Official D2OL BBQ Contest Thread

[Ugly n Grey]

Welcome one and all to the D2OL BBQ contest. The boys are getting darn hungry here at Xtremesystems and there seems to be T-BONES :cow: on the menu. Can you help us eat sooner?

Your venerable team leaders at D2OL have decided to pump things up a notch and have turned to an outright membership drive competition to help the new wave of crunching along.

The goal of the contest: Sign up members from the existing non-participating membership community to join the D2OL team and you could win. It’s that simple.

What can I win?
Well Tim, you could take home a complete mATX system composed of an OC’d P4 running at 2.4 complete with RAM, DVD drive, HD, floppy in a custom SFF desktop case professionally painted with your choice of color that draws less than 125 Watts while in full operation. An easy inexpensive way to add to your numbers or a lovely little netsurfing rig for Mom with all the core needs integrated on the mobo.

You could also take home a 256 Meg Pen drive, preloaded with Linux and D2OL ready to boot and crunch from the start. Just set any system to boot off the drive and bingo, you are crunching in no time, no HDD required. These secondary prizes are open to all crunchers who put up 2250 candidates during the contest period. This means your newly signed up crunchers could win something as well!!!!

We MAY have other prizes at random as sponsors come on board.

How do I win?
Easy, to gain an entry ticket, sign up a new D2OLer to fold for our team and have that person declare by email that you signed him or her up. This contest will run for three weeks starting October 23rd and ending November 13th 2005. At that point, the contest will be closed to new entries and your newly signed up crunchers have two more weeks to hit the minimum crunching requirements of 2250 candidates as recorded in the official team stats list on November 27th. On November 28th the draw will be held.

You gain ONE GRAND PRIZE ENTRY PER SIGNUP! The more you sign up, the better the chance you will win.

Rules
Sign up a cruncher, have them forward their XS userid, D2OL user ID and the XS user ID of the person who signed them up to uglyngrey at the infamous hotmail. The topic should read “Grand Prize Entry�. They will be tracked in the stats until the contest closes. Any cruncher who hits 2250 points during the contest duration is awarded a single entry in the secondary prizes draw.

Xtremesystems Moderators, Admins, Staff (excepting news staff) are not eligible for prizes, but may still compete with you to recruit members. Their new recruits are eligible for secondary prizes just like everybody is.

Abuse of this process and breach of the contest rules in anyway (duplicate accounts, false entries) can result in expulsion from XS, so play fair, it's just a contest.

FAQ
Why do my entries have to produce 2250 candidates?
Simple, a very average P4 can produce those candidates in about 15 days. By ensuring your new members produce a minimum number of candidates, you are motivated and responsible to mentor them in getting their rigs working correctly for crunching.

I live in Antartica and I won a prize. What about shipping and duties?
The item will be shipped to you; however you are responsible for any duties accorded by your governments.

What if there is a dispute?
A dispute panel of the D2OL team leads and UglynGrey will resolve all disputes. Our decision is final in all matters relating to the contest.

My signup used to crunch, is he an eligible candidate?
For the purposes of competition, anyone who has not crunched in 60 or more days is fair game if they actively participate once more under their own ID. So for someone who no longer crunches and is just moving their candidates over to an active user it is not counted as an entry. This contest is designed to increase the actual amount of people crunching for our team.

[gearhead]

I put a link on my ebay xeon listing to the thread on building a lv xeon cruncher. Hmmmm mebey thets where OcShoot_Mopo came from :D
Ne way couldnt hurt ,eh?

[mad mikee]

And of course teh perfect announcer! :clap:
I guess I should see who else I can nag @ work :hehe:

[[XC] moddolicous]

Alright, I guess I'm in. I've gotta get the rest of my family's computer crunching.

[WesM63]

UnG,
Good work with the competition :) Off to pursaude co-workers to join.

[Korpse]

I guess we cant get people to sign up under the same node ID's to avoid team getting stacked up with nodes and hard for people to track their own work?

[perkam]

Xtremesystems Moderators, Admins, Staff (excepting news staff) are not eligible for prizes, but may still compete with you to recruit members. Their new recruits are eligible for secondary prizes just like everybody is. :soap:

... lol :p: G/L to everyone, I'll see what i can do as well ;)

Perkam

[afireinside]

I'll try and get people...

