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#851 TMacK

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 07:20 PM

KoanYorel, on Jul 19 2007, 07:49 PM, said:

/Aside: TMack and I now playing tag - you're it TMack!

16213 vs 16311

There's been alot of action around here while I was gone!!

That small point spread is sad Koan :thumbsup:

No matter tho, it's fun, fun, fun till Daddy takes the T-Bird away...... Posted Image

Great to see a few more new folders on board!
Welcome to the BC F@H team solaris32 and dirpnirptik

BTW dirpnirptik, if you want to try and get larger WU's go into the F@H Control Panel, then click on Connection and check the box that says "Allow receipt of work assignments and return of results greater than 5MB.......". Then click okay.

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Posted 22 July 2007 - 09:48 PM

Thought todays Folding Fact was interesting..so I'd share it.
Folding fact #25
Genomics and hard drives: We have about a billion DNA bases in our genome. That's less than 1GB of storage! The genetic differences between humans and chimps is less than a million DNA bases -- small enough to easily fit on a 1.4MB floppy!

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#853 KoanYorel

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Posted 22 July 2007 - 11:14 PM

Please don't drop that floppy in transfer!

Or we'll all have to start over again?

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Posted 22 July 2007 - 11:47 PM

KoanYorel, on Jul 23 2007, 06:14 AM, said:

Please don't drop that floppy in transfer!

Or we'll all have to start over again?

- too true :flowers:

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#855 yano

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Posted 24 July 2007 - 11:04 PM

It's taking me forever! It's been about 6 days...

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Please don't drop that floppy in transfer!

Or we'll all have to start over again?

Just don't copy that floppy.

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#856 BlackSpyder

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Posted 24 July 2007 - 11:39 PM

Anyone know how to access your Hard Drives FAH files on a Live CD (giving up on the fixing Kubuntu just want to finish this unit out using PCLinuxOS Live CD). I can access the folder and start the program but it will not get past the configuration.

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 12:27 PM

yano, on Jul 24 2007, 09:04 PM, said:

It's taking me forever! It's been about 6 days...

Hey Yano,

My current WU is also very slow.
It's Protein: p1171_p1164_RIBO_H2O_froz

It will finish today, so it'll be interesting to see if the next one works at a normal rate.

Anyone Else?

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 05:53 PM

BTW the answer to my ? is yes you can. you just have to change ownership of the folder and the app. here is how.

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Posted 28 July 2007 - 11:40 PM

Well the other day I just setup another machine running F@H so I should be getting points faster now. Its a Pentium 4 1600MHz, 1Gb RAM so it'll run better than the Pentium II.

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Posted 29 July 2007 - 01:38 AM

Had a chuckle when I read todays Folding Fact of the Day.

Folding fact #32
420 BC Socrates (470? - 399 BC), the Greek philosopher, speculated on why children don't always resemble their parents. He enjoyed remarking that the sons of great statesmen were usually lazy and good for nothing.
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WTG need TOS! The more CPU's the better!

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Posted 29 July 2007 - 01:43 PM

My thoughts exactly :thumbsup:

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Posted 29 July 2007 - 08:33 PM

Yay! I have a wu that needs 5000 frames and I was on 3500, and guess what? I turned on my comp today and it's back at 9! I'm so happy I get to start this wu all over again with no hope of restoring my progress!

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 11:37 AM

Yeah...I hate that. that happened to me on my sisters laptop so I stopped doing it on there cause it happened more than once. Would I would try doing is going to the settings of FAH and set the timer to the fastest time. I'm exactly sure what its called being I dont have a FAH client on hand, but I think you'll figure it out.

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#864 TMacK

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 01:24 PM

solaris32, did you have a look in your folding log file to find out why the WU stopped working?

Right click on the red gear icon, go to Status then Log File.

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