1st post, am I WINNING yet ?

Well it's not much fun to be not winning.

Actually i am winning, here's why

Since replacing the 900W UPSes with larger 1320W capacity units everything so far has been fine. Unit two is still running with one ati gpu. unit one has been running at full gpu power, one ati and two nvidia now for 6 days, currently using 858W. The load seems to be more stable, it will change once in a while, but the numbers don't rapidly change like on the smaller unit. I'm thinking since it was running so close to max output, 95% plus, it was really over stressed. Now i'm using about 65% of capacity.
I think too the new alpha test client is performing better at project load, as i have not had any dead gpu tasks so far in this 6 days like i had before.
Overall I just have a better gut feeling about this weeks tests, since i haven't had to really sweet talk anything into doing what it should be doing.
This is also good for the team's RAC and my RAC as there has been little down time and no idle time on the gpus so no lost credit time.
I'm not sure if it was power related issue or boinc relataed issue. Time will tell if problems come back.
I may add a nvidia gpu to unit two tomorrow and swap one out in unit 5, or i might wait one more week. haven't made my mind up yet how much i want to fool around with things. I still need to try to get unit 2 back up to running 3 gpus and i still need to use one of those to test fit it in some computers to see if they can physically fit a large full size double width gpu without it hitting any components, some of them looked like it was going to be really tight and i want to be sure before buying something only to find it won't clear. Once I figure out whcih computers can hold physically bigger gpus i can make up a list of what i have and what they can all fit and move some of the single wides into empty computers and upgrade those with double wides. I most likely will not be getting 500 buck units (GTX570 or HD6970's) but will go for something more in the 150 dollar range (GTX460 or HD5770), depending on how many i need to get total. I can concentrate more on this now since it seems some of my other problems are going away. At the moment i think i can upgrade 3 units to double wides and that would give me 3 older 8800GT single wides. i know 2 units at work with no gpu could use those. There are also two more units i need to open up and see what they might fit. The good news is i already upgraded pwoer supplies a while abck on the three units, so upgrading the gpu to a larger newer more power hungry model is no problem. I think also one of the other computers i already upgraded the psu. The others i don't know they may have stock 250W psus. You can run a 8800GT if it has little other load, it will use 224W because it did that with the twins before i upgraded them to larger psus.

Another mystery might be solved with the work computers. I had problems with one of my twins there, It began with one thing not accessing the domain then got worse to the point i even had problems logging in to windows. Then somehow i got in and detached from the domain and then when working on it plugged the netowrk cable into the other port, after that it ws fine. Later tests fialed when i changed ports. So for now it is running on the built in 100Mbps port and not the 1G add-in card. i felt that somehow it was the network controller failing, not totally failed, but some part of it going wonky. I had not replaced that card yet. Then a couple of weeks ago the bosses computer started the same problem. So i diasabled his built in port and stuck in an add in card, and his has been fine since, a couple weeks now. So i think i've isolated that problem. I need to replace my controller, maybe even test the suspected bad one in another non-esentail unit just to prove it. But at the same time i swap that out, i can test fit a gpu while it is powered off.

Internet sales have picked up again, after having 5 days of very few orders, i've already got 6 so far lined up to kick off the new month. 3 of those are also the last of some older items i'm glad to get rid of. The more of those sold the less i have to count for inventory at the end of the year. Actiually i've listed about 1600 items and only have stock on about 1013 now, so i've got rid of a lot of 'the last one left on the shelf' items. 1 is a new item and 1 is a pre-order for items coming in next week.

My team as advanced in the ranks to 34th. we have a little battle going on with another team, they passed us then our team got our act together, we passed them, they passed us, we passed them again, but i think this time we're pulling ahead. 3 Days we move up again and then another month we move up. We are heading for 25th place.

So i now feel like a WINNER !!!

That was a long win as everybody is asleep

But now we wake to start the day,
And I'll be the first to say:

I am...

WINNING!!!

[edit]I have now passed 8 million BOINC total credits.[/edit]

Now yesterday i decided to put one of those older apc upses back on and put the fifth computer on it. I plugged one in and it told me bad battery. I plugged the other in and it told me bad battery. They both have only been off 1 week and were good at the time i turned them off. So i had some other old, but not completly used up batteries out of the spare battery packs. I tried those but any pair it told me bad batteries. I knew they were going to fail soon, so i'm glad i had actually replaced them 1 week ago. so eight batteries and two more upses going to the recycle place later this week. I guess the other apc unit over by the hdtv will fail soon too. They all are about 5-6 years old and i don't ever remember replacing batteris in them.

WINNING !!!

Before you toss the batteries, if you've got another spare apc unit you might try the batteries in it. It's possible the one(s) you tried is/are bad and the batteries are still OK. Did you check the terminals for corrosion and/or good connection?

