Who are you? [Archive] - Page 3

AussieAnnette

15 Sep 2006, 07:46am

Hello!

I'm Jon's (Dragon V8) little sister, Annette and I too, come from the Perth area..

I'm soon to be *mumble mumble* as it's my birthday in about ten days (sheesh I just realised!!).

I am a mum of three sons, one's 24 yrs old, another 5 yrs old and my youngest 4 yrs old. I love 'em to bits and basically I'm a stay at home mum who dabbles in Avon and loves her computer, albeit an old clunker.

Last time I visited Jon and Sally, which was on Christmas day last year, they told me about folding and I nearly fainted when I saw the arsenal of folding computers in his house. (Preeetty blue lights) :hair:

Right now I'm on my spare computer (the other one's giving me an error message so I'll have to take it to the techie once I get the spandoolies) and this spare computer is rather slooooooooooooooooooow. I plan to start folding soon enough, once I'm sure that I won't be frozen out of the computer world. See, I've got 256 Ram and the processor is um... 800MHz. The other one is pretty much the same but it's faster -slightly.

Stop laughing. :grumble:

I mean it.. stop laughing. ;D

So it's slow... I plan on saving a little money and asking Jon to build me a you beaut- mega - knock - yer - socks off machine if he ever gets the time!

I'm allegedly getting a laptop for Xmas from someone but well... we'll see.

I thought that this would be a good way to catch up with my bro on a regular basis as well as helping the world out with some folding. I am aware that Jon and Sally are the duck's nuts in folding, so basically I'll be the one at the other end of the spectrum hahah.. that way it will all balance out.

I know I can't do much.. but hey, a drop in the ocean's better than nothing!

So once again, hello :D

GHoosdum

15 Sep 2006, 01:50pm

Welcome to Short-Media, Annette. I can tell you'll fit right in here.

And any contribution to the Folding team is welcome, no matter how slow the computer may seem... every little bit helps.

What exactly does "duck's nuts" mean? ;)

Datsun 1600

15 Sep 2006, 02:39pm

What exactly does "duck's nuts" mean? ;)
It should be "duck's guts" = the best, top of the town etc

Datsun 1600

Edit: I should have added:

Welcome to to the Forums Annette.

Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie, Oi, Oi, Oi.

QCH2002

15 Sep 2006, 02:39pm

Welcome to this fantastic folding family!!!! We're glad to have you help us solve the mysteries of Cancer and such. Every CPU (Slow or not) brings us closer.... thank you!!! :D

Shalimar

16 Sep 2006, 02:35am

A big welcome to you Annette. :)

And to echo a sentiment one more time.

Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

SSLLAAMMIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!

Later

Leonardo

16 Sep 2006, 05:05am

From Alaska to Australia, welcome!

Winga

16 Sep 2006, 06:23am

Love your intro Annette. Welcome to the team and a great family!

Hawk

16 Sep 2006, 12:19pm

Wow, We've had quite a few people join up in the last couple of weeks.
Hello to you all from Florida, USA!
And a heart felt Thank You for joining Team 93 in it's search for a cure.
This is a great bunch of people here at short-media as you'll find out if you spend any time here.
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, And the rains fall soft upon your fields.
Welcome to Short-Media friends.
Hawk

AussieAnnette

16 Sep 2006, 03:23pm

Thanks for the warm welcome. I know if I need any help concerning folding, to just ask here.

:headbange

QCH2002

17 Sep 2006, 10:55pm

Welcome everyone. The team really appreciates ever CPU and member. Every little bit helps. :thumbsup:

dragonV8

26 Sep 2006, 12:26pm

Just flew back in from work after 2 weeks of no internet and low and behold, my little sister is here too.:thumbsup:

Great to see you saying hello and putting your comp to work for such a wonderful and worthwhile cause. :)

Welcome to Short-Media Annette and anyone else i may have missed saying hello to as well.

F:fold:LD on.

the_technocrat

27 Sep 2006, 09:58pm

Leonardo

27 Sep 2006, 10:18pm

Dan, welcome! Thank you for joining our time.Hey, I'm Dan. I'm... Sorry, but there is no 12-step program for this addiction. If only all addictions did so much good and were so much fun. :cool:

QCH2002

27 Sep 2006, 10:22pm

As I've spoken in email and forum.folding-community...

Thank you for attacking the Domain Deployment issue and putting all the effort into this new endeavor. The project and this team REALLY appreciates everything you put towards F@H. Welcome to Team #93!!!

Hawk

27 Sep 2006, 10:35pm

Dan,
Welcome to Short-Media and Team 93.
Wow! That's some project you took on to set up all the labs!
Thank You very much for the contribution to folding and to Team 93.
Hope you enjoy our worldwide community family here.

csimon

27 Sep 2006, 10:38pm

Hey, I'm Dan. I'm in grad school with QCH2002, and he got me on folding with team #93 here.

I'm a net admin and just figured out how to push out FAH via active directory. You can read about it here:
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?p=145078#145078

I've just started folding this past week, and hope to make a good contribution. we'll see how it goes! :-)

Oh, and I'm also senior editor / admin over at geeklimit.com.

See ya around!
Welcome to the team tech ...I'll have to finish that thread when I get home but it looks very interesting. Sounds like you have a nice size lab to play with. Good luck and don't pass me too soon! :fold:

FormFactor

27 Sep 2006, 10:48pm

I'm a net admin and just figured out how to push out FAH via active directory....

Oh man I do a lot of AD pushes, and we have about 40,000 clients nation wide, how cool would it be if they let me package and push it to all of them? :rockon:

Too bad they would fire me for it, but it's almost worth it.

profdlp

27 Sep 2006, 10:49pm

Hey, I'm Dan. I'm in grad school with QCH2002...
Of all the stories in this thread, that has got to be one of the saddest. For many of us, people like Quinton are why we Fold. :bawling:

I'm a friend of his, too - can you tell? :crazy: :vimp:

AussieAnnette

28 Sep 2006, 04:18pm

Shalimar

29 Sep 2006, 05:09am

Woot Jon's here!

Hey I downloaded the proggie and it's now folding in the background. Maybe it can fold my washing.

I know, bad joke lol

Welcome to the other new members. I see that my clunker is handling this programme rather nicely..

Trust me when i say the thought crossed my mind as well. :bigggrin:

Ah well, wishfull thinking is free.:)

Later Annette

QCH2002

29 Sep 2006, 05:24am

Of all the stories in this thread, that has got to be one of the saddest. For many of us, people like Quinton are why we Fold. :bawling:

I'm a friend of his, too - can you tell? :crazy: :vimp:I knew I should check back on this thread.... thanks Prof. It's about time you get me back for all the jokes, pokes, and stuff.... like this one... ;D

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=18038&d=1130956878

Shalimar

29 Sep 2006, 05:43am

Thanks QCH2002,

I was drinking a full glass of pineapple juice. Now i gotta clean up da mess. :-/

Later

Winga

29 Sep 2006, 06:24am

;D I never get tired of laughing at that picture.
At least Prof can boast at having a killer body :D

dragonV8

29 Sep 2006, 07:57am

What gets me is, how can anyone with such a young body look so old.;D

AussieAnnette

29 Sep 2006, 12:23pm

bahahahahahah...

Can I do that? I need a bod like that one...

profdlp

29 Sep 2006, 03:24pm

:topic: :topic: :topic: :topic: :topic: :topic: :topic:

(Yeah, I know - I started it... ;) )

airbornflght

30 Sep 2006, 12:25am

Prof, you ARE the reason they invented paper sacks. :D

profdlp

30 Sep 2006, 02:30am

Prof, you ARE the reason they invented paper sacks. :D
You'd think I'd at least get royalties on the patent. :-/

AussieAnnette

1 Oct 2006, 04:03am

..ok be patient with me...

I've got the proggie folding in the background and I've put 93 in the team number so that means this team right?

It was team 0 before but I realised that everyone here has #93 somewhere in their sigs or avvies ... so I put 93 in mine.

