Personal computing discussed
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leor wrote:He might have won on volume but I still say my island hopping trip through the Caribbean 6 years ago going from internet cafe to internet cafe wins the stealth distributed computing award. That was of course before that was publicly frowned upon.
tfp wrote:A bit more info in here, has the same info Fox was saying.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_th ... p?id=56411
More specifically:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_th ... rue#951517
tfp wrote:No it was always publicly frowned upon but there is no need to dig up that thread.
leor wrote:tfp wrote:No it was always publicly frowned upon but there is no need to dig up that thread.
you obviously weren't around when us little gerbils were trying to figure out all sorts of different ways to get points back in 02, 03.
of course that was also back when one CPU actually made a difference, and to some degree even running the client for a few hours a day on a machine and bringing a partial WU home and finishing it there was fairly common.
now one GPU client can blow away 20 CPUs.
leor wrote:well Emrys seemed to know what I was getting at, Mr. Accurate, so you might have been around but you weren't a part of the crew, such as it was.
I certainly don't remember your voice being a part of the jokes and stuff we had going on back then.
tfp wrote:It's nice to see something things don't change. I can't imagine why the TR F@H team didn't grow like wildfire through the forums with people like you representing it back in the day.
Buzzard44 wrote:Are they sure all the classroom computers weren't just slow because they all had 10 year old equipment? My computer from 1999 runs Crysis like molasses.
Flying Fox wrote:Buzzard44 wrote:Are they sure all the classroom computers weren't just slow because they all had 10 year old equipment? My computer from 1999 runs Crysis like molasses.
I suppose if they were "forced" to "replace the CPUs' due to the accelerated deaths from SETI@Home, they may still be running those 10 year old equipment.
leor wrote:tfp wrote:It's nice to see something things don't change. I can't imagine why the TR F@H team didn't grow like wildfire through the forums with people like you representing it back in the day.
just more evidence you weren't really a part of the community back then, if you knew the lengths I and others took to build the team up, maybe you wouldn't be acting like such a jerk. I actually used to respect you.
farmpuma wrote:Yep, team TR grew to it's highest ranking back in those days. With showdowns like leor verses the might meat dish, leor's quest for the white whale, and finally in spite of the SMP crapola the leor verses drfish for the king of the hill. He, emkubed, Atryus28, and so many more inspired us to fold on what we had and add more when we could.
farmpuma wrote:BTW tfp, what name are you using to fold for team TR? I noticed your entire 2009 folding effort for your old team, 2CPU.com Folding@Home, was eight WUs for a total of 3,265 points. H***, leor does nearly double that every **** day!
farmpuma wrote:Yep, team TR grew to it's highest ranking back in those days. With showdowns like leor verses the might meat dish, leor's quest for the white whale, and finally in spite of the SMP crapola the leor verses drfish for the king of the hill. He, emkubed, Atryus28, and so many more inspired us to fold on what we had and add more when we could. My first impression of the Caribbean drive-bys was like a Robin Hood adventure, but luckily JBI as the voice of reason helped us all get our minds right. Although even now I had to grin at TheEmrys' dentist borg.
BTW tfp, what name are you using to fold for team TR? I noticed your entire 2009 folding effort for your old team, 2CPU.com Folding@Home, was eight WUs for a total of 3,265 points. H***, leor does nearly double that every **** day!
farmpuma wrote:...He, emkubed, Atryus28, and so many more inspired us to fold on what we had and add more when we could...