I wish the guy in the video on the Home page would stop by and tell us how much he spends. Especially how, how much electricity that beast eats. :O

Awesome system. Sort of thing you could install in the basement to keep the house warm ;)

I'd love to know his RAC too!

There's a thread about it in the 'news' section here.

And here is the builder's account: Robert Hessland

He doesn't seem to use optmized apps.

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Thanks KenzieB. Interesting read :)

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I've spent about 10-cents on electricity for every 1,000 credits during the past two-months. I also made a small donation early on but I'd have the equipment whether I'm crunching Seti/Boinc or not. Wouldn't be fare of me to count that.

Right now, I'm taking a break ... saving about $1 a day ... enjoying life!

I suspect that I'll come back to crunch again when my R.A.C. catches up with my 'pending credits!' ... I can see they seem to be slowly converging ;)

I've never been that great with percentages so, I don't rightly recall how much of my income I've spent on Seti. Doesn't matter to me. It's a nice hobby.

£1.50 a month. According to my last elec bill rise.

Absolutely nothing in the last 18 months. Stacks on Milkyway and Collatz.

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I'd tried Linux, But It makes My head hurt, So that's over with. But If someone likes Linux thats fine with Me, That's their choice and I respect that. :D

I started linux back in the Win98 days and got sick of reinstalling the OS every few months. I understand XP is more reliable and uses a decent file system that really does not enjoy erasing itself. At first I simply did the same things as under Win98 but no disasters, no blue screen of death, and incredibly better multitasking. I could have started with it and never known it was not windows but for the logo and "I don't have those problems."

But that I did switch let me avoid 2000, Millenium Edition, that other one, Vista and the first XP release. Any hassle was worth it.

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The origin of the Yahweh Cult

I'd tried Linux, But It makes My head hurt, So that's over with. But If someone likes Linux thats fine with Me, That's their choice and I respect that. :D

I started linux back in the Win98 days and got sick of reinstalling the OS every few months. I understand XP is more reliable and uses a decent file system that really does not enjoy erasing itself. At first I simply did the same things as under Win98 but no disasters, no blue screen of death, and incredibly better multitasking. I could have started with it and never known it was not windows but for the logo and "I don't have those problems."

But that I did switch let me avoid 2000, Millenium Edition, that other one, Vista and the first XP release. Any hassle was worth it.

I started back before PC clones were made, Back in 1980 and I've seen a lot. I started with an Atari 400 computer w/48K of ram memory(10K OS), an aftermarket keyboard and a 410 cassette drive. Linux is nice, But an OS on ROM is king, but alas that isn't possible today. Of course I had lots of fun and eventually maybe in July 2011 I'll get the Atari 1200XL upgraded some to where I want It to be, The 1200XL is fairly rare today too, But that's ok as It's easy to make compatible, too easy.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I'd tried Linux, But It makes My head hurt, So that's over with. But If someone likes Linux thats fine with Me, That's their choice and I respect that. :D

I started linux back in the Win98 days and got sick of reinstalling the OS every few months. I understand XP is more reliable and uses a decent file system that really does not enjoy erasing itself. At first I simply did the same things as under Win98 but no disasters, no blue screen of death, and incredibly better multitasking. I could have started with it and never known it was not windows but for the logo and "I don't have those problems."

But that I did switch let me avoid 2000, Millenium Edition, that other one, Vista and the first XP release. Any hassle was worth it.

I started back before PC clones were made, Back in 1980 and I've seen a lot. I started with an Atari 400 computer w/48K of ram memory(10K OS), an aftermarket keyboard and a 410 cassette drive. Linux is nice, But an OS on ROM is king, but alas that isn't possible today. Of course I had lots of fun and eventually maybe in July 2011 I'll get the Atari 1200XL upgraded some to where I want It to be, The 1200XL is fairly rare today too, But that's ok as It's easy to make compatible, too easy.

Ah, an upmanship contest! Or is it downsmanship? I always get them confused.

I started with a Bally Arcade with a 4k BASIC and then jumped to the Atari 800 with 16 articles on it in COMPUTE!. That skips over a bit, like teaching myself Fortran in 1967 ... ;)

An OS on ROM is great but then the next thing you know there are extensions to it to handle the 5 1/4" floppy drives working from RAM and we are back where we started and IBM reinvents the BIOS.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

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Unvarnished
Haaretz
Jerusalem Post
The origin of the Yahweh Cult

I'd tried Linux, But It makes My head hurt, So that's over with. But If someone likes Linux thats fine with Me, That's their choice and I respect that. :D

I started linux back in the Win98 days and got sick of reinstalling the OS every few months. I understand XP is more reliable and uses a decent file system that really does not enjoy erasing itself. At first I simply did the same things as under Win98 but no disasters, no blue screen of death, and incredibly better multitasking. I could have started with it and never known it was not windows but for the logo and "I don't have those problems."

But that I did switch let me avoid 2000, Millenium Edition, that other one, Vista and the first XP release. Any hassle was worth it.

I started back before PC clones were made, Back in 1980 and I've seen a lot. I started with an Atari 400 computer w/48K of ram memory(10K OS), an aftermarket keyboard and a 410 cassette drive. Linux is nice, But an OS on ROM is king, but alas that isn't possible today. Of course I had lots of fun and eventually maybe in July 2011 I'll get the Atari 1200XL upgraded some to where I want It to be, The 1200XL is fairly rare today too, But that's ok as It's easy to make compatible, too easy.

Ah, an upmanship contest! Or is it downsmanship? I always get them confused.

I started with a Bally Arcade with a 4k BASIC and then jumped to the Atari 800 with 16 articles on it in COMPUTE!. That skips over a bit, like teaching myself Fortran in 1967 ... ;)

An OS on ROM is great but then the next thing you know there are extensions to it to handle the 5 1/4" floppy drives working from RAM and we are back where we started and IBM reinvents the BIOS.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

It wasn't intended as up or down, Just a statement. Oh and the Atari didn't need any extensions beyond Atari DOS as It has a 13 pin SIO port for such drives. But since You had an 800, You already knew that the 400/800 didn't need any extension...

But If You want a little of some up or down, I had a working 1450XL motherboard, I'd installed It into a 1200XL case that I'd crudely modded and a 1200XL psu brick powered It too, It's long gone though. :D

You know We could literally confuse these Younger types some with our old computer jargon, If we wanted to. ;)

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If I had more money I would splurge on the SETI craze. But I don't. I earn a slightly above average wage compared to other New Zealanders.
Somehow I have to fit in nearly NZ$13,000 to achieve a PPL over the next few years. Do we have any commercial or private pilots here???

And everyone has hobbies. I have a few. Juggling, Water Rockets, Technology, Aviation... etc.

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- Luke.

If I had more money I would splurge on the SETI craze. But I don't. I earn a slightly above average wage compared to other New Zealanders.
Somehow I have to fit in nearly NZ$13,000 to achieve a PPL over the next few years. Do we have any commercial or private pilots here???

And everyone has hobbies. I have a few. Juggling, Water Rockets, Technology, Aviation... etc.

You are diversified, you have many hobbies......some incredibly expensive, some not.
Some of us have just one main hobby.......Seti.
For me, it would fit into the incredibly expensive CATegory.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Some of us have just one main hobby.......Seti.

I would hardly admit that crunching for any project in BOINC was my main hobby, but in reality it can be hugely time consuming and quite hard to keep up with. But then it's fun to get involved in another project and see what there is to see. What's this one called again? ...

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