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Well, err, yes! I now realise that I have been hypocritical because I say that we should encompass everybody's different interests in running boinc and at the same time I was disparaging "credit whores", after all FB is a competition about gaining maximum points. I'll wind my neck in on leased ...

I've never used the cloud but with hardware prices going through the roof, buying new hardware is getting hard to justify


Hiya

I think that the "cost difference" between buying new (to you) hardware compared to renting server time on the cloud is very close.

This is because new hardware, if ...

Part of the game is catching the rare points. There are many ways of supporting Boinc and we should encompass as many user traits as possible.

There are numerous items that some would call unfair eg

GPU only tasks
CPU only tasks
Long tasks
Low credit tasks
High credit tasks
Low cache tasks
High ...

About 90% of the cars are still in the box, waiting for fuel to have a chance to take part.
Wouldn't this be a reason to cancel the sprint?

The only work I can contribute are the WUs from 1-3 weeks ago that are still in pending.

If the project is not willing to be part of the sprint or even ...

One particularly annoying aspect is the time estimation for my AMD Windows computers is completely wrong. It estimates 38 mins when tasks are actually 75 minutes, I can easily end up with loads of unfinished tasks left at the end of the sprint, which also messes up other peoples validation. My ...

I had the tale of two cities.

One computer nicely filled up its cache and kept it topped up regularly. Another identical computer barely got any cache and ran out of work for a few hours. The rest of my computers bumbled along between those two extremes.

One particularly annoying aspect is the ...

Having slept on this, I'll change the dropdown boxes into pages, that kills two birds with one stone as it will prevent the list falling off the bottom of the screen and make it touchscreen compatible. Function over form!

Thanks Tim.

Bold are active, ie those that have increased their boinc credits in the last 24 hours - the same as Age = 0. I had thought about dropping the bolding but couldn't decide so status quo ante. If I keep it I'll try and remember to put a comment in the question mark dropdown.

The mouse ...

https://boincot.uk v2 beta has been released to the wild - feedback welcomed

Now does both TEAM and USER marathons.
Days column renamed to Age (this takes a week to fill up correctly)
Minor bugs in niche circumstances but shouldn't occur in normal operation.
Full functionality is for desktop use ...

Well done Tim, that appeared to go smoothly.

Its always interesting to see where people end up position-wise after this process, its hard to predict in advance.