WINNING!!!

Question, how do HEAVY Thunderstorms float about Light Winds ?

Dry as a bone here. No rain in sight. Strong wind here, no whimpy stuff. I did get two more rain buckets today at recycling, i now have 7 empty ones, i guess they are defective since they don't collect rain.

I also dropped off those batteries, put them on the pallet next to the other ones I left two months ago which are next to the ones i left months before that. They don't seem to collect many battereis and more than half on that pallet are mine or from work here.

Congratulations JohnC on winning the last game!!!

I am NOT winning now as I am too sick, have lost 16 pounds since Friday, believe me when I say you DON'T want to know how!!!

Amyway first time in 4 days I have even felt like being on the pc and I am already exhausted!! I am going back to bed!!

Good night!!

I must be WINNING. On my stroll across the parking lot this morning, I saw a lucky penny, picked it up. Then I noticed a few more, and more, and more until I had collected 50 pennies. How much luck do I have ?

I must be WINNING. On my stroll across the parking lot this morning, I saw a lucky penny, picked it up. Then I noticed a few more, and more, and more until I had collected 50 pennies. How much luck do I have ?

See a penny - pick it up,
and all the day you'll

be a penny richer than if you had left it on the ground. (repeat x49 for Keith)

WINNING!!!

No ground turkey here. In fact the freezer is empty except for 2 boxes of vegetables. The frig is almsot bare too. i've been trying to use everything up before I go for a resupply. Got enough left to make it to Saturday.

Guess that's why im not ill. I almost started to look up D&V and then I figured out what you meant. I'm not hungry now. I told you not to tell me.

Oops, I overloaded my systems with some work. I changed the prefs some for testing and also had added a new project, but didn't set the venue so it used the default 100 share and not my preferred of 4 so I got 101 tasks from that project with like now 550 tasks ready to run, each machine. mc.d when into hp mode. 60 projects now attached to the i7s and i've got two more to go. At the moment i'm running 8 cpu tasks (yeah i up'd it 1 more), 2 nvidia, 1 ati and 3 nci on system 1. Soon too i'll have my first sensor project, i joined up with radioactive.

Actually looking forward to the weekend. The i7s still running good. #1 has been rock solid for anther 10 days now. I think the bug is gone. First thing staurday i want to try a test with numebr 2, put both the nvidia gpus back in and see what happens, will the reboot problem come back or is it gone. If it comes back it will tell me it is one of the nvidia gpus, if it is gone then it tells me it was boinc or the almsot overloaded ups. Gotta kinda know.

There I was, jogging alone, when I fell over a half full glass (3 fingers) of Balvenie.

So your glass is half full. I wonder how it got half-empty...

Oh well I am back to near normal, still down 20 pounds though

For me is it kola and komfort hold the ice,
it sure does go down smooth and nice.
I'll be happy from all the booze,
no worries about this game if I looze.

Mikey, I don't have a report to run for this.

I use a spreadsheet for my internet sales inventory and sales, each sales is hand entered but it is a short list of data so does not take long. As I write the invoice in the big system i look up the receipts and can figure out the date and cost of the purchased item then add this to my spreadsheet.

I do have colums that auto compute the sales for certain items, based on receipt date. The two past purchases ahve unique receipt dates, i receeived them in on a sunday, ok it is slightly off from the actual date, but sundays are unique from the rest of the week receipts since there never really is any sunday activity.

There might be a way to run sales for esales in the big system, but the spreadsheet gives me up to the second info and also i monitor the profit on each sale and make a decision weather or not to reorder or change internet prices. I keep manual notes on popualr items to reorder, it is easier. Some items I now keep a separate internet inventory for internet sales only, they are hidden under my desk and the regular sales guys can't get to them. This way i can be sure i alsways have these good moving items.

I think overall my way is better and more efficient, especially when you take into account all my job duties for any one day.

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Starting the rebuild-powerup test.
I just finished installing the two nvida gpus abck in unit two, reinstalling drivers (same version as before and as one, i want all things eqaual for this test).
Boinc fire up and refreshing with new cuda tasks and then, off we go.
So far 11 minutes uptime, we'll see how long it runs.

WINNING !!!

ps,
this new project, Correlizer ahd a good sloid windows app, runs as part of the almergird-EDGeS grid and some others and they are doing something with genomes (not gnomes). I've put some power in to that for a while. 282 done with credit, 0 errors.

pss,
I should go out and check the power meter, i think the wheel might fly off it as i'm drawing 831W each i7 system. Close to max but not quite.

Well its 11am and nothing else to do all day except watch boinc krunch numbers.

Did all my chores starting early this morning, watched tv, watered plants, fixed computer, laundry.

I also started drinking before beer-thirty.

I was going to make some kookies, but the butter has to soften, so instead of microwaving it, i think i just let it sit out on the counter and take a knap while it softens, good use of time.

