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Why is it so quiet?

KodiakStar

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Just wondering what all my [H] brothers and sisters are up to...

busy working on your farms... real life...

Keep us updated!




As for me... just been living day today.. finally got mage's fold-server working w/ 5 clients up and running, my farm is all online and doing good... nothing else planned yet.. but might have to buy another box soon... just to keep up on my game.. sadly i lost 2 1/2 computers at work... but what can you do..
 
Im slowly working on getting more computers up and running at work, but this weekend they will all be shut down most likley. Im leaving in 2.5 hours for upnorth on a fishing trip and not looking back till monday afternoon, so my production is going to be crap until then :(. Other than than that im living day to day also.
 
crying over my yesterdays production of 2400 points, more than 2x my highest ever before, but now it's all downhil and it will take borgs of more machines plus some luck to beat that :(

I'll set my goal for ppd average around 1500, that would make me happy :)
 
im came back from work for lunch today... bad idea... i need to start driving back in like 10 minutes :rolleyes:
 
Still around, but unfortunely I have to work to pay all my bills.... Getting ready for Grad school :)



 
I'm still here, been very busy at my contract job and studying at the technical school for MCSE.

I still am working on my dual 4-way P3 xeon case mod, soon to be completed between this year and next.
 
Working on getting myself a nice P3 500 MHz to borg as a secondary box. Gotta find a KVM and a cheapo case for it.
 
After you get it set up just use remote desktop (windows) or VNC ;)

and case... what do you need a case for ;)
 
Case? why?????
KVM??? just use tightVNC... if I can use it, so can you :D


I'm here... just working... drawing rebar and beating my skull against the desk to stay awake... damn deadlines...

Real life has been kinda busy recently... preparing for a trip to the Outer Banks... and getting bills/etc out before I leave for a week... baking in the 90° temps... this is WV dammit, why is it 93°!?!??!


Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
KodiakStar said:
what are you going for tiger?
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MBA with a emphasis in technology... :) They just gave me 24 free hours because of my MIS undergrad. Plus it is 100% paid for, thank you Texas Hazelwood Act.



 
I'll bring back pics... it's been 14 years since I was last there... should be interesting to see it now...

In a stream channel design class I was in about 2 years ago, the contractor teaching part of the class told us that they had to design a bridge REALLY quick because a hurricane had washed away and eroded through one of the islands, making a new channel......


Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
RL chewing holes in my time.

Today's hassle: finding out a secondary webserver has been a zombie IRC bastich for several months. Much fingerpointing and yelling going on. Something about 65 outstanding security patches not installed, no antivirus, the usual Microsoft dreck.

Tonight's hassle: restoring my primary desktop. 15k Seagate throwing errors. :(
 
finals week here at school. im in my last year here, so i lucked out and don't have any finals. basically all ive been doing is playing cs: source, mvp baseball 2005, watching previous seasons of 24, and drinking my own weight in beer.

i graduate college on saturday (bachelors in computer engineering, math minor = big nerd), then am moving back home for a few days to see my friends one last time. in exactly one week, i'm moving out to california to start my new job out there, so i wont be around much for the next couple weeks; not that im a post whore anyway or anything.

obviously im going to have to take my machines offline for a while, so my production will be down until i get situated into my new apartment. i plan on building a new shuttle sometime this summer, so hopefully i'll add another machine to fold on.

the girlfriend flies into columbus tonight. flight arrives at midnight, so i have to make the 70 mile drive to go pick her up. she'll be spending the next couple weeks with me, including making the drive out to california with me, so that should be a blast.

anyway, im starting on a real life. woot!



 
Last two days I sort of had to earn my paycheck....
That and a few people here are leaving to go to better companies so I did a little schmoozing and handed out my resume.
Got one promising offer out of it already!
Our HR director is leaving to go to a brand new Division at a very big local Medical organization.... she's offering to take me with her!

My hopes are up.

 
Busy at work. The guy who I work with in on vaca this week, so I am doing his work as well as mine. Just sitting down for lunch.....
 
I've caught the WoW bug. I spend most of my off time playing the game which has slowed dedication to my other addiction (folding).
 
