Folding@Home News 11th - 18th March 2011

Biffa · 21 Mar 2011 at 08:45

Speed said:
Biffa: Did you get to the bottom of the issues you had? The system was rock solid at 4.2GHz and now it won't even pass LinX for more than 8 minutes at 4GHz. Going to have to do some more investigation, the memory is fine, so I'm thinking the motherboard or power supply might have issues.

No mines done 3 in a row since then, so no idea so far.

BaBa said:
Sorry to here of the problems Biffa, did you make the move to linux?

Not had a chance to get Linux going yet.

dekez · 21 Mar 2011 at 12:36

Starting to lose my patience again with linux. :mad:

Tried to get the temp display working in conky, turns out lm-sensors isn't picking anything up. Ran lm-sensors detect options - nothing, google it and it turns out it the sensors on my motherboard (P8P67-M Pro) aren't supported yet. As with a lot of problems, lots of threads with people having the problem, none with a solution. The support just isn't there if you want to run new tech.

Tried to run a backup with simple backup to an external hard disk - didn't work, will have to try to figure out what went wrong there.

Tried to get my 460 doing some boinc stuff until I could sort out folding through wine, Boinc doesn't connect properly to the account manager, again lots of threads, known issue but no solutions.

Linux is just constant faffing to get things to work, and there's only so much a spinny cube desktop can do to make you feel better about that.

I read a quote somewhere that linux is only free if you don't value your time. So true.

Rant over.

BaBa · 24 Mar 2011 at 01:17

Not long now speed, its time to start packing

Then its stompy's turn to be stomped

Speed · 24 Mar 2011 at 01:24

Indeed, unfortunately going to be packing it in for good once I reach 17 million, no doubt you will pass me before then!

dekez · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:57

Crap, I completely forgot the news today sorry guys!!

I had the day off work so was pottering around and didn't have any reminders pop up on my screen.

Speed sorry to hear you're going to be leaving us

Frozennova · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:13

Ha, a reminder on your work pc, dont they get suspicious

dekez · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:25

Nah, it just comes up as "Stats"

Speed · 26 Mar 2011 at 20:28

dekez said:
Speed sorry to hear you're going to be leaving us

Indeed, to be honest I do regret starting, with my bad habits of over spending and me being out of work it was a recipe for disaster! But I have enjoyed it, just need to focus on other things but I may well keep one system up and running for the time being after I reach 17 million. All comes down to money at the end of the day....

Looks like I've slipped into 4th place, so err Parp to Stompy... but Ba is only 3.7 days behind me! lol

Frozennova · 26 Mar 2011 at 20:57

I've got a GTS450 coming sometime in the week, grabbed a Giabyte OC Model for £70 on the MM, it was about time I replaced the 8800GT.