Instead of being a necromancer with the ancient thread, and to reflect that we now do both BOINC-platform and F@H, thought that this could serve our evil purposes.

If a team exists for us in any of the BOINC projects, I'll switch my points over.

I just searched for a BOTF2 team on SETI; you guys are running that without a BOTF2 team? Blasphemy!

If you all dont make one, I will.

I dont fold on Seti or BOINC, im a pure F@H folder! Fold 24/7. I plan to destroy the environment to cure cancers! lol

I've.. set up a funky scheme with a virtual machine with VMWare running linux in a VM so I could use the more efficient SMP linux client code, and.. well anyway, bottom line:

A: I'm a geek
B: I've clearly been single for a little while to go to the trouble to eek out extra points-per-day
C: I've settled in to finishing a 1760 point work-unit every 26-27 hours of time I keep the virtual machine up, so a little better then every other day in practice.

I think my points per day might stabilize around 1400, or almost 10k / week.. More if I'm busy, less if I have a time to play EveOnline. All that on a stock-speed E6600. I kept up the overclock through the winter, but.. it's hot enough in this office.

And how about this for a team goal: 1 million points for the team by the end of the year!

My fuzzy, fuzzy math says we're almost on track. Just need a little more push, I think, and we could knock it out.

I've managed to get the GPU client to behave during startup - I deleted the program, reinstalled it into a non-temp folder, and put a shortcut for the program in my Windows startup folder.

...This still means that a horrible MS-DOS box comes up, but i've left it running for almost 48 hours now, and the unit is now 71% done. It's doing p2742_GPUlamda, a 330 point unit in case you were wondering. The CPU graphical client is doing p2453_Fragment-Recep, a 243 point unit. It's 56% done - but it's been folding for three days straight now but it still has three days and sixteen hours of folding left to do! My GPU must be waaaaaay more powerful than my CPU.

Nice image, by the way. Helpful.

I'm a command-line racist. Nevermind I'm living with an open VMWare living on my task bar; command line windows are so 1995.

So then, you could create a shortcut to the GPU client (after closing it since you have it running), then add a "-configonly" tag, execute it, and run through install again (it just overwrites the client.cfg), this time having it install as a service. After its asked its questions, the window should close. Reboot, or you might be able to open your services window thing (I forget how to get to the services manager in XP) and if its there you can ask it to start up the service rather then rebooting.

Does that work? I'm thinking everything is in its proper place now, so hopefully it will. Good luck

Wow we're starting to climb the ranks again now! Our 24-hour average point score has hit 1683 and we've climbed 9 places in the last 7 days! My new GPU client and Ringold are really adding to the team's points.



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So, I take it everything worked out Moe?

If so:

Yep! it all worked out Ringold. Still hate having the MS-DOS box come up though. I want both graphical clients running!

...I didn't try your suggestion coz my services thinng never works properly - every time i've used it to close any programs I just get an error message a few minutes later saying the service stopped responding.

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Scored any points yet, Nem?

*Edit - damn, yes you have, Nem. You need a few more to catch me though.

I wondered why you weren't showing up in the active user list on kakaostats! I just thought they hadn't updated the stats yet.

Yeah, you're gonna be a super folder in the team if you keep this up, Nem! I've been folding for 2/3 years now, but i've only got 64000 points. At the rate you're going you'll overtake me in just over a month!

Most of the team "members" haven't folded in a long time though - most of them only did one or two units as well. It's a shame. Would be good if we could get some new blood in the team. Anyone else want to join the team?

Your production matches mine, Nem!

If I hadn't already accumulated a decent points buffer, I'd be worried. Everyone below me concerned with their rank should be worried.

In the mean time.. making 1 million by years end is now laughibly easy. Looks like we'll be there a few months early!