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Easy there folks - every indication we've had is that this situation came about by accident, not through any sort of malicious intent on anyone on our team's part.
Take a few deep breaths and catch up on the situation before posting, please.
Take a few deep breaths and catch up on the situation before posting, please.
Krizoitz said:
Your assuming that he did anything wrong. There is no proof and in fact quite the opposite that he did anything wrong. The only issue is there is basically a trojan horse in the wild with his .MSI file. This isn't necessarily his doing though.
i know this might seem as a silly and stupid question. but i have 2 macs would that help at all? and what does it help? i understand the folding of proteins but i dont know what that does.
jackieonasses said:
Every little bit helps. Follow this link for information.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21908
The following is an opinion. It is not in any way meant to represent Pande group or Folding-Community.org 's positions.
I want to personally thank the members of the MacRumors community for being cooperative as well as helping us sort out this mess.
This is a serious matter and Im sorry it developed into what it is today.
I personally hope that it wasn't jethroted who made this package, and if he did that he come forward.
I hope that Vijay has a good plan of action for what has happened that will clean up this disaster before it becomes any worse.
I want all of you in the entire folding community to help us in respecting the EULA and what it stands for in the future starting today so this never happens again. It hurts the community, Stanford, and most importantly the research when something like this happens.
-Cprossu.
I want to personally thank the members of the MacRumors community for being cooperative as well as helping us sort out this mess.
This is a serious matter and Im sorry it developed into what it is today.
I personally hope that it wasn't jethroted who made this package, and if he did that he come forward.
I hope that Vijay has a good plan of action for what has happened that will clean up this disaster before it becomes any worse.
I want all of you in the entire folding community to help us in respecting the EULA and what it stands for in the future starting today so this never happens again. It hurts the community, Stanford, and most importantly the research when something like this happens.
-Cprossu.
I'll join macrumors in building your points. I will set 2 pc laptops 1 powerbook 1 g5 powermac and 1 pc to work.
:::sniffle::: the dramatic points production was too good to be true.
good to see some new machines coming into the fold though, and that Pande isn't penalizing the entire team.
good to see some new machines coming into the fold though, and that Pande isn't penalizing the entire team.
Re: "Pande isn't penalizing the team"
I would say that taking away over 300,000 points is a penalty.
I would say that taking away over 300,000 points is a penalty.
nw_mike said:
Considering that they could have reset all of our points to zero, it wasn't much of a penalty. If you consider that the points were probably ill-gotten, they weren't the team's anyway.
In any case, we need to focus on getting points and members properly and increasing our chances now.
bousozoku said:
Exactly. It was a blow to the ego to lose the points (I was looking forward to changing my signature back to "MacRumors - #1 Mac folding team"), but it's only supposed to be a friendly competition. (All I could think of when I saw the hit was "Dude, where's my team's folding points?")
In the end, it's the sum of everyone's contributions that counts (I know I mean it when I say it, but, damn, it was fun seeing 60k points a day up there!).
never fear my dual g4 cube folding machine is here
and my blue&white
and my ibook
and my other ibook
and my other cube
hmm if i could only get folding@home working on my dreamcast and set up a huge link for a dreamcast supercomputer it's possible to run netbsd on a dreamcast so I wander hmmm
(I have 5 dreamcasts)
and my blue&white
and my ibook
and my other ibook
and my other cube
hmm if i could only get folding@home working on my dreamcast and set up a huge link for a dreamcast supercomputer it's possible to run netbsd on a dreamcast so I wander hmmm
(I have 5 dreamcasts)
i think you'll find the raw processing power of your 5 dreamcasts is approximately equal to that of a first generation ibook.
but since you're obviously no stranger to doing things "just because i can," that may not be the slightest deterrent for you.
bousozoku, if they had reset all of our individual stats to zero, then i would have removed my 5 processors from their project, and i don't doubt that a lot of other macrumors people would have done the same. i had nothing to do with what happened, and yes, they could have taken away the points from the entire team...but by that logic, they could have simply reset the points counter across the board...because who's to say that someone didn't pull a copy of the trojan'ed .msi file, replace jethroted with their user name, turn the processor utilization from "real time" to "normal" or "low" and send it out to the filesharing networks in a copy of something a little less popular?
if i can think it up that easily, someone can do it (like the person who acquired and modified jethroted's original script and started all this trouble in the first place.)
but since you're obviously no stranger to doing things "just because i can," that may not be the slightest deterrent for you.
bousozoku, if they had reset all of our individual stats to zero, then i would have removed my 5 processors from their project, and i don't doubt that a lot of other macrumors people would have done the same. i had nothing to do with what happened, and yes, they could have taken away the points from the entire team...but by that logic, they could have simply reset the points counter across the board...because who's to say that someone didn't pull a copy of the trojan'ed .msi file, replace jethroted with their user name, turn the processor utilization from "real time" to "normal" or "low" and send it out to the filesharing networks in a copy of something a little less popular?
if i can think it up that easily, someone can do it (like the person who acquired and modified jethroted's original script and started all this trouble in the first place.)
benpatient said:
I'm not sure why you would pull out, but then, I've been doing this for two years. I consider that, if just one person can be saved from severe memory loss, such as happens with Alzheimer's disease, however many machines I can use will work on the project. I know the struggle of memory loss because my dad has a severe problem with it. I know the problems it causes.
Many theories are available on what happened but it's done and it's time to move forward.
benpatient said:i think you'll find the raw processing power of your 5 dreamcasts is approximately equal to that of a first generation ibook.
but since you're obviously no stranger to doing things "just because i can," that may not be the slightest deterrent for you.
5 200MHz hitachi RISC prosessors are quite quick but dreamcasts are noisy
+ you could say "mac rumours folding powered by over 5,000 macs a few pc's and five dreamcasts"
Hector said:
that would be great!!!How about F@H for cellular phones?
Or for xbox, PS2, PSX, PSP, GCN, GBA, PS1, N64, calculators, etc?
I would install it on a few of those....
cjc343 said:
How about F@H for cellular phones?
Or for xbox, PS2, PSX, PSP, GCN, GBA, PS1, N64, calculators, etc?
I would install it on a few of those....
You can run linux and folding on an xbox, I will be attempting this feat soon..
Cprossu said:
That's probably true. I seem to remember that it had some PPC code but that could be some other Sony processor I was reading about.