13th!!

[MikeTimbers]

Well TGC snuck into 13th past OCWorkbench thanks to a user called Ong Chotwl who switched his 84m from OCW to TGC. Hopefully he'll (she'll) stop by here and say hello.

Ong is also putting up 40K pre hour which is useful crunching, by any standards.

:baa:

[phil]

Cool, I hope they drop in to say hi :cool:

[TDKozan]

Lucky 13. Great job guys and welcome to Ong Chotwl.

TK ;>

[MikeTimbers]

Sorry, that should be Ong ChotwI.

Wish there was some way to point him here.

[BennyRop]

Actually, it's ( 'ong chotwI' ) (the apostrophes are needed).. and this name comes from (be'nI' rop). Proof that I had way too much time on my hands when playing around with a Klingon Dictionary in '86. :)

And despite the actual meaning of be'nI' rop, I'm male. ;)

You've got me thanks to Mike; and the fact that BlueTooth offended me when he took up public harassment of the MSI forum mods on OCWorkbench; assigned me as a mod without even asking me; and continued his tactless insults before he removed my status as a mod (which I requested as soon as I could).

I've got about 900k structures/day off of my machines; plus a bit more when testing out client's systems at work.

[Billy_Bat]

We generally go out of our way not to piss anyone off. So I am sure you will feel welcome here. If you want any tactless insults, uh, just ask <cough>, I mean... aw crap, you'll just have to ask someone.

But you are welcome here no matter what your output is!!! Kick back, try siggy's place and enjoy. We are glad to have you.

[pelligrini]

Cool, welcome aboard!

So what kind of machines are you running?

[Nofinger]

Welcome BennyRop, Great to have you on our team :cool: :D

If you go to Siggy's place (you can find it in the linux forum) and order a drink I'll will make sure you will be served :) :D

[Virus]

Welcome. I'd also like give a big congrats to everyone period. Production is climbing for everyone.

[X-Calibur]

Hey, Mike you pimpfull a ... ;D

Welcome to our new mate... of course that get's me one spot down but I can manage... time to get a new machine.

ANyone knows the contact info for Asus, I have a board I need to RMA... and then I could add an extra 2 gig of sweetness to my fleet (evergrowing).

Cheers mate!
I usually piss everyone, I'll see if I can make an exception ... :rofl: j/k Make yourself at home, you'll fit right in.

X'

[BennyRop]

Pelligrini:
Home: Athlon AXP 1800+, 512Megs DDR cl2, WinXP
my work machines: AXP 1700+, 256Megs DDR cl2, Win98se
AXP 2400+, 256Megs DDR cl2, Win98se

And for the last week and a half, I've had up to 6 more systems at work testing out the memory.


X-Calibur - here's a good spot to start. ;)
http://www.asus.com/contact/contactindex.htm

and Cheers.. :)

[MikeTimbers]

Great to have you here BennyRop. I figured it was you but didn't want to be wrong. OCW is a cool place but Bluetooth can be a bit heavy-handed at times. Hope you can be a regular here. It's more of a community than a hardware forum. OCW is a hardware site with a folding team. This is a distributed computing team with a forum. Many of the people here do Genome at Home but DF is becoming more popular.

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Welcome! Its great to have some fresh talent. Its a hoot to have you on the team.

[BennyRop]

It's nice to be aboard.. ;)
Here's waiting to see what effect Howard's new algorithms have on the folding speed, and more importantly (for the project) the folding quality - which we'll get to test out on Tuesday..

And maybe I'll be able to test out a year newer motherboard & cpu.. ;) (UPS/Fedex/USPS all have the habit of hiding important things, though).

[MikeTimbers]

13th AGAIN!!!

One of the OCW members - Raggie30 - moved his 25 million to Team Fuji. He's very superstitious, apparently!

:baa:

[phil]

Cool, so you have time to b0rg some new machines ;)

[MikeTimbers]

Difficult, Phil, difficult. My users are catching on faster than I can borg new ones. Apparently some of them think I shouldn't run huge background processes on their pitifully underused computers :rolleyes:

I'm now in charge of our office move which will involve replacing all the Compaq P3-8xx machines with new Compaqs (presumably P4s :doh: ). The question is whether to try to get DF into the automatic build or putting it there afterwards or not doing it at all. In the new office, it would probably be a sacking offence :( so I will probably have to quit being an 800lb gorilla.

[BennyRop]

Raggie has been jumping out everytime he gets near 13th place, or the team got in positions that had various numbers he had problems with. They're doing well at recruiting lately.. Raggie's 24mil move today is but 1.25 day's production.

Mike: What are the chances that if you presented the company with the purpose behind DF - that they'd agree to running some/most of the systems in the new location with DF in the background. (And create a company name on the team - so they can see the production rate they're creating?)

I'll have to ask about setting this up as a service on a variety of systems in computer labs at a local university. 40 machines that are only on when a teacher is present for up to 8 hours has to help.

[BennyRop]

"replacing all our PIII 8xx machines" - hmm.. doesn't that sound like a request to setup a rackmounted collection of retired systems in a closet/unused room? ;)

[Virus]

Or better yet, you can use them to warm up the bathroom if it's cold in there:D

[MikeTimbers]

I work for Accenture at their largest UK outsource (for whom I used to work) so I work at a client site with machines that belong to the client connected to the client's network etc. etc. The client is Sainsbury's, the UK's second biggest supermarket. At present I work at an Accenture office and am not connected to the Sainsbury's LAN so the rules about what can and can't be done to desktops are very different. People here install SETI or UD or other silly DC clients and no-one cares. The machines that aren't doing any other DC project I try to borg.

Once I move back to a Sainsbury's building, the new PCs that will be bought will belong to the client and are anally controlled. Huge companies don't give a toss about DC and never will. There is no point attempting to explain what DF does or any other DC project. The standard client desktops are locked down to the extent that Explorer doesn't even show the C: drives.

"My" PCs will be getting a Developer version of that desktop build so it is possible to install the software necessary for a developer to do their work. Now, if I were to install DF on "my" desktop, no-one would probably care too much, but if I sneaked it onto other people's machines, it would only take one person to ask Desktop Support "what the fsck is this foldtrajlite process using 100% of my cpu and slowing me down?" for some very nasty questions to be asked.

As for the old P3 machines, they will be wiped and disposed off via the second-hand auctions that large companies habitually use to dispose of old hardware.

[veggyhed]

The Corp that I work for has to comply with federal regulations by Aug 14th. Huge security model is being implemented. All work stations are being locked down tight and there is a big switch to XP Pro. I will still have access to the web but all my roaming profiles are being taken away. I have talked to some people I work with and the hope is to start using IE6 with the google toolbar which should be allowed. The only draw back is that it involves some custom work which I think I can get through and I will be limited to FAH. I had 4 1.6 ready to do DF in a new wing we have but this has been sucked out from under me.
Nobody I work with is looking forward to this and the new measures will make our jobs difficult to perform. Once again the end user was left out of the picture. The security model is needed.