Site Update: Folding, Photos, Tunes, and News

[MacRumors]

- MacRumors Folding @ Home Team (http://folding.stanford.edu/teamstats/team3446.html) is currently the 25th overall ranked team (http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/searchteamstats) and remains the #1 Mac Folding team. If you want to help, see our FAQ (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=21908) or visit our Distributed Computing forum (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=19).

- Doctor Q has put together a MacRumors Photo Directory (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41568) which matches faces with usernames of many MacRumors users.

- DailyTunes (http://www.dailytunes.com/) now offers 1190 individual iTunes song recommendations. New song recommendation submissions have been streamlined thanks to weefle. Only a single iTunes song link is required to make a song recommendation and all the necessarily information is pulled automatically from the iTunes Music Store.

- A reminder that MacBytes (http://www.macbytes.com/) tracks other interesting Mac news stories, opinion pieces, and happenings in the Mac Community that may not make it to the MacRumors front page.

[AmigoMac]

There is a long way ahead, great & congratulations!:cool:

[humangod]

in regards to the pictures thread:

HAHAHA!! LOOK AT ALL THE APPLE GEEKS!!!!:D

*looks in the mirror*

oh wait... nevermind.

-Mike

[arn]

Heh... be kind. ;)

We want to encouraging of people to post photos....

arn

[gwuMACaddict]

go folding!

:D

[punter]

you should get that 1100 node super computer to fold for a couple of minutes for your team! Take you to first place perhaps.

[sososowhat]

Originally posted by punter
you should get that 1100 node super computer to fold for a couple of minutes for your team! Take you to first place perhaps.
We actually together are close to as powerful as the Big Mac. Our team shows 912 active processors this week. I believe dualies count as one (mine seems to). Ok, so BigMac's faster, but not more than a few times faster, than the MacRumors team.

Power to the People :)

[~Shard~]

Okay, who ranked this thread negative? Just curious - I mean, I think the folding ranking is great, the photo directory is an excellent idea for the MacRumors community, and Daily Tunes is an excellent resource for people.

Sorry, I just don't see any negatives to this. If someone feels different, I have no problems with that at all, it just kind of surprises me. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion though! :)

[tazo]

I am working on the folding at home deal ;) Just finished my 11th :)

[BaghdadBob]

Some people just get a kick out of posting a negative.

If you left a thread on the main page long enough that said "Apple profits $1Bil and cures cancer" it would pick up seven or eight negatives. And when I say "long enough" I mean about three hours.

[jouster]

I've always wondered why there are a few people in the team who folded a bunch of units but have next to no points. Anyone know? Like, for example, Laslo_Panaflex, who has 2000+ units and hardly any points!

[~Shard~]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
Some people just get a kick out of posting a negative.

If you left a thread on the main page long enough that said "Apple profits $1Bil and cures cancer" it would pick up seven or eight negatives. And when I say "long enough" I mean about three hours.

Heh heh - that's totally true... :)

[Doctor Q]

That just proves that MacRumors is the #1 site in the world for everything, from soup (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23412) to nuts (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41753)!

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
Some people just get a kick out of posting a negative.

If you left a thread on the main page long enough that said "Apple profits $1Bil and cures cancer" it would pick up seven or eight negatives. And when I say "long enough" I mean about three hours.

Really.

What bad news is this?

'Oh, but MacRumors isn't the #1 team, so therefore it is bad news'

:confused:

What the hell, arn can you track the people who post negetive for no reason and ban them, please...:rolleyes:

Originally posted by jouster
I've always wondered why there are a few people in the team who folded a bunch of units but have next to no points. Anyone know? Like, for example, Laslo_Panaflex, who has 2000+ units and hardly any points!

They folded 'back in the day' AKA before it was cool ;) .

No they folded a while ago when WU were smaller and counted alot less.

edit: Please Join Folding, it helps people.

Everyone from people with cancer to mad cows disease.

[Dippo]

So, MacBytes says that the BigMac is officially #3 supercomputer. So is that true, I haven't read that on Macrumors.

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Dippo
So, MacBytes says that the BigMac is officially #3 supercomputer. So is that true, I haven't read that on Macrumors.

You should have noticed it in these forums since they're the same forums for MacBytes, MacRumors, and DailyTunes. ;)

[Awimoway]

Interesting. Of about 100 pics, only 7 are female. Probably a pretty good sample of the MR community as a whole.

[arn]

Originally posted by Dippo
So, MacBytes says that the BigMac is officially #3 supercomputer. So is that true, I haven't read that on Macrumors.

That's what Wired says... but the really official numbers come out tomorrow (Sun). I'll post it when it comes from the source.

arn

[CompUSAMacNerd]

I'm still a bit of a newbie to the forum and all..but what is folding, and how does one get to be on the team, and what does it all do?
Explain? :)

[simX]

How come the MacRumors SETI@home team is never advertised? It's always neglected. :\

[sososowhat]

Originally posted by jouster
I've always wondered why there are a few people in the team who folded a bunch of units but have next to no points. Anyone know? Like, for example, Laslo_Panaflex, who has 2000+ units and hardly any points!
I think it's a bug in the scoring. I went through a few units one @ a time, then suddenly I complete what should be two units & they show up as 43 (projects 912 & 913). The points are right; the work units are off.

