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LandShark · 11-14-06, 06:17 PM

This is the 51th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! I'll try my best to keep this Spotlight as regular post as possible as long as the nominations keep coming in!! So, keep sending me the nomination guys/gals!!!

For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

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vonkaar

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Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you.

When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date.
Well, I posted in the appropriate thread, so the exact date was easy. Apparently... It was May 19, 2003.

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?
I was supposed to go camping several weeks ago, but it started pouring down rain... so we drove 13 hours to Graceland. It's one reason why my gf and I are so compatible... the spontaneity is awesome. We had a blast and so did Elvis.

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?
EOC

You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice)
I live in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas.

How did you initially hear about F@H?
I was new to the OC forums and I kept hearing people mention it... like it was this ethical thing to do. I saw posts where someone would talk about P2P or some other type of application in which their computer would be on all day... and someone else would chime in with, "you should be folding!!" I saw posts like that all over the place... I thought that if I didn't fold, I would never fit in... people would hate me... my nose would fall off... baby orphans would have a depressing, lonely Christmas... all because I didn't "fold." Whatever that was...

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
I've always maintained that I fold for the chicks. I also love a good taunt thread, but people seem to be in love with one another lately. Even my nemesis Nahmus and his sidekick Mustanley have backed down from my latest attempts at mockery.

What do you do for a living?
I have a great job actually... really enjoy what I do. I'm still trying to get my title changed, but... unofficially, I'm listed in the company directory as "Information Technology Lord and Master. The Alpha and Omega of All things Binary." I'm shooting for something simpler. Maybe just, "The King." Anyway... my EMPLOYER is the number one Japanese Animation licesning company in the USA. We are the company who brought popular anime like Full Metal Alchemist, DragonBall-Z, Samurai 7, YuYu Hakusho, Desert Punk, Blue Gender, Negima, Trinity Blood, Burst Angel, Basilisk and many many others to the United States. I'm responsible for designing their new network infrastructure and setting new and improved I.T. policies for a bulletproof future. Also, I make the coffee.

What do you do for fun?
I'm an avid sailor, I recently got my girlfriend into the sport. I love to travel... I haven't had a real vacation in many years, but I 'used' to go everywhere... Europe, Canada, Mexico... even Oklahoma! I play league volleyball all year round... I love to golf... hmm... I love live music... shrug... I consider myself pretty active, even though I'm filling out a survey at 1:30AM for my fellow distributed-computing/overclocking e-friends

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Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
I really really enjoy a special, special glass of scotch. It has to be SPECIAL though.

Otherwise, I think my sailing fetish is a bit different than most people my age.

Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for?
I guess the most powerful borg I have is a dual woodcrest system. I *think* the board I used was a Supermicro X7DB3. The processors are Xeon 5160s. It has 8Gb of RAM. The storage is controlled by an Areca1230 with 12x Seagate 7200.10 320Gb drives in RAID6. It is designed for HD encoding and folds for about 16 hours out of every day. My home system is much less impressive... Pentium-D 945, 2Gb RAM, 4x Seagate 7200.10 320Gb drives in RAID0 and an EVGA 7900. It's folding 24x7. All of the other borgs are all over the place... they range from P3-733Mhz to the Cadillac I described above. I *should* have a lot more coming online before the holidays... need to keep 7horn off my ass.

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)
I built one, a long time ago... but Wedo and Niks stole my designs so I trashed the whole thing. I still have a picture of it... let's see...

Trip down memory lane... here

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
End the suffrage of women.

If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are?
You are all amazing... let's keep those magazine rats off our backs and keep borging more and more. 40k isn't *that* big of a mountain to climb... We just need to find a few more 'sweet' deals in the mass borgs.

As a side note, if you have any pics (in jpg format for the dial-suck users) of things like your hobbies, computer(s), yourself, etc....

I lost the password to my website... it's late and I'm too lazy to get it reset, otherwise I'd just host this myself. If you want to post the picture I have on myspace... the one I titled, "The rat on the river," that'd be cool.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...geID=448688155

Thanks for the survey, it was fun ^_^.

harlam357 · 11-14-06, 06:28 PM

Great to meet you vonkaar!

Tell the folks at FUNimation I said hello.

jivetrky · 11-14-06, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LandShark

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
End the suffrage of women.

I hope others get that

godofgorks · 11-14-06, 07:26 PM

Haha, nice to meet ya vonkaar. Great sense of humor!

