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August 12th, 2007 21:00

Please Join us Folding@Home :)

This is a plea of help for All who have access to High Speed Internet, and own a computer with a fast CPU such as Core2Duo or even a PS3.  Please Help us by joining Team XPS.
 
Ever since July 24, 2007 about a couple of dozen mostly XPS owners have joined Stanford U's Folding at Home site - Started on this thread on DCF:
 
You can join us and make our team even stronger by visiting Stanford U's link here:
 
In my case, I lost my father about 4 years ago after he was diagnosed with Alsheimer's disease.
I have a couple of more people in my family who have now been suffering from the disease for over 10 years.  One of them has practically been a vegetable for the last 4 years. 
 
>>> Here's some info about the disease as quoted from MSNBC:
 
A skyrocketing problem
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. It afflicts one in eight people 65 and older, and nearly one in two people over 85.

Worse, as the population ages, Alzheimer’s is steadily rising. Sixteen million are forecast to have the mind-destroying illness by 2050, not counting other forms of dementia.

 

> I am now posting this thread in XPS Desktop and Vista Forums on DCF with hopes that more of you could join our team by downloading from Stanford's link and signing up with a user ID of your choice on   Team number: 80856

 

* Please give us a helping hand supporting a well known University try to be closer to wiping out this disease.  Afterall if you leave your PC on during the day or night, it would be doing some good using the unused capacity of your Beasts.  Some people on the forum are contributing to folding of larger amount of Work Units by utilizing their Quad Core Procs utilizing the SMP client which can be downloaded here:  (Same download link given above)

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Make sure you first read the FAQ about the SMP Client here:

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-SMP.html

 

Here's more reading about Fahmon:

http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/

 

* Just a reminder that Dell is a participant and supporter of this program.

 

Please post all your thoughts and feelings about this here:

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=xps_desk_genhdw&thread.id=56515

the original FatH thread started by CHSI with encouragements by Aivas so that we can create a library of FatH and keeping it intact and in one thread.  Team XPS has climbed from the bottom to a position in the 4000 Range out of Over 76000 Teams in a period of a mere 19 Days, I am certain that if we recruit more participants we will reach the Top 100 before month's end.

 

Thanx in Advance for All Your Support, and God Bless All. 

 

Peace

 

 



Message Edited by MoneyGuyBK on 08-12-2007 03:04 PM
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    Posted August 12th, 2007 22:00

    It should be noted that Folding@home is a bit weird on Vista. It can't be started automatically as it requires admin permission. Other than that, it works fine. I have been running F@h for a couple of years on and off. In fact, it is running as I write this.
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    Posted August 13th, 2007 05:00

    When I first reboot or start my Beast, FatH starts automatically without UAC asking permission.
     
    The only time UAC interferes with it and asks for my permission to let FatH run is if I close or shut down the folding program, and manually restart it.
     
    And yes I am running Vista.  So, that IS strange ...
    * Unless you mean on non-admin users' accounts???
                                        maybe others could chime in?  :smileyindifferent:
     
    Peace
     


    mwfanelli3 wrote:
    It should be noted that Folding@home is a bit weird on Vista. It can't be started automatically as it requires admin permission. Other than that, it works fine. I have been running F@h for a couple of years on and off. In fact, it is running as I write this.


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    Posted August 13th, 2007 16:00

    When I first had trouble getting it to work, I looked through the user forum and asked some questions. The replies were all pretty much the same: it works with Vista but it isn't designed for Vista. The programming staff is just too busy with more important things (OK, I understand!). The "start manually" was the option I was given and that works for me!
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    Posted September 10th, 2008 02:00

    Took us a bit over 4 hours..... RSF is Live again:

    http://forums.rampantspeculation.com/index.php

     

     

    Hello ALL......
    RSF is live again......

    Let US ALL Speculate again !!!
    Thanx for hanging in there......
    Rafa Has done a Mahvelous Job.






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