Blurb

Welcome, Failte, & Fit Like? to the biggest, oldest (established in 1999 as Scotland's Seti) and best Scottish Boinc team around!
We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you're Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you've no link at all with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome. The most important part of the site is our Forum . Even if you're not a member of any of our teams we'd be delighted to have you visit.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Website Moved To Blogger

I did it and I think it worked. Both TSBT.co.uk and the scottishboincteam.co.uk point towards blogger. All the links work as far as I can tell. The translator gadget is there to translate it into any language you can name except, sadly enough, Scottish Gaelic.

We have adverts now but they are padding out the sidebars rather cropping up in the thick of the action. They add a splash of colour and hopefully will be of enough interest to people that I can cover at least some of my hosting costs thru clickthrus. If you click on an advert I get a pittance. 

Anyway i hope you approve of the changes: you can comment directly here, use the forum or use twitter.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

New TSBT Homepage ?

If you've logged in recently it should be fairly obvious that I've decided to merge the TSbT Homepage & my blog. This seems like a good idea to me. But your views, on the principle, content or colour scheme would be much appreciated. The forum would of course still stand alone. Feed back here or on the forum much apprechiated.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Is that the time?

It's been for ever since my last post. I did write a couple of banal paragraphs on the blogger App for iPhone but neither uploaded. So here goes again.

Team News
As predicted we drifted down the league table in the absence of the Welsh Wizard. But not that far really. We seem to have stopped at 29th which from 95,000+ competitors is respectable. The worst case scenario would have us 33rd by the end of this year. But a few new members, or returning old ones, would save us a drop.

The forum has been quiet but we do get the odd new member sifted at great expense in terms of time & tedium from 300 plus bogus members each day.

Of the many new members the most prolific is Janos who has gone from Zero to nearly 80 million in less than 4 months! Awesome.

Personal Boasting
I made top 100 and last time I checked I was 85th overall. Which is nice.

And I've done it despite no major new hardware acquisitions. Not a single GPU have I acquired since the ones mentioned last summer. I think my hardware addiction is at an end. Or maybe it's just that I've achieved the top 100 ambition and going for, say, top 10 would require such a ridiculous effort & expense that there's no scope for anything apart from resting on my laurels. I'm only running 4 machines in the basement and for the first time since we built it spring has sprung (sort of) without it being hellish hot by April.