With a title like "Information Technology Lord and Master. The Alpha and Omega of All things Binary" the coffee making is a huge responsibility.

Sleepy_Steve · 11-14-06, 07:37 PM

Glad to meet a Vonkaar!!!

I like the title you hold over at funimation, glad to see corperations with a sense of humor. But can you tell them blue gender made absolutley no sense? And can you tell me why i cant find desert punk?? That was hilarious.

cuda340 · 11-14-06, 09:42 PM

Good to meet ya !!

benbaked · 11-14-06, 11:05 PM

Good to meet ya Vonkaar, great interview!

Vipersfate · 11-15-06, 01:22 AM

Dude, your company...is great....keep the fold goin!

||Console|| · 11-15-06, 09:40 AM

Nice yo meet ya , Love the titles I should get mine changed to something like that.

vonkaar · 11-15-06, 11:46 AM

Nice to meet you all =)

Sleepy_Steve, I can ask about Desert Punk... were you talking about local stores in your area or online vendors? I know there are several places online where you can get it np. It's a great show... one of my absolute faves.

Sleepy_Steve · 11-15-06, 12:39 PM

LOL, maybe i just dont know where the right stores are in the DC area, but i tend to think the DC area will have anything if you look hard enough. I have a feeling i could get it online form amazon though.

vonkaar · 11-15-06, 01:09 PM

I just talked to one of the home video people and she said that off the top of her head, your best bets are FYE, Best Buy and Suncoast. If you've looked there and haven't seen anything, let me know and she'll look it up and get more specific.

TollhouseFrank · 02-02-07, 10:09 AM

Dude... you work at funimation?

can ya get me a job there? I know dial-up really well.... i do tech support for a dial-up company here in WV... i wouldn't mind moving to wherever to work for funimation.... ANIME!!!! MUST HAVE JAPANESE STUFF NO MATTER WHAT MY WIFE'S PROTESTATIONS!

11-14-06, 06:17 PM	#1
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	F@H Spotlight #51 This is the 51th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! I'll try my best to keep this Spotlight as regular post as possible as long as the nominations keep coming in!! So, keep sending me the nomination guys/gals!!! For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD. Now please give a warm welcome to.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vonkaar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you. When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date. Well, I posted in the appropriate thread, so the exact date was easy. Apparently... It was May 19, 2003. If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? I was supposed to go camping several weeks ago, but it started pouring down rain... so we drove 13 hours to Graceland. It's one reason why my gf and I are so compatible... the spontaneity is awesome. We had a blast and so did Elvis. What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? EOC You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice) I live in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas. How did you initially hear about F@H? I was new to the OC forums and I kept hearing people mention it... like it was this ethical thing to do. I saw posts where someone would talk about P2P or some other type of application in which their computer would be on all day... and someone else would chime in with, "you should be folding!!" I saw posts like that all over the place... I thought that if I didn't fold, I would never fit in... people would hate me... my nose would fall off... baby orphans would have a depressing, lonely Christmas... all because I didn't "fold." Whatever that was... After starting, why do you continue to Fold? I've always maintained that I fold for the chicks. I also love a good taunt thread, but people seem to be in love with one another lately. Even my nemesis Nahmus and his sidekick Mustanley have backed down from my latest attempts at mockery. What do you do for a living? I have a great job actually... really enjoy what I do. I'm still trying to get my title changed, but... unofficially, I'm listed in the company directory as "Information Technology Lord and Master. The Alpha and Omega of All things Binary." I'm shooting for something simpler. Maybe just, "The King." Anyway... my EMPLOYER is the number one Japanese Animation licesning company in the USA. We are the company who brought popular anime like Full Metal Alchemist, DragonBall-Z, Samurai 7, YuYu Hakusho, Desert Punk, Blue Gender, Negima, Trinity Blood, Burst Angel, Basilisk and many many others to the United States. I'm responsible for designing their new network infrastructure and setting new and improved I.T. policies for a bulletproof future. Also, I make the coffee. What do you do for fun? I'm an avid sailor, I recently got my girlfriend into the sport. I love to travel... I haven't had a real vacation in many years, but I 'used' to go everywhere... Europe, Canada, Mexico... even Oklahoma! I play league volleyball all year round... I love to golf... hmm... I love live music... shrug... I consider myself pretty active, even though I'm filling out a survey at 1:30AM for my fellow distributed-computing/overclocking e-friends . Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? I really really enjoy a special, special glass of scotch. It has to be SPECIAL though. Otherwise, I think my sailing fetish is a bit different than most people my age. Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for? I guess the most powerful borg I have is a dual woodcrest system. I think the board I used was a Supermicro X7DB3. The processors are Xeon 5160s. It has 8Gb of RAM. The storage is controlled by an Areca1230 with 12x Seagate 7200.10 320Gb drives in RAID6. It is designed for HD encoding and folds for about 16 hours out of every day. My home system is much less impressive... Pentium-D 945, 2Gb RAM, 4x Seagate 7200.10 320Gb drives in RAID0 and an EVGA 7900. It's folding 24x7. All of the other borgs are all over the place... they range from P3-733Mhz to the Cadillac I described above. I should have a lot more coming online before the holidays... need to keep 7horn off my ass. Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) I built one, a long time ago... but Wedo and Niks stole my designs so I trashed the whole thing. I still have a picture of it... let's see... Trip down memory lane... here What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? End the suffrage of women. If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are? You are all amazing... let's keep those magazine rats off our backs and keep borging more and more. 40k isn't that big of a mountain to climb... We just need to find a few more 'sweet' deals in the mass borgs. As a side note, if you have any pics (in jpg format for the dial-suck users) of things like your hobbies, computer(s), yourself, etc.... I lost the password to my website... it's late and I'm too lazy to get it reset, otherwise I'd just host this myself. If you want to post the picture I have on myspace... the one I titled, "The rat on the river," that'd be cool. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...geID=448688155 Thanks for the survey, it was fun ^_^. __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! How many GHz of Intel + Nvidia folding power? Dunno! Lost count! \| F@H Vista Sidebar gadget \| F@H Yahoo Widget \| F@H iGoogle gadget \| \| My Heatware \| My New HTPC 3.0: Server/Client setup + Better energy efficiency \|

