Congratulations Ray.

Just noticed that it's 10 years and two days since we've been around here, a second day-er from 6th August. The laptop took umbrage on the 10 year anniversary day with a small disaster, another hard drive crash. Encryption on the hard drive hides everything from the standard recovery tools, boohoo. Our IT fixit's re-imaged the drive yesterday and just re-installing everything else today, including CPDN.

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Well done all you chaps - do you get medals for long service? Also of course thanks to hagar and Ray for supporting team Scotland.

Sorry to report that the team has just lost one of our longstanding members - Jam Dave, based in Greece. But he's still with the project and I see he's gone to support the tiny team at the University of Crete, where no doubt he will be their star cruncher!

And the team is still 19th in total credit.

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Something a bit strange going on - I'm suddenly showing as having 1,026,658,987 total credit in CPDN - last I knew, I only had about 350,000!

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There are several threads covering this in the number crunching section. The extraneous credits will I am afraid go but you can grab a copy of your certificate from the third link up on the left.

Thanks Dave! I only looked in the News and Announcements thread and didn't see anything there, but have now found some info in other threads, as you say. I knew it must be some kind of mistake! Not a lot of point in keeping the certificate but I had a look and it also says I've contributed "887.03 quintillion floating-point operations" - sounds very impressive!

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Ray was recently named User of the Day in Climate @ Home again, congratulations, Ray! As previously mentioned, the reason Ray and team founder Scottishwebcamslive are UOTD so often is not only because they both take part in a lot of BOINC projects but also because they take the trouble to create a profile in every project they join. It's quick and easy to do - just click on Participant Profiles in the blue menu to the left of this page and you don't have to include a photograph or any personal info.

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Just had a thought that perhaps some people might be puzzled by the badge in my signature box. It's because I first joined as part of the BBC project and these first 160-year BBC models were very temperamental and hard to complete. So Iain Inglis, who kindly set up statistics for the team in BBC, awarded this badge to those of us who succeeded in completing a model. And then we got into a bit of a competition with some other teams as to how many models we could complete. I eventually completed 4 and the team JUST managed to complete 100 before the BBC project closed down. Which may all seem a bit old hat nowadays and I don't think anyone else in our team still uses the badge but it meant a lot at the time, so I keep it for nostalgic reasons.

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Sorry haven't been around here for a bit - rather busy! But my computer has meantime completed another task hadam3p_anz_e097_2012_1_009145852 - no idea how many that is now, I DO miss iansm's wonderful statistics for team Scotland.

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Well done. They seem to be nice and reliable those ones.

I noticed Strathpeffer in the news recently as a wildcat hotspot. Ever seen one?

Thanks Iain ;-)

Can't swear to having seen a wildcat but occasionally at night when something whipped across the road in the car headlights,
I have caught sight of a stripey tail!



I have seen pine martens though - indeed once had to help chase one out of a
neighbour's house!

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Wow, we seem to be 10th in RAC today, don't know how that happened, probably won't last http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/top_teams.php - still 19th in total credit though, as we have been for a long time now. ;-)

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There's been a credit update, which is why the numbers have changed in absolute terms: in relative terms it's anyone's guess - perhaps the oldies get processed first and as the script gets to the end some team of young whippersnappers will zoom up the rankings!

Thanks Iain, team Scotland is now back to normal in RAC ranking! And still holding steady at 19th in total credits, which looks unlikely to change any time soon, though SETI@Netherlands are creeping up on us! Ian B is having some computer problems so not crunching in CPDN at the mo, things might improve once he gets back to it.

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Two milestones to report while there's not much other team chat;

In Boinc Combined credits across all projects the team will pass 3 GigaBoincs overnight and I have just passed 3 MegaBoincs overall and up to 20th place in the combined Team stats. I'm "owed" a few thousand credits from the Beta side here and from a Cern project that isn't open yet.

Still doing most work for the 3 open Cern projects, LHCclassic, VirtualLHC (formerly test4theory), and Atlas, and I did some pre-release testing for their non-Boinc December Challenge. I even managed to pick up a bunch of Pirates tasks, but not quite enough to catch Talister.

Well, it's been nearly 2 years since my (or anyone else's) last post here 😴 and I must confess I've only done 1 job in the last year, in July/August as I'm still busy with the various LHC projects. Perhaps people have drifted away due to the lack of work but I've just noticed that the 10 active users here have pushed us over 100 MegaBoincs 👏 Well done, guys.
I'm hoping that anyone that gets a subscribed message notification due to my posting this might look back in and see what's available or even take a look at the plenty of other projects available that would be grateful for your spare cycles. I don't want to be accused of poaching users but from what used to be a lively Team, we've dropped to only having 30 active contributors across all projects 😞 so this might nudge some back.
I've even got a Tesco Hudl running Einstein and Universe tasks 😊

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After a recent CPDN famine, and many stuck downloads, four wah2 tasks magically appeared around midnight local time. These are now running after the backlog of alternative tasks from Einstein completed yesterday.

A very mild February day in the Royal Borough, 11.7 degrees C outside. Pollen from the Yew tree is being ejected in white clouds by birds landing on the branches. Two bumble bees are feeding on the pollen from the flowering crocuses in the lawn. The flowering snowdrops in the front have forgotten that it is not cold. The conference pear has started to bud; and the winter flowering cherry has finally decided that winter has arrived, so it's in full flower. In all, quite unusual for February.

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... A very mild February day in the Royal Borough, 11.7 degrees C outside. ...

High of 17.8C in our London porch today and still 14.8C now at 8 PM: spring has sprung, though I prefer your description.

Yes, eloquent and evocative. Sigh.

Sydney is getting down a bit at last after the two heat waves, but still up in the high teens/low twenties at night.

The alternative to work ... on a damp August day in the Royal Borough, when it is just 16.5 degrees C outside ...

I finally got around to investigating why CPDN tasks would not run happily after the WIN 10 upgrade. Transfers were frequently stuck, although other projects seemed happy. After removing BOINC and re-installing it, CPDN burst into life and downloaded a set of WAH tasks.

The extra electricity to run a 100% CPU load with four WAH tasks will put out 125W of heat to warm the home-office!

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