I have to say, I've been feeling like crap all day, but I decided to have a rest in bed for a couple hours, didn't sleep, but I feel pretty good. I'm getting old people, I remember when these late nights were easy. It's not actually that, I'm just unwell and on some horrible treatment protocol that is very unfun. But, it sure beats dying, so I'll take it, if it actually works.
Today I am watching the first Terminator movie, I've never actually seen it, and there was a DVD of it for
I have had a quite frankly terrible day. But last night, that was great, a proper live local band, on my own, no one to try to meet the expectation of. I don't want to dwell on it too much, but a recent emergent treatment protocol I've needed to start is known to interfere with my antipsychotics, so I've not been having the best experience. But, I am officially three years sober, as of 27 mins from me writing this line. It has not always been easy, but it has always been the right choice, everyt
Good evening everyone! It is I, TheLANguy. Thank you Spec for letting me stop by and present the daily update. We are now more than halfway through the event and the heat isn't stopping yet! Will your hardware survive the test?
First, I must tell you what I'm listening to. In case you have not already heard, yesterday Brian Wilson passed away. Today I have been listening to his work with the Beach Boys. Right now I am listening to Smile! It is certainly a masterpiece.
https://open.
Ladles and gentlespoons, welcome to another update from me. I had to call in sick yesterday, but not for illness; instead, I had my first day at a new job. I always told myself I would never work in IT after my degree. I hated the subject professionally... And yet, here I am. On my first say I completely reorganised their HR management, they were using names not UUIDs for everything. And mistakes have slowly crept in from the increasing workload on a static-sized team. So they now have a UUID sy
Ladles and gentlespoons, welcome, welcome to the Great Linus Bake Off... Err... I mean the summer folding sprint, where the only thing baking... If you!
I hope you are all having a great time, or at least a better time than I have been having with Foldatron today. But, not to worry as it seems like she is not behaving after a second blood sacrifice to Khorne and some gentle taps. Secret video of me being motivated to fix it
I'm not going to lie to you all, I've been unwe
June BOINC Blog
Welcome to the monthly blog. Let's take a look at what's going on in the World of BOINC!
May Stats Breakdown
This month the team has produced 2,680,342,296 credits. This makes us the 6th biggest producer this month. That's much better than 28th last month! The team is now in 57th place after overtaking Team Norway! We also had our top producing day on May 5th earning 405,784,391 credits.
I'd like to give a big welcome to e
Good evening folks! The Pentathlon has now concluded. Everything is so much quieter now! If you still have WUs that you don't plan on crunching, please abort them rather than suspending them. This will allow them to be sent back out as soon as possible. Now before we get into this blog that is later than the WAN show I need to tell you what I'm listening to!
Well it certainly has taken me a while to write this so there are a few things I am listening to!
Willie Nelson has released a new
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Same as yesterday, CPU Full power on WCG for the Marathon! Use the auto update task: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1608274-boinc-pentathlon-2025/?do=findComment&comment=16729270
GPU Full power on Einstein for the Steeplechase!
Good evening everyone! Hope you all are doing well this Saturday. We only have one day left! That's 24 more hours for the team and yourself to make a rank change. Can your system handle another 24 hours of heat
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
CPU Full power on WCG for the Marathon!
GPU Full power on Einstein for the Steeplechase!
Good evening folks! Spec isn't feeling the best so I will be writing tonight with some help. I will be writing quite a bit this with voice to text so blame any mistakes on that!
Today I am listening to the 1976 live alblum "Wings Over America." It's my favorite Wings album and brings so much energy to the tracks from previous
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
CPU Full power on WCG for the Marathon!
GPU Full power on Einstein for the Steeplechase. Today is a 30% bonus day, so drop those bunkers!
Good evening everyone! We are now eleven days into the event with only three remaining. I hope you all had "fun" spamming retry to send in the NFS WUs. I sure did. We have now entered the final push and we need to use these next few days strategically.
However first I must talk about what I'm
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
All GPUs to BUNKER Einstein, release all NFS WUs completed, try to throw any new HW onto NFS, maintain otherwise. If you can’t bunker Einstein, then please just crunch it. But we get random bonus days, so bunkering would be ideal.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, It’s all happening, isn’t it! It took over 7 mins to download the NFS data, but we managed to get it in the end. Guys, we have fewer CPUs from the team on this throw, so please, if you have
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Begin bunkering NFS for the next Jav throw!
Today is a 30% bonus day for the Steeplechase so dump those Einstein@Home bunkers.
