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(WooHoo! TOP 300!) Free Republic Folders Search for a Cure for Cancer, Alzheimer's
Stanford University ^ | 02/01/2006 | Texas Booster

Posted on 02/01/2006 6:40:24 AM PST by texas booster

A midweek thread celebrating our entry into the Top 300 Folding teams in the world!

First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.

Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 667 processors and 239 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over 50 computers now from GetLoaded.com, a trucking website, all contributing while their owners ply our freeways keeping the nation moving.

After over a year of folding, Team 36120, composed of FReepers honoring Ronald Reagan is poised to enter the Top 300 of 44,000 teams worldwide! This is an incredible accomplishment considering our growth started just two months ago.

Want to know more? Just read below and all will be answered.


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To: texas booster; All
We are now 1,000,000 points ahead of the DUmmies. How long before they claim they are entitled to some of our points, because it's unfair for us to have all the good computers. Or unfair because we had a head start. Or unfair because the Library won't let them fold.

Maybe they'll get sPitt, sKerry, and sKennedy to regulate and tax our point totals.

161 posted on 02/04/2006 7:30:52 PM PST by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
Not a chance Mike. I sleep well at night

You have no idea how much this makes me want to drop in all I got, which is 80 or so. I too am not a progressive by any sense or stretch. I think honest work deserves honest pay, not "get paid because I'm a union lackey" that can sleep on the job. Far as I can figure, socialism is for losers that can't compete with their peers. I can tell you this, I'm DAMN good at what I do and I get paid good for it too. DU types just want to take my money and give it to non producers.

162 posted on 02/04/2006 8:33:51 PM PST by Malsua
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To: texas booster

Janice made it back from Houston and reports that she survived her first round of the new Chemo. It made her sick, but not as bad as she feared. Heads back in a couple of weeks.

Folding is such a small thing for us. All it does to us while surfing is ... nothing. F@H just sits there and waits until nothing else is happening and then goes to work.

Thanks to one and all for folding and FReeping. Perhaps our combined work will be the difference maker in someone's life down the road.


163 posted on 02/04/2006 9:14:36 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster; Malsua
Ah, the jealous, nasty-mouthed, self-serving, self-absorbed, small-minded folk over at the DUmp where they believe that protein folding is all for science and the benefit of humanity:
iconoclastNYC Donating Member Feb-05-06 01:42 AM
Response to Reply #74
75. FREEPER REPORT

The Reagan
[edited, see link below] over at Free Republic have team members with access to computer labs.

One person said he brought 90 CPUS online at 80% utilization which explains their stellar CPU growth lately.

It'd be funny to look into it a little bit and get the jerk fired for violating IT regulations.
here

164 posted on 02/05/2006 6:01:00 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: dfwddr

Or, look at it another way, you could remove my 300K from the
team score, and y'all would STILL be 700K ahead of the dummies.

They're over there hollering again, about how "unfair" things are.


165 posted on 02/05/2006 6:17:24 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Clara Lou

Yep. They're in it for the science alright. And if I did as corporate mike said, admitted that I was a "progressive", jumped ship, and joined them, they'd be all overthemselves with glee.

Hey Mike, did I ever tell you that I AM A DEMOCRAT. Been a registered democrat ever since 1976. Unfortunately for y'all, Jimmy Carter cured me of the pathological disease of following the "shining path" blindly and I tossed out my little red book, to boot.

And I still sleep good at night. :)


166 posted on 02/05/2006 6:23:05 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Malsua
I think honest work deserves honest pay, not "get paid because I'm a union lackey" that can sleep on the job.

I'm a union member, but not by choice. I had to join so I could participate in peer conferences, and other organizations. You don't know how badly that sticks in my craw, especially since I'm damn near on the job 24x7, at work, and at home, on the job via VPN. Who do you think they call at 11pm, when they can't remember their e-mail passwords, or logins?

Nope, the Union hasn't done squat for me, except make me pay $175 a year in dues, to be able to go to meetings, that I'm required to be at anyway...

167 posted on 02/05/2006 6:42:30 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

I hear ya.

I used to support a large corporation's network. Wake up at 2am because something is making noise in the living room...pager on Vibrate. I made a decision about 10 years ago that 24/7 support wasn't something I'd ever do again when I changed jobs. When that company laid off my division, I job shopped and turned down a few offers that paid very well just because of the 24/7 support thing.

Back then, the best I could do from home was telnet in but 99% of the problems required me to be at the console...about a 45 minute drive into NYC. Man, thinking back on it, that job sucked. heh.



168 posted on 02/05/2006 7:03:39 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua

Exact opposite with me. When I first started, it was 7:30 - 4pm, and the Network admin, actually SHUT DOWN the server room at night. That's how parochial and bassackwards they were.

