We're Climbing Quickly

[IronBits]

Looks like I'll catch Supp in no time at all :p :D
Seen these excellent STATS provided by Dutch Power Cows?
http://www.whatyouwant.nl/neo/users.php :smoking:
:thumbs:

[IronBits]

Shouldn't be long now before we take 10th place :)

10. GRUTTE PIER 3722 0.04
11. FREE-DC 3531 0.03
:cheers:

[magnav0x]

10th is what I was aiming for :) With me alone we were ranking 12th yesterday. With your help it'll be much better :cheers:

[IronBits]

I didn't have the client set for 100% :(
but I do now :D
We should see a big increase in production I would think,
but it will be a very long time before I even see you on the horizon, if this is you
21 - 2992 MAGNAV0X FREE-DC 2992 0.030531
:notworthy :cheers:

[magnav0x]

Yeah, but I'm use to be passed :moon:

Hello #10! We are now in the top 10 :cool:

[IronBits]

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

10 693 FREE-DC 3747 0.03
11 598 GRUTTE PIER 3722 0.04
Nice work! :|party|: :D

[PY 222]

You guys are really burning...:scared:


8. WASEDA UNIVERSITY 3964 0.054461
9. FREE-DC 3812 0.03284
10. GRUTTE PIER 3722 0.036595

Keep it up mates..!!:thumbs:

[magnav0x]

IB is crunching away pretty quick :|punch|: Choochoo!!! :shocked:

[magnav0x]

Spot number 8 and maybe 7 will be ours today IB :spank:

[IronBits]

Heck ya! :moon: :jester:
I'm good for about 1,000 per day :cheers:
Now that I'm manually uploading results that is :rolleyes: :)
5th place shouldn't take us long. :D :thumbs:

[Tax Bracket]

Well done ppl---:thumbs:

Keep it up .... (fnarr fnarr) :D

[IronBits]

Well balls, can't contact server again this morning :(
Oh well, I'll try again when I get home, it'll just be a bigger dump is all. :D

[magnav0x]

LOL I found myself in the same boat as you IB

[IronBits]

heh, we are NINEth already, and we both haven't dumped yet :rotfl:
Oh, and I tossed another XP1800 into the fray for a bit :p
:cheers:

[IronBits]

6 (----) 1646 BYTE LAB 8384 0.19
7 (up 1) 657 RECHENKRAFT.NET - GERMANY 4590 0.04
8 (up 2) 1023 GRUTTE PIER 4147 0.04
9 (----) 484 WASEDA UNIVERSITY 4119 0.06
10 (up 1) 997 FREE-DC 4051 0.03
11 (dn 4) -1454 TECHIMO 3686 0.05
12 (up 3) 1185 TEAM PIII 3550 0.03
I have my eye on 6th place :D

[magnav0x]

Threw in another P4 1.5ghz....:crazy:

Should have about 500 WU's at least on my home comps when I get back this afternoon.

[IronBits]

27 (27) FREE-DC 1045 0 :scared: DPC stats...
We better do something!
I still can't connect to the Server :(

[IronBits]

Originally posted by magnav0x
Threw in another P4 1.5ghz....:crazy:

Should have about 500 WU's at least on my home comps when I get back this afternoon.

Did you change Teams ?
ERDT-DFW

Your not showing up as Free-DC now ;(
Come back here! :swear:
Don't leave me alone with all them animals ;)

[magnav0x]

Something isn't right....I have 3104 WU's alone. I need to talk to Mike!

[magnav0x]

Oh crap! when I put the other computer on earlier today I accidently put ERDT DFW! No no no! I'll see if Mike can do something about it if not, then I'll have to fix that comp tomorrow morning. Well, just add whatever is on my team to free-dc and that's where we should be until then hehe:jester:

[IronBits]

While you're talking to Mike, let him know that I still can't register on his Forum :swear:
http://www.theneoproject.com/wbboard/main.php

[magnav0x]

Looks like I'll just have to wait until tomorrw, it automaticaly switches teams when a client with a diff team submits a packet. I'll fix it tomorrow morning.....so off an on until then I'll be hoping teams. I was able to get a few WU's sent from home uploaded to put me back on Free-DC, but I still have a lot more in que that I'm unable to get uploaded. Mike said something about having the server issues resolved tonight. I'll get back to you on the forum problem

[magnav0x]

IB, he couldn't find anything wrong with the BB, new people are registering pretty often and he created a new user and it worked fine. Are you sure you don't have any security restrictions set for your browser? What browser are you using?

