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folding at home(fighting disease)

hey guys/girls i am not at all active on this forum much so i am not sure if this topic exists or not. anyways i am posting this to tell the masses about the system set up by Stanford University. they do not use a supercomputer for calculations they rely on a community of people donating their computer capacity so that Stanford can create proteins to help fight disease.

please read about it and consider letting the program run while u are not on(like when u are asleep or hopefully at work and doing nothing that involves a computer) because this can help a ton of people.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

i have the program and i know several people who do as well. thanks

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Yea this is a good thing i used to do this on my old system, iwill have to get it setup, we should make an SGW team, get everyone involved, it is for a good cause.
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i know a few pepole that do this
its a good cause if you can do it and doenst give up much
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yeah im doing this aswel, im setting up a team for people who play mmorpg's ( cause iv told a few different people from the variose games i play)

just made a team the number is : 72995

if anyone wants to make a team logo give us a buzz and ill ill put it on the team info, the dimentions are 128x32
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there is one for SETI as well:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I've found that these programs run my computers at 100% processor power. Has anyone else found the same?
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Yes, I have... seems to do that with almost every variety of SETI@home-like programs. A friend of mine got me a link to an application that limits processor usage by specific processes though. I could try to find it.

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i have not had that problem, their is a setting were you can set it to only work when idling or you can set it to work on a % of your processor capability
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No offence, and shoot me down for being paranoid but I don't trust anything on the internet these days. Hell, I don't even trust charities, they're emotional blackmailers. Seems there are more and more elaborate and intriquate ways to obtain information from people.

I don't want it knowing where I live :P
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Diamond Dust wrote:No offence, and shoot me down for being paranoid but I don't trust anything on the internet these days. Hell, I don't even trust charities, they're emotional blackmailers. Seems there are more and more elaborate and intriquate ways to obtain information from people.

I don't want it knowing where I live :P


lol your funny :P

seti is cool its looking for little green men should be right down your paranoid
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There are several charities that you can sign up to, to use your processing power for and they all use the same BOINC program for. I have been doing the SETI one since around 1997.
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my dad hates me putting stuff on the comp, but im getting my own so maybe ill put it on that.
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Diamond Dust wrote:No offence, and shoot me down for being paranoid but I don't trust anything on the internet these days. Hell, I don't even trust charities, they're emotional blackmailers.

Too true... heh.
teh Dust wrote:Seems there are more and more elaborate and intriquate ways to obtain information from people.
I don't want it knowing where I live :P

You could also argue that it already knows where you live, what you ate for breakfast, and who you slept with in the past 12 years.
A slightly toned down version of that is my personal idea. :)
You can't prevent them from knowing, so who cares if they find out.
And heck yes, I used to think you could keep things secret on the net, yea. ;)
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Spacey wrote:there is one for SETI as well:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I've found that these programs run my computers at 100% processor power. Has anyone else found the same?


They are supposed to, they use up the extra processing power in your computer that you arnt using for it to use.

You can change the settings which would make it say only 90% processor power.

Oh and I run Folding@Home 24/7 on my Playstation 3, and run SETI when I'm not on the computer.
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i dont care if they know my name or what i ate but if they found my bank account # i would be pissed unless they put money in it :roll: i joined the group rotten and can someone tell me how to put it on a ps2 :D
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