What's the fraction that appears when you sit your pointer on the little wheel in the system tray? Mine says F@H: working (99/500)..will I have accomplished something when it hits 500? It's been on 99 all morning ..

Yesterday I left my puter for a few hours and when I came back I could hardly move my pointer... I looked in task manager and it stated that F@H was using 98% of my cpu! ... I rebooted and it wouldn't load the programme properly so I rebooted again and no probs.

Is it because I've got a slow clunker? Did F@H think "oh she's going out so we can hog the cpu while she isn't doing anything"..? :smokin:

profdlp

1 Oct 2006, 04:56am

...What's the fraction that appears when you sit your pointer on the little wheel in the system tray? Mine says F@H: working (99/500)..will I have accomplished something when it hits 500? It's been on 99 all morning...
Work Units (WU's) are divided into frames. The number of frames varies from WU to WU. In this case, once you finish the 500th frame you will have completed the WU, at which point the finished work will be returned to Stanford U. and you will be awarded the points that it is worth. Then a new one will be automatically downloaded and you'll begin the process all over again. If you look in the Folding signature many of have you might see the number of WU's listed along with the total number of points we have accumulated.

Yesterday I left my puter for a few hours and when I came back I could hardly move my pointer... I looked in task manager and it stated that F@H was using 98% of my cpu! ... I rebooted and it wouldn't load the programme properly so I rebooted again and no probs.

Is it because I've got a slow clunker? Did F@H think "oh she's going out so we can hog the cpu while she isn't doing anything"..? :smokin:
Folding uses whatever resources are not in use by other programs at the time, so yes, it did decide to hog the whole CPU. :vimp:

It will also automatically back off as you do other things with the computer. Tasks like surfing the Internet and reading email actually require very little in the way of processing power, so 98% is not an unreasonable mark. If you have a more CPU-intensive program open it will be much lower. While playing a demanding game or doing something like video rendering (both highly CPU-intensive tasks), FAH will drop off to practically nothing. Once you close the programs it ramps back up into high gear. :)

AussieAnnette

3 Oct 2006, 03:38am

ok thanks for that.

I've booted up the puter today and the mouse was frozen on the screen... dang.. had to reboot a bootup.

profdlp

3 Oct 2006, 03:48am

What does your CPU temperature look like? Running at near 100% it is going to get kind of toasty, which could explain the freezing. (Sounds odd when put that way, doesn't it?)

If you haven't cleaned the CPU fan and heatsink in a while that would be a good place to start. :)

AussieAnnette

5 Oct 2006, 03:21am

lol freezing due to the comp hotting up...

I wouldn't even know HOW to clean the fan and heatsink.

Jon came over the other day and looked at my other not working comp...

It's given me the inspiration to finally get it fixed! (seeing as it has a legit xp on it and it hasn't been updated in three weeks)

][v][AGIC

5 Oct 2006, 04:26am

just turn the machine off, take the heatsink off. usually can be done with your fingers or sometimes you need a flathead screwdriver. use some rubbing alcohol or i like mineral spirits myself to clear off any old thermal compound or grease. then i would just take the fan off and run the heatsink under the water in the sink. get a can of co2 or just wipe the fins off on the fan. let it dry off, put some new thermal grease on the cpu and put the heatsink back on. not too hard. usually something good to do once a month or so, maybe more often if you have pets. just google cleaning heatsink and youll get some more involved guides to cleaning out your computer with pics and stuff. good luck

the_technocrat

5 Oct 2006, 04:29am

[v][AGIC']just turn the machine off, take the heatsink off. usually can be done with your fingers or sometimes you need a flathead screwdriver. use some rubbing alcohol or i like mineral spirits myself to clear off any old thermal compound or grease. then i would just take the fan off and run the heatsink under the water in the sink. get a can of co2 or just wipe the fins off on the fan. let it dry off, put some new thermal grease on the cpu and put the heatsink back on. not too hard. usually something good to do once a month or so, maybe more often if you have pets. just google cleaning heatsink and youll get some more involved guides to cleaning out your computer with pics and stuff. good luck

:eek:

if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!

][v][AGIC

5 Oct 2006, 04:40am

:eek:

if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!

This doesnt really fall under the computer repair categorie. This is more of a basic pc maintenance issue that should be done regularly to avoid other problems. Sadly some people are a little scared of the confuser and dont clean their computer regularly and pay out the back side to replace parts that fail due to overheating.

the_technocrat

5 Oct 2006, 05:33am

I'd definitely say that properly removing thermal paste and re-applying arctic silver 5 or something (properly) is something that is beyond basic maintenance.

Aussie, if you're not familiar with machine repair, please don't do this. a simple can of air is all you need to clean the inside of the machine. If the fan on the processor's heatsink isn't turning or makes noise, it's a cheap replacement, go for it.

If you honestly don't need the machine, you can have your friend show you how to apply new thermal paste, but it would be an educational exercise only, it is not neccessary as part of regular maintenance. I've personally managed over a thousand machines over the last three years, and have never once needed to mess with the thermal paste to solve an overheating issue.

][v][AGIC

5 Oct 2006, 05:36am

If you take the heat sink off youll need to put thermal paste on, and ive worked on a few pcs where a off set heat sink or badly applied thermal paste was causing an overheating issue.

and excuse me, i just realized this debate is going on in the wrong thread.

the_technocrat

5 Oct 2006, 05:47am

Annette, it's dust. You don't need to remove any components, just blow the fins out with a can of compressed air so air can get through where the dust clogs used to be.

Welcome, and hope to see you up soon!

witenoiz

5 Oct 2006, 07:03am

:eek:

if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!
:woowoo: In the garage!! Why did I never think of that? :shakehead WOW are we off topic! Jack

Leonardo

5 Oct 2006, 07:44am

Ok, we strayed off course enough. This is the "Who Are You Thread." Although cleaning a computer is near and dear to my heart, enough about that here. :)

Thermalfish

5 Oct 2006, 08:37am

Hi, Im Ondy from Melbourne, Australia (though originally from Perth. Hi Perthlings). I work as a graphic designer, and lecture Audio Engineering and Multimedia.
The site's forums have really helped me out the past few weeks, so I thought Id better become a member.
Got two Athlon64 systems at home ready to start folding once I figure out scheduling.

primesuspect

5 Oct 2006, 02:01pm

Welcome aboard everyone! :)

Datsun 1600

5 Oct 2006, 02:31pm

QCH2002

5 Oct 2006, 03:42pm

WOW... We've got quite a few Aussie's on board!!!! Welcome!!!! :D

profdlp

5 Oct 2006, 04:24pm

:ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag: :ausflag:

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7435&stc=1 http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=15511&stc=1http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7435&stc=1

][v][AGIC

5 Oct 2006, 08:49pm

aussie aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi

welcome to the team everyone.

AussieAnnette

6 Oct 2006, 09:01am

Welcome to the board!

Us Aussies seem to be taking over! :honoes:

rachael

11 Oct 2006, 07:06pm

hello, i'm rachael :)

i joined back in 2004, very taken with the idea of f@h. my notebook, however, was fazed and i never managed to turn in even a single WU :-/

having recently got a new computer, and a new lease of (geek)life, i am pleased to be able to report that the elusive first WU should be mine by breakfast tomorrow (fingers crossed).

see you tomorrow,

rachael

the_technocrat

11 Oct 2006, 07:10pm

Clutch

11 Oct 2006, 07:10pm

once you get that wu turned in Rachael, be sure to get you a nifty folding sig like we have. Thanks for folding.

QCH2002

11 Oct 2006, 07:12pm

Welcome Rachael!!! :clap:

rachael

11 Oct 2006, 07:28pm

cheers guys!

looks like breakfast just got three hours earlier... assuming the estimation is reliable. i guess it depends if i watch tv tonight.

laters.

][v][AGIC

12 Oct 2006, 12:34am

cool beans, welcome to the team

rachael

12 Oct 2006, 07:58am

WU hoo!

1 down... you gotta start somewhere!

