And MOE takes the lead, but no one knows what sort of WU Azrael may send in next... will it be a 44 pointer or a 600 point unit?!

And wait! This just in! EuropeKid is coming up from behind about to pwn them all!! Bogseat is just behind him as well!

.. At least, he's only 1000 back, and I thought I remembered seeing a sharp drop off in points after you two guys, so he's either leaving his computer on more or maybe I just didnt notice his points before.. Give him about a week and we might find out

Depending on those two active processors Bogseat has, he could be a real threat to the rest of the top 5.

lol MOE doesn't quite take the lead - you're still first

Hey there Ashur! Welcome to the forums!

If you're already folding, then you probably already know how to set it up, but just in case, if you run the graphical client, right-click on the red cog icon, then select the "configure..." option.

In the first box on the user tab, you put your name, and in the second, enter the team number, which as Silvercliff said, is 46574.

As long as you get the team number correct, your points will be added to the groups total.

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I'm running the SuperPi thingy at the moment, Ringold. It's currently calculating 8 million digits of Pi, (It took 5 mins 4 seconds to do 4 million digits) and hasn't had any problems yet.

I don't understand the validate checksum thing on the website though - i've entered the time taken and the checksum for each of the results, but every time I click on the validate button, the page simply reloads and nothing changes!

Am I doing something wrong?

I'll try the memtest thing once SuperPi is done.

man my current work unit is taking ages, over a day and a half now and only 64% done. im hoping it will be a big pointer

600 points!

Two days of folding still to do though...

Just so you know im back with virus free and spyware free pc so im up and running again

use any of the progs CBB?

Heh...it pays to have decent antiviruses, antispyware and so on.

As TrekBoy said, AVG is one of the best free antiviruses you can get.

I also Microsoft Antispyware, NoAdware, Registry Mechanic, and CrapCleaner to keep my computer safe from the doctor. It's easier than feeding it an apple, anyway!

Regularly defragging your hard drive and running error checker also helps.

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Has anyone had any ideas for an avatar yet?

I've been waiting, and people haven't said anything yet.

It isn't very fair on our newest contributors that they don't have their names in there...ooh, wait a minute, i've just had an idea...

i just finished another wu and the console said number of units completed: 6 which i did. then it downloaded another fah core and said working on unit 8. how did that happen?

is there any restraints upon the avatar matress?

Yeah, Silvercliff there is - but it isn't because of the folding@home website.

It's actually the avatar itself that is causing the problems.

As you know, I use photobucket to host all my stuff, but there's a 500kb limit on the size of a file. Any file bigger than that automatically gets resized - and you saw what happens then.

With the addition of HHornblower, Mortse, and MStrobel, the avatar has gotten up to 524kb. And before anyone asks, yes, I have optimised the file - you can add another 40kb without the optimisation!

My idea was to host the avatar on this site, since it apparently has unlimited bandwidth. The site can't host .GIF files in the albums though, so I had to find somewhere else to put the avatar.

Well I did find a host - and it hosts files up to 1.5meg, so I got rid of the optimisation as well!

So HHornblower, Mortse, and MStrobel, welcome to the avatar.



There is one problem with my new filehosting service - the servers are slow. This isn't noticable in the avatar - except for when it gets to Zahadoom's part. Sorry mate, but your avatar looks lethargic, even though I set your section to the fasest speed per frame possible.

Oh, and HHornblower, if you're wondering why your part of the avatar looks like the colours are a bit screwy, its because .GIF's can only support 256 colours - which makes colour gradients in .eg. faces look terrible. You can see the same problem to a lesser extent on my Romulan, if you look closely.

make it a *.png and add mine too

I don't even know what a .png is - so how am I supposed to make one?

To make it fair, I add people in only when they show up on the group page - don't worry, i've already added you into the avatar, I just haven't uploaded it yet, Ashur.

*Edit - I just realised the program I use can make .png's.

I'm having a go now.

**Edit the second - heh...I haven't got a clue whether you were playing a joke on me or not, but I ended up with 174 files on my desktop thanks to that stupid .png thing!

I don't think i'll EVER make a .png ever again!

How am I supposed to link to 174 files at the same time?!

my fault

now i'm confused.
wiki says, PNG has no animations, but the sister-format MNG. sorry for that

but it seems MNG is not yet supported by common browsers...