Good news, both i7s uptime now 2 hours, 40 minutes. The goal is 14 days plus.

Oh lets see, i could also be WINNING !!!

Well success so far.

Just passted 24 hours, 5 minutes. No warp bubbles so i didn't go backwards in time any. 1 down, 13 to go. Still to early to tell, but i've got a not bad feeling about this.

I guess this means my RAC will go up some more now, i've been hovering below 1M, this should kick it over. My position now is about 550 in the world headed for 140 or so. A little more power and i hope to break into the top 100 krunchers. I'm researching some new gpu's for future replacements and to swap some things around at work by the end of the year.

Oh this new Correlizer project is developing nicely. The front page has been revamped, explaining about mutating gnomes, we need to do something about them, they're worse than orcs. That was a play on words, it's about genomes. I've had 450 plus results, 0 errors. Got another 300 to do.

Today is more R&R, since yesterday i did so little, why not repeat that. I did make some kookies and then off and on tinker with this computer, but really i want to wait out this next test before i start to try to update drivers, add stuff and so on, possible introducing an unknown element that throws them off again, then i would not know if it was a new thing or old thing causing it, so i need to eliminate the old thing first. Maybe later i'll go make up some pasta noodles for later in the week.

We did get a little rain, between three 6-gallons buckets i caught about 2 gallons, which is not much. Even the weather is depressing, Tropical depression Emily looks like it will turn and go back out to sea, so no rain or wind headed toward us.

The only thing not depressing is WINNING !!!

I think I lost 20 pounds today. It's hot outside in the sun. I went out to get rid of a few cacti and sand spurs. Moving slower than a snail i got the job down, but lost about 20 pounds of liquid. Now that my brain is fried like eggs, it's time to take a knap and dream about WINNING !!!

Both i7s still ticking, now 1 day 21 hours.

I have a new way of doing some internet orders.
On i7#2 i look up the orders on amazon.
On i7#1 I remote to work from home, clock in, add customer if needed, add order.
No when i go to work later my orders are ready to process and it is a little less for me to do all at once. I do check them over and there is one more piece of info to add but that is easier at processing time.

When i do them from home i can also listen to/watch tv while i work.

Good week-end so far, 6 order for 7 items with a total of 17 pieces. One order is a repeat customer from this year. I've had a few, even less of past custoemrs.

Oh well, back to bed now, While everyone else is sleeping, I'm WINNING !!!

Keith make sure you count your time spent w*&king at home as 'on the clock' time or you will find yourself getting the short end of the stick! They will 'expect' you to do it and then you will be stuck!

We still need rain. I heared there was another wild fire. I saw smoke aagain for the first time in 4-5 weeks now and customers walking in reported it was worse north of us.

Oh well, off to water the plants and then off to w%^k. I've got a surprising 5 orders to fill, good for a weeknight. I've already added the customers and the pre-order ticket, so when i do them they process faster. I did three last night and two a moment ago. I think this will help me out some, as it breaks up the typing and staring at the screen some. Also I slept late this morning, got up at 6:30 instead of 4:30, boy I feel good like a WINNER.

Well, good news. Warp core has been powered up 3.37 days now without a B..., frozen screen or dead gpu task.


Better news, Momma is back for the 3rd time in the rehab center. Every time she gets there it lasts about 4 days then she goes back to the hospital for another week or more. She's been there now 3 days. Not really any worse, but not any better either. She still can't walk, can abrely move her arms and now is on some medication for her blood sugar level.


I was walking along when a tenuous radio message that had bounced off some space junk hit me in head, then I remembered i'm WINNING !!!

The radio messages have told me to win then go to bed

I'm back to more than a million a day credits and i think I can keep it up. A couple more days i'll hit 150 M and i guess i need a few more to bring my RAC back up to over 1M, its at .97M now.

I'll have to have a pep talk with my systems this weekend and see if I can encourage them to work harder.

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Yeah, i though those radio signals were telling me to win, at least that's what the voice in my head told me they said.

Spekaing of lag, i was thinking this morning how fast my remote link to work was. It use to be so slow, back when i had satellite and we didn't have very high speed here. Now we've got fast here and i've got faster at home, i don't see any lag and there is no wasted time waiting on keystrokes or mouse movement to go through. I wonder how far my signal travels just to get 9 miles up the road.

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Finished checking in my next load of special sale items. I got 73 pieces, but it is only 24 items. I added what i coudl to the internet store, there are still 5 more to get some info on before i can put them on. I sold 6 of similar items out of stock just before these came in. I set up my spreadsheet to track sales on these, like i do for the other two batches so i can monitor progress. I need to sell as much as possible in 90 days when we have to pay for them. I want to have the load paid for. We'll see.

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Thanks for thoughts about momma.

