Keith (Southend) wrote:

I posted this a week or so ago but there were no takers :-(

Beware the Director General, my son!
The edits that bite, the clauses that catch!
Beware the Presenters too, and shun
The Third Division match!"

He took his remote to hand:
Long time the maxim: "Foe" he thought
So rested he on ITV,
Uncertain what he sought.

Miffed, no hope of getting through
And every e-mail that he sent,
Came back whiffing of stinkey-pooh,
So much for giving vent!

Channel one! Then, two! And through and through
The Channel Switch went snicker-snack!
Seeing red, he scratched his head
He then went searching back.

"And, has thou seen the schedule?
What's on today!
Not more repeats?
Of course there are, you bloody fool!

It's still the BBC.

In article . com,
Weatherlawyer writes:
eware the Director General, my son!
The edits that bite, the clauses that catch!
Beware the Presenters too, and shun
The Third Division match!"
snip

LOL! Excellent.
--
John Hall "George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder." E.C.Bentley (1875-1956)

Same here, ran it for a few hours then ditched.

IMHO what this piece of software does is very noble, how it does
it......awful.

John DH



... I did have it running for about a couple of weeks, but found it was
capturing too much of my capacity and not releasing it properly. Have
ditched it now and the system is back to normal.

Martin.


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John DH wrote:
Same here, ran it for a few hours then ditched.

IMHO what this piece of software does is very noble, how it does
it......awful.

Care to expand on that a bit. I've been running CPDN, both the original
version and BOINC, for over 4 years with very few problems. I certainly
wouldn't call it "awful".

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"Ian Bartholomew" wrote in message
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John DH wrote:
Same here, ran it for a few hours then ditched.

IMHO what this piece of software does is very noble, how it does
it......awful.

Care to expand on that a bit. I've been running CPDN, both the original
version and BOINC, for over 4 years with very few problems. I certainly
wouldn't call it "awful".

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I've been running BOINC for some time. The only problem I have encountered
is the work unit being terminated due to client errror which I have tracked
down to the Sophos virus checking software; Norton antivirius also causes
problems. I have excluded the BOINC directory from any scans so I hope the
problem will go away.

There has not been any obvious degradataion of PC performance.

Alan

I've been running BOINC for some time. The only problem I have encountered
is the work unit being terminated due to client errror which I have
tracked down to the Sophos virus checking software; Norton antivirius also
causes problems. I have excluded the BOINC directory from any scans so I
hope the problem will go away.

There has not been any obvious degradataion of PC performance.

Alan

Ah - thanks for that - Norton might explain why my first work unit on the
Climate change program was strangely deleted -see my post above. I'll see
what happens when Norton next does a sweep.I have'nt noticed any appreciable
PC slowdown. I run SETI as well in tandem, as I mentioned - recently using
BOINC for both projects. Works fine.

John DH wrote:

But is anyone taking part in this experiment conducted by the beeb,
downloading software to run on your own PC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatchange

The important thing for me is the security aspects,
does anyone have any reservations in this regard.

I have just found out that Microsoft's own Office puts a load on a PC
even when it is not in use. So what a third party will get up to is
anyone's guess. I'm thinking about either uninstalling Office, or
zipping it up in an archive.

Most of these background programmes for sorting out the universe can be
stopped when the machine is in use and set to come on with the screen
saver. Check the settings when you load it.

I have no idea what they behave like in 'NIX or Mac boxes. But at least
with open source, if anyone knows, they won't keep it secret.

The machine that I was using is used as a casual workstation, so it's not in
use all of the time. However users reported an immediate drop in performance
when they wanted access to it. I also noted that when we were not using the
machine, the cpu is going flat out and running hot, so I am concerned about
thermal shock to the system. It's a bit like powering up and down the system
several times a day.

I am not against this project at all, I would like to take part, but I am
not prepared to run the risk of breaking a machine.

John


Care to expand on that a bit. I've been running CPDN, both the original
version and BOINC, for over 4 years with very few problems. I certainly
wouldn't call it "awful".

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John DH wrote:
The machine that I was using is used as a casual workstation, so it's not in
use all of the time. However users reported an immediate drop in performance
when they wanted access to it. I also noted that when we were not using the
machine, the cpu is going flat out and running hot, so I am concerned about
thermal shock to the system. It's a bit like powering up and down the system
several times a day.

Fair enough. That's completely different to my experience, I've only
ever noticed one application [1] that behaved differently when running
BOINC. As far as the heat goes I have heard is said that running at a
constant temperature, as long as it's not too hot, prolongs component
life - it's the changes of temperature that cause problems. You do have
to maintain your system a bit though, regular applications of the hoover!

I am not against this project at all, I would like to take part, but I am
not prepared to run the risk of breaking a machine.

All I can say is that I've been running a distributed computing program,
of one sort or another, 24/7 on one or more computers since 1998 and
I've yet to have one break on me.

Anyway, this is a bit OT for this group so I won't try any harder to
persuade you to have another go :-)

[1] For some reason MS Money takes around 10 seconds to start when
running BOINC on both halves of a HT processor, rather than the normal 1
second or so.

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John DH wrote:
The machine that I was using is used as a casual workstation, so it's
not in use all of the time. However users reported an immediate drop
in performance when they wanted access to it. I also noted that when
we were not using the machine, the cpu is going flat out and running
hot, so I am concerned about thermal shock to the system. It's a bit
like powering up and down the system several times a day.

I am not against this project at all, I would like to take part, but
I am not prepared to run the risk of breaking a machine.

John


I would have run it, but as its specifying using a broadband connection, I
gave it a miss.
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Hull
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