DIMES News

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:24 pm

Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:08 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:Ta very much ...How many dimes for a box of country manor ?

What do ya need to buy a load of Bricks for?
You gonna build a shelter for when the Zombies attack?

:P:lol:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:45 am

Congrats on the 1,000,000 Micky!! :notworthy: :notworthy:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:21 pm

Give a warm welcome to Mickyb on joining the 'Pink Club'. Enjoy your visit!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:15 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo looks like im going to be there for ages tooo :oops:

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:24 pm

NaRyan wrote:Think your number 1 place is safe for about another 2 weeks Chris
Mind you knowing how reliable (ha ha) the dimes server is at times, it probably safe for 3 weeks

Hmmm, I think I can hear a fat lady exercising her voice in the wings.

Chris.

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:04 pm

LOL, I never noticed I was that close to #1.
I was only checking for stats page to make sure it was working ok.

Anyhoot here is some Choc HobNobs to help you on your move

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:09 pm

Geez Chris I know I have nicked your #1 spot, but did you have to sabotage the Dimes server????

:lol::P

*edit
Also what the heck, just looked at taskmanager and java.exe was using 429MB ram

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:48 am

A pity I didn't sabotage it a few hours earlier :D

Chris

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:35 am

UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:A pity I didn't sabotage it a few hours earlier :D

Chris

Did you forget to put your clocks forward an hour?

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:56 pm

NaRyan wrote: Did you forget to put your clocks forward an hour?

When you get to my age forgetting the clocks on is the least of your worries. I need a list to remind me to put my trousers on in the morning!

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:24 am

We have just passed 18 million :occasion5:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:32 am

And I have just passed 3 Million

Mind you the UBT stat sig is a ikkle bit off

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:30 am

Nice 3 mill Naryan ....

Wish this pink wedge would go away

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:18 pm

Ahh only about another 12 days to go Micky

Mind you that's 12 days real time, with dimes pooching all the time it's probably 3 weeks "Dimes Time"

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:48 pm

Well Done, 3 Million, too much time on your hands!

:lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:05 pm

3 Million Dimes is nice, however I'm more happy about the 1 Million total Boinc in about 3.5 days

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:11 pm

It's bust!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:05 pm

Is Dimes working again?
As I see the stats are updating, but I cannot visit the website using pipex or plusnet, I can ping and traceroute the site using plusnet, but not pipex.
Also I can get the page to load using an anonymous proxy server...

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:03 am

I've just mended it for you!

All OK at 07:00hrs this morning

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:28 pm

20 Million up!

Chris.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:31 am

1 more day of pinkness ...gawd been pink for ages :oops:

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Tue May 06, 2008 11:36 pm

UBT - mickyb69 wrote:1 more day of pinkness ...gawd been pink for ages :oops:

Don't like to mention it but dimes is still bust so another day or two in the

pink

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:29 pm

Dimes has been down now for over 4 days now. Is Mickeyb destined to be Mr. Pink forever. I reckon he bust it because he secretly likes being a pinko. :roll:

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:24 pm

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:14 pm

They'd better give us the credits for the past four days! I've kept an eye on my agent and it's kept working, just not updating the credits!

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:30 am

It's back up at last with full credit given for the last week or so.

The team has gone up another place in the world rankings to 25th place.

Also, welcome to a new team member WTBroughton, glad to have you aboard.

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:14 am

10 people doing this? Best ever at one time?

Of course the big news is that Mickyb has lost his pink wedge at last!

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:35 am

UBT - Mikee wrote:10 people doing this? Best ever at one time?

Of course the big news is that Mickyb has lost his pink wedge at last!

I knew there was something else I meant to say :D

We've had 10 at once on a few occasions. Maybe soon we'll be competing for a wedge.

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:15 pm

*Falls of his chair in shock!
Wow they finaly fixed it

Now 202,336 in one update, if only that happened all the time

Mind you it's not updated in 6 hours, so it's probably broke again

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:21 am

Nice One, Jinxy!

Showing server error, last update 17.56hrs last night!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:26 am

Wooohooooooo :lol:

Guess they decided "Mickyb's been pink for ages ..lets update "

Then saw the stats and thought " Look he's almost got 2 million Ha ha ha "

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:53 am

melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy!

Not my fault this time

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:49 pm

NaRyan wrote:
melter65 wrote:Nice One, Jinxy!
Not my fault this time

I'll believe you!

I'm nearly pink in todays breakdown!

