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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Do a reboot and defrag on each before you leave. As long as you don't take a power hit, you should be fine. That's the nice thing about laptops - the battery keeps you going for any short blips. At some point, I guess I should look into a UPS for the desktop. For me, I usually lose the wireless when the power blinks. I've left my machines running when I've been away for 5-7 days more than once. Normally, BOINC is all that's running on them in that situation so there's not much that can mess up. The reboot and defrag each week has been the best thing I've found to avoid weirdness and such with Windonts. I do check the weather outlook for while I'm going to be gone. So far, I've not faced the prospect of severe weather and having to decide whether to gamble or not. I also have GoToMyPC so it's easy to check up on my machines when I'm gone too. Of course, that's not much good when the wireless router burps and they lose connectivity - but they keep crunching anyway. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hope everyone is doing well today.. On Saturday I'm heading to Dallas, Texas for a board review course. Will be there one whole week.  Just hoping my computers keep crunching and don't try and shut down or anything silly.. Dr. Mike..  Uh, if you're doing a week long review course, the implication is that the board exam would follow soon after that, right? So the big question is how long after that before you get the results?  October 12th, If I remember correctly, is the date I take the actual exam. At some point either before or right after I was born, the wonderful world of Scantron (fill in the oval spaces) came to be. Apparently they have failed to embrace the world of computer based exams, so we still take the paper version. It takes approximately two months, plus or more plus.. (no minus) So it's worry and wait.. sigh.. Dr. Mike.. Hmm, so you have to remember the review material for about six weeks and then hope for a nice Christmas present in the mail. |
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NiceMedTexMD
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Post Count: 929 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hope everyone is doing well today.. On Saturday I'm heading to Dallas, Texas for a board review course. Will be there one whole week. Just hoping my computers keep crunching and don't try and shut down or anything silly.. Dr. Mike.. Uh, if you're doing a week long review course, the implication is that the board exam would follow soon after that, right? So the big question is how long after that before you get the results? October 12th, If I remember correctly, is the date I take the actual exam. At some point either before or right after I was born, the wonderful world of Scantron (fill in the oval spaces) came to be. Apparently they have failed to embrace the world of computer based exams, so we still take the paper version. It takes approximately two months, plus or more plus.. (no minus) So it's worry and wait.. sigh.. Dr. Mike.. Hmm, so you have to remember the review material for about six weeks and then hope for a nice Christmas present in the mail. That's about the jest of it.. it's about like this.. "Dr. Mike.. here's a book. In this book is all of Pediatric Medicine. You will study it and have a test on it in a few weeks." blecchhh... Dr. Mike  |
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NiceMedTexMD
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Post Count: 929 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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arrggghhhh.. lost my internet connection again.. will be low on points for a bit until I can get it fixed..
---------------------------------------- won't be able to work on it until I get home late tonight.. Dr. Mike.. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/25 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== No points milestones found.  Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found. Results returned milestones report ================================== Dresser returned their 1,800th result  darth_vader returned their 1,200th result New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 05/06/2009 518,871 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/25 - Active Members
----------------------------------------Active team members report ==========================
Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 68,540 points 02: marysduby - 44,401 points 03: Coingames - 36,905 points 04: brown chris - 23,968 points 05: parmesian - 23,463 points 06: Dave Bell - 17,612 points 07: NiceMedTexMD - 15,237 points 08: Blueprint - 14,059 points 09: keithhenry - 13,901 points 10: Dresser - 13,467 points 11: Vuj - 8,456 points 12: Esteban69 - 7,350 points 13: stares - 5,994 points 14: Jonathan Figdor - 5,859 points 15: sulcata - 5,075 points 16: jamesjr934 - 3,385 points 17: darth_vader - 2,658 points 18: frans6nl - 2,574 points 19: imin - 2,561 points 20: lawrencehardin - 2,427 points Total points returned today: 332,182 Active members returning points today: 32 Average points per member active today: 10,380.6875 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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arrggghhhh.. lost my internet connection again.. will be low on points for a bit until I can get it fixed.. won't be able to work on it until I get home late tonight.. Dr. Mike.. Are you losing your network connectivity (DSL for example) or are you losing your wireless connection? Hmm, if all of your machines are going through the wireless router, it may seem like losing network. |
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brown chris
Master Cruncher California - USA Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 2419 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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arrggghhhh.. lost my internet connection again.. will be low on points for a bit until I can get it fixed.. won't be able to work on it until I get home late tonight.. Dr. Mike.. Are you losing your network connectivity (DSL for example) or are you losing your wireless connection? Hmm, if all of your machines are going through the wireless router, it may seem like losing network. Routers do die. I've had Linksys routers work for a few hours, and although all the lights are blinking they aren't passing any information. I've gone through three of them... My latest DLink worked great for several years, and it was a little more graceful when it died - it just quit working. Unlike the linksys routers, power cycling it didn't bring it back for a little while. I've got a dlink gaming router right now, and it's been working flawlessly for over two years. When it dies, I have a brand new in-the-box router to replace it. Home routers aren't near as robust as commercial routers, and they do fail.
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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arrggghhhh.. lost my internet connection again.. will be low on points for a bit until I can get it fixed.. won't be able to work on it until I get home late tonight.. Dr. Mike.. Are you losing your network connectivity (DSL for example) or are you losing your wireless connection? Hmm, if all of your machines are going through the wireless router, it may seem like losing network. Routers do die. I've had Linksys routers work for a few hours, and although all the lights are blinking they aren't passing any information. I've gone through three of them... My latest DLink worked great for several years, and it was a little more graceful when it died - it just quit working. Unlike the linksys routers, power cycling it didn't bring it back for a little while. I've got a dlink gaming router right now, and it's been working flawlessly for over two years. When it dies, I have a brand new in-the-box router to replace it. Home routers aren't near as robust as commercial routers, and they do fail. Very Interesting. I have had a similar experience with a Linksys router at one of my pro bono sites but I have had two routers (one wired and one wireless) made by NetGear that have been working pretty much continuously for in excess of 5 years without so much as a dropped bit. Small sample (the two of us) but that would seem to indicate that Linksys is not as reliable.  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by RT at Aug 26, 2009 1:46:38 PM] |
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arrggghhhh.. lost my internet connection again.. will be low on points for a bit until I can get it fixed.. won't be able to work on it until I get home late tonight.. Dr. Mike.. Are you losing your network connectivity (DSL for example) or are you losing your wireless connection? Hmm, if all of your machines are going through the wireless router, it may seem like losing network. Routers do die. I've had Linksys routers work for a few hours, and although all the lights are blinking they aren't passing any information. I've gone through three of them... My latest DLink worked great for several years, and it was a little more graceful when it died - it just quit working. Unlike the linksys routers, power cycling it didn't bring it back for a little while. I've got a dlink gaming router right now, and it's been working flawlessly for over two years. When it dies, I have a brand new in-the-box router to replace it. Home routers aren't near as robust as commercial routers, and they do fail. Very Interesting. I have had a similar experience with a Linksys router at one of my pro bono sites but I have had two routers (one wired and one wireless) made by NetGear that have been working pretty much continuously for in excess of 5 years without so much as a dropped bit. Small sample (the two of us) but that would seem to indicate that Linksys is not as reliable. |
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