[FAD]Stats for Tuesday 21st December 2004

[Win2Kuser]

Just 3 days to go folks :D

Great days crunching again y'all, just shy of 1.4 million points uploaded, 890 thousand molecules checked, and 62 thousand hits discovered :D

If you haven't checked it out yet, please see the contest thread here (http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15545)

This is for a Complete System!! Very generously offered by Kev and Rea :D

Another exciting day in the Win2Kuser houshold, sat up until about 5am on Skype, got up late, took some headache tablets for the Stella induced hangover, did nothing much, watched the Simpsons, played some games whilst Wifey played some more RT2, and thats about it :D

Digital Camera didn't arrive :( So maybe tomorrow or Thursday... Got a busy day lined up tomorrow, off to do the final shop for Xmas, food and stuff, nibbles, alkeyhol, last few minute 'Damn I forgot about so and so' type things, you know...
Then it's back to try and rewire the cockup that the 1970's sparkys left i.e. no nutral used in the lighting circuit upstairs, just live and earth used :eek:

Other than that, I can't think of anything left to waffle about, so I'll bid you all good night...

Not sure who won the waffler of the day award yesterday, so I'll leave it open...

Congrats to the Dumperz, Moverz, and 'Stonerz :D

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Top 20 Dumpers for the day:http://users.bigpond.net.au/wishart/images/smilies/toilet2[1].gif
Top Half Lower Half
|================================| |================================|
| Member Name | Points | | Member Name | Points |
|--------------------------------| |--------------------------------|
| Plum Ugly | 338,741 | | Zema Bus | 21,113 |
| mickwish | 74,970 | | cbuddha42 | 14,834 |
| A novice | 74,661 | | Ski52 | 8,407 |
| tgxiii | 63,036 | | OLIVE | 6,259 |
| Gouki | 58,581 | | Mrs Roadkill | 5,962 |
| sharder8 | 56,710 | | ARLENE | 4,441 |
| Zippy | 50,059 | | Lachlan | 3,851 |
| Win2Kuser | 49,123 | | Kenneth_Arnold | 3,762 |
| BitSpit | 43,509 | | Roadkill | 3,647 |
| Roadtech21224 | 43,054 | | pain_inbutt | 3,327 |
|================================| |================================|

Movers of the day:http://users.bigpond.net.au/wishart/images/smilies/eek3[1].gif

|================================|
| Member Name | Points |
|--------------------------------|
| smokin | 28653 |
| JasonG | 9708 |
| Zema Bus | 21113 |
| cbuddha42 | 14834 |
| OLIVE | 6259 |
|================================|

Milestones for the day::winner:
Gouki: 80 Million Molecules
rubyredzmachine: 50 Thousand Hits
Roadkill: 250 Thousand Points
cbuddha42: 225 Thousand Points
OLIVE: 500 Thousand Molecules