Congrats to Micky for his 2,000,000 and hgblade for his 250,000 :occasion5: :occasion9: :thumbright:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:50 pm

Sooo should we start placing bets on what month they fix the their status update thing?

Or have I gone and jinxed it big time?
*locks cat in other room, so if he has to run he don't trip over the darn thing.....

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue May 20, 2008 8:00 pm

You forgot about the other one still stuck in the fan :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue May 20, 2008 8:45 pm

Ben wrote:You forgot about the other one still stuck in the fan :lol:

OH POO!!!
I forgot the poota in that room has the biggest fan!!!
*runs off to rescue poota err I mean cat.....

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:26 am

It would seem that extracting the cat from the fan has, somehow, repaired Dimes!

:lol:

Well Done, That Man!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:31 pm

Nah it's only working cause I uninstalled it from ma pootas

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:19 am

And so they break again.....
perhaps they should upgrade to 386's

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:31 pm

Only 8 days since the last update but it's back again now.

Those that were using Free-DC stats should now use http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... proj=dimes

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:08 pm

Milestones Today
UK BOINC TEAM passes 25,000,000

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:39 am

UBT - Mikee wrote:
Milestones Today
UK BOINC TEAM passes 25,000,000

Yippppeeeeee!!! Nice One, team!

This is the only non-BOINC project I'm crunching now, given up on F@H since the 10 gazzillion credits/day lads took over!

How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes?

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:24 am

How long 'til there's a GPU app for Dimes?

LOL!!!!!!
Now that would be funny to see

A project that can be run on a poota that can't run Boinc (all it needs is to be able to run windows 2000)

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:37 pm

Not that I'm one to tell tales, but I don't want to be Mr. Double Pink again!

Ian! Best you get going again as you're gonna lose your #1 spot! (I'll still be Mr. half pink but but it's better than being a total pinky!

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

And there was young Mr. Chris trying to sneak up on you!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:56 pm

UBT - Mikee wrote:Not that I'm one to tell tales, but I don't want to be Mr. Double Pink again!

Ian! Best you get going again as you're gonna lose your #1 spot! (I'll still be Mr. half pink but but it's better than being a total pinky!

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

And there was young Mr. Chris trying to sneak up on you!

He He never seen a Pink Dalek before

And geez that's someone just about to overtake me!?!?!
Took you long enough!

As for running Dimes again, nooooooooo thanks, I get niffed off having to got slap my Router about, due to it thinking, that all those pings was an internal attack, and locking all moi pootas out from the internet!

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:26 pm

Long time no post!

Just having a look at how we're doing... http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... proj=dimes and http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page ... BOINC+TEAM

Not too well! Which is weird as I've been doing these for years!

http://www.netdimes.org/new/?q=node/10 reveals the problem. If you've got Windows 7 and using the Windows firewall - it's blocked! You have to manually adjust the firewall settings - which is a bit of a faff! README file explains how to do it - sort of. It doesn't tell you that ICMP has to be a 'custom' rule and that there are 2 versions of it!

I've done the rules and it seems to be doing it's thing again though I won't know until after tomorrows update.

If I start getting weird things happening due to the new rules (which may be allowing things through that shouldn't) then the rules are coming out and Netdimes is going!

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:22 pm

Stopped crunching this ages ago. The stats weren't updating at all so I got fed up with it!

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:29 pm

Just encase anyone cares.
The team just passed 45,000,000

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:15 pm

Do dimes credits add to my BOINC total? Just, im considering joining it, but don't know if I want to if they don't add to my combined total - not yet, anyway...

thanks

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:35 pm

No - totally separate. Didn't know it was still going!

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:33 am

ok - thanks, and haha!

Is it worth asking DIMES to join BOINC - they would get more volunteers, and it would boost our credits on UBT's BOINC, making it a win-win situation?!

Post by **UBT - Chris Suddick** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:13 am

The problem is that BOINC tends to award credits based on CPU usage or computing power donated. Dimes uses practically no CPU power. It sends out a routing packet onto the internet and awaits its return to plot the structure of the internet. It then idles for 30 seconds (or whatever time you set it to) and repeats. You get one point for every packet sent. Because of this, my old dilapidated laptop scores as many points as my fast(ish) quad processor. This is an ideal project for someone with slow hardware because they can compete with the best of them.

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:11 pm

thanks, Chris

is the DIMES project working again, yet?

Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:38 am

It's still down at the moment.

Chris.

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:49 pm

ok - will you drop me a PM when it is back up?