I have to stand up for the pup since he is not with us tonight..The quickest that I have seen one of the 64's complete a work unit is 44 minutes...I just completed one on a 2800 Athlon in 78 minutes about 30 minutes ago...These work units vary from day to day for me...

Coulda Shouda Wouda.......


Sends mousie a copy of Warp still in its shrinkwrap

in the end, mousie just likes stirring the pot and certain people trying to play devils advocate...

i like being able to play a bit...linux allows better for that. i'm normally one to say whatever works for a person, go ahead and stick with it...except for when people poke at me for preferring something they don't. hence my earlier statement, blame it on big V, this is one of the first linux vs windows debates i've gotten myself into actually...lol. when i went out for dinner and started thinking about it, i was actually suprised i took so strong a stand...lol.

linux works for me...i have all the apps i need for free which would have costed a pretty penny had i been using windows...either that or all sorts of pirating. probably one of the bigger reasons for my preference.

as far as os overhead affecting wcg performance...all i know is what i've said based on benchmarking the same machine on both os's. one does considerably better than the other. guess we'll see what happens when the actual linux app comes out, though since units aren't the same, it wouldn't be too easy to check...

I've thought about using Linux many times over the last few years. Got a lot of distros from magazines and even bought a couple outright (Red Hat 7 & Mandrake 8.1), but after reading the install guides I thought that I just didn't need to work that hard.
Last December I almost bought a Mac. Went into the Apple store on Michigan Ave. to try them out but most of them were crashed and the staff was too busy to help. I was looking at the $800 eMac, their entry level machine at the time, but was wholly unimpressed. A week later I got an eMachines pc for $600 (w/o Monitor) that had an Athlon XP 3200+, 512 Mhz RAM, 160 Ghz HD, DVD writer, CD-ROM drive, deluxe keyboard, the whole nine yards, and would positively beat the snot out of the eMac. I don't even want to talk about that overpriced paperweight that is the MiniMac. By all reliable accounts, the Mac OS is very capable, but the hardware is priced beyond reason for what it is. Be interesting to see what happens to Apple's pricing structure once they're running on Intel chips because then they won't have a justifiable case for being higher priced than HP or Dell. BTW, the main reason I didn't get a Mac was that I couldn't run UD on it!
My issues with overzealous Linux & Mac users come from sparring with them in net forums. I subscribe to several news alerts from ZDnet and each of the stories has a forum attached to it to discuss the articles. It never fails that when a story about MS appears, the same crowd of mostly Linux fanboys show up to dominate the forum, spewing the same old anti MS venom. Mind you, most of these articles make no mention of Linux or even hint at it, but these clowns are still there. If anyone dares to even feebly support MS, they get flamed mercilessly. Some of the Mac guys can be just as bad. Like I said before, none of this boorishness would make me want to switch. If anything, just the opposite. I wouldn't want to be associated with jerks like them in any way.

Are we the only nightowls tonight?


To Guru,
Forgot to mention it before 'cause I was involved in my rant, but I should catch vaio soon, overcoming his headstart on me. But that's probably as high as I can go. You and the others above me have more firepower so I'll be happy with 4th place on the team. Just doin' what I can to help the team and the cause.

if mousie turns up - What's in the package??