[IronBits]

DOH! I should have thought of that first.
I switched to my Mandrake box, all is well, I finally made it over there.
Is it always so slow? :confused:

[IronBits]

Right now, if I could upload :swear: , we would be in 6th place :D
Plus yours for a kicker. :jester:
:cheers:

[magnav0x]

Yeah the board is usualy slow :( Can't wait until they get that extra bandwith in :help:

[Angus]

Well. I'm not impressed so far...

3 client updates in as many days, the last one this evening seems to have lost all of my stored WUs (160+/-) during the process, I registered for the forum today and now it won't let me in, and refuses to mail me my password.

But - I'm trying to help!

Got 2 boxes going, about 2.7 Ghz

[magnav0x]

Just remember, the last updated clients were to address new the new servers...the client has to know the new servers exist....

I know you are going ot love this one..:|party|: New client is released as of now to fix the flushing issues with the new servers :bang: Version (1.0.400). Get it now and try to get those WU's in guys.

**well I just got the new client and it's still unable to flush the units. I think the servers are completely down now though, because they have to add in 2 more servers tonight, but I don't know***

[magnav0x]

Ok guys....if you try to upload your stuff, please backup your offline.dat file....I lost all my qued data when I uploaded it and got no stats. I'm going to have to have a talk with Mike.....:swear:

[IronBits]

:scared:
I'm gonna stay working offline until all this settles down. :bang:
Sorry to hear you lost all that work :swear:

[magnav0x]

He's going to credit me for my 1200 WU's. The server SEEMS to be working with the new client....so you can give it a shot, just make sure you backup the offline.dat in case. I'm getting credit now. He had to make an adjustment on the server side after I told him what was going on. Just hope I got to him before any other people lost a lot of data. I d/l the client almost as soon as he put it in the stream, so hopefully I saved a lot of WU's. I'm letting my laptop get a que of about 20 up then I'm going to test and see if it counts them all. I'll let you know how it goes guys. BTW if you do try...it'll look like the client has crashed...mine even said "Not responding..." in the title bar, but it's ok, just leave it. It's taking a long time to get the data accross to the servers.

[magnav0x]

Ok, well it seems that it's acting up again, so I'm setting my clients to not connect again and I'll work with Mike some more on the issue.

[Angus]

So I take it mine are irretrievably lost? :bang: Well over half of all the work I've done is missing in the stats. My home box has done 297 WUs, and the work box was over 300 when I left, and my total stats show 299 right now.

I loaded the new client (1.0.400) about 5:30PM Pacific time.

It looks like it's back to no-connect now - got a few queued up.


What about the forum issue? I know what password I set, and it won't recognize it, and I don't see a way to get it reset....

[IronBits]

Downloaded new client
Made copy of offline.dat file
I just upload 465ish ...
I don't see them there yet. :(

[magnav0x]

Angus, I'll talk to Wickie about getting your password reset and e-mailed to you....

[magnav0x]

Angus, what username did you register with the NEO forums? Wicked needs to know so he can reset your password.

[Angus]

I registered as ANGUS - all caps (it was an accident)

[Angus]

:|party|: :jester: :|party|: :jester:


7th Place !!!!!

[magnav0x]

I moved into 16th overall :P

[Angus]

47 LAATSCH/RAGOZIN LAATSCH 1,891 0.0200
48 ANGUS FREE-DC 1,878 0.0100
49 PUPPAUZ 1,878 0.2400
50 AARON DEGROW KEEPIN THE BOXES HOT 1,876 0.0360


Getting up there also....

C'mon IB, unload that cache!!!


Team standings:

1 EXTREMEDC 252,108 2.0236
2 DUTCH POWER COWS 61,005 0.8649
3 NEO DEVELOPMENT TEAM 19,276 0.2719
4 BYTE LAB 15,298 0.2730
5 AMD USERS 15,005 0.6815
6 DELTA FORCE 12,777 0.1001
7 FREE-DC 8,698 0.0629
8 TECHIMO 8,306 0.0769
9 WASEDA UNIVERSITY 6,175 0.0772
10 RECHENKRAFT.NET - GERMANY 5,872 0.3155

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Angus
C'mon IB, unload that cache!!!
I'd love to - stupid clients won't upload work, soooo I have stopped doing this project for awhile.
I would like to get an email addy for Mike so I can email him the 7,000 wus I have stored up in like 6 different offline#.dat files from 3 different computers tho.

