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Now, there is external SCSI for those with deep pockets.

I've never seen external SATA, though I've heard about it. Good luck. I think you are stuck getting some USB hubs.

May I suggest a USB 2.0 external notebook hard drive. The USB for hot-swapability. the 2.0 for speed. The notebook drive for reliability: External drives may get bumped around some. While flash drives are theoritically reliabile, I've found that notebook drives are better.

Overkill is when one usesd redundant 1KW PS's in a stock Dell Celeron vomit box. For the rest of us it is a minimum requirement. How else is Merc supposed to power his terrabytes.

Correction on the spelling of her name it is Sinead O'Connor. She, during a live television performance on SNL (Saturday Night Live) of a song that promoted war as the solution to oppression ripped up a picture of the Pope while asking the audiance to "Fight the real enemy"...

So we have our very own Snead O'Connor...

Come on Merc. Don't be a Scrooge. Surely you can waste your time ranting about something important rather than trying to ruin someones day when all they are trying to do is spread some happiness around. I'm not going off the deep end if someone wants to bless me because I've sneezed or try to...

This subject is getting morbid. Prepaid funerals -- Yuk. How do you know when and where you will die? You could be in traveling or you may move and then your investment goes out the window. If you are really concerned about such: State your wishes in your will or as an attached document...

Or run F@H as a service (that way it runs regardless of your logon/logoff status). Then simply logon when you want to use the machine and logoff (but keep the computer on) when you are finished.

PC Power & Cooling tend to be on the loud side: Even their so called "Quiet" models are, to me, quite noisey. However, I have done some simply surgery and swapped out the fan for a quite model a similar CFM with great success. However, I do recognize that I voided the warrentee while doing so.

It gets rid of a major competator (less competition means higher margins) - Increased market share - decreased manufacturing costs producing additional economies of scale. "Synergy". i.e the usual suspects.

With a little luck the FTC - Excessive market share...

So they apparently have: I google-searched and found another source. Firedaemon-lite-1_6-GA.exe.

Whatever happened to Pradeep's weekend P4's?

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Don't you have a firewall? You believe that F@H is doing illict things to your machine while you aren't there to monitor it. You don't mind if they look around your machine while you are on the machine but it is verboten while you are away; To me none of...

I have them configured with a single F@H process (yes only run a single instance on your dual Xeon if you have large WU's tturned on) with Hyper-threading turned on; large WU's is turned on; and with the following parameters: -local -forceasm -service -advmethods -verbosity 9. If you are using...

Check you log files for problems and 2nd check to see what WU's you are getting/submitting For P4's you want all QMD's and for AMD you want all to be Big WU's but in the end you really can't choose what you get. However, I do have great sucess getting continious QMD's for my P4 machines with...

I have been reading about Bensley (Intel's upcoming dual-core Xeon). It has potential to equal or exceed the performance of the current dual-core Opteron's at least at the single-chip level. They will still be hotter and I don't know how it will do with multiple chips, yet. But Intel's at...

Intel is not the umpire of how the game is supposed to be played: Conflict of interest and all that would get in the way. If you have any doubts, examine the Intel-AMD lawsuit.

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Because anything with marketable with the server tagline gets additional markup. Isn't that the whole point of their 1xx Opteron line competing with the Athlon64 regardless of the socket type. Why decline the extra $$$ from those that are willing to give it?

Sorry, but it sounds like an ideal application for florescent lighting but LED's would be good too (Just more expenisve).

They already re-submit some WU's: Those that are not returned in time and those that fail. It would not surprise me it they re-submitted WU's for other reasons too, like data re-verification.

Can't say anything about Dish - Never subscribed to their product. My experiance with DirectV is several years old now and may be invalid. Regardless, I have opinions. First, their programming was very competative with cable. Second, they were more expensive than cable - Specificly, for more...

The moon is a very bright object and does not inhierantly need a high ISO. Since you are on a tripod, it will eliminate your basic camera movement, so a high ISO is not a big deal at that end. The real purpose of the high ISO setting to to ensure that the moon does not move too much across the...