Thermalfish

12 Oct 2006, 09:09am

Hah me too ;)

profdlp

12 Oct 2006, 05:19pm

Once you hit 1,000 points (and it'll come sooner than you may think), keep an eye on the Notable Milestones Forum (http://www.short-media.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=26). You'll be honored there in front of the whole team - and on the front page of the general forum, too. :D

Faynor

3 Nov 2006, 04:54am

Hi. My name is Charles. I'd like to start off by saying that I've been a big fan of projects such as this one. I can't recall a date, but I use to participate in the Seti@home project with a few friends, and we rounded up quite a group to sink quite a bit of time into that.

I recently just floated across this place, while i was checking out a way to remove a piece of spyware my computer had gotten over the weeks. Well anyhow, here I am here.. I plan to do my part. I've got the system all set up for running as a service and it's on its way.

A little about myself. I'm 26 years old. I live in Clinton, IA.. I might as well just say IOWA, because no one is going to know the town. Anyhow. I've been into computers since I was about 16, and the past 10 years I've done absolutely nothing. I believe if I've always been on a dedicated connection, why not make some use for it. And you've given me that answer.

If anyone wants to know more about me, then just ask. I may post more as I think about it, but I like to keep things simple.

Leonardo

3 Nov 2006, 05:22am

Charles, thanks for taking the time post and THANK YOU for joining Team 93, Short-Media. It's now YOUR team!

Let us know if there's any way we can help you, with Folding@Home or any other computer pursuit. You will find our team challenging, fun, and friendly.

Leo

jhenry

3 Nov 2006, 06:08am

Nice to meet you Charles

QCH2002

3 Nov 2006, 04:56pm

Charles... Welcome to the best folding family. :celebrate

RedDragon

4 Nov 2006, 06:29pm

Hi I'm Jared Mudry. I work night shift at WAL-MART. i'm 21 I heard about u guys from my dad DogDragon and that's it

Leonardo

4 Nov 2006, 06:37pm

Hi Jared. Thank you for joining our team.

profdlp

4 Nov 2006, 06:39pm

Welcome to the FUN bunch. :D

QCH2002

5 Nov 2006, 04:21am

!!!!~Welcome~!!!!
:headbange

Shalimar

5 Nov 2006, 10:15am

Jared, Welcome to our crazy corner on the web. :)

Shal

dragonV8

7 Nov 2006, 11:22pm

Welcome Jared. A Dragon of ANY sorts is a good thing.:)

Radio91P

13 Dec 2006, 01:13am

Hey guys,

I just started folding. I have been a member for awhile and have received a lot of good advice and help, so thanks.

I am a loan officer for Zions Bank in Utah. I am working toward becoming a physician's assistant.

About one year ago I bought a computer for my wife and I to do digital photography work. I started having problems and had troubles getting help with it. I decided that I would figure it out myself. After a few months I decided that I would build one myself. Now I have so much fun keeping up with tech and continue to build computers for friends and family. Saved a friend $2000 on a computer that he was going to buy from Alienware.

Anyhow, nice to meet you!

Radio91P

the_technocrat

13 Dec 2006, 02:07pm

welcome! nice machine.

fatsheep

13 Dec 2006, 08:58pm

Hey everyone, I've been running the console version of Folding@Home on my linux box for about a month now and although I have never posted much here I remember you guys had a team so I thought I'd join in. :)

Shalimar

16 Dec 2006, 01:46am

Welcome Jared. A Dragon of ANY sorts is a good thing.:)

Now why did i know you were going say something like that eh? :D

All we need now is a DadDragon, then dragonV8 will be in his glory. Cause then we will have Dragons all over the place. :vimp:

Niah! Niah! Niaahhhhhh!!!!!

Later

Shalimar

16 Dec 2006, 01:51am

Welcome to Team Short-Media fatsheep, :) thanks for joining in our fight for the cure.

Enjoy your stay, we are a friendly bunch around heah "crazy" but friendly.

Later :)

sim2340

21 Dec 2006, 07:20pm

Name Simon Byers

Age 17

Address Bisley,Woking
County Surrey

Great Britain

Occupation Horticulturist at merrist wood college
Lv 2 Horticulture course

I enjoy playing computer games and building computers. I have many family members in Texas and Kansas. I am a christian since summer 2006 when i went to see them and got baptised and saved very exciting!

Crypto

21 Dec 2006, 07:29pm

Welcome indeed to Short-Media and we hope to welcome you soon to Team 93.

The finest laid back but innovative and forward looking team on the WWW. :ukflag:

Several UK members too, including the co-founder who will no doubt be along shortly ( no pun intended honest mate. :buck: )

the_technocrat

22 Dec 2006, 02:51pm

welcome!

Calypso01

30 Dec 2006, 07:18pm

just imbA in Dota!!!!
Phantom Lancer imbA!
hey ... can i join to team93? and why team93 ? not team777?!:crazy:

Riptide

14 Jan 2007, 08:57am

Name: Jordan Rivest
Age: 24
Occupation: Supv in a call center for a small cellular company (going on 4.5 yrs). Which handles calls for two other companys (which compeate against each other - go figure). One of the companys I do work for is a Wimax ISP. Fairly intresting.
Location: Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada - aka the frozen north & in the middle of butt**** nowhere

Interests: Hockey, Hockey, and more hockey. I can't play it (knee injury), but I'm a great arm-chair GM (arn't we all?), and love to watch it. My favorite player is Sidney Crosby, and I watch many of their games. I guess I could say I'm a hockey nut. Along with that, I enjoy spending time gaming. When I had internet at home it was CS. Now it's one of several games (GTA San Andreas, NFS Carbon, EMH2007). I also like playing around with computers (read breaking them). My spending habits on computers usually goes in spurts. The system in my sig, just happens to be my latest one (in 2 yrs). But seeing how I've already found things I want to change, it probably won't be my last.

General info: I grew up in Prince George BC, and moved up to Whitehorse after I graded in 2000 (seems like a long time ago - wow). Other than occasionally camping (maybe a couple times a yr), and some biking, I hate the outdoors. I'm not into hiking, hunting or any of the outdoor winter sports. The summers suck, and are cold, and short. And it never gets dark (I **** you not). The winters are long (very very long), and ****ing cold. Last week, I woke up to -37C (car would barly start). Joy. And it's usually dark all day long (I haven't worn sunglass's in several months). And even with the money aside (which is pretty good - makes up for everything being overpriced), I just love it up here, and don't really see myself some where else.

College is dirt cheep up here (thank you federal gov't), I spent around $3,500 in 2 yrs, including books & supplies. During those two years I was taking computer studies. Unfortunatly due to my living situtation, I wasn't able to finish the program. So instead I went back to work full time with NMI Mobility (a subsidary of Bell Mobility), and bought a little trailer/mobile home about 5 minutes from work. The place will be paid for in 5yrs, and then I'll almost definately be going back to school. I have no clue what I want to do (probably won't be the computer studies program).

However with the current job paying all the bills, and leaving enought to waste on new electronic toys (doesn't everyone need a 42" plasma?), and other much needed items (new computer & LCD Monitor). I don't feel any need to run back anytime soon.

Back in Prince George, I have 2 younger brothers, who are 16 & 12, and they live with my mom & step-father. Here in Whitehorse, I have a 14.5yr old sister (going on 25) who I spoil a lot and am very close to, and a 13 yr old brother, who everyone thinks of as a little ****er. But we get along ok. And I'm teaching him what little I know about computers, and how to put them together.

I started folding for Team 93 (tonight). I'm gonna keep my work desktop folding 24/7 (work pays for that power bill). But I'm leary of leaving my home system on like that... now that I get to pay my own power bill :cry: (would I see much of an increass using the system below - has a 600 watt P/S?).

I found this site while looking for answers about my RAID issue in the new system. But everyone was so friendly that I had to stay. So here I am. Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm into hockey?