11-14-06, 06:28 PM	#2
harlam357 Senior Fold-a-holic Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: @Home... Folding@Home	Great to meet you vonkaar! Tell the folks at FUNimation I said hello. __________________ Q9550(C1)@(450x8) 3.6GHz 1.28v \| Gigabyte EP45-UD3P v1.0 F8 bios \| 2x2gb G.Skill@DDR900 5-5-5-15 2T 2.05v \| EVGA GTX275 \| Antec P180 - Corsair 650TX \| WD740GD - WD3200AAKS \| Samsung 2433BW FOLD32: 2xGTX285@1548MHz, GTX275@1566MHz, 2xGTX260-216@1458MHz, Bloomfield 920@3.8GHz, Yorkfield Q9550@3.6GHz, 3xKentsfield Q6600@3.4~3.0GHz, Wolfdale E8400@3.0GHz HFM.NET - Client Monitoring Application for Folding@Home \| I'm a Team 32 Folding Mentor - Ask me about Folding \| Team 32 Folding@Home Intro \| Team 32 F@H FAQ \| Folding/Gaming Room Project \| H's HTPC Build \| Heat (41-0-0)

11-14-06, 07:26 PM	#4
godofgorks Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Central PA	Haha, nice to meet ya vonkaar. Great sense of humor! With a title like "Information Technology Lord and Master. The Alpha and Omega of All things Binary" the coffee making is a huge responsibility. __________________ Lappy - Dell 710m, Pentium-M 735, 2gb Desktop- DFI Ultra Infinity, 2600 XP-M, 1gb TCCD, x800pro 16P, 36gb Raptor 2x 1Tb Webserver - Duron 1ghz, 512mb, 2x 8gb WD RAID 1 my HEAT

11-14-06, 07:37 PM	#5
Sleepy_Steve Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: VT... or MD	Glad to meet a Vonkaar!!! I like the title you hold over at funimation, glad to see corperations with a sense of humor. But can you tell them blue gender made absolutley no sense? And can you tell me why i cant find desert punk?? That was hilarious. __________________ Main Box: CPU Q9550 @ 3.4 Cooling Ultra 120 w/ 2x108 CFM fan RAM Corsair 4x 1GB DDR2 800 Video Saphire X1950XT Jet Black: Linux Box / Never ending case mod experiment. Runs an old P4. "This one goes to ELEVEN"

11-14-06, 11:05 PM	#7
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington State	Good to meet ya Vonkaar, great interview! __________________ Maximus Formula SE \| QX6700 \| 4 GB ECC DDR2-800 \| Dual HD4850 in CFX \| TX750 GA-EP35-DS3R \| QX6700 \| 4 GB DDR2-800 \| 8800GT \| SST-ST56ZF GA-965GM-S2 \| E6600 \| 1.5 GB DDR2-533 \| 9800GT-U \| AX500-A PowerBook G4 12" 1 GHz \| 1.25 GB DDR \| 160 GB HDD HEATWARE (22-0) \| my quads \| OCF's first Folding/SETI/Rosetta triple millionaire (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) "I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer." - Douglas Adams

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11-14-06, 09:42 PM	#6
cuda340 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	Good to meet ya !!

