Posted on 02/01/2006 6:40:24 AM PST by texas booster
Maybe they'll get sPitt, sKerry, and sKennedy to regulate and tax our point totals.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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...
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.
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.
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....
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?
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.
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.
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.
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\
Can you use the "@" character in the folder (directory) name?
FAH installs it there by default so I imagine so.
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".
Well, lets see how it goes.
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