Welcome Flamingpeach

[Ole Martin]

Hi and welcome to our team. :)

Just relax...
Nobody bites.






Except maybye my brother Hans :D

[zhotfire]

Welcome! :)

[Nofinger]

Welcome :cool:

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Welcome! There's always room here for burning fruit.

[Hans Arne Iversen]

Welcome

[theresa]

Nice to meet you.:)

[thayward]

Welcome to the Team!
Jump right in !!!

[flamingpeach]

woah, i saw this thread and almost spit out my soda. I really wasn't expecting this.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, i'm glad to be here :)

[phil]

Hi there! Why not tell us a little about yourself? Been interested in distributed computing long or just found out about it?

[Ole Martin]

Hi there. :)
Yes this is a quite nice bunch of people, from way down to Australia, till up north were I live.
A little land called Norway.

What's you're story then ??

[flamingpeach]

I'm a 20 year old female currently living in Redmond, Washington (M$ land). I'm a self employed graphic designer, which can be a pretty slow job. I went to Art School, where I didn't really learn much that I didn't know, but had a fairly good time while I was there.

I love computers, and am constantly taking my laptop everywhere. At home we have 14 boxes, but only a few that I really play with. My main O/S is Win XP pro, followed by freeBSD; which I'm learning to love.

I'm one of two top level admins at a busy vBulletin forum which I keep myself busy skinning and hacking. I also mod a handful of other forums which gives me a hobby, and at the same time keeps me hot headed. ;)

I enjoy reading and the outdoors, and I always love a sunday drive. I'm also learning how to cook a little more "gourmet" style.

I'm originally Canadian. I only recently moved to Redmond to move in with my boyfriend. We have a 55 gallon fish tank, a leopard gecko and anamerican staffishire terrior (pitbull) named smokey.

I'm an IRC geek, and spend most of my time on a few of my favorite networks.

I don't really know anything about distributed computing..I'm experimenting with folding@home, but it seems to be taking up 100% of my cpu :( It looks to be something I'll have to run when I'm not on my laptop, or i'll have to run it on another one of our computers.

I found the genome collective on vbulletin.com, and have been lurking here since I registered. This, I guess, is my attempt to join your community. :o

[Ole Martin]

Nice to have more females around here. :)

Just post ahead, if you find anything interesting or amusing. :D

Yoy have done a lot to not be older.. :)

I am 32, and works at at a mentall institution.
I relly like it.
Has also a "band" with who are mentally ill, where I work as a instructor.

And also plays in a "normal" band, who plays gigs nearly every weekend.
(Not that any musicians are normal) :D ;)

[X-Calibur]

Well said and welcome.
You will find that many of your interests will fit right in with some of our members.

Take a seat, kick your feet and relax, NoFinger will be right here with a complimentary beer keg for your enjoyment.

Cheers

X'

[zhotfire]

Good to see another Canuck around here... Folding will not only utilize 100% of your systems cpu, but your competetive spirit & possibly your finances too! :D

[Bruce]

Welcome - - we're always happy to see a new avatar around here (oops, that was just your name I was thinking of, not your avatar ;))

Distributed Computing is specifically designed to use 100% of the unused CPU cycles. FAH (and the other DC projects) run continuous computations at extremely low priority, which is fine for most desktop computers, but does eat into battery life if your laptop isn't plugged in. Other than that, any well written DC application shouldn't interfere with any of the other things your computer is supposed to be doing, and it lets you donate that unused resource to science.

The two big projects that our team supports are Folding@home (my own favorite) and Distributed Folding (also a good project). Although they sound quite similar, they're totally independent.

As zhotfire has said, once you get started, it's hard not to keep finding ways to find more "unused cycles" to increase your folding production. Technically, you can set it and forget it, but not many people actually do that.

Anyway . . . WELCOME.:baa:

[veggyhed]

:cool: Welcome

Dont let the others fool you. Around here we only fold so folding@home is the project and the only project so help me god :D

Please repeat this and repeat this often

Fah is #1
Fah is #1

I will buy another system and run fah
I will buy another system and run fah

I will run linux and toss xp
I will run linux and toss xp

Ok serious note......what do u think needs to be changed around here and dont be shy about your response.

[TDKozan]

Pleasedt'meetcha!

TK

[Martyn]

Originally posted by flamingpeach and anamerican staffishire terrior (pitbull) named smokey.

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Welcome flamingpeach. I'm sure you meant "staffordshire" there. It's my home county and they're our best export. Cracking little fighting dogs. ;)

[flamingpeach]

Originally posted by Martyn


Welcome flamingpeach. I'm sure you meant "staffordshire" there. It's my home county and they're our best export. Cracking little fighting dogs. ;)

I did :o

I just googled and copied the first spelling i found that looked right. :ssh:

I've never been so good at spelling ;)

[Martyn]

LOL, you crack me up. ;)