BTW, UnG YGPM ;)

[Rodzilla]

May the best deviant win! Good luck all!

Be sure to point your new troops to the getting started sticky http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43195

And if they need help please have them post here for a quick and friendly response.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46257&page=14&pp=25

[Disposibleteen]

And here is was thinking that we would actually cook something and take a pic to post up. I would have won that contest for sure my BBQ Rocks!

[Rodzilla]

And here is was thinking that we would actually cook something and take a pic to post up. I would have won that contest for sure my BBQ Rocks!

You in on this one??? I want to see some new troops from your corner man!

[.sentinel]

Can they have more than one node? If so I have someone in mind.

[Ugly n Grey]

Why couldn't they have more than one node?

[.sentinel]

What if they plan to join. Like my friend hasn't signed up yet but he wants to join XS would that still be qualified.

[Ugly n Grey]

Yes if you bring in someone net new to XS as a whole, that certainly qualifies.....

[ex2cib]

speaking of beef, i think im going to enjoy a nice grilled steak tonight.

UnG, how would you like to produce 2250 cands for the d2ol team ;)

[Ugly n Grey]

ex2cib
Since you asked, you just got yourself a 2.6GHz A64 crunching for you.
As you guys know, I'm predominantly a folder but I can't do a ton right now as I'm restricted to a very slow modem connection until my sat dish is installed in December. But I swore up and down the first guy that asked me would get my support. ex2cib has the first entry for the draw :D

UnG

[heater918]

BTW, UnG YGPM
Dangit, i thought afi asked you :mad:

[Ugly n Grey]

Did I miss that? No trying to screw anyone over, where heater?

[heater918]

post #8 i don't really know what it was about.

[Ugly n Grey]

oh he just asked me for the images for the pens, I will post those within a couple weeks :) . BUT he should have asked me to crunch!!!

[Ugly n Grey]

I guess we cant get people to sign up under the same node ID's to avoid team getting stacked up with nodes and hard for people to track their own work?

I missed this question earlier, caught it re reading the thread. What do you mean? you mean old crunchers who were idle? That's fine, I have a full XML data drop of everyone who is currently registered with the team and will measure against a new one at the end... easier to use the same ID's etc if they are reactivating...

[heater918]

I was kicking myself for assuming afi asked. :)
We allmost had 2 rig's from UnG crunching.

[Ugly n Grey]

First one who PM's me, I will tell you a guy who needs to be "signed up" and is just waiting to be asked and walked through it.... cmon guys LETS DO THIS :)

EDIT: ex2cib is paying attention and gets another entry :toast: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :woot:

[ex2cib]

ex2cib
Since you asked, you just got yourself a 2.6GHz A64 crunching for you.
As you guys know, I'm predominantly a folder but I can't do a ton right now as I'm restricted to a very slow modem connection until my sat dish is installed in December. But I swore up and down the first guy that asked me would get my support. ex2cib has the first entry for the draw :D

UnG

yea, modem's suck...im on one right now actually, waiting until Bellsouth gets their act together and FINALLY gets dsl here in early dec. 4mb/768 :slobber:
what makes is worse is that everything seems to be optimized for broadband now

thanks again 4 the cruncher though UnG. ive learned over the years of high school magazine sales and selling other junk, you ALWAYS ask the person who starts the competition.

[Rodzilla]

LOL! I was waiting to see who would ask him first! :D :up: Keep it up all!

BTW... can someone link me to some info on the bootable USB key for D2OL?? That sounds handy for when a HD dies or something similar.

[Ugly n Grey]

I'm working on the final build for that, I'll be posting it within the next couple weeks when I am fairly sure it's stable...I am also working on Dimes and F@H versions.... be patient with me :) this high speed connection (NOT) has me handcuffed a little.

[Rodzilla]

I'm working on the final build for that, I'll be posting it within the next couple weeks when I am fairly sure it's stable...I am also working on Dimes and F@H versions.... be patient with me :) this high speed connection (NOT) has me handcuffed a little.

Sorry... I thought this was something people were already using. Can you tell us a little about it? Does it run off of linux? What do you approximate the footprint to be?

This is a very interesting prize! :slobber:

[Ugly n Grey]

Final foot print should be under 64Meg for GUI (Dimes only has GUI) quite a bit smaller for F@H and D20L... say 32 for D2OL, as low as 8Meg for F@H...

