac suffered ALOT!! It is back up now so my rac should go back up too.
Keith I think that is a good thing that you got your program fixed, it seems very finicky!!! Also I hope by now you have some snow on the ground, just enough to give you the day off with pay but not enough to cripple you guys for a week! ps your Malaria 'web site' problem has been answered and it did not take 40 days to do it!!
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YEP...Time for another WIN!!! ;)
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YEP...Time for another WIN!!! ;)
Welcome Jim_S, long time no see!
JohnC my rac for today is 797,063 but more importantly to me right now is the fact that for the VERY FIRST TIME I have done 1,031,218 cobblestones IN ONE DAY!!! WOO HOO!!!!
My snow has come and gone, I got a dusting and that is all! Looks like my new snow shovel will sit unused in the garage again, which is really NOT a bad thing!!
I am DEFINITELY WINNING!!!
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JohnC my rac for today is 797,063 but more importantly to me right now is the fact that for the VERY FIRST TIME I have done 1,031,218 cobblestones IN ONE DAY!!! WOO HOO!!!!
My snow has come and gone, I got a dusting and that is all! Looks like my new snow shovel will sit unused in the garage again, which is really NOT a bad thing!!
I am DEFINITELY WINNING!!!
Not to worry Mikey, the 2-4" of snow came closer to 5-6" instead. Heading your way now, of course...
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No headache today. I had to go next door and talk to them again. Last Friday was awful even after I asked them to turn it down, low level sound was still pounding the wall or maybe it is through the ceiling. Monday and Tuesday I didn't hear a thing, but today starting at 10am when they come in, the pounding on the wall started. I tried to tolerate it but by 1:30 I cound stand no more. I mean this is a sound that drives you mental, like grab an uzi type mental. They did turn off the speaker mounted in the ceiling closet to the wall near where I am, they guy looked really mad about doing that. After I returned to my office I could not hear anything the rest of the day and my head cleared up. I did go back over after our closing time and thank them for turning that speaker off and helping improve the situation. So at least for now we are both happy, except for they don't have loud instore music. I'm not opposed to that as long as I can't hear it while working as I need to concentrate a lot while i'm doing 6 things at once.
Got my plane tickets for my vacation. Last year it was 335 bucks with taxes as I waited to long and didn't look for bargins in advance. This year I had been watching the emails. I had gotten some at 198 before taxes. Then last week on Wednesday I got one for 178 but didn't have time to check out the deal. So on Saturday when I sat down the deal had dropped to 158, add taxes back to that and the total was 198 bucks. but hey that is much better than 335. I'm on US Airways this time instead of Delta and the flight makes a stop but I don't have to change planes. First time i've had that deal. I do on the way back but that is not as bad as i have no one to met on the return trip. Also to my flight does not go through Atlanta, which is the busiest (scarriest) airport.
No if I can just not go insane before my trip.
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Morning again! Winning again!
JohnC you haven't forgotten that you're running this thread have you? Isn't it time for someone to actually...
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No headache today. I had to go next door and talk to them again. Last Friday was awful even after I asked them to turn it down, low level sound was still pounding the wall or maybe it is through the ceiling. Monday and Tuesday I didn't hear a thing, but today starting at 10am when they come in, the pounding on the wall started. I tried to tolerate it but by 1:30 I cound stand no more. I mean this is a sound that drives you mental, like grab an uzi type mental. They did turn off the speaker mounted in the ceiling closet to the wall near where I am, they guy looked really mad about doing that. After I returned to my office I could not hear anything the rest of the day and my head cleared up. I did go back over after our closing time and thank them for turning that speaker off and helping improve the situation. So at least for now we are both happy, except for they don't have loud instore music. I'm not opposed to that as long as I can't hear it while working as I need to concentrate a lot while i'm doing 6 things at once.
Got my plane tickets for my vacation. Last year it was 335 bucks with taxes as I waited to long and didn't look for bargins in advance. This year I had been watching the emails. I had gotten some at 198 before taxes. Then last week on Wednesday I got one for 178 but didn't have time to check out the deal. So on Saturday when I sat down the deal had dropped to 158, add taxes back to that and the total was 198 bucks. but hey that is much better than 335. I'm on US Airways this time instead of Delta and the flight makes a stop but I don't have to change planes. First time i've had that deal. I do on the way back but that is not as bad as i have no one to met on the return trip. Also to my flight does not go through Atlanta, which is the busiest (scarriest) airport.
No if I can just not go insane before my trip.
Keith I am very glad you and the music store got things worked out and I'll bet they turned the music back up after you left, which was nice of you to let them know about. Maybe the two of you can up with a sound insulating system so they can play their music and you can work too.
Also I am planning a trip to Vegas in mid April and am already looking for bargains. My wife has been on every site know to man and has found us seats that are about 300 bucks round trip for a non stop flight. We will be there for a week for sure but am looking at being flexible on both ends of that to reduce some of the costs. Rooms are fairly cheap, we do not want to stay in the Econo Lodge for example, so about 30 bucks per night, so if we can save that off the air fair it makes sense to leave early and come back later.
JohnC my rac today is 811,728, so it came back up nicely and of course is still climbing!
RandyC thanks but my weather is turning warmer and will be above freezing for the next couple/three weeks. I am headed into the mid 40's by the weekend so anything you send me for now will be just rain. HOWEVER January and February are my two snowiest months so I can't rule out a snow 'event' in the future.
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Morning again! Winning again!
JohnC you haven't forgotten that you're running this thread have you? Isn't it time for someone to actually...
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True, but the post number is still a little way off for the thread winna
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Another Friday; another WIN!!!
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Thank you Randy! I don't mind if I do!
Mikey, my RAC is steadily climbing!
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Thank you Randy! I don't mind if I do!
Mikey, my RAC is steadily climbing!
I am VERY glad to see that, it is nice when all you do is plug in a card and it crunches like mad isn't it!! I see you are getting 231 credits for about 4 seconds of gpu time and 1.5 minutes of cpu time, MUST BE NICE!!!! Newegg has a 5870 on sale today for only 200 bucks after coupon code and rebate with free shipping, I am thinking about it! How big of a power supply do you have in that machine? Having to buy a new power supply would not make it as cost effective.
JohnC my rac for today is 822,588, so still going up. Yesterday on PG I received 399,803 credits but my rac is only 260,894 over there, so there is still a ways to go for the rac to catch up over there. Did you ever get that second card working yet, or you taking a break right now?
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Did you ever get that second card working yet, or you taking a break right now?
Taking a break and letting things build from the several project(s) server shutdowns )BNETC and Milkyway).
I will play with the physical removal and movement of GPU cards next week.
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I am VERY glad to see that, it is nice when all you do is plug in a card and it crunches like mad isn't it!! I see you are getting 231 credits for about 4 seconds of gpu time and 1.5 minutes of cpu time, MUST BE NICE!!!! Newegg has a 5870 on sale today for only 200 bucks after coupon code and rebate with free shipping, I am thinking about it! How big of a power supply do you have in that machine? Having to buy a new power supply would not make it as cost effective.
WINNING!!
Remember when I posted about a box a guy on my team sent me? The one that didn't work out? It had a new 600W PSU in it. I took out the 350W in my current cruncher and installed the 600. The side of the box recommends a minimum 500W PSU with two 75W 6 pin connectors. My card is made by Sapphire. The deal on the 5870 is the one I got, but I heard the shipping was slow so I put in another $2 to make sure it was here in three days. You can see a pic of the installed card here, yes, it's big! http://img210.imageshack.us/i/p1070001m.jpg/
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I am VERY glad to see that, it is nice when all you do is plug in a card and it crunches like mad isn't it!! I see you are getting 231 credits for about 4 seconds of gpu time and 1.5 minutes of cpu time, MUST BE NICE!!!! Newegg has a 5870 on sale today for only 200 bucks after coupon code and rebate with free shipping, I am thinking about it! How big of a power supply do you have in that machine? Having to buy a new power supply would not make it as cost effective.
WINNING!!
Remember when I posted about a box a guy on my team sent me? The one that didn't work out? It had a new 600W PSU in it. I took out the 350W in my current cruncher and installed the 600. The side of the box recommends a minimum 500W PSU with two 75W 6 pin connectors. My card is made by Sapphire. The deal on the 5870 is the one I got, but I heard the shipping was slow so I put in another $2 to make sure it was here in three days. You can see a pic of the installed card here, yes, it's big!
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Yeah, that's pretty big! Even has heat pipes for the heatsink!
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Keith I am very glad you and the music store got things worked out and I'll bet they turned the music back up after you left, which was nice of you to let them know about. Maybe the two of you can up with a sound insulating system so they can play their music and you can work too.
NOT. That lasted a day. Last two days not so good again. It's not a music store, its a tobacco store, but they need loud music becuase they sit around
and smoke krack all day long. I can't deal with it or them anymore. if I go back over there there will be violence, which will end up with them in the hospital and me in jail. I talked to my boss today. He said he couldn't hear it. I said walk around the counter and sit here where I sit, and then he could really hear it. Too bad as I can't move 3 feet because i'm behind that built in counter now. My boss will have a talk with them tomorrow. He also suggested he would look into acoustic foam. I also thought I could move to the other side of the building, but this too is difficult at the moment as we would have to relocate stuff and do constuction. Maybe this will get worked out soon, before I go insane.
I told you I got my vacation tickets and the prices had dropped twice. Well they dropped another time after i got the tickets. I should have waited another 4 days.
Now to enjoy my pay raise. Ok it's not a raise, its that 2% extra do to the temporary cut in social security taxes. I get an extra 11 dollars a week. Big deal. i'd better save it becuase when i retire all the money I paid in for social security will be gone anyway and i won't get any.
Internet sales are up. I've had lots of good orders this month. December my internet sales were about 1300. Not the best i've ever had for a mnoth but it was OK I thought, our stuff is not christmas present type stuff. But this being winter i expected January to be less. Half the month gone now and i've already sold 1900 bucks of stuff, some more of it is 4-6 years old stuff so just getting it out of inventory at any price is a bonus. Actually i'm turning a profit on it, a few things are loosers but sometimes you have to do that. Cash flow can be more improtant sometimes and if its been sitting there a long time, better to sell it cheap and get rid of it, otherwise it will just go on sitting there.
Time to relax and unwind. Is it Friday yet ?
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It's Saturday now Krunchin, and I hope you solve your high volume thump-thump headache problem.
Me, I would go through the wall and sever the wires to the speaker.
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I am VERY glad to see that, it is nice when all you do is plug in a card and it crunches like mad isn't it!! I see you are getting 231 credits for about 4 seconds of gpu time and 1.5 minutes of cpu time, MUST BE NICE!!!! Newegg has a 5870 on sale today for only 200 bucks after coupon code and rebate with free shipping, I am thinking about it! How big of a power supply do you have in that machine? Having to buy a new power supply would not make it as cost effective.
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Remember when I posted about a box a guy on my team sent me? The one that didn't work out? It had a new 600W PSU in it. I took out the 350W in my current cruncher and installed the 600. The side of the box recommends a minimum 500W PSU with two 75W 6 pin connectors. My card is made by Sapphire. The deal on the 5870 is the one I got, but I heard the shipping was slow so I put in another $2 to make sure it was here in three days. You can see a pic of the installed card here, yes, it's big! http://img210.imageshack.us/i/p1070001m.jpg/
I LIKE IT!!! I ordered one for me yesterday after all, that is the end of my Xmas money but not the end of my regular money. I think I will put mine in my sons old machine that I put a 750 watt power supply in recently and take the 6850 out and put in in a different machine. I guess there is lots of moving gpu's again for me coming up, oh joy! I still have 3 Nvidia cards running and since the ATI cards are faster I am trying to get all ATI cards. Only problem is my Nvidia cards are producing over 150k all by themselves! Replacing them would mean taking those pc's off line, which can be a good thing, my electric bill will like it anyway!!
Keith I just saw a show where a guy used egg crates as insulators on his wall to keep the sound in when he played his music, maybe you can put something on the wall where that speaker is to at least deaden that area somewhat. I feel your pain with the loud music, I used to hate when I worked in the office as many people liked to play their music too loud, and some kinds of music are not the kind I like! I personally like music but some people would play the bible thumping loud screaming at you preacher stuff all day long, I had to get up and leave when that happened! I do not mind anything anyone wants to listen to, just keep it in your space and not mine, and I will try and do the same with my music!
RandyC they are now saying I should get some 'flurries' tonight and tomorrow night and maybe even Monday night and into Tuesday morning as well! I hope 'flurries' is what it stays at!!!
JohnC my rac for today is 830,643, so still going up. My total Boinc cobblestones are now up to 159,154,163, so I AM starting to catch you now!!
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Keith I just saw a show where a guy used egg crates as insulators on his wall to keep the sound in when he played his music, maybe you can put something on the wall where that speaker is to at least deaden that area somewhat. I feel your pain with the loud music, I used to hate when I worked in the office as many people liked to play their music too loud, and some kinds of music are not the kind I like! I personally like music but some people would play the bible thumping loud screaming at you preacher stuff all day long, I had to get up and leave when that happened! I do not mind anything anyone wants to listen to, just keep it in your space and not mine, and I will try and do the same with my music!
Actually the music type is not the issue. It is that it is distracting. Also coming through the wall it is muffled and distorted. Turn your TV up to about 24 and that is how loud it came through the wall at first. I couild not even hear the phone ring. Now it is is just a muffled thump-thimp thump pause, thump-thump, THUMP. It feels like a abd headache and it is hard to concentrate on any work after about 10 constant minutes of that. I'm not sure but i think the walls between the stores are hollow, and act as an amplifier. I'm not sure putting sound foam of a sort on our side will help. it might, but i think the foam needs to be on there side to keep the sound in thier side.
We own our unit, they own thier unit, but since we are in a strip mall like building, we both and the other stores pay rent on the land the build is on. There is some kind of association and i'm sure there are rules. If my boss can't figure something out that would be the next step to get them involved, the the local police because i know they are town ordinances against nuisance noise.
The thing is the owner of this other store wants to be an idiot about it, and if he is not careful he will have more toruble and expenses, plus bad marks on his record with everybody. I gave him a chance and he has blown it so far.
Anyway gotta run, need to go get my kar inspected, and hope this year nothing else is broken. 10 or more years ago it took 5 minutes to get an inspection. Now it is a 30 minute job. They place I go to is 1 minute up the road, so today if i'm not first in line, i could leave my kar and walk home. After inspection I need to renew my license plates which i can do online. Now in NC you have to ahve an inspection before you can renew. It use to be two separate events but they changed it and you can't do one without passing the other. I guess it stops people for bypassing one. But still it involves two different steps. Local service stations do the inspections, but you have to goto or online the DMV for the license.
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RandyC they are now saying I should get some 'flurries' tonight and tomorrow night and maybe even Monday night and into Tuesday morning as well! I hope 'flurries' is what it stays at!!!
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Mikey, did you ever get a chance to use that new snow blower of yours? If not, feel free to bring it up here and give it a whirl. I got 2-4" last Tuesday, another coating-to-an-inch Thursday, and 1-3" of occasional flurries last night. :(
I'd be willing to bet swiftmallard got much more.
Keith, when I was living down Mikey's way, about 30 years ago, the emissions inspection was separate from the tag renewal. But, if I remember right, you needed one done within 6 months of renewing tags. (funny what happens to your memory as you get older...uh, what was I saying??? Oh yeah...). Here in Michigan we don't need to get an emissions inspection...for now. The EPA has been threatening to 'officially downgrade' our air quality and force us to do inspections. License tags require current Insurance certificates before being renewed. You'd be surprised at how many companies around here offer month-to-month policies...or maybe not.
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Keith, when I was living down Mikey's way, about 30 years ago, the emissions inspection was separate from the tag renewal. But, if I remember right, you needed one done within 6 months of renewing tags. (funny what happens to your memory as you get older...uh, what was I saying??? Oh yeah...). Here in Michigan we don't need to get an emissions inspection...for now. The EPA has been threatening to 'officially downgrade' our air quality and force us to do inspections. License tags require current Insurance certificates before being renewed. You'd be surprised at how many companies around here offer month-to-month policies...or maybe not.
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Inspection complete and PASSED without any additional expense. This years cost was 13.50, last year was 850 and the year before 500 and the year before ....
We have to have the vehicle inspection not prior to 90 days ore renewing the vehicle license (license plates, not drivers license). Mine expires end of next month.
I'm use to going online on Jan 1 and renewing, so i don't like this new system. I can go online tomorrow and renew, otherwise I might forget. I like to get things done pronto. Our inspection covers 18 "Safety" items and 9 "Tampering inspections" which are things like the catalytic converter, gas restrictor and other controls.
I did finally go for Nitogen in my tires. It cost 33 bucks for a set of four and is a lifetime supply, meaning they will top it off if ever needed no charge. Plus now i've got kool green kaps on them. Main advantage to Nitogen is the operation range, like 10F to 140F /-12C to 60C (don't quote me exact on that) before it expands or contracts, so during cold winters and hot summers you don't need to worry about checking tire preasure. This also helps maintain better tire wear as they are always at the proper pressure. After all this is what they use in avaition and race kars and also it won't combust. Regular air is 78% nitrogen anyway, but it is the 21% oxygen that causes problems and if you have mositure in that that leads to other problems too like your wheels can rust from the inside out. Pure nitogen is much better and can even save you on gas. The small cost in the long run is better.
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Inspection complete and PASSED without any additional expense. This years cost was 13.50, last year was 850 and the year before 500 and the year before ....
We have to have the vehicle inspection not prior to 90 days ore renewing the vehicle license (license plates, not drivers license). Mine expires end of next month.
I'm use to going online on Jan 1 and renewing, so i don't like this new system. I can go online tomorrow and renew, otherwise I might forget. I like to get things done pronto. Our inspection covers 18 "Safety" items and 9 "Tampering inspections" which are things like the catalytic converter, gas restrictor and other controls.
I did finally go for Nitogen in my tires. It cost 33 bucks for a set of four and is a lifetime supply, meaning they will top it off if ever needed no charge. Plus now i've got kool green kaps on them. Main advantage to Nitogen is the operation range, like 10F to 140F /-12C to 60C (don't quote me exact on that) before it expands or contracts, so during cold winters and hot summers you don't need to worry about checking tire preasure. This also helps maintain better tire wear as they are always at the proper pressure. After all this is what they use in avaition and race kars and also it won't combust. Regular air is 78% nitrogen anyway, but it is the 21% oxygen that causes problems and if you have mositure in that that leads to other problems too like your wheels can rust from the inside out. Pure nitogen is much better and can even save you on gas. The small cost in the long run is better.
Well, at this website we see:
Dear Cecil:
I caught a segment on some car show about modding up your car. One of the things they mentioned was the benefit of filling your tires with nitrogen instead of air. Considering I fill my tires with air and don't have much of a problem constantly refilling them, what is the straight dope on nitrogen in car tires?
Oh, there are plenty of benefits: (1) Cool fluorescent green valve stem caps (assuming your nitrogen vendor has any marketing savvy), which will look sharp with your spinning wheel covers. (2) Bragging rights. OK, you were behind the curve with cell phones, iPods, thong underwear, etc. Nitrogen in tires is relatively new to the mass market. Now's your chance. (3) Reduced fire danger next time you land your space shuttle or commercial aircraft, and tell me you won't sleep better knowing that.
Most tires are filled with compressed air, which when dry consists of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, and 1 percent other gases by volume. Water vapor (humidity) can make up as much as 5 percent of the volume of air under worst-case conditions. Filling your tires with nitrogen mainly does two things: it eliminates moisture, and it replaces skinny oxygen molecules with fat nitrogen molecules, reducing the rate at which compressed gas diffuses through porous tire walls. That means, theoretically at least, that a tire filled with nitrogen retains optimal pressure longer, leading to more uniform tire wear and better gas mileage. The commonly quoted figure is that tires inflated to 32 psi get 3 percent better mileage than at 24 psi.
Actually, I've seen some test data that shows when your tire is filled at or above car manufacturer pressure (usually 32psi) your mpg goes up significantly vs under-inflated tires. The advantage of increased pressure for better mpg improves up to 50-55psi, then shows no further significant improvement.
I keep mine at 52/50 psi front-rear...at least in summer. It's harder in winter to keep the pressure constant. My wife's car is set at 44/42, where 44 is the tire manufacturer's max psi value.
As good ole PT used to say: there's one born...
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Inspection complete and PASSED without any additional expense. This years cost was 13.50, last year was 850 and the year before 500 and the year before ....
We have to have the vehicle inspection not prior to 90 days ore renewing the vehicle license (license plates, not drivers license). Mine expires end of next month.
I'm use to going online on Jan 1 and renewing, so i don't like this new system. I can go online tomorrow and renew, otherwise I might forget. I like to get things done pronto. Our inspection covers 18 "Safety" items and 9 "Tampering inspections" which are things like the catalytic converter, gas restrictor and other controls.
I did finally go for Nitogen in my tires. It cost 33 bucks for a set of four and is a lifetime supply, meaning they will top it off if ever needed no charge. Plus now i've got kool green kaps on them. Main advantage to Nitogen is the operation range, like 10F to 140F /-12C to 60C (don't quote me exact on that) before it expands or contracts, so during cold winters and hot summers you don't need to worry about checking tire preasure. This also helps maintain better tire wear as they are always at the proper pressure. After all this is what they use in avaition and race kars and also it won't combust. Regular air is 78% nitrogen anyway, but it is the 21% oxygen that causes problems and if you have mositure in that that leads to other problems too like your wheels can rust from the inside out. Pure nitogen is much better and can even save you on gas. The small cost in the long run is better.
Well, at this website we see:Dear Cecil:
I caught a segment on some car show about modding up your car. One of the things they mentioned was the benefit of filling your tires with nitrogen instead of air. Considering I fill my tires with air and don't have much of a problem constantly refilling them, what is the straight dope on nitrogen in car tires?
Oh, there are plenty of benefits: (1) Cool fluorescent green valve stem caps (assuming your nitrogen vendor has any marketing savvy), which will look sharp with your spinning wheel covers. (2) Bragging rights. OK, you were behind the curve with cell phones, iPods, thong underwear, etc. Nitrogen in tires is relatively new to the mass market. Now's your chance. (3) Reduced fire danger next time you land your space shuttle or commercial aircraft, and tell me you won't sleep better knowing that.
Most tires are filled with compressed air, which when dry consists of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, and 1 percent other gases by volume. Water vapor (humidity) can make up as much as 5 percent of the volume of air under worst-case conditions. Filling your tires with nitrogen mainly does two things: it eliminates moisture, and it replaces skinny oxygen molecules with fat nitrogen molecules, reducing the rate at which compressed gas diffuses through porous tire walls. That means, theoretically at least, that a tire filled with nitrogen retains optimal pressure longer, leading to more uniform tire wear and better gas mileage. The commonly quoted figure is that tires inflated to 32 psi get 3 percent better mileage than at 24 psi.
Actually, I've seen some test data that shows when your tire is filled at or above car manufacturer pressure (usually 32psi) your mpg goes up significantly vs under-inflated tires. The advantage of increased pressure for better mpg improves up to 50-55psi, then shows no further significant improvement.
I keep mine at 52/50 psi front-rear...at least in summer. It's harder in winter to keep the pressure constant. My wife's car is set at 44/42, where 44 is the tire manufacturer's max psi value.
As good ole PT used to say: there's one born...
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I think I said most of that. And if you didn't get #2, I was bragging. I'm only behind in iPods now but i've got an android which is better so i'm ahead and WINNING !!!
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Need for a clean up there Keith. Anyway it's Sunday and you should be sleepign on.
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Need for a clean up there Keith. Anyway it's Sunday and you should be sleepign on.
It is Sunday and I am now wide awake, it is after 5am anyway!!
Keith my cousin went to Nitrogen in his tires and he loves it, he is not a car guy, he is not an anything kind of guy, but he says he has not had any problems except when he got a flat from a nail. It was a slow leak so we had to pump it up using regular air but then the garage fixed the tire, he was lucky, and put Nitrogen back in for him and he has had no troubles since.
Keith we too have that system in place now, you must go in and get your car inspected, and emissions too if needed which is every two years, and then after 24 hours you can go in and renew your tags online. If you wait too long though, within 2 weeks of the end of the expiring month, you MUST go to the local DMV Office to get your tags renewed.
RandyC I have NOT used the snow blower yet and hope not to EVER need it!! I know I will some day but the farther away that day is, is okay with me!! It is kind of like buying a toilet plunger you never buy one until you need one then you hope you will never need it again!! Last year it snowed SOOOO MUCH THAT I decided I wanted one so I got one, now I hope I never need it but if I do I have it!
RandyC I put the max tire pressure in my Pilot's tires and can see much better gas mileage now than when they are what it says on the door post. I am up nearer the 17 to 20 mpg range in town as opposed to the 12 to 15 mpg range in town. The car rides a little stiffer, I think, but that is okay with me. Oh and my local Sam's Club and Costco are still selling gas for $2.89 per gallon for regular!!
JohnC my rac for today is 838,799, so up again from yesterday and still room for more upward movement!
I went to work on a friends pc on Friday at his home, got everything working just fine and then at dinner time he calls me and says it doesn't work, the keyboard won't work at all, he has unplugged it, replugged it everything it just won't work, so I tell him I will come back, it is a 45 minute drive, on Saturday. I get there and the keyboard plug is a ps2 type and is only half in, I plugged it in and the system sees it and starts working WITHOUT a reboot, I have NEVER seen that before!! It has ALWAYS taken a reboot for a ps2 plug to work for me in the past, well not anymore apparently. I even unplugged it again and it picked it right back up again. No noise like a usb device plugging and unplugging, it just started working! It is a new Gateway pc and maybe they did something to make it work, I don't know but like it!!
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RandyC I have NOT used the snow blower yet and hope not to EVER need it!! I know I will some day but the farther away that day is, is okay with me!! It is kind of like buying a toilet plunger you never buy one until you need one then you hope you will never need it again!! Last year it snowed SOOOO MUCH THAT I decided I wanted one so I got one, now I hope I never need it but if I do I have it!
RandyC I put the max tire pressure in my Pilot's tires and can see much better gas mileage now than when they are what it says on the door post. I am up nearer the 17 to 20 mpg range in town as opposed to the 12 to 15 mpg range in town. The car rides a little stiffer, I think, but that is okay with me. Oh and my local Sam's Club and Costco are still selling gas for $2.89 per gallon for regular!!
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If the local Sams had had one in stock the week you quoted the price last Nov/Dec(??) I would have one in the garage right now. For now, if I bought one it would be 3x the cost.
Yes, the higher tire pressures give you a stiffer ride. The only time I really mind that is when I'm driving over some of the roads that are so cracked they feel like a washboard. I try to avoid those roads!!!
I'll be needing some gas in the next couple of days. I normally get it at Sams 'cause it's the same or less than most of the Cash price gas stations and I can pay by CC. Up here it's been running just over $3/gal. I did see a BP the other day at $2.98-cash.
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Gas here has been creaping up. I get mid-grade and it was just under 3 back in December, now it is 3.219. We don't have a sams here, there's one up in chesapeake but to drive up there you would burn more fuel than you save.
Speaking of fuel, remember that discussion about diesels burung oil. I saw a pickup truck the other day, I had stopped behind it at the red light. it had this large like 12 inch tube pipe going straight up just behind the cab. Heat was pouring out of it, i could see the rippling air. Then while waiting I noticed this truck had no regular exhaust pipe in the rear, you can always see those on pickups especially when they are jacked up some. When he took off a big nasty smelling puff of black soot poured out of that thing. I'm sure it was his exhaust pipe. i don't know what he was burning but i'm wondering if it was veggie oil ?
Speaking of gas, that is the other kind, I looked up Nitrogen. Since it is a gas, it has already boiled from a liquid. The boiling point is like -195C and it freezes at -210C. So i don't think I have to worry about my tires going flat from the kold, 'cause if it gets that kold i'll be frozen solid anyway.
Another fun fact about Nitrogen is it is atomic number 7. How lucky can you get ?
I like it. See I even learned somthing new over this.
OK, for todays fun i'm gonna attempt to make egg noodles. I have a pasta maker i haven't used in a while. i used to make my own noodles all the time. but got lazy again. Two Christmases ago i bought the kitchen aid pasta attachments for my kitchen aid mixer. Haven't used them yet. I have a crock pot recipe for beef stroganoff i want to make, but I need egg noodles, so i'm gonna try for the first time with my new attachments. This should be fun, anyway its a good indoor thing especially when its kold outside.
Today is not all that bad, its about 43F/6C.
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Diesel around here is now heading to £6.35 per UK gallon. That is the equivalent of $8.38 per US gallon.
What with that fuel price, and not getting any crunching off my Penny quad (cooling fan bearings packed up on the ATI HD5850 and the HD4850 cannot see the wireless keyboard and mouse). It's really difficult trying to simulate the mouse from the keyboard it does recognise.
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Guess what day it is? That's right! It's Monday!
(Can I go back to bed?)
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RandyC I have NOT used the snow blower yet and hope not to EVER need it!! I know I will some day but the farther away that day is, is okay with me!! It is kind of like buying a toilet plunger you never buy one until you need one then you hope you will never need it again!! Last year it snowed SOOOO MUCH THAT I decided I wanted one so I got one, now I hope I never need it but if I do I have it!
RandyC I put the max tire pressure in my Pilot's tires and can see much better gas mileage now than when they are what it says on the door post. I am up nearer the 17 to 20 mpg range in town as opposed to the 12 to 15 mpg range in town. The car rides a little stiffer, I think, but that is okay with me. Oh and my local Sam's Club and Costco are still selling gas for $2.89 per gallon for regular!!
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If the local Sams had had one in stock the week you quoted the price last Nov/Dec(??) I would have one in the garage right now. For now, if I bought one it would be 3x the cost.
Here it is at Amazon, in stock as of right now and ready for 1 day delivery, for only 220 bucks!
Yes, the higher tire pressures give you a stiffer ride. The only time I really mind that is when I'm driving over some of the roads that are so cracked they feel like a washboard. I try to avoid those roads!!!
I'll be needing some gas in the next couple of days. I normally get it at Sams 'cause it's the same or less than most of the Cash price gas stations and I can pay by CC. Up here it's been running just over $3/gal. I did see a BP the other day at $2.98-cash.
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Yeah my local stations are up over 3 bucks for a gallon of regular except for the discount place WaWa and they tend to be pretty close to Sam's and CostCo.
Keith I wish you luck with your egg noodles, as long as the store has them for less than a dollar a bag I think I will buy mine though! I am SURE yours will be better tasting though!!!!
JohnC I just don't know how to help you right now, the cost of shipping you a mouse is too much and the shipping time is just not worth the wait, sorry bud! So I will offer what I can, good luck and I hope things work out for you!!!!
BUT I WILL also make some progress on you while you are down....sorry but to slow down wouldn't be right. My rac for today is 847,218, and I am still turning in about 100k more than that per day right now, so there is still some upside left. My new gpu should be here on Wednesday and I will try and get it up and running asap. I have already reduced the cache size on the machine it will be going into so there is little to no waiting. AND it will be replacing an ATI card so there might not even be any reloading of the drivers needed! It will be replacing my 6850 in a Win7 machine. The 6850 will then replace another ATI in a machine that is not doing enough right now, it is a 5550 but the machine only has a 400 watt power supply, so it will have to be upgraded. There are some other changes that will be made during that time too but they are not as important.
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JohnC I just don't know how to help you right now, the cost of shipping you a mouse is too much and the shipping time is just not worth the wait, sorry bud! So I will offer what I can, good luck and I hope things work out for you!!!!
BUT I WILL also make some progress on you while you are down....sorry but to slow down wouldn't be right. My rac for today is 847,218, and I am still turning in about 100k more than that per day right now, so there is still some upside left. My new gpu should be here on Wednesday and I will try and get it up and running asap. I have already reduced the cache size on the machine it will be going into so there is little to no waiting. AND it will be replacing an ATI card so there might not even be any reloading of the drivers needed! It will be replacing my 6850 in a Win7 machine. The 6850 will then replace another ATI in a machine that is not doing enough right now, it is a 5550 but the machine only has a 400 watt power supply, so it will have to be upgraded. There are some other changes that will be made during that time too but they are not as important.
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Mikey, if you are replacing a 5xxx card for a 6xxx card will want to uninstall the old Catalyst and reinstall the new one for your new card.
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the cost of shipping you a mouse is too much
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Thanks for the offer, Mikey, but I went in town (10 miles, after walking the dogs) and picked up a new USB PS2 mouse for $6.99 ($11.04). I have also ordered a 3 fan aftermarket cooler for the HD5850.
Looking at the picture, that cooler (not sure of the make but quited at ~$73) is supposed to be the best, but it's a monster.
From what I can see it will not fit across the case, so I need to hacksaw out 3 unused hard drive bays to allow it to extend in to that space. I hope to have the PC back up and running by the week end.
When this happens, with the HD4850 in the primary slot, I hope that BN recognises the 2 GPUs(and I will take the use_no_gpus command from the cc_config file).
I may start to win again soon.
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Keith I wish you luck with your egg noodles, as long as the store has them for less than a dollar a bag I think I will buy mine though! I am SURE yours will be better tasting though!!!!
Luck has nothing to do with it, it's all skill. Mission accomplished, mostly. Since this is the first time using this recipe and the attachments, there was a little learing curve. But past experience helped.
My old machine you put the flour in the bin, then turn it on and add liquids. it does the mixin. then you flip the switch and it reverses and pushes the dough through a die of whatever size noodle you choose, plus it has a little air blower to help dry the noodles. It works. That machine is not the easiest to clean, too many part but it is doable.
The new method works well, and its even kind of fun. First using the kitchen aid mixer, mix the dough, it does all the hard work. Then you take the bowl and mixing paddle off and away and put an attachment on the front of the mixer.
First you make sheets. about 4 inches wide. You feed a glob in, a sheet comes out. Then you taka a sheet, turn the dial and feed it in again, it comes out a little thinner. You keep doing that 1 to 7 more times until you get the thinness you want. I quickly figured out a method of handling the dough that made it easy to work with, not at all as bad as I thought it would be and there was little mess.
Next you change attachments. Now heres the fun part as I have another 5 of these, Spagetti, Angel Hair, Fettuccine, Wide flat noodles and Ravaoli. The mixer provides the pwoer for the turing parts, all you do is feed dough in, it does the hard work (no strain on my wrist).
I divided the dough into 4 parts. Two I froze for later use as an experiment. 1 used to make egg noodles and 1 I use to make spagetti. The egg noodles are freezing now, uncooked. It doesn't hurt to freeze the uncoocked noodles, but a short time is better so they don't get frost bite. They'll be in there until the week-end, then too i'm gonna experiment with the other dough.
Now for drying, they make these drying racks which i don't have. I have a way to cheat. Use a big spoon or spatula and drape the noodles over the handle, open a cabinet and wedge the spoon end under some heavy dishes and let the noodles hang outside the cabinet. They dry pretty well and aren't in the way too much. Also you could hang them off the top and side of the frig and put a heavy can on the spoon end.
Cleanup is pretty easy, wash the bowl and blade. The attachments just get brushed off, they do not get washed. It there is any wet dough on them, just wait until it dries and brush it off. A much easier cleanup than the old machine. These are nice made in Italy ones, I think Italians know something about making pasta if I'm not mistaken.
The egg noodles will go in this week-ends crock pot recipe. The spagetti I cookeed last night and ate half of it with some vodka sauce and sausage, topped with a little cheese. I'll eat the other half later this week, but they noodles will only need reheating, so it's a quick weeknight meal.
I also have a good recipe for spinach noodles and the whole wheat noodles. I see these available in the stores now, I've been eating these for like 20 years now.
Fresh noodles cook faster than those store bought dried ones that are ages old. Also they taste superb instead of like kardboard. Ok so it is a little work. Generally too a batch of dough will feed 8-12 people or me 8-12 times and costs about 20 cents, usless you make egg noodles as eggs are more expensive than water. You figure it out, a 5 pound bag of flour will make about 7 batches times 8-12 makes 56-84 meals. Of course you have to add something else to the noodles like sauce.
Now you've made me hungry but I think tonight i'm having steak cooked with a koffee spice rub I got for christmas.
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Mikey, if you are replacing a 5xxx card for a 6xxx card will want to uninstall the old Catalyst and reinstall the new one for your new card.
Ahhh man...it figures, THANKS SwiftMallard!!
Keith that sounds delicious, how long did it take from start to finish do you guess? Also how long do the noodles need to hang up? Just until they are no longer sticky? But if they are sticky how do the come thru the machine without sticking to it?
RandyC I got an ice storm last night and it looks kind of like your place right now, a mini version of your 'hoar frost'! It is already 31F this morning though, so hopefully soon it will be all gone and the roads will be clear and ice free. We only got a thin coating so no biggie.
JohnC my rac for today is 852,196, so up again, WOO HOO!! I think you did a good move on the mouse and as long as you are okay with cutting the drive cages out it is okay. I just hope you won't need them later on, but with drives getting bigger and cheaper, you can get a 500gb drive now for around 40 bucks here, you should not need the space! I am not SURE you need to take out that line but I would, just to keep the 'turn it off, oh no turn it on' scenario from happening. And if you don't hurry I will pass you shortly, I am already only 2 million behind you now!!
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RandyC I got an ice storm last night and it looks kind of like your place right now, a mini version of your 'hoar frost'! It is already 31F this morning though, so hopefully soon it will be all gone and the roads will be clear and ice free. We only got a thin coating so no biggie.
WINNING!!
We were scheduled for snow/sleet/freezing rain/rain, in that order overnight. We basically got just the freezing rain--so far. Temps are currently in mid-30sF and due to go up to near 40F. For right now, it looks like I'm a touch warmer than you are.
Roads in the sub-division where I live were slick with water covering patches of ice. Main roads were mostly wet, but you had to be careful anyway 'cause you never know when that patch of ice is gonna jump out in front of you.
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Keith that sounds delicious, how long did it take from start to finish do you guess? Also how long do the noodles need to hang up? Just until they are no longer sticky? But if they are sticky how do the come thru the machine without sticking to it?
Well the dough is not suppose to be sticky, a little on the dry side. So in theory it is not suppose to stick to the machine parts.
Drying takes a little time, this would depend on how dry the air is already, room temperature and how wet the noodles were. But usually drying is only needed before storing. If you are going to cook the noodles immediately they do not need to dry much as your gonna through them it hot water. Drying is really only so they are easier to handle and don't stick together.
I spent about an hour. Hard to tell and since this was my first try, i was working slowly, some experimenting to figure out how to do it properly. Some dough I feed through, thinned out, then scrapped, back into the pile, reworked it and started over. It was just for fun, so this time it was a lot of extra playtime in there.
