Another 30 minutes of clicking and I've got the number of bogus account below 38,000!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sheer Drudgery & a Challenge.
By dint of lots of clicking ( on avererage one click deletes 10 bogus accounts) I've got us down to 38500 duff accounts!
If you want to support TSBT in a challenge try this one for SAT@Home It's ongoing and we are languishing a little.
If you want to support TSBT in a challenge try this one for SAT@Home It's ongoing and we are languishing a little.
Saturday, July 06, 2013
July Already!
Michty that's June gone without a post.
Anyhow, we didn't exactly shine in the Pentathon but, it's the taking part that counts, or so I keep telling myself.
Anyway my first priority for the summer is to try and expand this site and specifically to add a FAQ/howto page. My second priority is to prune the 45,000+ bogus accounts on the forum, growing at up to 900 per day!
Anyhow, we didn't exactly shine in the Pentathon but, it's the taking part that counts, or so I keep telling myself.
Anyway my first priority for the summer is to try and expand this site and specifically to add a FAQ/howto page. My second priority is to prune the 45,000+ bogus accounts on the forum, growing at up to 900 per day!
Saturday, May 11, 2013
A Pentathlon & a mystery solved (Maybe).
It's the annual SETI Germany Boinc Pentathalon and we are struggling to make an impact. So far we are the lowliest of the 28 teams with points which is better than being one of the 8 pointless teams. All the same it's a reminder that we are a rather small team punching above our weight by using a disproportionate number of top end GPUs to crunch some of the more generous projects.
in particular we are indebted to Merlyn who was once the top cruncher in the world by RAC and who, even though he suddenly stopped crunching in April 2011 is still #52 by total credit and accounts for over a quarter of our credit.
I think I may have solved the mystery of why he stopped. http://www.ecurie-cymraeg.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=278&page=2 The forename & surname are the same, the part of the UK is right, Merlyn was into motorsports, and most conclusively Merlyn stopped crunching the same week that this poor fellow stopped everything.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Merlyn/Steve Sandles.
in particular we are indebted to Merlyn who was once the top cruncher in the world by RAC and who, even though he suddenly stopped crunching in April 2011 is still #52 by total credit and accounts for over a quarter of our credit.
I think I may have solved the mystery of why he stopped. http://www.ecurie-cymraeg.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=278&page=2 The forename & surname are the same, the part of the UK is right, Merlyn was into motorsports, and most conclusively Merlyn stopped crunching the same week that this poor fellow stopped everything.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Merlyn/Steve Sandles.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tedium & Triumph.
The tedium remains the deleting of the bogus forum accounts which slow down the forum database. About 450 are being set up daily. 8-0
FFS why? If any of us want to buy some dodgy viagra or to webcam with a Nude Russian Teen then surely we'll do it with the site of our choice without being distracted from matters Boinc by the spam these arseholes want to post!
Anyhoo dealing with the bogus accounts requires about 4 minutes on gmail each day to check that they aren't real, then another 10 min or so using the mass delete option in phpBB2.0 to delete them. This would be fine if my circumstances and my psychological make-up allowed for such regularity & discipline. As it is I just let the number of bogus accounts exceed 20,000. Some major deleting has trimmed this back to 17,043 and 20 min per day over the next week might get the figures back to 3 digits. Unless I can't be bothered!
The triumph is our continuing out crunching of UBT. We are 2-4 years from regaining our UK #1 slot but as thing stand it will happen sooner or later!
FFS why? If any of us want to buy some dodgy viagra or to webcam with a Nude Russian Teen then surely we'll do it with the site of our choice without being distracted from matters Boinc by the spam these arseholes want to post!
Anyhoo dealing with the bogus accounts requires about 4 minutes on gmail each day to check that they aren't real, then another 10 min or so using the mass delete option in phpBB2.0 to delete them. This would be fine if my circumstances and my psychological make-up allowed for such regularity & discipline. As it is I just let the number of bogus accounts exceed 20,000. Some major deleting has trimmed this back to 17,043 and 20 min per day over the next week might get the figures back to 3 digits. Unless I can't be bothered!
The triumph is our continuing out crunching of UBT. We are 2-4 years from regaining our UK #1 slot but as thing stand it will happen sooner or later!
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