This is just painful...

So Y dont someone spend a grand and get 5 and fold on.

BTW Welcome to the team.

on the older machines (400mhz and older).... install them as a type=2 client in the client.cfg... that way, they get the timeless WU's, so that you don't have to worry about how fast they turn them in.

jonspd said:

So Y dont someone spend a grand and get 5 and fold on.

BTW Welcome to the team.

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two reasons,
1) dell fixed it, so you cant remove the printer so they are 249 each now =\
2) if I had a grand to spend on any computer components it wouldnt by cellery's

few more reasons. For me its more of a problem of space and heat, got 4 comps in this little room cranking folding and it gets really hot at times. Come winter its gonna be all out (not) WWar. And unfortunately for a few less than acceptable reasons I have some lawyer expenses atm and just dropped 2600$ for repairs on my car. otherwise Id be moving ahead with my conceptual project of the triple 530J's but alas it is not doable right now =\

pik4chu said:

I think the adopt a rig needs to be pushed harder that is an excellent way to get people folding. just like 'need a PC to do school work on? If you leave it on 24/7 folding you can get one for free [over here]" Since thats basically how it is I just feel we need to get the word out on it more. Heck if there is someone that lives near me I could proly put a rig together for very little cost if not free as long as FAH is on it (for team 32, doesn't have to be under my name but would be nice )

Ive often noticed that when it comes to 'donations' people are more willing to gives parts than cash, since everyone has a spare part lying around ya know?

btw, dell currently has a deal for a dimension 2400 Celly 2.4 for 200bucks limit of 5. Come swith XP home, 80gig HDD, no monitor and 256MB ram

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No offense but giving them away as "a prize" isn't going to do crap. Chances are that it would be given away to the average joe user and then they would download limewire and porn and get spyware on it making Folding come to a crawl. The way it is set up now is better, where they check to make sure the person is reliable. I know I am not a representative of AAR .

Steveo989 said:

No offense but giving them away as "a prize" isn't going to do crap. Chances are that it would be given away to the average joe user and then they would download limewire and porn and get spyware on it making Folding come to a crawl. The way it is set up now is better, where they check to make sure the person is reliable. I know I am not a representative of AAR .

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Thats why I moved more towards adopt a rig and not 'prizes'.

Gotcha now.

Steveo989 said:

Gotcha now.

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unfortunately it seems the AAR sub forum has some organization/management issues... not gonna get it running full steam in that shape

TollhouseFrank said:

on the older machines (400mhz and older).... install them as a type=2 client in the client.cfg... that way, they get the timeless WU's, so that you don't have to worry about how fast they turn them in.

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i tried that on a 233mhz system and it said it was now running genome@home

genome@home is what it used to be before Folding@Home. Genome units are perfect for slower machines, and there are no time-limits on them, so they can fold as long as needed without worrying about a points deduction

Getting new folders is important, but there's other thing that is so easy to miss.
Like it was said - Folding isn't a sprint - it's a marathon.
Many start folding and stop after some time. If you start folding, fold fold and fold. My computer isn't dedicated folder, but it runs FAH 24/7. I fyou can't fold all the time, at least ahve service istalled - during browsing web pages or basically not-gaming, it'll do some good job.Why to waste computing power, why not to fold?

Problem is that some people are afraid of it or just do not care. Most of my friends don't fold and I can't convince them to. They're usually afraid of making their not-as-fast-as-I'd-want-to machines slower or unstable or that FAH may lead to some problems. Some tell me that they have thermally controlled fans and high load makes their computers noisy. Seeing my rig they see that it's possible to have very silent computer folding all the time without any glitches, but it's still not enough to convince them.
I think that people need more folding information and folding awareness. On forums, we can easily spot folders - with avatars or signarutres showing what they do. It's often enough to make people think "what is this whole folding thing?", but it's also common that it's not enough to make peopel install client.

