http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html Finished WU's now go to a 'collection server' if the work server is down. User gets credit for the WU and the work server collects the WU from the collection server when it comes back up. Also, the forceSSE flag has been removed. SSE is always given priorit...

my work pc is on 24/7 and is almost never rebooted. I have two instances of f@h and each log file is almost 1meg!

931kb and 892kb

I use a 160 gig Hitachi 7k250 and love it. Mine exhibits no meowing sound, though that is probably because I fold for team SPCR and folding@home accesses the disk regularly.

Get the 7k250 and solve the meowing by folding for team SPCR!

BackUPS feeds the AC power directly to your computer. If the power fails, BackUPS will switch to the battery. This unit is completely silent (while not running on batteries, of course) but does not provide as much protection as SmartUPS. SmartUPS conditions the power line, filters it and up- or dow...

CharlieChan wrote:Ahhh samba, it could be tame by webadmin.

hmm, I'll have to try webmin out again. I wasn't impressed a year ago.

thanks!

Samba's documentation definately leaves something to be desired! You mean Linux? I don't have anything useful to add, I just feel the same way about Linux :twisted: Point taken :D Though I've found samba to be one of the most frustrating components of my linux system. Samba has the unique ability t...

I hate Samba. For me it just seems to be one of those things where I need to fool around with the config and keep fiddling with it until I mysteriously get it working, and stop right there, afraid to touch it ever again. Probably because I don't know all of what I am doing. I feel the exact same wa...

And we've passed them.......how quiet!

hmm.....I hadn't thought about keeping the drive active. I'm running F@H 24/7, that probably accesses the drive frequently enough to avoid the reset noise.

Welcome to SPCR geost!! This is slightly unpopular here at SPCR, but I like my hitachi 7k250. I found mine mispriced at Fry's and got it at a really good price. I knew about the 'meowing' sound, but other than that its acoustical and benchmark performance is very good. When first plugged in, I did n...

So I have to wait another day to see if it will complete the wu this time or if it's time to do so formatting and reinstalling geordie, you might want to try running cpuburn and memtest before reinstalling. You may have some hardware problems that will surface again after you reinstall. I notice yo...

I'm in the top 50!!! woohooo!!!!

....seemed like I was stuck at 51-53 FOREVER

that external psu looks awesome.....bet it'll cost a pretty penny

I remember reading somewhere that each platter adds 2.1 decibels on the Samsung Spinpoints....or was it the Hitachis?

Rohnert Park is 60 miles North of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is beautiful SONOMA County, THE WINE COUNTRY.

Hey neighbor! I'm from Santa Rosa.

Better hope there isn't anybody from NAPA COUNTY on this forum, you may have started a flame war!

any chance you've got pics?

right, right, right....you certainly don't need MY encouragement to post more in this forum than everyone else combined!

hmm, you're right. It does say PCI, didn't notice that before. I think you're right that this is the correct one though. Let us know if it works.

Well, I decided to try my luck with the new core also. I downloaded the new linux core, stopped the client, renamed the old core, copied over the new one, and restarted the client. Much to my suprise, the beta core deleted my WU! I was 72% done with it! It then downloaded a new WU, deleted that one,...

is this the mb you have?
http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4P800-VM&langs=09

I think that's the Intel Pro/100+ (EtherExpressPro in 2.4) driver. Not sure though, I couldn't find any more detailed specs than what is on the above website.

Welcome PhilgB! Glad you've joined us.

Yes, if you stop FAH it will restart on the same work unit where it left off.

yea, Randalee flew past me at #119. I want to see how far up the ranks he can make it till those p4's have to go!

Thank you kai!

David

You're welcome!

you don't need to download anything to find out cpu info on linux, just type the following at the command prompt: # cat /proc/cpuinfo this will list the processor, family, and all flags (sse, etc) The following is my output: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 m...

I suspect the G4 and G5 processors don't "point" as well due to the lack of SSE instructions?

G4 doesn't have SSE, but it does have altivec. AFAIK, Altivec is a lot more powerful than SSE. So, if FAH is altivec aware a G4 or G5 should spank P4's and XP's

right, isn't Fedora supposed to be like Red Hat's unstable/testing branch? still, just because it has all the bleeding edge stuff available doesn't mean you need to use those packages, right? I mean, Gentoo is definately a bleeding edge distro also, but that doesn't mean you need to update your syst...

Basically I've had enough of Fedora as it's not quite what I'm after since using Gentoo and getting used to its emerge command. I haven't used Fedora, but I've been using Gentoo for a year and a half and haven't ever thought of switching to anything else. It's everything I need in a desktop linux d...

if your other boxes are in the same lan, you can use distcc when you install gentoo. This will enable distributed compiling which means that your compiles will be shared among all your boxes. The Gentoo install guide includes a section about using distcc during bootstrap. What do you mean the termin...

First post!

Thanks for the mention David.

I've been lurking here at SPCR for quite a while...I've used your expertise to quiet my xp1800.

Anyway, right now I've got two 'puters folding. Hopefully I can add one or two more in the next couple of weeks.

[edit] I'm folding under kaid [/edit]