[mad mikee]

Could be handy and w/ thumbs drives so cheap @ that size :D

Final foot print should be under 64Meg for GUI (Dimes only has GUI) quite a bit smaller for F@H and D20L... say 32 for D2OL, as low as 8Meg for F@H...

[Rodzilla]

My D2OL folder is 68MB per node with 2000 candidates queued if that helps. (And I strongly recommend that everyone set there queue limit to the max of 2000!)

So I assume a Linux distro will be used... so the user will be required to copy drivers to the thumb drive?

I know you don't have it done yet... sorry if I'm bugging you with questions but this just seems uber cool and I'm very curious as to how this would work. (Knowing little to nothing about Linux doesn't help either.)

[Gogar]

Can dutch power cows join too, or would that be canibalism? :D

[[KoG]^weaZel]

Can dutch power cows join too, or would that be canibalism? :D
If you did that you would have to change your name to Hannibal.




brings new meaning to DPC
Dutch Power Cannibals

[Ugly n Grey]

If anyone can convince a top 50 power cow to join for the duration until they are BBQ I will personally kiss their ugly butt and I will find something very rewarding for them (and I mean that), how's that?

So poach away.

[Entity_Razer]

Sure why not? Cows can join. As long as you bring over the entire points gatherd as a cow :D

If this team would habe a TSM department (or was it TMC) I'dve brung over my points gather under the DPC flag to :p:

But I did not D2OL before Xs so... :)


Edit: UnG, you serius? Does it have to be a active cruncher or just something willing to donate points to us? :)

I'll be glad to give it a go :)

[Ugly n Grey]

It would be scalable with the accomplishment, seeing as the moo girls read our forums, I think the odds are low. But if it is pulled off, I will make it a very special event. As well, keep in mind, you are doing this to contribute to the research, so the net goal of D2OL would not be subverted in any way. As always, keep it friendly.

UnG

[Martijn]

Edit: UnG, you serius? Does it have to be a active cruncher or just something willing to donate points to us? :)

I'll be glad to give it a go :)

Active, of course ;)

[Entity_Razer]

off course I will keep it frendly and I know the goal of D2OL will not be alterd, I just find it a cool challenge and I think I'm gonna try and poach me a cow :D

Not for any prize or event, just for fun :)

[Rodzilla]

...I will personally kiss their ugly butt...
I want pictures!:p:

[Entity_Razer]

your gonna want pictures of UnG kissing my butt?

Sicko :p:

But I do intend to try and bait me one be sure :)

[Rodzilla]

your gonna want pictures of UnG kissing my butt?

Sicko :p:

But I do intend to try and bait me one be sure :)

Hi-Res baybeeee!

[Korpse]

Can I add Alec? He's got about 1000 cands and isnt active but I speak to him on MSN.

If he gets back active (even a little) can I have an entry? Or would he have to get to that 2250 marker?

[Ugly n Grey]

Yeah if he has a grand today and you re-activate him, he has to be at 3250 at contest end... and it's really easy.... only a couple of weeks of crunching out of the five ish till contest end...

[Korpse]

Cheers man :up:

[Entity_Razer]

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF MEAT HERE!!!!!!!!!!


Come on people. Stay sharp! If you want your meal you'll have to work for it so go and recruit/dock my little drones, go and multiply

*insert evil Barbeceu shef laugh here*

;)

But seriusly, don't let this contest go to waist people!
Come one, it's not THAT big a effort to do...

[Mr_Slinky]

But I swore up and down the first guy that asked me would get my support. UnG
i want to see where you swore up and down? not contesting that just want to see it in black and white or manilla.

[Vapor]

Slightly OT: but congrats on the Mod-ship Entity! What subforums do you oversee??

[[XC] DragonOrta]

I think it's for what he's been planning.

[Vapor]

Care to explain? If it can't be said publically, PM me....

[[XC] DragonOrta]

here's the thread (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72532)

[Vapor]

Ohhh....THAT....I was under the impression it was the other thing he's running that's not part of the site. Got it....;)

[[XC] DragonOrta]

Other thing? I'm not sure I know what you are talking about now. lol

[Vapor]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1104864#post1104864

[[XC] DragonOrta]

oh, didn't realize he did that. cool, thanks.

[Ugly n Grey]

i want to see where you swore up and down? not contesting that just want to see it in black and white or manilla.