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WINNING !!!

You keep hearing those radio signals because your tin foil hat has a hole in it.

If you didn't see, I passed 150M credits last night, thanks to having a repaired tin foil hat that kept the radio signals.

I also had one of my top 5 days with 1.9M credits and also that does not reflect the credits I get at some new projects not showing on the stat site yet. WOW. I still do not have the nvidias turned back up to stock speed either.

Thanks Randy for finding that hole.

WINNING while sleeping on the job !!!

Well, what a horrible morning.

Found out i need a new tin foil hat.

Awoke to find i7#2 had rebooted because of a bsod event. It ran over 5 days. Actually i'm happy as long as it reboots and keeps on running, if it just freezes up and the kruncher chips go idle, i don't like that.

I'll worry about that later.

Next I get to work and we go no internet. So after wasting an hour diagnosing out internal network and connections, we find out most of NC is out. I was able to do some stuff via my cell phone which is on a different service. We finally got connection back a few moments ago, after 4 hours. So now I can get some work done as a good majority of my work now involves using the net.

Gotta run, someone else can win as I don't feel like a WINNER today.

Friday's over, the weekend has begun.

But first, some koffee and I think there is one piece of WINNING left to go with it.

TGIF, indeed.

What a week in the financial markets!

First WELCOME to the game and good luck!!!! Remember to win you MUST post!!

Second I LOVE buying opportunities!!! The market goes up and down all the time, the key is to have a little bit in cash for those times when it does go down. AND to be diversified of course never hurts either!!

Keith did you look in the logs to see what cause the reboot? And I think the 'tim foil hats' are all sold out until next year!

WINNING!!

OK. Mikey, I'm starting the next test.

I pulled one nvidia gpu from unit 2 with the power off of course. While I was doing this I noticed that the screw thing on the video cable hits the leg of the rack, and this can actually pull the ati gpu loose some. So I made a mod by putting a chunk of black ahrd foam behind the mobo between it and the wall, to hold the mobo more firm, then I put a short bungee cord from one gpu bracket, around the leg, to another gpu bracket. this will pull the gpus toward the mobo sockets and keep them seated. I did have them twister tied in this fashion, but after studing this that may not have been the best method, so i now feel with the bungee it is more secure, since i don't actually have a back plane to screw them onto. This might have been the cause, as when those fans on the gpus spin up and down that can cause quite a force, and in this case i don't want the force to be with me.

I also powered down one, did same mod with foam and bungee, but i need more short bungees as i only had two left, i need two per unit. I'll get some more and improve on that design.

So i'm off and running again, system one at full power, system two at 2/3rd power. i'm waiting for the fifth elemnt to kool, and then i'll swap out the 8800GT in it and stick in the GTX570 i pulled from two.

[cross fingers]

ps
WINNING without a tin foil hat !!!

ps
WINNING without a tin foil hat !!!

And a mighty long win it WAS too.

But it's over,
move on over.
Time to spin
for a new win...

WINNING!!!

Monday, Monday...
Can't trust that day...

But I know I'm
WINNING anyway!!!

Monday, Monday...
Can't trust that day...

But I know I'm
WINNING anyway!!!

I see what you mean, wins arn't very long on this day.

Uh, well NO work to do.

NO girls out shopping to watch out the window.

Yeah, Monday's %^(&

At least I have some koofee and WINNING.

Yeah, Definitely not very long wins.

What? No weekend Internet sales...must be slipping. You'll lose your chance at another record month, and unlike me you will not be...

WINNING!!!

Home:


I had 32.59 at the end of May and that was my best, I only am suppsoe to have 25M, I haven't tested since then.

I'm on cable docsis 2.0 and have bonded download channels, my modem is good up to 160M.

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John, Yes, skirts, hot pants, long pants, short pants, short short pants, bikini's, wet t-shirts, If they're window shopping, so am I, nice thing about two-way windows.

time for some nighttime WINNING with the lights off.

Time for an early morning win, while Keith is still sleeping.

WINNING!!!

I must figure out why I am feeling so bad in the mornings but for right now I am WINNING!!

Have to bust in here with some excellant news.

Just got off the phone with Momma. She is at home now, got home about an hour ago. Not really much improvement in her condition, but hopefully being back in familiar surroundings will help her get more better. She had been in the hospital and rehab over 10 weeks.

Can't find fault
with a single malt!
Winning!

Which reminds me I need to go out and replenish my supply of bourbon, I am down to my last couple of days worth!

Keith tell Momma we are all thinking good thoughts for her!!

WINNING!!

Hmpf! A couple of winos on the board eh? Actually, counting Keith it looks like the Three Stooges!!! j/k

Moving forward with a clear head and...

WINNING!!!

