Saturday 11/09/04
BTW : that's not me in the picture.
News September 2004
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Saturday 04/09/04 |
| BEATtheBOX 23: finishes tomorrow... |
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Just a reminder that BtB23 finishes a day early with the draw being tomorrow morning. I will be away till Saturday so that unfortunately also means the the 30 Time Trial wont have any updates after tomorrow until I get back. I will still collect the data and I will be able to give a full report of the standings when I get back.
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Sunday 05/09/04 |
| BEATtheBOX 23: and the winner is... |
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The winner of
FBOX23 is Marzi (1630) Congratulations Marzi you have won... Case: 400W ATX Miditower- Inquisitor69 Motherboard: Epox 8KMM3I- FFF CPU: XP1700 TBredA- fxr91 Ram: 256MB PC3200- FFF HDD: Maxtor 2.0 GB- trotkiller CDROM: 36X Diamond Data- Inquisitor69 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. BTW: I will be away for the next few days so don't worry if I don't reply straight away.
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Saturday 11/09/04 |
| I'm back: the holiday is over ... |
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My trip up the coast with the wife
is over and five days at Kalbarri have come to an end. It was nice
to have time to relax and see the sights but as usual I had to
have a stats update and see what you lot were up to. So I popped
into the one of the shops that had internet access for us tourist
types, the one that I chose was
Kalbarri Book Exchange and
Internet. After a few minutes there I was talking to the owner
Steve about Folding@Home and that his 5 machines were perfect
candidates and would he like to give it a go. Here is the stats
page stats for
Kalbarri Book Exchange, he said yes. If you are on holiday in
WA's midwest call into
Kalbarri
and say hello to Steve he will make you most welcome after all he
is a fellow folder now.
BTW : that's not me in the picture.
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Sunday 12/09/04 |
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| BEATtheBOX 24: starts tomorrow... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The next contender for the
BEATtheBOX challenge starting tomorrow is FBOX24, it is a XP1700
TBredA. If you
have what it takes to whip this little sucker,
join in.
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This weeks xylus 500 is here.
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Wednesday 15/09/04 |
| Folding of another kind: the DF guys need our help... |
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The Distributed Folding project is about to wind up at the end of the month with the OCAU team currently in 5th place. There is one problem the TOO XTREME team has rallied and is trying to knock our guys out of 5th place. So the call to arms has been made in the forums and they need our help.
as you may have
known, DF is finishing in roughly 3-4
weeks, but XtremeSystems have decided to move all their resources
from all other projects onto DF, on a mission to take OCAUs place
on the ladder before the project finishes.
If you can spare a machine or two
for a couple of weeks to help the DF guys out it would be greatly
appreciated. The stats page
here says that the DF team will be swamped in
5 days time so
we need to get behind them quickly. Have a read of the thread in
the forums for all the information you need to help out and lets
keep our team up there. BTW the DF team have a subteam (Team
DF Erect Vicar) Folding for us and as soon as this is over the
DF guys will be back Folding like mad keeping the FAH Vicar fully
erect. Update: Here is a preconfigured file that contains everything you need to start DFing in a hurry. Just download and unzip it and then double click foldit batch file and you will be up and running under the DF Vicar name.
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Thursday 16/09/04 |
| Folding of another kind: the threat draws nearer... |
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Thanks for the great response to help the DF team out in the final days of the Distributed Folding project in its current phase. But the threat posed by the TOO XTREME team has draw a lot closer by the influx of ex members into the team, bringing their points with them (DF points are transferable from team to team, they stay with the username). So we are going to need quite a few more troops to rally for the final sprint to the line. If we could get at least another 100 machines DFing for the Vicar we might just hold them at bay. So if you can help out download this file and unzip it, then run it from unzipped folder. You can monitor and control the DF client by using dfgui. It can control the starting and stop of the DF client and add in the extra flags that are need to make it invisible and fold fast by using extra RAM. If you need any help pop in the this thread in the forums and ask away. A Linux version is here. Come on guys lets have some fun and put the might of the Overclockers Australia Folding@Home team behind the DF team and kick some butt in their hour of need. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the Overclockers Folding Team lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hourī
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Monday 20/09/04 |
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This weeks xylus 500 is here.
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Tuesday 21/09/04 |
| eBay item: SATA controller |
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Thanks to eltoro2003 we have a SATA controller to sell on eBay
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Thursday 23/09/04 |
| eBay: more bits for sale |
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I have placed two more items for sale on eBay. First up is 3 ATX socket 7 motherboards and some sticks of EDO RAM.
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Sunday 26/09/04 |
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Monday 27/09/04 |
| BEATtheBOX 24: and the winner is... |
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The winner of FBOX24 is....
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Thursday 30/09/04 |
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The three items that we up for sale on eBay have returned a combined total of $77. A big thanks to eltoro2003 for donating the SATA controller. If anyone would like to do similar all you need to do is send me a photo and a description and I will list on eBay, then when the item is won and the money is in the bank you send it of to the winner. I will put up some more stuff later in the week.
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Two more FBOXes have been added to the family this week. They both have new Celeron 2.6GHz (400 FSB) CPU's. The FFF is looking a bit empty after kitting out these two machines. The ebay items are helping fill it up again slowly, if you have a spare $10 it will help build it up a bit quicker, PM me for the account details if you would like to help out and go into the draw for the next BYO FBOX. For future FBOX builds we have three motherboards looking for CPU's, we need two Palomino XP's and a socket 423 Pentium 4 CPU if anyone has any of these spare let me know in this thread. Or if you have a spare motherboard that would be suitable for a FBOX or any other bits let me know to.
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