Today's stats for
Tuesday 21 December 2004
New New New | Total Total Total | CPU Time Week CPU
was # Member Name Jobs Hits Points | Jobs Hits Points | Yrs:days Total Rating
=== ==== =============== ==== ======= ======== | ===== ========== ========== | ======== ========= ======
-- 1 Plum Ugly 168 14,652 338,741 | 49,703 3,374,719 96,098,334 | 72:158 714,181 12,362
-- 2 Zippy 40 2,005 50,059 | 30,948 1,245,000 41,869,399 | 23:364 146,245 3,712
-- 3 A novice 114 3,304 74,661 | 22,461 1,156,605 24,187,372 | 20:160 135,392 2,994
-- 4 AllawayConsGrp 12 860 16,727 | 15,078 750,867 20,051,983 | 25:036 32,440 851
-- 5 Gouki 26 2,459 58,581 | 8,106 664,402 18,526,861 | 25:197 90,994 1,728
-- 6 Win2Kuser 23 1,701 49,123 | 18,524 598,854 18,505,238 | 19:056 97,834 2,331
-- 7 Wizzard~Of~Ozz 14 1,556 38,896 | 13,507 658,076 18,482,713 | 16:080 79,892 1,910
-- 8 Ccristo 7 447 16,523 | 12,213 589,643 17,526,736 | 16:070 30,068 583
-- 9 BitSpit 26 1,673 43,509 | 11,724 550,596 16,799,501 | 25:225 83,958 1,750
-- 10 sharder8 79 2,587 56,710 | 9,586 629,533 16,583,444 | 28:261 91,540 1,868
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 11 Omardeth 54 1,242 27,747 | 11,186 580,987 16,197,868 | 17:210 54,212 1,240
-- 12 PresterJohn 0 0 0 | 18,259 726,508 16,062,914 | 34:350 9,934 223
-- 13 Heavy_Equipment 13 1,185 32,246 | 7,854 371,031 14,457,640 | 13:219 76,255 1,579
-- 14 Brydon 10 1,198 34,381 | 9,571 496,590 12,484,263 | 12:009 35,808 667
-- 15 tgxiii 27 3,544 63,036 | 5,555 602,823 11,917,463 | 9:153 99,896 1,779
-- 16 tmx468 7 538 15,742 | 9,317 267,057 9,618,007 | 7:312 24,947 449
-- 17 Strop 10 754 16,680 | 4,676 324,040 9,391,801 | 8:051 51,878 906
-- 18 vavega 7 550 12,166 | 7,478 334,907 8,339,802 | 10:078 22,200 662
-- 19 mickwish 43 6,900 74,970 | 4,023 386,256 7,896,437 | 16:270 106,441 1,247
-- 20 Gliddend 10 369 11,578 | 6,222 262,432 7,465,062 | 11:292 30,532 950
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 21 Roadtech21224 19 1,825 43,054 | 2,383 328,534 7,345,293 | 6:328 91,770 1,890
-- 22 Mntsnow_XPC 0 0 0 | 3,713 263,328 5,863,486 | 5:287 0 383
-- 23 SoopaStar 4 616 21,866 | 2,485 255,560 5,577,012 | 5:119 29,201 857
-- 24 jmebonner 3 452 12,499 | 3,723 159,670 5,535,434 | 5:028 12,499 284
-- 25 Jskorna 3 187 5,695 | 5,092 254,769 5,455,572 | 18:209 19,231 456
-- 26 Kc2iLq 2 154 5,315 | 3,818 151,136 4,852,674 | 6:110 18,458 123
-- 27 n7vxj 53 1,252 25,092 | 3,421 153,520 4,641,095 | 2:207 39,650 991
-- 28 Christian-Comp 2 685 5,272 | 2,591 191,340 4,580,006 | 3:084 21,361 458

