Signs that you are addicted to folding

edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
edited April 2006 in Folding@Home
1. When ONE of your multiple dedicated folding boxes quits...

2. you are less concerned about the cost and effort of replacing a hard drive than you are about the loss of a nearly completed WU

I am real busy for the next couple of weeks, it may be a while before I am back to full folding power.

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  • FoldingAddictFoldingAddict Montgomery, AL
    edited April 2006
    3. When you work on a computer and the first step is to go into device manager to check CPU speed/type (every computer is a potential folder to you.)
    That's definitely me.

    ~FA
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    4.) When you buy PC componets just to make SMx 33 faster :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    When your forum name has been FOLDINGADDICT for years!

    ;) Long time no see, FA! :D
  • EssoEsso Stockholm, Sweden
    edited April 2006
    You're addicted when you ...
    • Have to look everyday (20 times) about your folding status.
    • Being upset waiting 1 hour for your data to become updated.
    • Don't want to use the computer, since it slows down the folding.
    • Never turns the computer off, even if its 1 yard from the bed.
    • Being very upset over getting low points WU's, ie 80 ppd or worse.
    • Checking the folding time per frame and calculating the ppd, several times for the same WU.
    • Being jellos over the other folders with more computing power.
    • Felling bad over lost WU points.
    • Constantly configure the folding program to give you the best WU with the highest ppd.
    • Have to fold for weeks before you can overtake another person.
    • Have no time to run antivirus protection.

    Have I missed something ?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2006
    It's a reprint, but true as ever:
    profdlp wrote:
    1. We admitted we were powerless over our Folding, that our lives had become unmanageable.

    2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (Stanford?) could restore us to sanity.

    3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Folding computer as we understood it.

    4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our use of CPU cycles.

    5. Admitted to Keebs, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our Folding.

    6. Were entirely ready to have a qualified technician remove all of the defects from our computers.

    7. Humbly asked Stanford to receive our completed WU's.

    8. Made a list of all persons we had nagged to join, and became willing to call them all again.

    9. Made direct pleas to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would permanently turn them away from Folding.

    10. Continued to take personal inventory of our computers and when we were lacking in MHz promptly corrected it.

    11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Folding computers as we understood them, praying only for more tweaking knowledge and the power to carry that out.

    12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other Folders, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    When you spend money out of your own pocket to upgrade relatives' computers, just because they're folding under your username.
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited April 2006
    When you realize that you now have a real justification to go buy a multicore processor.
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