All the work from your current unit will be lost be lost if you do that, but some people find that the no-nonsense version is better, since all the program has to worry about is the folding itself - it doesn't have to use any valuable processor power on the fancy graphics or anything.

That's why they call it no-nonsense.

It's up to you what program you use. Since you haven't had any problems with it though, you might find it best to just keep on using folding@home 5.04 beta.

I don't think it alters the speed of the folding but the screen saver is easy and it looks great

ok i'll just stay with what i got.

when will those project's become available CaptRingold.

well i think i got my first big arse unit, ive done 1/5000 frames,

silvercliff i don't think i want to here you doing something without your pants

Got my first WU for BOTF2. Folding at 23secs a frame. Should be completed by Monday

Username: TrekBoyChris

Current WU: p2071_A21_agbnp_amber99

This might annoy you guys, but i've found that the smaller the number of frames to complete, the more difficult the work unit is!

As an example, I did a 12500 frame one and it took about a day-and-a-half to complete. My current one is 250 frames and it's taken more than a week already...

This doesn't mean i'm right, since I haven't done that many work units yet, (I've done 10, not 6 as my donator page says - I did 4 for the Google group before I set up a team with my friend) but I haven't found any work units that have gone any differently.

I keep getting 500 ones and that all but im not complaneing get them done in a day if keep pc on

ye i would fold 24/7 but my parents think it'll cost a bomb

I've had the same prob Matress - had a 250 frame WU and it took 11 days with the pc on for 10 hours a day

I've been out shopping pretty much all afternoon - but I left my computer on standby.

Folding@home continued to work even whilst the computer was on standby, so if you guys wanted to leave your computer on but were worried about the electricity, that might be an option for you.

Obviously your computer will still be using electricity, but at least it won't be much. You could try explaining that to your parents, TrekBoy.

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Michae1ange1o, do you wanna be Romulan or Borg?

Obviously this has a big implications for the avatar...





And please don't ask me why the timings between the two are different, coz I spent ages getting them perfect!

how can you tell you got a wu done for botf2?

check they link that MOE has put earily on in this thread qaz

I think borg looks better to be honest to many of those damn romulans around at the moment dont you think MOE

Oh yeah, believe what you want Billy.

It just takes one to throw a spanner in the works anyway!

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Qaz, your stats can be found on this page:

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=46574&username=qaz79

Put it in your favourites list or something.

Whenever you complete a work unit, the results are sent to a location where the results can be analysed. The central server then updates your personal stats. (In the above link)

The servers update everyone's stats once an hour, so if your stats don't appear as soon as you complete a work unit, don't worry. Just check your page after an hour or so to see how may points you got.

If you want to see how far you're done on your current work unit though, then we can click on a button called "my folding". Since you haven't got the red icon thingy in the taskbar though, try fing the file called "unitinfo.txt" in whatever location folding@home is saved to.

That should tell you info about your current unit.

thank you

I think i much prefer the borg one, the romulan one is very old hat now, I made that from a screenshot taken from the DVD when it first came out.. in t oooooooooold days

Yes who wants to be a romulan i thinking of updateing my avitor after the mocks>


Im not bottem w00t!!!!

Done, Michae1ange1o.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=46574

If anyone else wants an animated logo, let me know and i'll see what I can do for you.

I might even bring my disruptor bolts back...

Qaz, if you (Or anyone else) have any questions, just ask. Helping isn't any trouble on part.

Do we gwet our name added to the avatar thing on the F@H when we've done a WU

1282/3750 frames and counting

guss your gonna be on top of me as usal chris lol (sounds wrong lol)

I would like to know how the point system works MOE if you know its a little strange

Yeah TrekBoy, that's how I was working it.

Once your name is shown in the group, I add you to the avatar.

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I decided i'd invert myself in my avatar...I just hope I don't cause anyone to have epileptic fits!

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EuropeKid and Raiden_rse, you sneaky people you! The Matress sees all!

Welcome to the avatar.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=46574

if i put my computer on stanby would the boinc and world community grid program's still work while on stanby to?

i doubt it. Standby is like hybernation... the OS stores all data to the harddrive, and slows it down... and then slows the CPU down also.

Like the General said, those things probably will happen.

Your best bet is to test it - make sure the programs are running then set your computer to standby for an hour or so.

When you go back, check on the progress the programs have made. If they've closed, then don't try it again, but if they are still open (And have made progress) then you know it should be ok to run them overnight or whatever.

Like the General also said though, the CPU (And therefore the programs) run slower whilst on standby, so you won't get as much done as compared to simply leaving it on. It does save you <some> electricity though.

Its your choice, either way, qaz.

thank you

been trying to upload a avator for my pic, but cannot figure it out, even got a pic up in the gallery, but no way to link it to my avator pic

needs to be the right size. i think its 80x80 max, but im not sure.

also sometimes the website you have taken it off if you have put up a thing that will block it being used as an avitor as i have talked to someone who has this program its to do with copy right laws and so on

you mean like peerguardian?

Strange thing happened yesterday, I have my laptop set up so it will stay active when I close the lid, the laptop still runs but the screen shuts down, last night tho for some reason it didnt, luckily I had to check something before I went asleep and the laptop had been running an hour, the thing was so hot i nearly dropped it, I instantly shut it down and had to use a handy wipe on the back to wet it to cool it down. somehow the folding client reactivated my screen, so you kids using notebooks the same way that i do be aware as I could definately smell melting plastic in the air.
On a lighter note im going to dig my "Hulk" out of mothballs, It has roughly around a 3 gig processor and a gig of ram as well as a 256 meg nvidia graphics card. it's been masquerading as a small table this past year and im pretty sure once i set it up wirelessly i can run it 24-7 and take the strain off my laptop.