Milestones

[manofthem]

Milestones Today - Jan 28, 2015


@Knoxx29 passed 100
@nightriderjt passed 550,000




New blood to the WCG team. Welcome @Knoxx29!







Here a good song by a good old band that broke up and whose singer has unfortunately passed, Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Headsup: Song is pretty loud

 

[Nordic]

Great start @Knoxx29

 

[[Ion]]

100 points...before you know it, you'll be at 100 million

 

[FireFox]

Sorry about my ignorance but what is this about

 

[[Ion]]

Sorry about my ignorance but what is this about

So we get rewarded for our contribution with points...a rather useless quantity, really, but an exciting one. There are milestones at certain point values, ie 100, 200, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, and so on. Matt (manofthem) highlights new milestones that team-members have managed

 

[FireFox]

I love this Forum every day more and more

 

[stinger608]

I love this Forum every day more and more

Yep, there just isn't a better community on the internet bro!!!

There is just amazing people on here and our Team TPU WCG members are among the very best in the world............. In my personal opinion.

 

[FireFox]

Yep, there just isn't a better community on the internet bro!!!

There is just amazing people on here and our Team TPU WCG members are among the very best in the world............. In my personal opinion.

I have never been in a Forum for more than one month but I am here almost 1 year.

 

[Nordic]

I think that is how many of us started.

 

[manofthem]

Milestones Today - Jan 29, 2015


@Knoxx29 passes 1,000
@ChaoticG8R passes 750,000
@Doc41 passes 2,500,000




Congrats to our stoners this evening!









Back pain (plus percocets) FTW tonight! I know I'm not the only out there....

 

[manofthem]

Milestones Today - Jan 30, 2015


@Knoxx29 passes 3,000
@Tallencor passes 1,400,000




Great work stoners!







Welcome back @Tallencor

 

[manofthem]

Milestones Today - Jan 31, 2015


@Knoxx29 passes 6,000
@MxPhenom 216 passes 40,000
@dank1983man420 passes 5,000,000




Congrats to our stoners tonight!








Some musical awesomeness here

 

[FireFox]

One more of my silly questions

Depending on what the points are calculated

 

[Toothless]

One more of my silly questions

Depending on what the points are calculated

Work done on WCG.

 

[FireFox]

Work done on WCG.

is something to do with the Total Credit, and the credit of each Machine are calcolated individually?

 

[[Ion]]

is something to do with the Total Credit, and the credit of each Machine are calcolated individually?

So, each work unit that your computer works on and submits earns credit for that single result:

Now, as you can see, none of those are very many points, but over time it does add up, for instance:

You can see, for instance, that Ostpreußen (shown here as Ostpreu since WCG doesn't know how to deal with non-English characters) has, over its lifetime, accumulated 14 years of runtime and nearly 27 million WCG credits. I hope you recognize most of those names
Then, all of the points across all of your devices are summed up into your personal total:

Here you see that over the five and a half years, I have seven hundred million points, a million and a half work units done, and 213 years of runtime

And then all of the points from every single team member on a team is summed up into the team total:

Does all this make sense?

 

[twilyth]

Have you tried using extended ascii codes for some characters. For example alt-225 (ß) produces a character that looks like the one you want.

 

[FireFox]

Thanks for the explanation, now I got the point how is work

The only thing that I don't get is:
One Machine says Credit: 7,800
And the Second Machine says Credit 10,000
But i always pass the milestone from the Machine with lower score.

 

[[Ion]]

Thanks for the explanation, now I got the point how is work

The only thing that I don't get is:
One Machine says Credit: 7,800
And the Second Machine says Credit 10,000
But i always pass the milestone from the Machine with lower score.

Is this what you see in BOINC Manager?
If so, what happens is, BOINC Manager doesn't communicate with the WCG site on a terribly regular basis....so the results shown there can be considerably out-of-date. With as many systems as I have, I've seen one computer be fifty thousand points behind my actual score. If you click on "Update" in BOINC then it will fetch the latest values.
Also, Free-DC lags being WCG a tad...so again things may not come right away

Have you tried using extended ascii codes for some characters. For example alt-225 (ß) produces a character that looks like the one you want.

I have not...that's a good idea though. It's not terribly pressing...when I go to the WCG site I know that Ostpreu is really Ostpreußen and that W is really Württemberg....not a crisis

 

[eidairaman1]

Been busy gonna run it starting now since im afk

 

[FireFox]

If you click on "Update" in BOINC then it will fetch the latest values.

As you suggested me i did update on both Machines and now the Credits are the same, the values were wrong, so far it's working great.
Thanks for the help.

Free-DC lags being WCG a tad

On Free-DC Page it says Score: 8,207 and that's wrong becasue my actual Score is: 8,930

 

[manofthem]

Milestones Today - Feb 1, 2015


@Knoxx29 passes 9,000




Congrats to our Solo Stoner!








As a pure New England fan, I can say, "Go Pats!!!"

And I just saw this today and thought it was funny

 

[twilyth]

Somebody needs to explain to me what could have possibly possessed anyone to make the play SD did at the 1 yard line.

 

[manofthem]

@twilyth

Who knows what they were thinking? Maybe the same thing that they thought right before half time... I would have gone for the field goal but they made the TD. Good call then at least.

Eh, no worries for me, as I'm glad it happened

 

[twilyth]

Yeah, the only problem is I had money on SEattle and now I need to strangle someone.