11-15-06, 01:22 AM	#8
Vipersfate Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Valparaiso, IN	Dude, your company...is great....keep the fold goin! __________________ The Rig: : AMD Athlon II X3 425 @ 2.9Ghz : ECS IC780M-A2 : 4GB DDR3 1333 OCZ GOLD : Asus EAH5750 : Her Rig : Intel E5200 2.5Ghz @ Stock : ASrock 775i945GZ: 3GB DDR2 800 : HIS 4650HD : The Lappy : AMD Athlon II X2 M300 : Toshiba L505: 3GB DDR2 800 : ATi 4200 : The Server : Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 1MB : Optiplex 280: 1GB DDR2 800 : ATi 3650HD :

11-15-06, 09:40 AM	#9
\|\|Console\|\| Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary, AB	Nice yo meet ya , Love the titles I should get mine changed to something like that. __________________ [CPU]-------------[E8400 E0 @ 500x9=4500Mhz 1.54v Load=62] [MainBoard]-----[XFX 780I] [GFX]-------------[ATI 4830 @ 750/1080] [RAM]-------------[OCZ PC-6400 2x2gig 5-4-4-15 @ 1.9v ] [PSU]-------------[Corsair HX 620w] [Cooling]---------[TT Armor / DD TDX / Maze4 / Black Ice Extreem III ] [Display]---------[ Ben-Q E2200HD 1920x1080] [HDDs]---------[ 3x250 Seagate 7200.10 Raid 0 /2x1Tb WD Storage] 3Dmark06 score @ my 24/7 settings ^^ = 14026 " If that Bong is filled with the right stuff you wouldn't give a damn how much noise the cooling system made lol" ViperJohn

11-15-06, 11:46 AM	#10
vonkaar Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Flower Mound, TX	Nice to meet you all =) Sleepy_Steve, I can ask about Desert Punk... were you talking about local stores in your area or online vendors? I know there are several places online where you can get it np. It's a great show... one of my absolute faves. __________________ -->>Ranked #1 of all folders in the world!!<<-- named Vonkaar... I7 920 D0 @ 4.2Ghz // MSI X58 Pro-E // Sapphire 5870 // 6x Seagates in RAID0 // Microsoft Keyboard Overclocked to 18 WPM (STOCK COOLING!) Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittamj

11-15-06, 12:39 PM	#11
Sleepy_Steve Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: VT... or MD	LOL, maybe i just dont know where the right stores are in the DC area, but i tend to think the DC area will have anything if you look hard enough. I have a feeling i could get it online form amazon though. __________________ Main Box: CPU Q9550 @ 3.4 Cooling Ultra 120 w/ 2x108 CFM fan RAM Corsair 4x 1GB DDR2 800 Video Saphire X1950XT Jet Black: Linux Box / Never ending case mod experiment. Runs an old P4. "This one goes to ELEVEN"

11-15-06, 01:09 PM	#12
vonkaar Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Flower Mound, TX	I just talked to one of the home video people and she said that off the top of her head, your best bets are FYE, Best Buy and Suncoast. If you've looked there and haven't seen anything, let me know and she'll look it up and get more specific. __________________ -->>Ranked #1 of all folders in the world!!<<-- named Vonkaar... I7 920 D0 @ 4.2Ghz // MSI X58 Pro-E // Sapphire 5870 // 6x Seagates in RAID0 // Microsoft Keyboard Overclocked to 18 WPM (STOCK COOLING!) Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittamj

02-02-07, 10:09 AM	#13
TollhouseFrank Hairy Foot Fetish Senior Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michel Delving	Dude... you work at funimation? can ya get me a job there? I know dial-up really well.... i do tech support for a dial-up company here in WV... i wouldn't mind moving to wherever to work for funimation.... ANIME!!!! MUST HAVE JAPANESE STUFF NO MATTER WHAT MY WIFE'S PROTESTATIONS! __________________ Lead Senior - General Hardware Lead Senior - Applications and Software Become a fan on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! \| Follow us on Twitter!