[Angus]

IB - have you tried the new client version? 1.0.406

Do a fresh install, copy one of your offline.dat files into the folder before you start the client, and it should upload.

The client seems to do a handshaking thing for each WU, something like "resolve data server , send one WU, await updated results, repeat" . If it does not get a pretty quick response (2 sec.?) to the "resolve data server" request, it goes back to crunching, but when the next WU is done, it sends some results until it doesn't get a prompt response again. Eventually they are all sent. Then, when the offline.dat is 0KB again, you can copy another saved file into the folder.

This has worked for all 3 of my boxes, that all previously had problems sending results.

[magicfan241 -ARS ATCP]

Now the client uploads them all at once!:cool: :)

No more endless rounds of handshaking with the server!


----
ATCP-- at rank 32 and rising!

[IronBits]

Been there, done that, done this to... ;)
All backups done first :)
del offline.dat and restore.dat neo.dat
start neo.exe (1.0.406)
stop neo.exe
Then one of the following --
1) type offlinebackup.dat >> offline.dat
2) copy /b offlinebackup.dat+offline.dat offline.dat
3) copy /b offlinebackup.dat + offline.dat
4) copy offlinebackup.dat offline.dat
5) del offline.dat then ren offlinebackup.dat offline.dat
start neo.exe
it contacts Server
Points completed incrementing, offline.dat getting LARGER, no points showing as cached.
looses contact with Server and continues to work
if I leave it alone, when it finishes a point, it will show 1 point cached, contact server, upload the cached point, starts incrementing Points completed until it looses contact with the server. All the while, offline.dat keeps getting larger and larger.
Total points completed never changes.
Oh, it also has to resolve to a server on each and every point.
I give up. :bang: :swear:

[Angus]

IB - yeah, for some reason the offline.dat file gets bigger as it sends WUs. Then when they're all sent, it's reset to 0 bytes.

[IronBits]

k, I'll just sit here and keep on clicking contact damn servers to upload over 7,000 points... this is gonna be fun :bang:

[Angus]

Just let it do it's own thing while it crunches... eventually the cache will get emptied.

It does seem like the handshaking is a little overboard :bs:


{edit}

Looks like they just put up release 1.0.407 which has about 8 data server ports active now.

[magnav0x]

Yeah the new client helps a bit with the handshaking. I was able to get all my WU's sent after a lot of patient manual uploading. But if you just set the client to connect after each WU it'll eventualy get them all sent. At least we were able to reclaim out #7 posistion. Maybe IB can push us on up to 6 :cheers:

[magicfan241 -ARS ATCP]

Wee are working on 31st place :moon: :rotfl: :crazy:

I'll find a way to catch you!!

/me remembers that the district throws out 25-30 working older (p166- amd-k6 233) a week! Must get a bigger circut to the garage and soon the top ten will be reached!! :)

EDIT: I know it's impossible, but it's my dream!

[Dyyryath]

Heh, it's always good to have goals, magicfan. :D

[IronBits]

6 DELTA FORCE 19,943 0.1517
7 FREE-DC 16,160 0.0952

Originally posted by magnav0x
Maybe IB can push us on up to 6 :cheers:
Sorry, it appears I lost over 2,000 points even with 8 hours of sitting here to do the manual uploading. :(
It did help they added the extra servers in the latest client :)
I can't believe I lost that many points, so I've appended them all to one large offline.dat and just gonna let it run (2+meg) and see if it can find some that I missed.
But, I'm close enough to see you just ahead. :D
24 MAGNAV0X FREE-DC 5,958 0.0500
25 RODNEY HESTER 5,890 0.0900
26 TEAM_RC DPC 5,370 0.0400
27 IRONBITS FREE-DC 5,151 0.0200
46 ANGUS FREE-DC 2,825 0.0200 Looks like Angus is coming on strong to :|party|:

[IronBits]

Wait! Excuse me, pardon, excuse me, pardon me please, make way, excuse me, beg your pardon, excuse me, comming thru :D
I think I found that offline.dat hopefully with that missing 2,000.
24 MAGNAV0X FREE-DC 5,958 0.0500
25 RODNEY HESTER 5,923 0.0900
26 IRONBITS FREE-DC 5,530 0.0200 :p

