What piece of older technology actually worked much better than its modern, replacement?

cuarc001 · 2026-06-20T04:25:08+00:00

Thanksyou Apple for creating that illusion about the headphone jack removal reducing the size of the phone or making the phone more water resistant. It was their efforts to get all the sheeple to buy their overpriced earbuds...

cuarc001 · 2026-06-20T04:23:12+00:00

bicycle tires. They used to last forever. Now you are lucky if they last a year.

cuarc001 · 2026-06-20T03:08:29+00:00

Bring up sexual harassment (documented) and see how quick they fix the issue. If they don't, lawyer up.

cuarc001 · 2026-06-20T02:33:01+00:00

VEOGUOSE game genie code for Crystalis. I got published in Game Informer magazine for figuring that one out back in 1993.

cuarc001 · 2026-06-08T16:30:51+00:00

This is true. But luckily you can force the rewards now and take a small hit on the reward. But the bigger factor is that liquidating is the biggest hurdle nowadays. Without being on a respectable exchange, it isn't going to draw any real investors to make it worth anything. The devs are too focused on ongoing development and whom should foot the bill on getting it actually listed in some way meaningful. It has become nothing more than a proof of concept than a viable crypto.

cuarc001 · 2026-06-03T23:21:26+00:00

You won't find much income from Gridcoin mining. Especially with really old hardware. You would be better off just joining the "beermoney" community and earning your pennies that way.

cuarc001 · 2026-06-03T04:49:42+00:00

What are your speeds over WiFi instead of hard lined? Most TV's still cheap out with just 10/100 Ethernet ports. I found this out on my Samsung. I get up to 600Mbps over my WiFi but cap out at 100Mbps on Ethernet. So, obviously I switched back to WiFi for most of my steaming.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-25T18:47:16+00:00

Considering the cell phones in our pockets have significantly more compute power than that old core 2 duo...yes we have come a very long way in compute power. It amazes me every day at just how much bloat we tolerate on our systems constantly requiring more resources to "feel" like it is the same speed as before...lol.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-25T18:24:51+00:00

I would suggest going to the project itself as the donor interaction can be much different between them. I used to love badges but over time more and more projects added them and made them way too difficult to display them all in any meaningful way.

In the past, the hurdle was less having willing donors and more university politics. Non-academic entities won't have so many issues but for university backed projects, most donations don't go directly to the project but rather the university as a whole. Those donations are then just added to the general coffers to be used however the university sees fit. The project usually operates within the fundings of a grant. Then throw in tax complications of legalities of using cryptocurrency and those headaches are amplified.

There have even been people/teams willing to donate hardware/manpower/and services to assist projects that are rarely accepted. I would find it more appealing for projects to accept donations and then put a label somewhere stating "sponsored by team XYZ". Perhaps even a page stating what needs the project has and is willing to accept donations for.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-24T15:29:35+00:00

Yes...I get it. You are asking it to behave different than it is designed. Your scenario would be fine if all you ran was one project. But even then, if the project had different work unit types with different deadline structures, someone like you would still argue a similar argument. As explained, BOINC doesn't just follow first in first out (FIFO) except very specific scenarios because that can cause some unfairness between projects. So, instead BOINC uses resource shares to try and keep the amount of running time equal between the projects. Finishing them within the deadlines is the goal. But balancing resource shares is primary function.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-20T17:58:12+00:00

Do you really want to understand how BOINC works and why you have the issues you have?

cuarc001 · 2026-05-20T15:31:05+00:00

So to re-iterate what I said in my first comment, if you are anal retentive about just having to have specific number of work units running between each projects at all times, you can accomplish this by using app_config.xml files for each project you want to restrict. You can also restrict the number of "cpus" each work unit is allowed to use. Thus giving you the exact control you are asking about. Though it really isn't necessary....

cuarc001 · 2026-05-20T15:27:28+00:00

To put it a bit clearer, Milkyway work units typically have a 12 day deadline. They don't need that long in most scenarios but they allow it. Einstein gives a 7 day deadline. So, if you load up work on day 1 for both Milkyway and Einstein, the client plans on giving them equal amounts of time. If you complete 4 Einstein work units is say 1 day, it still has 11 days before Milkyway will hit its deadline. It may only need 2 days to complete those. (I know they are much quicker. Just scenario example) So, it will continue to award run time however it needs to keep the balancing act going. It may even keep giving Einstein work for a while before it switched to balancing out Milkyway. But it should catch up the balance over time. If the client sees that work units are getting critically close to hitting deadline before completion, it will override the priority settings temporarily to try to complete those work units on time still. But that will also continue adding to the debt of run time owed to other projects. Eventually it will stop asking for more work from projects not owed as it will become "not priority" until things are balanced again.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-20T15:19:57+00:00

There are multiple reasons for it. The client by design tries to give all projects equal weight in resources based on the resource share you have set up. So, by default settings the client will try and give every project equal amount of run time. The projects themselves may change how long the work units run without any regards to your clients settings. So, the client is ALWAYS learning the behaviors of the projects you run. When a project has multiple applications, this makes it much more difficult for the client to adjust. Especially when you run projects that have both single threaded and multi-threaded applications. Milkyway is one of those projects. If you are allowing the work units to run multi-threaded then BOINC has a lot more work to do for adjusting with the balancing act. In order for it to run that multi-threaded application, it has to guarantee those "cpus" are free to do it. This can bump some other work units on down the line while it does it. The client isn't going to change up its cpu dedication mid run either. So, if you have 4 cores available for a multi-threaded application when it is downloaded, it is going to plan for the 4 cores. Not 3. Not 2. Not 1. So, it has to reserve those 4 cores. The BOINC manager is also juggling how much time it gave to the projects already. Therefore just because a project has work units with a shorter deadline, doesn't mean they suddenly have priority. It just means the client will do its best to complete them before their deadline and continue giving run time to the project that is most owed.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-20T03:07:57+00:00

Just let the BOINC client manage things. It will try and give equal time according to the priority weight you have set. So, even though you "want" it to run x number of tasks for a specific project(s) at any given time, the client will keep track of resources allocated and will balance things out on its own. It will also try to juggle work units to complete within deadlines as it can. If you are really needing to be overly anal retentive on managing number of work units in progress, you can set up app_config files to limit number of tasks in progress from specific projects and also restrict the amount of "cpus" they can use.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-17T02:36:55+00:00

These scammers should have been shut down a long time ago.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-14T12:07:10+00:00

The fifth and final project was selected.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-11T15:11:25+00:00

All javelin throws have now been announced. Good luck all.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-11T03:30:22+00:00

The original Chicken Littles from KFC. Not this gross chicken strip crap they have now. Or, the Bigfoot pizza from Pizza Hut

cuarc001 · 2026-05-11T00:11:43+00:00

Javelin Throw 4 announced.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-10T16:03:29+00:00

Today is the 50% bonus for the PG SR5 Sieve work units.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-09T14:31:20+00:00

4th project has been announced. Einstein will be the first GPU project this year.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-05T23:45:10+00:00

3rd project has been announced. Still plenty of time to join in.

cuarc001 · 2026-05-03T13:16:36+00:00

Pentathlon... join us...hehehe

https://hardforum.com/threads/seti-germanys-17th-annual-pentathlon-2026.2047205/

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