I think yesterday it was #151 - looks like it's hovering in a narrow range.

The current prediction here is that we will drop briefly to 148 in less than 2 days (1.7 days as I type). Then will drop back to 149 as we are overtaken by the "PC Magazine Greek Edition" team in 5.2 days.

The we should drop to 148, 147 and then 146 over the following weeks. Quite an achievement for the team ^ .

Anyone working with grid.org / United Devices?
 

I decided to refrain from starting a new thread - but anyone working with United Devices / www.grid.org? My desktop has completed two years full time equivalent of distributed computing chores as of yesterday, with a machine rated "170" compared to an average machine at 100, with no problems and working on cancer, smallpox and Rosetta (human genome proteome folding) associated with Team Vietnam Veterans (no FT team when I checked / signed on.)

Glad to see other FTers "volunteering" their computers' spare resources to doing good stuff...

Cheers!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4923248.stm

This link you may find interesting.... although results could possibly be still used.

Looks like we'll break the 140 barrier in May. Also, spampeg is very close to overtaking FT_User in Total Points!

If you look at total points/week we rank 111. Total points/day puts us at 113, so that's pretty consistent.

Yes indeed. I am about to lose the top spot. Well done Spampeg and keep up the folding ^ . Looks like 700,000 points will be the cross-over point.

The team is now down to 142nd position out of well over 40,000 teams. Great work by a team of people from all different geographies and demographics.

Fold On!

(I did not read everyone else's replies so this may be redundant)

You don't want some program that downloads code into your computer to execute. Scripts maybe, code* defnitely not. No way of ensuring spyware or viruses do not find its way into your machine.

It is not a good idea to engage in activities that have you leaving a computer running unattended in someone else's behalf.

If the tasks being done by the unattended computer include downloading, processing, or uploading of music or movies, or include emailing of spam, you could get in big trouble.

*Sorry but it would take me a page to tell you the difrerence between script and code if you don't already know.

Travel tips:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/travel.htm

Thanks for the input, but sometimes it is okay to trust people - particularly when the people in question are Stanford University and Google, and hundreds of thousands of people have been running this software every day for years without any of the issues that you raise above ever arising.

On a happier note, I will crack the FT Top 10 in the next day or two. After that it looks like another six months before I catch the next guy. I need a faster computer...

Congratulations spampeg on taking the lead position. Excellent effort. Onward and upward to a million individual points ^ .

can somebody advice on setting this up through an autoproxy URL ? I think I can deploy a few computers if I could get this thing working through a proxy.

Do not run multiple copies of FAH from the same directory.

Awww, that's the down fall, with Dnetc I just have a scheduled batch file that kicks off at 6pm on Friday and kills itself on Monday morning at 8am from a network share, that way I can use all the test servers I have available on the current project. :confused:

PlayStation's serious side: Fighting disease
 

There will be a version of FAH designed specifically to run on the new PS3 ^

PlayStation's serious side: Fighting disease
POSTED: 12:01 p.m. EDT, September 18, 2006
By David E. Williams
CNN

(CNN) -- Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.

This November, Sony's PS3, with a price tag from $499 to $599, will challenge Microsoft's XBox 360 and Nintendo's Wii in a battle royale for holiday dollars when it hits stores in the United States and Japan.

Why is this no longer a sticky? The FlyerTalk team is 135 of 46211.

That is pretty impressive, even by global standards!

It's been several months since this was deemed not sticky-worthy. Ask kanebear or ScottC.

It's been that long since I checked. That is a problem with unattended processes. Do we want to continue to support FT as a player in this effort, or does it matter to FT where our cycles go as individuals? The question goes beyond TT moderation since our moderators individually have never been in the race.

Personally I think this thread could use another mention in TalkMail. If not that and/or a sticky the FT effort will fade and die.