Clutch

18 Jan 2007, 08:12pm

Welcome to the team Riptide. Be sure to pick up a folding sig once you complete your first WU as well :) Thank you for folding for a cure.

urd

22 Jan 2007, 05:15pm

Hiya,
urd here

I kinda started lurking around here after i've googled for M2N32 SLI Deluxe's issues and the big ass thread here was quite helpful :D . I sort of knew about what Folding@Home was all about but never cared to research more. After i've seen all those Sigs, i kinda started thinking what's this all about. I stumbled upon this section and then downloaded the utility and voilah..

I just have one question... Usually I prefer having as low temps as possible but after starting the folding thing at load my temps are as high as 47 or so.. and at idle somewhere around 45.. I've never planned to run a constant load utility aside some BT clients. Only one or two days stress testing was the max i've ever done. So was wondering if there is anything i should be worrying about?

That's about it.

primesuspect

22 Jan 2007, 05:24pm

Urd! Thanks for joining the team :)

As you know, I also have the M2N32-SLI Deluxe ;) Running constantly at 47-49 is not a concern for me. I have always, from the moment I build a machine, run both cores at 100%. With adequate cooling, there are no issues. If your temps are 47, that indicates adequate cooling for full load :)

urd

22 Jan 2007, 05:31pm

I see. I guess it's all good then :)

troll

31 Jan 2007, 06:10am

Greetings & Salutations all...

I'm Charlie from Windsor Nova Scotia...
It all started a few years ago with an Apple][+, C64, 1040ST... I digress :o

Computer Technician in my 9to5, electronics as a hobby (Not as much as i'd like though... way too much 9to5 gets in the way :) )

Been lurking here for a little while and found a lot of great answers and very interesting reading. My folding box which had a previous score of 161857 for another team is now under the control of Team 93 :rockon:

For some reason my SIG wont work... (Cut and Pasted from the Generator) :(

Looks like a great bunch of folks here, mind if I take my hat off and sit a spell?

csimon

31 Jan 2007, 01:33pm

Looks like a great bunch of folks here, mind if I take my hat off and sit a spell?Absolutely! And welcome!

profdlp

31 Jan 2007, 05:56pm

Greetings & Salutations all...
Welcome to The Team! :D

For some reason my SIG wont work... (Cut and Pasted from the Generator)...
See the award-winning signature fixer post (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showpost.php?p=350084&postcount=43). :thumbsup: :fold:

primesuspect

31 Jan 2007, 06:09pm

It won awards!

profdlp

31 Jan 2007, 06:47pm

It won awards!
Heck yeah, it did! (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showpost.php?p=459247&postcount=1486) :D

troll

2 Feb 2007, 04:17pm

See the award-winning signature fixer post (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showpost.php?p=350084&postcount=43). :thumbsup: :fold:

Sweet! Much Thanks!

SPIKE09

3 Feb 2007, 02:27am

bothered

3 Feb 2007, 08:42am

Hi Scotish person. Is it true the Scotish work units are deep fried?

SPIKE09

3 Feb 2007, 01:24pm

Hi Scotish person. Is it true the Scotish work units are deep fried? Nope just a little smoked, it is Marsbars that get deep fried.:o :eek: :bigggrin:

Hawk

4 Feb 2007, 03:11pm

Welcome and Thank You to all the new members folding for S-M.
It's a great thing your doing to thwart a bunch of deadly diseases.
And we're very happy to have you as members of Short-Media.
WE hope you enjoy the site and all the diverse members from around the world.

drdavid

6 Feb 2007, 10:17pm

Hey Guys
I don't know for sure who's the oldest? I know all of the post that I read and there are lots youal made me feel old. I am 52 married 2 kids that left home went to school and came back like yo yos. I work for a magnetic tape manufacturing company in Opelika Al. been here for 25 years. I work with plcs and automated equipment. Just happen to run across this forum and thought I would join.
DrDavid:bigggrin:

Kentigern

6 Feb 2007, 10:28pm

:wave: Welcome drdavid glad to have you on board :) Some of us are silver surfers, young at heart, & willing to learn and share knowledge.
:)

witenoiz

6 Feb 2007, 11:30pm

Hey Guys
I don't know for sure who's the oldest? I am 52 married 2 kids that left home went to school and came back like yo yos.
DrDavid:bigggrin:

Trust me doc! You are far from taking my distinctive honor from me. I am the oldest in age of all the members of Team Short-Media. :cool: I am also one of the least knowledgeable - and I would guess the one closest to absolute poverty. All I have is a wonderful wife (now over 5 years cancer free) who is very understanding when I declare that I have built my last computer. :cool2: She just smiles - after 46 years she knows me pretty well. :wink: Welcome to the team - and remember, you can never have too many computers. :fold: :fold: Jack

dragonV8

7 Feb 2007, 02:38pm

Trust me doc! You are far from taking my distinctive honor from me. I am the oldest in age of all the members of Team Short-Media. :cool: I am also one of the least knowledgeable - and I would guess the one closest to absolute poverty. All I have is a wonderful wife (now over 5 years cancer free) who is very understanding when I declare that I have built my last computer. :cool2: She just smiles - after 46 years she knows me pretty well. :wink: Welcome to the team - and remember, you can never have too many computers. :fold: :fold: Jack

G'day doc. I do believe witenoiz to be correct about being the oldest @ SM.
I have 8 yrs on you so basically, consider yourself to be a youngster.:)

Oh, and i know less than witenoiz.;D

profdlp

7 Feb 2007, 05:10pm

Welcome, drdavid! :wave:

IAstudent

13 Feb 2007, 02:37am

Hiya to all you out there in folding land!

Where to start? If you know your U.S. state abbreviations, you're one step ahead. I spend most of my life as a student at the University of Iowa, majoring in biology with a focus on genetics. Outside of that, I tend to do a lot of online gaming in my spare time. Also big on the reading part, whether it's nonfiction or fiction.

I'm also involved in my university's American Sign Language club (ASL being my foreign language requirement of choice) and the local American Indian Student Association (I took several courses under one of our native studies department heads).

I'm hoping to put in my two bits of folding, no matter how small they may be.

witenoiz

13 Feb 2007, 04:53am

Welcome to S-M IAstudent :clap: I was born in a little town called Rinard, Iowa - and I attended Iowa U for a very short time in the mid '50's. Iowa City has to be one of the hilly-ist cities in the world. But what a great school. Glad to have you with us on Team 93 :fold: Jack

Leonardo

13 Feb 2007, 05:02am

Urd, Troll, Spike09, and DrDavid -- welcome to all of you. This team has been cracking since around 2000. We have a sense of community, care about other, care about philanthropy, and enjoy the technical permutations of Folding@Home and the attendant tweaking and building of computers. Your are now amongst friends. It's not 'us' and 'you'...it's just us. Thanks for joining.

witenoiz

13 Feb 2007, 06:27am

and enjoy the technical permutations of Folding@Home and the attendant tweaking

:rolleyes: Permutating had a real impact on why I joined :rockon: :dunce:
Jack

Leonardo

13 Feb 2007, 06:37am

Whereas Bothered joined for percolating. :D

OK, I guess I had that coming. That was a bit of stiff, formal post from me. :rolleyes: :D

dragonV8

13 Feb 2007, 01:27pm

I thought it was "fermentation".:beer:

SPIKE09

13 Feb 2007, 03:30pm

QCH2002

13 Feb 2007, 04:04pm

Welcome everyone.... Stick around and you'll find that we are a close knit group/ family. Thanks for helping out on the project!!! :D

josephanthonydiaz

15 Feb 2007, 06:04am

greetings team 93, from Columbia MO.
I didn't realize until a couple of days ago that I'd been acknowledged here for my little contribution to the cause. Much Thanks. Since i'd gotten good advice here on getting and keeping my over heated machines running, and also because Alzheimer's runs in my family, I took the plunge back in October and set up the cool protein screen saver on my workstation. it's been folding away since then. So when I came across a stats page with my name on it a few days ago i did a double take, then decided to set up on my gamer as well. I am a 41 year old college student at Columbia College, trying to major in math.
The two machines i have folding now are a dual xeon (2.4) on supermicro p4dce+ with 1g rambus, an old workhorse that still serves me well, and a 3.4g prescott @(3.74) on an asus p4p800-e. any advice on improving their output would be appreciated.

csimon

15 Feb 2007, 12:07pm

Khrom

1 Mar 2007, 08:47pm

Hello ShortMedia / Team 93 people.

