(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!

systematic ^ | 1-2-2006 | systematic

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[Petronski]

I'm going to sacrifice the 5% to keep the Playskool interface. ;O)

[Malsua]

O.K., anybody in a better mood now?

A little. Team Gipper(or a varient) is very much appealing to me. Ronald Reagan was a great man and listening to him speak about the challenger tragedy makes me tear up every time as I remember very specifically where I was at and what I was doing. I let half my machine run today while I mulled this situation. I felt a swift kick to the shorts, but willing to leave it there. I'd be more contented if the kicking party wasn't reflected in the effort which is, in my opinion a quite worthy cause.

[Paladin2]

I have one of each FAH version running on a dual processor computer. If those two clients ever simultaneously get a similar WU I might be able to get a better measurement. However I think I've noticed that different WUs of the same number seem to have different performances on the same machine, so who knows.

[Klutz Dohanger]

The only thing I note here, is that there are still 56 poor saps, running pentiums, and pentium pros..

Surely, there is a better way... :)

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SUCCESS

I'm back to folding!!! I moved it to my external F drive. I waited for my first step to appear and it did. WhooHoo.

Thank you ever so much. :-)

[Paladin2]

"there are still 56 poor saps, running pentiums, and pentium pros"

It all depends on the job to be done. I have a 486 with mirrored SCSI drives that serves the household MP3 needs [and does it quite well]. It definitely doesn't do any folding, though it does have true spare CPU cycles.

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there are still 56 poor saps, running pentiums,

Hey, I resemble that remark. :-)

[kingu]

One of my folders is our store MP3 player - an old 486 with Windows ME on it, that chugs away through a workunit in a blazing 2.5 days. They're spare CPU cycles, the computer is on 24/7 anyway, so it makes a great folder.

(and a quick plug for the Ultimate MP3 Jukebox.. Saved our store a whole lot of hassles - 500 demo cds take up a tremendous amount of room; hardly any once MP3'd and automatically organized by the jukebox.)

[Klutz Dohanger]

A little. Team Gipper(or a varient) is very much appealing to me. Ronald Reagan was a great man and listening to him speak about the challenger tragedy makes me tear up every time as I remember very specifically where I was at and what I was doing. I let half my machine run today while I mulled this situation. I felt a swift kick to the shorts, but willing to leave it there. I'd be more contented if the kicking party wasn't reflected in the effort which is, in my opinion a quite worthy cause.

Glad to see ya back, and still rootin' for the "gipper".

[Petronski]

I've been looking for a jukebox for five years!


Thanks!

[papasmurf]

Finally! I found another pc card nic for an old K6/400/64 lappy I had..and now I have 8 on line.


Yes, it's slow, like some the the other machines we are using, but every protein counts, right?


:O)

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[Klutz Dohanger]

an old 486 with Windows ME

I was going to say *ugh*, but then I noticed that you're also a glutton for punishment... ME? Even Dos 4.1 had better reviews than that waste of an operating system.

[kingu]

Every program takes some getting used to; my mother-in-law can't look up a telephone number in a phone book without getting confused, yet she can easily find a particular song on a particular album by a particular artist, even if she only knows one of these items. Well worth the install and lookover - shareware, $20 if I recall properly if you want it, plus the author has always been extremely responsive if I had a suggestion or issue.

(And as I write this, the jukebox shuts down the music, telling me and the customers that the day has ended. Love that alarm clock feature.)

[Senator Bedfellow]

Yah, I have a PIII-700 serving up music to the house here, too. Just for the heck of it, it's crunching on a 181 point unit, at the rate of about 2 hours per frame - should be done by about Friday, after 8 days or so of work :)

[kingu]

I was going to say *ugh*, but then I noticed that you're also a glutton for punishment... ME? Even Dos 4.1 had better reviews than that waste of an operating system.

Never wanted to spend the money to buy a new license; the old one was on there, figured why bother. I think it has been online for five months now since the last reboot (patching the software last time required a reboot), directly connected to the net 24/7. I figured I'd get sick of the OS after a month or so and break down and buy a new OS for it, but it operates like a dream for both the MP3 player and browsing the net. If it ain't broke, I don't fix. :)

[Paladin2]

I have a PIII 750 in the mix that is generating ~45 points/day.

[Craigon]

I haven’t visited these threads since jumping on board last week. Haven't had time to read all the posts in these latest threads either. But while browsing recent posts I gather that the team name will have to change due to Jim’s reluctance (understatement!)?.?. :) To each his own…Unlike the Lib DUmmies who have zero tolerance for different points of view within their ranks! If that’s the case I fully plan on sticking around as long as there is a team Freep. I vote for a name with “Freeper” in it since that’s a name we’ve collectively given ourselves. No one officially owns that do they?

[Klutz Dohanger]

If it ain't broke, I don't fix. :)

Not me. I've given customers rebates, if they'll let me upgrade them to w2k or xp, just so I don't have to deal with the ME issues... but then again, if it's not breaking, I could live with a stable machine that takes 3 weeks to reboot... :)

[papasmurf]

Klutz:

Need some help from you. I'm trying to give my friends a sig image, the problem is I can't get just the user name and team number to display.

I see they have several examples on the eoc site, but I need the user number in order for it to work, and I don't find the user number anywhere.

I want it to look lke this one...

...and this is the code I'm using...
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=32359&bg=1

Am I going about it the wrong way, or is there a secret user number page somewhere?

:O)

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