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jackieonasses
macrumors 6502a
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.
MacBandit
macrumors 604
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.
boomtopper
macrumors member
I'll join macrumors in building your points. I will set 2 pc laptops 1 powerbook 1 g5 powermac and 1 pc to work.
Dreadnought
macrumors 68020
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.
bousozoku
Moderator emeritus
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!).
Mord
macrumors G4
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.)
bousozoku
Moderator emeritus
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.
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....
neg.
remember the cores were only programed for powerpc procs and x86 procs. the playstation2 is not a x86, so unless it can emulate (abit v. v. slowley) it would not fold...