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[Jimmy_mac]

well thought id pop this up anyway, see if people would like to get involved. You may already be in a team but it cant hurt to try and get some new people involved

Folding@home is a way to give to charity without giving money out of your own pocket

The program runs in the background and takes advantage of idle time of your CPU, so when its not doing anything the program takes a bit of it to work out some of its calculations to help in finding cures to various different diseases such as cancer and Altzheimers

Download the program here:

http://folding.stanf...u/download.html

then once your set up simply join the team

team number is 52550


So come and join in, do something useful with that hunk o crap you play your fruit machines one

[Jimmy_mac]

sooo 20 reads and nobody feeling charitable then?

[yorkie07808]

jim just to let you know i just downloaded it and put the team number in. anhything for charrrrrity. Come on other people it doesnt do no harm.

[ady]

sooo 20 reads and nobody feeling charitable then?

Nice work Jim, people this won't skint your pocket as it cost's nowt nor draw your PC to a crawl....theres a mass of FAQ's if you're scratching your head on that link and also at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia....ki/Folding@home

I knew nothing about this 'till now either!

[unclechicken]

Ive joined the team also

[Jimmy_mac]

good work guys, at the end of the day its giving nothing your missing to a very good cause

this so deserves a sticky

[mocochoco]

Can count me in....... this is really easy to set up guys and you'd never know it was there, cheers for informing us about it Jim.

[Jimmy_mac]

for thsoe who have started and joined the team, you can check the team stats by right clicking on the icon in the sys tray. Dont worry if your not on the team board yet, you need to finish one of the WU first and then you'll appear

[ady]

I ain't got bugger all yet.....lol


This is such a worthwhile program Jim.........how did you find out about it in the first place?

[Jimmy_mac]

to be fair theres quite a few forums that have teams now, i have spotted it on FF before but its been on some others that i visit too. Its a simple little thing and doesnt effect your system. Always nice to help out in someway

[ady]

Almost there!!!

How are the rest of you guy's doing?

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[yorkie07808]

not to good i been going every day since saturday

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[ady]

fooking hell Matt

Youl've a biggie there mate!

[mocochoco]

Im only on 212 might leave it on overnight to catch up

[Jimmy_mac]

they all vary in size but the bigger WU will give more points.

As i said before it can take days for these things to complete but you'll be on that leaderboard eventually

[duplu]

I've joined up too

[Jimmy_mac]

fooking hell Matt

Youl've a biggie there mate!

ooh err missus

[ady]

hmmmm surely this should be alphabetical lol

Especially as I was going half hour ago but just wanted it to finish!

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[todd1970]

Is mine working OK ? I dunno its just saying Waiting for core Step 43 and stuff..Lol i havent got a clue...or is that meant to happen ?

[ady]

http://news.sky.com/...3549717,00.html

Not saying that this is a result of folding@home (though it may well be) as this is One of their projects.

Just shows though what can be acheived....


Sky News 31/10/06