It really should not take long. Say a few minutes to find and measure out ingreedients, 2 minutes mixing time, then there was a 20 minute delay for the dough to rise some. Another 2 minute kneading dough. Roughly I'd say noodles can be made in about 10-20 minutes of work if you do a full batch. You still have to do it in 4-5 parts, otherwise the sheets of dough are too long to handle and fall apart under their own weight. The time would depend on how thin the noodles need to be. From a glob you feed it through about 3 times, folding over between feeds. Then you thin it out, one pass per thin. it would depend on how thin you go. Average it is about 2-3 minutes for all that. Then you change attachments and one pass to make final noodle size. It goes by quickly and as you are occupied with your hands it doesn't seem all that long. But by the time you get to the last part the first ones should be dry. Cleanup is fairly quick, another 5 minutes.
Now gotta run to w....
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Time to give a slow night shifter a win
OK, here I am!
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RandyC I got an ice storm last night and it looks kind of like your place right now, a mini version of your 'hoar frost'! It is already 31F this morning though, so hopefully soon it will be all gone and the roads will be clear and ice free. We only got a thin coating so no biggie.
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We were scheduled for snow/sleet/freezing rain/rain, in that order overnight. We basically got just the freezing rain--so far. Temps are currently in mid-30sF and due to go up to near 40F. For right now, it looks like I'm a touch warmer than you are.
Roads in the sub-division where I live were slick with water covering patches of ice. Main roads were mostly wet, but you had to be careful anyway 'cause you never know when that patch of ice is gonna jump out in front of you.
WINNING!!!
My roads were icy until after 10am yesterday, today it is just real foggy. I decided not to go to my lunch yesterday due to the icy roads, lunch is nice but not worth an accident!
Keith I think it would be cool to make my own noodles once or twice but then if I didn't do something special I think it would get old. Maybe you can put some of your garden veggies into the noodles? I have heard of spinach noodles, maybe you could make some tomato noodles or something.
JohnC my rac for today is 855,317, so up about 20k again. My new 5870 came yesterday and I will install it today, my wife wants it in her machine but I told her she can have the next one. I am going to put this one in my sons old machine that I just put the brand new 750 watt psu in. Since the card is new to me I am going to put it into a 'Boinc only' machine in case there are any issues that come up. I am hoping there aren't any issues but you never know, and yes SwiftMallard I will uninstall and then reinstall the ATI software. I will probably not put the card on Dnetc right away because I wouldn't know how to tell if both parts of it were working or not. It uses all gpu's for crunching one unit and I am kind of interested in playing with this new card a little bit. I will put it on PrimeGrid too, so I will need to load the ATI APP software too. I do want to check out MilkyWay though, I have heard good things about them and haven't crunched for them in ages. In fact the last time was with a cpu and not a gpu, because this is the first gpu I have capable of crunching for them.
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At the rate you are purchasing HD58xx cards you will run out of PCs for them and have to start populatung neighbours's machines.
Still crunching at a reduced rate, but still crunching.
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Keith I think it would be cool to make my own noodles once or twice but then if I didn't do something special I think it would get old. Maybe you can put some of your garden veggies into the noodles? I have heard of spinach noodles, maybe you could make some tomato noodles or something.
How about koffee noodles and Chocolate noodles. Then I could have noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner with desert. NOT.
Tomato noodles sound good but for spagetti what's the point since you put red suace on them. At least they would be reddish.
I do have a box of spiral noodles in three colors. Red, White, Green which is Tomato, regular and Spinach.
Maybe some pumpkin noodles.
Time to experiment.
There is another attachment set I don't have yet. It fits on the meat grinder attachment, which I do have. But it gives you varoius dies to use. in place of the meat dies. This is like what the older machine uses. But with these you can make things like round macaroni noodles and some other shapes. I haven't looked yet but I was going to see if I could maybe adapt what I have, if not i might have to buy that set sometime.
One thing fancy pasta is always good for is parties or guests. I hosted our kayak club monthly meeting/dinner once. Went all out and made the pasta while they were here so everyone could see the whole process, had two types regular and whole wheat. Even made my own sauce from scratch, no store bought pre-made jar stuff. Was told it was one of the best meetings we ever had.
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Just looked out the window and saw some white flakes coming down. So either someone upstairs has an awful case of dandruff or it's sn*wing again. :(
not WINNING!!!
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Looking otta the window and thinking how dark it is, but looking forwards to the sun forecast (like the last 3 days).
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At the rate you are purchasing HD58xx cards you will run out of PCs for them and have to start populatung neighbours's machines.
Still crunching at a reduced rate, but still crunching.
Oh Xmas was just good to me and since I work on friends pc's they sometimes give me some money too. It is NOT a payment for the work, it is money because they like being able to call me and I show up and fix their pc.
Yesterday I tried to put the 5870 in the pc but because it has 2 hard drives and I dual boot it didn't work. The pci-e slot is right in the middle of the drive cage and since I have 2 hard drives the cable would NOT go around the card to the dives. Today I will try again but this time I will just load Win7 on one of the drives directly, dual booting means you have to have both drives in the pc if you want to access the 2nd drive. I have XP on the other drive and use it because a friend runs the pc game Nascar Racing and stages events over the internet and I am supposed to be practicing so I can race with them. I have not practiced in over a year and have never raced with them.
Keith I was thinking more along the lines of what you grow in your aero-garden as opposed to tomatoes really, it just came out tomatoes. But I can see why your kayak group liked your event, I'll bet it was the hit of the year!!
RandyC it is supposed to sn*w tonight and maybe into tomorrow morning, it figures I have a luncheon planned! And then it is supposed to sn*w again next Tuesday, my usual lunch with the guys day! I think tonights will be be light and not amount to much but don't know about Tuesday's yet. I have only officially gotten 1.5 inches so far this winter and they are saying we could surpass that amount on Tuesday! The guy did tease us saying the 1.5 is not hard to surpass though, so that may be a good thing! On Saturday it is only supposed to get into the mid 20's for a high though, so it will be cold!!!
JohnC my rac for today is only 860,009, so up a touch but not much from yesterday. The trying to not lose tasks has forced me to set Boinc to no new tasks on that pc getting the new card, and I am not doing as much as I normally do. Also I switched another gpu over to PrimeGrid from Dnetc, so that will take a few days to get up to speed.
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Odd event. Last night I was doing some normal stuff on the computer. A message pooped up saying drive E (My Entertainemnt drive of music and movies) had been corrupted. I had not been using it on this computer, it is more like an extra copy. I could not read the drive. After several reboots and power off-on of the drive it still showed as 0MB. All I could do is reformat and now i'm running a recopy to put everything back. Big mystery as to why it instantly blanked itself and how ? At least it was only a spare and none of my originals or backups are gone so putting everything back is no problem, just a nuisance. It will be done by the time I get home from w....
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Well, the Arctic aftermarket VGA cooler I ordered is a little difficult to purchase, so it should be here about Wednesday next week. Hopefully, it will be installed in my old HD5850 and that installed in the PC for the week end (a week from now).
If that happens, and BM recognises the 2 different series ATI GPUs, then I will definitely be a WINNA.
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Well, the Arctic aftermarket VGA cooler I ordered is a little difficult to purchase, so it should be here about Wednesday next week. Hopefully, it will be installed in my old HD5850 and that installed in the PC for the week end (a week from now).
If that happens, and BM recognises the 2 different series ATI GPUs, then I will definitely be a WINNA.
GOOD LUCK with that John!!!
I finally got my 5870 up and running but my 6850 is off line until tomorrow and then something else will go offline. I put it on PG and also MW but set both to NNT because I want to see how it does. I will try Dnetc next.
Keith you might want to NOT trust that drive until you figure out what happened.
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I am looking to replace a main board. What do I need besides a new board, CPU heat sink paste and heat sink paste remover?
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I am looking to replace a main board. What do I need besides a new board, CPU heat sink paste and heat sink paste remover?
Heat sink paste usually wipes off with a cloth or paper towel.
Be sure all your existing components (memory esp., but cpu too) are compatible with the new mb. Be prepared to download drivers, etc. from a secondary system in case you have trouble connecting the old system to the internet.
I just got through replacing my oldest daughter's mb with a spare I had laying around. She had informed me early this year that her system had died around T'giving, and oh, daddy...could you fix it for me? After doing a good deal of troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to the mb and grabbed one I had upgraded from earlier. (Replaced an AMD X2 cpu with an Athalon quad core). Nothing terribly difficult other than replacing mb drivers after Windows came up.
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I am looking to replace a main board. What do I need besides a new board, CPU heat sink paste and heat sink paste remover?
Heat sink paste usually wipes off with a cloth or paper towel.
Be sure all your existing components (memory esp., but cpu too) are compatible with the new mb. Be prepared to download drivers, etc. from a secondary system in case you have trouble connecting the old system to the internet.
I just got through replacing my oldest daughter's mb with a spare I had laying around. She had informed me early this year that her system had died around T'giving, and oh, daddy...could you fix it for me? After doing a good deal of troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to the mb and grabbed one I had upgraded from earlier. (Replaced an AMD X2 cpu with an Athalon quad core). Nothing terribly difficult other than replacing mb drivers after Windows came up.
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I agree with Randy, parts is parts and chicken mcnuggets are made of parts! However there are some precautions, first pay attention to what comes out of where and make sure you dio not plug it back in until yo uare ready and then be ready to pull the plug FAST if thigs go wrong! The biggest problems I have had are the bios not being updated in the new board to accept the cpu I want to put into it, how do you update a bios if you can't make the machine run?! The answer is the local mom and pop computer store and pay them to make it bootable. Use this as a last resort but be aware that you just might end up there!
As for me my 5870 just quit working!! I do not know what the problem is but the 6850 is back in the same machine and working fine. Also SwiftMallard the drivers are the same for the 5xxx HD cards as the 6xxx HD series of cards. I downloaded both and it made copy #2 of the drivers when I downloaded the 2nd set. Anyway I am back to the 6850 for now, the 5870 just beeps when I try to boot up with it. Tomorrow I may try with the XP drive, I wiped the Win7 drive and reloaded from scratch, I will check for updates first of course, but may try the XP drive after that.
Alcohol swabs work fine for heat paste that is totally stuck but you need to wipe it off real well afterwards to make sure the alcohol is off too!
Oh and one more thing, I have been crunching hard to get my Einstein numbers above my Seti numbers, well now Einstein is out of work!! I have had to start back up on WCG for now. I was less than 2 months away too!!!!
I am NOT winning!!!
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Oh and one more thing, I have been crunching hard to get my Einstein numbers above my Seti numbers, well now Einstein is out of work!! I have had to start back up on WCG for now. I was less than 2 months away too!!!!
I am NOT winning!!!
Einstein out of work??? The server stats show plenty of BRP3 and a reasonable amount of GW WUs. My caches are pretty much full, so they only download occasionally, but I haven't noticed any out-of-work times lately.
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Completely out of work on everything.
Heavily knackered.
Going to bed for a win?
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Oh and one more thing, I have been crunching hard to get my Einstein numbers above my Seti numbers, well now Einstein is out of work!! I have had to start back up on WCG for now. I was less than 2 months away too!!!!
I am NOT winning!!!
Einstein out of work??? The server stats show plenty of BRP3 and a reasonable amount of GW WUs. My caches are pretty much full, so they only download occasionally, but I haven't noticed any out-of-work times lately.
WINNING!!!
This is what I get from Einstein 9 times out of 10:
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 HF search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your preferences on the web site.
I know it says they have work and it is my ONLY cpu project on the machines it runs on but I am running out of work!! Some of my pc get work just fine, but on most I am getting this message. I do not do the BRP units, I am not interested in having half of them not get credits because they are having trouble when a unit gets crunched by both a cpu and a gpu, it won't validate until another of one of those crunches it and if yours is not that type, no credits for you. The thread http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8666 explains it.
JohnC my rac for today is 867,461, but my PG stats did go up for a bit yesterday when the 5870 was crunching. Man I hope I can get it back to working again!! It just beeps with an error code when the pc starts up when that card is in the machine. I will try the XP route later today then try it in another pc, hopefully it will work somewhere!!!
I am winning, but only because I am posting after you guys did.
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Oh and one more thing, I have been crunching hard to get my Einstein numbers above my Seti numbers, well now Einstein is out of work!! I have had to start back up on WCG for now. I was less than 2 months away too!!!!
I am NOT winning!!!
Einstein out of work??? The server stats show plenty of BRP3 and a reasonable amount of GW WUs. My caches are pretty much full, so they only download occasionally, but I haven't noticed any out-of-work times lately.
WINNING!!!
This is what I get from Einstein 9 times out of 10:
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 HF search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your preferences on the web site.
I know it says they have work and it is my ONLY cpu project on the machines it runs on but I am running out of work!! Some of my pc get work just fine, but on most I am getting this message. I do not do the BRP units, I am not interested in having half of them not get credits because they are having trouble when a unit gets crunched by both a cpu and a gpu, it won't validate until another of one of those crunches it and if yours is not that type, no credits for you. The thread http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8666 explains it.
JohnC my rac for today is 867,461, but my PG stats did go up for a bit yesterday when the 5870 was crunching. Man I hope I can get it back to working again!! It just beeps with an error code when the pc starts up when that card is in the machine. I will try the XP route later today then try it in another pc, hopefully it will work somewhere!!!
I am winning, but only because I am posting after you guys did.
Yeah, Mikey...I've seen that thread. I have one system that's getting 5-10% reject on the BRP3 and another that's closer to 30%. Not happy about either right now.
I'm still running XP Pro on those systems. Are you running Win 7 on yours? That thread seems to imply Win 7 and esp. 64-bit versions are taking a bigger hit than say XP Pro-32. I only run the cuda BRP3 wus. The BRP3 cpu app takes ridiculously long to run. Aside from that, I'm running the GW wus on the cpus.
Right now I'm more displeased with the lack of work here than at E@H.
WINNING!!!
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Oh and one more thing, I have been crunching hard to get my Einstein numbers above my Seti numbers, well now Einstein is out of work!! I have had to start back up on WCG for now. I was less than 2 months away too!!!!
I am NOT winning!!!
Einstein out of work??? The server stats show plenty of BRP3 and a reasonable amount of GW WUs. My caches are pretty much full, so they only download occasionally, but I haven't noticed any out-of-work times lately.
WINNING!!!
This is what I get from Einstein 9 times out of 10:
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work is available for Global Correlations S5 HF search #1
1/21/2011 4:46:39 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your preferences on the web site.
I know it says they have work and it is my ONLY cpu project on the machines it runs on but I am running out of work!! Some of my pc get work just fine, but on most I am getting this message. I do not do the BRP units, I am not interested in having half of them not get credits because they are having trouble when a unit gets crunched by both a cpu and a gpu, it won't validate until another of one of those crunches it and if yours is not that type, no credits for you. The thread http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8666 explains it.
JohnC my rac for today is 867,461, but my PG stats did go up for a bit yesterday when the 5870 was crunching. Man I hope I can get it back to working again!! It just beeps with an error code when the pc starts up when that card is in the machine. I will try the XP route later today then try it in another pc, hopefully it will work somewhere!!!
I am winning, but only because I am posting after you guys did.
Yeah, Mikey...I've seen that thread. I have one system that's getting 5-10% reject on the BRP3 and another that's closer to 30%. Not happy about either right now.
I'm still running XP Pro on those systems. Are you running Win 7 on yours? That thread seems to imply Win 7 and esp. 64-bit versions are taking a bigger hit than say XP Pro-32. I only run the cuda BRP3 wus. The BRP3 cpu app takes ridiculously long to run. Aside from that, I'm running the GW wus on the cpus.
Right now I'm more displeased with the lack of work here than at E@H.
WINNING!!!
Yes I run Win7 on most of my machines, I am down to only 2 or 3 machines with XP and for now 2 machines with Windows Home Server on them. Hey if you need a new cpu only, for now, project this one:
http://androinc.net/index.php gives REALLY good credits! It is BRAND NEW though, it says they will have a gpu app in about a month. Units are taking about 1.5 hours to finish and I have JUST started myself. Some people are complaining about the high credits being awarded but the Admin says it will stay the way it is! It could be used as a backup until MC comes back for you. That's what I am doing instead of WCG which has long units.
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Yeah, Mikey...I've seen that thread. I have one system that's getting 5-10% reject on the BRP3 and another that's closer to 30%. Not happy about either right now.
I'm still running XP Pro on those systems. Are you running Win 7 on yours? That thread seems to imply Win 7 and esp. 64-bit versions are taking a bigger hit than say XP Pro-32. I only run the cuda BRP3 wus. The BRP3 cpu app takes ridiculously long to run. Aside from that, I'm running the GW wus on the cpus.
Right now I'm more displeased with the lack of work here than at E@H.
WINNING!!!
Yes I run Win7 on most of my machines, I am down to only 2 or 3 machines with XP and for now 2 machines with Windows Home Server on them. Hey if you need a new cpu only, for now, project this one:
http://androinc.net/index.php gives REALLY good credits! It is BRAND NEW though, it says they will have a gpu app in about a month. Units are taking about 1.5 hours to finish and I have JUST started myself. Some people are complaining about the high credits being awarded but the Admin says it will stay the way it is! It could be used as a backup until MC comes back for you. That's what I am doing instead of WCG which has long units.
WINNING!!
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm here for the science, not the credits. If I was gunning for the credits I'd be in hock up to my ears (and shy a wife as well!).
I've been stuck with Orbit returning no-work-available for over a year and now MCN doing that frequently. I dropped SETI because I felt they had plenty of users to crunch the available data.
WINNING!!!
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Yeah, Mikey...I've seen that thread. I have one system that's getting 5-10% reject on the BRP3 and another that's closer to 30%. Not happy about either right now.
I'm still running XP Pro on those systems. Are you running Win 7 on yours? That thread seems to imply Win 7 and esp. 64-bit versions are taking a bigger hit than say XP Pro-32. I only run the cuda BRP3 wus. The BRP3 cpu app takes ridiculously long to run. Aside from that, I'm running the GW wus on the cpus.
Right now I'm more displeased with the lack of work here than at E@H.
WINNING!!!
Yes I run Win7 on most of my machines, I am down to only 2 or 3 machines with XP and for now 2 machines with Windows Home Server on them. Hey if you need a new cpu only, for now, project this one:
http://androinc.net/index.php gives REALLY good credits! It is BRAND NEW though, it says they will have a gpu app in about a month. Units are taking about 1.5 hours to finish and I have JUST started myself. Some people are complaining about the high credits being awarded but the Admin says it will stay the way it is! It could be used as a backup until MC comes back for you. That's what I am doing instead of WCG which has long units.
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Thanks, but no thanks. I'm here for the science, not the credits. If I was gunning for the credits I'd be in hock up to my ears (and shy a wife as well!).
I've been stuck with Orbit returning no-work-available for over a year and now MCN doing that frequently. I dropped SETI because I felt they had plenty of users to crunch the available data.
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I dropped Seti because they stopped checking the units we sent back to see if we found anything! Seemed pointless to me at that point, I don't know if they have started checking the units again but I don't care anymore. I LIKE the idea but the Project can die for all I care about it anymore!! That is why I am trying to keep my total number of projects low and get each above the amount of credits I have for Seti. I am only doing Androinc until Einstein has some steady units again. I got the message on 3 different pc's today!!!
Oh as for the wife mine has a hobby too, digital picture taking! She is on her 3rd Cannon Digital camera and each cost us about 1000 bucks!! She was able to sell the first two, but not for anywhere near what she paid for them! She now wants the new Cannon EOS 7D, an 18 megapixel thing that does digital videos too, around 1700 bucks retail! http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_7d
Keith...good news I stopped by the computer store today and spent the last of my money that I have on hand right now. I bought a 650 watt power supply and an ATI 5770 gpu, total about 250 bucks! That is all the spending for a while at least!! I used the PSU to put in a machine that had an ATI 4670 gpu and put the ATI 5870 in it, IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING JUST FINE! WOO HOO!!!!! I am glad the card was not damaged in the testing of the other pc. This pc has 64 bit Win7 and seems to be crunching just fine, I have it at Dnetc for now at least. The ATI 5770 will go into another pc this weekend replacing another ATI 4670. The 4670's are only giving me about 20k per day of rac while the 5770's give me about 150k or so per day, quite a jump.
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I'm otta w&%k too as it is TGIF time.
Just stuffed myself with the other half of those home made spagetti noodles topped with some fire roasted sauce and cheese, a slice of home made raisinless cinammon bread.
Oh, I got my android working with AndoBOINC. I now have a wireless remote control for my boinc cleints, I can check from the couch and see what they are doing. Has most features the regular boinc manager has, no new work, update, benchmarks, running tasks, proejcts and messages and so on. Only thing I didn't see was attach a new project, but I haven't gone through every menu item yet. I can even attach to either of my two running hosts, one at a time though. It's like a remote control for the TV, only it works on boinc clients. How KOOL is that.
Now for a movie and maybe popcorn and back to freecell. I have to start over on my winning streak record, I had 148 wins in a row. Then I hit a slump and havn't been able to get past 5 or 6 games before i loose 1 again.
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I'm otta w&%k too as it is TGIF time.
Just stuffed myself with the other half of those home made spagetti noodles topped with some fire roasted sauce and cheese, a slice of home made raisinless cinammon bread.
Oh, I got my android working with AndoBOINC. I now have a wireless remote control for my boinc cleints, I can check from the couch and see what they are doing. Has most features the regular boinc manager has, no new work, update, benchmarks, running tasks, proejcts and messages and so on. Only thing I didn't see was attach a new project, but I haven't gone through every menu item yet. I can even attach to either of my two running hosts, one at a time though. It's like a remote control for the TV, only it works on boinc clients. How KOOL is that.
Now for a movie and maybe popcorn and back to freecell. I have to start over on my winning streak record, I had 148 wins in a row. Then I hit a slump and havn't been able to get past 5 or 6 games before i loose 1 again.
Keith I think you find the coolest things for your phone!! I can't wait to get one, which I could be getting as my wife is now applying for a new job with the State that would give her a blackberry and an HP laptop, sorry NO Boinc on it though. That means I may need a new phone so we don't have to pay to call each other because the State of Virginia is not on Verizon. The only problem is I JUST got my new cell phone thru Verizon in December, so I may have to wait out my contract which is the standard 2 year one. Too many variables right now but the possibilities are there!
I too am out of work here at Malaria but the Server Status says there are over 5 thousand units available! They need to fix this before people leave and don't come back!!
JohnC my rac for today is 875,530 so up a bit from yesterday. My new 5870 is doing Dnetc units in the same 30 minutes of gpu time but only half the cpu time of my 5770 cards, so that is about right I guess. It should take awhile for it to crank up to the maximum daily output though.
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Houston we have a problem.
No HOT water.
An inspection showed some leaking, a reset of the circuit breaker only yeieled pretty orange and blue flames from the thermostat panel.
A call has been placed to maintenace.
They only put in a new water heater maybe two years ago.
Oh well, this is one time I'm glad to be a renter, no worries.
The weather however is cold -1C/30F. With a wicked 16 knot wind.
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Houston we have a problem.
No HOT water.
An inspection showed some leaking, a reset of the circuit breaker only yeieled pretty orange and blue flames from the thermostat panel.
A call has been placed to maintenace.
They only put in a new water heater maybe two years ago.
Oh well, this is one time I'm glad to be a renter, no worries.
The weather however is cold -1C/30F. With a wicked 16 knot wind.
Hopefully due to the weather someone will come TODAY!!
Keith I got the new ATI 5770 up and running and the circuit breaker on an outlet strip popped!! I had to unplug the pc and now I have to move it elsewhere.
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Hopefully due to the weather someone will come TODAY!!
Keith I got the new ATI 5770 up and running and the circuit breaker on an outlet strip popped!! I had to unplug the pc and now I have to move it elsewhere.
He was just here, draining old heater now and while that is in progress he went off to get a new one, I guess at Home Depot. We'll have HOTT water soon. I'm glad it happened today, so I don't have to take off w&*k and come home. I had planned to be around the house today anyway, so it's not too much of an inturuption to life.
Surprise at home much power these 'puters suck.
Our forcast is calling for flakes later. Even if we don't get any I got a good animated weather widget on my phone with lots of flakes on it, so I can just pretend i'm looking out the window and watch it the virtual snow.
I got into rearranging apps on my phone, i have 7 screens, each can hold 16 regular size icons to apps. Some of the widgets, like clock or weather, can take up more spaces. I'm arranging them into pages like, financial, entertainment, news and weather, main for mail, messages and most used, people, car and navigation and games. It is so much easier to navigate by touch the 'droid and operate apps than this ol' winder'z cpu. A lot of things, like games are re-enterant, so if i stop in the middle, when i come back it is exatly were i left it.
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Our forcast is calling for flakes later. Even if we don't get any I got a good animated weather widget on my phone with lots of flakes on it, so I can just pretend i'm looking out the window and watch it the virtual snow.
I got into rearranging apps on my phone, i have 7 screens, each can hold 16 regular size icons to apps. Some of the widgets, like clock or weather, can take up more spaces. I'm arranging them into pages like, financial, entertainment, news and weather, main for mail, messages and most used, people, car and navigation and games. It is so much easier to navigate by touch the 'droid and operate apps than this ol' winder'z cpu. A lot of things, like games are re-enterant, so if i stop in the middle, when i come back it is exatly were i left it.
While you're playing with your phone, try and avoid what happened to this lady's phone.
Spent a couple of hours just before lunch traipsing out to the wood pile and back refilling the supply in the garage and wood box. It's been REAL cold here and a nice fire in the fireplace goes nice...
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While you're playing with your phone, try and avoid what happened to this lady's phone.
Spent a couple of hours just before lunch traipsing out to the wood pile and back refilling the supply in the garage and wood box. It's been REAL cold here and a nice fire in the fireplace goes nice...
I don't have to worry about that, the alligators around here only eat tourists, i'm a local so no problem, at least that is what we local kayakers use to tell guest paddlers.
I don't have a fireplace, maybe I can get a virtual fireplace on blu-ray and light a candle for heat, might provide a similar effect.
Hot water coming soon, about an hour or two to kook up the first batch.
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Our forcast is calling for flakes later. Even if we don't get any I got a good animated weather widget on my phone with lots of flakes on it, so I can just pretend i'm looking out the window and watch it the virtual snow.
I got into rearranging apps on my phone, i have 7 screens, each can hold 16 regular size icons to apps. Some of the widgets, like clock or weather, can take up more spaces. I'm arranging them into pages like, financial, entertainment, news and weather, main for mail, messages and most used, people, car and navigation and games. It is so much easier to navigate by touch the 'droid and operate apps than this ol' winder'z cpu. A lot of things, like games are re-enterant, so if i stop in the middle, when i come back it is exatly were i left it.
While you're playing with your phone, try and avoid what happened to this lady's phone.
Spent a couple of hours just before lunch traipsing out to the wood pile and back refilling the supply in the garage and wood box. It's been REAL cold here and a nice fire in the fireplace goes nice...
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Maybe they need to watch the Animal Planet or even Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs!! Both have caught alligators in the past, none bigger than about 5 feet though, and just stuck a pipe in its mouth, taped the mouth so the pipe can't be spit out and shoved a garden hose down its throat. This flushed everything in the alligators stomach right back out again and the only damage was that the alligator was hungry when they took the pipe back out again. The pipe was short less than 2 feet long, just enough to hold the mouth open and let the garden hose and food go thru it. They were trying to figure out what the alligators were eating as part of the Science of alligators and the water sheds they were in. Some alligators were eating Snake Head fish which the Scientists had no idea would happen!!
Keith I am glad you are warm again, cold showers are NO FUN AT ALL!!! I used to have a 40 gallon water heater for my house but now have an 80 gallon one and now we never run out of hot water!! Looking back I can't believe we actually made it thru 2 kids growing up with only a 40 gallon electric water heater for the 4 of us!! I put mine on a timer so it only comes on from 4am to 9 am and then again from 4pm to 9pm. We don't take showers much outside that anyway, mostly morning showers, but the evening time gives the kitchen hot water for cooking. The new water heater also has a good bit of insulation built into it too, so the water stays nice and warm all day and all night long.
SwiftMallard and RandyC it is C-O-L-D this morning, it is only 15F outside right now and my heat pump is working hard to keep the house at 66F! I am trying to keep it at 66F this winter, my wife is complaining but we are managing! I do turn it up to 68F when company comes over though. This is the coldest morning of the season so far for us and I hope we do not go lower!! My heat pump is now 15 years old and while it is not broken, there are MUCH better units on the market now. My ac/heating company wants to install a new one for 10 grand but I have no cash flow for that kind of thing right now! Come Spring I should be back in the swing of things though but of course then we won't need one!!
JohnC my rac for today is 907,196 with a total credit yesterday alone of 1,256,246!! These new cards are DEFINITELY helping!!! I now have 166,717,132 Boinc cobblestones, so less than 1 million behind you now!! BEEP BEEP!! *LOL*
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Well i never saw any snow, although every time I checked the weather it said we we under a winter storm warning and the radar images even showed lite snow all over the area.
But it is cold at 29F/-2C and the heat, even though I have it set at 70F was running all night long, I mean like 55 minutes on 5 minutes off.
Time to do some more on my todo list. Yesterdays unplanned events didn't really help. I've still got many things to do before vacation but lately because of stress I lack energy to concentrate on some of these. I guess today I will work on my taxes some. i have a lot of the documents already saved into a folder for this year, I think today I will just go through and list on a piece of paper all the numbers I need, sort of like a trial copy. I do my online anyway. Next week I should get my W2 from work so next weekend is scheduled to actually start the online filling in. I want to at least have it all filled in before I go on vacation. I probabbly won't actually file until the end of next month. Then I've got to fill out and sign and initial 20 pages of the rental contract, times 3 copies. That too is for after vacation. Also too before vacation iwanted to install some software updates on my netbook i'm, gonna take with me, and if I can get some of my audiobooks copied into my android for listening while traveling. So much to do, no time for boincin'
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Well done. I went ahead and did my online pre filling. Nice thing is I can return anytime to make corrections before the final submission. For now I think I have all the correct numbers, but i'm waiting on a couple of official forms. I'm happy to just get it over with. Looks like I owe the Fed $13 and the state $106. Not bad and lower than last year but close to what i expected, i'm usually plus or minus a 100 bucks. Last year was 78 and additional 132 paid. I don't think I made any mistakes this year [knock on wood].
I did have trouble getting some answers out of MoneyDance. They lack a few reports needed, although there may be some add-ons I never got which I'll ahve to investigate further sometime. The other thing that made it not so easy was a bunch of transactions somehow got entered this year with no memo's. Additionally to make it easier a lot of transactuions could be 'tagged' but i didn't use that feature very much. Now I see where it could help more, so i'm working on a plan to better 'tag' everything this year.
Time for a party snack and drinky to celebrate the hard part is done.
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Well Mikey!
Today should see you pass me, as you are nearly doubling my output with my GPU loss.
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Well Mikey!
Today should see you pass me, as you are nearly doubling my output with my GPU loss.
I sure am pedaling as fast as I can John!! *LOL*
Today my rac is 938,244 and my total Boinc cobblestones are 167,929,811, so yes one of these updates today should see me pass you, sorry buddy! I wish it could have been when you were up to speed!! But as I said Boinc wins in the end, or rather some Boinc project wins!
Keith do you download audio books, buy them, or what? I have a friend that drives about an hour and a half to work once a week, and then of course home again, and likes to listen to audio books in his car while driving.
Okay so now that the teams for the Super Bowl are set who is going to win? The Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers are the two Teams in it. I think Pittsburgh will win, but I think Green Bay can cause enough problems for Big Ben so that if he doesn't play smart Green Bay could win! My money would go on Pittsburgh, but I might take the points and odds if they are good enough for Green Bay! My wife has a cousin that lives about 1/2 mile from Green Bay's Lambeau Field and walks to the games, he is in cheese head heaven!!! My son has a cheese head wedge hat he wears http://www.cheesehead.com/
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Okay so now that the teams for the Super Bowl are set who is going to win? The Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers are the two Teams in it. I think Pittsburgh will win, but I think Green Bay can cause enough problems for Big Ben so that if he doesn't play smart Green Bay could win! My money would go on Pittsburgh, but I might take the points and odds if they are good enough for Green Bay! My wife has a cousin that lives about 1/2 mile from Green Bay's Lambeau Field and walks to the games, he is in cheese head heaven!!! My son has a cheese head wedge hat he wears http://www.cheesehead.com/
WINNING!!
I'm afraid I'd have to go with the Steelers. I've hated them ever since the Immaculate Reception, but I think they're better than the Packers. The Packers haven't really been a powerhouse since they won the first Super Bowl.
[edit]In case you haven't guessed, I've been a fan of the Raiders since the days of The Mad Bomber. I was even watching during The Heidi Game. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to watch them over the last couple of decades (not that they've been that great either lately). :(
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At the last BOINCStats update I was 92 CS ahead of you, The 6.00pm (UTC) update should confirm the overtake.
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At the last BOINCStats update I was 92 CS ahead of you, The 6.00pm (UTC) update should confirm the overtake.
Accodrding to Free-DC I am ALREADY past you as of now!
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincusers&offset=235
240 mikey 168,373,277 The Final Front Ear United States
241 John Clark 168,333,282 The Final Front Ear United Kingdom
Sorry John but WOO HOO!!!
The song 'another one bites the dust' comes to mind but I don't want to gloat because my brand new 5770 is DOWN!! It is the power supply that went, I could smell it just before it blew but couldn't save it. I guess it is down until I can find another power supply big enough, it had a 500 watt one! I may have to take it out and fire the cpu back up to finish those units at least.
Soooo I am WINNING but only because of sheer numbers!
RandyC I am hoping you guys like Jason Campbell better than the Redskins did then! He held the ball until the guy was open, I don't remember him doing that at Auburn though, and then throws it often overthrowing the guy, under throwing the guy, throwing an interception OR WORSE taking a sack!!
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True Mikey.
BOINCStats shows you about 27,058 CS ahead. This should rise to nearly 800K by tomorrow.
Over the last week, since the HD5850 went down, my RAC has dropped from just on 800K to the current 728K and falling. I think, with the current power, it will level at about 692K
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Keith do you download audio books, buy them, or what? I have a friend that drives about an hour and a half to work once a week, and then of course home again, and likes to listen to audio books in his car while driving.
NO download
I buy them on CD.
I did try that audible service once. It is downlaodable to your cell phone and will send it in 1 hour chunks so you don't have to download the whole book. Only problem is the files are not transferable. I think you could register 3 devices. But then when you phone dies and you get a new one you have to rergister. Even though they are a lot cheaper, it was a nuisance. Also if the service goes belly-up, you can't play you stuff anymore. Not really a bargin in the long run.
I prefer CDs because i can play them in any computer or cd player like in the car. Also I can rip them to mp3s and then play them on any device I have that will paly mp3s, including my android plus my two previous cell phones which even though are not phones anymore can still be used for other tasks and as audio players. More versatile. Mostly the CDs are all on the shelf and I just listen to the mp3 copies I made. I also ahve my blu-ray palyer networked into my system, so it can browse my media drives on my computers, so while laying in bed I can lsiten to them at night through my headphones, through the tv, through the blu-ray.
Now if you prefer older books, there is a free download service which I ahve on my android. I was reserving those though for when i didn't have my others with me and wanted something. The first one I tried was "War of the Worlds", the original version. Those though I think only play through that app.
They are great for driving on long trips. Better than just music and commercials.
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We're warming up! Up to 18°F/-8°C today.
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They opened the floodgates on the wus today and my quad grabbed >200 WUs before I could set NNT. I've got plenty of MCN WUs now!!!
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True Mikey.
BOINCStats shows you about 27,058 CS ahead. This should rise to nearly 800K by tomorrow.
Over the last week, since the HD5850 went down, my RAC has dropped from just on 800K to the current 728K and falling. I think, with the current power, it will level at about 692K
John I truly am sorry that your gpu went down just as I was working hard to catch you! But i know you will get it back up and running soon and if I can't gte my 5770 up and running again we may play tag for a bit, unless I can build enough of a lead on you in the meantime!! Today my rac is 947,104 and I think it still has a ways to go yet before it tops out. My total Boinc cobblestones for today are 169,011,559, so right now I am about 300k above you.
Keith thanks for the advice on the books, I will tell my friend today to be careful about that. He is trying to get a new cell phone soon, he has Verizon too and now that they are not giving out new free phones every two years anymore, he wants to do it quickly. I think his plan expires shortly!
RandyC and SwiftMallard my weather temp today is supposed to be near 50F!!!! Fortunately we don't have any snow to cause any flooding from all the warm weather. Tomorrow though it is supposed to snow some, flurries for me again, but the temp is supposed to be in the mid to upper 30's. Right now outside it is 28F and rising!!
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RandyC and SwiftMallard my weather temp today is supposed to be near 50F!!!! Fortunately we don't have any snow to cause any flooding from all the warm weather. Tomorrow though it is supposed to snow some, flurries for me again, but the temp is supposed to be in the mid to upper 30's. Right now outside it is 28F and rising!!
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Interesting Mikey. My current temp is 29F and will be going up to a whole 34F!!! Plenty of snow on the ground, but I don't expect significant melting. Flurries are due tomorrow.
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Having fun today.
A customer called saying a bunch of payments were missing from his statement. He faxed us all the credit card receipts. This particular customer we fax him a copy. Also there is an invoice to go with them.
Upon review not only were some of the payments missing, but some of the invoices too.
I've been working on this for three hours now.
Here is the weird part. All the invoices are in the database and can be reprinted, only thing is the entry for the outstanding tickets in another file is missing so they do not show on the statement or account ledger. And as best I can tell this only happened to this one customer account. Another wierd thing is these payments/tickets are from like 3 differnet days over 3 months. Other invoices or payments during this time are on his account. Very strange.
I looked up one of the batches of the affected payments or invoices from one day, then checked every other account in that batch and none of those had any missing transactions.
Total weirdness here.
Now i've got to go back and reprint every invoice for his account since from about the first error, then see if they all appear on the ledger.
As for other accounts I just have to believe they are all correct until someone compalins. This is the first occurance of this in 6 years since we've ahd the system.
Does anybody have a bucket full of Advil ?
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RandyC and SwiftMallard my weather temp today is supposed to be near 50F!!!! Fortunately we don't have any snow to cause any flooding from all the warm weather. Tomorrow though it is supposed to snow some, flurries for me again, but the temp is supposed to be in the mid to upper 30's. Right now outside it is 28F and rising!!
WINNING!!
Interesting Mikey. My current temp is 29F and will be going up to a whole 34F!!! Plenty of snow on the ground, but I don't expect significant melting. Flurries are due tomorrow.
WINNING!!!
Well it is now 5AM and it just sleeted and woke me up! The temp outside is 34F, or 1.11C, and it has now changed over to rain. It is supposed to rain most of the day for me with an occasional batch of flurries coming thru with maybe up to one inch of accumulation, mostly on the grassy areas. Tonight thought it is supposed to start snowing heavier and I may wake up to between 4 and 6 inches of new snow, maybe not though, it depends on the rain/snow/sleet line that seems to be moving all around depending on which tv station I am watching!
