LANMAN Back in the House!!

[LANMAN]

5 Million SETI points as of today. Whew..
Long way since 1999.

So whats ya'll?

--LANMAN

 

[Rudy Toody]

How can we miss you when you won't stay away? But seriously, welcome back!

 

[petrusbroder]

Very nice to see you, LANMAN!

Congrats tothe nice milestone!
All is quite well i Sweden ...

 

[GLeeM]

Congrats on a nice Milestone

 

[lane42]

A Big congrats LANMAN :thumbsup:

Talk about an oldtimer...SETI@home member since 3 Apr 1999

 

[Wiz]

Nice!

(Wiz wonders how many he's got atm?)

 

[networkman]

There's a name I've not seen in quite a while -- welcome back!

 

[ICXRa]

There's a name I've not seen in quite a while -- welcome back!

Yep!

 

[deerslayer]

Another name here that I doubt anyone remembers. I used to do SETI, SB, and a couple others about.....10 or 12 years ago.

 

[petrusbroder]

No problem remembering you, deerslayer and ICXRa!
I hope RL treats you well - and I wish you a great Holiday Season!

It is great to see "oldtimers" now and then - or even more often!
Although the beer-icon/beer smiley is gone ...

 

[LennyZ]

LANMAN look in your rear view mirror.

 

[Assimilator1]

LANMAN
Hey good to see ya , how ya doing?
Congrats on 5mill btw

Another name here that I doubt anyone remembers. I used to do SETI, SB, and a couple others about.....10 or 12 years ago.

Yep I remember you, welcome back
I don't remember what SB is though......

 

[salvorhardin]

I think it's seventeen or bust.

 

[deerslayer]

No problem remembering you, deerslayer and ICXRa!
I hope RL treats you well - and I wish you a great Holiday Season!

It is great to see "oldtimers" now and then - or even more often!
Although the beer-icon/beer smiley is gone ...

Hahahahaha....just found a picture of myself in Fullmetal Chocobo's TeAm Anandtech blog.....

http://www.digitalportfolios.org/main/blogs/TeAm/crunchers.html

 

[wirelessenabled]

There's a name I've not seen in quite a while -- welcome back!

Ditto!

Way to go Lanman!

 

[MechEng]

Lots of names from the past in here... Nice to see some of you are still around.

 

[petrusbroder]

Hi MechEng!
Really "long time no see!"
I hope life is good for you!

 

[MechEng]

Yeah, it's been a while since I was last around here. Been busy with work, family, moving from a couple new jobs (each one better than the previous one and by my own choice , so all is good there) and some new houses to touch up. Well, just the normal cycle of life I guess

Cost of electricity is steep around here, which means DC is not really that enticing now that I need to spend more money on family rather than on just myself.

1kWh around here is about DKr. 2.10 which is approximately $0.38, so running DC machines quickly becomes quite a significant post in the budget.

I miss Folding tho, so now and then I come by here to have a look at who's around and donate some cycles, until my conscience makes me shut it down again... Oh well, when the kids move out in some years I guess I'll get time and money to get back into it again some more.


EDIT: Just found these images, right after I posted the above.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/electriccost1.gif
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/electricppp.gif
I live in Denmark

 

[deerslayer]

I'd probably have to get another job to pay my electric bill at that rate. My wife and kids like to turn on every possible electricity consuming device in the house and leave them on all day long.

 

[GLeeM]

EDIT: Just found these images, right after I posted the above. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-co...ctriccost1.gif http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-co...lectricppp.gif I live in Denmark

Wow! That is an eye opener.

"I'll leave the porch light on" takes on new meaning at those prices

 

[MechEng]

Wow! That is an eye opener.

"I'll leave the porch light on" takes on new meaning at those prices

Yup... I am very fond of my 3W LED bulbs (9 porch lamps ), even though they are rather costly.

 

[StitchExperimen]

Nice to see you Lanman! I remember Lanman back in 2004 or earlier when I went under muttley__

 

[Assimilator1]

Hi MechEng
Don't you crunch when on your PC when your just surfing etc?

Nasty lec prices btw!

 

[MechEng]

Hi MechEng
Don't you crunch when on your PC when your just surfing etc?

Nasty lec prices btw!

Well, on modern PC's there is a significant difference in power consumption when just browsing, or actually loading the CPU/GPU 100% on all cores.

I allready spend $ 2500-3000 a year on electricity, and i do not heat or cool my house with electricity.

Assuming some numbers for a single full time folder:
250w = 0.25kW
24*365 = 8760 h/year
0.25*8760 = 2190kWh
2190kWh*0.40$ = $876/year

Too much for the time being, but some day...

and then I haven't even touched the subject of the carbon footprint... When I (in a few years time) have installed some solar panels, it will be cheaper electricity but also save a lot of carbon output. At least as long as we here in Denmark still use coal/gas for much of our production of electricity.

 

[Neurodog]

WTG LANMAN!

Lucky for me electricity is only 0.07/KWh.
In the winter months we average about 4000KWh/month.