-- 29 DannyChuckle 3 148 4,317 | 3,346 196,430 4,494,809 | 8:275 27,792 684
-- 30 carl d 7 239 5,002 | 2,226 221,051 3,963,862 | 4:051 31,387 912
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 31 Twinkletoes 0 0 0 | 3,104 90,359 3,430,926 | 4:091 6,766 166
-- 32 rourkchris 2 162 7,161 | 1,145 116,047 3,253,744 | 1:337 22,872 534
-- 33 brian0555 1 108 3,089 | 1,936 112,402 3,148,509 | 2:361 11,462 378
-- 34 Justoverbroke 15 1,147 28,061 | 1,079 139,730 3,136,228 | 3:106 54,715 1,092
-- 35 davidamarkley 1 5 132 | 3,250 97,896 3,095,186 | 2:348 3,974 164
-- 36 Idigguns 0 0 0 | 2,096 88,062 2,504,346 | 1:197 0 0
-- 37 Bettabuy 0 0 0 | 1,790 80,313 2,324,707 | 1:331 0 26
-- 38 Orbiter 1 279 4,402 | 1,156 64,590 1,813,179 | 2:032 8,224 104
-- 39 TwiztidTruckie 5 358 5,683 | 767 61,386 1,562,575 | 1:012 11,535 185
-- 40 Synplicity 1 1,166 13,152 | 951 54,625 1,546,859 | 1:019 15,194 368
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 41 Shyguy 6 561 16,551 | 1,024 47,691 1,520,285 | 1:133 17,364 305
-- 42 ShawnD1 1 40 1,899 | 711 49,136 1,474,044 | 1:171 5,491 265
-- 43 Robin801 10 180 3,427 | 1,683 27,065 1,434,590 | 1:018 5,499 115
-- 44 moflash 1 142 4,054 | 466 55,983 1,321,532 | 2:136 4,054 96
-- 45 mholtum 0 0 0 | 478 37,922 1,206,399 | 0:348 0 0
-- 46 Stant093 2 117 5,746 | 379 43,242 1,190,390 | 1:016 7,243 70
-- 47 sixf00t4 3 174 6,217 | 928 35,024 1,182,517 | 1:265 11,218 185
-- 48 Efity 0 0 0 | 1,477 53,916 1,117,615 | 0:303 5,796 167
-- 49 rubyredzmachine 2 338 8,767 | 512 50,017 1,064,276 | 1:013 13,081 401
-- 50 Kasimick 0 0 0 | 1,105 45,608 1,024,662 | 0:311 0 0
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 51 beppoDmime 0 0 0 | 2,012 27,741 1,015,929 | 0:267 0 16
-- 52 Ola_S 1 14 194 | 460 33,812 972,859 | 1:149 6,717 72
-- 53 cyclone2 2 134 2,539 | 399 51,804 951,174 | 1:097 6,213 352
-- 54 t001z 0 0 0 | 389 51,086 934,774 | 1:051 0 0
56 55 smokin 7 873 28,653 | 273 67,532 889,236 | 0:357 42,985 908
55 56 daveleau 0 0 0 | 642 26,120 875,296 | 0:260 0 0
-- 57 Greenmanok 4 198 4,675 | 370 56,729 834,202 | 0:214 13,734 435
-- 58 HotRod 0 0 0 | 305 41,973 817,528 | 0:229 0 0
60 59 JasonG 3 347 9,708 | 370 51,683 793,323 | 0:261 15,289 398
59 60 poopeyhed2 0 0 0 | 395 30,669 784,717 | 0:193 4,101 113
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 61 IamLorilei 0 0 0 | 460 23,655 761,907 | 0:190 0 0
-- 62 tony_j15 0 0 0 | 641 18,889 722,665 | 1:002 0 0
-- 63 Mrs Roadkill 1 168 5,962 | 343 17,042 718,185 | 0:227 5,962 112
-- 64 GohanSSJ 1 59 960 | 283 21,383 704,744 | 0:327 3,469 62
-- 65 Cowboybooter 0 0 0 | 637 26,694 702,202 | 0:332 0 8
-- 66 Ski52 3 253 8,407 | 279 16,069 611,774 | 0:251 18,178 325
-- 67 AvKyJJ 5 85 1,041 | 572 24,084 585,282 | 0:169 2,729 69
-- 68 magnus 2 35 586 | 378 21,148 575,972 | 1:310 1,598 104
-- 69 Loosewire 0 0 0 | 363 19,712 575,264 | 0:147 0 0
-- 70 CE4010E 0 0 0 | 446 20,963 564,598 | 0:211 0 35
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 71 gino-x 0 0 0 | 324 28,128 556,567 | 0:329 0 5
-- 72 LordKwikSilva00 0 0 0 | 230 19,938 543,131 | 0:111 0 0
-- 73 Chita 0 0 0 | 455 19,057 530,354 | 0:253 0 0
-- 74 diveram 0 0 0 | 563 17,124 524,171 | 0:175 0 0
-- 75 DarkOmNi 0 0 0 | 228 33,895 520,266 | 0:174 0 0
-- 76 MDS_XPC 0 0 0 | 267 14,333 426,229 | 0:177 0 124
-- 77 Lachlan 2 139 3,851 | 179 46,465 404,238 | 0:117 4,234 147
-- 78 Manda 0 0 0 | 862 7,155 394,075 | 0:152 0 0
-- 79 pain_inbutt 4 148 3,327 | 196 21,566 377,690 | 0:114 10,490 310
-- 80 akinsey 0 0 0 | 172 13,123 336,865 | 0:082 0 74