I've joined the folding@home effort yesterday (feb 28th. 2007). This board being the reason of my joining (Gen. Keeble and Trogan can fight over the "recruting rights" :p )
I stumbled on the website after googling for help or solutions about a nasty little trojan issue.

The name's Eric Michaud (pronounced mee-sho for you english people :bigggrin: ) and live in Montreal, Canada. I'm a 30+ HR/manager getting himself prepared (mentally and financially) to an interesting return as a University student in what I think could be translated as "Organizational Applied computing". Basically it's the first part of many courses (and years) that should help in analyzing and integrating computer technologies in an organization/company based on its needs and requirements.

In my spare times; play on the computer (RTS, FPS, MMOs), hang out with friends or simply try to have a good time and laughs. I dabble in almost every sports and activities. Always keeping a mind open for new experiences.

QCH2002

1 Mar 2007, 08:57pm

Welcome to Short-Media and Greetings from the Folding Staff. Thank you for joining and we look forward to seeing you online. You will find this the best online community on the net. :thumbsup:

Kick back and make yourself at home. :D

csimon

1 Mar 2007, 08:59pm

Welcome to team 93 Eric. The Michot name is quite common down here and pronounced the same as yours. It's a derivative from way back actually ...same family origins. Mine is Simon (Sea-maw)! :fold:

Khrom

1 Mar 2007, 11:42pm

Leonardo

2 Mar 2007, 04:28am

Don't worry about CSimon, he is mutated and orthographed, but he's still trustworthy!

Thanks for joining the team. I hope you have as much fun (and addiction) as the rest of us do.

csimon

4 Mar 2007, 02:13am

Yup, I know that many people / families in your area (mostly Louisiana) hold french names that were 'mutated' to a more 'english' sounding orthograph.

Just shows you how small the world is :D

Ah ...Acadiana = Acadie - Louisiana!

Don't worry about CSimon, he is mutated and orthographed, but he's still trustworthy!

Thank you for the vote of confidence sir!

jokke

26 Apr 2007, 07:05pm

Didn't see this thread before, heh.

My name is Joakim, but everyone calls me Jokke.
I'm from the city of Alta, in the northernmost county of Norway, Finnmark.
I'm about 1.80 tall and weigh roughly 100 kg. I'm 18 years old, and I'm studying to be a sea captain.

Leonardo

26 Apr 2007, 08:07pm

Alta is 69�58'48.01N. That's about the same latitude as the North Slope, Alaska. You are way far North. In fact, I believe you are northernmost Short-Media member. Congratulations! You should put that for your location: "Northernmost Short-Media Dude."

jokke

26 Apr 2007, 08:09pm

Alright! Really no member further north? Not even good old St. Nicholas?

Leonardo

26 Apr 2007, 08:18pm

He's a weenie coward who winters in Florida, so he can't be considered a true citizen of the North like you and me. He just flies up to the North Pole for photo opportunities and press releases. Really fooled generations of people.

jokke

26 Apr 2007, 08:23pm

Oh, thought he lived on the north pole....

primesuspect

27 Apr 2007, 03:43am

I'm studying to be a sea captain.

that is so bad ass :rarr: sounds like a REALLY fun career :)

Vintage86

11 May 2007, 09:52am

Name: David
Location: San Franciso, CA
Occupation: Full time student

QCH2002

11 May 2007, 02:54pm

Welcome to a great project and an outstanding team. Thanks for joining!!! :thumbsup:

airoh69

16 May 2007, 10:59pm

My name is Constantinos Constantinou. I live in Larnaca, a city in a country called Cyprus. I am a full time student that is hopefully finishing at january 2008. I-ve been into computers since ~1994 and love doing mods on them.

Leonardo

17 May 2007, 02:32am

Welcome, Constantinou.

Thrax

17 May 2007, 02:25pm

Wow, Cyprus. :D

QCH2002

17 May 2007, 02:46pm

Welcome to the team, Constantinos. We're glad you joined!!! :thumbsup:

Nuppi

25 May 2007, 07:14pm

Hey everyone,

My nick is Nuppi and my first name Jukka. I'm 43 years old man and I live in Finnland and I'm there as a teacher in finnish malvare removal universitet.

I have passed that school and being a teacher one year ago. Before I passed school, I have studied privately and helped people against malware in finnish forums few years before I go to Finnish hijackthis school.

My occupation is engineer off automation in mechanical site. Now days i have planned and developed new generations off automatic machines to paper industry.

Recards,

Nuppi

QCH2002

25 May 2007, 08:31pm

Welcome to the best Folding team, bar none!!! Thanks for stopping in to introduce yourself. :thumbsup:

Crypto

25 May 2007, 09:51pm

Hi Nuppi,

I'm a process engineer dealing with automation in the water industry so I guess we have a lot in common.
Welcome to the community and feel free to speak up at any time.

dragonV8

26 May 2007, 03:17am

mieluinen, Nuppi.:)

Thelemech

26 May 2007, 03:21am

Welcome! Constantinos!

primesuspect

26 May 2007, 06:14am

Kippis!

mmonnin

26 May 2007, 06:17am

Tracey is Finnish, right?

primesuspect

26 May 2007, 06:29pm

Partially

Qeldroma

27 May 2007, 12:26am

Tervetullut, Nuppi. Hope you enjoy being on the team!

Red787

28 May 2007, 08:29am

Hello my name is Patrick, I'm 26 years old, and I am new to the site and community. I came here yesterday in need of help with spyware and virus problems I am having. That is when I found out about the folding team. I just started folding today. This is a great community and it is for an equally great cause. I will be a part of both for years to come. I am currently in the U.S. Army and I have been for 8 years. I was last stationed in Germany but then I left active duty to go into the reserves. I went to school and made a career change working for Mercedes-Benz of Chicago. 2 years ago I was called back to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I live in Chicago, where I am originally from and grew up, and I am stationed just north of the city at Ft. Sheridan. Eventually I would love to get a job in the computer industry dealing with networking and security. For myself I would love to learn how to detect and correct problems dealing with spyware and viruses. I see almost all of you have quite an extensive education in these areas and I hope that sometime you could possibly teach me what you know. In my free time I like to game (mainly 1st person shooters and strategy) and make music on the PC. A few weeks ago I started to brew my own beer :cheers: My fiends have been doing it for some time and I think it is a great hobby. I am very glad I found this community because you seem like a great group of people. I hope to get to know all of you in the days, weeks, months, and years to come.

Patrick- Red787

dragonV8

28 May 2007, 09:46am

Welcome to Short-Media/Icrontic, Patrick and thanks for joining with folding proteins.:thumbsup:

I'm sure you will find others that are or have been in the services or have similar hobbies.

QCH2002

28 May 2007, 02:33pm

Welcome Red787... We're always glad to see new faces around here. Kick back and relax. We're all a great bunch of gals and guys. I'm sure you'll find this place becoming your home away from home... :D

Leonardo

28 May 2007, 05:36pm

Welcome, Patrick!

SPIKE09

28 May 2007, 05:53pm

Welcome aboard Patrick be warned, I popped in a year ago to ask permission to add a link to the team short media folding promo video, on my folding teams site, they have moved the exit:D ;) this is now another web home for Me:bigggrin:

Qeldroma

28 May 2007, 07:28pm

... A few weeks ago I started to brew my own beer :cheers: My fiends have been doing it for some time and I think it is a great hobby....

I did this once ... and tried to get a tax write-off because it was a non-profit organization.

Didn't work out though ... :(

Thanks for hopping on with us and hope you enjoy the stay! :thumbsup:

primesuspect

28 May 2007, 08:47pm

i am a huge fan of microbrews, Patrick. You'll fit in just fine here :p

Welcome to icrontic! :)

Red787

29 May 2007, 01:54am

Thanks everyone for the welcome. I hope to get to know all of you in the near future; and like Prime said, I think I will, "fit in just fine here."

