RE: Maintaining your BOINC equipment.

Do not forget efmer's Boinc-Tasks and the humans ability and need to monitor boinc projects and their machines , even the right drivers and temperatures let alone top of the line hardware and newest drivers can still result on 0 WU sent to a host. Boinc-Tasks is great , especially with its cloud add-on to allow control via a machine/phone remote ( i have used it overnight in the hospital ) and if you have more than 1 machine ( do not forget to secure your boinc client and setup/change the default rpc pw and if wanted restricted IP for control machine and init the network features to enable the port in the firewall too , its edit 1 file create an another and for someone like myself with 1.21gW/hr worth of HP blades and laptops along with phones/tablets its great for monitoring all machines workflow to keep it constant. The best practice to remember is that Gridcoin is not free , it takes work no matter what processing and both maintaining your machines and projects more than anything and leaving it headless assuming to strike it rich will outcome more than likely in the opposite. Along with that is that it is like playing the stock market , the RAC/MAG you get your factored GRC alotment of funds per is based off many things and just because a project has less users in the team does not mean more GRC , the number of computer hosts along with the users CPU core count and GPU count matters on top of that. You cannot ride the new projects for mag spikes for long when they are whitelisted , it lasts maybe 2 weeks before other users catch on and about 2 months before they are overcrowded and we are begging for more. This is why more of you new to the community should be made aware that you can create votes along with contract projects on behalf of the community and initiate the possibility of a relationship with Gridcoin and becoming whitelisted. Remember , the community is all in a whole and not just the + and @ on IRC nor the original IRC/slack/steemit/discord/mumble etc locations that our community has a presence and we all have an equal say in ideas and proposition , you can only help the community backs you with a vote of YES.