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I gave the gift certificates to someone else that is homeless. I kept the coffee cup filled with candy (which seems to me more appropriate for the situation). This was not my immediate reaction which was to return it. Giving it away does not tell the people giving the gift my reservations in...

Do those VM's work for general applications or are limited to just testing IE?

I just received a "gift" from the catholic church attached to a private grade school on the same street I live on (aprox. 2 blocks away). As far as I know they gave the same gift to everyone in the apt. complex I live in. They just knocked on my door and handed me a box. I do not attend their...

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I just read an article estimating when the oceans will evaporate and no more free liquid water will be able to exist on the surface of the earth merely from the sun increasing luminosity over time (solar warming as opposed to global warming). By astronomical observation the natural evolution...

I was trained in high-school to use a slide rule for math and science classes (calculators were just starting to exist and were still quite expensive: Several hundred dollars for a basic scientific calculator). I still have a slide rule from high-school and think that whomever first created...

Good stuff.

Setup a screensaver: It's the timer that folding uses to detect idle. In Windows, The monitor power down is also used as a signal, but I don't know if that is also true for Linux (I don't have a Linux GPU folding machine to test it out with).

That expalantion makes more sense. Thanks.

I see it, I read your words, I still do not understand its use for it seems pointless.

Ahh you are entirely correct it was KB not MB.

The first computer I worked with was a PDP-8/L with 4K RAM, paper tape, and a teletype-33 in high school. The only game to play was Star Trek The first computer I bought was an 8MHz Compaq 8086 512KB RAM, 5 1/4 180KB floppy and a Rodine 45MB HD That was capped at 33MB because that was all that...

I tried rebuilding 4 of these machines and none of them will stay running: The MB's are just toast. I have one more PCI-E MB: A C2D but no spare processor. So, no extra folding points for me.

What is an ID button and what does it do?

Not very aesthetic but it seems like a workable plan.

There are issues you will have to deal with if you are going to fill a single MB with multiple high-end video cards. The first is your power supply: make it big enough with enough connectors. Then there is cooling: water cooling to improve cooling and also it slims down to card to fit a single...

I'm not sure you should blame YouTube for following the rules: The rules suck.

Considering your HW, I would predict very little (less than 75MB/month). After you have folded several WU's, You can estimate relatively precisely from your folding log which lists both download and upload sizes for every WU.

I wanted to congratulate [H]ardOCP for they have beaten the default team (all those folders that have not specified a team) and now have more points than any team bar none with 36.2 billion points. I wish to voice my admiration of Grandpa with over 2 billion points as an individual. That being...

Try it, every HW combination is different and it is easy enough to test. Don't expect a lot of PPD. It is not very powerful compared to more modern HW.

It was my understanding that AMD GPU's are way superior to Nvidia for this application. That being said, you use what you have and it seems to be profitable as it is.

What's the HW?

What can I say, you were luckier than me for I had more frustration than that.

The BIOS has an option to boot from a USB-HD but whenever I put a bootable one in and restarted it would just hang. Yes, I made the boot order correct CD-ROM, USB-HD, then HD and yes, I did press F-12 and explicitly choose but that didn't matter. Don't forget these MB's were created when thumb...

I'm sure I could have found one, if I had searched very hard at all. I like Mint and it didn't.

Nope, They have generic chipset drivers that did not work with the raid controller onboard which then caused the installs the choke. After I found a x64 WS2003 chipset driver then I was golden with XP X64 (without audio and network) and that would probably work with Win7/Win8 (after painfully...

I have lots of spare parts and some time to kill so I just resurrected an old Athlon x64 4600+ that I had retired. It has an GA-K8N51PVM motherboard. The first observation, no drivers for anything other than XP x32 so I have a challenge. Win8 no go. Win7 searched and searched but I could not...

The Win8.1 upgrade requires a fully updated 8.0 before it will even start. I will agree, that is not how service packs operated in the past but things change.

Linux

Car stuck in parking lot: Already graduated to pain. It didn't take long.

I'm smiling: First snow of the year. After the first time, it's just a pain but the first is always enjoyable.

What I note is that there is no consensus. The only thing I wouldn't do is Win8. If your mom is malware-prone then I'd go Win7 or Linux and skip XP. Otherwise XP is just fine as are Win7 and Linux

8.1 runs fine except for Hyper-V on Q6600 or a q9450

Windows 7 shouldn't be a problem. Windows 8 probably.

The assignment servers should be issuing WU's again...

No not Procter and Gamble: Pande Group is the group of researchers that is doing F@H under the auspices of Vijay Pande.

I have WS2008 as well as W7 and Hyper-V/Virtual PC works fine with C2D/C2Q. It is the advent of W8 and Ws2012 that requires i3+. I repeat at least on my scale C2D/C2Q is not that old.

Right now PG is having problems with their network and it is not assigning WU's. The point is that it is not anyones config, computer, or network it is them so don't waste your time trying to figure out what the problem is. The client will periodically query PG till it is resolved and then...

Gimme a break, Microsoft isn't just playing with really old HW. With 8.x Microsoft isn't even allowing Core2Duo/Quad processors (and they are not that old) to access some capabilities like Hyper-V/Virtual PC that were readily avail with Windows 7 generation of OS. Microsoft has an agenda...

Once you are dead, not much comes out as funny.

FAHControl's estimated PPD is not accurate especially with Core_17: HMF.net works much better. My observation is FAHControl's PPD estimates start out inaccurate then waffle back and forth between way to high and way to low with it actually in the middle. Core_17 has been released to...

At $1,100./month for a $500 investment I'd quit folding too and every month I'd reinvest the returns and it wouldn't take very many cycles to become a gazillionaire. I actually did 12 months of calculations starting with $500 produces $1,100 profit every month and after a year of reinvesting...

This will at least get you started: F@H Home Page 1. Download the Windows v7 client 2. Get a passkey (Make up a username using Alphanumerics only) 3. Install the v7 client using your username, Team 10047 (StorageForum), your passkey (Emailed to you - Use copy and paste). Folding FAQ index...

Iron conducts so I really can't see where Iron dust is even neutral for any electronics. Most dust around homes and offices are dead skin cells which are non-conductive and thereby not so much a problem.

Bigadv's use the A5_core so it is easy to find out using Psummary: p7808 and p9002 are both A4 cores so they are standard SMP while p8101 is an A5 so is a bigadv. Even in Linux, you should be able run FAHControl to configure the client rather than manually editing the Config.xml assuming you...

With Bitcoin you are correct that the number of coins you get over time decreases because of the nature of the function they are calculating. However, other digital coinage using a different function that would not necessarily be the case. Case in point, Curecoin is planning to give out their...

Technically, the folding EULA requires permission of the owner or your boss, preferably written, to fold on someone elses machine. There have been people fired for misappropriation because they folded on company HW without permission. Also, permission makes it much easier to deal with IT...

If you are switching from folding to some form of digital currency to make money then what is the incentive for you to move back assuming it worked? There are already teams that pay for you to fold for them. An example is EVGA with their EVGA bucks. There is even a team that is trying to...

Supported processors for D946GZIS That document was last modified 1/2012.

I wonder what will happen to PC Power and Cooling?