--Prime, do you brew your own beers too or are you just a fan of micros? If you do brew, what kinds? Do you have any good recipes or advice? Thanks.
:cheers:

Leonardo

29 May 2007, 03:26am

i am a huge fan of microbrews, Patrick.Amen, brother. Every week I get a jug of oatmeal stout or dark ale from one of the local brewers!

So, with that said, welcome again, Red787.

primesuspect

29 May 2007, 04:21am

Not a homebrewer yet... The last thing I need right now is another new hobby :p

I just love microbrews right now. Luckily, there is an award-winning microbrewery just down the street from my house. They make an excellent oatmeal stout and a fantastic ale called Simcoe Silly (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2097/7910). If you make it over here, I'll take you down there :cheers:

Red787

29 May 2007, 04:47am

Yeah, thats cool. I myself just got into it and it does take a lot of time and patience. lol, I didn't really figure that out until I started the process for the first time. If I make it down there and my batch is ready I will bring some. If not I can always mail you some :D

EDIT: I read the review of Simcoe Silly and it sounds pretty good. It seems to have a balance of taste and high alcohol content. That's the type of beer I like :)

balldrips

30 May 2007, 08:11pm

Hello, my name is Alan. I am 26 with a loving wife and two kids. I am new to this web site and new to pc gaming (since jan of 07). I am a Quake addict, starting on my 360 (ranked 54 on overall at one point) and now play on PC regularly. Looking for a lan in the tampa area playing quake. My screan name is "flip" on Q4. Anyone want to play, hit me up. 1v1 only.

Leonardo

30 May 2007, 08:34pm

Balldrips, welcome to Short-Media. BTW, this welcome thread is really about recognizing new members to our Folding@Home Team (Team 93), but you are nonetheless welcome as a forums member too!

IndigoRed

10 Jun 2007, 09:59am

G'day all. I'm IndigoRed aka Frank McCauley. I live in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. Kilmore is a community about 45km North of Melbourne. Originally though, I'm from Tempe, Arizona. Moved to Aus around 20 years ago.
10 years U.S. Navy ('74-'84) as a Sonar Technician.
2 years in the U.S. Post Office (so don't cross me!) :p
10 years with South Pacific Tyres (Goodyear/Dunlop) as a QA Technician/Area Manager.
I've played with pc's (Atari 130xe was my 1st...) for over 25 years. No formal qualifications though (except what you pick up playing with them that long, which is more than most school leavers).
Don't mind a bit of gaming. My nick comes from gaming. If indigo blue is a dark blue, and a good splattering of blood and gore is a dark red...:cool2: Anyway, Red Faction has been my game of choice, and in fact, I was a part of a clan for a while. Not bad for a guy in his mid 40's! Dabbling with UT2k4 now.
So about F2H... I've seen it around for some time, and I've seen it here for a while (SMF Actually) but I never took it up til now. I had been doing seti@home for quite some time, but after a reformat, didn't rejoin. I had lost my password there anyway so didn't even know how I was going... And here I am, all loaded up and folding... for Team 93 of course.
I have a couple of questions, but only one here. Are we still Team Short Media, or Team Icrontic?

Cheers all,

dragonV8

10 Jun 2007, 10:19am

Good to see another Aussie come to the F:fold:LD. :)
At this stage it is Team Short-Media. Don't know what the future holds, though. It will still be Team #93.:thumbsup:

Jon

IndigoRed

10 Jun 2007, 11:39am

Forgot to mention, I'm in charge of about 50 pc's at work... wonder how that could help the score?
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t94/rhm44/Cal-mad-cut.jpg

10 Jun 2007, 01:13pm

It would help the score quite nicely. :)

QCH2002

10 Jun 2007, 11:54pm

Welcome to the team, IndigoRed!!! :D

RatBurger08

8 Jul 2007, 06:35pm

Name: Corey Schroedter
Age: 17
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Occupation: The BK lounge. *sigh*

Been folding for about 10 minutes now :D

QCH2002

9 Jul 2007, 04:11pm

Welcome Corey!!! You'll find us a great bunch of folders. We are here if you need anything. :thumbsup:

d4rkst4r

12 Jul 2007, 03:15am

hi. my names kevin. i live in ontario, canada. i like playing guitar, programming in java, playing counter strike and battlefield 2.

QCH2002

12 Jul 2007, 03:18am

SWEET... another folder and one that likes BF2 and CS!!!! Welcome to the team!!! :D

DogSoldier

12 Jul 2007, 01:21pm

Not only that, but he's from Canada, and you can never have enough Canadians! Welcome to the team Kevin, I'm also in Ontario and I play Joint Ops, F.E.A.R. and Navy Field.

digitaltree

25 Aug 2007, 04:37am

Hey, all, I've been a member of this site for about a year, but don't post much, and just decided to get two instances of F@H running. I'm a U.S. Marine in South Carolina and my interests are very broad, from cooking to working on cars, with tinkering with electonics in there, too. I read a lot, and am preparing to go back to college to get a M.D.

Thelemech

25 Aug 2007, 04:41am

Hey it is good to have you on board digitaltree! :) And I hope it goes well with your studies!

Qeldroma

25 Aug 2007, 06:00pm

Hey, jarhead. Good to have you on board helping us in this fight. Also- thanks in more ways than one. :thumbsup:

Bone

7 Sep 2007, 05:05am

My name is anthony o'neill, I usually go by Tony though. I am 18, soon to be 19 in december and I work for MSN doing customer care. I am into pc gaming and just hanging out with my friends, my favorite music genre is metal. that is all I can think of for now.

QCH2002

7 Sep 2007, 02:11pm

Welcome to a VERY addictive hobby. :D Thanks for joining!!! :thumbsup:

broady81

22 Sep 2007, 02:27pm

New to the foums and new to Folding :smiles: Bit about me :
Name : Matthew (Or Broady)
Age : 17
Occupation : Full Time Student
Interests : Overclocking old machines :wink: Gaming (too much) and learning Java :bigggrin:

Like the Idea of Folding, for me it's using computers for a good cause :tongue: Been folding for about... 2 weeks maybe ? :wink: Was Folding for CustomPC because it's the only team I recognised (Good mag btw :smiles:) After reading your forums and wishing to participate in the greatness, decided to do a bit of switching early on :bigggrin: I have a new PC in the works too... :wink:

*waves to all* :cool2:

primesuspect

22 Sep 2007, 06:37pm

Welcome to our community, and to Team 93 :)

QCH2002

22 Sep 2007, 10:43pm

Welcome to the greatest team ever. You'll find we're a great bunch of friends. :thumbsup:

mas0n

23 Sep 2007, 11:10am

Well, I suppose it's time I popped my head in here. First two names are Matthew Mason, you can call me either.

I'm a 24 year old bit-head and have been building, tweaking, and torturing computers for as long as I can remember, but just started folding in February of this year.

I am half of a two man operation in the Dallas area that acts as CTO for small and medium sized businesses, and spend my free time either with my wife and 1 year old son or gaming like there is no tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone who makes this team and community possible.