If it is possible, for your camera, spot meter the moon. It is far too bright relative to the background. If you can't spot meter, then use exposure adjustment to darken it. The 3rd alternative, if you can't do either of those is to use your camera's meter it to find a relative shutter...

AMD 64's have a large scale performance advantage on paper but QMD's won't run on them: Well, they will run under Linux but then the SSE is disabled and they become poor point producers. This results in the Single-core 1066HHz FSB P4EE's being the best overall folding producers: Especially if...

With QMD's they get the best points per day by running a single instance. QMD's are RAM BW limited (Not CPU) and thereby running two simply causes both to slow down as they both compete for RAM bandwidth. So, Run only one QMD instance and you will get optimum productiuon.

Most likely, he has a large farm and is using a few machines to distribute WU's to the others. It's not supported, but there have been others that have claimed to do this. Another way to do this is using timeless WU's because with those, caching upto 10 WU's at a time is builtin which makes it...

If all you did was change the flags, then you didn't do enough. You should actually reconfig the program to allow for large WU's. The easiest way is to simply stop the service and run the console with the -configonly parameter.

If you are running as a service then you need to edit the registry to get your parameters to stick. Try using one of the 3rd party tools for that purpose. Or you can do what I do -- Use an old version of FireDaemon.

Once the points are allocated to a name, F@H does not change them. If all the names are the same now, then all future points will be allocated to that one name and all past points will be allocated to the other names. Regardless, all the points still count towards our team (Unless, you also...

It bothers me not -- I can wipe noses, with the best of mom's

I assure you Handruin, you can't say anything over at F@H's forums that hasn't been said before: There are many that have complained about this issue. See:FAHWiki

There are several installers of which I haven't tried any of them. I just don't find installing F@H difficult enough to bother. For noobies, Like Merc., try looking at the following post F@H Tool List and find one that fits your needs.

Wishfull thinking but Intel's EULA still won't allow it and F@H isn't about to go against that.

Perhaps, I shouldn't have shown Cougtek (and others here) how to optimize his machines for QMD's but it really helped his and the teams production. Was it worth the internal strife? I think so, but I understand why do you potentially wouldn't Handruin. Life ain't fair, but its the only life...

Ohh, how I agree, It's not fair but it is the way that it is. I have 8 machines folding and my three Intel machines way out perform the five AMD's by around 3x. Now I should qualify the fact that my Intels are 3200's and my AMD's are 2500+'s but that is not enough of a justification for the...

When you are dealing with a low-end processor like the Pentium Pro, P2, or P3 I strongly suggest that you only deal with timeless WU's. While some normal WU's may get returned in time, many won't. You really don't want to waste your time folding something that won't count. So timeless is the...

Think of me as an evil person that got really tired of repeating myself to deaf ears. Take my brother (Please), I've built him a system every 2 years for a good 10 years and every month, to 6-months I have to re-do it and every time I give him a long lecture. It doesn't do any good. I don't...

Warning people about such, in my opinion, does not accomplish anything. Basicly, once the system is in their control then they do whatever they are going to do. There will always be someone, with access, that is used to doing things their own way and ignores your advise. Then there are the...

Yes, the Pentium-M's are also very good folders with QMD's.

Those QMD's give Intel P4's a massive advantage.

The Dell 2001FP is still one great monitor and it fits all your criteria. The Dell 2405FPW is a better monitor but is widescreen and signifigently more $$$

You should use the Mac OSX just because it hasn't been released for the Intel Platform yet and if you can get a copy then try it.

That appears to be correct: I did a search on F@H forums.

Don't know. Isn't smoothwall a linux application?

A smoothwall machine is up 24x7 so no wasted electricity. for a P2, fold timeless work units -- i.e. no deadlines

Santilli, You don't have to have different usernames for each computer. If you use the same name for all your machines you can accumualte the scores of all your computers into one and become a stat whore like the rest of the team. However, if you are trying to find out how each of your...

The X2 would be an excellent addition especially with two instances of F@H running: It is a dual core after all. On a 600 Mhz P3 I would suggest that you only fold timeless WU's. Everything helps, but there is a point of diminishing returns for the cost of electricity as you go down the cpu...