Keith could it be a simple coding error, where someone put one thing in a box one time and something else in the box another time?
JohnC my rac for today is 960,853 which is up from yesterday but I still have not been able to make that pc with the 5770 in it come back up yet! I replaced the bad power supply with a good one and the pc ran for about 10 seconds and cut off, so thinking it must e heat related I pulled the cpu fan and cpu and it probably was, they were all crusted and yucky! I took all the old heat paste off and put some new stuff on and reinstalled the fan and plugged it in and it ran but never came up to the boot screen! The video is not built into the pc so I had to put a pci card in and it just doesn't see it! I found a working 120mm fan for my cooler master power supply yesterday and while working on it, I spray them with CRC, or 556 as it is called today, which is an electronics cleaner that leaves no residue and works really, really well to free up stuff I proceeded to slice my finger wide open on the fan blade!! So I went to lunch and thought about the pc! I had the idea that maybe the pc was working, just the video wasn't and I could access it remotely like I normally do instead, no go though! I will have to put the 600 watt Cooler Master power supply together today and try again.
Winning!!
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This post is just to tell you that I fixed the machine with the bad power supply, at least for now. It is now running and no deadlines were missed, so far! That ,means the cpu and the 5770 in it are now up and running, at least as of 5 minutes ago. Now hopefully it will KEEP running!!
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Mikey, I hope your system stays stable and productive!
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A lot better than mine, especially the recovery period
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Keith could it be a simple coding error, where someone put one thing in a box one time and something else in the box another time?
No, it is definately some kind of error in the system, but i don;t know what.
The thing is i'm the only data entry person.
The problem being, the entries missing in the database are automatically generated, no boxes to put anything in related. When you write an invoice, it goes in one file, and a sumamry line goes in the ledger file. Same with payments. All of these are in multiple files, and all the entries are not there. Also the entries for the invoices don't go into the files until the end-of=day is run, i'm the only one to run that, and all that is is a button to push start, there is nothing else on may part to do. And the one day i checked that batch, all the other invoices for all the other accounts had the entries in the accounts. That is part of the weird part as if i skipped one, it should skip everybody.
I doubt someone deleted them, we only have two other guys, they don't even know how to get to that function. And since it involves payments and tickets, that is two separate functions.
I was able to track it down to two dates 12/30/2010 and 1/14/2010, both are Friday's. Now what that has to do with it i don't know.
I spent 4 hours yesterday and 2 hours today correcting this one account. Hope there are not more.
I'm not gonna spend 6 hours x 1000 customers fixing accounts.
Today I also dusted out our firebox. It has fairly good venting, but over the years it colelcted some dust. The fan was making funny noises (off balance). I used a toothbrush and scurbbed the fan down and a can of air to blow away the herd of dust bunnies. It had like 6 years of dust build up in it, a pretty think layer. Somehow when it was built, dusting it out was not in mind. It is all screwed up tight. i had to take like 14 screws out to get it open. It only needs like two.
On to more interesting news. Like i said before, we got NO snow on Friday or Saturday. However it snowed south, yes SOUTH, of here. Just 30-40 miles or so, down in Rodanthe-Hatteras area, they got 10-11 inches ! We didn't even get 1 flake or 1 drop of rain. I feel ripped off !
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On to more interesting news. Like i said before, we got NO snow on Friday or Saturday. However it snowed south, yes SOUTH, of here. Just 30-40 miles or so, down in Rodanthe-Hatteras area, they got 10-11 inches ! We didn't even get 1 flake or 1 drop of rain. I feel ripped off !
Keith, swiftmallard and I will be glad to lend you some! I'm sure Mikey won't mind either if we sent it south instead of his way...
This post is just to tell you that I fixed the machine with the bad power supply, at least for now. It is now running and no deadlines were missed, so far! That ,means the cpu and the 5770 in it are now up and running, at least as of 5 minutes ago. Now hopefully it will KEEP running!!
Mikey, it must be catching. Got back from the drugstore this evening and the system that lives in my wife's sewing room (formally youngest granddaughter's room) had released a ton of magic smoke. Phew! What a stink. The only spare PS I've got is a 350W. I unplugged the CD drive just to give a little leeway to the rest of the system. First thing on the agenda after w@^k tomorrow is a trip to Microcenter for a decent PS.
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On to more interesting news. Like i said before, we got NO snow on Friday or Saturday. However it snowed south, yes SOUTH, of here. Just 30-40 miles or so, down in Rodanthe-Hatteras area, they got 10-11 inches ! We didn't even get 1 flake or 1 drop of rain. I feel ripped off !
Keith, swiftmallard and I will be glad to lend you some! I'm sure Mikey won't mind either if we sent it south instead of his way...
NOT AT ALL, send LOTS to Keith!! I got maybe 3 to 4 inches yesterday, it is pretty but the roads are already down to bare asphalt!! I guess I will fire up the blower later on to see how it works. It is supposed to be into the mid 30's today but then we should get some flurries Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then another chance for a storm on Tuesday!! I have a friend who is looking for property in Florida right now, he says he is tired of the cold weather!! I told him he is a wuss!!!
This post is just to tell you that I fixed the machine with the bad power supply, at least for now. It is now running and no deadlines were missed, so far! That ,means the cpu and the 5770 in it are now up and running, at least as of 5 minutes ago. Now hopefully it will KEEP running!!
Mikey, it must be catching. Got back from the drugstore this evening and the system that lives in my wife's sewing room (formally youngest granddaughter's room) had released a ton of magic smoke. Phew! What a stink. The only spare PS I've got is a 350W. I unplugged the CD drive just to give a little leeway to the rest of the system. First thing on the agenda after w@^k tomorrow is a trip to Microcenter for a decent PS.
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OH NO...sorry to hear that! If my MicroCenter were closer than a 45 minute drive, each way, I would have been there getting a new power supply too. My local mom and pop place is nice but it is not cheap!! I just checked and i could get an Eagle brand 600 watt power supply at MC for 25 bucks after rebate, it is 70 bucks with no rebate at my local store! I only go to the local store when I need something right now, or I am flush with cash and feel the need to help them stay open.
JohnC my rac for today is 984,362, so up just a little bit from yesterday. I just checked and all the pc's here seem to have connected today to their respective projects today, so they seem to all be running right now!!
Keith I remembered that you were the only data entry person but hoped it was a simple mis-coding thing, I am sorry that it is not!! Know that you the dates you might want to check a couple of the other tasks done on those days and make sure they went thru okay, just in case. But generally if the customer is not complaining, and they may not if the error is in their favor, you kind of have to assume that all is okay. Even if their is an error hopefully it would be small enough to absorb the loss and move on. Paying you for 6 hours to fix a problem is a lot of money that could be spent doing other things, as I am sure you now have a backlog of other stuff that didn't get done. One more thing...can you run a report to show what did not happen that was supposed to? If so maybe you set that up to run once a month and then you would find these errors sooner and not have to wait for the customer to contact you.
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I would be OK with keeping all of my snow. If only someone would take all of the ice that's underneath it.
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Keith, swiftmallard and I will be glad to lend you some! I'm sure Mikey won't mind either if we sent it south instead of his way...
Bring it ON !!!!
I've got a new kookie warmer. Someone brought us some soft kokonut & pecan kookies. I found if I put one on top of the network switch on my desk, it puts out a little heat and shortly I have a nice chewy and toasty kookie. I've been eatin' them all day long.
More fun today to fight the lack of business. I have more items to put in the internet store, but could not find any good images on the internet. So abck to making my own. Snap picture with my Android and uplaod to the internet via wireless, then downlaod to my pc. Edit, Edit, Edit. I did 2 photo's yesterday and 9 today. I'm pooped now. Tomorrow i'll list the items.
I'm gettin' a little better at the pictures. it helps to have a background of a totally different color. this time i used a cardborad box, brown, since the items were black, gray and white. They came out ok. A blue or green might work better. i'm thinking i need to to like Staples and get some artsy type paper in colors. After i take the picture i use an online tool to paint out most of the background, then i use paint as its prettyeasy to paint out the leftover artifacts not gone. I found too if use the full size image taken by the kamera and then zoom that so its like 400% bigger, it is easier to edit. Also i don't have to worry about edges being perfectly straight, that dissappears when i shrink it. I shrink it by 50% 3 times and it then comes out to fit within a 240x240 or 360x360 box. Those dimensions work best and by that time the booboo's from editing or slight imperfections fade away. My last few attempts look much beter than when i started. I use to shrink the photo then try to edit.
My internet sales are doing pretty good this month. I'm at 123% of the monthly average for last year. i really though Ajnuary would not be that good. I know February will not be, because I close the store before I go on vacation and until I get back and caught up with everything else.
Oh well, back to my kookie.
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Snow again! ARRGHH!
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Snow again! ARRGHH!
My feelings exactly!
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Where?
It's sunny, cloudless, windless and at least 0C here
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Where?
It's sunny, cloudless, windless and at least 0C here
It is 29F here and going up to nearly 40 later on, the snow should melt nicely! I used my new electric snow thrower yesterday and it did ok but the snow was too heavy to work well. I had to push, back up, push again, back up and push again to get to the bare driveway because it was so heavy! And I only got about 4 to 6 inches of snow!! My back hurts from all that pushing!! The one thing I don't have though is all the snow piled right up along the edge of my driveway! Normally it is like a walled in thing but since the snow was thrown away by the machine, it is better! It was fun to use, even my wife tried it and it worked great on the last little bit of the snow, much easier than shoveling! It did NOT get down to bare driveway everywhere though, like SwiftMallard I still have areas where it got icey over night!
Keith I can't wait to check out the new stuff, keep it coming!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,009,269!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the FIRST DAY EVER for me to be over 1 MILLLION rac!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!
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Keith I can't wait to check out the new stuff, keep it coming!
It's nothing exciting, only mounting brackets for VHF radio's. But I did add those yesterday as nothing else went on. If you are curious look up Icom in my store.
My whole day yesterday was mostly internet store stuff. I did package 4 items in the morning to go in the mail. The rest of the day was working on those photo's and item listings as there was little else to do. UPS delivered us 1 letter with a check in it, no packages. Mail was 3 checks and 1 bill and 2 credit memos, all which took little time to process. I packaged two items to ship out, which is not much, during the summer I do like 9-16. I think during the day we had two customers. It was pretty quiet even for phone calls.
I'm kinda glad i'm getting rid of old stuff or things we really don't need anymore. My internet inventory is up to 1151 items but only 599 are left in stock. That is a good clearance. Come March though i will be reordering some of the ones that are popular and that we might sell locally, but that might only be like 3 dozen items, which is nowhere near the 500 some we are out of. There is still lots to do.
I keep thinking i'm wasting time listing sonme old stuff, then some of it sells and I look at the total number we are out of stock on. Like yesterday i shipped an odd item that had a date of 2001 on it.
Is it Friday yet ? Oh I hope so. Well time to get ready for another day of w...
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JohnC my rac for today is 1,009,269!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the FIRST DAY EVER for me to be over 1 MILLLION rac!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!
WINNING!!
Congratulations Mikey. But the ATI GPU power you have recently assembled should do that comfortably.
Now I need to find where I can get two nVidia GeForce PCI (not PCI2) compatible 9500GT cards
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Mikey, this one's for you!
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2011-01-28/
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Mikey, this one's for you!
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2011-01-28/
I LOVE IT THANKS!!!!!
Hey we got almost 2 inches of snow yesterday so I used my manual snow shovel and it took me about 15 minutes or so to clean off the driveway. I need to get some more ice melt though, or sprinkle some fertilizer on the icy spots, I almost took a dive several times!!
Keith I checked out the site and you are right, nothing needed by me right now.
JohnC my rac today is 1,032,409, so up some more but it will start leveling out here soon as I have switched most of my cpu's to World Community Grid for our Teams monthly project. Einstein pays a little better than WCG, not much but some, but Team is Team and I am supporting it!! I will need to get back to Einstein though as I need another 800k to pass my Seti numbers. This work on WCG will help me get it closer too though, so it all is good!
JohnC you mean like this card:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5771288&CatId=1603
or this card:
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Hey we got almost 2 inches of snow yesterday so I used my manual snow shovel and it took me about 15 minutes or so to clean off the driveway. I need to get some more ice melt though, or sprinkle some fertilizer on the icy spots, I almost took a dive several times!!
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ARGH!!! Sn@w! 2-3", followed by freezing rain! Major yuck!!!!
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Hey we got almost 2 inches of snow yesterday so I used my manual snow shovel and it took me about 15 minutes or so to clean off the driveway. I need to get some more ice melt though, or sprinkle some fertilizer on the icy spots, I almost took a dive several times!!
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ARGH!!! Sn@w! 2-3", followed by freezing rain! Major yuck!!!!
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As yucky as that is, it's not as bad as getting snow on top of freezing rain. I feel your pain.
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Keith I checked out the site and you are right, nothing needed by me right now.
Sorry not to have more fun items. But you gave me an idea. I got to thinkin' of what you said to see the new items. The amazon store has not much control by the seller over how things are displayed. So I made a suggestion to them to add some controls that would allow the seller and buyers some control, like an option to view items by most popular viewed, most popular sale, new additions, a-z and so on. As they are now they come up in some unknown order. In fact I don't like the ones displayed as they do not best represent our products. It would be nice to have the newest additions so that that view changes from time to time. Maybe also it might encourage people to check back from time to time to see if there is something new they want. Sometimes you don't know what you want until you see it and just having a search box doesn't help if you don't know what to search for. Also i suggested to add control to the 'Brands' lsit on the left side, agian now they are in some unknown order. I would like them from my most sold brands first, but also maybe from time to time some other order. Maybe they'll add something in the future. But hey, it's all due to Mikey.
Today it's about 50F'ish and climbing. No white, wet or slippery stuff anywhere in site.
I fell lazy today, I think i'll get some more koffee and snank and krawl back into bed.
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JohnC you mean like this card:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5771288&CatId=1603
or this card:
Those two links to Tiger and Amazon are for the type of PCI NV graphics card I am on about. But, the two I purchased at Amazon.com over 18 months ago were the 1024MB versions.
This is the Sparkle Computer company link for the actual one I am seeking.
The problem I currently have is the US electronic equipment laws on exporting. When I bought the first 2 NV 9500GT GPUs they would only deliver to a US address, although I had paid for them. Then there was the hassle of getting money over to the US person to give them the amount needed to cover the post and insurance to get them to me.
ATM I have 2 or 3 fingers out to see if I can source them in the UK, before going back to Amazon, etc.
The Arctic aftermarket cooler is now part of the ATI HD5850 MoBo, and tested and working. Now ready to install
But, it is much much larger than I originally estimated, and sticks out 2.5" beyond the end of the HD5850 board. Tomorrow's job is to power down the Penny, remove the HD4850, place a cloth over the Asus MoBo and hacksaw out the hard drive cage to allow the modified HD5850 to be reinstalled on Monday. The Penny will have the HD4850 reinstalled and check all is working before the end of the day.
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mikey wrote:Keith I checked out the site and you are right, nothing needed by me right now.
Maybe they'll add something in the future. But hey, it's all due to Mikey.
Today it's about 50F'ish and climbing. No white, wet or slippery stuff anywhere in site.
WOO HOO I am now affecting the World Wide Web, woo that can be a scary thought though!! I do agree though Keith, if they make it better even more people will stop by and then both of you will make more money!! Thanks for the credit but I'd prefer to think it just you thinking outside the box again!!
It is 27F outside right now and it is supposed to get up into the low to mid 40's today, so more snow and ice melting going on for me. No more white stuff for me until Wednesday, which is also a GOOD thing!! I have a neighborhood full of white stuff and there are STILL people without power from the last storm!! No one is without power in my neighborhood, all my utilities are underground so are fairly safe from storms.
JohnC my rac for today is 1,050,020 which is up from yesterday.
WINNING!!
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It is 27F outside right now and it is supposed to get up into the low to mid 40's today, so more snow and ice melting going on for me. No more white stuff for me until Wednesday, which is also a GOOD thing!! I have a neighborhood full of white stuff and there are STILL people without power from the last storm!! No one is without power in my neighborhood, all my utilities are underground so are fairly safe from storms.
WINNING!!
Don't you just LOVE how the NWS is starting to play CYA nowadays? The forecast for Tuesday night: Snow. Significant accumulations possible.
Wednesday: Snow. Additional moderate accumulations possible.
It may be closer to reality than saying 6 to 10" possible Tuesday with another 2 to 4" accumulation on Wednesday. But you know, I think I'd rather have the numbers anyway. It seems to me that "significant accumulations" can be anything from 6" to 6 feet of snow!
As for the daily high; we've only had 2 or three days above 30 since Jan. 1. And d@mn few last December either. Where's Global Warming when you need it???
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[edit]Had to replace the washing machine last week. It wasn't really dead or anything, but the wife was complaining it was chewing holes in the clothes (it might have been...I've had some T-shirts and underwear get holes that I can't explain), and the Delicate Fabrics setting was inconsistent. So, off to Best Buy for a replacement.
Came to about $605 with delivery and haul away the old one. Also got 18 months 0% interest free (be sure to pay it off before then or you get the entire interest charge in one whack!). For what I paid (more than I wanted!), I think I got a good machine. It uses 1/2 to 2/3 LESS water than the old one ($ave on operating costs!) and the estimated utility cost per year is $17 ($12 if gas hot water...which I have).
Only complaints so far: Slow spin isn't very (gonna have to iron shirts more often); and it has a very annoying whine for the first 5 mins or so of the wash cycle. Maybe it will fix itself as it breaks in? (unrealistic hoping...).[/edit]
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This is the Sparkle Computer company link for the actual one I am seeking.
The problem I currently have is the US electronic equipment laws on exporting. When I bought the first 2 NV 9500GT GPUs they would only deliver to a US address, although I had paid for them. Then there was the hassle of getting money over to the US person to give them the amount needed to cover the post and insurance to get them to me.
Just a suggestion, maybe you already tried. There is a where to buy link on the sparkle webpage. I checked a few, the UK suppliers did not have any, but you might be able to contact them and they could order them for you. Also newegg.ca had the one you wanted, maybe canada can export to the UK ???
Sometimes though the laws are not export laws, but import laws. I don't know which is which in this case but it might be the UK blocking imports rather than the US not allowing exports. But lets not get into a debated discussion over that issue here. That's all i have to say except I recently saw a notice that INK Cartridges could not be imported into the UK because of some thing at some airport. This seems rediciuolous but I guess the liquid could be replaced with some non-ink stuff. The world is not a nice place to live, can I get a ride to Mars ?
I'm getting ready for vacation, time to go read the latest rules for air travel. We are only allowed to carry 3oz or less or any liquid or gel, and all that you carry has to fit in 1 quart ziplock bag and that has to pass through security being placed outside your luggage. Plus there is a huge do not carry list. Good thing though i have gotten some free samples over the years, so i use those little tubes for travel. 1 tube lasts me the week at least. Plus usually where i stay, friends or mom/dad they always have stuff on hand and don't mind you using a little. Same when they come here, only either way you may not get your exact prefered choice.
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While I'm working on some vacation stuff, like taking photo's of the house to share with mom & dad, I had one I wanted to share with ya'll.
Here is part of the indoor garden.
This is the dining room.
The two large pots at bottom, plus the next two, one smaller and one hiding behind the chair are 1 set of swett potatoes. The vines hop from pot to pot. Then run 6-8 feet along the floor then up the left side window, both side of that window up to the shade and then back down.
The big gray tub near the wall is another batch which used to be in multiple pots. These run up both sides or the right window and down and up and around. If you look closely on the left side of this right window, about half way up, you can see some of the purplish flowers, Yes flowers in winter. Andyes there are like a dozen vines running out and up.
One of those vines was 21 feet long back when I brought them in end of November. Some of the others wer almost as long. That is before they grew more.
The pots on the sills are all the Aloes and the one on top of those is Chives.
You can see the sun coming in, today its 55F plus. This spot gets a lot of winter sun. It's nice and warm out there.
The rest of the garden is hiding off to the left and in the living room where there are more sweet potatoes.
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if you want to view some of the other photos of the indoor plants, use the link above, but change the IMGA0082 number in the link, replace 082 with numbers from 074 to 100.
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I am still trying for the fifth time to input the earnings and tax paid for my, so called simple, online Self Assessment and the technology will not accept it. It's nearly completed.
Arrgh and a win
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It is 27F outside right now and it is supposed to get up into the low to mid 40's today, so more snow and ice melting going on for me. No more white stuff for me until Wednesday, which is also a GOOD thing!! I have a neighborhood full of white stuff and there are STILL people without power from the last storm!! No one is without power in my neighborhood, all my utilities are underground so are fairly safe from storms.
WINNING!!
Don't you just LOVE how the NWS is starting to play CYA nowadays? The forecast for Tuesday night: Snow. Significant accumulations possible.
Wednesday: Snow. Additional moderate accumulations possible.
It may be closer to reality than saying 6 to 10" possible Tuesday with another 2 to 4" accumulation on Wednesday. But you know, I think I'd rather have the numbers anyway. It seems to me that "significant accumulations" can be anything from 6" to 6 feet of snow!
As for the daily high; we've only had 2 or three days above 30 since Jan. 1. And d@mn few last December either. Where's Global Warming when you need it???
WINNING!!!
[edit]Had to replace the washing machine last week. It wasn't really dead or anything, but the wife was complaining it was chewing holes in the clothes (it might have been...I've had some T-shirts and underwear get holes that I can't explain), and the Delicate Fabrics setting was inconsistent. So, off to Best Buy for a replacement.
Came to about $605 with delivery and haul away the old one. Also got 18 months 0% interest free (be sure to pay it off before then or you get the entire interest charge in one whack!). For what I paid (more than I wanted!), I think I got a good machine. It uses 1/2 to 2/3 LESS water than the old one ($ave on operating costs!) and the estimated utility cost per year is $17 ($12 if gas hot water...which I have).
Only complaints so far: Slow spin isn't very (gonna have to iron shirts more often); and it has a very annoying whine for the first 5 mins or so of the wash cycle. Maybe it will fix itself as it breaks in? (unrealistic hoping...).[/edit]
Weathermen are becoming more generic in their statements now!! And I don't like it either, I wonder if some places were complaining about them being so wrong sometimes. I wonder if one of them got sued?! If some company made a decision because some weatherman said 6 inches of snow was coming and then none came, and the company lost a million bucks over it, I can see people getting mad enough to get the lawyers involved. You can sue over anything, winning is a different story.
And it does always seem that whatever you think you want to spend on appliances you always end up spending more!! But I don't iron, ever! So that might be a problem for me, can you just run the shirts thru the dryer for a few minutes to de-wrinkle them? The whine could be the water going into the washer, is it during the fill up that it is making the noise? If so check for kinked hoses, hose washers misaligned, etc...anything that makes the water make sharp turns or get forced thru or past something can make that noise.
JohnC my rac for today is 1,068,076 so up again from yesterday. It looks like I am now consistently above the 1 million rac per day mark!! I never would have thought that possible when I first started back in '99 with one pc at Seti.
John I wonder if the problem is you make too much money for the 'simple' forms? You are just too rich of a man to be the 'simple' kind of guy! ;-))
Keith I hate the new rules on airplanes but have learned to just use the stuff in hotels and motels when I travel. I know you are going to see the parents so have to take stuff with you, but when I do that I just buy the cheap stuff at the store when I get there. My hair and body doesn't care if for a week or so I use one dollar shampoo instead of the more expensive stuff I use at home. So I don't pack that stuff and instead buy it when I get there, and then leave it behind when I leave. I can buy disposable razors, dollar bottles of shampoo and cheap deodorant and after shave too at the grocery store and then leave everything behind when I leave. The suitcase is smaller and since I have to buy it now or later anyway I am not losing any money. In fact I have gotten away with just having a carry on for over a week! Now that does mean I have to use the laundry facilities twice during that week, but you can buy cheap soap for it too! Anything is okay for a week! When we go to the beach we usually rent a house for the week, we go to the store and buy everything on the cheap and then just leave behind whatever we don't use when we leave. I mean I like the brands I like, like we all do, when I am at home but when I am on vacation anything will do, it is a VACATION after all!
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Don't you just LOVE how the NWS is starting to play CYA nowadays? The forecast for Tuesday night: Snow. Significant accumulations possible.
Wednesday: Snow. Additional moderate accumulations possible.
WINNING!!!
[edit]Had to replace the washing machine last week. It wasn't really dead or anything, but the wife was complaining it was chewing holes in the clothes (it might have been...I've had some T-shirts and underwear get holes that I can't explain), and the Delicate Fabrics setting was inconsistent. So, off to Best Buy for a replacement.
Came to about $605 with delivery and haul away the old one. Also got 18 months 0% interest free (be sure to pay it off before then or you get the entire interest charge in one whack!). For what I paid (more than I wanted!), I think I got a good machine. It uses 1/2 to 2/3 LESS water than the old one ($ave on operating costs!) and the estimated utility cost per year is $17 ($12 if gas hot water...which I have).
Only complaints so far: Slow spin isn't very (gonna have to iron shirts more often); and it has a very annoying whine for the first 5 mins or so of the wash cycle. Maybe it will fix itself as it breaks in? (unrealistic hoping...).[/edit]
Weathermen are becoming more generic in their statements now!! And I don't like it either, I wonder if some places were complaining about them being so wrong sometimes. I wonder if one of them got sued?! If some company made a decision because some weatherman said 6 inches of snow was coming and then none came, and the company lost a million bucks over it, I can see people getting mad enough to get the lawyers involved. You can sue over anything, winning is a different story.
And it does always seem that whatever you think you want to spend on appliances you always end up spending more!! But I don't iron, ever! So that might be a problem for me, can you just run the shirts thru the dryer for a few minutes to de-wrinkle them? The whine could be the water going into the washer, is it during the fill up that it is making the noise? If so check for kinked hoses, hose washers misaligned, etc...anything that makes the water make sharp turns or get forced thru or past something can make that noise.
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The radio weather this morning was willing to fill-in some numbers: 2-4" tonight, followed by another 8" on Wednesday night. Total accumulation near a foot. The Internet weather site (NWS) decided to put some numbers on it too, but they are a little more conservative: 1-2" tonight and tomorrow, with 6-10" more Wednesday night.
No, the whine has nothing to do with the fill cycle. This washer has a direct drive connection from the motor to the tub (no pulley/belt connect), and I think the whine occurs because the motor/tub connect hasn't 'broken-in' yet. Once the motor has been running for a while, the noise dies down a bit. The instructions say the motor will make a kind-of 'zip' sound as it runs the agitator, but this is much more than that. After doing 3-4 days of laundry it seems to be more subdued for now...but it hasn't gone away entirely. Still hoping for more improvement.
I'll try the shirts on the lowest (gentle) setting next time. Maybe they won't wrinkle so much. I run my shirts through the dryer on low heat with those Bounce softner sheets, and I've got 3 'dryer balls' in there to try to knock the wrinkles out. Only partial success. I suppose I could try running the 3 shirts that still need ironing through a rinse cycle on real-real-gentle setting and see if that fixes it.
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Keith I hate the new rules on airplanes but have learned to just use the stuff in hotels and motels when I travel. I know you are going to see the parents so have to take stuff with you, but when I do that I just buy the cheap stuff at the store when I get there. My hair and body doesn't care if for a week or so I use one dollar shampoo instead of the more expensive stuff I use at home. So I don't pack that stuff and instead buy it when I get there, and then leave it behind when I leave. I can buy disposable razors, dollar bottles of shampoo and cheap deodorant and after shave too at the grocery store and then leave everything behind when I leave. The suitcase is smaller and since I have to buy it now or later anyway I am not losing any money. In fact I have gotten away with just having a carry on for over a week! Now that does mean I have to use the laundry facilities twice during that week, but you can buy cheap soap for it too! Anything is okay for a week! When we go to the beach we usually rent a house for the week, we go to the store and buy everything on the cheap and then just leave behind whatever we don't use when we leave. I mean I like the brands I like, like we all do, when I am at home but when I am on vacation anything will do, it is a VACATION after all!
No I don't HAVE to take stuff with me. it just works out I have stuff to take. And I'm too cheap to go buy something i'll half use and leave behind, that is a waste. When I travel I drink from the water fountain and only eat the abg of trail mix I can carry. I won't pay 2 bucks for a drink that costs 12 cents jsut because i can't carry one through security. I can just have water and wait. Deoderant is not a problem as that is a solid. And it is sometime inconvienet to run to the store as soon as you get somewhere. Actually the rules are good and also I think helps, well at least me anyway, from carrying too much stuff I don't really need to have. I don't shave, i trim my hair and beard before i go, then i'm good for a week.
I can carry enough clothing for 1 week, even a daily change.
I had a bad Saturday, eye ache all day so I only watched movies in the dark as too much light hurt my eyes more.
I did feel better Sunday and actually made progress on my get ready for vacation todo list. I had some software to install on the netbook and also my twin computers. Got that all done. Shortly before I leave i need to copy some data files over so i have the latest but i think everything is set to go. I made good progress Sunday, better than expected. Now most of the extra new year activites are done, taxes, car inspection, registration, vacation plans. Only thing left to do is read the new rental contract and sign all the pages, plus now they want a copy of proof of insurance, which i have. I'm actually going to do that after vacation, its not due until March, so i have time. Then i do have to proofread my taxes and actually file them, but at least the harder part of figuring most of it out is done. For not i'm trying to clean up the frig so all the leftovers and anything that won't last another week is eaten before i go. So major cooking is off the list for a time.
Oh well back to work.
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Back to crunching properly, and a win, before it is too cool.
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Back to crunching properly, and a win, before it is too cool.
That 5850 should warm up the place nicely John, although with 3 fans on it it may not!
My rac for today is 1,085,280 so up about another 20k again, it is rising nicely and I still have more daily points than rac, so that is a good thing!
RandyC I wish you luck with that washer, I have never heard of a direct drive one, it sounds fancy. I also run my clothes thru the dryer with the sheets, lately I have been adding a small amount to the washer too. The clothes seem to be softer lately. I wash darks and lights, the darks first with a small amount of cheap liquid fabric softener, then the whites with a small amount of liquid bleach. Then in the dryer each load gets a brand new dryer sheet. My wife takes the baskets downstairs and dumps them out, I was h and dry them and then move them to the bottom of the steps. She then comes down and takes them back upstairs and after a few days or so usually folds them. Sometimes it can be weeks in between her folding times, so I stopped worrying about wrinkles. Not working can do that, when I was working I ALWAYS took my shirts out when they came out of the dryer and folded them and out them on top of the basket. They stayed pretty wrinkle free, they were polo type shirts so weren't a problem.
Keith I think I am less frugal than you I guess. I don't mind buying cheap stuff and leaving it behind to save myself going thru the airports with fewer bags. I am down to one checked bag between us in most cases and then we each have a carry on too.
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RandyC I wish you luck with that washer, I have never heard of a direct drive one, it sounds fancy. I also run my clothes thru the dryer with the sheets, lately I have been adding a small amount to the washer too. The clothes seem to be softer lately. I wash darks and lights, the darks first with a small amount of cheap liquid fabric softener, then the whites with a small amount of liquid bleach. Then in the dryer each load gets a brand new dryer sheet. My wife takes the baskets downstairs and dumps them out, I was h and dry them and then move them to the bottom of the steps. She then comes down and takes them back upstairs and after a few days or so usually folds them. Sometimes it can be weeks in between her folding times, so I stopped worrying about wrinkles. Not working can do that, when I was working I ALWAYS took my shirts out when they came out of the dryer and folded them and out them on top of the basket. They stayed pretty wrinkle free, they were polo type shirts so weren't a problem.
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Right now my major concern is no longer the washer. I have two (count them--TWO!) plumbers coming over today to do some work. Sunday the valve in the shower developed a leak. I looked it over and determined that there was no way I would be able to fix it myself. I had a plumber over to look at it yesterday and get an estimate. I decided that since I was going to have to have major work done, I'd bite the bullet and get the other project done too.
Believe it or not, my house does not have a water shut-off value on the inside. To shut the water off, you have to worm your way (and that's an exact description of how you do it!) through an access panel on the ground OUTSIDE into the crawl space to get to the cut-off valve. So, since they're coming out, I'm going to have them install a shutoff value on both sides of the water meter in the laundry room. At least after this, I won't be incurring the extra fee they charge for going into the crawl space ($145 a pop!). Total price for this little fiasco: ~$1020!
To install the cut-off value, they need one guy under the house pushing up on the pipes while the other guy pulls the meter off and installs pipe extensions and the shutoff values. That's why they need TWO plumbers on site. At least after this I won't have to worry about going under the house in a future plumbing emergency.
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[edit]Oh yeah...did I mention the blizzard I'm due to get whacked with tonight and tomorrow? 12-16" total (or more?)
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Randy, Mikey, take care with the snow! This looks like it will a be a respectable storm. Keith, I don't know how much this sort thing affects you but I can't imagine it will pass unnoticed.
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the blizzard I'm due to get whacked with tonight
RandyC is ponying up for a plumbing rerout to save future plumbing costs, and yet he says a blizzard will whack him tonight.
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Randy, Mikey, take care with the snow! This looks like it will a be a respectable storm. Keith, I don't know how much this sort thing affects you but I can't imagine it will pass unnoticed.
That's funny. The weather here has been FOG since early this morning, now its getting into alte afternoon. I can't see across the street, much less any storm. It is however dry out there where I can see, so I don't think there is any storm here.
Mikey, I guess i am frugal, but really i'm just not wasteful. I've always been that way. I recycle and reuse stuff.
I heard recently somewhere, if every person in the world, lived like the average american, and don't ask me what they used for average, we would need the resources of 5 planet earths to sustain us. We can't even get to the moon and it doesn't have that much to offer.
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Right now my major concern is no longer the washer. I have two (count them--TWO!) plumbers coming over today to do some work. At least after this I won't have to worry about going under the house in a future plumbing emergency.
I agree plumbers cost a fortune but I would not want to do their job, I did it when I was in the Navy 30 years ago and while I didn't mind it then, no way I would want to do it now!!
[edit]Oh yeah...did I mention the blizzard I'm due to get whacked with tonight and tomorrow? 12-16" total (or more?)
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My storm fizzled, it turned into fog, like Keith's, and never really got below freezing so no ice storm no nothing! It is supposed to get up to the mid 50's today so all rain will just flow away, hopefully taking the last of the snow with it!! I still have over 4 inches of the stuff piled up everywhere, we don't usually have snow stay around like this here!! Usually it comes for a few days and then the weather gets back up into the 50's for a few days, this wreaks havoc with the allergies and sinuses but makes the area bearable!! I feel like I am way up North the way the weather has turned cold this year and then stayed that way. I am guessing you guys 'up North' feel worse than I do though.
I am now sending out emails to all of my retiree group for the monthly luncheon we have, and yesterday half a dozen bounced. The guy that did it before just ignored them but I decided to fix them, so I called all the people that had bad emails. One of them was a very nice widow of a former cop that lives in South Dakota, she 'PROMISED' to stop sending me all the bad weather, so sunny days should be ahead for me!! ;-)) Yesterday morning she had over 12 inches of snow and it was snowing heavily!! She was not happy either!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,099,315 so up again, I really cannot believe that I am now a member of the 1 million rac a day club!! My electric bill shows it but it is just amazing to me!!!
SwiftMallard hang in there, the rac should climb, especially with the gpu's you have!
Keith have you seen the tv show 'tank on the moon'? It is not a series or anything, it was a show that detailed the Russians putting a rover on the moon while the US was putting men walking around on the moon. They actually put TWO rovers on the moon, one at a time, and drove them around for over a year in the 70's!!! I think you can download a movie of it here
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Tank_on_the_Moon
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Right now my major concern is no longer the washer. I have two (count them--TWO!) plumbers coming over today to do some work. At least after this I won't have to worry about going under the house in a future plumbing emergency.
I agree plumbers cost a fortune but I would not want to do their job, I did it when I was in the Navy 30 years ago and while I didn't mind it then, no way I would want to do it now!!
[edit]Oh yeah...did I mention the blizzard I'm due to get whacked with tonight and tomorrow? 12-16" total (or more?)
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My storm fizzled, it turned into fog, like Keith's, and never really got below freezing so no ice storm no nothing! It is supposed to get up to the mid 50's today so all rain will just flow away, hopefully taking the last of the snow with it!! I still have over 4 inches of the stuff piled up everywhere, we don't usually have snow stay around like this here!! Usually it comes for a few days and then the weather gets back up into the 50's for a few days, this wreaks havoc with the allergies and sinuses but makes the area bearable!! I feel like I am way up North the way the weather has turned cold this year and then stayed that way. I am guessing you guys 'up North' feel worse than I do though.
I am now sending out emails to all of my retiree group for the monthly luncheon we have, and yesterday half a dozen bounced. The guy that did it before just ignored them but I decided to fix them, so I called all the people that had bad emails. One of them was a very nice widow of a former cop that lives in South Dakota, she 'PROMISED' to stop sending me all the bad weather, so sunny days should be ahead for me!! ;-)) Yesterday morning she had over 12 inches of snow and it was snowing heavily!! She was not happy either!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,099,315 so up again, I really cannot believe that I am now a member of the 1 million rac a day club!! My electric bill shows it but it is just amazing to me!!!
SwiftMallard hang in there, the rac should climb, especially with the gpu's you have!
Keith have you seen the tv show 'tank on the moon'? It is not a series or anything, it was a show that detailed the Russians putting a rover on the moon while the US was putting men walking around on the moon. They actually put TWO rovers on the moon, one at a time, and drove them around for over a year in the 70's!!! I think you can download a movie of it here
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Tank_on_the_Moon
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My wife said the plumbers were done and out of here by 11:30. Cost: $1019.36.
I'm in a pause area for the blizzard right now. Radar shows an open space surrounding the Detroit area, but the snow is closing in again. There's about 6-8" on the driveway right now. Could be worse 'cause I shoveled it off last night with about 3" on it so I could take my granddaughter home. Without that, It would be 9-12" on the driveway now.
I cleared one wheelpath down the driveway to the street. I turned and started to work my way to the other side of the driveway and my back said: 'hold on cowboy! No way you're doing that!' So I'm back in the house trying to persuade the charlie horse to go away. BTW my driveway is about 100' from garage to street. I don't have to shovel ALL of that...the cars were banished from the garage years ago in favor of storage. I normally shovel two paths for the car wheels to travel down the driveway. This time it's too deep and I'm going to have to clear the center as well. The low clearance on the Prius only allows for 6-8" before it bottoms out.
I've seen the documentary 'Tank on the Moon'. I captured a copy of it off Science or History Channel (forgot which) and put it on DVD. Pretty good show I thought. I knew the Russians had sent probes to the moon, but I didn't know they had rovers there too. They weren't like the rovers we sent to Mars. More like remote control cars instead, driven by an operator here on earth.
