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#41

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I lost a power supply fan last night. :(

Managed to rig something this morning, but it sounded dreadful and more importantly, the psu was complaining like it was about to expire in flames (I've seen that only once before and it's frightening). So I'm one cruncher down on MW until I can get a big enough psu to replace it.

That and with JockMacMad's festive jaunt down South, it's time to move the guess again.

2000 December 26th
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The abacus (8 bit, No floating point, 3 bits/second) has just predicted the following time :)


Aardvark 19:00 on 26th December
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If my cut & paste skills are better than Mike's then the state of the art is:

CycloneRanger ...............0000 26th Dec [as far as I can decipher! Wink ]
JockMacMad ................... 0300 26th Dec
Mr Thinhead ................... 0900 26th Dec
Robbie .......................... 1000 26th Dec
johnn/Airculpret ............. 1300 26th Dec
IanMBaker ..................... 1400 26th Dec
PinkPenguin ................... 1500 26th Dec
FlyingfocRS .................... 1600 26th Dec
Reeltime ........................ 1800 26th Dec
Aardvark ....................... 1900 26th Dec
Nightlord ....................... 2000 26th Dec
Megacruncher ................ 2100 26th Dec

As you will see I've decided to be a wee bit more pessimisic. We have just over 6 million to go and managed 3.3 million in the last day.

Keep watching & keep revising those guesses.

PS Merry Xmas!! :reindeer: :reindeer:
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CycloneRanger ...............0000 26th Dec
JockMacMad ................... 0300 26th Dec
Mr Thinhead ................... 0900 26th Dec
Robbie .......................... 1000 26th Dec
johnn/Airculpret ............. 1300 26th Dec
IanMBaker ..................... 1400 26th Dec
PinkPenguin ................... 1500 26th Dec
FlyingfocRS .................... 1600 26th Dec
MacDitch ....................... 1700 26th Dec
Reeltime ........................ 1800 26th Dec
Aardvark ....................... 1900 26th Dec
Nightlord ....................... 2000 26th Dec
Megacruncher ................ 2100 26th Dec

Late to the competition, almost too late, but I've stuck a guess in a gap I spotted.

Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy the day, it's almost over here. :(
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You'd only be too late if we had passed 999 million. As it is we are still 2.5 million short of our historic landmark.

With an hour of the day gone I think it's reasonable to assume that we will make the grade sometime in the second half of today.

Those guessing a time before lunch might want to think about grabbing one of the evening slots whilst they remain available.
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damn it, hate to be a party pooper but 22.00 26th Dec
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Too pessimistic and a little rash methinks. We are 1.25 million short as of 10 am. Just to show my faith in our crunching ability I shall pinch the 1800 slot vacated by Reeltime.

CycloneRanger ...............0000 26th Dec
JockMacMad ................... 0300 26th Dec
Mr Thinhead ................... 0900 26th Dec
Robbie .......................... 1000 26th Dec
johnn/Airculpret ............. 1300 26th Dec
IanMBaker ..................... 1400 26th Dec
PinkPenguin ................... 1500 26th Dec
FlyingfocRS .................... 1600 26th Dec
MacDitch ....................... 1700 26th Dec
Megacruncher ................ 1800 26th Dec
Aardvark ....................... 1900 26th Dec
Nightlord ....................... 2000 26th Dec
Reeltime ........................ 2200 26th Dec
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Hi guys, hope you all had a great time yesterday and if you were traveling that you got to where you wanted to be safe and sound despite the weather.

It looks a tight call. Even 8-10 hours out, it's difficult to be certain, but I think there are three guesses that are close to being on the mark, starting with Willie, then Aardvark, followed by yours truly.

Out of those, it seems to me that Aardvark has the best chance of pulling it off.

However, it only needs one project to report some credits early and Willie will indulge himself in a bottle of malt: or if a project goes offline I may still snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
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hey can you put me down for 2100 today please.
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According to Temujins stat's http://ubt-seti.dyndns.org/tsbt/UBT.php the total at 12:00 was 999,043,505. It's now in the lap of the gods :) (that would be a good name for a song :wink: )

I hope everybody had a good Christmas and manage to achieve all that they wish for in the New Year to come.
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If the next two hourly updates are like the last looks like Aardvark is going to be the winner this time.... :D
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If the next two hourly updates are like the last looks like Aardvark is going to be the winner this time.... :D
Yep, another 117K in the next hour would do it.
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#53

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... Right, now for the Whiskey and a toast to Aardvark while waiting for the official results! :drunken:
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I'll drink to that!

Well done Aardvark! :D
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Well done Aardvark & well done us.

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jmknjhn (as written by my cat walking over keyboard).

Thank you all for your congratualations :D .

And well done to TSBT for the first billion, here's to the next one... :wav: :wav:

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