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kittyman     Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 
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This will be a long post...... Bought how my struggles with the Frozen Penny have come about........ A long time ago, on a planet far away, some kitties were gather to collectively say........ These crunchers can run faster..... We know that they can.. Cuz on Intel's hardware they're 'faster than can'. So they ran down the path said their faster than many... And along their path came along the Frozen Penny........ A cpu so cool and so fast if was said, that it would lay all the past in the dead. And the promise of 'who' had been so cleverly hidden, That you probably thought that the kitties' old promise was mitten... My reasons for posting these musings are hidden, 'tween the past and the present and some thought most forbidding.............. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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 Dr. C.E.T.I.  Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0
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jason_gee  Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 
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My reasons for posting these musings are hidden, You recently fried your CPU ? "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. ID: 757620 · |
dcappello  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0
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The long weekend just got going... well okay perhaps a few hours ago... I hope the long weekend works for everybody. (shopping sat/sun for a new quad something) 
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JDWhale  Send message Joined: 6 Apr 99 Posts: 921 Credit: 21,935,817 RAC: 3
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My reasons for posting these musings are hidden, More likely he fried the CPU 'tween his ears.... Call it a Turkey Short. ID: 757663 · |
Logan  Send message Joined: 26 Jan 07 Posts: 743 Credit: 918,353 RAC: 0 
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Hi Mark! My condolences.... By the way, yesterday in an attack of madness, I bought a processor Q6600 and upgraded my E6300 'media' pc. Any work of bricolage for me that I am not a technician ... The result is amazing ...!!!! Best regards. Logan.  BOINC FAQ Service (Ahora, también disponible en Español/Now available in Spanish) ID: 757699 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Posting from an altenate rig....... Still really pd off...... I'll fix the biatch.........I hate it when things go away.......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0 
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Posting from an altenate rig....... When the fates they conspire what can mere mortals do? Seems perverse to be grateful that it happened to you. Be mindful the heartache, the grief beyond measure, When tragedy strikes at a person you treasure. The Penny ge-splotnick? 'tis but metal and glass, The phoenix arises, your p***dness will pass, Your counsel is good, "Push hard - expect pain", We know that the Penny will come back again. F. 
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gizbar  Send message Joined: 7 Jan 01 Posts: 586 Credit: 21,087,774 RAC: 0
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Posting from an altenate rig....... Kind Words Fred. However... KITTY DOWN! KITTY DOWN! Call the army, no the navy, no wait hang on... we want this fixed properly. Call Mark, Save the Penny! Hope you get it fixed soon Mate! Not o/c'ing at all at the moment, too much ambient heat in my little house. Best of luck, regards, Giz.  A proud GPU User Server Donor! ID: 757728 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Posting from an altenate rig....... Just metal and silicon...... Sometimes sad, but it's true..... I've just revived my daily driver.....talkin' to you,,,,,, I'm pissed and I need sleep..........but I will continue in a kitty thread............ "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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zoom3+1=4  Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65764 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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Sorry to hear that the Frozen Penny is frozen permanently Mark, As long as everything else in the envelope was ok, Then getting a New Shinny Penny out may be all that anybody can really do, Besides take a picture of the corpse of course. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's 
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hiamps  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0
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Posting from an altenate rig....... Hope it wasn't that dreaded Condensation that got my rig.... Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! 
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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No condensation here.... The Penny is back up and running...... Dang keyboard failure...... Had to dig out one of my backups.... Forgot how nice a vintage 42h1292 feels..wonderful!!!! Now I just gotta go to Best Buy and replace the couple of KVM cables I trashed in my anger last night.......... Them little connectors don't take to abuse like the old 9 and 25 pin d-subs did.......lol...... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65764 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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No condensation here.... Glad to hear It was only a sacrifice to the great keyboard in the sky, Guy and not Yer cpu, Or Frozen Penny would need a brain. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Posting from an altenate rig....... BTW.....nice words from you Fred........ I shoulda known that my buds would cover my back....... Crunching on......need to replace a few KVM cables that did not withstand my fervor last night..... It's all good.....and this new vintage 42h1292 feels like I was a teeny again.....luv it!!!!!!! Nothing like a clicky............the feel is just unbelievable........'soft touch' my butt............. (The youngsters here will not understand..). "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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And the real true reason for composing this thread...... Is a story that I've not yet written nor none of you've read.... 'Tis a tale of a Boinc installation gone wild And the x64 born son of an ill gotten child..... I'll tell it to you, if you care but to listen but please don't admonish me here if I'm slippin'.. The tale goes back to my new XP days...... Things were happy then..... Whatever....... At some point in time......(my time reference is tarnished by my Tardis travels).. I decided to upgrade from XP to x64.... I had some unused disk space on the HD, so I created a new partition and installed x64 from scratch. Then I copied my Boinc folder from the old virtual drive to the new one, and carried on.......all was good....or so I thought. Time went on, and the Frozen Penny's OC went south,....at least that's what I thought...... Fred.......this is what I was talking about when I referenced a bit of a change in the Penny... XPx64 has TWO feakin'....count them, TWO.....'program files' folders......one simply named 'program files', and one named 'program files x64'...... When I did the upgrade and started anew, I copied the Boinc file to the x64 folder.....crap.........I was running x64, it seemed to make perfect sense..........to a dummy..... So, as time went on, my Boinc installation got increasingly confused...... It kept crashing, and not gracefully.....spontaneous detaches and lost WUs.... they were there, (or so I thought), but Boinc could not see them, and restarted from scratch...... The final straw came when it detached again, and I figgered..........trash it all.....which I did.....(or so I thought). Deleted the entire Boinc folder.... Did a new install....started 'er up.....and the dang thing still had projects lined up......WTF????????????? Then I did a defrag, just to be sure I had cleaned up all the itty bitty pieces of the old Boinc installation, and to my surprise.....defrag was moving about Seti WU files.......WTF in spades......(where's the fish, for you non-kitty types) again???????? Well.....long story short....I had a Boinc installation in the 'program files x64' folder and another in the standard 'program files' folder, and the two were interacting in unknown ways......... My desktop bookmarks were all linking to the z64 version, but God knows what was actually running.......and all along,.I started whacking the bios on my rig trying to put things right.........oh.....the humanity.....the humidity.....the kitten thingy........... Soooooooooooo....... What I was originally getting at Fred,......was if you clone your Boinc file to transfer it to x64....put it in the dang standard 'program files' folder.......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0
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And the real true reason for composing this thread...... Thanks for the heads-up, Mark. I've got a 500G HD on order with my PC8500 RAM. So when that arrives (when???!!!) I plan to put the Vista64 (OEM - cheapskate that I am) on that and give BOINC its own dedicated partition so it can run from the root. Then I'll copy across all the files I need from my existing 160G HD (this is my daily use machine - not a dedicated cruncher), re-format that HD and use it in the machine that I am building for my son out of the bits I have left over from all my upgrades. I think all that I am missing now from the build-kit is a case and a SATA DVD (planning an Antec Solo case and whatever optical drive seems appropriate at the time). F.
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65764 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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And the real true reason for composing this thread...... Each of some of My XP x64 CDs cost less than that(about $75 each), Have fun. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
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KWSN Checklist  Send message Joined: 4 Jan 08 Posts: 46 Credit: 3,282,541 RAC: 0
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And the real true reason for composing this thread...... "Program Files" and "Program Files(x86)" ? ID: 757857 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Well....whatever........thank you for pointing out my error, Crm..... I may have renamed it x64 in my ignorance........ Point being, there are TWO 'program files' folders in x64..... Don't transport your Boinc folder to the exotic x64 folder.....it don't help.... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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