March Newsletter

Another month passed, another newsletter made. :)

http://stats.amdusers.com/newsletter.html

This month was the twelfth edition (1 whole year!) so our graphic artist thought it was time to start redesigning it, to accomodate for more data, news, and events in future editions. :)
It's still a work in progress, but all the data is already there.


If your nickname is on the following list, then you've been awarded one or more Member Of The Month Awards! Congratulations! :)

Ahab
Andrew Dodd
AMDave
Beerknurd
Bozo
Bratwurst
Brucifer
Chris Icide
Damaddog
DMMc
Empty_5oul
Evil-Dragon
Fireball1624
grunt187
HP&Hilde
lazykiller
Michal Hajicek
Mike Orwick
Miltman25
Mitro
ototero
petrel_PT
Spare_Cycles
SPJeff69
SirGCal
Vaughan

I'm thinking of writing a BOINC-related article, or series of short articles, for my Alcoa location. We have an internal newsletter that is issued every few months and I believe that the majority of people don't know what distributed computing is or what it is trying to accomplish. I noticed in the Yahoo! news that nearly 700 million people are online world-wide and yet less than 1/10th of 1/%, or less than one in a thousand of them are participating in distributed computing.

I tried discussing the use of Alcoa corporate computer down time for Boinc and ran into a brick wall from the corporate and local IT folks. They are concerned with security issues, system loads, IT support resources and a variety of other issues. So, via our internal newsletter I'm wanting to appeal to the personnel to use their personal home computers for their chosen causes.

I'll let you folks know how it turns out.

Steve, one approach that might work with non-geeks is to get them to use the Boinc screensavers. Some of the projects have very pretty graphics - Einstein AT Home is excellent - so this might appeal. We know that screensavers consume CPU cycles but if its a screensaver or nothing then we are better off having lots of new team members running the screensaver version.

Wow.. I got an award.. heh.. Didn't even know this site was here until I couldn't sleep tonight. Thanks.

Welcome to the Team there SirGCal, you sure are productive in the stats. In a way, something good came to you from not being able to sleep, you found our forum. Whoopie !

Congratulations SirGCal on your recognition and your devotion of crunching for the team effort and all those projects that you have worked appreciate your help too. :blob3:

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Originally Posted by SirGCal

Wow.. I got an award.. heh.. Didn't even know this site was here until I couldn't sleep tonight. Thanks.

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Welcome to the forums SirGCal!

Ah yes... I do remember those awards! And I believe you received not one but plenty. If memory still serves me you were one of the main crunchers of our Team on SETI. I did the calculations and award attributions for several issues of our newsletter. :icon_wink:

Don't be a stranger now! Come by when you can and drop us a line. :)

what happened to the newsletter btw?

An irrecoverable data loss happened when the raid controller on my machine failed me and I lost all data on my raid-1 system...
I thought I was safe because I had a raid mirroring system set up, and didn't do backups... :-(

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Originally Posted by NeoGen

An irrecoverable data loss happened when the raid controller on my machine failed me and I lost all data on my raid-1 system...
I thought I was safe because I had a raid mirroring system set up, and didn't do backups... :-(

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so that means no newsletter anymore:sad5: never?:-(

Never say never... :icon_wink:
In the old newsletter I had created a quite complicated way to generate the monthly stats.
Nowadays I know better... and easier. :)

i still want my award for that 5 mill dpad leakage :icon_lol: