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["D. J. Chandler" <djchandler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing to remember is that duplicate usernames are allowed with 
Folding@Home. [ http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-passkey ] So if 
you happen to choose a username that somebody on the same team is using, 
as swoody says, you will have your points combined. Without a passkey, 
there is no unique identifier. Also, a passkey is required to receive 
bonus point awarded due to the amount of time it takes to complete a 
work unit. AFAIK that's only if you use client 6.29 and get Core A3 WUs. 
(I haven't been on foldingforum.org much lately--yes, things have 
quieted down.) If you don't care about getting your own points, use 
anonymous. I wouldn't complain if you used my user name either. But I 
won't give out my passkey.

Some teams have contests periodically and award some nice prizes. 
Passkeys are absolutely required for those contests. Rules may vary by 
team. AFAIK, there has been no contests beyond the context of a single 
team. Teams sponsored by hardware manufacurers or overclocking forum 
teams sponsored by hardware manufacturers give the best prizes. EVGA had 
a contest a few months ago that ranged from redeemable gift certificates 
for their products all the way up to a new high-end gaming system.

If we ever have a contest, when you win you get to download your very 
own free copy of the latest version of Ubuntu. ;)

djc

PS You already won!

On 4/6/2010 6:16 PM, swoody wrote:
> I'm not sure how that will work out. When you submit your user-name, I
> think it links that passkey to that username, so you may need to use it
> to get the points you produce. I would say you can try doing a WU or
> two, and see if they show up on your stats w/o using the passkey.
>
> -Woody
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dayofswords <dayofswords@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dayofswords@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, swoody <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Christer Edwards
>         <christer.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:christer.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, swoody <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx
>             <mailto:swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>              > So my overall advice on passkeys - don't make things
>             complicated if you
>              > don't *need* to. Enjoy being able to setup a client
>             anywhere at anytime by
>              > just knowing your user-name and team #45104 :)
>              >
>              > - Woody
>
>             I seem to recall being able to recover the passphrase via an
>             email
>             form on the web, but I'm not 100%.
>
>             Also, do you have any links to that nasty rumor you dropped
>             into the
>             channel the other day? The one regarding Linux support.
>
>             --
>             Christer Edwards
>             .: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com :.
>
>
>         Ah yes, now I remember. After your post, I looked up the FAQ on
>         folding passkeys [1] and you can recover your passkey if you
>         have the same email address you did when you first created it.
>         That was my problem - I think I've had about 12 different emails
>         since then, and I had no idea which one I used, not to mention
>         that I'm sure that email account is no longer open. So I
>         couldn't recover my passkey now if I lost mine.
>
>         Also.... haha! I'm sorry, it may have been April 1st that day!
>         Stanford isn't going to be dropping Linux clients any time soon!
>         At least the reaction wasn't as bad as in the other channel
>         where I said Ubuntu was going to drop the entire forum due to
>         maintenance issues ;)
>
>         - Woody
>
>         [1] http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-passkey
>
>     once I am given a passkey, do I have to use it to gain points now?
>     or do I have enter it to get any points under my username?
>     basically, can i use my username without the passkey to get points
>     under the passkey-less username(it's separate i think) and just
>     kinda forget about the passkey? since I have already gotten my passkey.
>
>
>
>
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