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I am having trouble getting Skype and Boinc to play well together. When I try to start Skype, my MC work units error out. Is anyone else having any issues like this?
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When I am on Skype I usually suspend the CPU project and leave the GPU project running. The CPU was needed to help Skype or the quad was deemed too slow. But, I have run both CPU and GPU and Skype successfully (including high definition video on a 1 MB BB line.
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Winning?
LOL You should know, you're running the game!
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Or what?
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My wife said the plumbers were done and out of here by 11:30. Cost: $1019.36.
I'm in a pause area for the blizzard right now. Radar shows an open space surrounding the Detroit area, but the snow is closing in again. There's about 6-8" on the driveway right now. Could be worse 'cause I shoveled it off last night with about 3" on it so I could take my granddaughter home. Without that, It would be 9-12" on the driveway now.
I cleared one wheelpath down the driveway to the street. I turned and started to work my way to the other side of the driveway and my back said: 'hold on cowboy! No way you're doing that!' So I'm back in the house trying to persuade the charlie horse to go away. BTW my driveway is about 100' from garage to street. I don't have to shovel ALL of that...the cars were banished from the garage years ago in favor of storage. I normally shovel two paths for the car wheels to travel down the driveway. This time it's too deep and I'm going to have to clear the center as well. The low clearance on the Prius only allows for 6-8" before it bottoms out.
I've seen the documentary 'Tank on the Moon'. I captured a copy of it off Science or History Channel (forgot which) and put it on DVD. Pretty good show I thought. I knew the Russians had sent probes to the moon, but I didn't know they had rovers there too. They weren't like the rovers we sent to Mars. More like remote control cars instead, driven by an operator here on earth.
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I too lived thru that time and had no idea that they had put rovers on the moon! I loved the show and was just amazed! I too saved it but lost it in some dvr crashes and reboots before I had a chance to save it to a dvd.
I hope your snow storm is moved on by now! Mine fizzled and is now not anything at all anymore, in fact it is supposed to be near 40F for a high all week with the lows just below the freezing mark. Saturday it might rain again but again the highs will be in the mid 40's, so not much chance of snow or sticking if it does.
JohnC my rac for today is 1,115,188, the gpu's are cranking up now but since the cpu's are now at WCG I am not increasing as fast as I was before. It is okay though, it is in tribute to a fallen Team Member and a friend, so it is worth it to me! Speaking of Teams, I have just now gone over 10% of the total Team cobblestones mark. Meaning I alone have now contributed 10.02180% of the TOTAL cobblestones awarded to the Team, The Final Front Ear, in Boinc projects!!
SwiftMallard I have Skype but haven't used it in quite awhile, actually since I left Seti, in 2007! Because I think the last time I used it was when Dennis set up a conference call with the powers that be at Seti to try and solve some problems. We got to talk to all the bigwigs, but nothing changed so half a dozen of us left and came here.
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Is it Winter or Spring ?
Yesterday it was like 70F plus here, got up to 80 inside the building. Tday it is 37F'ish and suppose to get colder.
Anyway i'm keeping busy. I added 22ish items yesterday and i've done about 14 today. Sold 2 pieces yesterday and 3 today. Only 4500 more pieces to sell. I still do not know how much i got to do, i'm on item number 1195. It feels like i'm at about the half way mark, oh i hope not I want to be near the finish line.
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Is it Winter or Spring ?
Yesterday it was like 70F plus here, got up to 80 inside the building. Tday it is 37F'ish and suppose to get colder.
Anyway i'm keeping busy. I added 22ish items yesterday and i've done about 14 today. Sold 2 pieces yesterday and 3 today. Only 4500 more pieces to sell. I still do not know how much i got to do, i'm on item number 1195. It feels like i'm at about the half way mark, oh i hope not I want to be near the finish line.
Keith you ARE near the finish line, you are nearer now than when you started!! As for the weather the rest of us can only wish our weather was like yours! If you are not careful you will look like this on your porch though...
SUNBURNT!!JohnC my rac for today is 1,123,722 so only up about 8k from yesterday. I guess I am slowing down BUT I am going to go to the Computer Show in my area this weekend with a friend, so we will see what grabs me.
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Keith you ARE near the finish line, you are nearer now than when you started!! As for the weather the rest of us can only wish our weather was like yours! If you are not careful you will look like this on your porch though...
Not today. OK whose the practical joker who put slushy ice all over my stairs and kar this morning. Weather has gone down hill. Its back to near freezing again. Looks like we are to 100% chance of percipitation today and tomorrow.
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I am going to go to the Computer Show in my area this weekend with a friend, so we will see what grabs me.
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Another box perhaps, an i5 - 2500 with 2 x HD6990 in crossfire?
RAC rising back towards the 800 it tanked at when the HD5850 fan blew.
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I am going to go to the Computer Show in my area this weekend with a friend, so we will see what grabs me.
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Another box perhaps, an i5 - 2500 with 2 x HD6990 in crossfire?
RAC rising back towards the 800 it tanked at when the HD5850 fan blew.
No I do not have the money for any of that right now, but I can wish!! In fact I will be taking some extra memory I have and see if I can sell it to the guy that is at all the shows selling older memory. I have a large stack of 1 gb pc2100 or pc2700 memory chips that are pulls from Dell machines that got upgraded and then replaced at my old work. They were going to throw away the memory, they spent over 60k on the memory initially, but had no way to do anything with it. I got permission to take it but things have changed and they no longer want those pc's I used to build for the kids that the memory was for, and they told me to just do whatever I'd like with it now. I need some ddr2-800 2 gb memory sticks, so I may end up just trading him initially. I have some pc's with only 2 memory slots and only have 2 gb of memory total in the machine, it would be nice if they could all go to 4gb. I will take about 50 sticks and see what kind of a deal he wants to make, I will have at least that many still at home. I really don't want to put them on ebay!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,133,787, so up again but PrimeGrid is sort of down so it is not what it should be!! PG is unresponsive quite a bit but every once in a while I can manually report some work.
Keith I think it is about time you got some yucky weather down your way, it IS winter you know!! Isn't that why you are going further South, to find even nicer weather and to visit the family? My weather is in the upper 30'sF right now and expected to get to about 40 today, 47 tomorrow and into the low 50's come Monday before dropping into the 20's for highs for the middle of next week!
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No I do not have the money for any of that right now, but I can wish!! In fact I will be taking some extra memory I have and see if I can sell it to the guy that is at all the shows selling older memory. I have a large stack of 1 gb pc2100 or pc2700 memory chips that are pulls from Dell machines that got upgraded and then replaced at my old work. They were going to throw away the memory, they spent over 60k on the memory initially, but had no way to do anything with it. I got permission to take it but things have changed and they no longer want those pc's I used to build for the kids that the memory was for, and they told me to just do whatever I'd like with it now. I need some ddr2-800 2 gb memory sticks, so I may end up just trading him initially. I have some pc's with only 2 memory slots and only have 2 gb of memory total in the machine, it would be nice if they could all go to 4gb. I will take about 50 sticks and see what kind of a deal he wants to make, I will have at least that many still at home. I really don't want to put them on ebay!
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Good luck finding that speed memory. I've seen ads at Microcenter for DDR2-667, but the 800 is next to impossible to find there or Best Buy. I don't need it bad enough to look online. A computer show is probably the best place to look.
My boss at work (as opposed to She Who Must Be Obeyed) tells me I'm at the top of the list for a replacement PC. The one I'm using now dates back to '02 or '03 and has a 1.8Ghz P4 in it. I even brought 512MB of my own ram in to bring it up to 1.5GB of memory. Just an older stick that I had leftover from upgrading one of my systems. It helped my work system a lot...but it's still ancient by today's standards.
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[quote]Keith I think it is about time you got some yucky weather down your way, it IS winter you know!! Isn't that why you are going further South, to find even nicer weather and to visit the family? My weather is in the upper 30'sF right now and expected to get to about 40 today, 47 tomorrow and into the low 50's come Monday before dropping into the 20's for highs for the middle of next week![quote]
Today is continued yucky. It's drizzly. Temp is 55F now but will be dropping and by Tuesday night we will have near freezing.
No I go on vacation to visit family or friends. Weather can do what it wants. There has been bad weather down south, once it was even freezing. Then of course when I went west to visit a friend it was sub-zero, but we still found things to do out of the house. For me though it was more important to see my friend than any other sites, just spending time together no matter what activites we do is the most precious aspect to me.
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Yes, PrimeGrid has been sluggish for several days now and is nearly impossible to reach.
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I think i'm gonna change internet providers.
As of now i'm on DSL and limited to 1.5Mbps do to distance from the telco building. i don't see them planning any upgrades to that any time soon. We have 10Mbps at work but that is because the telco connection there is about 1000 feet away, really close. Also i can't get jsut internet, i have to pay for phone service too and don't need that or even use it since both of us ahve cell phones, a home phone is not necessary.
I looked at options here, it seems cable internet is avaialable and comes at 1,12,18 or 25 Mbps at my locatiaon. I think i'll buy a cable modem as renting cost an exta $5 a month and the cost of buying will pay for itself just after 1 year.
The cost to upgrade from 1.5Mbps DSL to 25Mbps cable will be a few dollars a month savings, you do the math.
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Good luck finding that speed memory. I've seen ads at Microcenter for DDR2-667, but the 800 is next to impossible to find there or Best Buy. I don't need it bad enough to look online. A computer show is probably the best place to look.
My boss at work (as opposed to She Who Must Be Obeyed) tells me I'm at the top of the list for a replacement PC. The one I'm using now dates back to '02 or '03 and has a 1.8Ghz P4 in it. I even brought 512MB of my own ram in to bring it up to 1.5GB of memory. Just an older stick that I had leftover from upgrading one of my systems. It helped my work system a lot...but it's still ancient by today's standards.
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Yes you NEED a new pc at work, tell the boss you can do more work in the same amount of time if you get a new pc, that is what made the change-over happen faster at my old work. Although we used to replace pc's every 4 years regardless, unless the person had a reason to get one sooner. Some people did NOT want a new one, until they got it, then they couldn't believe how slow their old one was!!
I went to the computer show and the guy looked at my memory and bought most of what I took, some of it was really old 128 meg stuff and he said he couldn't sell it. So he ended up buying 60 pieces of memory for 324 dollars, that is about 5 bucks apiece and is worth it to me. He also said they never made the 2 meg ddr2-pc6400 memory except for Servers and it wouldn't work in the pc's I have. So I am stuck with 2 gig of ram in alot of my machines. So instead of him giving me some memory and some cash I got all cash and then instead of buying another 5770 gpu I pocketed the cash and at the next show will sell him some more memory and maybe buy a new i7 Sandy Bridge based pc instead! My personal pc is an AMD 5600 dual core with an ATI 4670 gpu and Win XP Pro on it. I just helped a friend buy an i7 at Costco, a Dell, that had EVERYTHING on it for about 850 dollars. Now his video card is only an ATI 5450, so that would need upgrading, but I think I can build a new pc that is better for me that costs less.
Keith I went the cable modem purchase route when I was was with Comcast for a long time, but then they upgraded their standards and I lost my connection to them and went to being a renter. Cable modems use a standard, docsis 3, the one I had was a docsis 2 and I had had it for several years before Comcast upgraded all their rental folks and then suddenly I had no signal. I had a LinkSys but they told me it was not upgradeable so I went the rental route from then on. But you will LOVE the upgraded speed from DSL to the new cable speeds!! I am now on Verizon FIOS and I do not believe owning is an option. I have the 25mbps speed and it is a VERY nice bump from Comcasts old 12mbps speed!!!
JohnC there is talk of it being the policy of re-issuing work units but I don't know, I just know it has been very slow at PG! I JUST checked and it is still slow!!
I hope the Super Bowl is a GOOD game and not a dud nor lopsided, no matter who wins!!
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I think i'm gonna change internet providers.
I just changed mine. I went from 1.5M DSL @ $40 per month to 6M wireless @ $45 per month.
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A rather warm morning for a Monday: 30F, going up to 33F as a high.
Not to worry...tonight will be down to 7F with 30% chance of sn@w.
[sarcasm]Had a good time of it Saturday afternoon. The "coating to an inch" came in as 6-8" of very powdery snow. [/sarcasm]
Gathering all my aches and pains and heading off to w@^k.
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I think i'm gonna change internet providers.
I just changed mine. I went from 1.5M DSL @ $40 per month to 6M wireless @ $45 per month.
You now have a company that ONLY gives you the net thru a wireless connection to you? Is that thru a cell phone company like AT&T? No wires run to your home anymore?
RandyC sorry about the new snow! The lady in South Dakota told me she would stop sending it this way! I guess she was just in a sharing mood!! Now don't you get all teary eyed and think I miss it!!!
I am guessing most everyone watched the Super bowl, I LIKED it!! I knew if they could contain 'Big Ben' then Green Bay would win!! Ben did a very good job and even went a whole drive to score a touchdown and didn't throw the ball once, but Green Bay is too explosive to keep that up all day long and Pittsburgh think they can win that way! CONGRATULATIONS to Green Bay!! Oh did you see the Visa guy from Green Bay got sick and didn't make the game, I felt sorry for him, he had NEVER missed a Super Bowl until this one! What a streak and to have it be broken when Green Bay wins!!!!!!!!!!! It must be doubly heartbreaking for him!!!
Hey JohnC my rac for today is 1,150,627 AND I actually moved up one more place in the Combined Overall score to #224! That means I am now #224 WORLDWIDE in all of Boinc as far as how many cobblestones I have, 184,819,895!!!
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincusers&offset=220
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You now have a company that ONLY gives you the net thru a wireless connection to you? Is that thru a cell phone company like AT&T? No wires run to your home anymore?
http://www.clear.com/
It's all wireless internet, the only active lines in my house are for power. I have satellite TV and we all use cell cell phones, security is wireless too. When this gets settled in and I'm happy with it, I'd like to take the land line down from the pole like I did with my broadband line.
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You now have a company that ONLY gives you the net thru a wireless connection to you? Is that thru a cell phone company like AT&T? No wires run to your home anymore?
http://www.clear.com/
It's all wireless internet, the only active lines in my house are for power. I have satellite TV and we all use cell cell phones, security is wireless too. When this gets settled in and I'm happy with it, I'd like to take the land line down from the pole like I did with my broadband line.
That is pretty cool! It is not available in my area yet though! 8-(( I couldn't switch until next year anyway though, I am on a 2 year contract with Verizon FIOS and still have one year left to go on it.
It was supposed to snow in my area today but the temps are in the high 30's right now and although the roads look damp there is no snow! WOO HOO!! It looks like Thursday is my next chance for something and the weathermen are all saying it is 'too early to tell what it is yet'. One came out and said it will stay too far South to be anything but rain for me but the others are all being cagey!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,139,935, that is actually down from yesterday. It seems PG is not validating the units very fast and instead of my almost 250k daily normal rac from them, yesterday I only got 22k from them! Ah well the ups and downs of a cruncher!!
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My PG output was down as well. I have what looks like 100s of PPS LLRs waiting to validate, and all CPU output.
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My PG output was down as well. I have what looks like 100s of PPS LLRs waiting to validate, and all CPU output.
JohnC my rac for today is only 1,131,162, so down again! part of that is because I found some spyware on my pc and had to figure out why it wasn't being removed. I finally figure it out and after updating my MalwareBytes program all spyware was removed and I am good to go again. I use the free version of MalwareBytes which means I must manually update and scan my pc's, turns out I have not been as diligent about doing that as I thought I had been. One pc hadn't been updated in over 1.5 years!! I then went thru and updated ALL of my pc's and then ran a scan on each, that is why my rac went down yesterday, in addition to PG's continuing problems! PG says it is because they just finished a Challenge and just have a backlog, seems to me that part of the results are that their validation of workunits is not able to keep up with the amount of work being done! As of right now they have "Workunits waiting for validation 801,923"!!!!!!!!!! That is a problem especially when "minimum quorum 1"! That means that each workunit is not verified against any other pc, just the one that returns it, I don't understand how when there are no checks and balances, which is not a problem for me, and a pc returns a workunit why is there a lag in granting credits? What is it waiting for???!!
Oh well WINNING!!
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Goodness gratious, it's morning again and another day has passed
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Goodness gratious, it's morning again and another day has passed
It is isn't it!!
Hey JohnC my rac for today is 1,183,063 seems PG got their act together and I got a TON of credits since yesterday!! Right now they only have "Workunits waiting for validation 93,975" that is 700k less than yesterdays amount!!! Way to go PG!!!
Has anyone here ever heard of the software Time Stopper? It supposedly stops the clock for trial software, I saw it at the computer show this past weekend and my buddy bought it and gave it to me, I have never heard of it before and am just wondering.
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Goodness gratious, it's morning again and another day has passed
It is isn't it!!
Hey JohnC my rac for today is 1,183,063 seems PG got their act together and I got a TON of credits since yesterday!! Right now they only have "Workunits waiting for validation 93,975" that is 700k less than yesterdays amount!!! Way to go PG!!!
Has anyone here ever heard of the software Time Stopper? It supposedly stops the clock for trial software, I saw it at the computer show this past weekend and my buddy bought it and gave it to me, I have never heard of it before and am just wondering.
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I find that most trial software is so disabled or nagging that it's not worth the money you paid for it (LOL). The only software I have that isn't free or I haven't purchased is a photo-editing shareware program. The guy is long out of business so I can't buy a version without the nag screen. The screen displays at startup and every 5th photo I open. Once the count exceeds 256 it nags every photo I open, so I have to go into the Windows Registry and reset the count to zero. The main thing I use it for is to crop/resize huge pictures and/or convert to jpg.
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The main thing I use it for is to crop/resize huge pictures and/or convert to jpg.
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Why not use GIMP?
No, I am winning.
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The main thing I use it for is to crop/resize huge pictures and/or convert to jpg.
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Why not use GIMP?
No, I am winning.
Michael
GIMP is a resource hog and takes forever to load.
WINNING!!!
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The main thing I use it for is to crop/resize huge pictures and/or convert to jpg.
WINNING!!!
Why not use GIMP?
No, I am winning.
Michael
GIMP is a resource hog and takes forever to load.
WINNING!!!
Again!!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,188,724 which is up about 5k from yesterday.
Michael Karlinsky my wife use Adobe's Photoshop which she bought thru her camera club at a discount, I think. I did have to build her a quad core to use it though, it is a resource hog too but only if you don't have enough to feed it. She also uses Adobe's Photoshop elements to do something with her pictures too, she got it the same way.
And guys...ahhh I think I am now WINNING!!!
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Forecast is to come out of the deep freeze today. That alone means I'm WINNING!
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Forecast is to come out of the deep freeze today. That alone means I'm WINNING!
Not too sure about that...
Tomorrow we should be near freezing and Sunday near 40F. As of Wednesday, even the lows will be above freezing!
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Forecast is to come out of the deep freeze today. That alone means I'm WINNING!
Not too sure about that...
Tomorrow we should be near freezing and Sunday near 40F. As of Wednesday, even the lows will be above freezing!
WINNING!!!
My forecast, man I hope they are even close!, is for the mid 40's today Saturday, mid 50's for most of the upcoming week but near 60 on Friday and near 70 by the end of next weekend!! We will be under an off shore high pressure system that will funnel in the warm Southern air and keep the cold air up in Canada. WOO HOO!! It may be a bit early for the 70's but a nice stretch of 50's and 60's for me would be nice!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,193,347 and I am now at #219 while you are hanging out at #236 overall in total cobblestones! Come on and catch up will you!! AND ALL THE REST OF YOU TOO!!! Come on I can't get to the top of the heap all by myself!!! You guys just need some more pc's with some gpu's to help you along, right SwiftMallard?!!!
ps the TIPPY TOP of the heap is 11,014,873 rac per day!!! And he has a garage full of pc's!
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ps the TIPPY TOP of the heap is 11,014,873 rac per day!!! And he has a garage full of pc's!
If it's the guy I'm thinking of, he just added six 20 amp circuits to handle some of the load!
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Finally a moment to relax. Been busy wrapping up things I wanted done before I vacate. I also talked one of my brothers into to going down finally, he will show up after I get there and leave before I do, but at least he'll be there a while. I don't think he has visited them in the last 10 years at least.
It was in the 70's on Feb 2nd. Then it turned colder again. We had a little snow this past week. Not much on the roads but someone up the street was able to build a sizable 6 foot tall snowman. He probally washed away in yesterdays rain. It is suppose to be warming over the next week. almost 50ish now.
Been busy at work too, well not so much with actuall every day work, but with maintaining my intrernet store. While it is slow I use the time. I've added at least 100 items in the last two weeks. Up over 1250. Made good progress with finding photos or photoing a lot of those and making up the listings. I even had added one on Thursday, then by the Saturday after it had sold 4 pieces of that item. I've almost run out of items for this one vendor I was working on to list, maybe a dozen really odd things left. Early next week I have to do an inventory of everything I sorted out and get the computer updated. That won't be hard since it's all located in two glass cases in our showroom and with my new location codes I only have to print out sheets for those two cases.
Internet sales are good too still, up to about 30% for this months quota, which I won't make since the store will be closed while i'm gone and probally won't reopen until March as i have to manually update the inventory after I get back with all the stuff sold in the retail store. it's not hard to do on a day to day basis while i'm there, but i'll have 8 days or so to catch up on when i get back.
We'll see ya later, i've got more things to do and start getting ready to pack my suitcase.
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ps the TIPPY TOP of the heap is 11,014,873 rac per day!!! And he has a garage full of pc's!
If it's the guy I'm thinking of, he just added six 20 amp circuits to handle some of the load!
'Steve' of your Team is the guy, he used to be known by a couple of other names but is now 'Steve'. In my next place, or this one if the market doesn't get better soon, I too will have to add circuits, but I would not need 6!
Keith why not just leave the store open with a note saying that shipping will be delayed until after whatever date due to a 'family reunion'? You could be losing customers that are willing to wait for some part they have been looking for. Now obviously two people can't have the same part if you only have one, but a simple email letting the 2nd one know that should fix that when you get back.
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Getting set to take the wife to see the movie: Gnomeo & Juliet (in 3-D). Kind of a pre-Valentines day outing. Supper tomorrow (per her request) is two Heart-shaped pizzas from Papa Romano's (a pretty good local pizza place).
Had both granddaughters in the house simultaneously yesterday. 
Per youngest daughter's orders, the two were not allowed to play together. 
My youngest daughter does not get along with her sister, and the grandkids suffer for it. There's a smidgen of reasoning behind it as the older one is much more developed than the younger...even though they're only 6 months apart.
Anyway, while younger daughter was out, we let the two interact for 5 minutes or so before I took the younger one in the other room. 
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Keith why not just leave the store open with a note saying that shipping will be delayed until after whatever date due to a 'family reunion'? You could be losing customers that are willing to wait for some part they have been looking for. Now obviously two people can't have the same part if you only have one, but a simple email letting the 2nd one know that should fix that when you get back.
Well there is a way to put a delay on shipping, but no way to attach a note. Then there would be people who inquire, but i won't be avaialble to answer. I'M ON VACATION to RELAX. Then when I get back I have to do 8 days of work no other stupid or lazy person in the company is willing to do, plus normal work from that point on. That in addition to a backlog of internet orders would be way to much stress. Also when I get back, by the time I get caught up on that it will be a new month, and this creates more additional work for me. I doubt I could get all caught up plus ship a backlog of orders in 3 working days (February is shorter than other months), of which one is a monday the heaviest paperwork day of the week. Late messages and canceling orders and disapointing people can lead to bad ratings. I do have to operate within amazon's rules which are not the same if it was a stand alone store. All around it is just easier to close for a while and loose some business than create any more stress. After all it is just a side line, not our main source of income. While it keeps me busy sometimes there is no need to be overworked over what amounts to 1% or less of our monthly sales.
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Keith why not just leave the store open with a note saying that shipping will be delayed until after whatever date due to a 'family reunion'? You could be losing customers that are willing to wait for some part they have been looking for. Now obviously two people can't have the same part if you only have one, but a simple email letting the 2nd one know that should fix that when you get back.
Well there is a way to put a delay on shipping, but no way to attach a note. Then there would be people who inquire, but i won't be avaialble to answer. I'M ON VACATION to RELAX. Then when I get back I have to do 8 days of work no other stupid or lazy person in the company is willing to do, plus normal work from that point on. That in addition to a backlog of internet orders would be way to much stress. Also when I get back, by the time I get caught up on that it will be a new month, and this creates more additional work for me. I doubt I could get all caught up plus ship a backlog of orders in 3 working days (February is shorter than other months), of which one is a monday the heaviest paperwork day of the week. Late messages and canceling orders and disapointing people can lead to bad ratings. I do have to operate within amazon's rules which are not the same if it was a stand alone store. All around it is just easier to close for a while and loose some business than create any more stress. After all it is just a side line, not our main source of income. While it keeps me busy sometimes there is no need to be overworked over what amounts to 1% or less of our monthly sales.
When you put it that way it makes sense to close up then!! I guess you have job security though, if no one else is willing to do your job while you are gone, the boss would just have to hire someone if you left.
RandyC my sister and I have 'issues' but at our parents the rules are it is 'their house and they set the rules' so our kids played together. My sister and I used to drop off the kids, separately of course, and then pick them up later on and the grandparents got to enjoy the kids as they saw fit. It worked and kept them out of our fighting. I know it can be hard to be caught in the middle!!
JohnC my rac for today is 1,203,180 up again from yesterday. I see yours is waaaay up from the other day too!! I will have to keep my eye on your rac to make sure I do not fall into your clutches again!!! *LOL*
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I'm ready to vacate, 19 minutes to go.
I closed the store earlier after I filled last nights 1 order. I had 5 yesterday from the week-end. One of those was for another couple of those recently added items, i'm gladd it paid off to put those for sale. If people don't know I have them they won't buy them from me.
Today there has not been a lot of other work so I used the time for some store maintenance and to generate another 14 or so new item listings, which won't appear until I re-open but they are there ready to go. I updated our computer inventory for the two cases of stuff I worked on the past two weeks. I should be able to finish off a lot of the stuff left when I get back and before spring, when the spring rush hits.
I made backups and cleaned up any other stuff left to do.
When I get home all I have to do is finish off some leftovers in the frig then rest up. Tomorrow morning I need to water plants and then get my boarding pass and head for the airport. Most everythiong is packed with a few things to pack tomorrow that are on recharge now. Not a lot to do. My roomie will water the plants some while i'm gone (I Hope).
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I'm ready to vacate, 19 minutes to go.
I closed the store earlier after I filled last nights 1 order. I had 5 yesterday from the week-end. One of those was for another couple of those recently added items, i'm gladd it paid off to put those for sale. If people don't know I have them they won't buy them from me.
Today there has not been a lot of other work so I used the time for some store maintenance and to generate another 14 or so new item listings, which won't appear until I re-open but they are there ready to go. I updated our computer inventory for the two cases of stuff I worked on the past two weeks. I should be able to finish off a lot of the stuff left when I get back and before spring, when the spring rush hits.
I made backups and cleaned up any other stuff left to do.
When I get home all I have to do is finish off some leftovers in the frig then rest up. Tomorrow morning I need to water plants and then get my boarding pass and head for the airport. Most everythiong is packed with a few things to pack tomorrow that are on recharge now. Not a lot to do. My roomie will water the plants some while i'm gone (I Hope).
Have a nice vacation; don't take any w@^k with you; enjoy yourself!
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I'm ready to vacate, 19 minutes to go.
I closed the store earlier after I filled last nights 1 order. I had 5 yesterday from the week-end. One of those was for another couple of those recently added items, i'm gladd it paid off to put those for sale. If people don't know I have them they won't buy them from me.
Today there has not been a lot of other work so I used the time for some store maintenance and to generate another 14 or so new item listings, which won't appear until I re-open but they are there ready to go. I updated our computer inventory for the two cases of stuff I worked on the past two weeks. I should be able to finish off a lot of the stuff left when I get back and before spring, when the spring rush hits.
I made backups and cleaned up any other stuff left to do.
When I get home all I have to do is finish off some leftovers in the frig then rest up. Tomorrow morning I need to water plants and then get my boarding pass and head for the airport. Most everythiong is packed with a few things to pack tomorrow that are on recharge now. Not a lot to do. My roomie will water the plants some while i'm gone (I Hope).
Keith I think everything is done and you are as ready as you can be for your trip, I hope your flight is on time and not bumpy, don't worry about what you can't do and most importantly remember it is vacation time, so HAVE FUN!!
JohnC I was trying to tell you that I added another pc to my ranch but I couldn't because I was too busy winning! I went thru my stack of pc's on the floor and found one with a pci-e slot and since I had 3 unused pci-e cards I decided to give it another try. I have tried previously to make this pc run but it is a physically non gpu friendly motherboard. Turns out the battery is mounted vertically right at the end of where the gpu plugs in and the gpu won't seat because the battery is too high! Well now that I had 3 cards I decided to try the Nvidia one first, no luck too long battery is still in the way! So I tried a short ATI card, a 5550. It went in just fine!! BUT the system just would not recognize the drivers, I even tried both using the ones that came with it and downloading new ones, no luck!!! 8-((( So I tried the ATI 4670 I had just removed from another pc, it too plugged in just fine!! AND the system found it right away with no problems and it is now crunching just fine!! In the process though I had removed and then reinstalled the button battery and didn't notice that the system date was waaaaay off, I am now wondering if the 5550's problems were date related. I know MS has implemented a system to try and thwart some piracy by not letting some things happen when the system date is not right, I may pull the 4670 and try the 5550 again just to see if the card is bad or if it was 'user error'! The 5550 has 320 Stream Processing Units while the 4670 also has 320 Stream Processing Units, so the difference must be the speed of the memory etc.
Anyway all that has now pushed my rac to 1,209,210 and rising!
RandyC my weather today is 27F right now but going up into the mid 50's today, the low 60's tomorrow and the high 60's on Friday!! All of my leftover snow piles should be long gone shortly!! After Friday though it is back to a mostly normal mid 40's for the highs and below freezing at night for a bit.
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RandyC my weather today is 27F right now but going up into the mid 50's today, the low 60's tomorrow and the high 60's on Friday!! All of my leftover snow piles should be long gone shortly!! After Friday though it is back to a mostly normal mid 40's for the highs and below freezing at night for a bit.
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Forecast is for temps in the low 50s F through Friday, then back to the mid-upper 30s F after that...actually just about right for this time of year.
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[edit]change that to "about normal for this time of year" instead of "about right". I spent too much time on Guam for this type of weather to be "about right"![/edit]
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Thanks guys for the best wishes.
I got a lot done last night and was tired and went to sleep around 9. So i'm well rested now.
All ready to go. I feel I got everything done I needed. I hope I have all the necessary stuff packed, like chargers and cables. I just added a couple of missing items I hadn't thought about earlier.
I put a bunch of personal stuff on my netbook to work on, play with and review and entertainment, so i got movies, magazines and audiobooks, enough to keep me busy during any waiting around.
Boarding pass is printed and i'm checked in.
Now i just have to wait to leave, go top off the gas tank and it's a two hour drive to the airport, then thru security and time to wait around for my flight. It departs at 2:35 and i'll be in florida at 6:09.
Just enough time to watch a movie and relax.
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Thanks guys for the best wishes.
I got a lot done last night and was tired and went to sleep around 9. So i'm well rested now.
All ready to go. I feel I got everything done I needed. I hope I have all the necessary stuff packed, like chargers and cables. I just added a couple of missing items I hadn't thought about earlier.
I put a bunch of personal stuff on my netbook to work on, play with and review and entertainment, so i got movies, magazines and audiobooks, enough to keep me busy during any waiting around.
Boarding pass is printed and i'm checked in.
Now i just have to wait to leave, go top off the gas tank and it's a two hour drive to the airport, then thru security and time to wait around for my flight. It departs at 2:35 and i'll be in florida at 6:09.
Just enough time to watch a movie and relax.
We will keep an eye out for the photo of your 'full body scan' at the airport! I will fly in April and guess these are ok but sure wish there was no way to save the photos! Keith here's to hoping you have a great time and lots of quality time with the family!!
I finally have the money and everything else I need to go get the seats for the minor league baseball games again this year. I will be going today to the stadium and paying for 7 seats and 3 parking passes for 8 games again this year, about 900 bucks total. It is 14 bucks per game per person and 4 bucks per parking pass, but we carpool so not everyone pays. Last year we only had 5 guys but this year we are back to some end seats so a couple more of the handicapped guys can come. It ends up being more like a 'guys night out' where we get to watch a baseball game too! The seats are in what is called a 'field box' and ours are on the 3rd base side about 30 feet from the 3rd base coach, who is the Team Manager in our league. We will even have waiters and waitresses so there is no need to get up during the game except to go to the bathroom. We always pick the 3rd base side because the sun is over our shoulder instead of in our eyes like on the 1st base side. We always pick Saturday games because some guys commute and rush hour can be really bad around here, and because the Saturday games are at 6pm so it is getting cooler by then. We do about 2 games per month so it is not a 'schedule' kind of thing where it seems like you are always at the game, but it is often enough to put on the calendar.
JohnC my rac for today is 1,212,972 I see yours is rising too! I may have to rethink my idea of turning off my pc's in April when I am out of town for 2 weeks, hmmmm.
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It looks like I am getting some sort of Internet connection back. This on-connection-off-connection is now over 24 hours old and really p***ing me off. I need to reboot the PC to get things sommunicating again. Let us hope this is the last time a reboot is needed.
Not winning and just p.....
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Has anyone had any of the ver 6.53 units actually run to successful completion? I've had a couple dozen and they all error out right away.
@John Clark: Many of my teammates in Europe have had connection problems all day today.
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Has anyone had any of the ver 6.53 units actually run to successful completion? I've had a couple dozen and they all error out right away.
@John Clark: Many of my teammates in Europe have had connection problems all day today.
Mucking about at PrimeGrid seems to have pointed us at WUProp@Home and given us the reason.
See my quote below ...
Just been wandering around the PrimeGrid NC forum and found this thread
This strongly suggests that any Windows Boxes running the NCI project WUProp@Home on their 2.36 version WU is likely to experience the problems I have (reason for this thread).
The solution is to detach from the project or get the latest WU version release 2.37.
I have chosen to try 2.37 and see if I get the same problems tomorrow morning
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Has anyone had any of the ver 6.53 units actually run to successful completion? I've had a couple dozen and they all error out right away.
They pulled them all due to none of them working correctly for anyone.
@John Clark: Many of my teammates in Europe have had connection problems all day today.
@JohnC it is probably the internet being turned off so you guys don't start protesting like all the Arab Countries lately. Europe is just being preemptive! *LOL* 8-)))
@JohnC my rac for today is 1,220,809 so up again, but so was yours!!
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Today's weather: High - 54F (unfortunately, that was around midnight and will only go down through the day)
Tonight's low: 20-24F plus VERY windy!
On the plus side, daytime highs are forecast to be above freezing through Wednesday!
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It's like 78F here. Having fun with family. Helping dad byfixingthings around the house.
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It's like 78F here. Having fun with family. Helping dad by fixing things around the house.
Glad to hear you made it and all is well!
My weather too is going to very windy for the next day or so and warm too, today it is supposed to be in the mid 50's with winds near 60 to 65 mph! Monday it is supposed to be in the low 70's for temps though, and then there is a chance of S-N-O-W on Tuesday!!!
JohnC I think I will stop posting my rac every single day, it is getting to be too 'in your face' to me and that was NOT the whole point of me doing it! I was trying to inspire some others to join the rac climbing but it doesn't seem to have worked very well.
WINNING in memory of Tommy and Dan today! Tommy and Dan were former co-workers of mine, both paramedics, that died this past week. They were both retired and both had some health issues but both deaths were unexpected. These are some of the first deaths where I will be attending at least the Memorial Service for, I don't normally do that but these guys were my friends! The others were too, and there have been MANY over the years, but these seem to be a little different. Maybe because I am getting older I feel differently, I don't know.
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@Mikey, sorry to hear your loss. An old Navy buddy of mine died last Sunday. He lived in Houston and I was unable to go to the funeral. I feel like I let him down.
After a nice thaw we saw some significant meltage during the w#*k week and most of the ice dams are gone from most of the houses. But it has since cooled back down. We are expecting 6-12 inches of slush/sleet tomorrow.
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Time to sleep and win while I am doing it.
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Expecting a foot or more of wet heavy snow tomorrow. Ugh.
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Expecting a foot or more of wet heavy snow tomorrow. Ugh.
Eck! And all I'm expecting is some freezing rain, turning to sleet, then snow--some two to three inches of it, and capped off with a glazing of ice for good measure! Nothing too much for a President's Day Monday when I have to go to w@^k regardless...
WINNING!!?!
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@Mikey, sorry to hear your loss. An old Navy buddy of mine died last Sunday. He lived in Houston and I was unable to go to the funeral. I feel like I let him down.
After a nice thaw we saw some significant meltage during the w#*k week and most of the ice dams are gone from most of the houses. But it has since cooled back down. We are expecting 6-12 inches of slush/sleet tomorrow.
Thanks, I have lost other friends over the years but this is only the 2nd Service I have been too. I always feel guilty about not going but in most cases I did not know the persons family just them! I did not know this guys family either, most of tried to keep our family life separate from our work lives. Don't get me wrong I miss the guys, I just don't think I need to be there to do that! Does that mean that few people will come to mine, hopefully! Yesterday it was a power point on the wall with food and everyone just milling around, if I have to have one that is the kind for me, no formal stuff for me, I am not that kind of guy!
My 'snow' event for Tuesday has been downgraded to 'maybe' some flurries! This is because on Monday it will be near 70F and then on Tuesday only a high in the mid 30's, basically the air mass will be too warm when the moisture gets here so no snow.
RandyC you can keep that messy stuff near you too!
Hey I have now passed 200 MILLION for a Boinc total, I am adding my signature today, it IS Sunday after all, but will only do it on Sundays for the most part.
WINNING!!
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Still slowly climbing to that benchmark
Yes you are!!!
My 'snow' event for tomorrow may be back on as now they are saying I might get anywhere from 1 to 2 inches!! If that is throughout the DC metro area and on the roads you will be reading out us on the news again! It only takes an inch or so before all the crazies have to go to the store to buy enough staples ie tp, water, bread and milk, to last for a week! People LITERALLY take grocery carts and go to the different isles and FILL their carts with the stuff!!! There have been fights over the stuff more times than you can count!!! As for me I NEVER do that, I always buy stuff in bulk anyway and then have it stored in the basement and only get new stuff when I am running out of the old stuff. I have enough chili fixin's to make a couple of batches of the stuff and I have plenty of noodles to go in it for Chili Mac, one of my favorites! I prefer the elbow noodles as opposed to the spaghetti noodles The Hard Times Cafe uses. Cutting my chili with a knife just seems wrong!
WINNING!!
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Yes you are!!!