WoW. i thought about that.. then was like naw... friend of mine and me got onto EVE for this 14 day free trial... we made it to day 3 before we tried to start PK'ing people because there wasnt anything else really important in the game to do except make money and spend it :eek:
 
ZROUT said:
crying over my yesterdays production of 2400 points, more than 2x my highest ever before, but now it's all downhil and it will take borgs of more machines plus some luck to beat that :(

I'll set my goal for ppd average around 1500, that would make me happy :)
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Yeah, I'm hitting my highest PPD also. Unfortunately, I'll be on a 5 week business trip starting next month and may have to take the farm down then. :(

Been studying for school like crazy too. Had a test this morning and another next week. Basically taking one college level course per week. And wedding preps are taking some time as well.

 
Hito Bahadur said:
I've caught the WoW bug. I spend most of my off time playing the game which has slowed dedication to my other addiction (folding).
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It's a good thing!! you were (and still are) about to blow past me at mach 3... you just delayed it long enough for me to finish battening down the hatches and boarding up the windows! :D



Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
Well WoW has slowed the process of getting my downed A64 3400+ back up. Tinkers on my Pentium M has also slowed my production by about 200 PPD. I'll probably pass you in the next 48 hours so hold on.




edit: just figured out the cost in production due to WoW:
In game time: 30 hours = 250 Points
Downed 3400+ (caused by moving video cards around): 12x250PPD = 3,000 Points

Total cost, to date, in production due to Wow = 3,250 points..... :(
 
Sorry about the silence. Applied for my fed tax ID yesterday, DBA, yadda, yadda. Got my web domain registered this morning, web hosting covered. Seeing the CPA tomorrow. Plan to join MS OEM builders club, and AMD Preferred Partners club once ID is in hand. Yea, real world stuff happens.

On the upside, I won't be paying retail, even sale prices for hardware, ever again. Accounts pending ID confirmation with 8 wholesalers. I'm still folding, with what little I have. Just a little more quietly as my business takes form.

 
Man, I've been so busy lately. I've pulled two all-nighters in the last week. :rolleyes: However, all this work has been paying off.

The STG9000 works! For those of you who don't know, the STG9000 is the senior project I've been working on all year with 3 other computer engineering students. It is a Self-Tuning Guitar (hence the STG). Just last week we got the thing working, and it really is pretty awesome. The system can tune a the guitar to within about 0.3% of the desired frequency for each string. Additionally, I wrote a little program that communicates with our PCB through a PC serial port which allows us to change the tuning of the guitar to basically whatever we want. We gave a successful demo of the system in action last thursday for the engineering department, and everyone was impressed.

Yesterday, my buddy and I finished writing this crazy Peer to Peer system that uses the CAN Protocol for storing and retrieving data. It's a pretty sweet program, and we wrote it in about a day and a half. We were also the only people in my class to get that protocol working. Needless to say, I'm hella smart. ;)

I have one more paper due on Friday (but that'll be easy to BS) and then I'm graduating with a BS in Computer Engineering on Saturday. Next fall I'm going to start the ECE Masters program here at UCSB. And this summer I'm going to Hawaii with my family...it's gonna rock.

Oh yeah, and two weekends ago I was back in Annapolis for my brother's graduation from the Naval Academy. That was pretty cool--the Blue Angels did a fly-by and George W. gave a speech. I got some pictures of my brother shaking his hand. Maybe I'll post some pics of some of this stuff.

P.S. I have a hot date with an ex-gf on Thursday too.

 
Here are some pics like I promised:

This is the guitar with motors mounted to the tuning pegs:
guitar1bo.jpg


Here is our board--all the real action takes place here:
board3kg.jpg


This is the Roland GK-2 divided pickup we used to get a signal for each individual string (the thing that says Roland on it):
roland7xj.jpg


Here is a close-up of the motors mounted on the tuning pegs:
motorsmounted6hx.jpg


Here's a random shot of me shredding on the guitar:
justinshredding6wn.jpg


My brother shaking W's hand:
davisgeorge2xp.jpg


And me screwing around with my grandma's wheelchair in DC:
capitalwheelee1mp.jpg



 
Wow tenchi, you have vamped up your production. What did you borg??? Some of my machines?? (runs and checks the xeon servers)
 
Schmave said:
Here are some pics like I promised:

This is the guitar with motors mounted to the tuning pegs:
http://www1.engr.ucsb.edu/~schmave/photos/stg9000/Guitar.jpg