Qeldroma

24 Sep 2007, 02:45am

Welcome aboard, Matt ... (seems to be a popular name around here :) ) ,,, and the BIG assist to the project :thumbsup:

Harudath

2 Nov 2007, 11:25pm

Hai all, I just started folding for Team 93! :D You lot can call me haru/harudath/whatever, I'm just about 16 and I love gaming although I'd very much like to learn about more than just gaming, like how to fix PCs and to be able to help people with PC problems as much as you at Icrontic have helped me :D

I'm upgrading my system drastically soon, including a Core 2 Duo processor, which should help :D

QCH2002

3 Nov 2007, 08:59pm

Welcome to the team, Harudath!!! You cannot find a better bunch of Folding Friends. :thumbsup:

ste

15 Nov 2007, 11:56pm

w00t just starting folding for 93, under the username 'sterobert89', i folded briefly under neowin, but they dont take it seriously (theirs 3 separate folding groups)

so i know broady81 irl (unlucky me), he has been nagging me to start, so here i have :P

Ste

QCH2002

15 Nov 2007, 11:57pm

I think I remember the username "neowin". Well, welcome back and thanks for folding with us!!! :D

ste

15 Nov 2007, 11:59pm

not the name neowin, neowin.net asin i folded for their group.

ste

QCH2002

16 Nov 2007, 12:00am

Oh... gotcha ;)

primesuspect

16 Nov 2007, 12:53am

welcome aboard, ste :)

ste

16 Nov 2007, 07:25am

broady81

18 Nov 2007, 02:49pm

I essentially stole ste from neowin's grasp :ninja:welcome aboard the folding team :smiles:

ste

18 Nov 2007, 05:34pm

/me feels violated

Leonardo

18 Nov 2007, 08:33pm

<hr style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" size="1"> * ste feels violated Incest. All in the family. Good. :confused:

:D

Gate28

15 Dec 2007, 04:43am

Name : Jamie "Gate"
Age : 16
Occupation : Student
Interests : Gaming, attempting to understand the complex anamoty of a modern computer, almost building a sueful windows app in VB.net

I go to a special school for information technology just outside of Orlando, learning PC Tech support for my CompTIA certification and basic programming languages. I also play Halo3, TF2, etc. in my free time.

Ive been folding for you giys for about 3 weeks, but i only run it as my screensaver or else it kills my processor. To make up for it, i try to keep it running on every other computer in the house =)

SPIKE09

15 Dec 2007, 08:38pm

Hi Folk's been meaning to puts some point's here for a while, but thanks to reading RWB's post in the SM pub. about his neighbor's fire MY wife and I are still alive so time to ante up, one core of a e6400 for team 93 might add more later .
the name is Chris location Scotland and position glad to be alive

btw 1st wu should be inbound in the morning
1st wu inbound next update:bigggrin:

HEHE what a gimp seriously poor post there
name Chris Stevenson
team pimp for http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Forum52-1.aspx folding team :bigggrin:
locat 20 miles north of Glasgow on the shores of the Gareloch , graduated from Napier university, Edinburgh in 1989 in biological science. reason for folding CANCER CANCER CANCER and a Smattering of ALZHEIMMERS with a smidge of Emphysemia thrown in.
LOves: Heather my wife and sweetheart from age 17, Cats , loud music (probably explains the deafness), fine red wines or if skint any good red wines, Computers and F@H natch, SM/Icrontic some seriously funny/deranged/nice/friendly people here, sometimes all in the same bundle of skin:bigggrin:
and Tarantulas.
exloves : rugby union , golf

the_technocrat

27 Dec 2007, 05:44pm

Thought I would rewrite my entry, as a fair bit has changed.

My name is Rob, I'm 18, and I've been a member of Icrontic/Short-Media for just about three years. I signed up in december of 2001 to post a smidge of help for someone who was having trouble with their video card: They had a Visiontek geforce card, and apparently a ton of them had been released without the plastic adhesive strip removed from the bottom of the GPU HSF. I suggested he check that.

Welcome! I think you'll find that we're a good group of people here! Good call on the video card!

Gnome Queen

24 Jan 2008, 12:55am

Hello everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself-

I am Jackie, and I'm the Gnome Queen :D Prime invited me to join the TF2 ICrontic group, and I decided to just go ahead and invite myself to join the whole thing. :P

I am 21, and an English Education major working towards getting my secondary ed degree in English. I am a major Evercrack 2 fiend, and I love TF2. I'm also a big Shakespeare Geek (on top of being a bookworm and videogames nerd) and I'm currently acting in my theater company on campus's production of Alls Well that Ends Well. I have been folding since...uhh...yesterday, (that is, if I set everything up right, I think I'm going to have my friend look it over later). I really should have been folding longer, since I did hear about the program before, and I know that it is doing great things. My boyfriend has it on his PS3, and he showed me the other day that he was working on the folding for a protein of Rett Syndrome, a developmental disorder that my sister has. For that reason alone, I really should already have been folding, but I think I must have seen something shiny when originally told about it. Shiny things are quite distracting.

In case any of you also play EQ2, my main character there is Eilith, on the Antonia Bayle server. Annnd thaaat's me- thank you for letting me join you guys, you all seem like a great group. :D

primesuspect

24 Jan 2008, 01:02am

Hey gnome queen! Welcome to the site.

Also, great on joining folding. We all have our reasons, and yours sounds very personal and it's an awesome feeling to be able to at least do something visceral about all these tragic disorders and diseases that affect us all in different ways.

QCH2002

24 Jan 2008, 02:59am

Welcome!!! Thank you for lending a helping hand!!

GHoosdum

24 Jan 2008, 03:05am

Welcome. Many people decided to join Folding to help or in honor of a loved one. It is a great reason.

Jaketh

28 Mar 2008, 12:41pm

Big "WELCOME TO THE TEAM" to Igon who just kicked in his first work unit. Not sure if he has an Icrontic user id yet but he will be around shortly.

Welcome aboard Igon!

QCH2002

28 Mar 2008, 02:01pm

Igon... Welcome to Team Icrontic!!! :thumbsup:

Igon

29 Mar 2008, 02:23am

Thanks for the welcome, glad to be part of the crew! :rockon:

Props to Jaketh for bringing me to Team 93!!

Gnome Queen

29 Mar 2008, 02:35am

Welcome Igon :D

primesuspect

29 Mar 2008, 04:26am

Igon, I'm fuzzy on the whole..... "good - bad" thing.... What do you mean by... "bad"?

;)

Welcome to Icrontic.

Igon

30 Mar 2008, 04:44am

Igon, I'm fuzzy on the whole..... "good - bad" thing.... What do you mean by... "bad"?

;)

Welcome to Icrontic.

Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. :thumbsup:

primesuspect

30 Mar 2008, 07:41am

That's a big twinkie.

FreeC8675

30 Mar 2008, 08:02am

That's a big twinkie.

That would be a big twinkie, which begs the question.

I can smoke a twinkie in about 1 second flat if I'm hungry enough ;D

COULD YOU? ;D

Reading old threads at 2:00 am, finding strange correlations between Ghostbuster lines and the site owner's eating boasts. :tongue:

Only one place it could happen :cool2:

Welcome to the team Igon:bigggrin:

_k_

24 Apr 2008, 01:42am

21 year old Computer Science Student. Working part time for Fry's Electronics. Related, now, to another IC member. Just trying to expand my IT knowledge base because I find myself short handed on answers and ideas in situations. Also started folding because I built a new rig and was told this is how to unlock its true potential.

primesuspect

24 Apr 2008, 03:13am

Gnome Queen

24 Apr 2008, 03:19am

Herro _k_! Great to see you on the forums. :D

_k_

24 Apr 2008, 03:30am

Hey now prime I thought you said you loved me mang....or is that your way of saying you want me to go to the wrong bar with you next time.

primesuspect

24 Apr 2008, 03:35am

The "wrong" bar can be so, so right ;D :crazy:

Welcome to IC, _k.. You clearly fit in JUST fine around here :D

garfield619

1 May 2008, 10:10pm

Hi, im sam, 14. been here in icrontic for about 1 mnth i think. Discovered icrontic when finding how to remove a virus in my PC. and it helped ^^. but still, i gotta clean up a virus in my PC *again*. and after icrontic, i just discovered folding ^^ ( for about 6 hours ago, actually i have it running now).i would be glad to help! Happy folding!

primesuspect

1 May 2008, 10:13pm

Welcome garfield :)

QCH2002

2 May 2008, 01:45am

Welcome Garfield!!!

garfield619

2 May 2008, 04:33am

thanks! :D

Black Hawk

2 May 2008, 07:28pm

Name: Ra�l Mu�oz (Hispanic)
Age: 18
Location: Puerto Rico (Caribbean)
Interests: Pwning n00bs in Raven Shield (just like I did �lick a few times :rolleyes: ), UT and any other FPS. Computers in general. Know jack about programming :(. So that's what I'm gonna study in college :D

Name: Same
Age: 22
Location: Same
Interests: Ubi killed Rainbow Six. Computers in general. Still know jack about programming and that's what I wanted to study in college but now I don't know ;[

Nothing like FAIL in the air. You all suck. :rant:

everyguy

3 Jun 2008, 03:45am

I'm David Roberts, I just had my 51st birthday. I've been folding since way back when, probably around 2001, but I joined team 93 a few years ago. I had the programs running as services on my computers, for a long time, but about a year ago, my son shut them all off (he thought they interfered with his gaming). But recently, I upgraded two of my computers to AMD Phenom Quad cores, and I couldn't stand that all that power was sitting idle, so I installed the SMP version on them, and two other dual core machines in my house. So we are folding up a storm.

