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[Brad]

one day, grasshopper. One day.

 

[lancer]

Not sure if anyone else has done this, but Folding also works in windows Vista. I'm using one vista machine to fold now.

 

[kcnychief]

I have been doing it for awhile

 

[Brad]

Same here.

 

[Mainframeguy]

does it do it any better/worse though? I imagine it is identical... I perceived my Ubuntu folding client to be faster, but I had to tend to it myself more - thought the scripts to do so and look after the units were more excting.....

/me returns a machine or two to Ubuntu for the fun of folding there....

 

[Brad]

see--I don't know. Vista requires more memory and CPU power than XP does, so I would think that XP would do better...

 

[lancer]

yeap i think xp would do better, 98se would probably be best.

I've never had to do a thing to my ubuntu folding client, it just does its thing.

i'd like to know why i've slowed down so much, i was doing 9000points a week, now i barely achieve even 2000/.

 

[Brad]

144 place! Congrats all!

 

[ejn74]

Very good job people. Lets keep it up!

 

[sharob]

Great work team - we are really making up some ground.
We now have a higher average than we have had in ages.

 

[Sazar]

Thanks to those contributing.

Every bit counts.

 

[ejn74]

congrats on getting red Brad!!

 

[Brad]

Thank you

 

[tom9042]

congrats on getting red Brad!!

Brad, you're kicking some major league butt!!

 

[Mainframeguy]

Hey folks - I just had an idea of how to handle the lack of assignment WU's these days.... if you make your machine dual boot (any OS) then grab WUs on each boot - EG have one running under Ubuntu and anither under XP, like I do - then as soon as the machine drops off folding because it cannot grab a WU you just reboot to the alternate OS and carry on crunching that WU - then every day or so come back to the other to see if a new WU is assigned there.

Neat? Or naff? anyone see any flaws in my cunning plan?

 

[Brad]

If the assignment server is down, how are you going to get the other WUs?

 

[Mainframeguy]

nah - you'll have them already downloaded, from an earlier time - it is highly unlikely they'll run in sync and complete at the same time, in fact you can control that by the timing ofr your reboots.... so the other WU will already be there ready to resume....

 

[Brad]

seems like a lot of work. The only way I can really see it working is if you havet he timeless units because we don't know when those servers go down.

 

[Mainframeguy]

not a lot of work for me - already got dual boot in place - just needs me to reboot and go!

 

[kcnychief]

/silently chugging