Imagine yourself a situation - a friend of yours tells you: "Hey, I've got really great program, using it all the time, you just have to install it", "What does it do?", you ask, "just install it". What would you do? I doubt that you'd try it.

People need answeres to these questions:
- what this whole folding is
- how does client work
- why do people fold
- what do I risk, by downloading and installing FAH client
- will my machine run unstable or slow

Yeah, I know that there are stickies in folding section and such stuff, that there are articles about it, that there's Stanford site and other stuff. But people should get answer, when only question appears. Potential new folders should also know that there's a competition - to get good place in team ranking and to make team better than others.

So there is my suggestion - good, really good folding info page which is up to date, with detailed guides, pics and similiar, that would cover most of questions, that would have form to ask question that hasn't been already answered and what it most important - that would be commonly linked by folders, for example in each sig. perahps it would make our team stronger and result in more FAH contribution.

The answer is Contest, Contest, and Contest. Who cares if the Dell goes to pr0n and spyware? The act of having the contest will drive up our active users, cpu's, and production. Sure there will be some fall off after the contest, but we will keep many of the n00bs.

It was something like two years ago when we had three or four contests in a row where I gave out AMD XP's. I had something like 60 of them and we gave them as prizes in various contests.

This totally ramped up our production for a long time. Competing amongst ourselves is great to keep things interesting, but it will not bare the fruit of new recruits.

Give away a video card, a CPU, a couple gigs of kick a$$ RAM, or whatever that will draw the overclocker forum crowd in here. I'll donate money and parts (if I have any left) to get this going and I'm sure there are many others that will do the same.

I have begun posting all over the forums when I have the time to answer questions or comment on a GD topic. Since I have the Foldage in my sig I hope someone puts 2 and 2 together and gets their butt in here.

However, we could answer questions until our fingers bleed and it still will not bring in the traffic like free stuff. The great law of business is "don't reinvent the wheel." Find out what your competition is doing and refine it. The [H]orde and the Aussies are throwing down with giveaways constantly and they continue to hold a distinct advantage in recruitment.

Yes, 8>0, but in the last week the [H] has added 36 new users, the Aussies actually had a slow week and only added 21 and we've kept with our recent average by adding 11.

Even when you carry the two of the cosine and flip the inverse log:
36 > 21 > 11 = pwnage.

I say cpu, then they can fold with it and pwn away. Even better a MOBO/Cpu combo.

cheap barebones.... a sempron or celly with 256 - 384 Mb of RAM, a cheap CD-ROM and the a cheap HD

install winxp, and F@H, and make sure that the person has an internet connection

voila... insta-borg, someone gets a decent computer, and we get another borg.

anyone try pluging myspace.com ???

I have five folding rigs, 2 are down cause of network problems, but im planning on building a cheap celery system soon. But i do agree. If we dont so something, were gonna start to fall in the ranks

i know man... I'm temporarily down a rig. Strat was supposed to put an A64 in the mail for me last night.... (mobo, cpu, and HSF).... i'm usin' it to replace this Sempron... and gonna turn my sempron into my new file-server to replace the AXP 2000+ i just lost.

down two rigs because this room has become unbearably hot its easily 85-90F in here) main rig is still pushing ~750+ PPD on QMDs tho

As much as I understand your guys pain, this problem and thread isn't a "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who is going to score me a northbridge fan off his dead board so I can get my folding rig back up."

This is a "They are giving us wedgies while holding our heads in the toliet and flushing in the recruiting department" thread with discussions on what can we do about it.

hmm... Try borging libraries!

Librarians are often willing to help out and donate a single machine to the cause. It may not seem like much, but give it a month. No problems on that machine, ask her if you can install it on more machines after that month if there are no problems.

Quite often, you'll get a yes.

I'm waiting for a new powersupply before overclocking, then I'll take off. Not doing half bad folding imho. Eventually I'll have a few more machines going. Hopefully I'll beable to convince my school to run folding instead of seti! That'll be ~30 more 3.2Ghz Presscott P4!