Good sales day. Started off slow, after 5 orders I got another order that equaled the total of the 5, so it doubled my sales, then just before the end of the day I got one order that was double that amount. So so far this weeks sales are double last weeks sales and I went over the average, at 115%.

time to go home, have a drink and be WINNING !!!

So! When are the sandwiches?

Sneakin' in for a kwick WIN !!!

I just decided to go on the korfee diet, but I seem unable to ....

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Today is dead, actually deader than dead and almost as dead as yesterday.

Nothing going on in boincland, the forums are dead.

I think with my internet sales i'm, selling more than the retail store is and i only had a few overnight orders, nothing at all has come in today. Despite that, this weeks internet sales are more than 1/2 of my internet sales so far this month and this is the second best sales month this year.

back to sleep. zzzzzzzzzWINNINGzzzzzzz

'OI, wake up!

I see a sign, it says "Wake Up", rather odd as I am awake or am I sleep walking and WINNING ?

Keith keep on testing it will eventually work out, you know you are on the bleeding edge so alot of testing is needed!

Trying to play a video on the fifth computer, there is no sound even after I plug in speakers.

Ut-Oh, never installed the mobo drivers after I reinstalled winderz before.

Fixed that.

Now what do I do for a DVD player ?

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I found out one thing. I was able to play a streaming video on one of the i7's without having to suspend any boinc gpu activity. The video is on the ati gpu.


On #5 I had to suspend the nvidia gpu to get good video response.

Maybe i'll be using adiffernet computer for videos ?

[edit]
Speedtest while streaming

Check out that ping ! Never seen one that fast.

Too tired to win, a quick dinner then lay down and watch a movie or part of one if I fall asleep.

ps, before i go
Checked my BS again, 2nd day in a row with 2M credits, the warp kore is a KRUNCHIN' now. Both main units on 2.25 days now and i also did some heavy streamin' on the #2 unit while still krunchin. These things ROCK !. On an older computer i have to suspend boinc to stream. The twins and fifth are running smooth and a krunchin away too.

I'm at 492 worldwide, soon to break my old position of 459 and within a week will be 3rd on my team, by credit that is, will be 2nd by end of year. As for RAC in in the top 100 worldwide again overall and 1st on my team (for 2 days anyway).

Speaking of records, had some sales records today. Todays started with 6 wekkend order, then got 6 more before cutoff and the sales total was 1/2 of last weeks total. 2 more orders came in for tomorrow. I'm within 2% of having the best month of the year. Even the two week total which is how often amazon pays me, is better than half the months of this year.

Only record I didn't break today was the speed limit.

Too tired to win, a quick dinner then lay down and watch a movie or part of one if I fall asleep.

ps, before i go
Checked my BS again, 2nd day in a row with 2M credits, the warp kore is a KRUNCHIN' now. Both main units on 2.25 days now and i also did some heavy streamin' on the #2 unit while still krunchin. These things ROCK !. On an older computer i have to suspend boinc to stream. The twins and fifth are running smooth and a krunchin away too.

I'm at 492 worldwide, soon to break my old position of 459 and within a week will be 3rd on my team, by credit that is, will be 2nd by end of year. As for RAC in in the top 100 worldwide again overall and 1st on my team (for 2 days anyway).

Speaking of records, had some sales records today. Todays started with 6 wekkend order, then got 6 more before cutoff and the sales total was 1/2 of last weeks total. 2 more orders came in for tomorrow. I'm within 2% of having the best month of the year. Even the two week total which is how often amazon pays me, is better than half the months of this year.

Only record I didn't break today was the speed limit.

Kongratulations on your RAC, but it might take a dive this coming weekend due an old girlfriend coming to visit you...IRENE! If you get what is currently being projected you could be out of juice for a few days again!!

WINNING!!

Kongratulations on your RAC, but it might take a dive this coming weekend due an old girlfriend coming to visit you...IRENE! If you get what is currently being projected you could be out of juice for a few days again!!

WINNING!!

You can keep your old girlfriend, don't send here here.

I better stock up on sodas. The freezer is empty, at least on my side. The frig pretty much too. This time of year I get down on frozen/frig stuff for a good reason. Maybe too i'll fill the three rain barrels up, i've got many buckets with lids filled, but they would last the plants about 3 days. The rain barrels are still empty since 2009. Never filled once since with rain water, and that is not from lack of trying.

Well today i succseeded in BLOWING the sales record, best month ever and still going, 7 more sales days. The two week sales total which ends tomorrow, is better than 4 out of 7 of this years previous months, and i might jsut beat out one more by tomorrow.

WINNING at catagory 3 speed.

Keith, don't be so quick to try sending her away. According to a weather related article I read, she might just come soak that fire up on the NC-VA line that's been burning for some time now.

Sitting a long way off from Irene and...

WINNING!!!

It seems her friend "Breaking News: 5.8 earthquake hits D.C., Virginia, New York" comes first!!!