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 81 ARLENE 1 120 4,441 | 214 23,385 335,546 | 0:225 4,441 78
-- 82 BULLEN 0 0 0 | 142 8,821 313,345 | 0:091 0 0
-- 83 SiliconjunkieXP 0 0 0 | 122 30,105 311,725 | 0:243 0 14
-- 84 SDFGT 1 63 1,582 | 160 19,597 309,286 | 0:119 1,582 57
88 85 Zema Bus 6 800 21,113 | 67 10,538 303,840 | 0:075 31,020 672
85 86 Leviathann 1 79 2,195 | 90 19,637 302,610 | 0:088 5,714 133
86 87 sao95 1 24 273 | 188 8,265 293,982 | 0:072 4,572 157
87 88 izzzy12k 0 0 0 | 137 14,918 289,772 | 0:080 0 0
-- 89 Creatures 0 0 0 | 271 5,329 256,276 | 0:078 0 0
-- 90 Roadkill 1 129 3,647 | 115 6,685 252,539 | 0:262 3,647 128
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 91 phicksus 1 93 2,164 | 74 8,923 245,663 | 0:080 17,178 315
93 92 cbuddha42 3 622 14,834 | 76 15,742 231,082 | 0:063 14,834 189
92 93 ANTHONY 0 0 0 | 118 7,258 222,625 | 0:062 0 0
-- 94 Kenneth_Arnold 1 316 3,762 | 185 21,587 218,074 | 0:122 3,762 33
-- 95 backspace 0 0 0 | 67 4,809 162,148 | 0:109 0 0
-- 96 GCR-ThRoNkA 0 0 0 | 63 7,137 140,150 | 0:092 0 30
-- 97 Mortis1 0 0 0 | 112 3,057 122,535 | 0:037 0 0
-- 98 LONGBOW 0 0 0 | 86 6,397 116,112 | 0:026 0 0
-- 99 PRUJOHN 0 0 0 | 37 7,796 103,335 | 0:036 0 0
-- 100 Bamagurl 0 0 0 | 51 3,663 96,519 | 0:031 0 0
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 101 EndobioticChaos 0 0 0 | 47 2,395 92,843 | 0:017 0 0
103 102 OLIVE 1 149 6,259 | 51 1,652 86,250 | 0:028 6,259 29
102 103 Sweeper 0 0 0 | 40 2,194 83,253 | 0:027 0 0
-- 104 Knothead 1 30 648 | 29 5,495 78,273 | 0:030 648 55
-- 105 BY_tapotun 0 0 0 | 57 5,847 70,220 | 0:024 0 60
-- 106 huntingalnmo 0 0 0 | 34 3,328 67,819 | 0:089 0 0
-- 107 JANEHARRYdel 0 0 0 | 16 1,670 43,196 | 0:027 4,049 71
-- 108 JENNAdel 0 0 0 | 16 2,516 37,777 | 0:012 0 0
-- 109 TRACEYdel 0 0 0 | 13 2,412 31,497 | 0:034 0 28
-- 110 Rovastar 0 0 0 | 49 1,941 22,447 | 0:028 0 0
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 111 lokispiralwolf 0 0 0 | 9 673 18,613 | 0:005 280 7
-- 112 DustyBottoms 0 0 0 | 12 711 18,063 | 0:003 0 0
-- 113 blaze 0 0 0 | 14 585 16,550 | 0:004 0 0
-- 114 The~Joker 0 0 0 | 9 288 16,249 | 0:003 0 0
-- 115 Thepieman 0 0 0 | 9 117 8,422 | 0:001 0 0
-- 116 Lorilei'sKids 0 0 0 | 9 611 8,322 | 0:016 0 0
-- 117 Peeps 0 0 0 | 5 681 8,284 | 0:003 0 0
-- 118 Roswell_NX 0 0 0 | 9 381 8,198 | 0:008 0 12
-- 119 3rd. rate crunc 0 0 0 | 5 1,453 8,005 | 0:016 0 7
-- 120 Godwynn 0 0 0 | 13 404 5,973 | 0:004 0 0
--- --- -----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------
-- 121 megabit 0 0 0 | 4 99 4,510 | 0:005 0 0
-- 122 FunkyMonkey 0 0 0 | 9 50 3,253 | 0:002 0 0
-- 123 PERRY 0 0 0 | 5 37 3,077 | 0:003 0 0
-- 124 CARLYdel 0 0 0 | 3 78 1,236 | 0:000 0 0
-- 125 Edsel 0 0 0 | 1 15 607 | 0:000 0 0
-- 126 Blackwatch 0 0 0 | 1 2 499 | 0:000 0 0
-- 127 maxsteele 0 0 0 | 2 1 169 | 0:001 0 0
============ ==== ====== ======== | ======= ========== =========== | ======== ========= ======
New New New | Total Total Total | Total Week Total
Jobs Hits Points | Jobs Hits Points | CPU Time Total Rating
---- ------- -------- | ------- ---------- ----------- | --------- --------- ------
Team Total 890 62,737 1,399,350 | 351,116 19,234,194 518,478,189 | 545:356 2,744,169 57,194
============================ =========== | ========= ========= ======
Key: Up rank Last weeks total 12/19/2004 515,734,020
Down rank -------------------- -----------
New Member Weekly running total 2,744,169
No Change ==================== ===========
Inactive Uploaded last week 9,609,682
Output +/- of n/a

