WCG Daily Numbers

[Chicken Patty]

What's the word on the macs, think they'll allow you to put them to crunch?

 

[[Ion]]

I'm not sure. When I asked a few months ago, the conclusion was that they didn't want to go through the trouble of dealing with it.

I'm going to ask again today or tomorrow, I'm slightly restricted in that the guy I'd ask (James Farrell, the IT guy) doesn't seem to be here today. I'd have to get all ~500 usernames from him & permission to use the admin account briefly, then I'd have to get the permission of the music teacher, who's room they're in (and who's students predominantly use them). But IMO it's a damn shame to have 26 2.4ghz cores going idle when they could be doing something

 

[Chicken Patty]

Seems like a bit of a hassle, some students might disagree as well. .

 

[[Ion]]

Not convinced the students would notice TBH. Practically no one has noticed about WCG on the 25 PCs. I don't like OS X and I don't particularly like the guy in charge of the Macs, but I'm not going to pass up this opportunity

 

[Chicken Patty]

Oh I wouldn't neither, just seems like a very complicated task. You said you were going to get permission from the students as well?

 

[[Ion]]

Nah, I don't care about their permission. I've already established that it doesn't impact the students, so I'm just going to ask the teacher who is in charge of these specific computers & the IT guy. I really need permission from both in order to get it to work

 

[Chicken Patty]

Cool, then keep us posted.

 

[[Ion]]

Definitely will do. James hasn't yet showed up today, so I don't think anything will be happening before tomorrow at the earliest :/

 

[[Ion]]

1,820,906

Amazing job everyone!!!

 

[twilyth]

 

[[Ion]]

Sorry no picture, posting from my dad's phone (which doesn't have said software)

 

[twilyth]

Sorry no picture, posting from my dad's phone (which doesn't have said software)

Are you intending to take over posting duties Ion? CP asked me to do it for one day and I just sort of hung around.

It's cool either way, but let me know so we don't double post.

Thanks.

 

[[Ion]]

Depends. When I'm available, I will, but if not, I won't. So I was gone most of Christmas break and I'm busy with classes some nights, but the rest of the time I plan on it

 

[twilyth]

Depends. When I'm available, I will, but if not, I won't. So I was gone most of Christmas break and I'm busy with classes some nights, but the rest of the time I plan on it

Well, that's fine for you, but the rest of us have no way of knowing when that will be.

 

[[Ion]]

Well, sorry, but I can't exactly give much more detail than that. For a while (several months at least) I typically updated the threads, and if they weren't done by 10 or 11PM EST CP would do them. While I'm not saying that I have to do every single one every single day, I would like to do some updating.

 

[twilyth]

Well, sorry, but I can't exactly give much more detail than that. For a while (several months at least) I typically updated the threads, and if they weren't done by 10 or 11PM EST CP would do them. While I'm not saying that I have to do every single one every single day, I would like to do some updating.

That's fine, but I think we should at least set a formal cut off point for when it's ok for one of the members (not necessarily me) to do the updates. Since the results are done no later than 8:30 or so on the days I've been watching, I think 10-11PM is too broad of a window. Something like 9PM would work.

 

[[Ion]]

Sure, that's fine
If I can't get to the computer by 9PM (unlikely most days IMO) I don't care if anyone else does it. If it still isn't done later, I'll pick up the slack

 

[twilyth]

Sure, that's fine
If I can't get to the computer by 9PM (unlikely most days IMO) I don't care if anyone else does it. If it still isn't done later, I'll pick up the slack

Sounds good. We should probably assign some group of people to rotate as backups, but I suppose it's not like we're delivering transplant organs or anything. The only thing that bothers me a little is when we miss milestones. I'll try to keep an eye on that but to be honest, unless I have to be at my computer at 8:15 every night, I'll probably forget. Oh well.

 

[[Ion]]

I don't think it's a crysis if we miss something, and my experience is if someone doesn't do it, CP usually does. So, if that was tl;dr, I'm not worried

 

[twilyth]

I don't think it's a crysis if we miss something, and my experience is if someone doesn't do it, CP usually does. So, if that was tl;dr, I'm not worried

It's not a crisis, but I can see people getting upset about it. Right after I joined here I hit 4M i think but I fell in a gap where the milestones weren't reported for 2 or 3 days.

Anybody can look up the team numbers and the people getting pie probably get it often enough that if you miss them it's not a problem. The milestones are important. I'm surprised you don't see it that way since you seem to make an effort to post to that thread.

 

[[Ion]]

Ohhh, I see. I do see it as important, I guess I just normally only do it when someone passes a major milestone (100k, 250k, 500k, 1mil, 2mil, etc). I know, that's wrong to everyone else, whose stones are very much appreciated, and I intend to get better about it.

 

[[Ion]]

1,895,292
Up, up, and away! Very impressive everyone! ​

 

[Chicken Patty]

Amazing! Great job everyone!

 

[(FIH) The Don]

its a very nice job guys !!!!

and this isnt to be a dick to you Ion, but i kinda like Twilyth's updates, like the pics and such, its nice with something different than just a bunch of numbers

anyways , great job team

 

[[Ion]]

No offense taken, I have to figure out how to use ACDSee Photo Editor, then I'll do pics

Anything pics in particular you guys prefer?