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I hit my first 10,000 points in one Day!!

cjc343 said:
You just hit your first 20,000 in one day... good job... now all we need is for this mess to be cleaned up so you can work towards 30,000 :D
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It's unfortunate that this couldn't be more of a celebration, but that's life I guess. I have not heard much from anyone lately. Has anyone come up with anything?
 
so much for needing you to add more machines to pass 30,000....


You are currently at 32,894 today according to EO.... and there is still quite a while left in their day.

Although it doesn't say that we will pass yet (because it uses the 24 hour average to figure it out) we are currently on a course that will let us overtake Team Mac OS X...

So far today, we have gotten 56,710 points. They have gotten a mere 37,846. I hope our 24 hour average soon reflects this.....
 
cjc343 said:
So far today, we have gotten 56,710 points. They have gotten a mere 37,846. I hope our 24 hour average soon reflects this.....
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What's amazing is that this can be attributed to just one person. He's more than doubled our daily production compared to a week ago. If Jethroted keeps this up for long enough, he could become the No.1 folder in the world! :eek:
 
True.... although it will still take a LONG time at the current rate.

I think that your (Jethroted) machines are just finishing their initial Tinker (most new clients get assigned a Tinker) and will now start to REALLY churn out points.
 
I must admit it is quite astounding. jethroted you work with the government you said? Do they EVER shut the systems down? How big of a facility do you work at, which state is it in? I've got a couple of uncles that work with the FBI and a few friends that work for the Postal Service, maybe I can persuade them to give folding a long hard look and discuss it with those in charge. I never really knew the goverment had so much wasted power to harness. How did you go about approaching the department heads to get them on board, or are you the head honcho? Did you have to do all the deployment on your own, or did you have some help in getting things up and running? How do you monitor things to be sure no lockups or unit errors occur? How can you make all the machines work through the 'corporate firewall'? Sometimes I have trouble with my own little network with timeouts, etc. Would'nt it be a headache to keep track of all the machines you have folding? Give more details so I can best approach some potential sources. Thanks. Keep up the fold!
 
You really think he is going to give away which government agency he works for?

I really really doubt that.

How about this:
Me: 'Do you have clearance?'
You: 'Yes, the highest level'
Me: 'Nope. Not high enough'
:rolleyes:


All hail jethroted!
All hail jethroted!


Good frikken Job man.

Awesome work.
 
Mustang Mac said:
I must admit it is quite astounding. jethroted you work with the government you said? Do they EVER shut the systems down? How big of a facility do you work at, which state is it in? I've got a couple of uncles that work with the FBI and a few friends that work for the Postal Service, maybe I can persuade them to give folding a long hard look and discuss it with those in charge. I never really knew the goverment had so much wasted power to harness. How did you go about approaching the department heads to get them on board, or are you the head honcho? Did you have to do all the deployment on your own, or did you have some help in getting things up and running? How do you monitor things to be sure no lockups or unit errors occur? How can you make all the machines work through the 'corporate firewall'? Sometimes I have trouble with my own little network with timeouts, etc. Would'nt it be a headache to keep track of all the machines you have folding? Give more details so I can best approach some potential sources. Thanks. Keep up the fold!
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Well that spike from yesterday should drop back down unfortunately. I think that was an anomoly. As far as the firewall goes, as long as the person who logs in to the system has a valid domain account then folding can make it through the firewall, since port 80 or 8080 is open to domain users. As far as monitoring anything, I don't. I kind of hope for the best. All the systems are on all day long, that is standard policy. I guess they like to pay a big hydro bill. I am on a deployment team that is upgrading the systems to XP and dell p4's. There are 6000 computers to go through but some of them are actually only being upgraded from Windows 95 to NT. Those are only P2's. When we get to a site, we talk to the site contact and ask them if we can install folding, and if they agree we put it on each time we wrap up an install or upgrade. So folding sits on the server and all we have to do is enter the url to the MSI file I made, select "open" and 20 seconds later the computer restarts and is folding.
 
So, all these systems are not in the same physical place? You have to visit different sites to perform system upgrades? Are these actual physical upgrades (processors, cards, drives, etc.), OS upgrades, or a combination of the two? If they are physical upgrades, what happens to all the 'outdated' equipment? Do they then sell it to resellers or what? How many other colleagues do you have working with you to upgrade all these systems? It sounds like a lot of tedious work for just one man. How many hours a day does it take you to do all this? You must never rest! :) Are you still adding more systems to the fold? When do you expect the return to level off?
 
Mustang Mac said:
So, all these systems are not in the same physical place? You have to visit different sites to perform system upgrades? Are these actual physical upgrades (processors, cards, drives, etc.), OS upgrades, or a combination of the two? If they are physical upgrades, what happens to all the 'outdated' equipment? Do they then sell it to resellers or what? How many other colleagues do you have working with you to upgrade all these systems? It sounds like a lot of tedious work for just one man. How many hours a day does it take you to do all this? You must never rest! :) Are you still adding more systems to the fold? When do you expect the return to level off?
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Yeah, the machines are all over the place. The gov't isn't in just one building. There is no physical hardware that is being upgraded on the P2's. We are just moving them up from 95 to NT. The computers that we replace with new P4's are stuck in a warehouse where they will probably sit for years until they are so obsolete that no one will ever want them, then they will be tossed. I think they hold onto them just incase anyone might still need them for something, but of course no one ever does. I work on a team of about 30 and we come in at 4pm every night when the users leave. It's a 6 day work week for us. Unfortunately I am currently not adding any more machines to the fold.
 
Unfortunately I am currently not adding any more machines to the fold
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yeah i hear yuh...

im still trying to contact chad about getting that file.
there is obviously a real virus as well inside that package as hotmail deleted it...
 
Cprossu said:
yeah i hear yuh...

im still trying to contact chad about getting that file.
there is obviously a real virus as well inside that package as hotmail deleted it...
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Hotmail deleted it? How could there be a virus in there?
 
Are these machines all server oriented or a mix of workstations and servers? Any idea why they chose to go with NT? Why would they let those useful machines languish in a warehouse somewhere?! One would think they would try to recoup some of the money for the costly upgrades! Do you guys remove the old HD and put it in the new machines, or is it a simple 'data transfer'? Must get pretty boring just watching software install itself. :) How long have you been at this job? What kind of credentials do they make you carry, or more specifically, how does one go about preparing for such a job? Any grad prep, technical institute prep, undergrad, or junior college? Any opportunity for advancement, or will you be aiming higher?
 
Well I have talked to Vijay Pande at Stanford and we are trying to come up with a solution to this whole problem. Hopefully we can end this whole mess.
 
a really unfortunate affair.
Hopefully it won't surface in the main media stream and damage f@h. I think that Pande's action were fair and I hope nothing more serious is in store for JT.
Once he abandons his plan to take over the world (them plans never work, didn't you read comics as a kid?) he maybe will re-start legit folding.

i'm doubtful at what actually happened though, and would appreciate a candid explanation from jt.
I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt (not that my opinion makes any difference), but i'd like to know whether there ever was a govt agency and govt machines, and in what proportion the contribution was legit. If not, i'm fairly impressed on how quickly the thing spread (but I'm not familiar with p2p network, so maybe its normal).

there are also other questions that come to mind:
will pandegroup be able to contact and/or clean the infected machines, or will the illegitimate folding continue unchecked? will it propagate more? will they keep the data?
the first unwilling user that raised the problem in the folding forums, posted a log that said that fah was not able to fold properly, so THAT specific computer wasn't producing any WU. what gives? where multiple scripts diffused? and why putting usage at high %?

well, back to folding
 
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