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Message 1073320 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 5:05:47 UTC

Work unit, work unit crunching bright
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Message 1073370 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 8:32:18 UTC
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"It was the best of work units, it was the worst of work units..."

A Tale of Two Seti's - Author unknown, believed crashed.
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Message 1073372 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 8:47:25 UTC - in response to Message 1070264.  

<snip> Since the world doesn't know God, it doesn't know work units either, because "God is work units"


"God are work units"

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Message 1073390 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 9:46:18 UTC

Work units are gods?
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Message 1073410 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 11:42:20 UTC

Some men see work units as they are and ask why;
I dream of work units that never were and ask why not.
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Message 1073427 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 13:13:23 UTC

Sung to sixteen tons.

You crunch 16 Units and what do you get? Dust in your fans and electric debt.
Milkyway dont ya call me, Cause I cant go. I owe my soul to my SETI Bros.
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Message 1073542 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 20:21:33 UTC - in response to Message 1073427.  

Nvidias, Intels, AMDs lend me your cpu cycles
I come to overclock a GPU, not to praise it;
The ET's that men seek lives after them,
The good WU is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with FLOPs ... The noble NEZ
Hath told you 1 million RAC was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath NEZ answered it ...


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Message 1073597 - Posted: 2 Feb 2011, 22:59:09 UTC


In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there crunched not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing WU´s.
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Message 1073670 - Posted: 3 Feb 2011, 1:59:38 UTC

"No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless work-unit overruns the computer."
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Message 1073852 - Posted: 3 Feb 2011, 18:11:20 UTC

What price work units?
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Message 1073905 - Posted: 3 Feb 2011, 21:07:27 UTC - in response to Message 1073856.  

It is an ancient Workunit,
And he d/l's one WU of three.
`By thy long grey pending list and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The bridegroom's Processors are opened wide,
And I am next to run;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
Mayst hear the merry din.'



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Message 1076776 - Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 12:01:34 UTC

The most wasted of all days is one without WUs.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 1076801 - Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 14:26:58 UTC

Half a unit, half a unit,
Half a work unit onward,
All in the valley of Boinc
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Boinc Brigade!
Charge for the optimized apps. he said:
Into the valley of Boinc
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Boinc Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the work unit knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to crunch & die,
Into the valley of Boinc
Rode the six hundred.


(as usual, apologies to Lord Tennyson)
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Message 1076804 - Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 14:29:59 UTC - in response to Message 1076801.  

Nicely done.
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Message 1076838 - Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 16:12:26 UTC

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of work units...
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Message 1076883 - Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 17:39:37 UTC - in response to Message 1070883.  
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4 Then God said let there be servers; and there were multiple servers.


Can't remember who said that the problems with computers multiplied only after someone got the idea of connecting them together. Must have been ms. Fortuna, she saw it coming...
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Message 1077160 - Posted: 14 Feb 2011, 15:18:38 UTC - in response to Message 1076883.  

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my Workunit. Prepare to die.


Stop saying that!


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Message 1077183 - Posted: 14 Feb 2011, 16:15:29 UTC
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I ate his work unit with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
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Message 1077205 - Posted: 14 Feb 2011, 17:25:55 UTC - in response to Message 1076883.  
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.. :-))))))) .. absolutely unbelieffffable .. ;-)
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Message 1077208 - Posted: 14 Feb 2011, 17:30:54 UTC

.. no work-unit can shine - with a broken heart.
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