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The console type that is!

If you happen to have a PS3, the PS3Grid project is now open to all.

Visit the site to sign up, or just use the link on this page to create it already linked to our team.
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Not sure what section this update should be in so I'm sticking it here on the end of this one!

Jost and FlyingfocRS - do you know that you can run Yoyo@home on your PS3? There is also a push to get RCN & Sudoku to support it as well. I wouldn't want you to let the No.1 placing slip, but spreading a few cycles around may be worthwhile. :)
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I actually told my PS3 to attach to Yoyo last night.
Will see what happens.
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Looks like I'm PS3 UOTD today as well. 8)
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Looks like I'm PS3 UOTD today as well. 8)
Congratulations!
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Well I appear to have picked up a yoyo w/u on the PS3.
Will just have to wait and see what happens.
Credit is supposed to be around the 3500 per 24 hours or so.
So slightly less than PS3grid but not by much.
Will just have to see what happens.
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Here is the result of a yoyo w/u done on the PS3
secs - 18,951.51
claimed credit - 18.71
awarded credit - 523.24
so that's as near as damn it 100 credits and hour. 8) 8)
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Dammit, I'm going to have to buy one of these PS3 thingies.

The thing is I'll have to hide it: Jo will see it as a child corrupting bit of nonsense and hate it; The kids will love it for the same reasons, and will want to misuse it to play games. :roll: I can just imagine my 7 year-old sayng me with precocious sarcasm (that's my boy :lol: ) "So, you bought a PS3 but there's no games? That really makes sense, Dad!"

So, any tips on disguising a PS3?
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He he
I'm struggling to justify to myself that I don't need to get another one! :lol: :lol: :lol:
But will just get the basic 40Gb model this time as the wireless doesn't work.
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He he
I'm struggling to justify to myself that I don't need to get another one! :lol: :lol: :lol:
But will just get the basic 40Gb model this time as the wireless doesn't work.
Someone over there must have heard me as I'm UOTD for the second time this week! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Well after the first success with yoyo looks like the second w/u got stuck in an endless loop with no progress, I'm only guessing this because the PS3 hasn't reported any results for two days now.
Managed to detach the project using BAM and the PS3 has contacted the PS3Grid project so is hopefully back crunching again.
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Hi giving yoyo@home a go on the PS3 I heard that you have to untick the "Leave applications in memory while supended " box or it will not switch over will report back if it works.

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ahhh
Might be what happend with my second w/u
will be back crunching again on Monday when I finally get home and get to sort the blooming thing.
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As far as I can tell that works just watched it change over from yoyo to Grid with no probs
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It still got probs got to 20% on the next PS3Grid wu after 22 hours I think a resets needed o well you cant win them all
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yeah rebooted mine yesterday afternoon adn it is now crunching away merrily at grid.
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crunched away merrily and then point blank refused to connect to the internet.
thought it was that yoyo had mucked up the installation so wiped the USB stick and started again but still no joy.
had to boot into the console to reset the internet connection, now it says I need to do a system update which usually takes a couple of hours.
:roll: :roll:
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crunched away merrily and then point blank refused to connect to the internet.
thought it was that yoyo had mucked up the installation so wiped the USB stick and started again but still no joy.
had to boot into the console to reset the internet connection, now it says I need to do a system update which usually takes a couple of hours.
:roll: :roll:
Well, speaking for myself, it's nice to know that there are suitable trials and tribulations to go with the humongous amounts of credit those things produce. Of course, it's probably only cos I haven't figured out how to get one past herself yet.... :roll: :roll:
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trials and tribulations.
That's an understatement.
After I did the firmware update Linux refused to boot at all. :x :x
tried re-installing it etc no luck.
then read on the PS3grid forum that the 2.10 version of the firmware isn't compatible with the pendrive installation.
Or in otherwords it doesn't work! :roll: :roll: :roll:
But by downloading a new otheros.bld file from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 3/otheros/ it now boots.
So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now :lol: :lol: :lol:
PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!
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Lol@ flying brick, glad to see it behaves like a normal computer then
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So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now :lol: :lol: :lol:
PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!
Be honest, you'd be bored brainless if it all worked perfectly! :D :D
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So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now :lol: :lol: :lol:
PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!
Be honest, you'd be bored brainless if it all worked perfectly! :D :D
True too true! :lol: :lol:
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Thought i'd highlight this news article from the website:
Febrary 11, 2008 New PS3GRID live pen drive released.
We have released an updated version of the ps3grid live pendrive compatible with firmware version 2.10.
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