I find this thread on ars.
Sad part is that I fit a lot more that I am willing to admit.
You Know you are a DC freak When...
1. You look at every computer that dosen't run a DC project and yell
2. You print out you stats on your bedsheets
3. You spend hours just watching how complete your WU is
4. You buy a new computer every 6 months or sooner
5. You get angry when someone shuts down their computer
6. You spend more that 10 hours a week in the DCA
7. You run you own stats engine
8. You build a monster (or two)
9. You rent a larger apartment so there is more room for your growing farm.
10. You ask the landlord for a 100 amp CKT so you can run your computers.
11. food or new cpu? is a valid question
12. You put all your pennies in a Jar labeled "New Computer #241"
13. You paycheck goes 25% for computer 25% for savings 50% for living
14. you decide on the new cpu over food. (see #11)
15. You check on other teams forums
16. The local college sends you a request for computer time on your cluster.
17. IBM sees you as a threat to BIG BLUE
18. Your house doesn't need a furnace, and you keep the windows open in the winter to cool your house down.
18. On Christmas Eve, you, your family and friends gather around the home farm because :
a. it is the warmest place in the house
b. you can keep an eye on the work unit being done
c. you can explain to them the importance of the work the farm is doing
d. at midnight, you can present to each of them their personal nodes on your farm.
e. you can turn to your farm for comfort after they tell you what they think of your presents.
19. The power company sends you a christmas card every year.
20. You make sure that you are at the computer for the next stats update
21. you are able to contribute to a thread like this
22. If you're a sysadmin w/ borg permission, you evaluate new purchases as to how quickly they crunch a specific project
23. You have a farm on more than one project.
24. The first thing you do upon waking up is check your boxen.
25. The second thing you do upon waking is read the DCA.
26. You get assimilated into your project and hold five years of cache
27. You run two other projects idle in case some of them go down
#28. You dream about new ways to present stats.
#29. You start measuring time not in hours, but production.
#30. You can't fall asleep without hearing the reassuring whine of cooling fans.
31 You borg all of your friends' computers after offering to help with upgrades.
#32 You purchase UPSs to insure that your computers suffer less downtime
33 You wake up 3 am, with this voice in your ears, saying: 'Don't worry, DC is nothing but a dream'. You jump out of your bed, switch on the monitor, call up the stats - and take a deep breath of relief ...
#34 Your wife/GF/significant other is feeling neglected because all your time and $$ goes to maintaining/building your DC farm "baby"
34 You know how many hours your system has been up but can't remember how old your child is.
35- You haven't gone on a date in 5 years because all your money is spent on computer upgrades
#36) You casually stop by work on the days off, to make sure the projects are running.
#37) You save mini-dumps strategically, to scare your opponents.
#38) You draw satisfaction from network activity LEDs blinking
39. You verify that a pile of boarts and cpus is still running by waiting for the tell tale flash of the disk LED's as the client writes to the checkpoint.
40. When you look at a bunch of old machines you make a mental note of what project might run where.
41 Your wife/GF/significant other has left you years ago because you have only computers in mind all the time
42 You haven't noticed yet
43. When your husband or boyfriend don't mind going shopping with you because they know where you are going.
44. You are woken at night by the client not writing its periodic checkpoint files.
45. You actually get up in the middle of the night to check that every part of your farm is still running, and at benchmark speed.
46. You know all the benchmark speeds by heart.
47. You have started a DC forum thread called "You Know you are a DC freak When...".
48. You can add five or more reasons to a DC forum thread called "You Know you are a DC freak When...".
49 You're woken up at 5AM with the smell of burning PSU and you change it without even opening your eyes.
50 You've RMAed so much Ram that you've memorized Crucials telephone number and address
51. You run a DC team
52. You have your Seti individual stats page set as the default home page on all your web browsers
53. If a friend/family member doesn't want to spend the money to upgrade, you'll do it for free so that your hidden dc client will run faster.
54. You mistake this thread for a DC "How-to" FAQ
55) You mirror the stats on your computer so you can view them from work/school.
56) You write stats for those mirrors.
57) You go into withdrawls during stats/WU outages
58 Whilst doing weekend work, you ensure that all your co-worker's machines are doing DC even whilst they're logged on and helping you - this in order to avoid a single moment's loss of weekend production
59 You ensure that you're always the last one out of the office thus ensuring that as many of your colleagues' boxen as possible recommence crunching overnight/at the weekend
60. When you have a power failure, you have to bring each system individually online, otherwise, if they all came up at once you would overload the main circuit breaker
61. you buy the latest game but don't play it because it would reduce your box's crunching rate.
63 - You only check the stats to ensure your systems are still up, 'cuz it's for the Science, not the stats.