New New New Av. CPU Member
Current strays Jobs Hits Points Rating Number
-------------- ---- ---- ------ ------- ------
Plum Ugly;1 2 364 9,364 148.37 7002278
Zema Bus;1 6 800 21,113 167.89 3006194
GCR-ThRoNkA;1 0 0 0 71.03 7004283
SoopaStar;1 0 0 0 193.57 5002212
n7vxj;1 0 0 0 197.11 4002774
Anthony;2 0 0 0 155.52 1012356
Roadtech21224;1 0 0 0 94.25 1012207
chita;1 0 0 0 41.32 7000506
moflash;1 0 0 0 52.07 1015967
roadtech21224;2 0 0 0 112.25 7002773
ROBIN801;1 0 0 0 155.50 6000647

Top 10 Teams:
Team New New New | Total Total Total | CPU Time Week Team
# % Team Name Jobs Hits Points | Jobs Hits Points | hrs:days Total Count
=== ==== =============== ==== ======= ======== | ===== ========== ========== | ======== ========= ======
0 42.8 None 1459 75,621 1,794,090 | 676,109 31,528,380 765,565,123 | 964:263 3,690,671 5,137
1 39.8 TSC! Russia 1826 132,769 2,868,387 | 370,373 31,983,620 747,353,864 | 698:061 6,921,480 963
2 68.6 XPC 890 62,737 1,399,350 | 351,116 19,234,194 518,478,189 | 545:357 97,639 137
3 45.2 Ukraine 290 28,720 647,310 | 76,480 6,961,806 138,203,617 | 144:005 1,335,152 124
4 29.9 TeAm Anandtech 245 13,584 312,522 | 72,895 6,620,646 135,433,783 | 140:263 727,679 157
5 40.0 Deep Thought 94 6,540 172,651 | 120,926 5,573,081 124,797,578 | 131:163 379,405 65
6 39.4 Phoenix 451 10,901 221,927 | 150,640 5,384,456 117,385,359 | 132:299 420,881 33
7 16.9 Russia 165 15,461 349,054 | 70,063 4,662,532 113,304,790 | 155:298 839,494 433
8 39.4 TechIMO 250 14,457 379,448 | 77,008 3,950,882 99,611,174 | 102:094 844,057 188
9 10.7 [H]ardOCP 59 2,274 56,606 | 137,195 3,110,204 81,405,507 | 86:029 174,888 84

POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY
-----------------------------

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.

-- J.C.F. von Schiller

CPU rating / inactive members calculated over 9 day Average. Week Total compared from Sunday 19 December 2004
Stats Rev 10.84 - Compiled by Win2Kuser

[Shyguy]

1st!!!:D

Well I was able to uplaod a few jobs this morning, for a nice 16 grand dump, still waiting on a decent sized one on the HP, not alot of points but going on 2.5 days now!!!

Anyways, currently DL HL2 Demo, now that its out... a Whopping 751MB download, just for teh DEMO!!!