[rdowns]

Since we have a thread related to site news, how about a list of MacRumors statuses and the criteria for each?

Newbie
Member
??????
??????

[joesporleder]

G5 Virginia Tech Cluster #3 (http://www.top500.org/list/2003/11/)

[~Shard~]

Originally posted by rdowns
Since we have a thread related to site news, how about a list of MacRumors statuses and the criteria for each?

Newbie
Member
??????
??????

I assume you're referring to how many posts it takes to advance to the next "classification", etc.? If so, the info you're looking for can be found in the FAQs if you look there. I can paraphrase here if you like:

~~~~~~

Newbie = 0 - 29 posts
Member => 30 posts
Regular => 100 posts
6502 => 500 posts
65816 => 1000 posts
65832 => 1500 posts
68000 => 1505 posts
68010 => 2000 posts
68020 => 2005 posts
68030 => 2500 posts
etc....

DemiGod or Contributer => Users who have contributed to the site

Macrumors God => adminstrators

~~~~~~~~

Hope this helps!

[eyelikeart]

don't forget the Mods... ;)

[restiffbard]

OK, you got me. I just started folding. Excellent news Arn. Keep it up.

[tazo]

Ever since I upgraded to Windows 2K pro, I have been doing between 60-100% a day on a work unit. It is absolutely insane!

So if yall have machines running say xp, put 2k pro on em! They are awesome for folding!

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by simX
How come the MacRumors SETI@home team is never advertised? It's always neglected. :\

The people doing SETI haven't been as vocal, nor as successful as the F@H team.

No neglect, just visibility. :)

[simX]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
The people doing SETI haven't been as vocal, nor as successful as the F@H team.

No neglect, just visibility. :)

Well then why doesn't somebody change that trend, and edit this site update to include the SETI@home team? :rolleyes:

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by simX
Well then why doesn't somebody change that trend, and edit this site update to include the SETI@home team? :rolleyes:

When the SETI team does something of note, I'm sure arn will post about it.

In the meantime, the Distributed computing forum (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19) includes any and all projects that people want to talk about. How about you post in there and rally the SETI troops?

[arn]

Originally posted by simX
Well then why doesn't somebody change that trend, and edit this site update to include the SETI@home team? :rolleyes:

Sorry... the F@H team is has been a bit more vocal/active, which is why it got a mention. Added SETI.

arn

[simX]

Originally posted by arn
Sorry... the F@H team is has been a bit more vocal/active, which is why it got a mention. Added SETI.

arn

Cool, thanks! :)

I don't particularly care for "rallying the troops", Rower, I just think both should get equal visibility. :) We may not be 25th overall, but we still have a fairly good team, I think.

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by simX
...
I don't particularly care for "rallying the troops", Rower, I just think both should get equal visibility. :) We may not be 25th overall, but we still have a fairly good team, I think.

Well, SETI was originally much larger than F@H. We had a few core people who actively promoted the team and what the project is about and we grew our membership.

Doing the same wouldn't hurt SETI. If people don't know about the team, then they can't join, and who better to talk about the team than those participating. ;)

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by CompUSAMacNerd
I'm still a bit of a newbie to the forum and all..but what is folding, and how does one get to be on the team, and what does it all do?
Explain? :)

Well they did say we have a FAQ.

Located here (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=21908)

simX -- please promote SETI. But again people have shown the disadvantages of SETI.

Like that few people think aliens would use such bad technology.

And that it takes millions of years for the data to get here in the first place...

Also because of the sheer number of users in SETI there have been reports of people getting the same data.

Also SETI has been accused of poor security and the Top Teams Hack the stats.

Also our SETI team has dwindled in ranking... mind if you tell me what # we are ranked at?

[sososowhat]

Originally posted by tazo
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 2K pro, I have been doing between 60-100% a day on a work unit. It is absolutely insane!

So if yall have machines running say xp, put 2k pro on em! They are awesome for folding!
That's pretty impressive. What's the setup? My dual G5 2.0 does 2%/hr - or two days/work unit. Does this compare with other people's results?

[Knox]

Originally posted by sososowhat
We actually together are close to as powerful as the Big Mac. Our team shows 912 active processors this week. I believe dualies count as one (mine seems to).

I don't think they do - the client isn't MP aware so you have to run two copies to use both processors, and it appears as two processors in the stats

http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/userpage?name=Knox

That's a single dual G5 running two copies of the console client.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/faq.html#run.dual

[Doctor Q]

My dual 1.25 G4 can do a SETI unit every 3 hours (two processors each finishing a unit every 6 hours). I'm using the command-line version. What's the comparable throughput on a G5?

[Dreadnought]

He guys,

I didn't had a team yet, but now I just saw the teamnumber (3446) and I just joined! So let's kick some ...!

[Iconocat]

Count me in.. just finished my first WU today. :)