LOL... it was in the design phase of the contest, I am not a cruncher, therefore I was fair game to sign up.... You guys got a rig, and now there's an entry

[Rodzilla]

who else is trying to win this rig? Come on man!

[ex2cib]

i guess im gonna go search for some more crunching power, maybe get back a few inactives.....i need a file server so i dont screw up my hard drive everytime i want to OC :)

[ex2cib]

just shot out a few PM's...for those that receive them, im not trying to spam your inboxes, just that i REALLY want to slaughter those cows. FREE BEEF FOR EVERYONE.

[Entity_Razer]

I am overlooking the D2OL section (duh) besides for the planned event.

I am under DDTUNG and Rodzilla's supervision (so from now on if you see me calling someone boss, you know who it is :p: )

Back on subject, I can't think of any people in my neighbourdhood who I can convince to join (even though I can't win anything)


But I got yet another event planned for ya'll you just wait and see :D I s-just hope the stats don't mess up again

[MeltedDuron]

oh yeah! :banana: I'm giving it ALL I got, i want BBQ beef for Xmas dinner!

[Ugly n Grey]

I understand no one wants this rig. There is only one official entry for this rig so far, I have no emails, no sign ups - nothing.

Gentlemen? are we going to do this thing?

[Entity_Razer]

Its a great inniciative and it's a great price that can be won so I can't imagen why people don't want the rig.....


I guess it's not to easy to do. I mean not a whole lot of people know of more people that can/want/will join.


i'd like to see more people here and production but I'm afraid a whole lot of people are reluctant to install such an appliance on their computer.

It's a shame really :s

Come one people what do you want. No one interested in this fine rig? I can guarantee you you won't regret it!

[ex2cib]

UnG, i sent a PM to that individual that you said needed help, but no response (in PM or in stats) and i have sent out 3 other PM's also. im trying not to do too much inbox spamming, but i guess ill have to step up my efforts.

[Ugly n Grey]

Guys' don't be afraid to ask people :) just ask politely and take no for an answer if it is given is all. ex2cib, ping that user again, I know he's busy but he'll help.

[[KoG]^weaZel]

I have sent out a few invites just waiting to hear back on them.

[[XC] moddolicous]

I'll get someone soon.

[Rodzilla]

Who else wants some?!?!?!?! Come on ppl... time is running short!

[Entity_Razer]

yhea time is seriusly running out on this contest. It's make or breack people!

[Entity_Razer]

UP YOU GO!!!!!!!!! (in other words, BUMP)



Come on gentlemen. This is a damn fine rig!

Get your frends involved, hijack your grilfrends comp and run D2Ol in it do whatever you must just don't leave UnG hanging here with this fine rig!


If this contest proves to be a letdown concerning turnout I don't think UnG Will give away the prize. 1 person is hardly a contest folks

come one. Get your frends into this, your girlfrend, your mother, your dad, your big brothers at uni's laptop.... whatever!


:slapass: :slapass: :slapass:

[bullet2urbrain]

well i've got one recruit that is getting it setup right now.. but i dont think he's going to hit 2250 before the 28th... and he's also worried when he goes home for winter break about running it....

He's running it on an HT P4 3.0ghz using Rod's EZ Installer.

and i may be getting one more running on a 3200+ Athlon 64 @ 2.0ghz.

[ex2cib]

well, i had UnG, and i contacted BB mods's also(nothing from him yet). i did get amgrb to run it, but he is in the mafia (has his own node number btw) and he told me this morning he already has his 2250.

ive tried contacting about 7 or 8 other people, but most people have said they can't or no response @ all. im still waiting on a few more. but i doubt they will make 2250 by the deadline.

[Jochenp]

A bit OT: does D2OL use a lot of bandwith of your connection (download/upload)
If it doesn't, I'm in with 3 recruites, don't know if they'll hit the deathline.

[[KoG]^weaZel]

no D2OL requires very little bandwidth. Some even run it using dial-up.

[Jochenp]

ok ,thnx, I'm installing it right now on my pc:D I'll install it on my dads and my sisters and my uncles pc too

[[KoG]^weaZel]

ok ,thnx, I'm installing it right now on my pc:D I'll install it on my dads and my sisters and my uncles pc too

cool just get their permission before you do the installs.