:jaw:






Anyways, its gonna take a half hour to DL, so I'll be having to find soemthing to do for the time being. But I'm downloading it from Gamers Hell, they have at least 7 1Gb servers, the one I'm DL from right now has 1000 total slots to DL from, but most have 200-500 slots, just to let those who want to try out teh demo know. Though the sheer size of it may make many just wait till a game mag demo CD is released!!!:D

[Win2Kuser]

Well worth the download Shyguy, it's a very cool game.

I bet after playing the demo you'll want to buy it :)

[Roswell_NX]

Congrats to everyone!

i had a dump over 2000 points, but i guess it didn't show up yet...

Roswell :)

[roadtech]

Woooot, Great day Team.
Thank's for the stats Mark.
Congrats to the S'ers M'ers and D'ers..:bunny:
We've gotten off to a great start with this weeks contest 19 members have posted their picks.............Hey we might just hit 50 this time that would make Rea very happy.....:D

We've had two members contribute to this weeks contest. A total of a 140 Bucks..
So please thank Smokin and Win2K ...
Dude's you rock...http://users.bigpond.net.au/wishart/images/smilies/bowdown.gif

edit sorry wrong Scott......:bunny:

[Synplicity]

HL2 rocks and CS:S (play CS:S almost everyday for 4 hours) Waiting on Day Of Defeat Source, thats gonna be fun :)

Keep em crunching like a mouth full of over fried Mcnuggets like I had last night, or they could of been fried twice .?.?.?

Syn

[Shyguy]

Ive given up on the damn demo for now, have tried installing 6 times, I go to extract the files from the Rar/Zip file (I use WinRAR), & the RAR extracter just sits there, locks up or freezes up, then I have to cancel, & try again, hmmmm? Seems like Steams faulty problematic track record (at least from what Ive read) seems to even affect the Demo in a Zip based file also? I may try & DL from another site tommrrow & see if that works, otherwise I'll just wait till I can buy it or get the demo on a disc somewhere.

Oh well thats alright, while I waited to DL it I finished watching 2nd half of Return of The King (I watched frist half last night), this is only 3rd time Ive watched it, & never get tired of it, I watched The Two Towers the night before (whole thing), & saw Fellowship on TV last week, thats why I decided to watch the otehr two this week. Now I want to get the Extended versions too, LOL!!!:D

[Synplicity]

Shyguy I just watched that on Sunday night.. its like the 3rd or 4th time I've watched it...lol... As for the steam thing.. Steam really hasn't been a problem with me, I think that they are doing pretty good with keeping up with the games.. One thing is they need to add VAC to the CS:S servers because there is a lot of hackers playing. When people hack it kills the fun in the game cuz the servers they are on just empty out. If you do get HL2 and CS:S play on a server call The~Source~Matrix - Chicago
I think thats how the name is..

Syn

[sharder8]

Well, congrats to the moverz, stonerz, dumperz, and grinderz! :P

Just finished OC'ing the new 1.1GHz Celery to 1.37 and it's still running at 25C. :D I'm going to let it run there for a bit and watch to see what happens. If everything seems to continue fine, I'll take it to 1.4GHz, but I'm already getting the feeling that it'll be staying where it's currently at. :rolleyes:

Also looks like I've held off rstarr until the next update . . . . but will watch him pass me shortly. :(

Hey BS . . . . trying ta' put up a little bit of a fight I see. :bunny: we'll have ta' see if I still have a little secret up my sleeve for ya'! :P

Well, that does my waffles with syrup today. ;)

Harder

[PresterJohn]

well, my internet service was working yesterday when i got home (down since sunday 7pm) but i saw the cablemodem light was off again this morning...wondering just how long before RR gets their act together. upgrading everyone to faster d/l speeds is all well and good but it ain't worth a damn if my connection it unreliable.

anyways i used the down time from sun night to mon night to work on that getting that p4 w/XP machine ready. i haven't completely installed all the apps that i use but i've already encountered an incompatibility.

there's a macro key program i use and when i launch it, it hogs all the spare cpu time even though the thread process is already set at Low. increasing the fad process priority helps a little but it is still stealing about 30% of the cpu time...my cpu score drops ~50 pts when the macro program is running. turning off the hyper-threading isn't making a difference so it's either the design of the p4, the mobo/chipset, or XP itself which is the culprit.

