folding-at-home team mailing list archive

[Steve Woodruff <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Christopher Swift
<christopher.swift@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2010/1/17 Steve Woodruff <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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!!)
>>
>> --
>> Steve Woodruff
>> swoody@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>
> Just figured that I'd say hi myself.  Well,  the name's Chris,  or if
> you ever catch me in IRC then I'm simply known as ianto.  I'm the
> current Point of Contact and a founding member of the Ubuntu Cymru
> (Wales) LoCo team as well as being an administrator of both the en_GB
> and cy_GB translation teams.
>
> The real-life me,  well I am a 17 y/o college student studying Welsh
> Lang. & Lit., Computing & Electronics working towards my BA Cymraeg
> (Welsh).  As well as taking part in helping out on a course to teach
> people Welsh.
>
> Currently I run Folding on just my PS3 but I'm working on finding out
> how best to run it on my computers without using up too much of my fan
> speed thus making noise or stealing my power.
>
> Not really much else to say other than good work on the Folding
> project guys and if you are interested in my short bio above feel free
> to ask questions.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher Swift <christopher.swift@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Christopher,

It's great to have you aboard! To help you with trying to figure out
the best method to fold, and not eat up all of your power, I think
this mailing list may be pretty useful. If you want, you can send an
email directly to the mailing list to start a new topic, and fill us
in a bit on your details (laptop/desktop, CPU specs, etc.) and maybe
we can try to get you squared away with that :)

Dayofswords,

It's great to see you here as well! Indeed, the "proper" way to reply
to a mailing list is to bottom-post (how I have replied here), but to
be honest, most people aren't aware of it, and I can tell you that
nobody will be chastising you if you don't use it here ;)

I can also understand how you feel about folding on your laptop. I
leave my lappy running 24/7 so it can fold, even when I'm not using
it. However, it still takes a while to finish a work unit (usually two
days).

As far as being new to Ubuntu, welcome! The one big recommendation I
can make is to *read*! Read every guide, manual, and how-to that you
can find. The forums are an amazing source of information, and the
wiki/doc pages are too! If you ever have an issue, try Googling your
issue and the word 'Ubuntu' and I can almost guarantee you that you'll
find what you're looking for :)


-- 
Steve Woodruff
swoody@xxxxxxxxxx