Oolite Bulletins

Given the general "eau de nerd" odour round here, I'm going to make a safe assumption that I'm NOT the only person here whose Lavian Loopy Juice is being lubricated by the knowledge that my computer@home is busily SETI-ing, folding proteins, or searching for pulsars.

To my surprise there hasn't been much mention on the boards. Private guilty games?

Are there many others?

I am partly prompted because I just ebayed a graphics card for my file server, which will live hooked up to the VGA input of my telly. And when I'm not terrorising the Ferdys, I guess I might as well feed it into the computational maw.

Hmmm, how to adapt a heat-sink to the gas pipe, to take heat out of the under-telly cupboard?

Ummm! And I thought my English was obscure...

We have an old Hanny’s Voorwerp/Galaxy Zoo thread here.

Cody wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:17 pm

We have an old Hanny’s Voorwerp/Galaxy Zoo thread here.

Which inconveniently doesn't mention BOINC - probably because they didn't use BOINC to identify "interesting" objects ... IIRC, a lot of images of galaxies. And they then used the results to train an AI to recognise "galaxy" into a fistful of classes, including "not classified".

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:08 pm

Ummm! And I thought my English was obscure...

OK, in more obscure Ingerlish,

Is anyone else here running BOINC clients. It's a fairly nerdy thing, but there are a lot of nerds hereabouts, so I guess some? (Chumley excepted, since his divorce from Daersterderleley.)

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:20 pm

Which inconveniently doesn't mention BOINC

<sniggers>

did a bit for Covid-19 but had to stop when Mothr board died and havent started up again

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCcaAk ... sp=sharing

spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:32 pm

did a bit for Covid-19 but had to stop when Mothr board died and havent started up again

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCcaAk ... sp=sharing

Got a desktop up and sort-of running, with an actual GPU in it. The intention is to make that my file server, while hooking the graphics card up to the telly to play Oolite on big screen. "Shaders" with an actual GPU are a lot better than the (probably emulated) GPU on my laptop - which is encouraging, and should provide a decent boost to my BOINCing set up when the machine is just being a file server (and maybe "priivate" cloud?).

Is it me, or does Fedora 34 not like GNUStep? I'm still playing the "pick a distro, any distro!" game.

not bothered with fedora or redhat since 2000... was too hard to do anything back then.
recently tried a few distros and have Twister OS on a rasp pi4 and i think a laptop and a few VM.s running Mint. im stilla windows user mainly i need it for work. learnt my way ( barely) around mac os to help with installs.
Twister is good and has several themes to look like various windows versions to help transition and a couple of mac os look alike desktops... might be worth looking into. i believe its Debian based.

P.S. started up the folding at home again... i let it pick whatever wasavailable and have been doing Alzhimers modules a lot lately.. nice.

spud42 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:38 pm

Twister is good and has several themes to look like various windows versions to help transition and a couple of mac os look alike desktops... might be worth looking into. i believe its Debian based.

I don't recognise that name - but there are so many of the damned things.

OIC, it's a RaspberryPi distro. https://twisteros.com/ I've considered that platform from time to time but never indulged. Having still some realistic potential to employ a laptop at a client's field site, I've not really felt the need to stroll off down that hardware path.
Mind you, I've a spare HDMI input on the telly. Might be worth thinking about.

Ho hum, back to the grind-memory stick.

you can download a UI fro PC... https://twisteros.com/download.html