AntiWinner22 Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 Ah, I know of this sort of thing, but a different name, yeah, a lot of people would be against it, but I'm a for it Good good. But I don't why people would be against it. It doesn't take up much processing power. Its safe. Its helpful. Doesn't take up any bandwith. I guess I'll never understand people. Do you know how much processing it really takes? I have 63MB of RAM. I usually have about 2MB free. Anon.
Gryph Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 It uses whatever processing power you're not using. And the client takes about 6-10 megs of memory so I don't think you'll be able to use it Atleast not the GUI. The console one probably won't take as much memory.
ForceX Posted March 31, 2004 Author Posted March 31, 2004 I think AnitWinner would be able to run it....But I'm not sure... AntiWinner actually download it and try...
Agozer Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 It uses whatever processing power you're not using. And the client takes about 6-10 megs of memory so I don't think you'll be able to use it Atleast not the GUI. The console one probably won't take as much memory.Then I won't be trying this....I have 32MB of memory.
Ryuken Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 i don't under stand what u guys r talking about maybe if u guys explain it to me i can join
Agozer Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 i don't under stand what u guys r talking about maybe if u guys explain it to me i can joinRead GryphonKlaw's Folding@Home thread in Current Affairs.
Gryph Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 i don't under stand what u guys r talking about maybe if u guys explain it to me i can joinFolding@home is a distributed computing project by Stanford University that uses many computers to fold and unlock the secrets of many disease causing proteins. Using thousands of home computers is a cost effective way to do all this computation of the algorithms. This client uses the idle cycles of your computer and uses them to do this. Suppose that you're running Internet Explorer (Mozilla for cool people) and that's taking 10% of your CPU and some other system programs might be taking 5%, so the Folding@home client will use the leftover 85% of your processing capability to fold and unfold proteins. This is a real time program so it adjusts whenever you do something else so it never hinders anything. But I do suggest closing it when you play a fullscreen 3D game. But that's just common sense. Hope that was a decent explanation for you. You can check out folding.stanford.edu for more and better info.
Ryuken Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 das kool but what if they not using the program the way it's said to be used. what if it's a way for them to hack into our computers and read our logs to see if we'r doing anything illegal like downloading music and roms so i'm not sure about doing this
Gryph Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 (edited) das kool but what if they not using the program the way it's said to be used. what if it's a way for them to hack into our computers and read our logs to see if we'r doing anything illegal like downloading music and roms so i'm not sure about doing thisI really doubt that. Its a scientific program and its based in a university and not the government. Geez, some of you people need to relax, not everything is a flocking conspiracy to nail you for downloading stuff illegally. I love how everyone thinks this is some Stanford plot to get into your harddrive. Well it isn't. Edited April 1, 2004 by GryphonKlaw
Ryuken Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 still tho, if ur not careful enough u might just get caughtu'll never know when
Gryph Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 still tho, if ur not careful enough u might just get caughtu'll never know whenWhat... are you talking about Folding@home or in general? Ofcourse if you download illegal stuff foolishly and aren't careful you'll get caught, but not because of this program. Please read the FAQ on the page. You'll learn a lot more, if not about the program, atleast about proteins and how important they are.
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