Up’ed The Game on BOINC
I’ve boosted my grid crunching this week so I should be seeing I few extra credits each week. I’ve reinstalled the BOINC client on a few PCs and quite easily configured them with the BAM account manager, it really is very quick and simple to use.
I found one host that wasn’t reporting jobs, not sure why but it wasn’t setup to connect very often. This has resulted in about 15 work units being completely but never reported. I caught this too late and the deadline has past, so some lost credits there.. I’ve also restarted crunching for Rosetta@Home as it appears Seti:Home is running low on jobs.
You can check out my stats here
Easter Update
The Easter break is quickly coming to an end with the 3rd semester just around the corner. Its been a good break, I have been home for a while building IKEA shelves and decorating the dining room in between finishing my last assignment and seeing friends. However back in Stafford now as I needed to take care of some things before uni was in swing again.
One of those things was finding a house for my placement year in Birmingham. I decided over Easter I didn’t want to commute from Stafford. I used to commute to college in the first year before I learnt to drive although I don’t mind getting up at 6am in the morning I don’t like the idea of spending 40minutes each way on a train everyday. so I started looking for flat in Birmingham. Surprisingly the rent is very similar too what I was expecting if I lived in Stafford including a season train ticket. I e-mailed a few people and arranged house viewings for yesterday (Tuesday) I was quite nervous as I didn’t know what to expect from the houses as it would be like first year in halls, not knowing who you are moving in with etc. However the first house had reasonably sized rooms and the rent was pretty low, however the house was very student like and didn’t feel like a house at all more like halls really, so on I went to the second house which was very nice indeed. It had been well looked after and was more of a house than a student pad. It had a nice living and dining room with a fairly big kitchen and generally felt like a nice house to spend time after a hard days work. One out of the 4 rooms are taken and I’m the process of signing contracts and putting down a deposit to take up the largest room more on this later though.
It appears I have also signed up on Twitter, I signed up a while back as I thought I’d check it out but never did anything with it and now Facebook seems to me as trying to follow twitter (Little joke there??) which is a shame as Facebook had its own thing going on but has seemed to have lost that spark now so I thought I’d check out twitter again. Haven’t got many followers though maybe because I need to update it more…
The car passed its MOT first time which is a first I think although it had to stay the night at the garage as they didn’t fit the new brakes and new front pile in time for it to have its MOT done.
On other note I have reached 200,000 credits on BOINC Stats…
Anyway back to work….
The Easter Break
The Easter break hasn’t been much of a break yet from me. I am finishing off my last assignment of the 2nd year. Although it is nice to be home and to see the family its a shame I have word to be done when is it the weather decides to be nice and sunny.
I suppose I am still in a mind wandering dase after getting a placement last Friday, I’m very excited and really looking forward to it. Although at the moment I am still deciding on where to live Stafford or Birmingham but its still early days yet.
As I am home and not really paying for the electric bill I have started number crunching for grid networks again. I’ve participated on and off over the years but after a couple of lectures in my Network and Grid computing module on BOINC and its projects I decided it turn it all back on again.
I’ve taken the break to get my car in for its MOT. The garages in and around Stafford don’t seem to really offer value for money and as a student that is a top priority so its in and I’ll find out soon how much damage it is going to cause to my bank account.
Few Changes
Made a few changes today, I upgraded wordpress, got a new style and a few new sidebar items. Also thinking about getting a new domain, RootDogg really doesn’t mean anything anymore so thinking about a new one.
I also started crunching for Rosetta@home again, so will post about that sooner or later.