My 'snow' event for tomorrow may be back on as now they are saying I might get anywhere from 1 to 2 inches!! If that is throughout the DC metro area and on the roads you will be reading out us on the news again! It only takes an inch or so before all the crazies have to go to the store to buy enough staples ie tp, water, bread and milk, to last for a week! People LITERALLY take grocery carts and go to the different isles and FILL their carts with the stuff!!! There have been fights over the stuff more times than you can count!!! As for me I NEVER do that, I always buy stuff in bulk anyway and then have it stored in the basement and only get new stuff when I am running out of the old stuff. I have enough chili fixin's to make a couple of batches of the stuff and I have plenty of noodles to go in it for Chili Mac, one of my favorites! I prefer the elbow noodles as opposed to the spaghetti noodles The Hard Times Cafe uses. Cutting my chili with a knife just seems wrong!
WINNING!!
Just finished shoveling the drive--for the third time since the sn*w started!!!
Actually, if you want to be picky, it was four times. The first pass being only 1-2 inches. I shoveled twice more before bedtime; about 2-3 inches each time and then this morning about 3-4 inches. When I got to the street this morning I shoveled about 2-3 feet into it to test the depth. There's a good 10-12 inches on the street. While I was doing that, I saw 5...count them: 1-2-3-4-5 plows one after the other go down the semi-major artery at the end of my street.
I didn't bother to walk down there to see how high a wall they left blocking my street. I assume it's at least 2 feet, if not 3 feet high.
Since the Prius only has about 8 inches of clearance, I won't be going anywhere today...
WINNING???
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Just finished shoveling the drive--for the third time since the sn*w started!!!
Actually, if you want to be picky, it was four times. The first pass being only 1-2 inches. I shoveled twice more before bedtime; about 2-3 inches each time and then this morning about 3-4 inches. When I got to the street this morning I shoveled about 2-3 feet into it to test the depth. There's a good 10-12 inches on the street. While I was doing that, I saw 5...count them: 1-2-3-4-5 plows one after the other go down the semi-major artery at the end of my street.
I didn't bother to walk down there to see how high a wall they left blocking my street. I assume it's at least 2 feet, if not 3 feet high.
Since the Prius only has about 8 inches of clearance, I won't be going anywhere today...
No snow here, thank [insert deity here]!
WINNING???
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Just a few pics of the snow.
Snow depth at street.
Long driveway (standing next to rear of car).
Standing at rear of car looking toward garage (upper left).
Looking back at car+garage+snowbank on left.
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Yes you are!!!
My 'snow' event for tomorrow may be back on as now they are saying I might get anywhere from 1 to 2 inches!! If that is throughout the DC metro area and on
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WINNING!!
Just finished shoveling the drive--for the third time since the sn*w started!!!
Actually, if you want to be picky, it was four times. The first pass being only 1-2 inches. I shoveled twice more before bedtime; about 2-3 inches each time and then this morning about 3-4 inches. When I got to the street this morning I shoveled about 2-3 feet into it to test the depth. There's a good 10-12 inches on the street. While I was doing that, I saw 5...count them: 1-2-3-4-5 plows one after the other go down the semi-major artery at the end of my street.
I didn't bother to walk down there to see how high a wall they left blocking my street. I assume it's at least 2 feet, if not 3 feet high.
Since the Prius only has about 8 inches of clearance, I won't be going anywhere today...
WINNING???
That's deeper than I saw when I worked in Minneapolis for 9 months. It never got deeper than 6 inches, even though it never melted during the last 3 months either. It reached -28 F the week before I left, though.
Not much need to shovel the snow there - it wouldn't melt so that it could turn into ice.
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Just finished shoveling the drive--for the third time since the sn*w started!!!
Actually, if you want to be picky, it was four times. The first pass being only 1-2 inches. I shoveled twice more before bedtime; about 2-3 inches each time and then this morning about 3-4 inches. When I got to the street this morning I shoveled about 2-3 feet into it to test the depth. There's a good 10-12 inches on the street. While I was doing that, I saw 5...count them: 1-2-3-4-5 plows one after the other go down the semi-major artery at the end of my street.
I didn't bother to walk down there to see how high a wall they left blocking my street. I assume it's at least 2 feet, if not 3 feet high.
Since the Prius only has about 8 inches of clearance, I won't be going anywhere today...
WINNING???
That's deeper than I saw when I worked in Minneapolis for 9 months. It never got deeper than 6 inches, even though it never melted during the last 3 months either. It reached -28 F the week before I left, though.
Not much need to shovel the snow there - it wouldn't melt so that it could turn into ice.
The plows finally came down my street (just about an hour ago) to knock down that wall and clear the sn*w out of the street. Unfortunately, they put about a 1 foot wall of sn*w/ice at the end of my driveway. Took about 10 minutes to get rid of it, since it had some hard-packed chunks of frozen slush mixed in.
I'm free! I'm...
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14 inches of snow here, but the drifts went way higher. It's the high moisture content stuff too. Driving was dismal. Gggggrrrrooooaaaannnn!!!!
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Temperatures are rising here, and forecast to reach 8C (47F) tomorrow
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Sorry guys, just read all the snow reports. I'm sitting around in shorts and bare feet and I'm hot.it's in the upper 70s here.
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14 inches of snow here, but the drifts went way higher. It's the high moisture content stuff too. Driving was dismal. Gggggrrrrooooaaaannnn!!!!
AND you are getting 'thunder snow' too I think! They showed it on the Weather Channel last nite in St. Paul, lightning, thunder and snow all at once!!
As for my 'snow' it is here and will be gone by mid morning, the roads are dusted as are the cars but nothing to shovel or even worry about for me, the schools ARE closed in my County though!! I am in Prince William County, Va and it can be snow free where I am but 6 inches in the Western parts of the County. They have talked for many years of splitting the County as far as the School System goes but they never have, so if it is icy out in the Western part of the County, ALL schools will be closed or at least delayed!
RandyC and SwiftMallard you know now why I do not live in your part of the Country, I could not deal with that much snow any more! When I was a kid I lived in Bangor, Maine and we once got enough snow that my dad and I had to go out the UPSTAIRS window of a 2 story townhouse so we could shovel a path to the front door! The snow was even with the upstairs windows and we used a saucer to come out to ground level! I KNOW you guys do it all the time but I am just tired of that much snow, so the DC area, or even further South nearer to the beach is better for me!! I even lived in Alaska and it did not get that much snow, VERY COLD but not much snow!!
Keith you keep dangling those toes in the warm water and the ol music will start up and the sharks will come by! Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun...sorry but that is the best Jaws music I can do!
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RandyC and SwiftMallard you know now why I do not live in your part of the Country, I could not deal with that much snow any more! When I was a kid I lived in Bangor, Maine and we once got enough snow that my dad and I had to go out the UPSTAIRS window of a 2 story townhouse so we could shovel a path to the front door! The snow was even with the upstairs windows and we used a saucer to come out to ground level! I KNOW you guys do it all the time but I am just tired of that much snow, so the DC area, or even further South nearer to the beach is better for me!! I even lived in Alaska and it did not get that much snow, VERY COLD but not much snow!!
Just WINNING!!
My #2 sister, who has been living in Burke, Va, and her husband just bought a house in NC. She's supposed to be moving down there soon (if she hasn't already) and her hubby will visit monthly until he can retire...fairly soon I think.
That's made my wife and I start considering the possibility of retiring in that area as well. I certainly don't plan on retiring here in Michigan!!!
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Last day here. I go home tomorrow. Get back around 2 pm so I have time to go food shopping, unpack and catch up on email stuff.
Have added some new apps to phone. Now have RSS reader and added some projects so I can keep up with front page news. I have a PDF reader and several copies of magazines to look over plus I put some audio books to listen too which I've been doing at night. Already have my wake-up alarm set for tomorrow. Only thing I don't have yet is a remote connection to my office PC but I think it can be done only I have to set it up when I'm there first. Mom has been amazed all the stuff I can do on this gadget, so am I as I find new apps.
That's all from vacation land.
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AND you are getting 'thunder snow' too I think! They showed it on the Weather Channel last nite in St. Paul, lightning, thunder and snow all at once!!
I thought I heard thunder! My wife and I were out shoveling and it was a real low rumble off in the distance. She said it was just, well, uhm, me.
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RandyC and SwiftMallard you know now why I do not live in your part of the Country, I could not deal with that much snow any more! When I was a kid I lived in Bangor, Maine and we once got enough snow that my dad and I had to go out the UPSTAIRS window of a 2 story townhouse so we could shovel a path to the front door! The snow was even with the upstairs windows and we used a saucer to come out to ground level! I KNOW you guys do it all the time but I am just tired of that much snow, so the DC area, or even further South nearer to the beach is better for me!! I even lived in Alaska and it did not get that much snow, VERY COLD but not much snow!!
Just WINNING!!
My #2 sister, who has been living in Burke, Va, and her husband just bought a house in NC. She's supposed to be moving down there soon (if she hasn't already) and her hubby will visit monthly until he can retire...fairly soon I think.
That's made my wife and I start considering the possibility of retiring in that area as well. I certainly don't plan on retiring here in Michigan!!!
WINNING!!!
That is the same thing my wife and I were working on, although the market has certainly put a huge damper on our time line! My wife is now retired, although is going to probably get a new job this week or next, so we may work on it anyway. Where did they buy their home? We have been looking at Emerald Isle, NC. or maybe a little South of there because it is cheaper.
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What about Florida, you don't need snow blowers there.
Anthough I like the West coast of Canada around BC.
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My #2 sister, who has been living in Burke, Va, and her husband just bought a house in NC. She's supposed to be moving down there soon (if she hasn't already) and her hubby will visit monthly until he can retire...fairly soon I think.
That's made my wife and I start considering the possibility of retiring in that area as well. I certainly don't plan on retiring here in Michigan!!!
WINNING!!!
That is the same thing my wife and I were working on, although the market has certainly put a huge damper on our time line! My wife is now retired, although is going to probably get a new job this week or next, so we may work on it anyway. Where did they buy their home? We have been looking at Emerald Isle, NC. or maybe a little South of there because it is cheaper.
WINNING!!
Her new address lists it as Riedsville, NC
[edit]Mapquest shows it to be a little north and east of Greensboro.[/edit]
I really have no idea of what Real Estate is going for down that way. At this point it's still more of a 'Where would be a nice place to retire to?' question.
[edit]We probably won't be looking at coastal property.[/edit]
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My #2 sister, who has been living in Burke, Va, and her husband just bought a house in NC. She's supposed to be moving down there soon (if she hasn't already) and her hubby will visit monthly until he can retire...fairly soon I think.
That's made my wife and I start considering the possibility of retiring in that area as well. I certainly don't plan on retiring here in Michigan!!!
WINNING!!!
That is the same thing my wife and I were working on, although the market has certainly put a huge damper on our time line! My wife is now retired, although is going to probably get a new job this week or next, so we may work on it anyway. Where did they buy their home? We have been looking at Emerald Isle, NC. or maybe a little South of there because it is cheaper.
WINNING!!
Her new address lists it as Riedsville, NC
[edit]Mapquest shows it to be a little north and east of Greensboro.[/edit]
I really have no idea of what Real Estate is going for down that way. At this point it's still more of a 'Where would be a nice place to retire to?' question.
[edit]We probably won't be looking at coastal property.[/edit]
WINNING!!!
See my wife prefers the beach and since all I need is high speed internet the beach is where we will end up. Although near Reidsville, NC is Danville, VA which has a NICE road racing track!
http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/VA/VIR.html
I am not a racer myself I just like to watch, although I am more into F1 than the Nascar type stuff. Although I do watch more of the Nascar races when they are on road courses rather than the ovals.
JohnC you just keep on snoozing and I just keep on WINNING!!
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Home again, Home again.
I'm exhausted. Yesterday was travel day which started at 5am. Then When I got home I had to go refill the car with gas, go grocery shopping, unpack, get caught up on mail and some computer stuff, pay 1 bill, water the plants. I di buy some premade chicken as I didn't want to cook much. Got some extra rest.
Now it seems its time for w&^k. Oh well back to the hum-drum ol' life.
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Home again, Home again.
I'm exhausted. Yesterday was travel day which started at 5am. Then When I got home I had to go refill the car with gas, go grocery shopping, unpack, get caught up on mail and some computer stuff, pay 1 bill, water the plants. I di buy some premade chicken as I didn't want to cook much. Got some extra rest.
Now it seems its time for w&^k. Oh well back to the hum-drum ol' life.
WELCOME HOME KEITH!! I usually do the same thing for dinner when I get back from a long trip, I stop at a carry out place and bring it home with me. It is just sooo much easier!
I am having some troubles with a 1 TB WD 'green' hard drive I bought a while back, it tests okay by the WD software but will not format when I try to put it in a machine. I have tried both plugging it in normally and using a usb to drive adapter and no luck either way! It was my drive where all my backups were stored but I noticed that it was only recognizing a small portion of the drive, so I took it out and put a different 1TB drive in and it is working just fine. The bios recognizes it just fine, but it just won't format at all. I am thinking of putting it in my test machine and installing Linux on it and see if it works, then switching it back to Windows. I have 15 pc's running right now and need to do backups periodically on them. Right now I am doing them monthly but they won't all fit on one 1TB drive, so I need a 2nd one for it. I am currently using a couple of external drives for a couple of machines so most of them are backed up at least, just not in a central location like I would like them to be.
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Home again, Home again.
I'm exhausted. Yesterday was travel day which started at 5am. Then When I got home I had to go refill the car with gas, go grocery shopping, unpack, get caught up on mail and some computer stuff, pay 1 bill, water the plants. I di buy some premade chicken as I didn't want to cook much. Got some extra rest.
Now it seems its time for w&^k. Oh well back to the hum-drum ol' life.
WELCOME HOME KEITH!! I usually do the same thing for dinner when I get back from a long trip, I stop at a carry out place and bring it home with me. It is just sooo much easier!
I was going to hit BK, but when I was at the Food Dawg I saw and smelled that already kooked chicken which I rarley get, but decided on chicken insted of kow and I woulnn't have to make another stop. So I grabbed the chicken then got a few other things I needed like some frome meals to use for lunch and a pizza which is for tonight. I'll be back to normal by then andgo on a shopping trip this week end to get some more stuff.
Actually i'm all caught up. Its amazing. When I got home I didmost of my personal stuff, with some napping in between but I got all that done wednesday except laundry which I usually do on the week end so I decided to just wait and do my travel and whhatever from then enxt two days all together.
Thursday when I got up I did a few things and almost forgot to go to w&^k. I showed up at 5 minutes to 9 which is like the latest i've every come in even thou we start at 9. I chatted with the boss some then got to ketchin' up. I worked steadily along through my stuff and then the piles of paperwork left for me. Amazilnly I finished at 6 minutes to 5 with everything done. I did not work at my fastest pace but I worked proficiently. I guess what helped is there were few phone calls so I was disturbed by bells and only about 2 customeres came in all day which the boss attended to. I'm really amazed i got it all done. That rarely happens when I return from vacation.
Well there is only one more thing to do which is count some inventory and refresh my amazon store. Instead of trying to do that while working I made a cheat sheet, it only contains 12 items to count, all the rest of anything sold was service parts or labor. We had pretty poor sales while I was gone. So I should be able to turn the store back on today, which will be just in time for week-end sales where I generally sell more than any day during the week which is understandable as who has time to shop after a day of work.
Last night I also put in my order for cable internet. I did it online, but then you have to call them. I dredded this part but they had the website set up so you click a button and they call you immediately which puts your call though without having to go through 100 button pushes andwaiting foreever. Then you answer a bunch of questions and verify what you want and they explain stuff, it was actually one of the best experiences I had with this type of service hookup ever. And the real bonus here was they only had some hookup times open on Saturday, so I don't even have to take a day off of work. They guy will be here tomorrow before noon. So I hope to have 25M speed soon. The best part is the price. I'm paying the phone company $66 for 1.5M and a lot of stuff I don't use or even want, with cable it will be $70 a month for 16 times the speed, at least the cost is not 16 times as much and i'm only paying for what I want and nothing else I don't want. Actually the first 6 months will be $15 off. As long as I can watch HD streaming movies and my room-mate can do his online gaming at the same time I think we'll be happy. Now he can game but sometimes the slow speed gets him and if I watch a poor quality movie he looses at the game as it pauses.
I think i'm WINNING !
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Home again, Home again.
I'm exhausted. Yesterday was travel day which started at 5am. Then When I got home I had to go refill the car with gas, go grocery shopping, unpack, get caught up on mail and some computer stuff, pay 1 bill, water the plants. I di buy some premade chicken as I didn't want to cook much. Got some extra rest.
Now it seems its time for w&^k. Oh well back to the hum-drum ol' life.
WELCOME HOME KEITH!! I usually do the same thing for dinner when I get back from a long trip, I stop at a carry out place and bring it home with me. It is just sooo much easier!
I was going to hit BK, but when I was at the Food Dawg I saw and smelled that already kooked chicken which I rarley get, but decided on chicken insted of kow and I woulnn't have to make another stop. So I grabbed the chicken then got a few other things I needed like some frome meals to use for lunch and a pizza which is for tonight. I'll be back to normal by then andgo on a shopping trip this week end to get some more stuff.
Actually i'm all caught up. Its amazing. When I got home I didmost of my personal stuff, with some napping in between but I got all that done wednesday except laundry which I usually do on the week end so I decided to just wait and do my travel and whhatever from then enxt two days all together.
Thursday when I got up I did a few things and almost forgot to go to w&^k. I showed up at 5 minutes to 9 which is like the latest i've every come in even thou we start at 9. I chatted with the boss some then got to ketchin' up. I worked steadily along through my stuff and then the piles of paperwork left for me. Amazilnly I finished at 6 minutes to 5 with everything done. I did not work at my fastest pace but I worked proficiently. I guess what helped is there were few phone calls so I was disturbed by bells and only about 2 customeres came in all day which the boss attended to. I'm really amazed i got it all done. That rarely happens when I return from vacation.
Well there is only one more thing to do which is count some inventory and refresh my amazon store. Instead of trying to do that while working I made a cheat sheet, it only contains 12 items to count, all the rest of anything sold was service parts or labor. We had pretty poor sales while I was gone. So I should be able to turn the store back on today, which will be just in time for week-end sales where I generally sell more than any day during the week which is understandable as who has time to shop after a day of work.
Last night I also put in my order for cable internet. I did it online, but then you have to call them. I dredded this part but they had the website set up so you click a button and they call you immediately which puts your call though without having to go through 100 button pushes andwaiting foreever. Then you answer a bunch of questions and verify what you want and they explain stuff, it was actually one of the best experiences I had with this type of service hookup ever. And the real bonus here was they only had some hookup times open on Saturday, so I don't even have to take a day off of work. They guy will be here tomorrow before noon. So I hope to have 25M speed soon. The best part is the price. I'm paying the phone company $66 for 1.5M and a lot of stuff I don't use or even want, with cable it will be $70 a month for 16 times the speed, at least the cost is not 16 times as much and i'm only paying for what I want and nothing else I don't want. Actually the first 6 months will be $15 off. As long as I can watch HD streaming movies and my room-mate can do his online gaming at the same time I think we'll be happy. Now he can game but sometimes the slow speed gets him and if I watch a poor quality movie he looses at the game as it pauses.
I think i'm WINNING !
I think you were winning too!! Hey don't forget to set your phone back to use the wireless connection first now that you are back home again, should save you some bandwidth and maybe even be faster too, especially with the new cable internet! Are you going with RoadRunner or is there someone else in your area? Last time I was down at the beach it was RR or nothing. I don't do gaming but my wife does the Netflix and we don't seem to have any problems even when I am downloading something while she is watching a movie. I have 25M up and down thru Verizon Fios and it is nice!!
JohnC it is now Saturday morning and you are relieved!
MichaelK it is only 6AM and still dark here, you must be in a time warp or something! CONGRATULATIONS on the credits!!!!
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Well I turned wireless back on, yes it is faster, but it also drains the battery faster. This phone has 4 radio receivers in it, 3G, 4G, bluetooth and wireless. The more you have on, well ya know.
I ran speed test on the smartphone and on this computer I ran speedtest and pingtest. I'll run again after cable and post the before-after shots. The cable guy is due here between now and noon. I'm trying not to wear out the carpet. Our service is through Charter, which I think uses or is part of comcast. Only choice we have here is Centurylink for DSL or Charter for Cable. Verizon may have some sort of wireless but I didn't check into it. If you try to get any other phone DSL it is the same as CenturyLink as they own all the local lines, so there is no chance of faster speeds. I asked the tech once and he did some kind of test through his system, to see if they could trim out some line but it came back no dice. Only way to get faster would be to move the house and the best they offer around here anyway is 10M. Cable wins the race and I image within a year or two they will be up to 60M or 120M which I've heard of availably is some areas. It won't be long before they upgrade and with 4G I see more wireless services and faster speeds to in the near future.
For now i'm at 1441kbps down and 539kbps up with 142ms ping on the phone. The computers are about the same speed but have a ping of around 60ms.
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I just ran a speed test with my new wireless, it's way faster than my DSL:
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I just ran a speed test with my new wireless, it's way faster than my DSL:
I just ran three tests; one to Chicago...probably same server as your test swiftmallard:
The next one was to a local server in my city:
The last one to a city about 15-20 miles away:
Interesting that I can upload to a distant server faster than one in my own city!
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You can upload to certain servers faster because of loads on the server and also based on its connection type. The tech ran a speed test and got results of 6M to 21M depending on which server he used.
Hers my results, not to brag. (OK I am bragging)
Before with DSL
Now with Cable
Not bad for a 25M connection. Seems I blew the socks off on this one.
Same computer used and same server for test.
Ok I tried Chicago for Swiftmallard (at 750 miles away for me)
Dearborn MI (for Randy)
Colorado
Los Angeles cross country
I tried another California and got about the same
And here's Seattle
New Mexico was worse at only 3M.
All I can say is the East coast Rocks !
My smart phone read at
before 1441 / 539
after 6974 / 3162 and 7148 /3220 down/up.
a different server gave me 10340 / 2929.
Better than before, but not as fast I guess because it is wireless to my router where as the computer is direct wired and at 1G to the router and the router is 1G to the cable modem. The bottleneck is still the internet connection but it is now 16.66 times as wide as before on down and 6 times on up.
Also there is another thing called pingtest.net, something new I guess as I had not even seen that before.
Check this out
before
After
A big reduction in times there.
Webpages load lickity-split fast. I tried netflix on the blu-ray player, a show I watched before had about 5 out of 13 bars before and took maybe a minute to get going. Now it has 9 out of 13 and it took 7 seconds to load and start. WOW ! WOW !
Then I tried a movie and got 13 of 13 plus HD and it loaded in about 5 seconds. Did I say WOW yet. Aptly the movie I picked is titled Flawless.
Now for the difficult part, I've got to clean out my email box and switch to my new email address. i use webmail mostly and there's not much I really want to keep. All I have to do is change a setting in my domain and all my email will forward to the new address so I don't have to notify anyone of any change. My smartphone I already setup to access the new box. Once i'm done there I can call the phone company and say goodbye.
The big test will be when my roommate gets home and tries his gaming stuff.
I WINNING as fast as fast can be.
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I figured out to do a test to a major server nearby. I would have thought the speed you are going would be the slowest one of all you go through.
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You can upload to certain servers faster because of loads on the server and also based on its connection type. The tech ran a speed test and got results of 6M to 21M depending on which server he used.
Hers my results, not to brag. (OK I am bragging)
Webpages load lickity-split fast. I tried netflix on the blu-ray player, a show I watched before had about 5 out of 13 bars before and took maybe a minute to get going. Now it has 9 out of 13 and it took 7 seconds to load and start. WOW ! WOW !
Then I tried a movie and got 13 of 13 plus HD and it loaded in about 5 seconds. Did I say WOW yet. Aptly the movie I picked is titled Flawless.
Now for the difficult part, I've got to clean out my email box and switch to my new email address. i use webmail mostly and there's not much I really want to keep. All I have to do is change a setting in my domain and all my email will forward to the new address so I don't have to notify anyone of any change. My smartphone I already setup to access the new box. Once i'm done there I can call the phone company and say goodbye.
The big test will be when my roommate gets home and tries his gaming stuff.
I WINNING as fast as fast can be.
OK, I almost gave up, BUT...
I just ran over to MicroCenter (after a stop at the bloodbank to leave a pint), and bought a new(er) router (it was a refurbished BEFSR41) for $24.99 + tax. The thing about this new one is it communicates with the Cable Modem at 10/100 Mbs instead of 10Base-T (10 Mbs).
Here's my local (Southfield) server again:
Now the Dearborn server:
And Chicago:
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OK, I almost gave up, BUT...
I just ran over to MicroCenter (after a stop at the bloodbank to leave a pint), and bought a new(er) router (it was a refurbished BEFSR41) for $24.99 + tax. The thing about this new one is it communicates with the Cable Modem at 10/100 Mbs instead of 10Base-T (10 Mbs).
I'd say you're WINNING with that smooth move, but you haven't caught me yet, so I'm WINNING.
I made sure when i bought the cable modem it had a faster port. The DSL was only 10M, not that it was a problem since the DSL was only 1.5M. The cable modem I got is 1000M and since my router is all 1000M and my computers are all 1000M then there is no bottle neck until it gets into the cable modem. Right now i've got 25M service but the modem can handle up to 120M, so i'm ready for future improvements.
now back to WINNING.
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OK, I almost gave up, BUT...
I just ran over to MicroCenter (after a stop at the bloodbank to leave a pint), and bought a new(er) router (it was a refurbished BEFSR41) for $24.99 + tax. The thing about this new one is it communicates with the Cable Modem at 10/100 Mbs instead of 10Base-T (10 Mbs).
I'd say you're WINNING with that smooth move, but you haven't caught me yet, so I'm WINNING.
I made sure when i bought the cable modem it had a faster port. The DSL was only 10M, not that it was a problem since the DSL was only 1.5M. The cable modem I got is 1000M and since my router is all 1000M and my computers are all 1000M then there is no bottle neck until it gets into the cable modem. Right now i've got 25M service but the modem can handle up to 120M, so i'm ready for future improvements.
now back to WINNING.
Okay you braggers it is now my turn, 1st to one in Northern Virginia:
Then one in Chicago:
Then to Wilson, NC:
Then to San Diego, CA:
And then to London, England:
And to Tunis:
And lastly to Libya:
I used to live in Tripoli, Libya as a kid when the US had an Air Force Base there. I left in the mid 50's though which was before Qaddafi took over.
Verizon FIOS ROCKS!! Before you go wishing for it though it is MORE EXPENSIVE than just about anything else out there! They say it is only 100 bucks a month but that is with one box and no HD. They nickle and dime you to death with all the add-ons and mine is nearer 160 dollars a month. I DO have all 3 thru them though, telephone, internet and cable. I also have 2 HD boxes both with DVR capabilities and one non HD box without DVR. Canceling the local telephone company saved me around 40 bucks a month though, which is a good thing!
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I'm still WINNING with cable.
I saw it briefly hit 30.
Our verizon in the area is only 6M max. I don't think they offer FIOS here.
I just got up, stayed up too late watching netflix. Haven't heard from the room-mate yet, but I guess he likes it as the send activity light on the modem has been blinking a lot, which it dies when he games.
I got email set-up, although the webmail for Charter is not as good as CenturyLink was. I'll get by. It also won't import my mail from my old account, it sort of does but you can't delete it and I have the feeling when I clsoe the old account all the mail it shows in that box will dissapear also. They have something goobered up there. I even unchecked leave mail on server and it is still in the old box. I saved it to disk and I have a spare account through work I can restore it too (same3 provider), plus I should be able to start outlook express back up and download it all, although I may have never even set up OE on these two computers since my last unit crashed, I think by that time I was using webmail. Not much is really worth saving, but there are a few things. Its only 555 emails. I guess 3 I need. I've gotten more use to deleteing everything and not worrying about it. Oh, well such is life.
WINNING.
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My connection bet yours. Go find your socks now.
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I'm still WINNING with cable.
I saw it briefly hit 30.
Our verizon in the area is only 6M max. I don't think they offer FIOS here.
WINNING.
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Testing to Reston VA for Mikey
My connection bet yours. Go find your socks now.
Comcast has a monopoly here in Southfield. You get what they give you. No Verizon FIOS in sight.
Results to Reston, Va:
Not great, but certainly usable. And my Upload is certainly better than Keith!
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Randy and definitaly Mikey have much better upload, mine is limited to 3M by the cable company. I don't know if I can get higher or not. 3M is fine for what I do, not much to upload all at once.
Check your connectors too. I was just straightening up and undid the conenction to move the cable so it was not criss-crossed with some other cables, then after putting it back I ran speedtest and got 23M reading. I checked the connector and it was not fully tight, one more turn. Then Speedtest gave me 27M again.
Ok, on to other things.
It's 73F here. Shorts and no shoes for outside activities. Time to get the garden in order. My Oleander tree's already think it is spring as some of the seed pods have already split open and released thier seeds. I reconnected my water hoses and blew out the air. Soon it will be time to start moving plants out, but to be careful as Amrch is very windy here so they go in protected spots on the porch and not in the open.
Yesterday Ace had a 20% off sale. I go and get air filters for the A/C and plant food, enough for the year.
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It's 73F here. Shorts and no shoes for outside activities. Time to get the garden in order.
I just shoveled. Again
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It's 73F here. Shorts and no shoes for outside activities. Time to get the garden in order.
I just shoveled. Again
I didn't bother...only about 1/2" on the driveway.
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It's 73F here. Shorts and no shoes for outside activities. Time to get the garden in order.
I just shoveled. Again
YUCK!!! I am very glad I do not live where you do!! It was in the mid 50's yesterday and is going up in the mid 70's here at my house today! It IS raining though so it is not like we will all be laying out working on our tans or anything!
My neighbor is an outside kinda guy, he is out working on his yard everyday! Lately he has taken to picking up all the sticks coming off of my River Birch tree which sheds its bark and drops ALOT of tiny sticks ALL the time, he then piles them in my yard, right in the middle of my side yard! I planted the tree as a 6 footer but it is now taller than the house and almost 12" in diameter at the base. It has some HUGE limbs but they are mostly trimmed so the only one is overhanging the roof of my house, but it will be trimmed this year! I guess the one good thing is that he piles them but I sure wish he would just take them to the woods behind out homes and put them there instead! NO I am NOT going to ask him not to do what he is doing, but the pile is getting bigger as it is out of my sight so out of my mind most of the time. My home is a little over 20 years old and they did not put windows on the side of the homes when they built these.
My 1tb hard drive will not be found at all by Windows anymore, the bios sees it but even Hiren's Boot Disk will not find it. Hiren's is a cd full of stuff for testing, fixing and resetting passwords programs, it can be downloaded for free.
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Well today it looks like to be in the 70's again.
It's the end of February already, the year is going by fast.
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Well today it looks like to be in the 70's again.
It's the end of February already, the year is going by fast.
Rain mixed with snow; ending by mid-morning. Looks like no more accumulation for February!!! March is another story.
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Well lots of excitement this morning. Some prankster thought it would be funny i guess and turned the outside breaker box off Friday night. Why it has no lock on it I don't know.
Needless to say all the computers and back-up supplies were off this morning.
Next one of my twins did not come back on, well only a blue startup screen and then it froze.
Monday being my busiest day, I was PO'd. I had to leave it apart and do some work, being half crippled it takes longer to do what I do on one computer and screen instead of two of each.
So after i got through some I looked at the cpu. turned out to be a blown memory chip or mayber two. Since they come in pairs I replaced both.
Everything back to normal now.
These are the same memory chips that blew before, only it was in the other computer. They were some kind of anniversary special edition from Crucial and had blue metal covers. The last set when it blew they sent me some other chip as they don't make these anymore. I'll have to send these back too, but no problem as they are suppose to have a lifetime warranty. When I fixed the other computer I used some spares I had (I think other than crucial) and stuck the Crucial replacements I got on the shelf, so the replacements from the first failure and now in a computer. I ahve no more spares at the moment so need to get replacements quickly in case of another blow-out. Bad thing is these two computers use PC5300's and are the only two in the building with that type, so I can't rob another machine.
Oh well, back to w&^k.
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Well lots of excitement this morning. Some prankster thought it would be funny i guess and turned the outside breaker box off Friday night. Why it has no lock on it I don't know.
Oh well, back to w&^k.
Why is the breaker box on the outside anyway? Is this normal in NC for your area? That just seems silly to me and then to not put a lock on it seems sillier! I wonder if a neighboring business thought it was their box? Oh sell glad it is all working again!
It was in the mid 70's here yesterday, it is going to be in the mid 50's today, the mid 60's tomorrow and then back down to the 40's come Thursday! It sure is March!!
I downloaded the newest version of Windows Home Server again, I think my first copy had problems, and I will try and get it up and running tomorrow. It is supposed to be better than the original but it does not support Drive Extender, which is a mini raid type thing where extra hard drives just keep adding to the total space, not as individual drives. I do not need DE anyway, so it might be good for me.
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Well lots of excitement this morning. Some prankster thought it would be funny i guess and turned the outside breaker box off Friday night. Why it has no lock on it I don't know.
Oh well, back to w&^k.
Why is the breaker box on the outside anyway? Is this normal in NC for your area? That just seems silly to me and then to not put a lock on it seems sillier! I wonder if a neighboring business thought it was their box? Oh sell glad it is all working again!
I don't know. It is not the individual breakers, those are inside. It is more like a main shut off I guess, I haven't seen it myself. I didn't even know we had that and I've been in this building 14 years. This building is a small shopping mall, 12 units. Every unit has one on the outside. Probally some fire code requires it, they have a lot of weird ones for our type of building.
Yeah everything is working now, but it was a lot of aggrivation to fix. Who knows, maybe they sat back there and did the off-on thing several times, trying to create a surge. I think it was either someone having fun or someone trying to break in, maybe they thought it would kill the alarm system or something, we have backup stuff tha lasts a while including an emergency light that would cut on. Some people in this world are just sick in the head.
Another busy day today, Have to send out statements to people who can't pay thier bills.
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Well today it looks like to be in the 70's again.
It's the end of February already, the year is going by fast.
Rain mixed with snow; ending by mid-morning. Looks like no more accumulation for February!!! March is another story.
WINNING!!!
Sweltering in heat wave conditions - must be mid-30 deg C.
WINNING!!!
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Well today it looks like to be in the 70's again.
It's the end of February already, the year is going by fast.
Rain mixed with snow; ending by mid-morning. Looks like no more accumulation for February!!! March is another story.
WINNING!!!
Sweltering in heat wave conditions - must be mid-30 deg C.
WINNING!!!
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Sweltering in heat wave conditions - must be mid-30 deg C.
I am expecting air temp of 0°F/-17°C tomorrow morning, wind chill of -20°F/-24°C. A good night to plug in the kars.
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Sweltering in heat wave conditions - must be mid-30 deg C.
I am expecting air temp of 0°F/-17°C tomorrow morning, wind chill of -20°F/-24°C. A good night to plug in the kars.
I remember doing that as a kid when I lived in Alaska, I am glad I no longer have to do that! UHHHH I did have to do it here, when I owned a 1981 VW diesel Rabbit! I used to put warm lights under the hood at night to keep it from freezing until I figured out to add a half gallon of gas everytime I filled up
Hey Warped welcome to the game!! One problem though, if you post twice in a row like that you are no longer winning, just losing. You must wait for someone else to post in between your posts for you to be winning. Although it does look like the classic unintentional 'double post'. It is waaaay too hot over there and you should keep that stuff near you. Besides all the animals are used to it by now and if it snowed half would think the World was coming to an end!! I can't imagine a wildebeest trying to migrate in the snow!
Speaking of winning, guess what I am doing right now, that is right I am WINNING!!
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Seems I did not bring enough warm air back from Florida, we had a relapse. yesterday was in the 40's, today is a little better in the mid 50's.
I'm so busy. Setting up a new website/forum for my BOINC team. I'll let you know the address when I learn a little more and do some tweaking, right now it's still highly experimental. One of my team members donated the space on his servers and has access to some good software for this type of thing. Our old site vanished when the former member gave up I guess. I was using google, it's ok but has limits and is subject to change at thier wim.
So today is calm here, i'm adding some inventory to my webstore. Already sold a few items since reactivation after vacation. Although i only made 2.76 total on the last 4, but at least I got rid of some stuff that has been in stock 5-6 years now, that is the whole point is to turn over dead inventory and get our cash flow flowing.
back to w&^k, you guys can fight over WINNING.
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It's been beer'O'clock for at least 10 hours, and now it's BBQ time as well.
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It's been beer'O'clock for at least 10 hours, and now it's BBQ time as well.
It's BBQ o'clock for me in two more hours. Then it's dram o'clock!
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It's been beer'O'clock for at least 10 hours, and now it's BBQ time as well.
It's BBQ o'clock for me in two more hours. Then it's dram o'clock!
My grill needs some parts replaced on it and the wife and I are deciding if we really want to put the money into an older grill or just get a new one for less than the cost of the parts. I am thinking of getting a new one and think of it as disposable in a few years but she and my youngest son bought this and she feels attached to it. I currently have a Brinkman gas grill and it costs about 200 bucks brand new but mine will need over 100 bucks in parts. I was at Walmart the other day and they are selling usable gas grills for just under 100 bucks. Don't get me wrong my current one is NICE and has more features than I will ever use, but the needed parts are not cheap! The current one has lasted me about 5 years or so and technically works but the burners need replacing so it works correctly. Each main burner, I have 3 plus one side burner that has never been used, is about 35 bucks then there is a tray I need too as the current one is all but rusted.
The weather is up and down, typical DC weather for March, yesterday it was almost 60 but today it will struggle to hit the mid 40's! Saturday it will be rainy and near 60 again!
WINNING!!
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My grill needs some parts replaced on it and the wife and I are deciding if we really want to put the money into an older grill or just get a new one for less than the cost of the parts. I am thinking of getting a new one and think of it as disposable in a few years but she and my youngest son bought this and she feels attached to it. I currently have a Brinkman gas grill and it costs about 200 bucks brand new but mine will need over 100 bucks in parts. I was at Walmart the other day and they are selling usable gas grills for just under 100 bucks. Don't get me wrong my current one is NICE and has more features than I will ever use, but the needed parts are not cheap! The current one has lasted me about 5 years or so and technically works but the burners need replacing so it works correctly. Each main burner, I have 3 plus one side burner that has never been used, is about 35 bucks then there is a tray I need too as the current one is all but rusted.
The weather is up and down, typical DC weather for March, yesterday it was almost 60 but today it will struggle to hit the mid 40's! Saturday it will be rainy and near 60 again!
WINNING!!
I use my gas grill all the time; even in the winter. I was considering replacing it last spring until I found the replacement burner I had bought a year or two earlier. My grill has a single burner replacement, but dual controls along with the side burner that, like yours, never gets used.
I'll clean it up one more time for this year and then get an inexpensive replacement next year.
Today's high: 30-32F with rain coming tonight. Tomorrow will be in the 40sF and Saturday in the low 50sF!!!
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I saw an artical on the android news. It seems some apps had some bad stuff in them that allowed the app to root your phone and then that gives it access to do anything, like send information without your knowledge. Someone found this out and called the android police. So google pulled all the apps by the author, all 21 of them. But here is the really weird part. It seems there is also a kill switch. They can send a signal to every phone that has that app installed and the phone will unistall the app. That is a good thing in this case, but it is scarry too. I don't think I had any of the apps involved.
WINNING I think, its too early in the morning, my brain is still in bed.
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I saw an artical on the android news. It seems some apps had some bad stuff in them that allowed the app to root your phone and then that gives it access to do anything, like send information without your knowledge. Someone found this out and called the android police. So google pulled all the apps by the author, all 21 of them. But here is the really weird part. It seems there is also a kill switch. They can send a signal to every phone that has that app installed and the phone will unistall the app. That is a good thing in this case, but it is scarry too. I don't think I had any of the apps involved.
WINNING I think, its too early in the morning, my brain is still in bed.
Does that (uninstall) apply to ANY google app, or just the ones from this author?
Because I don't use smart(?) phones and smart phone apps, I am...
WINNING!!!
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WINNING!!!
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I saw an artical on the android news. It seems some apps had some bad stuff in them that allowed the app to root your phone and then that gives it access to do anything, like send information without your knowledge. Someone found this out and called the android police. So google pulled all the apps by the author, all 21 of them. But here is the really weird part. It seems there is also a kill switch. They can send a signal to every phone that has that app installed and the phone will unistall the app. That is a good thing in this case, but it is scarry too. I don't think I had any of the apps involved.
WINNING I think, its too early in the morning, my brain is still in bed.
Does that (uninstall) apply to ANY google app, or just the ones from this author?
Because I don't use smart(?) phones and smart phone apps, I am...
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It only did the ones from that author this time, but I am sure they can do them all if they chose. That might cause them alot of trouble though, some apps are not free. I do not have a smart phone either but apparently Google does not edit the apps that people make, like Apple and MS do. Which is what caused this problem, no overall control so basically anyone can write an app and until someone complains or thoroughly checks it out, lots of people could get infected. Here is the article I saw yesterday about it:
I would still get an Android though, unless I got an iphone really cheap!
I was reading that website yesterday and it told me how to make a USB stick with a Windows installation on it, so I spent all day doing that yesterday. I could not get it to work on a 4gig stick though, I had to use an 8gig one I have. Basically you have to format the drive in a particular way then just copy the files on to it and Windows will install onto the pc twice as fast! It said you can use a 4gig stick but when I went thru it said I still needed to free up 173mb on it. I will buy some more 8gig sticks, they are under 20 bucks right now, and use those instead of putting a dvd drive in each machine. There is even a way to keep the stick updated but the article said to just let Windows Update do it manually, apparently it is just easier that way.
No decision on the grill yet, my wife wants a new dishwasher first!
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Thanks for finding that article Mikey. I read it on my smartphone. It appears to me that android market can kill any app. They keep records of which device installs them, or uninstalls, of course to kill it your phone has to be on and contact the network. I'm not sure it would be instantaeous but I think the phone periodically would check for updates, maybe there is like an account checkin that would indicate something needs attention and the phone would take care of it. I don't really understand all of it myself. It works, that is all I need to know.
Just before vacation one of our distributors was here. He was going to send me some images to use for my web sales. i thought he was going to send me just a particular line we were talking about. He sent me the entire catalog, about 5GB on two DVDs. WOW. I can really use a lot of those, and just in time. I found some more stuff to list and it is old and have no photos and they are nowhere to be found on the internet. Guess what, the're in the stuff he sent me, altough I need to do some minor editing, but I've got enough other photos. Some of them are made up of cuts from three differnt photos I have, from different products, but it saves me some time. I got two done so far this morning, about a dozen to go.
My new team website is almnost ready. My temamate that donated the space was helping last night do some setup. I've got the basic layout done and the color sceme, red, white, and blue for USA. It uses themes but some of those allow a lot of custom mods like changing colors and it has mostly a drag and drop interface so setup is really a snap. I need to add some forum catagories and that's about it. I'll let you know soon when it is ready so you all can at least take a look.
I don't know about iPhones, but a lot of the andoird phones are so easy to use. If mine had a large screen, like maybe tablet size, I might abandon most of my work on the old style keyboard screen combo desktop boxes we use today. It's time for use to have a new OS. Heck, these tablets and smartphones make those things we saw in star trek years ago a reality.
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I don't know about iPhones, but a lot of the andoird phones are so easy to use. If mine had a large screen, like maybe tablet size, I might abandon most of my work on the old style keyboard screen combo desktop boxes we use today. It's time for use to have a new OS. Heck, these tablets and smartphones make those things we saw in star trek years ago a reality.
WINNING while w&^king.
I might consider getting an iPad or Netbook of some kind, but I don't want a phone to be part of it. If you remember, Star Trek communicators were completely separate from their electronic notepads. Even the 'higher tech' notepads they had in Star Trek Enterprise did not have communication functions.
Anyway, I currently have a PDA (Zire 31) that I use for appointments and as an eBook. Aside from the fact that it's ancient and has a rather small screen, it's perfectly usable for what I need it to do.
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What a day.
First it was slow going getting items listed. I just was having difficulty and a lot of extra to do on these particular ones.
I only got 4 of the about 12 planned done between 10 am and 2pm.
Then some people showed up making a delivery. They went out of business and we bought a lot of thier stock at below our normal cost. So now I had a bunch of stuff to sort out, put away, add to inventory and yes, more items to add to the internet store. It was 2pm when I got started on those and only got 1/2 done before the end of the day.
With all that I only ate half my lunch, sort of forgetting about the rest of it. So i'm hungry now.
So i'm home and ready for pizza and coke I had bought on the way home.
Well my internet is out. When it was installed the tech ran a cable over ground, just temporary. The crew to bury it was here today. And it don't work now after they buried it. So after 20 minutes of watching the lights flash while it searches for a conenction I called support and they'll send someone by tomorrow. So after that my roommate and I went out to look at the conenctions. We didn't undo antything. I touched a couple and made sure they were tight. When I got back inside it was working. Hey i'm a cable tech now. Although it works my conenction spped is about 2/3 what it should be. I guess when they ran it underground they had to shorten it and goofed up the re-connection. I'll leave the service call and have it looked at tomorrow anyway.
Now after all the excitement I can go warm up the oven.
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I don't know about iPhones, but a lot of the andoird phones are so easy to use. If mine had a large screen, like maybe tablet size, I might abandon most of my work on the old style keyboard screen combo desktop boxes we use today. It's time for use to have a new OS. Heck, these tablets and smartphones make those things we saw in star trek years ago a reality.
WINNING while w&^king.
I might consider getting an iPad or Netbook of some kind, but I don't want a phone to be part of it. If you remember, Star Trek communicators were completely separate from their electronic notepads. Even the 'higher tech' notepads they had in Star Trek Enterprise did not have communication functions.
Anyway, I currently have a PDA (Zire 31) that I use for appointments and as an eBook. Aside from the fact that it's ancient and has a rather small screen, it's perfectly usable for what I need it to do.
WINNING!!!
A buddy of mine got his wife an Ipad for Christmas and she loves it, he got the wifi only version but he also got himself a new smartphone that allows him to set up a hot spot, that means she can now use his smartphone to connect when there is no wifi available. The wifi only version of the Ipad was cheaper than the 3g/4g version! He has two homes, one near me and one at the beach and he has wifi at both, so wifi only is not a problem normally. He has Verizon as his cell phone company and got an unlimited data plan so there should NOT be any extra costs to let her use her Ipad thru his phone. He is kind of being the guinea pig on this for several others, why buy the expensive stuff when you don't need to?!!
I got my new Windows Home Server up and running yesterday using the USB stick as the installation media, it WAS fast and easy! I am now copying the Win7 32bit installation files to a different USB stick but the stick is soooo slow it is not working! I will try it on a different pc later on but it may just be a too cheap stick!
Hey JohnC CONGRATULATIONS on your reaching 200 million Boinc cobblestones!!!
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A buddy of mine got his wife an Ipad for Christmas and she loves it, he got the wifi only version but he also got himself a new smartphone that allows him to set up a hot spot, that means she can now use his smartphone to connect when there is no wifi available. The wifi only version of the Ipad was cheaper than the 3g/4g version! He has two homes, one near me and one at the beach and he has wifi at both, so wifi only is not a problem normally. He has Verizon as his cell phone company and got an unlimited data plan so there should NOT be any extra costs to let her use her Ipad thru his phone. He is kind of being the guinea pig on this for several others, why buy the expensive stuff when you don't need to?!!
With my sprint service, I have unlimited data. i can do a wifi hotspot too, but there is an extra fee to have hotspot service. I don't have it. I wish I did when I traveled but I had enough to do without having to have my netbook on air and I can do some browsing on my smartphone which will use 3G when wifi is not avaialbale so i got by ok. I think too I could get hotspot for one month only if I really needed it.
I'm awake now, I was so dead last night.
Temp is 65ish. Still feels a little cool for bare feet. The sun is hiding somewhere, I could not see it.
Todays chore seems to be website work.
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Oh for those that might be interested, my new team website is
http://usa.lanex.com
Give it a look if you feel inclined, you don't need to register unless you want to join my team. Sorry but can't help but try to gain more members.
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Oh for those that might be interested, my new team website is
http://usa.lanex.com
Give it a look if you feel inclined, you don't need to register unless you want to join my team. Sorry but can't help but try to gain more members.
Pretty cool! At least it is back up and running and over a BILLION cobblestones for your Team, that is VERY GOOD!!!
I have started the shutdown process of my old server since my new one is up and running now. Both are regular Boinc crunchers but the new one is 64bit instead of 32bit, so it is a bit faster. I still have to transfer all my music, podcasts etc over but they should not be a problem. I still have a few workunits to finish up so it won't fully shutdown until tomorrow but it is much closer now. And to be honest the old one may have to come back online in 6 months as the new Windows Home Server software is not released yet and this is just trialware software. Kind of depends on the final price, I have one that works but the new one looks and seems to be much better, at least so far.
It was supposed to start raining last night but no rain yet, it is breezy and in the mid 50's right now so the windows are open! I have keep it set at 66F inside this year and it is now 71F inside!!! We are ROASTING!! They are still calling for rain today and the 30's for temp tonight, but all week the highs should be in the mid 50's.
Home Depot has a grill on sale for 70 bucks, it only has 2 burners but since it is just the wife and I we decided to get it, I will go out today or tomorrow to do that. I may put the old one on Craig's list or Freecycle, a Yahoo local message board, to see if I can get rid of it.
WINNING!!
ps it JUST started raining and I am going to have to close the windows it is raining so hard! I guess it is making up for lost time!!
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It was supposed to start raining last night but no rain yet, it is breezy and in the mid 50's right now so the windows are open! I have keep it set at 66F inside this year and it is now 71F inside!!! We are ROASTING!! They are still calling for rain today and the 30's for temp tonight, but all week the highs should be in the mid 50's.
Home Depot has a grill on sale for 70 bucks, it only has 2 burners but since it is just the wife and I we decided to get it, I will go out today or tomorrow to do that. I may put the old one on Craig's list or Freecycle, a Yahoo local message board, to see if I can get rid of it.
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ps it JUST started raining and I am going to have to close the windows it is raining so hard! I guess it is making up for lost time!!
Enjoy your rain. We got a fair amount yesterday before it turned into 2-4" of that white stuff. Shoveled the drive this morning except for the 10" or so out at the street that's about 2" deep of water and slush.
Gonna start looking for end-of-season snow blowers.
I'm familiar with Freecycle. I tried to get a turntable once so I could get my wife's records converted to CD. It was gone before I was able to contact the lister. I wound up buying a $175 unit at Kohls that will convert cassettes and records to CD. If you hook a stereo into the AUX port, it will record radio too.
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Enjoy your rain. We got a fair amount yesterday before it turned into 2-4" of that white stuff. Shoveled the drive this morning except for the 10" or so out at the street that's about 2" deep of water and slush.
Cool dry and sunny yesterday, more of the same today. It all hits the fan in another day, 12-20 inches of slushy crap. LR forecast is for heavy rain after that. Losing.
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Nice here today, went grocery shooping this morning although it is always freezing cold inside the store, but it is up to 68F outside and the sun appears to be making an appearance today.
I may go work on the front porch some, but I think planting and stuff begins next weekend.
Back to website work for now.
Hey, does anyone know the answer to this, We were ahving a discussion on teams and were wondering, how many people are boincin' and not on any team ? Does any stat site have this stat ? Not that we want to harras them into joining our team, but we began to wonder how many people or not on teams and much credit is not in the team ranks ?
Oh, I forgot. The cable tech was here yesterday. He didn't really find anything wrong but replaced the connector on one end of the cable, maybe the bury crew just didn't do it 100% right and when I wnet out and looked at it and gave it a jiggle was enough to fix it. But I did have not top notch speed and after he redid it it is now back to top notch. We also had an interesting techie conversation and I learned about cable. Currently ours is DOCSIS 2.0 but hey are working very hard to upgrade the network for DOCSIS 3.0 certification and within the year our speeds may go up, double or even hit 60M. Not sure exactly. He also liked my komputer krate stack and I think I got him interested in BOINC, he never heard of it.
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I remember seeing a graph somewhere that showed about one half of all crunchers are not on a team. I'll try to find it and post a link.
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Willy provides this info: link to Boincstats.
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I remember seeing a graph somewhere that showed about one half of all crunchers are not on a team. I'll try to find it and post a link.
According to the link at Boincstats, about 70% of users are NOT on a team.
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Thanks, but I was looking for all active users across all projects, not just for here, but I poked around and found something.
It's higher than I thought 69.7% are not in a team.
http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=bo&view=users
Also out of all the participants only 14.3% are active.
Only thing is that graph is probally all users, I would be more interested of those 14.3% active how many are not in a team. Just curious about this.
Here's the tip of the day, do not inhale french fries, especially one loaded with 200% spices. It's hard to get those chucks out of your nose.
Weather turned bland, its sort of misty drizzly rain, no more sun. At least the 40 knot wind has stopped.
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I may go work on the front porch some, but I think planting and stuff begins next weekend.
Bragger!! I am still at least 2 weeks away and then I go to Las Vegas for 2 weeks in mid April this year so my garden will get a late start.
We also had an interesting techie conversation and I learned about cable. Currently ours is DOCSIS 2.0 but hey are working very hard to upgrade the network for DOCSIS 3.0 certification and within the year our speeds may go up, double or even hit 60M. Not sure exactly.
Didn't you say you bought your cable modem? If so make SURE it is either upgradeable or already compatible! My old one under Comcast was not compatible and since I owned it they didn't even bother telling me they had upgraded until I complained about it being slow.
He also liked my komputer krate stack and I think I got him interested in BOINC, he never heard of it.
You do have a unique way of building pc's and it would be nice if you got another convert!
Here's the tip of the day, do not inhale french fries, especially one loaded with 200% spices. It's hard to get those chucks out of your nose.
Thanks Keith but I do not think I would have ever thought of eating a french fry that way!
Hey did you guys see the article about the guy finding POSITIVE PROOF of alien life in a meteroite?
I wonder if that will mean more people Boincing and if Seti will get an increase in users?! It's not like they need or can even use any new people, I think they are down 2 to 3 days a week now due to Server issues. An increase in Seti users usually means an increase elsewhere too.
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Yes Mikey, I do own my cable modem. It is DOCSIS 3.0 and good upto 120M of speed. Besides if it lasts two years, the warranty period, it will still have been cheaper than a monthly rental from the cable company. After that it would be cheaper to buy a new one if it fails or becomes out of date and not upgradable. Rental is $5/month or $60/year. Modem costs $75.
Proof of alien life. Maybe. It is proof of something once living. Maybe a meteor crashed into earth, killing some bacteria and thowing a chuck of rock with the dead organism back into space. After another million years of orbiting it is now a fossil and crashed back to earth. Fossil from our own planet ?
Think of this too. Some of the light we see as far off stars takes 2.5 million years at least to get here. It is in other words light from the past. Those galaxies may not even look like what we see today since we are seeing them as they were, in fact they may all have exploded but it still could be millions of years before we would know, and quite frankly I don't think i'll be around then anyway. So we could be the only life left ?
Today is gonna be busy for me. A good week-end of internet sales. Sold 10 items. Almost a record which is 12. Also it is moanday which is the busiest and heaviest paperw&^k day. Arghhhh.
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After being wheeled in, I can see the glimmer of a win? Or is it a hairball ready for regurgitation?
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Cold and clear this morning, but I don't have to scrape my windshield today like I had to yesterday. Going up to the low 40sF this afternoon!
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Yes Mikey, I do own my cable modem. It is DOCSIS 3.0 and good upto 120M of speed. Besides if it lasts two years, the warranty period, it will still have been cheaper than a monthly rental from the cable company. After that it would be cheaper to buy a new one if it fails or becomes out of date and not upgradable. Rental is $5/month or $60/year. Modem costs $75.
Proof of alien life. Maybe. It is proof of something once living. Maybe a meteor crashed into earth, killing some bacteria and thowing a chuck of rock with the dead organism back into space. After another million years of orbiting it is now a fossil and crashed back to earth. Fossil from our own planet ?
Think of this too. Some of the light we see as far off stars takes 2.5 million years at least to get here. It is in other words light from the past. Those galaxies may not even look like what we see today since we are seeing them as they were, in fact they may all have exploded but it still could be millions of years before we would know, and quite frankly I don't think i'll be around then anyway. So we could be the only life left ?
That is all very true Keith but I would still LIKE to believe there is STILL something out there!
Today is gonna be busy for me. A good week-end of internet sales. Sold 10 items. Almost a record which is 12. Also it is moanday which is the busiest and heaviest paperw&^k day. Arghhhh.
Ahh but it should be good to get back into the 'routine' of w*&king again, no more vacation time for you, back to the old grindstone etc.
I shut down my old Server yesterday and my network seems to be surviving, I did have a hard time with my podcasts eventually but found them on several pc's. I have no idea why though, I always keep them on only 1 pc but there they are on several, hmmm! I may remove the hard drive from the old Server and bring up another Win7 machine since it does have an AGP slot and I do have an AGP gpu just laying around now! I am not sure yet, it is just at the thinking about it right now stage, power issues are definitely a consideration!
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After being wheeled in, I can see the glimmer of a win? Or is it a hairball ready for regurgitation?
I don't know, but I had a french fry stuck in my troat the other day. It felt like it wanted to come out through my nose. It took a while to caugh it up.
Then yesterday, side effect maybe, I felt like I was getting the flu, I felt good in the morning but after about an hour of w&^k I went downhill, was cold, had to put on a light jacket while inside the building to keep warm and my legs were all weak, barely could stand up. After i got home I felt a little better, ate a whole pizza and took a knap. Then did nothing but watch netflix. This morning I feel more normal, or at least better.
Yesterday, in spite of my not top notch kondition, I got all my orders filled, took care of paperw&^k as it came up. i even had time and energy to add some more inventory to the webstore. I'm still working on that load of stuff we bought, I got 4 more items listed from that and an additional 3 from our stock. I still ahve about 2 dozen more to go from that load and then I need to get back to those microphones of which there are 4 types on my desk and still mayber 8 more on the shelf in the back. Who knows what else will come up but it seems to be a never ending process. I only started work back in Nov 2009 and I constantly add stuff. The catalog is up over 1300 now.
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Did you get that grill yet? I figured it was time to did out mine and throw a steak or two on it.
Grill on the deck.
Dig out behind the gate.
Clear off the steps.
Had to put down some salt.
Came out nice and juicy!
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Mikey,
Did you get that grill yet? I figured it was time to did out mine and throw a steak or two on it.
Grill on the deck.
Came out nice and juicy!
Maybe if you turned the grill up higher, it would help melt that white stuff, of course you might overkook your steak. ;)
Nothing going on here except some wind, /i would take a picture but it is invisible.
Another boring day at w&^k. At least I made progress on that pile of stuff to inventory. Finished it off. This includes adding any items not in the system, adding any items not listed on amazon and then finally adding all the quantities to both our computer and my spreadsheet of amazon items. I added 15 new items to amazon today. It only took me about 2-1/3rd days to do all 51 items in that pile, that was pretty good progress. As spring gets near I feel this type of activity will cease as regular w&6k picks up.
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Mikey,
Did you get that grill yet? I figured it was time to did out mine and throw a steak or two on it.
Came out nice and juicy!
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No and when I went to Home Depot to get the new one I found out it is an internet only item, at least at my local store. I am checking now to see if it is free to ship it to the store or if I have to pay to ship it to me here at home. My current one is a 3 burner 36k btu thing, for just the two of us now it is H-U-G-E and waaay more than what we need. I am looking at a 70 dollar model from HD that has 24k btu and only 2 burners.
http://www.homedepot.com/Outdoors-Grills-Accessories-Grills-Propane-Grills/h_d1/N-5yc1vZaq2l/R-202217269/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
I am thinking at 70 bucks it is not fancy but we don't need all that fancy stuff anyway to cook some fajita meat, some steaks or shish-kabobs once in a while. In the summer we may cook once or twice a week, sometimes more, but it is not an everyday thing, nor do we cook things that take HOURS to cook! AND at 70 bucks I can afford to replace it every few years! It is brand new and cheaper than the cost of the parts I need for our current one!
Keith I wish you luck with putting all those things up on the site!
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I am thinking at 70 bucks it is not fancy but we don't need all that fancy stuff anyway to cook some fajita meat, some steaks or shish-kabobs once in a while. In the summer we may cook once or twice a week, sometimes more, but it is not an everyday thing, nor do we cook things that take HOURS to cook! AND at 70 bucks I can afford to replace it every few years! It is brand new and cheaper than the cost of the parts I need for our current one!
Keith I wish you luck with putting all those things up on the site!
Good luck on the grillin'. I don't own one. My dad geave me his old one, but it was in such bad shape and it was cheaper to buy a new one than try to find replacement parts for the old one, so I threw it away but never bought one. I kept those stones that were in it to use in my plant pots, some inside the pots at the bottom, but also I use them underneath to hold the pots up off the deck some so water does not sit under them and rot away at the wood.
I made good progress today, execpt I forgot to look at the item counter before I left, I was working away so well I almost forgot to come home, so I don't know how many items I added today. it was not a lot but I got a bunch of new ones done and also worked on some pictures for some I put on last week, adding a second larger picture for a closeup of detail. Sales are up too, I'm now up over 40% for the monthso far, and tomorrow is only the 33% mark. I've already got an item to ship in the morning which is the first item from the first (hint) batch of closeout stuff we bought. I talked the boss into buying some more stuff, another 45 items, from that business that closed. Lets jsu tsay we get it below our normal cost. They get some money and should feel lucky, i'm sure they are stuck with a lot they will never get rid of. The rest they had I didn't recognize or is duplicates of old stuff we already have too much of and isn't selling either.
Time to go foraging in the frig.
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I am thinking at 70 bucks it is not fancy but we don't need all that fancy stuff anyway to cook some fajita meat, some steaks or shish-kabobs once in a while. In the summer we may cook once or twice a week, sometimes more, but it is not an everyday thing, nor do we cook things that take HOURS to cook! AND at 70 bucks I can afford to replace it every few years! It is brand new and cheaper than the cost of the parts I need for our current one!
Keith I wish you luck with putting all those things up on the site!
Good luck on the grillin'. I don't own one. My dad geave me his old one, but it was in such bad shape and it was cheaper to buy a new one than try to find replacement parts for the old one, so I threw it away but never bought one. I kept those stones that were in it to use in my plant pots, some inside the pots at the bottom, but also I use them underneath to hold the pots up off the deck some so water does not sit under them and rot away at the wood.
I bought it last nite shipping was only 16 bucks so still cheaper than the cheapest one the store had and that is either Home depot or Lowe's or even the local Ace Hardware.
I made good progress today, execpt I forgot to look at the item counter before I left, I was working away so well I almost forgot to come home, so I don't know how many items I added today. it was not a lot but I got a bunch of new ones done and also worked on some pictures for some I put on last week, adding a second larger picture for a closeup of detail. Sales are up too, I'm now up over 40% for the monthso far, and tomorrow is only the 33% mark. I've already got an item to ship in the morning which is the first item from the first (hint) batch of closeout stuff we bought. I talked the boss into buying some more stuff, another 45 items, from that business that closed. Lets jsu tsay we get it below our normal cost. They get some money and should feel lucky, i'm sure they are stuck with a lot they will never get rid of. The rest they had I didn't recognize or is duplicates of old stuff we already have too much of and isn't selling either.
Time to go foraging in the frig.
That is good, bigger pictures mean people can really see if that is what they want or not, good idea Keith! As for the other stuff they have you could buy it real cheap and then put it up for sale at that really low price, kind of like a 'loss leader' to get people into a store, except you got it so cheap it isn't really a loss.
I took a gpu off one of the Boinc projects this morning, I am trying a new thing called http://www.compute4cash.com/index.php they will pay us to use our gpu's to crunch their workunits. I signed up under the account name mikey so if you want you can use me as the referrer but I am not sure you have to. I put an ATI 6850 on it and it says I have made 4 cents after 45 minutes. I am not sure that is worth it but I will probably let it go for a few days and see, the current rate is $0.094/WU that they are paying. That means I am losing 100k per day of rac though!! They will pay me thru papal but I have to ask to be paid, they do not do it automatically.
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I bought it last nite shipping was only 16 bucks so still cheaper than the cheapest one the store had and that is either Home depot or Lowe's or even the local Ace Hardware.
I took a gpu off one of the Boinc projects this morning, I am trying a new thing called http://www.compute4cash.com/index.php they will pay us to use our gpu's to crunch their workunits. I signed up under the account name mikey so if you want you can use me as the referrer but I am not sure you have to. I put an ATI 6850 on it and it says I have made 4 cents after 45 minutes. I am not sure that is worth it but I will probably let it go for a few days and see, the current rate is $0.094/WU that they are paying. That means I am losing 100k per day of rac though!! They will pay me thru papal but I have to ask to be paid, they do not do it automatically.
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Have fun grilling!
Do you have a Kill-O-Watt meter? You can use it to check how much electricity you are using. Looks like you're earning ~6 cents/hr from them...make sure you're not spending more than that in electricity!
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I am thinking at 70 bucks it is not fancy but we don't need all that fancy stuff anyway to cook some fajita meat, some steaks or shish-kabobs once in a while. In the summer we may cook once or twice a week, sometimes more, but it is not an everyday thing, nor do we cook things that take HOURS to cook! AND at 70 bucks I can afford to replace it every few years! It is brand new and cheaper than the cost of the parts I need for our current one!
Keith I wish you luck with putting all those things up on the site!
Good luck on the grillin'. I don't own one. My dad geave me his old one, but it was in such bad shape and it was cheaper to buy a new one than try to find replacement parts for the old one, so I threw it away but never bought one. I kept those stones that were in it to use in my plant pots, some inside the pots at the bottom, but also I use them underneath to hold the pots up off the deck some so water does not sit under them and rot away at the wood.
I bought it last nite shipping was only 16 bucks so still cheaper than the cheapest one the store had and that is either Home depot or Lowe's or even the local Ace Hardware.
Good luck on that.
I made good progress today, execpt I forgot to look at the item counter before I left, I was working away so well I almost forgot to come home, so I don't know how many items I added today. it was not a lot but I got a bunch of new ones done and also worked on some pictures for some I put on last week, adding a second larger picture for a closeup of detail. Sales are up too, I'm now up over 40% for the monthso far, and tomorrow is only the 33% mark. I've already got an item to ship in the morning which is the first item from the first (hint) batch of closeout stuff we bought. I talked the boss into buying some more stuff, another 45 items, from that business that closed. Lets jsu tsay we get it below our normal cost. They get some money and should feel lucky, i'm sure they are stuck with a lot they will never get rid of. The rest they had I didn't recognize or is duplicates of old stuff we already have too much of and isn't selling either.
Time to go foraging in the frig.
That is good, bigger pictures mean people can really see if that is what they want or not, good idea Keith! As for the other stuff they have you could buy it real cheap and then put it up for sale at that really low price, kind of like a 'loss leader' to get people into a store, except you got it so cheap it isn't really a loss.
Well that was the whole idea as some of the small pictures loose detail, and on these particular items I wanted them to be able to see the detail so they can match it to the one they have.
As for buying the other stuff, I thought of it, but there are several reasons. One, its stuff we never sold here or even had anyone ask for, so the only outlet would be internet sales, I've got enough stuff to sell and keep me busy, no need to go overboard to make another dime. Two, some of it is duplicate of stuff we have and have not sold in a year of being on the internet, much less 5-6 years locally. We only have so much money to go around ourselves, we do not need to go abnkrupt buying someone elses junk. Three, some of it is junk, like loran parts, of which loran signals were stopepd by the government abck in 2010 and the dismantled all the loran towers, think of it like trying to sell parts for those brick heavy bag phones from 20 years ago today or selling memory chips for the original IBM PC, some junk now is just that junk.
I took a gpu off one of the Boinc projects this morning, I am trying a new thing called http://www.compute4cash.com/index.php they will pay us to use our gpu's to crunch their workunits. I signed up under the account name mikey so if you want you can use me as the referrer but I am not sure you have to. I put an ATI 6850 on it and it says I have made 4 cents after 45 minutes. I am not sure that is worth it but I will probably let it go for a few days and see, the current rate is $0.094/WU that they are paying. That means I am losing 100k per day of rac though!! They will pay me thru papal but I have to ask to be paid, they do not do it automatically.
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Back to w&^k. lunch is done. I Know i should eat slower.
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It's evening now and the weatherman says we're due for 1-2" of the white stuff. :(
When does it end????
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It's evening now and the weatherman says we're due for 1-2" of the white stuff. :(
When does it end????
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SOON I hope, that way you will atop sending it my way!!! Right now it is 5:15 AM where I am and although everything is still wet it seems to have stopped raining at least for now. I seemed to have gotten 1" of rain in the last 24 hours but I am sure the weather channel will say we gotten more in the area.
Keith I agree with junk being junk, I went to the local Computer show a few weeks ago and the guy that buys and sells all the computer memory refused to buy some of what I had brought in, he just said there was no market for it anymore.
In the past 24 hours I have made $1.29 and lost just over 100k by not Boincing. NO it is not 'cost effective' as it does NOT cover the cost of running the pc. But obviously neither does Boincing!
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In the past 24 hours I have made $1.29 and lost just over 100k by not Boincing. NO it is not 'cost effective' as it does NOT cover the cost of running the pc. But obviously neither does Boincing!
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I didn't think you'd make much, if anything, on it.
Wound up with 2-3" of white stuff on the driveway that I'm trying to ignore. With any luck it will melt over the next week. Temps in the 50sF starting Wednesday.
Taking my annual 1/2 day Fridays through March (use vac. time or lose it).
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In the past 24 hours I have made $1.29 and lost just over 100k by not Boincing. NO it is not 'cost effective' as it does NOT cover the cost of running the pc. But obviously neither does Boincing!
I didn't think you'd make much, if anything, on it.
I figured on average, if I run my PC's at full power 24/7, That is a P4 HT (2-apps) and 1 NVIDIA 8800GT GPU each, they average monthly cost is about $15. This counts my use too during that time. It however does not include the extra air cooling in the non-winter months. So the daily use is about 50 cents a day each.
Now depending on what hardware you have and your local electric rate, yours may differ.
It might pay for itself, but your not going to be able to support yourself on the extra profit.
I think i'll stick with boinc, installing yet another widget is not in me at the moment, and I like some of the projects I give freely too. Cash is good but not always.
Wound up with 2-3" of white stuff on the driveway that I'm trying to ignore. With any luck it will melt over the next week. Temps in the 50sF starting Wednesday.
Taking my annual 1/2 day Fridays through March (use vac. time or lose it).
Didn't you get the memo from mother nature, due to government budget cuts, the sun's heat output will not be turned back up this spring and summer. To go along with daylight savings time we now have sunshine savings time. There may be no end to white stuff, unless you live at the beach as we have our own time zone, called beach time and it is exempt from weather cutbacks, after all mother nature needs a place to vacation.
I might run out of things to list for sale before you run out of white stuff.
Ok if you couldn't tell, my brain is fried from overw&^k, it's not making any sense.
Mikey, I made some more progress today, better than yesterday which I think was 2 items and 2 pre-items half way down. pre-items are items I add, fill in the details, add pictures but just enter ZERO quantity. This way they are not listed on amazon for sale but are in my catalog ready to go for sale when I actually get the item, after double checking to be sure everything is right. today I finished first two off, added about 2 items more out of my inventory, 1 returned item which is now listed as open-box, and maybe 6 more pre-items. If you're wondering why not just list them, i dont know exactly when they will be in my stock and i'm not 100% sure they are 100% new, I have to see them first to be sure. I don't want to cause any relation problems betweeen my buyers and me over inaccurate listings and get bad reputation. I only added some of the pre-items because i was tired of sorting through our junk, which i'm down to some of the really bottom of the barrel stuff, one odd thing here and there, they take more work than some things. When I get that next laod in it should go into inventory and for sale rather quickly as I think everything is in my system and about all but a few are now in my amazon catalog. The count is up to 1346 items. Anyhoo i'm beat dead after these last two days.
I think tonight is pizza night as its easy to cook and if I eat the whole thing, nothing to put away and no dishes or pots 'n pans to wash, just wipe off my cutting board.
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In the past 24 hours I have made $1.29 and lost just over 100k by not Boincing. NO it is not 'cost effective' as it does NOT cover the cost of running the pc. But obviously neither does Boincing!
I didn't think you'd make much, if anything, on it.
I figured on average, if I run my PC's at full power 24/7, That is a P4 HT (2-apps) and 1 NVIDIA 8800GT GPU each, they average monthly cost is about $15. This counts my use too during that time. It however does not include the extra air cooling in the non-winter months. So the daily use is about 50 cents a day each.
Now depending on what hardware you have and your local electric rate, yours may differ.
It might pay for itself, but your not going to be able to support yourself on the extra profit.
I think i'll stick with boinc, installing yet another widget is not in me at the moment, and I like some of the projects I give freely too. Cash is good but not always.
During the afternoon or last nite the pc did it's usual restart, I still don't know why it does that, but since I didn't have the link in the startup folder I lost some crunching time!! That is fixed now!! My balance is now $1.78 WOO HOO!!
Wound up with 2-3" of white stuff on the driveway that I'm trying to ignore. With any luck it will melt over the next week. Temps in the 50sF starting Wednesday.
Taking my annual 1/2 day Fridays through March (use vac. time or lose it).
Didn't you get the memo from mother nature, due to government budget cuts, the sun's heat output will not be turned back up this spring and summer. To go along with daylight savings time we now have sunshine savings time. There may be no end to white stuff, unless you live at the beach as we have our own time zone, called beach time and it is exempt from weather cutbacks, after all mother nature needs a place to vacation.
I might run out of things to list for sale before you run out of white stuff.
Ok if you couldn't tell, my brain is fried from overw&^k, it's not making any sense.
Mikey, I made some more progress today, better than yesterday which I think was 2 items and 2 pre-items half way down. pre-items are items I add, fill in the details, add pictures but just enter ZERO quantity. This way they are not listed on amazon for sale but are in my catalog ready to go for sale when I actually get the item, after double checking to be sure everything is right. today I finished first two off, added about 2 items more out of my inventory, 1 returned item which is now listed as open-box, and maybe 6 more pre-items. If you're wondering why not just list them, i dont know exactly when they will be in my stock and i'm not 100% sure they are 100% new, I have to see them first to be sure. I don't want to cause any relation problems betweeen my buyers and me over inaccurate listings and get bad reputation. I only added some of the pre-items because i was tired of sorting through our junk, which i'm down to some of the really bottom of the barrel stuff, one odd thing here and there, they take more work than some things. When I get that next laod in it should go into inventory and for sale rather quickly as I think everything is in my system and about all but a few are now in my amazon catalog. The count is up to 1346 items. Anyhoo i'm beat dead after these last two days.
I think tonight is pizza night as its easy to cook and if I eat the whole thing, nothing to put away and no dishes or pots 'n pans to wash, just wipe off my cutting board.
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Keith you are very busy on that website!! Do you think it could surpass your walk-in sales one day, or will it always be a sideline thing?
RandyC I too am glad YOU got snow and I did not!! Sorry buddy but I just don't need ANY MORE at all!!
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...I just don't need ANY MORE at all!!
I just got freezing rain followed by an inch of crusty crystaly snow. We finally got the roads cleared and then this. GRR!! It is supposed to go up into the 40 starting tomorrow though. This winter was getting old two months ago. but with the coming spring, I am WINNING!!
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...I just don't need ANY MORE at all!!
I just got freezing rain followed by an inch of crusty crystaly snow. We finally got the roads cleared and then this. GRR!! It is supposed to go up into the 40 starting tomorrow though. This winter was getting old two months ago. but with the coming spring, I am WINNING!!
The wife is paying to have the living room repainted (well, I might have to pay for the paint...), so this weekend will be a lot of prepping the room. My computer desk needs to be stripped down to move away from the wall, and the entertainment center needs the same treatment. I pulled all the purchased DVDs out of the side cabinets (>300 of them!) plus misc. VHS tapes and whatnot. The TV itself is a 32" flat panel so it's not too heavy to move...
Keith, this will be about as fun and as complex as you would have moving your crate PCs around.
I got a bunch of boxes at Sams Club this morning. Will be packing up stuff from the bookcases, etc. so they can be moved into the spare room or at least away from the walls.
Forecast for today is occasional light flurries with highs in the mid 40sF. A little cooler tomorrow and Monday, but back near 45F on Tuesday and into the 50sF Wednesday and Thursday. My new snow thrower I ordered a week ago is due to arrive Monday, so I'm pretty sure I've seen the last of any significant snowfall for the season.
Mikey, I looked for the one you posted on last fall, but the only places it was in stock wanted close to $250 for it. I wound up with
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Oh, can I boast about our nice beach weather. It is slightlly chilly, but nice in the sun. temp shoing aroiun 60F. I might get sun burnt today. I've been out on the porch, in bare feet, but still have long pants on. Been doing some decoration with plants, rearranging a few things, rotating some for the season. I did move a couple out so far, more to move later or maybe tomorrow. I've been trying to think of a way to arrange them this year since I will have some different pots as I transplanted the sweet 'taters from 4 pots into a single gray tub. I have another batch to do so will end up with two tubs. I'm thinking of putting them near the railing, then scavenging some short 2x4's lay a pair of them across the top of the tub. this will still allow me room to water and the vines to hang out. Then i can use this new shelf to put some of the smaller pots up higher and maybe put T'maters in them so they won't have as far to grow up, which will actully mean they get more sun sooner. They get some but are half shaded being behind the railing. I think it will make an interesting arrangment plus save some space so I have more desk area on my small porch.
