folding-at-home team mailing list archive

[Daniel Chandler <djchandler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, everybody:

This is djchandler. Ubuntu team mates, please call me Dan. I'm a married
57 year-old grandpa living in a Kansas-side suburb in the state line
bisected metropolis of Kansas City. As long as nobody gives me grief
over the Chiefs or Royals, we're good. Besides, I'm a soccer fan anyway.
Go Wizards and Gunners (Arsenal, London, UK)!

You can almost always catch me at home, rarely getting out due to health
problems. So if anybody needs anything I may be able to help with, drop
a note in the pipeline and I'll answer ASAP. Typing is not a problem
currently, just slow. BTW, I'm a horrible insomniac too.

I'm a little old school in my approach to Folding. Right now I run four
CPU clients, all on different boxes on my LAN. All are currently running
under Linux, including my wife's Windows 7 x64 box running a notfred
[ http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/ ] with -smp 2 flagged on her Athlon
X2 7750. Depending on how heavily she is using her computer, it can turn
about 1900 PPD. I have a Phenom II X4 running Ubuntu AMD64 doing -smp 4
WUs, and two older Athlon 64 single cores, one on my Mythbuntu box, the
other on a box with a minimal Debian Lenny install. Except for the
notfred, the rest are manually installed, configured and/or scripted.

Right now my project is a Supermicro dual Socket 604 Xeon MB In a Boxx
[ http://www.boxxtech.com/ ] case I'm trying to resurrect (if it's worth
the electricity expended) that I paid $20 for at the local computer
surplus and recycling center [ http://www.surplusexchange.org/ ] for
spare parts. It runs. Besides the MB there's one 2.4Ghz Xeon DP
(hyperthread capable), 1GB of ECC registered DDR RAM, 3 port 1394a PCI
card, plus other stuff. It took a lot of aluminum pop cans to make that
Boxx case. It's easily worth twice the $20 by itself. (You say soda, we
say pop.) A matching CPU and another GB of RAM can be procured for < $20
at http://www.starmicro.net/.

I'm having fun.

Dan

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 -0600, Steve Woodruff wrote:
> With our recent influx of members to the Launchpad group, and our
> recent mailing list subscribers, I wanted to send out this quick
> hello, and how-do-you-do :)
> 
> I figured we can use this mailing list as a way to keep in touch with
> each other, and a means by which we can ask any kind of Ubuntu/folding
> related questions. I think that this is rather important as we really
> don't have a decent method of communicating on the forum when we're
> looking for something folding-specific.
> 
> So get used to the mailing list! Send a reply, say hello, and
> introduce yourself :)
> 
> Thanks again to everyone for making Team Ubuntu the folding success
> that it has become! (Currently ranked #68 out of ~75,000 teams
> world-wide!!)
>