I think i figured out what happened yesterday. it was not earthquakes. That was me halting the warp kore for an emergency stop of my teams' ship to pick up a krew member from another team and with kombined power our team kicked into high warp again. You felt the aftershocks of a boinc bubble rippling though the kredit ranks. Well I was number one on the team for three days, out new man now has this spot. I'm excitied as out team will now be generating 9-10M a day. We were headed for 25th place, now maybe 18th. Even better he was from the team jsut above us, so as they loose position we gain on them faster and within a week will pass them then keep moving up.

Nor for Irene, latest check shows her about to blo' me down 'ere matties. I've got to make preparations, go shopping for a few things, i keep a lot of stuff that could be eaten with out cooking or light cooking and i've got a gas burner as a backup and a gas grill too. I filled water barrels last night in case we loose power at the water supply goes off or a line breaks. I don't know about the plants. Moving them all in is not easy. i may move a few and leave the rest out and take my chances.

WINNING !!!

Keith I see Irene is headed more your way now, I hope you have caulked and taped the windows at the shop!

Keith I hope your place and the shop come thru the storm okay!! I would hate to think of you being homeless or with no place to work!! I want to retire to the beach some day but am thinking maybe 4th or 5th row at least due to the storms. My wife likes just laying on the beach all day, but as long as I have internet I am okay wherever I am!

Well good morning,

Today is a real work day. First I have to go to work for a whuile and do nothing, then help put up the storm shutters, maybe 30 minutes of heavyish lifting there. Turn off all the computers. Sorry but if there is flooding or voltage spikes or shorts on the lines it may cause damage, so better to be as safe as possible.

I moved some plants this morning up to the porch. I brought three inside so far, those are ones that don't have drainage and i don't particularlar want them full of water. I might move some more in later but i think i have enough tied off or positioned out of the wind to make it through.

The storm now seems to be way to the west inland, although the current track will put the strongest part of the storm moving close by. There will be some flooding as it pulls water up into the sounds on its western side which will be over the sounds. Now it is crossing the open ocean, where it has time to strengthen and change her mind on where to go, so ignore everything as it will change. As in a few days ago they had the storm passing by on the east side of us in the ocean. Hey at least i get out of some work.

Its still dry and calm here, although it is hot outside and the air feels thick with humidity.

I was going to have an internet blow-out sale, but sales are so good i don't think i can handle the extra load. best month ever, in fact the last two weeks of sales for this month were better than all but 1 month this year. And i still have a weekend and four days next week to add to this months record total. On selling off our special loads, i have recovered 41% of out money of the first two special purchases. Were doing better than that as i don't record the retail out the door sales. I've also recovered 25% of our money on a third special order we got at special prices and 90 day payment terms. i expect to have most if not all of that paid for by the time we have to pay for it. Its only been about two weeks so far gone by. I was studing the inventory the last few days, trying to see what i should restock on. i'm having trouble predicting any pattern for most items. Things that sold well in the spruing, have been dead for the last three months. Other itmes are up and down with no regularity, meaning if i took 10 like items they all would have differnet ups and downs, no common likeness to sales over any period of time. And i have a longer than normal list (double in length of items) of things to reorder, but it all has quantities of 1 or 2, no 6s, 9's or 12s like i once ordered, the only thing is i still have enough of those items in stock to not reorder yet. It's just as hard to predict internet sales as it is the weather.

It's going to be nuts going into labor day where boaters want to use their boats but put off fixing stuff until the last minute, now on top of that there is going to be some damages from the storm all just prior to that.

@Mikey, yeah hold on, Irene is headed your way to. you may not get the storm surge and high winds we get, but you'll get a lot of the leftovers. After all that is what the outer banks is here for, to protect the inland.

Signing off for now, may be back later.

@Keith and Mikey...batten down the hatches! Irene is knocking at the door!

(I need to send a note to my dad in Delaware about how he's doing too.)

High and dry in Michigan and...

WINNING!!!

[edit]Grilled some barbeque short-ribs for supper last night...guess what leftovers I brought in for lunch today? Hint: they're messy, but goooood![/edit]

Keith is probably in hiding somewhere but I am still here!!! I will be going out of town tonight or tomorrow, depends on if the airlines switch my flight for free or not, but I am leaving the area for a few days. Most of my pc's are already off and the rest are finishing up their caches now. This is NOT hurricane related though, just 'use or lose' time so gotta go! I will be taking my netbook with me though, so no loss of WINNING time for me!!

[edit]Keith used a BAD BAD word, he used the correct spelling of the word w*&k![/edit]

Someone's a knockin' at the door, but they kan't kome in.

I'm snuggled up under some blankets. Just got a hot kup of koffee and gonna watch some more tv.

It's a raining hard, but no harder than some of those nor'easter storms we get.