I'm actually not sure how I ended up on team 93. I was rather surprised to discover I was a member. I think I entered "93" by mistake. Maybe I thought they were asking my age!!! (OK, I'm not that old). Anyway, after I found out I was forever tied to Icrontic (if you change your team it resets all your counts), I checked out the web site and it's pretty cool. Anyway, I am a tech junkie all the way, so I guess I fit it.

As for other details, I work as a freelance Japanese to English translator, translating engineering documents for $ 50 million machines made by Nikon that make computer chips. I have a wife and kids, two sons 17 and 13, and a daughter who is 10.

primesuspect

3 Jun 2008, 05:01am

Welcome aboard, everyman! :)

_k_

3 Jun 2008, 05:02am

Welcome

garfield619

3 Jun 2008, 05:26am

Welcome here every! one. :D

Trogan

3 Jun 2008, 04:27pm

Welcome aboard! :)

QCH2002

3 Jun 2008, 04:57pm

Welcome aboard this folding ship!!! Thanks for lending us your spare CPU cycles. ;)

bullzisnipr

8 Jun 2008, 06:30am

Hey all! Im fairly new to the forums as you can tell by my post count. I'm from www.computerforums.org and im looking for a little different atmosphere and i believe icrontic fits the bill.

Anyway, i'm 16, junior in highschool and as you can see in my sig im a computer technician and system builder for a local computer company. I play sports for school, last year i was on JV baseball at my 6A highschool, and during the summer i play at ken berry (a local baseball complex in topeka).

My background - Born in altus, OK my dad was stationed at Altus AFB, so i'm a military brat. He served in desert storm/gulf war and is now slightly paraplegic due to injuries he suffered in the air force.

Anyway, after growing up in altus at the age of 7, we moved to my current town topeka, ks. And guess what! IT SUCKS! Yea, there's absolutely nothing to do here, NOTHING. Im getting out of here ASAP after college. Which brings my next part, my future.

Right now im planning on attending Kansas State for a BA in Nuclear Engineering and a MA in Computer Systems and Networking, both fields fascinate me, so why not combine them? Also, since i was a kid ive always wanted to be a firefighter and currently im a memeber of the local explorer post for the fire department to get real experience, its not just a dream i've had, its a reality that ive wanted to accomplish. So, after going to K-State i plan on becoming a part-time volunteer fire fighter and emt. That's basically me, except the part about computers, but being a self educated computer technician, the whole computer thing should be obvious :).

I look forward to dedicating 6+ computers to our folding@home team.

_k_

8 Jun 2008, 07:08am

welcome aboard

primesuspect

8 Jun 2008, 08:23am

Welcome to Icrontic :)

QCH2002

8 Jun 2008, 01:56pm

Welcome to the family!!!

bullzisnipr

9 Jun 2008, 03:23am

Thanks guys! Glad to be here! :D

EduTech

14 Jul 2008, 09:43pm

Hi Guys,

Well have some across your forums a few times now and have found some posts to be very useful. So thought it was best i sign up and maybe help some of you guys out.

I am James, I am a Assistant ICT & Network Support Manager for a Senior School in Birmingham, West Mids, UK.

I am also part of the Xbox Live Support Team at Microsoft so here for all your xbox 360 owners as well ;)

My main forum which i use is Edugeek.net (http://edugeek.net) dont know some of you might find it useful in the future that is mainly aimed at the Educational IT guys - Here i am the Edugeek Wiki Manager and Edugeek Newsletter Manager.

anyhow hope that tells you a little bit about me.. now time to get round your forums.. see you around

Regards

James.

primesuspect

14 Jul 2008, 09:47pm

Welcome to Icrontic! :) Glad to have you around :thumbsup:

Buddy J

14 Jul 2008, 09:47pm

Hi James, welcome to Icrontic. Make yourself comfortable. We're a casual lot.

FreeC8675

14 Jul 2008, 10:14pm

Hello James, could we interest you or your school in folding (http://folding.stanford.edu/) for Team 93? It's a groovy thang to do around here :)

_k_

14 Jul 2008, 10:18pm

Hey James welcome to the fold.

EduTech

14 Jul 2008, 10:20pm

Hi,

I would be happy to involved in anything i can.. Myself personally and i will see what i can do where my school is concerned.

Feel free to drop me a PM or Email me

James.evans (at) bhtc (dot) sandwell (dot) sch (dot) uk

Anything i can do to help i will do.. I'm nice like that. Plus its great fun!

Kind Regards

James.

EDITED By "Q" - Removed email address to avoid James getting spammed...

QCH2002

15 Jul 2008, 05:09am

WELCOME to Icrontic!!! :D

Colgere

30 Jul 2008, 05:53pm

Hi!

I figure I should get around to introducing myself, as I've actually been folding for Team 93 for a couple months now. My name is Ben. I am a Biometrics Support Specialist for a hospital group in Cincinnati, OH, which is also where I currently live.

I was brought here by a few longtime friends who frequent Icrontic. You might know them (Ghoosdum, CB, Crazy Joe, Zanthian, sharkydart) :). Anyways, I figured while I was here, I might as well make myself useful and do some folding.

Well, that's it for me. Talk to everyone later!

GHoosdum

30 Jul 2008, 07:52pm

Hi Colgere! :wave:

TvManPwns

4 Aug 2008, 01:44am

Well, I kind of just happened to stumble into this part of the forum and well.... Found out what folding was! Sounds like a good idea since my comp is running 24/7 anyway. *Cheers* :smokin:

GHoosdum

4 Aug 2008, 01:24pm

Cheers indeed! Thanks for folding with us! :wave:

QCH2002

4 Aug 2008, 04:07pm

Well, I kind of just happened to stumble into this part of the forum and well.... Found out what folding was! Sounds like a good idea since my comp is running 24/7 anyway. *Cheers* :smokin:Welcome to our family of fanatic folders!!! :D

Gnome Queen

4 Aug 2008, 04:40pm

Welcome! We can always use new folders. Fold fold fold.

magicmedicine

20 Dec 2008, 12:19am

Maybe I'm slightly too late but I decided to post anyway.

My name is Ian Hooi. I'm chinese, 19 and I live in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

I'm an airline pilot in training with an airline called AirAsia. Due to start line training on the Airbus A320 in a couple of months time. If you ever fly with them give me a shout. I have a CPL, a frozen ATPL (I don't know what it's called over there, Americas FAA has funny names for almost everything) and an Instrument Rating. Got about 200 hours under my belt, I know that might sound shocking to those of you who know about flying but thats just the way things work down here. :)

I play Dawn of War and COD4. The Nazi Zombie map in CODWAW is fast becoming a fad over here, and so is Left4Dead. I play those too. It's been a little dream of mine to play Doom 3 since it came out, and with some help from Icrontic forumers, I got myself up to speed on the hardware market and went out and bought a new PC. So I'm playing Doom 3 now. :P

Currently running the GPU2 and SMP clients on a Q8200 and HD4850 under Vista (After ALOT of help from ALOT of people here) 24/7. Hope to start a big time folding farm soon once my pay scale gets bumped up. :)