After he left, for a less stressful job, it took me 3 long years to convince them, computers, electronics, and other equipment, runs better at 24x7x365, and wouldn't it be nice..(and yes you can), check your e-mail at home, and read it at your leisure, instead of trying to cram it all in during a 5 minute break.

Now, I can't keep up with the demand for VPN, remote access, etc. Since we've only got a 3 man shop, with 5000+ pc's, not to mention the servers, printers, mini's, routers, applicances, switches and other stuff, getting the bosses to agree to leaving pc's on 24x7 is easy, when I showed them that Patchlink could update all 5000 pc's in one night, and it would take both of my guys, and me, about 60 days @ 8hrs per day, just to update our groupwise client, much less all the other patches, updates, virus definitions, profiles, etc, etc, etc.


169 posted on 02/05/2006 7:23:03 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger


ROFL, shut down the server room. ROFL ROFL. That's funny. What a stupid ass.

Fortunatly these days, you can have web email, VPN tunnels and all the other trappings and much of it can be done remotely. Would certainly have made my life much easier. Back in 96, few were running TCP/IP interally and even if you were, the tools didn't exist to make all the cool stuff possible. I mean, VNC alone has made my administration of our China factory possible. Not sure how I would have handled that before.

I've got a developer in Germany who VPNs into our network here in the states and can cross over another VPN to a machine sitting in Fuyong China. THAT is amazing :)

Now if I could just make my VCR stop blinking....


170 posted on 02/05/2006 7:46:31 AM PST by Malsua
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To: ken in texas; All
I wonder if using the -local option will help... though it seems strange that the client.cfg file is getting wiped out or corrupted. Perhaps one of the other folks that have been running F@H as a service will have other ideas; I might lean towards suggesting a therapeutic uninstall and reinstall to see if that clears things.

Tried that and still no go.

I did remove everything and redo the service install and now its holding the configuration but its still killing my linksys 802.11g pcmcia card.

Im running a Toshiba Satellite Intel Celeron 1.5ghz with 480mb of ram.

It was running fantastically until about a week ago I noticed it doing this. Could my processor not be getting cool enough and a fault is built in to protect my devices?

171 posted on 02/05/2006 8:13:02 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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To: smith288

Try this.

Stop the service, and edit the config file with notepad.

Set the cpu usage to 80%, restart the service, and see if it
still kills the wireless card. I had to do that with my dell 9300 laptop. If it works then, you can adjust the settings up, until the point where it kills it again.


172 posted on 02/05/2006 8:27:14 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
Set the cpu usage to 80%, restart the service, and see if it still kills the wireless card. I had to do that with my dell 9300 laptop. If it works then, you can adjust the settings up, until the point where it kills it again.

I notched it down to 60 and it still did it. ALSO, my config was again wiped out. I really dont understand that one bit. Im not going to use the 5.04 console version and going with the 5.02. Lets see how I fair with that. Thanks.

173 posted on 02/05/2006 8:43:02 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

So here are some more numbers, if they are excited about "catching" us, or that we are only ahead because of Klutz. Only 2 of their folders have more points than I do. Only 4 of their folders have more points than our #20.

Oh, we are about to hit 10,000 units folded.


174 posted on 02/05/2006 9:05:19 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: smith288

quick question, do you have the console version running in a folder on the root drive, or in a folder on the desktop?


175 posted on 02/05/2006 9:20:50 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
quick question, do you have the console version running in a folder on the root drive, or in a folder on the desktop?

i have it under program files\folding@home\

176 posted on 02/05/2006 9:46:53 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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To: smith288

Can you use the "@" character in the folder (directory) name?


177 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:25 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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To: SC Swamp Fox
Can you use the "@" character in the folder (directory) name?

FAH installs it there by default so I imagine so.

178 posted on 02/05/2006 10:24:47 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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To: smith288

Aha... it appears that you have downloaded the GUI client, at one point, because the GUI creates the F@H directory. The console version starts, from wherever you put it. And the GUI client doesn't clean up it's tracks when you use the uninstall from the program list.

Try stopping the console client service, and delete the Folding@home directory, do a search, and delete any other instances of the folding client. Make sure that you "disable" the current service, once you've stopped it.

Then, create a new folder, either C:\fah or c:\programfiles\fah, download a new copy of the console client to it, and launch. The first time, if there is not already a "config.cfg" file out there, you'll be asked to enter your name/team number and preferences, etc.

You should also see a new "service" in your services window. Again, Make sure the first one is "disabled".


179 posted on 02/05/2006 10:45:23 AM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
You should also see a new "service" in your services window. Again, Make sure the first one is "disabled".

Well, lets see how it goes.

180 posted on 02/05/2006 11:35:00 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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