I have to remove boinc from 54 pc's

[Bulldog66]

As from next week I will have to start removing boinc from 54 p4 1.8 pc's.
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And Install it on 55 New p4 2.8 HT That I ordered today.

Yeah baby.....

 

[Bulldog66]

You had me going there for a minute. Congratulations, sah. Any particular reason to remove it from the old ones? If'twere me I'd leave it on all of them and hope for the best for the 1.8s.

I will leave it on the ones that i re-distribute out,, however some are going on a diff network which does not have access to internet etc. and seeing as no such thing as setiQ for boinc, i'll be down 20 / 30 of the 1.8ghz p4's.


But should still be able to keep at least 20 crunching possibly more,,,

And if i'd of just said, i'm getting more crunchers, it wouldn't of had the same effect.

I have to keep back at least 20, to use as spares for one of the IT rooms.

 

[Bulldog66]

Why are none of these folding

The only thing folding in my life is, the napkin before dinner.

I may one day get into folding, I may not..

If I went into folding, I would need to plan it, to make sure I knew what was involved, how long it would take and how much longer the project is likely to last for. I'd hate to start getting into it with only 6 months left on the life cycle. It takes a lot of my spare time, at the end of the day, to run round making sure pc's are not switched OFF.

To make sure everything is tickey boo. I've invested a lot into boinc now. So will see how that pans...

 

[Bulldog66]

I dont have the time to do anything else to be honest. It took me nearly 3 hours walking around the site, opening every door and making sure the pc's were left on over the easter weekend so they can all get their AV, and MS patch updates etc.

I don't love anything enough to spend that sort of time everyday, logging into machines to transfer data etc etc.. Things are ok as they are for now. If I push the bubble any more it will pop...

 

[Bulldog66]

They let you leave all the machine on all holiday.

I'm lucky if i get two days to leave machines on to update. In fact i didnt get any time this hol because they want to cut down on costs. The boss don't seem to understand that it will cost them more in my time to sort things out if they go wrong because of a virus.

Well it does help that I am the boss.

And We do our updates every night.


One thing for you to think about.

Depending on your bios type / revision it might be possible to make the pc's start up at say, 9pm and shut down at 5am. You could think about using wake on lan too.

We were thinking about it. That way if it works you can squeeze out some extra time for your updates.