The worse part will be between now and a little after noon.

Stay tuned....

Still here.

Windy. Wet.

Still got power.

I was shut down for maintenance. Had to make some adjustments to the gpu's and securing them. Added a u shaped bar, up and down, on the outside of the shelf bars, running 90 degress to them but inline with the gpus. The bungee cords now go from gpu, around the bar back to the next gpu or same gpu. Two cords for three gpus. This provides pull directly across the bracket toward the socket.
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The reason for this latest mod was an improvemnt on the last mod whic hwrapped the cords around the shelf legs, but that pulled the gpus sort of in the correct direction but also out and away, not that they can move that way due to the socket. This new mod was just a better way to do it.
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All this too was because, i7#1 went funky, really funky after 5 days. It started trashing gpu work, then the screen flicked and i got nvidia gpu error, recovered driver. no bsod, but when it flickered 12 times in a row, i shut it down, pressed on the gpus, restarted and it was perfect again. #1 was always the better of the two. On the other hand, i7#2 had run for 7 days, at full sock gpu speed with out so much as a beep. It has never done taht before.
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So i made some slight improvements, am back online and running all gpus at full stock speed. Lets see what happens now. i'm burning away at 14,334Gflops.
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Well now back to bed to watch more tv, not much else to due during a hurricane excpet WINNING !!!

Well being stuck at home with nothing to do but watch my kruncherz krunch and drink is all i got to do.
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Actually now i'm experimenting. I ran a 25ft hdmi cable from i7#2 over to the hdtv. Sound comes from a second wireless transmitter on the computer. So i ahve two set of headphones, both on the same channel. I can listen to dvd if played on the blu-ray to the hdtv, or listen to streaming from the computer. Also what i did was make the hdtv a second monitor on the i7. So i move the window over and can watch streaming from across the room, while stil doing other computer stuff on screen one. This is Kool.
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My Netflix is going to be canceled come September 1st and i'm going to give amazon streaming a try for a while. Don't get dvds in the mail with that, but it will be cheaper per year just for streaming. I also have plenty of dvds to watch if i can't stream. The only drawaback is i will no longer have remote control and if i'm in bed, ahve to get up every time a program runs out to start another.
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My RAC should be climbing again now if I can kkep the GPUS online. I got a sucky 1.1M today after yesterdays 2.0 after my best day of 3.0M. I hope i can get back up 2.5-3.0M is where i'd like to be everyday.

WINNING !!!

Most kool.

I was trying to figure out where Irene was. I decided to bring up google earth. They have the storm track on there. She was 51 miles SSW of me an hour ago and the eye will pass 20 miles west of me. Although at 12 mph it will take about another 2.3 hours to get there. Then she will head offshore and travel up the eastern shore.

Still here.

Unfortunately my plants are not. A lot of them were stripped bare of leaves, have broken off tops. Some will survive, some might recover, I don't know. Others are fine as they wer more hardy plants and the ones i was able to move against the porch house wall are fine. My flag is torn and the pole pulled down, i have to go out and refix that and re zipty the flag on. The house seems fine. I'm tired as i didn't get much sleep due to that tree banging on the side of the house and scratching at the window, why could that not break ?

WINNING barely

I'm glad to be here.
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Yes today will be a beautiful day too. the sun is out and few clouds in the sky, although there is still some wind. I'll be in and out all day slowly tidying up and repairing plants, untangling them and trying to get that one remaining leaf in the sunshine.
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I broke a record today, My previous high position of 459 worldwide back on 2005-12-14. I had fallen down below 1000. So now that the super warp kore is running i've been climbing these past month and today broke past 459 to 454th. That is just as good a feeling as waking up this morning right were i fell asleep as in the house didn't get blown or float away.
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Bad headache though, I guess from lack of sleep. I see a saw in my future and a tree that is going to loose a limb or two.
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WINNING in the sun and what a beautiful warm sun it is !!!

Well I made it to w&%k this morning. I'm moving slooow.
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Took 1/2 hour to get through the door because the last idiot out put the panel on over the hing and force it to bolt on, it had lots of pressure on it and I had no tools to remove the nut under pressure. Finally found a stone to use, it is a wing nut so it fit between the wings.
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The bad part comes next. powered up server and network gear ok in the dark as the lights would not work. Got to my computers ok. But no internet. Then I discovered our 24 port network switch had only a power light and fan, no port functioned. So it took me a while to unpack two 8 port switches and move wires around, then reboot everything again. The lights take a while to warm up as the boss won't buy new bulbs to replace the maybe 7 year old ones. They come on very slow. Three hours later they are on now, mostly.
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So now 3 hours later i've got my first order done, 5 more to go.
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No WINNING here today.

I had to ask what next.

We are now under a Tornado Warning. The only one in the whole US.

