The Scottish Boinc Team

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Name CRUNCHATHLON WCG [MONTHLY RUN - RACE XLII]
Status Upcoming
Project World Community Grid
Issued by CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES
Start time 2018-12-19 18:00 UTC
End time 2018-12-23 18:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? No
Number of teams participating » 16
Number of users participating 0

And they're off

Bunkers away 485915 credits

You better grab a screenshot of you being in 1st. Once Whiplash gets warmed up that will change That boy does 800k/day.

Oh - results must get updated hourly or better Here is preuve (however short-lived)

When Scole checks in we'll all drop down a spot

I don't know anything about these Crunchathlons; do they count for anything bigger that TSBT is competing on? If not, I think I'll bunker up to release on Monday so that it gets Ramjet and Elves. What is everyone else planning to do?

I'm hanging on to mine until the TSBT challenge starts

I think Pete is as well

The Crunchathlon doesn't mean anything other than it is another of CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES frigging meaninfless monthly challenges. IMHO.

You'd be better to bunker for the TSBT challenge.

Personally I'm running open and have no plans to bunker.

If you guys are going do what you should and bunker for your challenge then I'm switching to SUSA on this one.

I'll take a look at deadline dates in my big download & decide tomorrow. One slight snag is that we leave on Sunday whereas I assumed it would be Monday. I'll have to set up a Wine system with BoincTasks and Teamviewer as my Windows system keeps shutting itself down

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:17 pm ... as my Windows system keeps shutting itself down

Make sure your power plan is set to High Performance and it's set to never sleep. Also disable/remove Boinc screensaver. Use blank screen instead.

Thanks but it is an Unactivated Copy and seems to resist all attempts to make itself useful

Ah yes, windowsloader is a handy little tool.

Thanks guys. To explain, Pete. I ended up installing from a Windows 10 DVD which I found. I think it came with a machine I bought new a few years back.

I totally forgot that even a legit DVD copy is basically ransomware unless you also have the activation key

Is windowsloader for Win7 only?

The true winloader was written by DAZ and only works on Win7. He DID NOT write one for Win 10. There are some out there that supposedly are based on DAZ's work but they would be use at your own risk.

Okay thanks. I'll load Win7 instead at some point

My 2 new machines require Win10 so they are now Linux only. Since I operate remotely 6 months of the year I can not have Win10 since you can't stop updates. On the last major update it caused many machines using the Intel Wifi/Bluetooth module to hang up. If that happens while I'm remote then I'd be screwed.

I won't be doing any actual crunching on the Windows machine though - it is an old laptop to be used solely for boinctasks

And this is why I will never have a machine that will pass win 7 onto the virus that is 10. Also win 7 activation keys on ebay are only a couple of quid.

Current state of play - TSBT 3 from 19 teams.
16 1/2 hours to go

Current top 100 is
Bryan @ SUSA 2nd
davidBAM 6th
Megacruncher TSBT 9th
JockMacMad TSBT 11th
alez TSBTs Pirate 24th getting my butt kicked
Cruncher Pete 84th
MarkRBright 86th

Good effort guys.

I could drop a bunker early if it made the difference between 3rd and 4th but I'd prefer to keep it for the Elves challenge I think

Drop it for the elves for sure. We want to make a good start to our own challenge.

well done Guys, 3rd place is very respectable

TSBT finished 3rd from 19 teams.

Individual kudos goes to

Bryan @ SUSA 2nd
davidBAM 6th
Megacruncher TSBT 8th
JockMacMad TSBT 13th
alez TSBTs Pirate 23rd
MarkRBright 87th
Cruncher Pete 100th
scole of TSBT 180
campbellcopeland 227
Skywalker TSBT 278
stuartsjg 327
AndyNicholl 575
pdemeur 747

and everyone else that contributed but didn't make the top 1000.
Well done all.