News May 2004
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Monday 03/05/04 |
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| BEATtheBOX 17: the winner is... | ||||||||||||||||||
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The winner of
FBOX17 is.... Forum name: Nemesis (887) Folding name: Sanitarium_Faction congratulations you have won ... ase: Miditower- FFF Motherboard: MSI K7T266 Pro2 - mtech CPU + HSF: XP1700) - mtech Memory: 256MB PC3200 - FFF Video Card: AGP S3 Trio3D - mtech HDD: Western Digital 4G - NIC: 10/100 PCI - wombo To receive this magnificent prize you must pledge to run it 24/7 and pay for postage. If you agree to these terms send me a PM and we can sort out delivery.
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Tuesday 04/05/04 |
| Results from our Folding efforts: news from Stanford... |
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Here are a couple of news items form Stanford Important new FAH
results
Prof. Pande's talk at PARC now online
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| Look whose active again: how do you say zzsstt... |
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A former No1 OCAU folding team member from V1 and V2 zzsstt as returned to his old stomping ground to help the team out once more. I don't know how long he has been active for but it seems like quite a while looking at his score. Welcome back zzsstt.
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| FFF: the cupboard is almost bare... |
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The FFF and BYO draw pages have been updated. Funds are getting low after purchasing 3 cases for FBOX18, 19 and 20 and CPU adapter for FBOX21 (socket 423 to 478) to fit the Celeron 1.7g that Nemesis donated. The FFF also bought a Tualatin Slot1 adapter for the 1.1g Celeron donated by FaTs. Many thanks to Manly Mark for donating back the motherboard and CPU that we finally got to replace his DOA bits from FBOX11. Mark just happened to replace the bits himself has the parts came in from DavidRa and mtech, so they will make up FBOX19. So what does all this mean, well now we have three more FBOX's up and running and one more waiting on a cooler donated by FaTs for the 1.7G Celeron with the adapter. The adapters and one of the cases were bought off EBAY, which has just become my new hunting ground for parts for my own folding machines. To raise some more funds I plan on selling a 1.5G P4 Xeon that FaTs donated some time again on eBAY, it should fetch about $100 according to previous sales. We also have other various bits here in the ogres swap that our members have donated over the past 12 months that could bring in some needed funds through eBAY as well. If any of you out there have any bits and pieces that might be of value to someone let me now and we could sell them on EBAY. You could send me a picture of the item for sale, I could list it on eBAY and when its sold the money goes straight into the FFF and then the donator could post it off the the auction winner. I could then transfer the cost of postage to the donator if they wish otherwise its more money for the FFF. How does that sound for an idea to raise some cash and build up some more machines around the 3 AXP CPU's that we have sitting here waiting for their turn slotted into a FBOX. I have permission to run a few machines at my place of employment, so I have setup a mini LAN and installed a modem and once or twice a week upload the waiting WU's. So this leads to my plan for the Tualatin and the 2 x 1.1g Celerons that mtech donated and that is to run the machines at work with the username of one of the BtB nominees that is drawn out when the BtB giveaway is announced. They will get three machines folding under their name for the 2 weeks of the next BtB giveaway. Hopefully they should produce over a 1000 points a week between them which will be a nice boost for the lucky recipient. So in summary if you want to donate some cash to help revive the FFF send me a PM and I will pass on the account number to you. If you have some spare parts lying around too good to throw out that may be of value to someone PM me as well and I will sell them on eBay for you with the money going to the FFF. Also if you have any AMD motherboards that would suit a XP1700TBred, XP1800TBred and a XP2600 Barton do like wise and we can get some more folding goodness up and running.
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| Folding Clubs: now includes the Top 1500 members... |
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I have expanded the range for the Folding Clubs to included the top 1500 members. Welcome to all the new club members, the drinks are on the house.
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Wednesday 05/05/04 |
| Folding Addicts: Put your hand up... |
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AERO has started a
thread calling for all Folding addicts to come forth and be
counted. So far this exclusive club has only 18 members and I sure
there are a lot more out there. So what are you waiting for jump
in and let the world know your addiction you will feel a lot
better for it. BTW you get to pick your own number.
AERO #1
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| Xeon eBay listing: its up for grabs... |
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The Xeon is now listed on
eBay. Lets hope it fetches a good price.
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Sunday 09/05/04 |
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Monday 10/05/04 |
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| BEATtheBOX 18: has begun... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I changed the FBOXes around a bit and FBOX20 is now FBOX18 with the specs below
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Wednesday 12/05/04 |
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| plext on the move : over 200 CPU's active... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It looks like
plext has lifted his output quite a bit over the past couple
of days with a lazy 11,000 points yesterday. His active CPU count
has risen to
217 today and still seems to be on the rise. Lets hope this is
just the beginning and with
Sceggs.nsw.edu.au at
255 CPU's and
Tragic starting to put out some impressive numbers we should
mow down the lead the [H]orde have in no time. The top 10
producers are listed below.
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| Xeon eBay listing: Auction ends... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It was a bit disappointing to only get $47 for the
Xeon, but the money will go towards a case which will help make a
new FBOX come to being and in the end be more productive than a
CPU sitting on a shelf.
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Thursday 13/05/04 |
| New eBay listing: video editing kit... |
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The next item for sale on
eBay is a Skymaster Video editing kit donated by Razorback.
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Sunday 16/05/04 |
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| Version 4 Graphical Guide: a new and improved guide for all the new members... | ||||||||||||||||||
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At last after a bit of prompting from members of the forum and finding a few hours spare time, a new and improved graphical client guide is available for your perusal. In the coming weeks I will add a console guide as well as other related Folding goodness.
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Sunday 23/05/04 |
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Monday 24/05/04 |
| BEATtheBOX 18: the winner is... |
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The winner of
FBOX18 is....
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Tuesday 25/05/04 |
| Another OCAU sponsor joins the Fold: welcome Plus Corp... |
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Computer Alliance has a bit of competition now with
Plus
Corporation joining the team, check out their stats
here. That leaves
Altech and
PC Range
the remaining major sponsors of
Overclockers Australia yet to make the move and join the soon
to be No1 Folding Team in the world.
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Monday 24/05/04 |
| New eBay listing: Netopia R9100 Router... |
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The next item for sale on
eBay is a
Netopia R9100 Router again donated by Razorback.
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Sunday 30/05/04 |
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| BEATtheBOX 19: starts tomorrow... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The next contender for the BEATtheBOX challenge is
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