How did I get tagged as a help desk expert and volunteer tester? I don't remember for signing up to that.

The 'Volunteer tester' came from running SETI Beta. 'Help desk expert' came from being helpful to
several people here with technical questions.


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How did I get tagged as a help desk expert and volunteer tester? I don't remember for signing up to that.

The 'Volunteer tester' came from running SETI Beta. 'Help desk expert' came from being helpful to
several people here with technical questions.


TL

Well I've never run Beta at Seti, but I have run test apps with E@H and I have answered several questions and made a few suggestions with E@H. OBTW I"m not an expert just a fan of DC.

I was sitting here looking in to see what wild guesses people came up with, very funny all. But no.
All of the titles are set by me. Including the volunteer tester. It's at Seti that you get the VT title if you run Beta with the same email address as main, but we aren't Seti, we're BOINC.

I set VT when I notice you email the BOINC Alpha email list with remarks about Alpha BOINC, or when you post on the forums about an Alpha or Beta BOINC.
Help desk expert is when you're quite helpful towards others with your knowledge about BOINC.

When you don't stray much outside the Lounge or when you keep spouting complete nonsense about BOINC, you'll never get such titles.
And if you don't like the title, and post about that, I'll remove them.

Jord, It doesn't bother me I just found it humorous.
As always keep your social distance and wash your hands.

Glory, I hope. I finally bit the bullet and ordered an ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 Super Overclocked 6GB Dual-fan EVO Edition VR Ready HDMI DisplayPort DVI Graphics Card ... The plan is to move a GTX1060 3GB to be a 2nd GTX1060 3GB in another box and put this into my daily driver. The money I'm not able to spend at happy hour in the neighbor hood pub might as well increase my Einstein production,

But I thought you were one of the lower echelon? I remember the other admins arguing with you over something a month ago.... You even removed your own tags for a short time.

I still have my admin and moderator titles removed. Don't need them on this account. There's only one other admin, and we didn't argue.

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Grumble: Over half an hour to download Focal Fossa updates. Waiting to see if final result is Glory.

Edit: I noticed it unpacking boinc-client so presumably I won't be running the one I rolled myself once it gets to re-boot.

GTX 1660? If I'm correct, that thing is slower than my R9 280X cards, for double the price. Did you quote the wrong model number?

Price is important but it is not not everything and having Cuda is mandatory for some projects which I also support.

Peter isn't DC wonderful it has room for many viewpoints including yours.

Distributed Computing. What you do on your GPU.

But I can't see why anyone would think proprietary things are good. Compatibility is always good.

Peter when used properly Cuda is more efficient than open CL.