Well nothing bad happened today. No vilent wind, flood waters or ground shaking and the sky did not fall on my head. Things are improving.

also too i'm WINNING !!!

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our network is limping along. I've nothiced some lag here and there. With two 8 port switches ganged together. I at least put me and the server on one switch, and the other guys on the other ganged off the first. I ordered a new 24 port switch for 140 bucks. the old one cost us 250 i bet about 5 years ago. the bandwidth of an 8 port is 2G, but a 24 port is 48G so you can see the difference. I'll have the new one tomorrow as amazon mailed it the same day i ordered it.

Keith is your old 24 port still under warranty, sometimes those big ones comes with good warranties, if so you could sell it, after it is repaired, in your store, or even keep it as a backup.

Got home yesterday to find my mailbox laying on the round. It survided a hurtricane but not some idiot driving down the road. The post is fine so i'm not sure how it was hit. There is a house across the street under construction, i'm guessing something to do with that. I had to put it on in a different position because of broken plastic around the screws. Then my red flag is broke but maybe with some duct tape, zip ties and glue i got that reassembled. Now that it has had all night to dry, let me go out and see if I can get it back on the box.

It was 10 years old. Victim of a hit and run, they left no note. Found it laying on the ground on it's back with it's feet pointed up. DOA.

They hit it hard as the black plastic is stressed and turned white in several lines. I had secured it to the post with 2 inch screws, those were still in the post.Only tore the plastic around where they were screwd in, so i had to slide it back some and use other holes.

My flag di not fit back on. I had to cut off some of my addon brace and now it is limp. I'll have to try again tonight with that in mind. This weekend during the upcoming labor day sales, i'll look for a new one. I like this one as it is wide and can accept small packages and i get those a lot, like a box full of dvds.

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Had to rush out earlier. Now while i'm waiting on a report to print...

I had a great internet sale month. My monthly average is almost double last years average. The first 4 months of this year I had below this new average, but better than last year. Then I had an average month, a month 1.5 times average, another average month and last month was 103 bucks short of being DOUBLE average. I looked at number of orders, it was less than 10% more than most months, so it means i sold more expensive items.

Oh well back to the grindstone, maybe later I can be WINNING again.

It is about to rain here in New Orleans, but I leave in a few days so it id okay! LOTS of crazy people here are out at night, we went bar hopping last night and saw some of them! Today is a lazy lay around day for me, the wife is going out to take some more pictures though. Therefore I am WINNING!!

A neighbour down the Ginnel has has 2 way satellite broadband installed now, because he was fed up losing the ADSL at critical points of his Internet business. So, they are spreading.

Is it allowed to put strong mail boxes up to replace the one DOA by hit-and-run-drivers?

You know, ones with reinforced concrete bases that would wreck a 44,000 Intercontinental Lorry is it hit your mail box.

That would really be winning ... coming home to a DOA truck which was killed by your mail box.

If you have to conform to a range of height, etcm sie, and other, restricyiond. Then return to the welded steel tamk trap as the size is simular. But the result on truchs side swiping the new design post box will be the revenge method to see the tyres and sided rupped from the perps.

As luck has it I am not winning again.
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Got my new 24port switch. No problem there. Power it up and swapped connections removing the two 8 port switches. Don't exactly like the new one. The old one has two rows of 12 ports and the lights are 2 x 12, so it is easy to match lights to ports. The new one is still 2 rows of 12 prots, but the lights are in a 4x6 matrix, so to see if a port is on, you have to read the numbers, taking more time. No difficult, just not easy.
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Then I decided to clean out the server air filters over the raid array. There are 3 drives with blinky green lights and one with solid yellow. Looked suspecious to me so I had to find the manual whichhas never been opened. Solid Yellow means DOA, replace it ASAP. I have no idea how long our server has been running on a 3 drive raid array. The drives are 7 years old now. So i looked up, a replacement costs a whopping 85 bucks, so I ordered 4 jsut to be safe. I may swap out all 4, one at a time of course and then keep the old 3 working drives as spares. This will be my first raid rebuild. More fun lined up for next week. They only have a 5 year warranty, so no free replacements there.
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I need a three day week-end.

... A couple of washers, nuts and a longish bolt....

'Ello?

Anyone about?

I'm 'round.

Is that a tummy reference? Beer anyone?

Happy Laborless Day,

Today I don't do any labor, except water the plants and cook a meal or two.

My Nephew just joined my team, which by the way is smokin' hot like a well used gpu and gaining power, moving up towards the top, we're in 34th, will be 33rd in a few days and then headed for ??, so many new krunchers I can't figure it out and our RAC hasn't had time to settle.

I'm also coming after you Mikey, It 429th by credit, climbing past 5-8 a day, heading for the top 100.

So abck to video watching, relaxing and WINNING on this day off.