Time for lunch and then maybe some for dirty work.
@Mikey, It would be nice if internet sales surpassed walk-ins, but as of now my monthly internet sales are about 1% of walk-ins and existing customers and wholesale. That would take quite a bit of growth. Also due to the fact that amazon does not collect sales tax, or even have a way to charge it, anytime I sell something in state, I have to pay the tax. What I do is adjust the order so the total comes out the same. Ther is no way to change the order amounts and add anything to the amount to the customer. For this reason I don't have a lot of the multi 100 to 1000 dollar items on there because at the low margin I make, the tax could be more than that. On the cheap and especially leftover stuff its not that bad as we want to get rid of those items. Fortunately in state internet sales are very few compared to the rest.
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...I just don't need ANY MORE at all!!
I just got freezing rain followed by an inch of crusty crystaly snow. We finally got the roads cleared and then this. GRR!! It is supposed to go up into the 40 starting tomorrow though. This winter was getting old two months ago. but with the coming spring, I am WINNING!!
GOOD GRIEF!!! I HATE freezing rain and the mess of the roads it causes!!! Around here we are like that commercial 'where people abandon their cars as soon as it starts snowing' whenever it does the freezing rain bit.
RandyC it looks very similar to the one I have even down to the way you turn it on! I like it and I hope you do NOT have to use it this season!!
Keith on those expensive items you could put a note about collecting taxes if shipped to an NC address, I have seen that before online and then I either pay or just get that item shipped elsewhere. Like when I bought a radar detector a while back, they are illegal to use in Virginia so they won't even ship one here, my mother in law lives in WVA so I had it shipped there and picked up on my next visit. This was a LONG time ago now but it would save both of you some trouble and let you put more things online.
JohnC it IS morning and it IS Daylight Savings Time now here in most of the US. I have one of those Keurig coffee machines, I LOVE IT, and spent an hour looking at the different kinds at Bed, Bath and Beyond the other day. I had two 20% off coupons, one per item, so bought 2 boxes. I also went to http://www.kenozacoffee.com/ and bought some sampler packs of the kinds Sam's Club and Walmart sell on line, that way I can order it from them where it is even cheaper.
I almost forgot, my total money earned so far is $2.91, that is after almost 3 days of crunching for them, AND 300k lost rac!
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Keith on those expensive items you could put a note about collecting taxes if shipped to an NC address, I have seen that before online and then I either pay or just get that item shipped elsewhere. Like when I bought a radar detector a while back, they are illegal to use in Virginia so they won't even ship one here, my mother in law lives in WVA so I had it shipped there and picked up on my next visit. This was a LONG time ago now but it would save both of you some trouble and let you put more things online.
Well I could do something like that, The thing is there is no way to modify the total that amazon charges, they keep the credit card info within thier system, not giving it to me. It would be bad business to send the guy an email saying call and give me your numebr so I can charge you sales tax, they might also cancel the order and leave abd feedabck, hurting our business.
I could also put a note on the items we ship only outside NC, but there is nothing on those items stopping anyone from inside NC from buying it. I could then of course cancel the order, but that too might lead to negative feedback.
Like I said the internet sales are only 1% of our total. If I put expensivve items on there, yes it might raise our total sales, but some of those area lready being sold so cheap by other sellers, Out bottom line would be too small, it just makes more sense in this case to not worry about it. I can make more profit on some of the cheaper, say $100 items than I can on say a $500 or $1200 item due to competition. After all too, the customers can call us on the phone and ask for these items, then since it is not being advertised by us on amaozn, we can sell it at whatever price we want, collect tax if applicable, and make morebecaue we don't have to cut amazon in.
I also have enough to do with other duties and the few sales I get, I don't need one more sale that bad.
There are advantages and disadvantages from selling through amazon as opposed to say having a stand alone store. I try to balance it all out and get the best compromise.
Thanks for your suggestions, but in this case i've already weighed all the factors.
There is however the possibilty that in the future amazon will collect tax or at least add a way to collect tax. I saw an internet article where the state of Texas, I think, sent amazon a bill for 298 million dollars, i think, it was some large krazy number, for sales tax it estimated they did not collect on sales shipped into thier state. I suppose they will try to fight it but for them it might be cheaper to pay it and start colelctiong tax on all sales. Who knows it still could be years before they settle that issue.
I suppose it is like our state, last year they changed the tax laws. We use to have to collect only tax at the local rate for any local or in-state sales. out of state ahs always been exempt. Now we have to colelct the local rate at the in-state destination and NC has like 100 counties with a total of about 8 different rates, and yes we ahve to report the amount separately for each county. Fortuantely I was able to adapt our system to handle this without much trouble, but at first it looked like a nightmare. Imaging having to do that for every state, people without good software would just have to give up ? We almsot di that ourselves for in-state shipemnts until I figured it out. We deal a lot with commercial fishermen whom are exempt from tax, with the proper documents and they have to sign a form, only once, but before the first sale. Just collectiong those is a nightmare. Being in the retail business, especially if your offer non-local services is a nightmare inside a nightmare with a nightmare on the side.
Lets move on to more happy subjects, saving stuff.
Today I saved an hour, only I'm not sure where I put it ? I woke up at what felt like the normal time, only to discover I had overslept an hour and then I was still tired ? I can't figure it out.
Then I went grocery shopping. i t seems at 7am, 8am today, the grocery store is empty of peopel so it is easy to park, walk around and no waiting to chekc out. This week they are having this big sale, buy 10-20-30 items on sale, get $5 extra off for each level. i hit the max and got an extra $15 off, plus $3 off on another 12 store brand items and some bogo items and marked down meats, plus my credit card has bonus points this month, so i get 5% discount back from them. Normally I use another card which gives me 2% on everything, so it is only 3% extra to me, but every penny helps. I might go back and buy some more stuff later. Total savings were over 42%.
WINNING with that one !
Now for breakfast and then some work out on the white stuff free porch in the hot sun, its already 63F here and no wind today. Excellant plant arranging weather.
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It's getting dark!!!
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Oooh! Eeerrr!
It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
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Oooh! Eeerrr!
It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
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...and when your spot on the earth revolves into shadow.
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It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
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...and when your spot on the earth revolves into shadow.
Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
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Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
So then you do understand that we stopped the rotation for an hour?
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Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
So then you do understand that we stopped the rotation for an hour?
Of course. And if the anti-inertial force fields had not kicked in during that time span we'd have had all sorts of nastiness happen in the earth's crust...like enormous earthquakes and tsunamis, etc. But that didn't happen eh? Oops, never mind.
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My wife has a friend from Japan who was an exchange student that stayed with her family when she was young. Got an email that he and his family are OK, but he had to walk home from w@^k Friday: 20 miles, since the trains weren't running.
My company also has a division in Japan and I haven't heard anything regarding them yet. They're based in Tokyo, so the office at least is minimally impacted. Don't know the status of the employees I occasionally w@^k with though.
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Well I could do something like that, The thing is there is no way to modify the total that amazon charges, they keep the credit card info within thier system, not giving it to me. It would be bad business to send the guy an email saying call and give me your numebr so I can charge you sales tax, they might also cancel the order and leave abd feedabck, hurting our business.
Ahhh you're right, I forgot you couldn't see the card info thru the Amazon store unlike your own site.
This week they are having this big sale, buy 10-20-30 items on sale, get $5 extra off for each level. i hit the max and got an extra $15 off, plus $3 off on another 12 store brand items and some bogo items and marked down meats, plus my credit card has bonus points this month, so i get 5% discount back from them. Normally I use another card which gives me 2% on everything, so it is only 3% extra to me, but every penny helps. I might go back and buy some more stuff later. Total savings were over 42%.
WINNING with that one !
Keith you sound like my wife...'but dear I saved 300%' after spending $400 on something!
SwiftMallard I don't know how you did it either but I slept in this morning too! I am normally a 4:30 5 am get up kind of guy, yesterday I got at 6am, sorta normal time, but this morning I got up at 7AM!!!
My youngest son is home this week to help around the house, he is NOT a happy camper but since I am paying the bills he is here. He was on his way home last night, it is only a 2 hour drive from College to my house and he got a flat tire. He knows how to change it so he did, or at least tried, the wheel nuts all came off but the wheel itself was stuck on and would not come off. So he call AAA and they went and changed it, to a mini spare. He finished dropping off a kid that was paying for the gas and was on his way home and the spare blew apart into many pieces! He insists he was going slow and it is old so I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt! But it also meant he had to call AAA back and get the car towed to NTB, a tire store, and they will fix the main tire, I hope, and replace the spare today.
JohnC I am now at #198 overall in Boinc! I finally broke the top 200 and should still be moving upwards for a while longer.
WINNING I guess!
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JohnC I am now at #198 overall in Boinc! I finally broke the top 200 and should still be moving upwards for a while longer.
WINNING I guess!
@Mikey
Your RAC average of 1.22million places you at 112 overall. So you should power on for many more gains.
When my wife goes shopping and makes all those barfin savings, I have to remind her we cannot afford the savings.
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Oooh! Eeerrr!
It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
...and when your spot on the earth revolves into shadow.
Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
Not to get too technical, but the sun goes neither up or down.
What did you think you were at the center of the universe ?
Just when it seems like our indusry was off the bottom and on the way up....
Someone had to stop the planet for an hour and cause a tsunami...
Our biggest vendor is based in Japan, we heard through the grapevine all thier employees are accounted for and fine, although one of the facilities had some minor damage. Changes in the last few years, a large portion of manufacturing was all moved from Japan to China and Korea, so supply lines won't be affected much. So this event does not seem to have much immediate impact on our industry.
However there is a local event going on that might have big imapct. The US Army Corp of Engineers spends some millions of dollars every year dredging the channel so fishing boats can travel from the sound where the docks are to the ocean where a lot of fish are. It seems the budget only allocated half the amount needed so they are going to stop dredging, meaning the cahnnel is going to fill in. Tis has an effect on about 10,000 local business people, which will filter down to us. Things may change, but things may get worse.
Oh then there is the cost of fuel going up. Tourists may not be able to afford to drive hear, much less book a trip on a boat because now they have to raise rates and also go farther to get to the ocean so this uses more fuel so adds more costs.
To soon to tell but our ship might be sinking.
And the weather has turned nasty again. Sunday it was 71F plus here. It was so nice working out on the porch and aranging the plants, now it is 52F and they may be the warmest for the next few days. I had to turn the heat back on.
I may have a goof tan since I was out in the sun most all day in my shorts and bare feet. Yesterday I built two nice shelves to hold plants. Well they are just a board suspended by a large plant pot on each end. I found a 10 foot 2x10 in the yard, which was perfect when cut in half. I had planned to just lay some boards across the top of the sweet potato tub, but when I put this in, it was long enough to go from the plant pot in the center of the porch to the one on the end. A little shim under each end and now it sits on those two pots plus on the tub in the center. Worked out better than I wanted and it is a heavy board for good support. I was then able to put 4 10 inch plus 3 8 inch pots on top of it. I put them as a small one on each end and in the middle. There's one on each side of the center post so it runs all away across the porch, except whre the trees are in the center and on the ends. This gives me more pots than I had last year taking up less floor space, and I still have room to put 4 more under the shelves. It looks rather nice so far, will look better with plants in them. Next weekend starts some planting. This gives me more space having a multi level arrangment plus allows more sun to get to some of them. The sun will also hit the side of the tub so to heat the soil and keep the roots warm.
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Oooh! Eeerrr!
It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
...and when your spot on the earth revolves into shadow.
Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
Not to get too technical, but the sun goes neither up or down.
What did you think you were at the center of the universe ?
WHAT!!!! You mean I'm NOT???!!???
WINNING!!!
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Oooh! Eeerrr!
It's getting dark!!!
Yes, it does that when the sun goes down.
...and when your spot on the earth revolves into shadow.
Now don't get technical on me. The sun isn't due to come up for an extra hour later this morning.
Not to get too technical, but the sun goes neither up or down.
What did you think you were at the center of the universe ?
There is a party pooper in every crowd! ;-)))
Just when it seems like our indusry was off the bottom and on the way up....
Someone had to stop the planet for an hour and cause a tsunami...
Our biggest vendor is based in Japan, we heard through the grapevine all thier employees are accounted for and fine, although one of the facilities had some minor damage. Changes in the last few years, a large portion of manufacturing was all moved from Japan to China and Korea, so supply lines won't be affected much. So this event does not seem to have much immediate impact on our industry.
I m glad everyone is okay too!
However there is a local event going on that might have big imapct. The US Army Corp of Engineers spends some millions of dollars every year dredging the channel so fishing boats can travel from the sound where the docks are to the ocean where a lot of fish are. It seems the budget only allocated half the amount needed so they are going to stop dredging, meaning the cahnnel is going to fill in. Tis has an effect on about 10,000 local business people, which will filter down to us. Things may change, but things may get worse.
Maybe the fishermen could start a slush fund for these kinds of lean years, it is better to charge more than not to fish, I think.
Oh then there is the cost of fuel going up. Tourists may not be able to afford to drive hear, much less book a trip on a boat because now they have to raise rates and also go farther to get to the ocean so this uses more fuel so adds more costs.
To soon to tell but our ship might be sinking.
I think some won't come but others will probably take their places, we city folk need our vacations! Kind of like you going to the city to 'get away' from the beach!
And the weather has turned nasty again. Sunday it was 71F plus here. It was so nice working out on the porch and aranging the plants, now it is 52F and they may be the warmest for the next few days. I had to turn the heat back on.
I may have a goof tan since I was out in the sun most all day in my shorts and bare feet. Yesterday I built two nice shelves to hold plants. Well they are just a board suspended by a large plant pot on each end. I found a 10 foot 2x10 in the yard, which was perfect when cut in half. I had planned to just lay some boards across the top of the sweet potato tub, but when I put this in, it was long enough to go from the plant pot in the center of the porch to the one on the end. A little shim under each end and now it sits on those two pots plus on the tub in the center. Worked out better than I wanted and it is a heavy board for good support. I was then able to put 4 10 inch plus 3 8 inch pots on top of it. I put them as a small one on each end and in the middle. There's one on each side of the center post so it runs all away across the porch, except whre the trees are in the center and on the ends. This gives me more pots than I had last year taking up less floor space, and I still have room to put 4 more under the shelves. It looks rather nice so far, will look better with plants in them. Next weekend starts some planting. This gives me more space having a multi level arrangment plus allows more sun to get to some of them. The sun will also hit the side of the tub so to heat the soil and keep the roots warm.
Keith I'll bet in a month or so you won't even remember the last time you had the heat on, you'd be all interested in making sure the a/c unit is shaded from the direct sun and thinking of ways to keep the house cooler! Oh and wishing the a/c in the car worked too, it will be so hot you can fry an egg in the street in a month! You won't even be able to THINK of walking down the street barefoot, you would burn those tootsies to a crisp!!
JohnC my rac average is about to come back down if I don't stop futzing with the money making scheme. I am up to a whopping $4.98 now, WOO HOO!! The rate they are paying is down to $0.079 per work unit and I am only doing about 1/2 workunit per hour!! It might just be time to cash out and move on, I have completed a whole 57.70 work units so far.
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Hmmm...I wonder if a guy could crunch only WUProp and nothing else?
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I would think that NNT on all projects being supported, except WUProp, would achieve that. But the RA,and daily output, would drop to the current WUProp results.
That way I would win splendidly.
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Hmmm...I wonder if a guy could crunch only WUProp and nothing else?
What happened, no more SwiftMallard and you are now known as just 'Rob'? You aren't thinking of stopping crunching are you? If you just want credits for the sake of earning lots of them then Androinc is the site for your cpu. Right now they are giving out fixed credits for each work unit completed, 115 of them for each workunit. Some units take longer and some less but the credits add up fast.
Here is a link http://androinc.net/index.php to their home page, it is run by the same people running Dnetc. The whole point of the Project is to hack a Motorola Milestone Smart Phone, I don't know if it is supported or not and there are some questions about the formula being used, but the credits ARE nice!!
I have stopped crunching for cash! I earned 12 cents yesterday and crunched for 24 hours, I am stopping the wasting of my time and energy.
WINNING!!
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Hmmm...I wonder if a guy could crunch only WUProp and nothing else?
What happened, no more SwiftMallard and you are now known as just 'Rob'? You aren't thinking of stopping crunching are you? If you just want credits for the sake of earning lots of them then Androinc is the site for your cpu. Right now they are giving out fixed credits for each work unit completed, 115 of them for each workunit. Some units take longer and some less but the credits add up fast.
Here is a link http://androinc.net/index.php to their home page, it is run by the same people running Dnetc. The whole point of the Project is to hack a Motorola Milestone Smart Phone, I don't know if it is supported or not and there are some questions about the formula being used, but the credits ARE nice!!
I have stopped crunching for cash! I earned 12 cents yesterday and crunched for 24 hours, I am stopping the wasting of my time and energy.
WINNING!!
About time I guess. You can't make any REAL money that way, and there are much more worthy causes to contribute to.
The wife has hired a contractor to paint the living room. He comes today. We've been getting as much cleared out as possible, but there's just no place big enough to put everything. So whatever's left is moving away from the walls and will be covered with dropcloths. What that means though is that the router and cable modem are being shutdown, along with two of my systems. I'm going to be off the air all day. She Who Must Be Obeyed insisted I stay home while they came to paint. That means no access from w@^k either.
The real bummer is that my manager refused to allow today as Personal Time. That means I have to take vacation and/or make up the time. It's not as if I've abused the Personal Time allowance. I've only taken 10 hrs for the current Fiscal Year. Oh well, I'll work all day Friday instead of taking a half-day vacation, then put in the last four hours from home on Saturday.
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What happened, no more SwiftMallard and you are now known as just 'Rob'?
OK, OK
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Here is a link http://androinc.net/index.php to their home page, it is run by the same people running Dnetc. The whole point of the Project is to hack a Motorola Milestone Smart Phone, I don't know if it is supported or not and there are some questions about the formula being used, but the credits ARE nice!!
I don't like the sound of that project or it's policies.
First hacking of a cell phone, is this only his motorola milestone or any of them. Very questionable. And since it is based on android 2.1 it must be a current model. This all sounds like it could be put to bad use. I don't support projects of this nature.
Next I can't get in because i'm a team founder so my account is pw'd with a random pw. To get my pw, I can't use the normal built into boinc request pw method, but must contact him by pm on boincstats and then send him an email from the email address registered. First I don't have an account on boincstats and second my email addresses are receive only, I keep my real email address hidden to keep it off spammer lists and out of hands of unquestionable unknown people. Too much hastle. I did check my team and apparently no one else on our team krunches this project either.
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Watch out, the government might be after you to pay income tax on that 12 cents. Sooner or later someone will figure it out and cause a bunch of trouble.
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I just woke up from my evening knapp. I was ka-put after w&^k today, although I did not do much. I added some more items to my online inventory, kind of even was having fun as it was easier items not needing the full treatment of editing. Don't know how many I did today, but I did find a better way to display the list, in descending order of date added. So the most recent are on the top. i did see I added 102 items this month so far. Total is up to 1377. Didn't know we had that much junk. Sales are still going strong, i'm at about 60% for the month. February was only 40%, but that is because I was closed during vacation. January was 119%. i was comparing the gross sales amount against last years 12 month average, that is for the internet sales only of course.
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I don't like the sound of that project or it's policies.
First hacking of a cell phone, is this only his motorola milestone or any of them. Very questionable. And since it is based on android 2.1 it must be a current model. This all sounds like it could be put to bad use. I don't support projects of this nature.
I agree with Keith. There is too much positive research to be done for me to have an interest in a project like that.
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What happened, no more SwiftMallard and you are now known as just 'Rob'?
OK, OK
I LIKE the SwiftMallard name but you of course can chose the one you like best!! I chose mikey because my name is actually Mike and because as a firefighter everyone gets a nickname, EVERYONE!! My nickname was always mikey, as in 'give it to mikey' or 'mikey likes it' etc, etc. It is actually far better than some nick names!! My brother in law works there and his nickname is Magic, we were on a call one day and we saw some smoke around a house but couldn't figure out where exactly it was coming from, so being responsible guys we were walking around looking in all the windows. It was fall and all the leaves were off the trees and as we walked around my brother in law fell into a window well, that was covered with leaves, and all we could see was his hands sticking out the top of the leaves and him yelling for help because he was stuck. We called him Magic because he made a good disappearing act!! He was unhurt but could not get out on his own at all, it was sort of funny!
Keith I like the new way you sorted them!! AND I also agree about Androinc, although I did not know about your Team founder problems, that IS bad!!
RandyC if you hadn't been so honest you could have just called in sick that day and had your 'personal day'. It is a catch 22, you try to be honest and upfront with the boss and they chop you off at the knees! Which of course forces you to not tell them next time, not to actually be dishonest but not give full disclosure either!
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I thawt I saw a Leprechaun, or maybe it was an escaped little green alien from seti, ya know they created this holiday so they could run around the planet unnoticed. All seti has to do is point that telescope across the pond.
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I thawt I saw a Leprechaun, or maybe it was an escaped little green alien from seti, ya know they created this holiday so they could run around the planet unnoticed. All seti has to do is point that telescope across the pond.
Nice long win there Keith. Maybe the little green men (LGM) scared everybody away?
Still trying to put my living room back together after the painters finished. It's a chance to do a thorough cleaning though.
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I thawt I saw a Leprechaun, or maybe it was an escaped little green alien from seti, ya know they created this holiday so they could run around the planet unnoticed. All seti has to do is point that telescope across the pond.
Shhhhh, no one is supposed to know that!
I got my two newest purchases yesterday, I bought two new 8 gig Kingston usb sticks for 10 bucks apiece from Adorama and they arrived yesterday. I am going to use them as Windows 7 install sticks instead of using the dvd's, it is MUCH faster than installing from a dvd, so will speed up the time needed for me to get a pc up and running when the hard drive crashes. I have slowly been weeding out the bad hard drives so it doesn't happen as often as it used to, but it does still happen once in awhile. It is just part of the fun of getting old stuff when I help someone with their brand new pc.
In fact I am already setup to go Tuesday to start helping a lady that finally bought herself a 17" Mac laptop! I have been working with her trying to get her head around the idea that she needs one pc instead of several, she is 68 years old and has two homes and travels between them alot. They are both here in Virginia, only about an hour or so apart, but she used to have 2 pc's each with its own OS and since she is not a computer expert she had nothing but troubles!! Her sister and nephew both recently bought Mac's so she wanted a Mac too, I also wanted her to get one so she had tech support from a trusted friend. Her problem was that the Apple store kept trying to sell her a 15" laptop instead of the 17" one!! She went round and round with them always coming home empty handed until finally a Government Contractor was there too one day and he also said she needed to get the 17" one. Being 68 years old and it being a brand new $2k pc I told her it should last at least 5 years, and therefore the bigger screen would be more helpful in the long run. The sales guys kept thinking here and now and not long term! She is NOT hurting for money, in fact she and her husband, in January, just bought his and hers matching 4wd Honda CRV's for CASH!! The only difference is the color, hers is blue and his is more red. Apple also sells a 1 year unlimited in store training deal for $100 bucks! She bought that too, it is all one on one sessions, as many as you can schedule, for a whole year from the date of purchase. It goes over any program or hardware you buy or even just generic Mac stuff if you'd prefer, it is great plan!! Her sister took 28 classes in her year, her nephew took none! You can even bring a friend along if you'd like, so she will be taking her sister to some of them.
It turns out the Computer4Cash site won't send you any of the money you earned until you hit the $10 mark, so I either need to crunch some more or give up the $5.51 I earned.
WINNING!!
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Looking in to say HI, before I dress and walk the dogs.
Why do the dogs wear dresses ?
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Koz it rains a lot here, but I don't.
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Koz it rains a lot here, but I don't.
I like to think I reign at my house. I am frequently reminded otherwise.
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No rain or white stuff here, its 75F degress plus here.
Gonna be nice tomorrow although not as hot, which happens to be planting day. Gotta move the tropical plants and sweet p'taters out and transplant some of them. Sunday it might be nastier, I heard a 'nor easter was gonna come through.
Got some new big water buckets, so I will have to rearrange them, I still need to paint some of those and I left the paint at work. Guess no painting this weekend.
While i'm waiting for pizza, which will be acombined lunch and dinenr all in one.
Was busy yesterday and today. I can't believe how much stufff i've been finding around the shop that i didn't list yet. Some i just missed, other stuff I skipped on purpsoe as i thought it would sell locally, yet 6 months later it is still there. And most of what I did the last few days was not on my todo list, not counting the first big load of 50 items and the second of 40 which I haven't got yet but pre-added all the item not already there, so my todo list still ahs about 80 items on it. This is stuff I don't think will sell and i'm leaving for last. I'm up to 1406 items now, of whcih I added 132 so far this month. How much junk can one shop have ? When will it end ?
Sales are up to 63% now, and that doesn't count the two orders that came in late in the day I haven't filled yet.
Dinner's ready, gotta go.
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Koz it rains a lot here, but I don't.
I like to think I reign at my house. I am frequently reminded otherwise.
It would be funny if that was happening only at your place but it happens at mine too!
I got another used pc up and running yesterday but the AGP 4650 gpu card will NOT work!! I loaded and unloaded the software 3 times yesterday but it just will not see the card! It works but windows thinks it is a generic card not an ATI one and the Catalyst software although loading will not come up! I may have to wipe it out today and start over, it has 64 bit Win7 on it right now and I may just switch it out to 32 bit Win7 and see if that makes any difference. I don't think it will but who knows?! And another of my pc's fans died in the power supply! I swapped in a used fan for now but I need to go out and get a new one today. I may just get a whole new power supply instead, it turns out the motherboard will support TWO pci-e cards. The current one is a 600 watt and I do not think it is big enough to support two pci-e cards.
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it turns out the motherboard will support TWO pci-e cards. The current one is a 600 watt and I do not think it is big enough to support two pci-e cards.
Definitely a new PSU of at least 800W needed or you will never win again on that rig.
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Good morning Mr.Sleepyhead
Did some weekly restock shopping again. I'm like that squirell, except I stock up for summertime to avoid the lines and krowds. This was another large laod with about 45% savings. Can't beat that.
I'm not sure i'll get much work done on the porch garden today. Its 50% out there. I tried yesterday, but eventually had to go put long pants on as my legs were kold. I did get some done and planted some seeds. If the sun comes out I may go out and do some, but the moving of the tropical plants out and transplanting the sweet p'taters has to wait. Spring will be here by next week end, maybe it will be better then.
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it turns out the motherboard will support TWO pci-e cards. The current one is a 600 watt and I do not think it is big enough to support two pci-e cards.
Definitely a new PSU of at least 800W needed or you will never win again on that rig.
I bought a 750 watt one so I hope it will be okay, I saw your message AFTER I went to the store of course!! The box on the 5770 says it requires a 600 watt PS if you are running 2 of them in one box, that is how we got to the 750 being enough. I have 1 ide cd drive in the machine and 2 ide hard drives, I am hoping it will be enough or I will have to go back and get ANOTHER ps!! And honestly it is not open yet so I could return it and get a larger one, maybe I will do that on Tuesday when I am out again, hmmm you have me thinking John and that can get expensive!!
I took the machine I spent a day working on apart, the gpu just won't work. I am going to try and put WinXP Pro on it and see if Win7 was the problem. It is an older motherboard and the network card and some other settings were acting funky. Also Asus, the folks who made the motherboard, said it is not Win7 compatible and do not make drivers for it!! The network would go from my home trusted one to a public non trusted one for no reason right in the middle of downloading stuff! I was using the built in one, not a stand alone one.
Oh well it is Sunday and I am WINNING!!
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Good morning Mr.Sleepyhead
Did some weekly restock shopping again. I'm like that squirell, except I stock up for summertime to avoid the lines and krowds. This was another large laod with about 45% savings. Can't beat that.
I'm not sure i'll get much work done on the porch garden today. Its 50% out there. I tried yesterday, but eventually had to go put long pants on as my legs were kold. I did get some done and planted some seeds. If the sun comes out I may go out and do some, but the moving of the tropical plants out and transplanting the sweet p'taters has to wait. Spring will be here by next week end, maybe it will be better then.
From a table of all the Season changes:
SPRING EQUINOX March 20, 7:21 P.M. EDT
So there's no need to wait for next week; it's coming this evening...
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it turns out the motherboard will support TWO pci-e cards. The current one is a 600 watt and I do not think it is big enough to support two pci-e cards.
Definitely a new PSU of at least 800W needed or you will never win again on that rig.
I bought a 750 watt one so I hope it will be okay, I saw your message AFTER I went to the store of course!! The box on the 5770 says it requires a 600 watt PS if you are running 2 of them in one box, that is how we got to the 750 being enough. I have 1 ide cd drive in the machine and 2 ide hard drives, I am hoping it will be enough or I will have to go back and get ANOTHER ps!! And honestly it is not open yet so I could return it and get a larger one, maybe I will do that on Tuesday when I am out again, hmmm you have me thinking John and that can get expensive!!
I took the machine I spent a day working on apart, the gpu just won't work. I am going to try and put WinXP Pro on it and see if Win7 was the problem. It is an older motherboard and the network card and some other settings were acting funky. Also Asus, the folks who made the motherboard, said it is not Win7 compatible and do not make drivers for it!! The network would go from my home trusted one to a public non trusted one for no reason right in the middle of downloading stuff! I was using the built in one, not a stand alone one.
Oh well it is Sunday and I am WINNING!!
Didn't you have one of those watt meters. What you could do is power up the computer as is, with a regular video board if you got one. See what it is sucking down. Then try it with one ATI, that is if you can get boinc to run a work unit so it is at full power draw. The differnce would tell approx what one video card is going to use. Double that and add it to the first numebr you had, you would be close, since you need to subtract a little for the standard card.
I ran a computer P4-HT with my xfx 8800 GT graphics card in it on the standard 250W PS, According to my backup supply which will tell me the load, it was using 224W. I eventually upgraded to 800W supplies so I had room to grow as I was planning on adding two spare hard drives and actually when I bought them they were cheaper than 600W. Now I was surprised I got the graphic card to work at 250W when the box recommended at least 500W I think. Mine draw less that a lot of cards. Unfortunately I no longer have the box and the silly website has taken this information away for older cards.
I did find an estimate for a HD 5770 at 450W for one. So I'm guessing they start at maybe 300W basic more modern computer and added 150W and you said 600W which is another 150W jump. There is always extra in the estimate anyway. I think you would be fine with 750W.
The neighbor next door moved out, up the street about 6 houses. Don't know why, but they didn't take the squirell with them. They had been putting bird seed out all winter for it. Yes it ws for the squirell as he had nailed the bird feed to the top of the porch railing. Some birdds got some, but the suirell would clean out more than half in 2-3 hours. This is the problem with feeding wild animals. I caught it on my porch today. I scarred the nuts off it when I went out. It was barking fiercly as it jumped to the tree and ran up to the roof. I hope it doesn't come back. Anyway I planted lots of red hot peppers, except by the time they grow it might have stollen all my seeds.
Oh this gives me a good idea. Put out birdseed mixed with red hot pepper seeds. He's get some in his mouth and run away with flames coming out the rear end, never to come back.
Today I planted 8 pots of bell peppers, 1 pot red peppers, 1 pot watermellons, 1 pot flowers, 3 pots sweet basil, 2 pots lettuce, 5 pots mini tomatoes.
The 'dead' bell peppers look good. I started trimming them down. I expected to have to cut off about half, which is 3 feet on some of them. After I cut off 6 inches I was hitting green. So a lot of them are not as dead as I thought. As soon as they get some more direct heat from the sun, they will come back slowly over the next month.
Oh and I found lettuce growing in the yard, an escapee from last year. I need to go mark it off so the roomie doesn't mow it down. Who knows what else might pop up from run away seeds.
More to plant but i think i'm done for the day as it is sort of chilly out there.
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Kweeping in, not with updated BOINCStats, and sitting here to see if they are updated to the same as the totals really show. While I sit I can win?
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General FYI - Anyone who uses BOINCSTATS for their sig stats needs to update their various accounts. They have renumbered the users (or at least they did ME!) and you'll need to fix the path that displays your stats.
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I was wondering why my name changed to puttaberra. They did these before, a couple of years ago. I then changed my sig to reflect my team, it seams teams didn't change.
I'm wiped out today. Had 8 items to ship from over the weekend. While working on those this morning we had 3 regualar orders came in and before I finished all that I had 5 more internet orders, whcih are on tomorrow mornings list. Needless to say after paperwork and all, I didn't get back to adding items until 4:30 and only got one done before end-of day. It might be time to give up adding inventory. Sales had hit 79% of quotta with still 10 days to go.
Oh and its a nice 72F here today. I would put the tropical plants out, but Thurs-Friday are calling for still 45F nights. I'm thinking they like 50ish or better, so maybe not until the weekend.
I've been watching a rater interesting history channel tv series on netflix, called Universe. I'm, on the second season of four, from 2007. It's really interesting and I'm learning a lot about the big bang, planets and all the space in between. If you're into space science its worth a look.
What was the question ? Oh the answer is WINNING !!!
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I was wondering why my name changed to puttaberra. They did these before, a couple of years ago. I then changed my sig to reflect my team, it seams teams didn't change.
I'm wiped out today. Had 8 items to ship from over the weekend. While working on those this morning we had 3 regualar orders came in and before I finished all that I had 5 more internet orders, whcih are on tomorrow mornings list. Needless to say after paperwork and all, I didn't get back to adding items until 4:30 and only got one done before end-of day. It might be time to give up adding inventory. Sales had hit 79% of quotta with still 10 days to go.
Oh and its a nice 72F here today. I would put the tropical plants out, but Thurs-Friday are calling for still 45F nights. I'm thinking they like 50ish or better, so maybe not until the weekend.
I've been watching a rater interesting history channel tv series on netflix, called Universe. I'm, on the second season of four, from 2007. It's really interesting and I'm learning a lot about the big bang, planets and all the space in between. If you're into space science its worth a look.
What was the question ? Oh the answer is WINNING !!!
I've recorded 64 episodes of that series so far. Not sure if I've missed any, but I keep checking the TV guide against my catalog.
As for Spring--NOT!
It's baaccckk!
Tuesday Night Low: 31, Cloudy. Freezing rain...sleet with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Glazing around a tenth of an inch likely. Lows 29 to 33. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 100 percent.
Wednesday Night Low: 24, Mostly cloudy. Scattered snow showers. Lows 22 to 26. Chance of snow 50 percent.
Thursday Night Low: 16, Partly cloudy during the evening. Mostly clear overnight. Lows 14 to 18.
Friday Night Low: 18, Partly cloudy. Lows 16 to 20.
etc.
And to top it all off, this past Saturday night my daughter's car was stolen.
Not...
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I had thunderstorms here last night. We supposed to get four inches of slush tonight.
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They renumbered a bunch of folks, they say if you use your cross project id number instead of your name it won't happen again, I have no idea.
Also I hope they find your daughters car quickly and it is in excellent shape!!!
As for the weather you guys can keep that!! It rained heavy with thunderstorms again last night but this morning it is clear and in the upper 50's heading to the low 60's later on. It is 74F in the house so the windows and doors are open trying to cool it down!!
Keith it seems your boss should be VERY happy with the internet sales, is he? Does he even realize the money coming in that way? Or the time spent bringing in that money? I am not sure I would tell him everything, you don't want him cutting off what can be fun sometimes but you do want him to realize the effort.
I got my 'tomato trees' in the mail the other day, they say they will each grow up to 40 pounds of fruit. They came as little pots with the seeds already in them, I gave one to my neighbor and will give another one or two to another friend today. I got six trees for the cost of $5.00 shipping, the trees were free I just had to pay the 5 bucks to ship them. I got them at this site
http://1saleaday.com/ I buy things from them sometimes but not often, never had a problem though.
Keith I am sorta glad you too have a squirrel 'problem', you will now see how much of a pain they can be! I too have scared the bejesus out of several of them over the years and they always seem to come back for more. The only thing that sorta works is the hot peppers, they bite them and they don't come back much anymore. But as for the hot pepper seeds in their food, they will just keep eating. I am not sure they are smart enough to equate spicy in with spicy out! I lined up 10 Habeneros one year and one squirrel ate them all, one after the other right on down the railing, working towards my tomatoes! He was full of hot peppers though so in the end did not eat any tomatoes that time, he did come back later on though and I scared him into jumping off my 2nd story deck! He was screaming and yelling at me but came back later on anyway, I ended up trapping him and he is now making new friends at the local golf course! Caribbean Red is the kind I grow and the squirrels will take one bite out of several and then leave and not come back. I put them at the top of my steps and the tomatoes are farther down so they have to pass the peppers to get to the tomatoes. They are similar in size to patio tomatoes so the squirrels think they are in for a sweet treat and SURPRISE!!! My neighbor took some peppers and seeds and made a spray and sprayed his garden with it, the raccoons and possums stopped coming by after that! You know Keith you could do an experiment, trap a squirrel and take him out on your next kayak outing and see if he can swim! If the answer is yes the next time you can see how long he can hold his breath!
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Well the boss is sort of happy, he sometimes says i'm doing a good job. So he would realize some of the stuff going out, I send it by us mail, as he is the one that likes to go to the post office so I make him take the packages there, and sometimes I tell him what we sold, especially when it is some item from 7 years ago so he realizes i'm clearing out the old over order mistakes, and i'm not the ordering person
I didn't get any orders overnight, but had those 5 to fill this morning from yesterday, so I did those, then another order came in. Quiet the rest of the day so I got back to adding a few things and improving some listings. I'm up to 1420 items now, which is 146 added so far this month. This I think is a record month for me adding items. I'll have to count back as I know I started on a push back in october adding stuff when I was starting the inventory clean up for the end of the year and I did a lot in october, november and december.
I also figured a way to make some of the listings look better. There is a description box, and if I cut and paste from a manufacture site, amazon strips out all the extra spaces, so then the listinging becomes one big paragraph and not to easy top read sometimes. a lot of people just put a short one line sentance. So I finnaly figured out I can at least use html paragraph breaks and line breaks. it won't allow me to do lists, but I was able to cheat on those by adding my own symbol '-' instead of a dot and add my own line break at the end of the line. more typing for me but it gets it done.
here are two examples
Scroll down to the product description section, you'll see if you look close it is the same text, we both copied from the manufacturers site. I jsut was able to reformat it again and make it look like it does on the manufacturers site.
Somehow though I wish I knew this 1400 items ago. It may take a while to go back and redo all those. I may a few at a time over the next ???? days.
Only trouble with using amazon though, is it is a shared site. Sometimes the listing is mine, sometimes someone elses, with no choice by us vendors. So even if I improve it, it may still show their lesser appealing one. Then the reverse is true too, it might show all my fancy work but have them as the seller so they benefit from my work.
Today was another nice day although its back to 55F now.
No sign of squirell tracks in the plant pots yet.