62 You maintain a price/performance spreadsheet broken down by project performance, watching for the "sweet spots".
64 You buy new hardware because its on sale, and you may need it in the future
65 You invite complete strangers over to your house to party hearty, for the sole reason that they're fellow DC addicts
66 You've completed & returned more DC results than +99% of of the entire worldwide DC population, and you're STILL considered a "small fry" within your own team's ranks
67. So much light is generated from the LED's on your farm the neighbors have complained that they no longer know if its day or night.
68 You are watching the best musical currently running in the country and all you can think of is how to beat DPC in eccp-109.
69 The Power Company has installed a commercial electricity meter on the side of your home
70 While house shopping you care more about the distance to the telephone central office and power generation station than the quality of schools and crime rate
71: When you're playing a game, the following question becomes valid: "Why am I doing this, I could be using the cycles for -insert project of choice here-"
72 You realize your children skipped their lessons, because the DC client running on their terminal didn't deliver in time
73 You purchase a power adapter for your laptop to run in your car so it can keep crunching.
74 You look outside and see the powerline running to your house glowing red.
75 You are the cause for the rolling blackouts!
76 You have to run your air conditioner in the dead of winter
77. You get upset with the corporate policy of password protected screen savers (biggest waste of computing cycles).
83. You create a webpage with the "You know You're a DC Freak When..." list on it
84 San Jose International airport representatives ask you to turn your computers off at night because the airline pilots are confused about which lights are the landing lights and which ones are your computer's LEDs.
85 You make sure to be the last to leave work, making sure all of your co-workers machines are left on for the night to crunch your project
86 You plan a 500 square foot addition to your home and 250 sq ft of the addition is devoted to your "server room "
87. When you can come up with reasons to post here.
88. You ask permission in the job interview to borg the corporate machines
89. You have become mesmerized by watching WUs accumulate in a queue.
90. You time your departure from home or work to coincide with a stats update
91. You can spend 3 hours tweaking a system to squeeze an extra 2% out of the CPU..but you balk at spending 3 hours bringing your car for servicing.
93. You have a picture of your pharm on your desk at work but none of your wife/family!
94. Your wife is as good at making sure SETI is still running on her own system as you are on yours
95. You ask if there is a client you can run on your TI-92plus96. DC has actually caused you to bark like a dog, chase cats, and howl at the moon ... in REAL LIFE
97. Your DC team has a pinup babe
98. The team you belong to has more computing power then most nations.
99. You are doing the news for several dc teams
100. You've spent more than $100 giving away gifts, bribes, prizes, souveniers, and other
Sad part is that I fit a lot more that I am willing to admit.
You Know you are a DC freak When...
1. You look at every computer that dosen't run a DC project and yell
2. You print out you stats on your bedsheets
3. You spend hours just watching how complete your WU is
4. You buy a new computer every 6 months or sooner
5. You get angry when someone shuts down their computer
6. You spend more that 10 hours a week in the DCA
7. You run you own stats engine
8. You build a monster (or two)
9. You rent a larger apartment so there is more room for your growing farm.
10. You ask the landlord for a 100 amp CKT so you can run your computers.
11. food or new cpu? is a valid question
12. You put all your pennies in a Jar labeled "New Computer #241"
13. You paycheck goes 25% for computer 25% for savings 50% for living
14. you decide on the new cpu over food. (see #11)
15. You check on other teams forums
16. The local college sends you a request for computer time on your cluster.
17. IBM sees you as a threat to BIG BLUE
18. Your house doesn't need a furnace, and you keep the windows open in the winter to cool your house down.
18. On Christmas Eve, you, your family and friends gather around the home farm because :
a. it is the warmest place in the house
b. you can keep an eye on the work unit being done
c. you can explain to them the importance of the work the farm is doing
d. at midnight, you can present to each of them their personal nodes on your farm.
e. you can turn to your farm for comfort after they tell you what they think of your presents.
19. The power company sends you a christmas card every year.
20. You make sure that you are at the computer for the next stats update
21. you are able to contribute to a thread like this
22. If you're a sysadmin w/ borg permission, you evaluate new purchases as to how quickly they crunch a specific project
23. You have a farm on more than one project.
24. The first thing you do upon waking up is check your boxen.
25. The second thing you do upon waking is read the DCA.
26. You get assimilated into your project and hold five years of cache
27. You run two other projects idle in case some of them go down
#28. You dream about new ways to present stats.
#29. You start measuring time not in hours, but production.
#30. You can't fall asleep without hearing the reassuring whine of cooling fans.
31 You borg all of your friends' computers after offering to help with upgrades.
#32 You purchase UPSs to insure that your computers suffer less downtime
33 You wake up 3 am, with this voice in your ears, saying: 'Don't worry, DC is nothing but a dream'. You jump out of your bed, switch on the monitor, call up the stats - and take a deep breath of relief ...