[Jochenp]

Offcourse :)
Just a quick one because you're online and I don't want to read through all tutorials,
where are the results (the tasks you completed) stored? Is there like a website keeping track of this?

[[KoG]^weaZel]

Offcourse :)
Just a quick one because you're online and I don't want to read through all tutorials,
where are the results (the tasks you completed) stored? Is there like a website keeping track of this?

yes.
www.d2ol.com

[Jochenp]

Lol, I got owned :D
Well, I'm sorry guys, d²ol will keep running on my sisters pc, but my dad complains about it slowing down his pc (yes I tried d²oldaddy or whatever it's called) and it :banana::banana::banana::banana:s my ping up when online gaming, so I'm very sorry

[WesM63]

Jochenp,
I would suggest using Rodzillas service installer. I use it on my Opteron rig in my sig and it is my main/gaming rig and I have had no issues with it what so ever.

(IDK if its linked in this thread, if not check the D2OL Stampede thread, its linked on the first post.)

[Korpse]

Jochenp, I cant see how it screws up your ping :confused:

turn it "offline" and set the cand tasks to 1 after youve downloaded lots (say 2000), that way you only have to post cands (upload) when you need to, Eg your 2000 ran out and you need some more ;) - then the only time you need to download new cands is when youve ran out...

[Entity_Razer]

Jochen, use rod's installer and then install helheims watchdog.

I GUARANTEE it will produce AND NOT slow down your comp that way.

[Jochenp]

I used rod's installer
I'll give it another try, I hope it'll work

[Entity_Razer]

nono, after you use the installer install hellheims watchdog programm and uninstall D2OL Daddy.

Sometimes D2OL daddy fails to run as a service. The watchdog program has no such known bugs as it really works A TON :)

[Jochenp]

What am I supposed to do? I don't understand it :confused:
It's prolly a :slapass: :slap: for me ,but help me, I'm going to d²ol anyway:D

[ex2cib]

that is another service supposed to make sure d2ol is always idle, i guess you can just exit out of the installer from there and then find helheim's extreme watchdog service

[WesM63]

I can't read the last line of it, but i'm pretty sure it says "Press enter to continue" or soemthing along those lines. A registery thing will pop up and just click ok on that as well.

[L0$t Pr0PhEt]

I can't read the last line of it, but i'm pretty sure it says "Press enter to continue" or soemthing along those lines. A registery thing will pop up and just click ok on that as well.

Druk op een toets om door te gaan = press a buton to continue

there, you all learned a line of dutch :p

[Jochenp]

jeeej:D I'm from belgium too
Nothing happenend when I pressed a button, so u just exited it and used helheims one
Im using d²ol right now, it finished 7 tasks and it's downloading full throttle.
Just a question, when you use folding @ home, the verb is to fold, whats the verb for d²ol? :D

[Korpse]

fold, crunch or save kittens

[[XC] moddolicous]

Preferably save kittens. So, do u have any problems left?? To check if hellheim's thing was installed correctly, press alt-ctrl-del and look for D2OL_XWD. (I think).

[Jochenp]

It's all working, but I havnt checked my ping yet.
I've finished 64 results untill now, 51 where uploaded

[mad mikee]

http://app.d2ol.com/stats/nodeProfile.jsp?id=######, where ###### is your node and you can SEE YOUR STATS :D

[Jochenp]

I joined the XS team, I hope I diden't need to complete any registration of some sort on this forum, I prossessed 85 candidates since yesterday

[shmaa]

I joined the XS team, I hope I diden't need to complete any registration of some sort on this forum, I prossessed 85 candidates since yesterday

No registration required. :)

Welcome to the team :toast: :cool:

[[KoG]^weaZel]

Yes welcome to the team!
BTW, do you like beef?!?

[Jochenp]

I sure do:D
I just have a problem, my sister and I are on a router, and her pc had d2ol running too now, and she's one of my nodes, she has already made 20 results to upload, they where uploaded but d2ol website keeps saying she hasn't done anything, is this because we have the same ip?

[Entity_Razer]

did you register the account under your email you registerd your account with? if so you still need to add it to your account. Go to your account on D2OL.com and press add node, there you'll see nodes you can add/that are registerd on your email

[Jochenp]

Been there, done that...
I did that even before I let it begin crunching.

[Jochenp]

Nevermind, it shows em now,
too bad the first 18 tasks my sister crunched didn't register :(