Posted on 06/08/2006 11:17:52 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
~awk~ I wish that I hadn't even Wikipediaed it. Reminds me of the old saying, "Ignorance is bliss." ~whew~
Well, I'm back. A storm took all wires to the house down Tuesday night, and Comcast finally got to me today (the byotch of being last on a dead end street). Got juice back Thursday, so hopefully all the boxes will dump some points today. What a b*tch, I get to the top ten, we break the top 100, and I'm sitting here with my thumb up my a$$ !!!.
Well, as a indicator of just how LITTLE traffic the folding threads receive on DU, you haven't been tombstoned yet...
But the thread has been pulled!
Hah - I wonder when that happened - they must have been looking here to see what we're talking about - Hi DUmmies - Aren't you up late, past your bedtime??
Not only has it been pulled, but apparently it's gone through some type of time machine - I went to the link to see when it was deleted and here's what I saw:
(0 posts) Wed Dec-31-69 07:00 PM
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Well, that didn't take long.
*sob* My posting priveledges on DU have been revoked. :)
many thanks!
Keep on Foldin'
Ha ha. You seem surprised :) Did they say anything as to the reason for banning?
We should move up 2 spots tomorrow
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
Super! My 2 units that finally downloaded should help a little.
we'll hit #97 at the 9pm update it looks like.
For all, in case anyone else is running windows Vista Beta,
FAH console version, works just fine. Just uploaded a Workunit.
Haven't tested the GUI version yet.
Re: DU, and my *sob* *banning*, the mods haven't answered me back, and probably never will.
It helps a lot! While the super folders get all the glory for making the top 20 list, we get a tremendous amount of points from average FReepers who have one (or two) box folding on slow machines. EVERY CPU folding helps. So thank you!
To put things in context, 2/3 of the team points, have been generated by #25 and below.
To view it from a different perspective, vs our "competition", if our top 25 folders ceased folding tonight, the Free republic team would still be producing twice as many points as "that other team". That's the power of the "little guy". Without the 600lb gorillas, the FR team would still be around #131, instead of at 97.....
So yep, every work unit counts, every point counts, not only for the team score, but for the purpose of the program, and that's to advance science.
You never know. 99,999,999 work units might get produced, but yours may be the last one, that puts that final piece of the puzzle in place, that produces the cure, or at least gives the researchers, a good clue, as to which direction to take, to look for it.
Twofer ping bump.
Interesting article, came across it tonight, by accident
http://techreport.com/etc/2002q4/foldingimpact/index.x?pg=1
some comprehensive tests, done using benchmark programs, to guage the performance hit, of folding at home.
end result, unless you've got an already screwed up machine, no performance hit, other than the obvious heat factor, from running the CPU at full tilt.
(which, btw, Is a factor of how well designed/built your computer is. .... I've got a lab full of dell optiplex GX 240's, that have been running at 100%, other than a few reboots due to electrical outages, since December 27th, 2005, A/C is off unless the lab is being used, and they're still going strong, and 3rd part utilities show them only about 20 degrees F above normal on the hottest days, which is about 90deg ambient temperature, right about now. )
I've now got my boss curious, and we're taking bets, as to when the first one will fail. These are 5 year old dells, with 1.8ghz processors, and odds are, 1 or more, SHOULD have failed since last December, but haven't had a single hiccup.
** note, the lab gets used about 18 hrs a week, and not a single person has noticed FAH, or any performance hit. And for those worried about electric bills jumping, My boss and I have pulled the bills for that side of the building, for the five months prior to Jan 1, 2006, and the five months after, and the lab with 32 computers, running at 100% capacity, has increased the electric bill by a whopping $8.35 cents per month. Net increase is about 25 cents per month, per computer.
A small price to pay.
Now if we can get your boss to leave 'em on 24/7. Turning those things on and off shortens their life. Bigtime.
We're up to #97!!!!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=
Nice to see you back over 10,000 points/day :)
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=168162
Something seems to have changed with the client. I'm running XP Media Center Edition. I no longer have the icon in the systray so cannot check status, alter parameters etc. I'm using 5.03.
If I bring up Task Manager sometimes I see it running as an Application, other times it's running as a service. Anyone seen anything similar or is this just the swapping "time sharing" ? How can I get the icon back ? Rebooting doesn't help.
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