Tiles@Home is a dinosaur?

I have been rendering for about 24hrs now and then spent some time on their forums. It would appear as if the Tiles@Home project has past its prime and now the overhead of creating download files exceeds the actual crunching.
I will watch this project and support it in the future if they have something useful for users to do.

Tiles@Home

For a moment I thought I had found a perfect example of convergence! Anyone following my mobile phone blog will know that I have been using a Nokia phone to create GPX files to update and add to the maps on OpenStreetMaps. I was wondering through their Wiki and spotted "Tiles@Home" and with a name like that jumped to the conclusion that it was a BOINC project.
Sadly it isn't ... however I have installed the client on the IBM x-series server (Ubuntu i386). It is running on the one core and seems to be generating some useful map tiles for them. See stats: http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/byid/1834/
The down side is that this will mean one or more processors less contributing to my BOINC total, but I do feel that it is a worthwhile cause.

Hot weather

Everyone told me that Tasmania was cold and miserable ... well today, the local weather station said 33.8'C at 12:42. I have turned off the nVidia GPU on my desktop machine and have throttled back the CPU usage to 85% on the server. I fear that renting an office without air conditioning may have been a bad mistake!

Still no internet

I have a weird problem! I am in an office block that shares a connection via a managed router. It turns out that the previous tenants had a server in the building and strange IT set-up. Now the ports that they used to use will not work with the managed router's DHCP set-up.
As a result, still no internet at the office besides a mobile broadband set-up via a mobile phone and my laptop.
This means that the office machines are not clocking up many hours per day and the BOINC contribution is way lower than it normally would be. I am hoping t get this sorted out with the QLD based ISP today ....

EDIT: 16:15 and they have sorted the problem out! A night of crunching ahead for the "farm" :-)