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#21 JEservices

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Posted 26 July 2004 - 11:09 AM

Woo Hoo I finished 2 of them...a 500 and 250. It d/l my next one at 10000. I had to look at it several times to see if that was really accurate lol. Lets see, if it took 24 hours to finish a 500, then this one is going to take 20 days!?!?! :flowers:

Oh well, at least it is for a good cause

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Posted 26 July 2004 - 11:38 AM

no actually the higher the WU the faster it goes and less it is worth.! that 10,000 wu will not take very long to finish! The 400 wu's are worht the most and take the longest. There called gromacs . ANd congrats

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#23 JEservices

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Posted 26 July 2004 - 05:08 PM

Thanks for the information on that. You are right, it does not take nearly as long. Already at 43% complete. Thanks for the cert.

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#24 phawgg

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 12:52 AM

My taskbar icon indicates: F@H Working (2/400) :thumbsup:

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 12:56 AM

Welcome to the team phawgg

#26 ColdinCbus

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 09:41 AM

Hey, this is great to see you guys have a folding team here. As a member of Team Helix, I welcome all of you to the fun, Folding gets addictive. :flowers:

The one thing I would recommend, use the console client as opposed to the graphical client. The console client puts more power to folding and doesn't eat up any cycles creating the graphics. It is also more stable.

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 04:44 PM

I use both for so I can run 2 on the hyper threading! But going and looking at my stat in seems my fah has been paused for the last 2 weeks!!! :thumbsup:

.. Im back on track though working on one of those nice 235 pointers!

#28 HuckerJ

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 05:28 PM

Does the graphical client creat graphics when there is no display window? Is the difference in folding power great enough that should switch?

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Posted 05 August 2004 - 05:36 PM

not really the graphical client just shows up if you double click the icon. If you dont want to see the client just close it if it is showing up on your dekstp.

#30 Papakid

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 11:49 AM

Thanks for the tip about the console client, Iceman. If I read the FAQ's correctly, people on dialup have no choice but to use the console anyway. Is that correct, guys?

Any tips for running a machine with multiple logons?

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 12:25 PM

you can pause it. When someone else logs on. Or pause the work in progress when you know someone else is going to log on. As for dial up no you can use the graphical clent as well just configure it to where it only downloads data or sends data when you log onto the internet!

#32 ColdinCbus

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 01:59 PM

Papakid, on Aug 6 2004, 12:49 PM, said:

You can use the console client on Dialup. You just use "asknet=yes" It should then ask you if you want to connect to the internet when it needs to go. I can also be set to auto dial but I don't think it will log you off the internet.

I use Fire Daemon to run F@H as a service in NT, XP and 2000 http://www.nozero.org/FireDaemonFAH.htm

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 02:02 PM

thaks for the info coldinbus! I didnt know about the dial up! I have been using dsl for years so I didnt have any clue about that exept through configure! And only download when you detect a connection! Now I know!

#34 ColdinCbus

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 02:34 PM

I found this in Team Helix FAQ regarding dial up modums.

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/3014

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#35 phawgg

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Posted 08 August 2004 - 07:25 PM

I just started the second F@H project. (0/1000) I have a 3 hour download going in the background, this and a couple other Firefox windows open. Page loads are understandably slower, a Sygate alert popped up twice indicating F&H was callin' home and I "approved" and hovered my cursor over the tray icon to confirm the change.

This thing works like a charm...maybe with a few million home/business users at the task and diligent researchers benefitting from it I'll avoid being one of the 50% of all 85yr olds with Altzheimer's Disease. I've got 35 years 'til then. (maybe)

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