With all this validation stuff going on, like others my rac is so cool,over 4000.It's not so bad being a pingpong ball ,as long as when the dust clears your back .

LOL...

Yep, just look at how dull things are over on most of the other project message boards...

If SAH ever got really reliable we'd all have to take up watching paint dry or something like that! ;-)

Alinator

If SAH ever got really reliable we'd all have to take up watching paint dry or something like that! ;-)

I could imagine it now.

Yay I got 100,000 credits
Yay I got 200,000 credits
Yay I got 300,000 credits
Yay I got 400,000 credits

:(

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LOL, totally agree with you all. Half the fun of the project is feeling like a part of it. If everything were completely autonomous and "just happened" it would be pretty dull, wouldn't it? Every day is a new drama and it's all interesting stuff.

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*grin*

Then you have the folk like me, who just want to be a teensie, tiny, small part of this super-huge project.

I only run 1 computer.. the same one I do everything on; games, chat, forums, office stuff, etc. I never expect to be in the top XX of any list/group/team/etc. I don't understand 75% of the hardware stuff you other folk talk about.. heck, I can barely understand some of the acronyms.

I just want to be part of the search.. I truly believe in that line from Contact; "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

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"So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

I don't understand 75% of the hardware stuff you other folk talk about.. heck, I can barely understand some of the acronyms.

Let you in on a little secret, neither do we.

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I don't understand 75% of the hardware stuff you other folk talk about.. heck, I can barely understand some of the acronyms.

Let you in on a little secret, neither do we.

Is there anyone who truely does?

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*grin*

Then you have the folk like me, who just want to be a teensie, tiny, small part of this super-huge project.

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LOL...

Actually it's all the single to a few host, low-profile crunchers who do the lion's share of the work! SAH would be well and truly up the creek if all you folks just up and left! :-)

In fact all of us who hang out here in NC all the time could probably leave and it wouldn't even make for a blip on BOINCStats. ;-)

Alinator

*grin*

Then you have the folk like me, who just want to be a teensie, tiny, small part of this super-huge project.

I only run 1 computer.. the same one I do everything on; games, chat, forums, office stuff, etc. I never expect to be in the top XX of any list/group/team/etc. I don't understand 75% of the hardware stuff you other folk talk about.. heck, I can barely understand some of the acronyms.

These acronyms get me all confused,

IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics (h/ware) or Integrated Development Environment (s/ware),
CRC: Camera Ready Copy (Publications) or Cyclic Redundancy Check (Software),
TTL: Transistor Transistor Logic (h/ware) or Time To Live (networks).

I just want to be part of the search.. I truly believe in that line from Contact; "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

I just want to be part of the search.. I truly believe in that line from Contact; "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

My favourite movie and one of the reasons I am here - that and the fact that I have always believed we cannot be alone.

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I just want to be part of the search.. I truly believe in that line from Contact; "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

My favourite movie and one of the reasons I am here - that and the fact that I have always believed we cannot be alone.

And my head also is still filled with, triodes, pentodes, magnetrons, PnP/ NpN, Transistor's, MOSFet's , etc. all those thing, once 'learned' @ school / education, whatsoever . . . . ;)

Would like to learn writing code, assembler, C# , whatever.

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... Would like to learn writing code, assembler, C# , whatever.

If you really want to, then choose one and do it! Amazon is stuffed with "self-teach" books and some are actually quite good. And even if you don't ever use it in any other part of your life, there is a real sense of achievement when your first piece of code works :)

F.

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These acronyms get me all confused,

IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics (h/ware) or Integrated Development Environment (s/ware),
CRC: Camera Ready Copy (Publications) or Cyclic Redundancy Check (Software),
TTL: Transistor Transistor Logic (h/ware) or Time To Live (networks).

For me, it's POP (Point of Presence) vs. POP (Post Office Protocol) -- both networking.

I know what they mean, but sometimes it isn't clear which POP is the POP in question.

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Would like to learn writing code, assembler, C# , whatever.

I've been writing code since 1969, and spend about half of my time coding Pascal and the other half in C. I've worked in 3 or 4 other languages, and had a taste of a half-dozen others.

C is not easy. I wouldn't recommend it as a first language. I don't think C++ or C# would be any easier.

Most of the modern BASICs are actually quite good -- and nearly Pascal. They have good structure, and Visual BASIC in particular is quite popular.

That means lots of resources. That means VB is probably a good place to start. Think about a class at your local community college.

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