Here is our board--all the real action takes place here:
http://www1.engr.ucsb.edu/~schmave/photos/stg9000/board.jpg

This is the Roland GK-2 divided pickup we used to get a signal for each individual string (the thing that says Roland on it):
http://www1.engr.ucsb.edu/~schmave/photos/stg9000/Roland.jpg

Here is a close-up of the motors mounted on the tuning pegs:
http://www1.engr.ucsb.edu/~schmave/photos/stg9000/Motors_Mounted.jpg

Here's a random shot of me shredding on the guitar:
http://www1.engr.ucsb.edu/~schmave/photos/stg9000/Justin_Shredding.jpg

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d00d, that is 1337. How long ya been playing? I've been playing about 8 years :D.

But yea, work has me pretty damn busy. But I start my new job on the 23rd :).

 
For some reason I think the engineering webservers just took a dump... :rolleyes:

Ibanez (I see where you get the name from then), I've only been playing for about 4 years, and I haven't been practicing as much lately as I should. Over the summer I'll probably get back into it a little more.
 
lol.

Not bad. ;)

Not that I am the word that you are saying I am.. or at least I will not be after tomorrow night ;)
 
Hmm. that pic makes me miss SB too.. and that girl there.. hmmm.

And the beaches are pretty damn nice too.

And the women walking around SB... good lord.
 
KodiakStar said:
Hmm. that pic makes me miss SB too.. and that girl there.. hmmm.

And the beaches are pretty damn nice too.

And the women walking around SB... good lord.
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You hit the nail square on the head. :D

The only thing I don't like about the beaches in SB is they never get any waves in the summer. F'in Santa Cruz Island blocks all the south swells, so I have to migrate a little south for the summer to get in my surfing. As soon as my brother gets home, we're gonna have to go to "The Base" as we call it (NAS Point Mugu). There's a killer left hand break at the beach there that gets like Pipeline every once in a while. It's a south swell magnet.
 
KodiakStar said:
finally got mage's fold-server working w/ 5 clients up and running, my farm is all online and doing good..
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\/\/()()T+++!one!!!toW
Schmave said:
The system can tune a the guitar to within about 0.3% of the desired frequency for each string.
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Isn't that about 5 cents, though? Seems like a lot; I like to tune to a cent or so. But then, I was a recording engineer for a while, so I like tuned guitars :rolleyes:. My math: 1 half-step (100 cents) is a ratio of 2^ (1/12) = 1.059463094359295 = 5.95% higher in Hz (unless you go by the fractional scale, and that's a whole 'nother thread). Ergo, 0.3% higher is by about 5 cents. Feel free to correct me.

On the guitar theme, I've been playing on and off (mostly off :( ) for about a year. Has anyone heard Jack Johnson's "Badfish" on the Sublime tribute CD? Good stuff. That whole CD, actually. As well as the originals, of course.

As for me, I been pulling cables like crazy. Hey, at least it makes money. And then I come home and read my [H], mail, and have no time for anything else. At least I don't post as much as K*.
 
unhappy_mage said:
Isn't that about 5 cents, though? Seems like a lot; I like to tune to a cent or so. But then, I was a recording engineer for a while, so I like tuned guitars :rolleyes:. My math: 1 half-step (100 cents) is a ratio of 2^ (1/12) = 1.059463094359295 = 5.95% higher in Hz (unless you go by the fractional scale, and that's a whole 'nother thread). Ergo, 0.3% higher is by about 5 cents. Feel free to correct me.

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Well, you're about right. The reason we couldn't be more precise is because of the motors we used. Originally we wanted to use stepper motors (the ones that take a certain number of steps to turn a full revolution, and you can specify how many steps you want them to turn). However, the motors we could find that had enough torque were really expensive (over $100 per motor). So we had to settle for normal motors. We didn't even use ones with optical sensors. We basically tested out how much time it took a motor to change a certain string's pitch by however many hertz. Based on that we made a little function that turned the motors approximately the correct amount of time to get a given string in tune.

 
Work. Friends moving. Friends back on leave. Unit reunion. And oh yeah waiting on Viper:p
 
Finished work for the week (I love compressed WW). Gonna get the home and farm ready for my vacation starting next week back to Ohio. Younger brother is getting married. I have been in need for a vacation for quite a while now. :D
 
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