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Milestones Today - March 30th, 2016


@ChristTheGreat passes 20,000,000 :eek: :eek: :rockout: :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:




Congrats to Our Stoner Tonight! :toast: :toast: :toast:


And a Warm Welcome to @ChristTheGreat on Joining the 20 Millionaire's Club! :peace: :peace: :peace:








I stumbled across this post by @twilyth many pages back in this very thread, and I wanted to share it with everyone because it really is a nice summary of much of what we do. ;)

twilyth said:
There's a line from Desiderata that goes "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

Personally, I don't like the language about greater and lesser persons because we all have our own unique strengths and abilities, but this was written in the 1920's and so one has to take it in the spirit it was intended. The point is that if your motivation for crunching is to make a contribution to solving some important problems like clean energy, cancer and aids or to contribute to basic research that will probably have some important real world benefits like with UGM, then there's no point in looking at what anyone else is doing. The contribution IS the reward.

However another aspect of this can the be the competitive aspect. That's encouraged because it helps to build the team and gets people to contribute as much as they're able to. But speaking from my own experience, it can become a bit addictive, so you have to know where to draw the line. That's really important.

I know that I spent at least $5k on my last building spree when I put together 4 servers from used Xeon chips and mostly new parts for the other components. And over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if I've spent at least a couple times that more. But with each new level you achieve, there's always more you can do and for some of us, the temptation to go beyond what we're really comfortable with can be significant. I mostly keep it in check but periodically do lose my shit and go on ridiculous buying binges.

So if it's the competitive aspect that motivates you more, that's cool. That probably applies to most of us to some degree. Just try to remember it's not what's really important. What's important is the mere fact that you have a desire to help and are contributing whatever you are comfortable with. It may not seem that way sometimes given how much we talk about points and work units and hours of cpu time, but in the end, it really is all that matters.
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Milestones Today - March 31st, 2016


@n0tiert passes 850,000 :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect:
@Deelron passes 4,500,000 :eek: :eek: :rockout: :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:




Congrats to Our Stoner Tonight! :toast: :toast: :toast:









For our Stoner buddy in WA ;)

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Milestones Today - April 1st, 2016


@PP Mguire passes 3,500,000 :eek: :eek: :rockout: :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:




Congrats to Our Stoner Tonight! :toast: :toast: :toast:









Our Stoner reminds me a beastly Mr Mcqwire :laugh:

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Milestones Today - April 2nd, 2016


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Congrats to Our Crunchers Tonight! :roll: :roll: :roll:










Look out for the AT-AT! :laugh:

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Milestones Yesterday - April 3rd, 2016


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Milestones Today - April 4th, 2016


@thebluebumblebee passes 8,000,000 :eek: :eek: :rockout: :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:




Congrats to Our Stoner Tonight! :roll: :roll: :roll:










A lone brave Knight arrives to defend our team from a second long, perilous, Stoner-less night...

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WooHoo!:clap:
 
Really big blip on the radar!
 
its just me or a huge stone for everyone is about to happen! ... i've just put my eye on free-DC for watching my stones and seems to be a great day for all crunchers!

Regards,
 
I was going to come in here and congratulate someone but its just you gross WCG guys. Ew. F@H 4 lyfe.



good job!
 
thebluebumblebee said:
Really big blip on the radar!
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It's all about sitting back, smoking a cigar... and stroking the shotgun while you look out for the electric meter reader person. lol. Cheers, that's amazing.
 
Milestones Today - April 5th, 2016


@Sempron Guy passes 20,000 :toast: :toast: :toast:
@Folgore passes 500,000 :toast: :toast: :toast:
@bubbleawsome passes 600,000 :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect:
@Caring1 passes 800,000 :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect:
@[Ion] passes 200,000,000 :eek: :eek: :rockout: :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:
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Congrats to Our Maximum Stoners Tonight! :roll: :roll: :roll:










Incredible Milestone Tonight! :o :o :o :o :o :o

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Here's Kai Tonight :pimp: :pimp:

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Here's Kai tonight unloading...

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We sure could get used to some Stones of these epic proportions :D

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Milestones Today - April 6th, 2016


@gdallsk passes 350,000 :toast: :toast: :toast:
@Sasqui passes 400,000 :toast: :toast: :toast:
@Ferrum Master passes 450,000 :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect:
@n0tiert passes 900,000 :rockout: :toast: :toast: :toast: :respect:




Congrats to Our Stoners Tonight! :roll: :roll: :roll:










We're all loving these Stoners for sure, so fabulous! :D :D

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my little intel farm crunch 24/7! pretty proud of my little contribution !
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Regards,
 
I would like to gladly order some higher 2.6 or 2.8 socket F optys... but only in US are those found dirt cheap... the triple shipping and custom tax spoils all the gain.
 
Sasqui said:
I'm thinking about investing in a 10 or 12 core "outdated" Xeon
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I actually have few 1366 and one 2011 socket xeons but damn... the boards are unobtainium and pricey... both X58 and X79
 
Ferrum Master said:
I actually have few 1366 and one 2011 socket xeons but damn... the boards are unobtainium and pricey... both X58 and X79
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a friend gifted me an old X79 sandy-E but board was fried... he told that the computer stopped working ... he didn't knew the reason ..
gotta check that processor.......
 
Ferrum Master said:
I actually have few 1366 and one 2011 socket xeons but damn... the boards are unobtainium and pricey... both X58 and X79
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Yea, that's deal killer. When the server Xeons started being retired, the price dropped like a rock and the MB's that support them went into high demand, I'm guessing.
 
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