My rommmate jsut got a new kar. A Prius. One of the hybrid types. He says he gets about 60 mpg. The thing is quiet to. I was on the porch the other day, he walked out, I saw him standing by the kar, i turned around to get some water, and when I turned back the kar was gone. i didn't even here it. Only noise it makes is if it runs over some nuts or leaves on the driveway. It's really kreepy. In parkinglots you can drive up behind people, they'll turn around and be scared because they didn't hear a thing. it can be dangerous too being that quiet. The gas cuts in soemwhere around 15-25 mph. He figured the money he saves in gas a month will about pay half his kar payment, especially if it gets to 5 bucks like predicted.
I hit the local food dawg on the way home, and got another load of 30 items on special. Today was the last day. This was my third load. That is an extra $15 off on each load. Things I noramlly use, but may not buy in that quantity all at once, although now i have good stock to last through the summer. Every extra dollar helps.
WINNING with cash in my pocket.
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Well, dodged the bullet this morning...only rain. Unfortunately, forecast is for sn*w starting this afternoon, changing to rain/sleet/sn*w mix overnight.
Only an inch accumulation, but if that's on top of 1/2 inch of ice...time for slipping and sliding on the way to w@^k tomorrow morning.
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Well the boss is sort of happy, he sometimes says i'm doing a good job. So he would realize some of the stuff going out, I send it by us mail, as he is the one that likes to go to the post office so I make him take the packages there, and sometimes I tell him what we sold, especially when it is some item from 7 years ago so he realizes i'm clearing out the old over order mistakes, and i'm not the ordering person.
I didn't get any orders overnight, but had those 5 to fill this morning from yesterday, so I did those, then another order came in. Quiet the rest of the day so I got back to adding a few things and improving some listings. I'm up to 1420 items now, which is 146 added so far this month. This I think is a record month for me adding items. I'll have to count back as I know I started on a push back in october adding stuff when I was starting the inventory clean up for the end of the year and I did a lot in october, november and december.
I also figured a way to make some of the listings look better. There is a description box, and if I cut and paste from a manufacture site, amazon strips out all the extra spaces, so then the listinging becomes one big paragraph and not to easy top read sometimes. a lot of people just put a short one line sentance. So I finnaly figured out I can at least use html paragraph breaks and line breaks. it won't allow me to do lists, but I was able to cheat on those by adding my own symbol '-' instead of a dot and add my own line break at the end of the line. more typing for me but it gets it done.
here are two examples
Scroll down to the product description section, you'll see if you look close it is the same text, we both copied from the manufacturers site. I jsut was able to reformat it again and make it look like it does on the manufacturers site.
Somehow though I wish I knew this 1400 items ago. It may take a while to go back and redo all those. I may a few at a time over the next ???? days.
Only trouble with using amazon though, is it is a shared site. Sometimes the listing is mine, sometimes someone elses, with no choice by us vendors. So even if I improve it, it may still show their lesser appealing one. Then the reverse is true too, it might show all my fancy work but have them as the seller so they benefit from my work.
Today was another nice day although its back to 55F now.
No sign of squirell tracks in the plant pots yet.
My rommmate jsut got a new kar. A Prius. One of the hybrid types. He says he gets about 60 mpg. The thing is quiet to. I was on the porch the other day, he walked out, I saw him standing by the kar, i turned around to get some water, and when I turned back the kar was gone. i didn't even here it. Only noise it makes is if it runs over some nuts or leaves on the driveway. It's really kreepy. In parkinglots you can drive up behind people, they'll turn around and be scared because they didn't hear a thing. it can be dangerous too being that quiet. The gas cuts in soemwhere around 15-25 mph. He figured the money he saves in gas a month will about pay half his kar payment, especially if it gets to 5 bucks like predicted.
I hit the local food dawg on the way home, and got another load of 30 items on special. Today was the last day. This was my third load. That is an extra $15 off on each load. Things I noramlly use, but may not buy in that quantity all at once, although now i have good stock to last through the summer. Every extra dollar helps.
WINNING with cash in my pocket.
Keith I LIKE the better formatting of the details, it is NICE!!! I also think it is sneaky getting the boss to take all the packages to the Post Office, he probably likes the time out of the Office!
As for the Prius wait until you ride in it, it is NICE too! Not at all like you would think, it is not all plasticy and fake and all that, it is a nice car!! BUT as you said it IS very quiet, they are working on coming up with a noise when it operates in the all electric mode because of the pedestrians that step out in front of the electric cars due to the lack of noise they make. The Gov't is considering making a standard noise mandatory but haven't settled on one yet. Oh and the Prius does have some giddy up and go to it too! I used to drive one when I worked and it would get to over 70mph in a short amount of time. It wasn't setting records but it would go just fine and even surprised me a few times if I just kept my foot flat on the floor! All that AND over 40mpg with no effort at all! It gets better mpg in town than on the road because of all the stops and starts in town. Now if you are traveling and hit some mountains forget about it, it does not have the torque to make it up a mountain at other than the speed limit, and your mpg will plummet when doing it. My neighbor took hers to Pittsburgh, where her family is, and she said it was horrible in the mountains. Her mpg dropped to close to 30 mpg in the mountains but then came right back up once she got to Pittsburgh. The 3 cylinder engine just is not made for mountains!
I went to the store yesterday to exchange my 750 watt power supply for an 850 watt one but the cost difference made me change my mind, it was 50 bucks MORE!! So I will try the 750 watt one and see if it works for me or not, if not I will have to move some other gpu's around and just put smaller ones in that machine.
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My rommmate jsut got a new kar. A Prius. One of the hybrid types. He says he gets about 60 mpg. The thing is quiet to. I was on the porch the other day, he walked out, I saw him standing by the kar, i turned around to get some water, and when I turned back the kar was gone. i didn't even here it. Only noise it makes is if it runs over some nuts or leaves on the driveway. It's really kreepy. In parkinglots you can drive up behind people, they'll turn around and be scared because they didn't hear a thing. it can be dangerous too being that quiet. The gas cuts in soemwhere around 15-25 mph. He figured the money he saves in gas a month will about pay half his kar payment, especially if it gets to 5 bucks like predicted.
I hit the local food dawg on the way home, and got another load of 30 items on special. Today was the last day. This was my third load. That is an extra $15 off on each load. Things I noramlly use, but may not buy in that quantity all at once, although now i have good stock to last through the summer. Every extra dollar helps.
WINNING with cash in my pocket.
Keith I LIKE the better formatting of the details, it is NICE!!! I also think it is sneaky getting the boss to take all the packages to the Post Office, he probably likes the time out of the Office!
As for the Prius wait until you ride in it, it is NICE too! Not at all like you would think, it is not all plasticy and fake and all that, it is a nice car!! BUT as you said it IS very quiet, they are working on coming up with a noise when it operates in the all electric mode because of the pedestrians that step out in front of the electric cars due to the lack of noise they make. The Gov't is considering making a standard noise mandatory but haven't settled on one yet. Oh and the Prius does have some giddy up and go to it too! I used to drive one when I worked and it would get to over 70mph in a short amount of time. It wasn't setting records but it would go just fine and even surprised me a few times if I just kept my foot flat on the floor! All that AND over 40mpg with no effort at all! It gets better mpg in town than on the road because of all the stops and starts in town. Now if you are traveling and hit some mountains forget about it, it does not have the torque to make it up a mountain at other than the speed limit, and your mpg will plummet when doing it. My neighbor took hers to Pittsburgh, where her family is, and she said it was horrible in the mountains. Her mpg dropped to close to 30 mpg in the mountains but then came right back up once she got to Pittsburgh. The 3 cylinder engine just is not made for mountains!
I went to the store yesterday to exchange my 750 watt power supply for an 850 watt one but the cost difference made me change my mind, it was 50 bucks MORE!! So I will try the 750 watt one and see if it works for me or not, if not I will have to move some other gpu's around and just put smaller ones in that machine.
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I'll confirm that the Prius is a nice and ROOMY car! It may look small on the outside, but on the inside it makes you think of the TARDIS! I'll also confirm that mpg is pretty bad in hill country. However, it is NOT a 3-cylinder engine. It (GEN II) has a 1.5 liter 4 cylinder engine. The GEN III (2010+) has a 1.8 liter 4 cylinder engine. It will get you up the mountain, but don't expect to do it at 80mph! It will roar like the Dickens, but you should be able to maintain 60mph on the way up.
As for noise makers, if they force it on us, I want mine to be from that old Jalopy in the Popeye cartoons that wheezes and back-fires constantly. However, I don't think the government should be picking on hybrid and electric cars. There are some all-gasoline/diesel vehicles that can be VERY quiet at low speed too, and no-one's forcing THEM to get noise makers! Besides, if pedestrians would turn down their iPods and get off their cell phones when crossing busy streets, there wouldn't be any issues at all. Even deaf people know to look both ways when crossing the street! And in parking lots, they have no business walking down the middle of the lanes either. Stay on the sides ya idiots!!!
As for being quiet at start-up, the 2010 Prius has an EV button (standard) that can be pushed which will keep the engine turned off until you get up to speed (or run the battery down). My 2004 Prius has an EV button that I installed myself. Depending on how much gas you were using in your prior vehicle, it can be a substantial savings to own a Prius. My wife's 2005 Prius gets about 3x the mileage she got in the Ford Ranger it replaced. 'course if I were driving it, it would be closer to 4x the mpg of the Ranger.
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My win today, or exactly a month ago:
My number 2 boy born....
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My win today, or exactly a month ago:
My number 2 boy born....
CONGRATULATIONS!! You are making quite the family up there in the land of the cold!! What is this ones name?
RandyC the Gov't are talking about measuring each and every car model at idle and if it doesn't meet a minimum noise level then requiring a 'noise maker' at slow to no speed travel for it. They are saying it is like motorcycle helmets, they are protecting us from ourselves!! But I do agree with you, having driven a Prius people do not respect it as a car when in parking lots, or are people just too lazy to 'act responsibly' any more?! Also I did not know about the EV button or that the engine was bigger now, thanks!
The Gas Giant WELCOME BACK!!
Nice short win there JohnC!
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This will be my 1776th post, which for some reason seems to be a milestone but I can't figure it out.
Putting noise makers on kars, how silly. Isn't there enough noise polution now. i though the idea was to makes things quieter.
I'd love to have a new tardis. The fuel economy is about 3 times what I get in my SUV. I'm thinking of downsizing maybe, I only had the SUV to karry my kayak but I may not be doing that much anymore. Only I don't want to have a kar payment, I want to buy one for kash, however now is not the time to deplete my khecking account.
I just saw an article about new hydrogen fuel beads which could fuel cars for 50 cents a gallon and new shock wave engine which could triple fuel efficiency of currnet hybrid vehicles. See this http://nokia.getblogs.info/2011/03/21/inhabitats-week-in-green-shifting-towers-hydrogen-beads-and-the-shockwave-engine-for-fuel-efficiency/.
I was so out of it yesterday, I had to take a knap after work and before dinner, then I went abck to sleep.
@RandyC
About The Universe, According to the episodes on netflix, the first 4 seasons have 14-18-12-12 episodes = 56. Season 5 from 2010 is on dvd and only has 8 episodes, so that makes 64. I don't know if it is still running. You could check netflix for the episode names, I don't think you have to be a member to browse titles. if not i'm sure that info would be on imdb.
I'm about half way through season 2. I may after I watch all of them, go back and watch them again, as I think I might have slept through some of the material. I found most of it quiet interesting, even if it was stuff I already knew, but I have learned a few things I didn't know. I try to watch a lot of documentaries in between movies. I may not remember all i see, but I enjoy it at the time i watch it.
Now, back to sleep.
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I just saw an article about new hydrogen fuel beads which could fuel cars for 50 cents a gallon and new shock wave engine which could triple fuel efficiency of currnet hybrid vehicles. See this http://nokia.getblogs.info/2011/03/21/inhabitats-week-in-green-shifting-towers-hydrogen-beads-and-the-shockwave-engine-for-fuel-efficiency/.
Couldn't find any useful info at your link. Just a summary of 'news' without any links to those articles. So I Googled 'hydrogen beads' and found an interesting story. And while reading THAT I found a link on their page to:
Trees cocooned by spiders could reduce malaria risk, which is more relevant to our group.
The hydrogen beads story was interesting, but didn't impress me as being practical as yet. Recycling the beads is problematic and adding them to standard gasoline could clog the fuel line along with adding NEW types of pollutants (ammonia/borane) to the air.
The shock wave engine story is NOT new--circa 2009 for the original ARPA grant, and all he has to show is a fancy-cut piece of metal he SAYS can be used to drive a generator in a hybrid vehicle. Anyway, the computer simulations say it will work. Now he's looking for another 2-3 year grant to build an actual engine to put in a car...maybe...
If it works, it would certainly REDUCE our fossil fuel consumption (GOOD), but it in no way eliminates it (BAD).
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[quote]Trees cocooned by spiders could reduce malaria risk, which is more relevant to our group.
The hydrogen beads story was interesting, but didn't impress me as being practical as yet. Recycling the beads is problematic and adding them to standard gasoline could clog the fuel line along with adding NEW types of pollutants (ammonia/borane) to the air.
The shock wave engine story is NOT new--circa 2009 for the original ARPA grant, and all he has to show is a fancy-cut piece of metal he SAYS can be used to drive a generator in a hybrid vehicle. Anyway, the computer simulations say it will work. Now he's looking for another 2-3 year grant to build an actual engine to put in a car...maybe...
If it works, it would certainly REDUCE our fossil fuel consumption (GOOD), but it in no way eliminates it (BAD).
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My local power company is being so energy efficient that they are raising my rates because they aren't making enough money!
There is a Honda Civic GX that you might like, it runs on natural gas which is about 33 cents per gallon right now! It gets around 24 city 36 hiway mpg according to the EPA. If you lived in Utah, I think, they give you a $2500.00 State tax credit, plus you get a fuel purchase credit, Nationwide you can also get a Federal tax credit, plus you get to drive in he carpool lanes, all these deals make most of the cars end up in Utah! The car is here http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/
RandyC and SwiftMallard it is now going to S-N-O-W in my area on Sunday, I have had ENOUGH snow for the year thanks!
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My local power company is being so energy efficient that they are raising my rates because they aren't making enough money!
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There is a Honda Civic GX that you might like, it runs on natural gas which is about 33 cents per gallon right now! It gets around 24 city 36 hiway mpg according to the EPA. If you lived in Utah, I think, they give you a $2500.00 State tax credit, plus you get a fuel purchase credit, Nationwide you can also get a Federal tax credit, plus you get to drive in he carpool lanes, all these deals make most of the cars end up in Utah! The car is here http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/
I get about 24ish now in my SUV, not much of an improvement. If I was to get something it would have to do better.
My Chevy Blazer is only on 93K miles, not anywhere close to it's life expextancy. The beach atmsophere however is having its toll on some other parts as it is leaking water again in the back. It has needed a couple of major repairs, this year so far there were none. I may keep it a while longer unless it breaks big time.
I will however do some surfin' and see what might be available.
Utah, never heard of it, does it have a beach ? Don't think i'll move just to get a tax credit.
Carpool lanes ? We need those, or maybe busses or railcars. Unfortuantely tourists aren't likely to carpool on vacation. They do come in quantity, but they gotta bring all the luxeries of home with them, which kind of makes you wonder why they left home ?
RandyC and SwiftMallard it is now going to S-N-O-W in my area on Sunday, I have had ENOUGH snow for the year thanks!
Keep it, please. i want my sunshine back. How can I go outside to do my spring planting with the temp in the low 50's and it keeps the bunnies away.
Well i'm rested now, I was dead again last night. Yesterday was more like a normal work day we had several years ago. 17 incomming boxes, altough in full sumemr we got more a day. Some were reprocessed and some other regular orders I ended up shipping out 11 boxes, a little low from the average back then, had to pull a hand cart back out and oil up the wheels. They last couple of years I've been doing 3-4 boxes a day average. Used to be like 24 in, 24 out.
Then there was paperwork left on my desk when I went home, i couldn't finish it all.
I only got a few items added to online inventory. There was not a lot of time to work on the online store. Thursday I had more time and redid about 10 item listings making them more fancy and readable. Added a few items. I'm up to about 159 new items this month, which is my 2nd most number of items added. Back when I began I added over 200 in December 2009 which was the first full month of operation, I began it mid November 2009. Then i slaccked off as business when on, but his past November I started doing the inventory counting/auditing and at the same time started a psuh to add all the missing items. Since then I've added 657 which is 45% of the items listed. So at the end of the first year I only had 776 items done. I think though i'm closer to the end of items that could be done, like maybe within 200 of which a lot of those are just 1 piece and when its gone, its gone. i'm down to the really worthless stuff that might be better just thrown away. About the only way to really increase my online inventory now is to stock items we don't stock now. As it looks like regualr business will pick up this year, i don't think i'll have the time.
Anyway sales were at 88% when I left on friday, then I got another order and it was for a $500 dollar item. A lot of my orders are less than $100. Another order came in last night so i'm up to 2 more to fill on Monday. I think that will kick me over my goal for the month and there is still the week end and 4 days next week.
Recently too i've had some repeat customers. I think last year there were like 4. There was 1 earleir this year and 3 in the last week and one of those was his 3rd order, my best customer. Repeat customers are easier to handle as I don't have to enter the address in our system twice, shipping and mailing. Just proof read it to be sure it is the same. I really need to spend some time now and write some order import scrips to import customers and orders. I didn't put effort into it at first as i was not sure how successful online sales would be. While its not anywhere near our regular sales, if it doubles what it is now it could take up too much of my time i don't have so reducing the entry time would be a large help, especially when there are multiple orders overnight. i'll start research on this. it will be a more tricky import as for cusotmers, first there would have to be a check to see if they exist, and add ones that don't. The only way would be to match name and address. then i could add the order to the order table. Since i already know most of the database tables and fileds for these, its not much of a big deal. it will just be how do i download the orders from the day, i'm sure amazon has an export thingy if i can get it to a txt file, then i can import that into a temp table then manipulate the data into our database. It will just be a lot of writting. All i really need to do is study my shipping scripts and follow the smae scheme, since most of what I want to do is the same thing, only with different data and tables, just change the names and fields, thsoe wil lserve as a guide. But if it works like my other scripts for shipments, the time i spend per order, now about 10 minutes to enter addresses and the order, will all be reduced to about 5 minutes of my time once a day.
Well on to weekend activities, since it is cold, i need to find inside things to do. Maybe i'll bake some deserts ?
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Slooooowwwwwwllllllyyyyyy warming back up here. We lost much of our snow and we got a bunch more earlier this week. The new stuff has the consistency of the shaved ice in a Sno-Kone. It's barely getting to up 32°F/0°C each day. Next weekend it should be above freezing all day and night. The rivers flooding is going to be a serious deal this spring, 99% chance of record floods. My bank notified all the Safe Deposit Box customers that they might want to empty their boxes. It's a good time to inventory the contents anyway.
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Slooooowwwwwwllllllyyyyyy warming back up here. We lost much of our snow and we got a bunch more earlier this week. The new stuff has the consistency of the shaved ice in a Sno-Kone. It's barely getting to up 32°F/0°C each day. Next weekend it should be above freezing all day and night. The rivers flooding is going to be a serious deal this spring, 99% chance of record floods. My bank notified all the Safe Deposit Box customers that they might want to empty their boxes. It's a good time to inventory the contents anyway.
Hmmmm, a safe deposit vault that's not waterproof? Me thinks I'd find another bank.
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Slooooowwwwwwllllllyyyyyy warming back up here. We lost much of our snow and we got a bunch more earlier this week. The new stuff has the consistency of the shaved ice in a Sno-Kone. It's barely getting to up 32°F/0°C each day. Next weekend it should be above freezing all day and night. The rivers flooding is going to be a serious deal this spring, 99% chance of record floods. My bank notified all the Safe Deposit Box customers that they might want to empty their boxes. It's a good time to inventory the contents anyway.
Hmmmm, a safe deposit vault that's not waterproof? Me thinks I'd find another bank.
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Really I thought bank vaults were waterproof too?!!
Keith I hope your internet business picks up! I think you have put enough time into it so that it should anyway! Also you should be able to re-caulk that back window area to keep the water out.
As for snow it is doing that RIGHT NOW here at my place!!! I am only supposed to end up with an inch or so on the grassy areas but we will see, it is fairly light right now. It was in the 50's yesterday and will be again tomorrow and the rest of the week, so whatever comes will be gone again soon.
My wife went out and got a brand new MacBook Pro for herself. It will replace her quad core desktop I built for her just last year, which will come down to me replacing my dual core. She wants to take some classes on photography stuff so it is the 15" model. It is my 1st Mac ever that I have owned and it IS different from a Windows pc! I am trying to make her be her own tech support for it and I will only learn the very basic stuff and then provide her with stuff to make it work easier. It came with a 500gb hard drive so she also got herself a 1tb external drive for her pictures. I will help her setup a backup procedure so she won't lose her stuff, I think most of that stuff is built in but must do some research. She doesn't know it yet but it will be crunching later on today to stress test it for about a week, she won't be thrilled but it really needs to be done IMO!
The reason she was able to afford it is because she got herself a job! She is actually going to be the tech support person for the State giving assistance to the people doing what she used to do on a local level. They will be giving her both a laptop, Windows based of course, and a BlackBerry too. She will work alot out of the home but also do some traveling to the local jurisdictions in our area. She will be the regional support person for the State. Previously they had one person for the whole State, now they have 4 assistants too. It makes more sense this way, Virginia is way too big of a State and waaaay too many problems and differences in the ways the program is run from jurisdiction to jurisdiction! It is basically a Federally funded program that is run by the States and in Virginia some additional monies are added by the State, giving it another level of complexity.
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As for snow it is doing that RIGHT NOW here at my place!!! I am only supposed to end up with an inch or so on the grassy areas but we will see, it is fairly light right now. It was in the 50's yesterday and will be again tomorrow and the rest of the week, so whatever comes will be gone again soon.
WINNING!!
Nice to hear your wife found a job to support her PC and photo habbit. And it's obvious that you need to give her new laptop a complete stress test.
It was 17F overnight. We had a record low for March on Friday (~8F)--so much for Global Warming. Previous record was 11F. Forecast says overnight temps will be below freezing as far out as they go, but afternoon highs will reach low 40sF starting Tuesday.
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Just got a call from the police dept. My daughter's car has been recovered! It's currently located at a towing company (a towing fee will probably apply). The police say no apparent damage. Keys are with the vehicle. Now all the hassle of going and picking up the car and dealing with ins. co. for any damages.
Nevertheless...
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Keith I hope your internet business picks up! I think you have put enough time into it so that it should anyway! Also you should be able to re-caulk that back window area to keep the water out.
I do need to sit down and review items sold, and restock on certain ones that we would also sell locally. Half the stuff I sell i'm trying to get rid of as we don't use anymore and I don't want to restock on it, even if it sold good at first, the only reason probably was the cheap price, sometimes at or below cost, it was priced to move and would not be our regular price which if I reorderd and sold at it would not sell well.
No caulking today. I used some waterproof (?) stuff before, it didn't hold and has broken loose I guess. Maybe I need a bigger patch. It's hidden anyway as it is leaking by the hinges of the rear hatch. I think i'll go buy some marine grade stuff, costs more but it can set up underwater. Only i'm not going to be out there today doing it, it is 44F, wind blowing hard at 12MPH and its raining lightly. It's not nice out there.
I hope your wife does well at her new job. I wish I could work at home. I've thought of it before, that maybe i could work less in the office and bring work home to do. Don't know if the boss would go for it. Only thing is he would expect it to be done in the same amount of time, me too. in the past this wouldn't work 'cause the internet conenction was not fast enough on both ends. Maybe now with my improved speeds and also we have a better conenction at work, it might not take longer. I might have to try to reconsider this.
Hey i thawt of a good use for those stealthy hybrid kars. Just as I was getting home from the grocery store, a squirrell ran across the road ahead of me jsut a little past my house and I thawt only if i could speed up and flatten him. He was pretty kwick so i didn't try, but I saw my roommates' stealth kar sittin' in the driveway, and thawt well it probally could because it is so kwiet, the little kritter wouldn't hear it coming. I might have to really konsider getting one. [big smile]
I went on another stock up shopping trip. This week it was store brand items. they have a sale once and a while, buy 2-4-6-8-10-20-30-40 and you get extra bucks in a coupon. 40 items nets you 10 bucks. Also they had store brand canned veggies at 2 for a buck, whereas the brand name were a buck each, and those are the on sale prices. So the store brand veggies at 50 cents a kan and if you applied the 25 cents for each item from the coupon, they are 25 cents a kan. I got tuna too same price. Not bad. I did buy other items more expensive, but those were over half the load.
I have these heavy duty kanvas bags, I bought back in 1992. Only a kouple years ago the stores around here are prohibited from using plastic bags as the state does not want it in the landfils anymore. So some stores give you cash off for each bag you use. Food Dawg gives you 6 cents a bag. Only problem is my bags hold a lot, if the baggers knew how to pack, so I don't use as many. I try to go early, the store opens at 7am, so i show up at 7:01am so that there is noone there, I kan walk around without bumping into anyone and there is no line and usually this early no baggers eaither. I don't mind packing my own bags. I was able to fit 30 kans of kanned food in one bag without it sticking out the top. Try that with plastic, or paper. And it will hold up and not rip when you pick it up by the handles. At least now i'm getting some money back on my investment, so far 1.56 this year, 84 cents last year, but I didn't start recording it in moneydance as a discount until sometime last year, so i've gotten a lot more as this started sometime in 2009. I think I paid about 25 bucks for a set of 5, but i've had them 19 years now so that is more than worth it.
I'm about done with my restocking, i kan go all spring and summer now, only needing to go get a few things like meats and dairy every so often so I don't need to deal with the krowds of nuts. Anyway my extra discount on groceries on the kredit kard runs out this month. That is partly why I spent so much this month, well it ran all kwarter, but i had a vacation in the middle of it so I waited until the last month to use it mostly. Next kwarter is Home improvement type stores (Home Depot and Ace Hardware) where it just happens I need some white sticky stuff for kar repair and Ace just sent me some koupons to use, I kan get plant food there too.
I have a differnt kard that has been giving me 5% extra back on gas, that is over the regualr discount which is only 0.45% on that one, that runs out today. I should get about $32 bucks back from it.
You gotta make use of every little bit you kan and know what future offers are koming up.
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Really I thought bank vaults were waterproof too?!!
I figure that it's not worth it to find out the hard way that it isn't. Picking the stuff up was the most minor of inconveniences, it's on my way home from w@#&.
I went down to the Mississippi river yesterday to see how high the water is. Most of the water hasn't reached the Twin Cities yet and it's already very high. The current is very fast and it's bringing all sort of ice chunks and debris. I'm sure the downtown airport will flood this year. They haven't started pumping water into the basements yet, but they probably will soon. Believe it or not, they fill the basements with water before it floods, that way it's a controlled operation and there is considerably less damage.
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Really I thought bank vaults were waterproof too?!!
I figure that it's not worth it to find out the hard way that it isn't. Picking the stuff up was the most minor of inconveniences, it's on my way home from w@#&.
I went down to the Mississippi river yesterday to see how high the water is. Most of the water hasn't reached the Twin Cities yet and it's already very high. The current is very fast and it's bringing all sort of ice chunks and debris. I'm sure the downtown airport will flood this year. They haven't started pumping water into the basements yet, but they probably will soon. Believe it or not, they fill the basements with water before it floods, that way it's a controlled operation and there is considerably less damage.
They used to do some of the basement flooding around here too but stopped, I don't know the reasoning behind either. Hey where in the Twin cities do you live, in town or the burbs? I have a friend that lives there, I will have to look up where exactly though, our parents were both in the Air Force and seemed to be stationed together ALOT, and she go married and moved there. I stopped in once on a visit and liked the place, it was Spring time though so no snow!!
JohnC open your eyes it is now morning and the sun is on again!!
Keith, I too think buying stuff you will use that is on sale now is a good plan, as long as you remember you have it. I have stuff on my shelves that no one remembers buying and is several years old now, it is still good but it is a pain trying to get my wife to eat it! The new laptop is running Einstein, the cpu is an i7-2620M, so a dual core that uses HT to get to 4 cores. It is putting out units faster than her quad core desktop, by about an hour each unit!! I told her it would have to run Boinc for about a week then I would take it off. This is her new toy and I am going to stay away from it.
Keith maybe you just need a new hatch for that thing, haven't we talked about that leaking before and you repairing it in the past?!
RandyC I am glad you got the car back!! And if it is in good condition that is a VERY good thing too!! The insurance company should pay for all the towing etc, as long as it wasn't your daughters fault it got stolen! How come the keys are in it? You might want to get your mechanic to check it over, I know when I just rent a car I am not the most careful person it is not mine after all, stealing a car would presumably be even worse.
The snow for me has come and gone, it is now just cold and like Keith I will be right around the freezing mark most mornings this week. But slowly my high temps will creep up until by the weekend my highs will be in the low 60's. I have a couple of rainy days scheduled in between though, I hope April is NOT rainier than March!!!
Did you guys see that VCU made it to the final four in mens basketball? My youngest goes to VCU and is VERY excited! My oldest goes to UNC but he is not a basketball fan so doesn't care that they lost.
Oh I almost forgot I have been working on a friends pc for the past two weeks and finally figured out what was wrong with it!! It would shut off after just 20 minutes or so, I blew out the dust, everything, until I looked at the power supply fan, it was so caked with stuff it was not spinning!! I replaced the fan and the pc has been running for 2 days now!! It only has a 2 pin adapter so I had to cut and splice wires but it is running just fine. It too is running Boinc as a stress test but will stop tomorrow so I can return it to the guy on Wednesday morning. I tried to replace the power supply but it is a teeny tiny one and no store around me has one, it is a Compaq pc and is only a 200 watt power supply.
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Did I hear someone bump thier head ? Turn on the lights or the sun.
Mikey,
It's not the hatch itself, it is the design. There is a gap, where water is suppose to drain away around the ahtch. Along the top though, leaves get in there, and block the drainage. Also too then they stay wet. Wet leaves on metal, humm, RUST. Replacing the hatch would do not good, since it is the roof of the kar that is rusting, the part under the hatch hinges. Yes we talked about it before. It was one of my repairs. I need to redo my previous repair. Like my mirror that only took 5-6 attempts to fix, and the front windshield which need 3-4, this will only be the 3rd attempt on the hatch. There are so may goo reapir spots it doesn't matter much anymore. And the water leaning into the back is only dripping on my kayak gear. Actuall i have some large palstic bags and stuff to ketch the water, so most of it drips into a bag or palstic, then it kan dry up, if the sun every comes back out.
Stuff on sale, Oh no, more sales !! I do pretty good in buying only waht I need. i have a pantry in my master bedroom kloset, as I only have half a kitchen, the other half is the rommmates. But i have lots of shelves in my walk in kloset on one wall whcih is my pantry and dedicated areas for all sorts of food. I know what fits in each space. Usually i don't restock until I klear out a lot. Most of the things I bought I was low or out of. It was sort of a planned event to eat through a lot of it during winter and restock around now. Now I've got a good six month supply of most of those, although I admit, some stuff lasts me years. I think I just finished a bunch of chili from 2005. Unfortunately that was not on special so now i've got no chili. I make a lot of my own in the krock-pot, but its nice to have kanned around when the kook is off duty. I do rotate stock, new kans get dated and go to the back of each row. I often go in there and look for old stuff to eat up, or is it down. I suppose it sounds strange, but I think it is a side effect of my job being the inventory guy. I never really thought of it much, until about a year ago when one of the kheckout girls noticed I had all the food neatly lined up on the kheckout belt. I never realized I did that. Just habbit to keep things straight at work overflows.
Today was a hard work day. Eight more internet orders from the weekend and I hit 116% on my sales quotta and already have two more orders for tomorrow. I'm still waiting for that 2nd load of stuff we bought from that business that closed. The boss man was supposed to go pick it up but hasn't yet. He said he would go this upcoming weekend and also they gave us another list of stuff for me to look over. Maybe there is some more good junk in there. Oops, there's another, make that three more orders now.
Its windy, rainy and kold here. it seems to me last year was the same. What happend to "In like a lion, out like a lamb". It seems to me it is just the opposite, the end of the month is worse.
I gotta go to bed now. I'll have to dream of WINNING, i'm too tired.
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LOL, do you remember that you are the one running this game?
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Yes, sort of!
And we are very close to the winning, but evil, post number.
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Yes, sort of!
And we are very close to the winning, but evil, post number.
Ooh Ooh Ooh if I guess it does that mean I win?! My neighbors new car tags came with that number with an X2 right after it, she has two sometimes evil sometimes great kids and we tease her all the time!
Keith I too line things up on the checkout belt but probably not as nice as you do. Have you checked the girls finger? Is she married, if she is 'noticing' things about how you do things, she may be interested! ORRRR she could be just making conversation to make her day go by! I do like your dating of stuff though, that might be a pain to get the wife thinking about that but it might work for my pantry too. My wife is more of a put stuff on the shelf wherever it fits and what she just bought goes in front of whatever is already there. I hate that and wish I could change her!! But the alternative is to do it myself and I may just be too lazy to do that!!
The pc I bought the new power supply for, the one I was going to put the 2nd gpu in, died yesterday! I HOPE it was the power supply fan that went out, it would run for a few minutes and then restart all day long so I just turned it off. I twisted my knee AGAIN yesterday and it is killing me!! I think the Doctor is going to send me for an MRI to look at my MCL because that is the kind of thing this could be. I am going to Las Vegas in just over 2 weeks so I hope it is not!! I have done the Vegas thing in a wheel chair before due to my last foot surgery and I do not want to do it again!! I think I will look into a knee brace to keep it straight ahead and not twist on me, that may be enough to get me thru Vegas if I need surgery on it. I am thinking of one like the NFL lineman wear with bars on the side.
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Mikey,
Yes, sometimes I kheckout the girls while they kheck me out. There was one girl that had 12 rings on, what does that mean ? Some of the girls though are too young for me anymore, and around here in summer a lot of them are foreigners, I guess here for the summer only.
I suppose my rotation is from work habits. Some manufacturers give warranty and price protection by serial number, but it has to be within a certain purchase date too. A item purchased yesterday with 2 year warranty can be no good if the item has been sitting on the dealer shelves for 3 years. They call it stale dated merchandise. Some allow 6 months plus the warranty period from purchase date by the dealer.
We use to pile stuff on top or in front, then the one at the bottom of the pile ends up being too old after a while, so now everything rotates.
That I guess carried over to home. I date the cans with a big sharpy as I unbag them, just write the month number and year is close enough on the front label. It helps and I make sure I pick the oldest one. Otherwise you'll end up with something in the back that has been there for decades.
Back to work. I had 8 items sold last night. I never used to get that many during any one week night (not counting the weekend), only 1-2 maybe. That was more than over this weekend (Friday night thru monday morning). I hit 127% of kwotta so far.
Gotta run, hope I do't miss my chance at WINNING !!!
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Oh, I get it.
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This one!!!! This is THE reply everyone is looking for!!!!
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What message?
That message.
It's a joke. A friend put this at the bottom of his emails "Please reply if you did not get this email". Now think about it, if you got the email and read it, there is no need to reply. So how could you reply if you did not get the email, because if you did not get it uyou could not read it so how would you know to reply to something you did not get, get it ? Now believe it or not, people will reply to the email saying they got the email, I gues they didn't get the joke. Try it yourself and find out how not bright your friends are.
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That message.
It's a joke. A friend put this at the bottom of his emails "Please reply if you did not get this email". Now think about it, if you got the email and read it, there is no need to reply. So how could you reply if you did not get the email, because if you did not get it uyou could not read it so how would you know to reply to something you did not get, get it ? Now believe it or not, people will reply to the email saying they got the email, I gues they didn't get the joke. Try it yourself and find out how not bright your friends are.
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Dilbert 1/2/2006
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So, who is to be the one??
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So, who is to be the one??
In the end, there can be only WON !!!
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So, who is to be the one??
In the end, there can be only WON !!!
Mmmm...Won Tons
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It's a joke. A friend put this at the bottom of his emails "Please reply if you did not get this email". Now think about it, if you got the email and read it, there is no need to reply. So how could you reply if you did not get the email, because if you did not get it uyou could not read it so how would you know to reply to something you did not get, get it ? Now believe it or not, people will reply to the email saying they got the email, I gues they didn't get the joke. Try it yourself and find out how not bright your friends are.
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My old boss LOVED Dilbert! I think he saw some of his bosses as role models for some of the Dilbert characters.
Hey I replaced the power supply yesterday and the new one is working just fine. I did not add the 2nd gpu yet though, that will probably happen this weekend as my wife is going back near the MicroCenter store today and they have an 850 watt power supply for 85 bucks that she will pick up for me. Once I get that in I will try putting a 2nd 5770 in that machine and see if it works or not.
As for emailing people and them NOT following directions, I am now the email person for my police and fire retirees group and have to send out all the emails about sick and dieing people, ads for parties, lunch meetings etc. I always put a link in there for them to click on to email the person they should contact for more info or to tell them they will or will not be attending, 90% of the people just click reply! Even cops and firemen can't follow directions!!! I always send it back telling them they did it wrong and what to click on to do it right! I have only forwarded one message on and it was because the person replied the day of the event.
As for WINNING well I am!!
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As for emailing people and them NOT following directions, I am now the email person for my police and fire retirees group and have to send out all the emails about sick and dieing people, ads for parties, lunch meetings etc. I always put a link in there for them to click on to email the person they should contact for more info or to tell them they will or will not be attending, 90% of the people just click reply! Even cops and firemen can't follow directions!!! I always send it back telling them they did it wrong and what to click on to do it right! I have only forwarded one message on and it was because the person replied the day of the event.
As for WINNING well I am!!
Not any more you aren't! The countdown is in progress and lift-off is just around the corner...
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Just 4 more posts and I kan find the winner who kan start the next competition.
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Spirits passing through!
Distilled Spirits?
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Spirits passing through!
Distilled Spirits?
Or the ghost of Christmas re-past??
WINNING!!!
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Spirits passing through!
Distilled Spirits?
Me, me, me, hurumph.....
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Spirits passing through!
Just 4 more posts and I kan find the winner who kan start the next competition.
BOO!! I am now WINNING!!!!
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Spirits passing through!
Just 4 more posts and I kan find the winner who kan start the next competition.
BOO!! I am now WINNING!!!!
Double posts do not count.
That means I am...
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Now you guys have given me a real mean decision.
The poster on the evil number (666) should be the winner, but this was achieved by either a double post or posting to one's own post (not considered polite netiquette).
However ...
The statement was the poster occupying post number 666 would be the winner, and no other conditions were implied.
So, I declare MIKEY to be the winner of this competition thread. That means It is over to Mikey to start the next LPTPW competition.
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Go away, I was asleep
Said a Russell, 3 Shih-Tzus & a Bischeon Frize
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