additionally, i am noticing a distinct lag time opening my computer or when explorer refreshes at times and i believe the problem is most visible when network drives are mapped. i think this might be fixed with a registry hack (already modded the fast update keys) but i've been unable to research this properly since my internet is down so much lately.

of a lesser problem...i'm not getting any sound from the onboard output. this is probably just a driver problem (drivers installed were d/l'ed drivers from the website instead of using the included CD) but it's just another item on a growing list of issues with this project.

ah well...at least i get friday off, sorta of...if the cable office is open xmas eve, maybe i'll take in my cablemodem for an exchange to see if that helps any.

keep em crunching, everyone.

[SoopaStar]

man...after I pass Mr. Snow, its going to take forever to get any further in the list :)
shyguy: do you have the most recent winrar? Does the demo have a lot of directories and files or is it an iso image?
With Win2kUser's talk about skype, I may have to finally check it out.

[roadtech]

With Win2kUser's talk about skype, I may have to finally check it out.

That would be nice. I'm on it every night with someone from XPC. A voice would be cool.....:D

[Win2Kuser]

^^ Would have had a chat earlier Kev, but Ali was winging and telling me to pull my finger out of somewhere and going shopping :)

It looks like y'all will have to wait a bit longer for the stats tonight...

Went shopping earlier - What a nightmare, I knew it would be, but nothing prepared me for just how bad! Left the house at 12:30ish arrived in Swindon at 1pm, proceeding to make our way to the hypermarket, did the shopping (an hour long battle with elbows, chins and severe trolly jams), 30 min drive home from Swindon, arrived here at 6.30pm :eek:

We were only in the hypermarket for an hour, probably queued up for an hour to pay, then the rest was local Swindon trafic.

I have a headache, still stressed, Ali is not well, and I'm knackered, so an early night for us - Stats will have to wait until the morning GMT - Sorry, but I really can't face waiting up until 1 or 2am to update and post them...

[Cowboybooter]

LOL! Christmas, huh, Win2k!:D

We too, went shopping today! In Kingston Upon the Rain!:)

Fortunately, I think the bad weather kept folk out of the town! It was lovely, parked easily, no queues or crowds!

2 stories from different shops;-

Maplins, computer store, I asked the geezer for a USB floppy drive,( for Mother-In-Law's lappie! ) He looked at me kinda funny, said "Okay, I'll find out!" and wandered off! After about 10 mins, I went looking for him, found him behind the parts counter looking it up in a catalogue!:D I found a picture and number of the one I wanted for him, he tapped away at the keyboard next to him and said "Yes, we've got 6 of them!" "Great," I said, "where?" "Err, I'll come back to you on that," he said, and disappeared out the back!

Meanwhile, Da Boss had been trawling up and down the shelves, she went into the section marked Keyboards, Mouse and Speakers, found the drives there, so came to find me with one!

We bought it and left! :D

A bit later, in Waterstones bookstore, UK equivalent of Barnes and Noble, and probably the busiest of all the shops we went in, we 'divided to conquer' once again. We were after 'The Gruffalo's Child', and 'The Body Book'! After about 15 mins, I was getting close, having found 'The Gruffalo' ( which littlun already has, ) when an obviously overworked guy appeared next to me and started filling shelves. I asked him if they had either titles in stock, whereupon he grinned broadly, reached behind me and took down the Gruffalo's Child, then flew off to an adjoining aisle, looked along a rack then went back a few racks and came back with the Body Book!

"Anything Else, Sir?" he enquired. I declined his offer, but made a point of telling the duty manager how impressed I was before leaving!:)

We then spent the early evening wrapping things, we had fun wrapping 'something' for eldest, I won't say what because he's a member here, but it's disguised in an oversized box full of shredded paper and 5kg of building ballast! :D:D

So now, we're back on target with stuff, I'm working tomorrow, last day till next week.

Congrats to the Stoners, Bumpers, Movers, Grinders and Players!
Gohan, You don't think you are gonna stay there, do ya??:D:D

:)

Bob