[magnav0x]

Oh man, IB is rolling on up the stats :help: Looks like I better get over and put my computers back on Neo sometime today. I was fooling with my computers yesterday and had them all shut off....so now WU's from me for the past 24 hours. We'll see that #6 spot before long though :haddock:

[IronBits]

24 IRONBITS FREE-DC 5,960 0.0200
25 MAGNAV0X FREE-DC 5,958 0.0500 :cheers: /me hands Magnav0x a cold frosty mug of his favorite :cheers:
Begins to :|party|: :jester: :cheers: :smoking: :crazy:
:thumbs: # 6 is getting much closer now. :D
and, I think I'm done climbing fast like that now, so it's up to you two to take us the rest of the way. ;)

[magicfan241 -ARS ATCP]

and let him pass you IB tsk tsk...

I can't stop doing thias client or else I get kicked even lower, and there is still a chance for a top 200 overall rating!!

:|party|:

30 is so close I can smell it.

EDIT: I smelled me, I do need to take a shower!

[magnav0x]

Doh! I knew I forgot to do something when I was home...forgot to turn the computers back on. Now I'm get to chase IB's tail! :spank: I may get us 3 more P4 1.6's tommorrow. I'll see what I can do to get us moving up a bit quicker.

[Angus]

Gotta watch the TECHIMO sneaking up from 8th toward our spot...

[magnav0x]

Should have our posistion back tomorrow, I have my home computers up once again.

[magnav0x]

Well...maybe not, seems Techimo just added some more firepower. I'll see about boring a couple more P4 1.6's Wednesday.

[magnav0x]

5 DELTA FORCE 36,469 0.2980
6 AMD USERS 35,953 0.7971
7 FREE-DC 35,298 0.1969


Well....looks like we may have #5 by the end of the week :|party|:

[PY 222]

We could have been in 5th position right now if I could flush my 1400+ workunits sitting in my queue!

But never fear, 5th is ours for the taking! :thumbs:

[magnav0x]

PY 222, check your private messages.....

[PY 222]

Originally posted by magnav0x
PY 222, check your private messages.....

Check, check!!! :thumbs:

[rus6]

Looks like we've made 6th

5 DELTA FORCE 37,348 0.3053
6 FREE-DC 36,362 0.2018
7 AMD USERS 36,328 0.7993


:|party|: :rotfl: :|party|: :thumbs:

[IronBits]

1 EXTREMEDC 628,033 3.8932
2 DUTCH POWER COWS 178,358 1.6461
3 TECHIMO 46,640 0.2943
4 BYTE LAB 40,907 0.5000
5 DELTA FORCE 38,251 0.3123
6 AMD USERS 36,997 0.8019
7 FREE-DC 36,806 0.2046
8 SECURITEINFO.COM 30,892 0.4171
9 NEO DEVELOPMENT TEAM 29,148 0.3605
10 APG 19,150 0.1642

Back to 7 :(

[IronBits]

Wait wait! ;)
6 FREE-DC 37,070 0.2054
7 AMD USERS 37,038 0.8023
8 SECURITEINFO.COM 30,928 0.4173
Back to 6th :D

[Angus]

Good going, folks !!!!!!


1 EXTREMEDC 582,306 3.6737
2 DUTCH POWER COWS 189,331 1.7100
3 TECHIMO 49,659 0.3101
4 FREE-DC 42,139 0.2343
5 BYTE LAB 42,036 0.5126
6 DELTA FORCE 40,849 0.3329
7 AMD USERS 38,787 0.8102
8 SECURITEINFO.COM 33,718 0.4303
9 NEO DEVELOPMENT TEAM 30,637 0.3730
10 APG 20,240 0.1706





:cheers: :|party|: :cheers: :|party|: :cheers:

[magnav0x]

Now if we could just catch Techimo! The DPC stats (http://www.whatyouwant.nl/neo/) indicate that we are outproducing them...but my manual benchmarking shows they are outproducing us. :help:

The only reason they are outproducing us is, they have 20 active members, compared to our 6 active members. We're hanging pretty well when you look at it that way :cheers:

[PY 222]

Now, if only we could get Dyy to put some magic into the stats and everything will be golden :cheers:

So how do we get Dyy to start crunching? Ideas? :bang:

/me runs off to find IronBits.