Good evening everyone! We are now nine days into the event and have completed two successful Jav throws. Just a reminder, today was Microsoft's patch Tuesday, so make sure your systems have not been shut of by the Windows update!
Before we get started, I ought to tell you what I am listening to today! I'm ro
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
All GPUs to BUNKER Einstein, release all NFS WUs completed, try to throw any new HW onto NFS, maintain otherwise. If you can’t bunker Einstein, then please just crunch it. But we get random bonus days, so bunkering would be ideal. Make sure to enable data exporting to statistics aggregation websites.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, I think it is safe to say, congratulations on our second silver for this event. It’s not just that we have more peo
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Bunker CPU on NFS@Home for the next Javelin throw.
Full GPU power on SRBase for the Sprint.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, it is once again I, TheLANguy. I hope I fooled you for a second. We are now halfway through the Pent and a new week of crunching has begun. 24 hours remain for the Sprint and the Steeplechase has just begun. If you plan on running Einstein@Home for the Steeplechase tomorrow, please login to your Einstein@Home account, the
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Full CPU power on NFS@Home! Let's get a great Javelin throw
Full GPU power on SRBase for the Sprint.
Good evening folks! We are nearly halfway through the Pent and have a very exciting next few days ahead of us. Right now our troops are battling it out in the Marathon, in a Sprint and are even throwing some Javelins! Today will be an eventful one. However, before we get into the blog I would like to wish a happy birthday to @Lightwreath
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
If you were running Milkyboi, move that hardware to NFS bunkering, if you have GPUs put them on the Sprint which is SRBase. And for those of you who are used to events from me elsewhere, welcome home friend, why don’t you stretch your legs.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, first of all, congratulations, you’ve earned that much. Wasn’t that just so delightful? Wasn’t it so entertaining? I don’t think I’ve refreshed pages like that since FapGate back i
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Steady as she goes, TeamLTT, hold her steady. We know what we are doing, concentrate on pressing our advantage and the like.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, you know whats up. Today is a great day, a day for a steady hand and continued pressing of hardware. We can do this together, I don’t know about you but I gotta work to pay this electric bill! Standing shoulder to shoulder, we face the relentless tides of WUs and we do not falter. We are not frail in t
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
-Focus on crunching MilkyWay@Home for the City Run. Let's increase our lead and get to 2nd!
- If you can, bunker SRBase and adjust your settings to only use GPU
-We ARE skipping the first Jav throw but will participate in the one on May 11th
Good evening everyone! Three days of crunching are now complete and we have certainly made the most out of each one. Today we pushed are way into third in city run and remain in a fight to both k
Braindump.
I was just watching a clip about archimedes , and as usual it mentioned the following of his inventions:
- the catapult ,
- the claw
- the mirrors
but this time , the katapult and the claw were considered the only likely ones.
whereas i actually think the mirrors would be easier to do and engeneer then a catapult or a hand that sinks boats.. only nobody seems the actually want to seriously test it.
the mythbusters tried with president Obama an
Attention all fairy tale things...
The BOINC Pent has a GPU project coming up... Help us out, let us show the Pent what the 2nd best ranked FaH Team can do. Please, I am making a personal request for everyone to get involved, it is only 3 days, and we need every GPU we can get
@TheLANguy Can we get a guide ASAP, drop a comment below of the guide when you make it.
It is rare that I ask you to redirect your compute away from folding at home. But today, on this day, I
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Focus on crunching MilkyWay@Home for the City Run. Give it all you’ve got, and if you have an old Android phone in a drawer, throw BOINC on it for WCG. We ARE skipping the first throw. Hammer home the advantage while we have it.
Ladles and Gentlespoons, first of all, Thank you @TheLANguy for allowing me the pleasure of writing this update for the second day of the pent. We are doing well, and in fact this is the single best performance of TeamLT
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Focus on crunching MilkyWay@Home for the City Run. We will most likely skip the first Jav Throw.
Good evening everyone! The first 24 hours of the Pent have come to a close. I am so sorry for the delayed blog post and punctually impaired daily stats. As I'm sure you could tell, we ran into a couple of issues. Somehow things always manage to break at the worst possible time. Cough Nvidia drivers Cough
Before we get started with stats,
Strategy for the Next 24 hours TLDR:
Focus on crunching MilkyWay@Home for the City Run.
Good evening everyone and welcome to the 2025 BOINC Pentathlon hosted by Seti Germany. I am TheLANguy, the leader of the LTT BOINC team.
This is the sixteenth year of the event and the seventh year of Team LTT participating. Out of these last six years we have made it into the top four, four times! This year we have over fifty participants on Team LTT ready to beat our previous best and mak