#34 Your wife/GF/significant other is feeling neglected because all your time and $$ goes to maintaining/building your DC farm "baby"
34 You know how many hours your system has been up but can't remember how old your child is.
35- You haven't gone on a date in 5 years because all your money is spent on computer upgrades
#36) You casually stop by work on the days off, to make sure the projects are running.
#37) You save mini-dumps strategically, to scare your opponents.
#38) You draw satisfaction from network activity LEDs blinking
39. You verify that a pile of boarts and cpus is still running by waiting for the tell tale flash of the disk LED's as the client writes to the checkpoint.
40. When you look at a bunch of old machines you make a mental note of what project might run where.
41 Your wife/GF/significant other has left you years ago because you have only computers in mind all the time
42 You haven't noticed yet
43. When your husband or boyfriend don't mind going shopping with you because they know where you are going.
44. You are woken at night by the client not writing its periodic checkpoint files.
45. You actually get up in the middle of the night to check that every part of your farm is still running, and at benchmark speed.
46. You know all the benchmark speeds by heart.
47. You have started a DC forum thread called "You Know you are a DC freak When...".
48. You can add five or more reasons to a DC forum thread called "You Know you are a DC freak When...".
49 You're woken up at 5AM with the smell of burning PSU and you change it without even opening your eyes.
50 You've RMAed so much Ram that you've memorized Crucials telephone number and address
51. You run a DC team
52. You have your Seti individual stats page set as the default home page on all your web browsers
53. If a friend/family member doesn't want to spend the money to upgrade, you'll do it for free so that your hidden dc client will run faster.
54. You mistake this thread for a DC "How-to" FAQ
55) You mirror the stats on your computer so you can view them from work/school.
56) You write stats for those mirrors.
57) You go into withdrawls during stats/WU outages
58 Whilst doing weekend work, you ensure that all your co-worker's machines are doing DC even whilst they're logged on and helping you - this in order to avoid a single moment's loss of weekend production
59 You ensure that you're always the last one out of the office thus ensuring that as many of your colleagues' boxen as possible recommence crunching overnight/at the weekend
60. When you have a power failure, you have to bring each system individually online, otherwise, if they all came up at once you would overload the main circuit breaker
61. you buy the latest game but don't play it because it would reduce your box's crunching rate.
63 - You only check the stats to ensure your systems are still up, 'cuz it's for the Science, not the stats.
62 You maintain a price/performance spreadsheet broken down by project performance, watching for the "sweet spots".
64 You buy new hardware because its on sale, and you may need it in the future
65 You invite complete strangers over to your house to party hearty, for the sole reason that they're fellow DC addicts
66 You've completed & returned more DC results than +99% of of the entire worldwide DC population, and you're STILL considered a "small fry" within your own team's ranks
67. So much light is generated from the LED's on your farm the neighbors have complained that they no longer know if its day or night.
68 You are watching the best musical currently running in the country and all you can think of is how to beat DPC in eccp-109.
69 The Power Company has installed a commercial electricity meter on the side of your home
70 While house shopping you care more about the distance to the telephone central office and power generation station than the quality of schools and crime rate
71: When you're playing a game, the following question becomes valid: "Why am I doing this, I could be using the cycles for -insert project of choice here-"
72 You realize your children skipped their lessons, because the DC client running on their terminal didn't deliver in time
73 You purchase a power adapter for your laptop to run in your car so it can keep crunching.
74 You look outside and see the powerline running to your house glowing red.
75 You are the cause for the rolling blackouts!
76 You have to run your air conditioner in the dead of winter
77. You get upset with the corporate policy of password protected screen savers (biggest waste of computing cycles).
83. You create a webpage with the "You know You're a DC Freak When..." list on it
84 San Jose International airport representatives ask you to turn your computers off at night because the airline pilots are confused about which lights are the landing lights and which ones are your computer's LEDs.
85 You make sure to be the last to leave work, making sure all of your co-workers machines are left on for the night to crunch your project
86 You plan a 500 square foot addition to your home and 250 sq ft of the addition is devoted to your "server room "
87. When you can come up with reasons to post here.
88. You ask permission in the job interview to borg the corporate machines
89. You have become mesmerized by watching WUs accumulate in a queue.
90. You time your departure from home or work to coincide with a stats update
91. You can spend 3 hours tweaking a system to squeeze an extra 2% out of the CPU..but you balk at spending 3 hours bringing your car for servicing.
93. You have a picture of your pharm on your desk at work but none of your wife/family!
94. Your wife is as good at making sure SETI is still running on her own system as you are on yours
95. You ask if there is a client you can run on your TI-92plus96. DC has actually caused you to bark like a dog, chase cats, and howl at the moon ... in REAL LIFE
97. Your DC team has a pinup babe
98. The team you belong to has more computing power then most nations.
99. You are doing the news for several dc teams
100. You've spent more than $100 giving away gifts, bribes, prizes, souveniers, and other
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