Go Back   Cyber Tech Help Support Forums > General > Open Discussion

Notices

Open Discussion A place to chat with other members about non-technical related topics

Reply
 
Topic Tools
  #1  
Old September 11th, 2006, 02:23 PM
rlprlp rlprlp is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Posts: 152
Attention To All

I just came across this in a strange coincidence (my mother died of cancer 11 days ago). With no urging from me, I would like to invite all to take a look at this and let it explain for itself...

http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html

Thank you.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old September 11th, 2006, 03:47 PM
degsy's Avatar
degsy degsy is offline
Cyber Tech Help Moderator
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: North-East, UK
Posts: 22,475
Please use more descriptive topic titles in future.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old September 11th, 2006, 03:49 PM
black mirror black mirror is offline
Banned
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Location: In the African bush studying the wildlife
Posts: 8,240
Quote:
Originally Posted by rlprlp View Post
I just came across this in a strange coincidence (my mother died of cancer 11 days ago). With no urging from me, I would like to invite all to take a look at this and let it explain for itself...

http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html

Thank you.
i am sorry for your loss.
a very interesting idea which i will explore thoroughly.
Take Care
BM
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old September 11th, 2006, 06:54 PM
rlprlp rlprlp is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Posts: 152
Sorry, degsy. I will. By the way, I understand that google even puts this on their new tool bar now.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old September 11th, 2006, 10:17 PM
Snurfen's Avatar
Snurfen Snurfen is offline
CTH Subscriber
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
O/S: Windows 7 32-bit
Location: south Wales
Posts: 8,338
Sorry to hear of your loss, rlprlp, our thoughts are with you.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old September 11th, 2006, 10:35 PM
bAdWaYz bAdWaYz is offline
CTH Subscriber
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
O/S: Linux
Location: A State of Zen
Age: 50
Posts: 4,561
Has anyone installed and run this program? What does it do, why kind of system changes if any are made?
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old September 11th, 2006, 11:08 PM
Rainbow32 Rainbow32 is offline
Banned
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,225
It's legit, here's a link to Stanford University about the Folding@home software. It's like that SETI program.
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
I was looking around Stanford's forums about the FAH program. Do not download this program from any other site, other than Stanford's, as there's versions of it bundled with trojan/malware.

Last edited by Rainbow32; September 11th, 2006 at 11:34 PM. Reason: Warning about downloading program from Stanford only.
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old September 12th, 2006, 12:13 AM
rlprlp rlprlp is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Posts: 152
Rude. (Me).
Inexcusably rude.
Forgive me, black mirror.
Thank you for your kind words.
To the rest of you: I am seeing your posts for the first time now. Thank you to each and every one of you for your thoughts and wishes. Special thanks to Rainbow32 for the extra information and warnings.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old September 12th, 2006, 12:23 AM
dammit's Avatar
dammit dammit is offline
Rampant Rabbit
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: New York/Paris/Milan/pie country
Age: 22
Posts: 11,532
Computing power put to good use is good!
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old September 12th, 2006, 01:12 PM
rlprlp rlprlp is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Posts: 152
I am runing it now. It seems to cause problems only when trying to play video games. No other problems that I have noticed. It's really easy to exit and then re-start when game time is over, so I'm continuing to run it. Even novices can easily remove it from the start-up folder if manual starting is preferred.
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old September 12th, 2006, 04:46 PM
oracle128's Avatar
oracle128 oracle128 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
O/S: Windows XP Pro
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 40
Posts: 9,401
Folding@Home is legit (it's a generic project offshoot of SETI@Home), but I prefer Boinc.
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old September 13th, 2006, 12:24 AM
Vercades Vercades is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,407
Meh, jewel.
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old September 13th, 2006, 06:46 AM
sepulverture sepulverture is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 123
Bravo on helping introduce new people to this program. My little brother was diagnosed with cancer when was just two years old, and has spent most of his life (he is 7 now) under close supervision, or hospitalized. Only in the last two years has he been allowed to play, or interact with other people without being bombarded with medications immediately afterwards. Hopefully with enough CPU power this project can put an end to some of these diseases. You have my kudos.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old September 13th, 2006, 05:33 PM
black mirror black mirror is offline
Banned
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
O/S: Windows XP Home
Location: In the African bush studying the wildlife
Posts: 8,240
Mr Bm has just returned from having skin cancer removed from the tip of his nose.. the plastic surgeon was really great and explained everything before hand. A lighter note they had trouble finding a piece of skin for his graft that wasnt hairy........
We will know in 6 months whether it has all been removed.. fingers crossed.
Mr Bm dad died from stomach cancer aged 50 and his mum from breast cancer when he was only 7...
Cancer research is a charity i gladly give to...... well worth while.
They say everyone knows someone who has had some form of cancer.. thats really scary
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old September 13th, 2006, 09:25 PM
Rainbow32 Rainbow32 is offline
Banned
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,225
We all have what's called pre-cancerous cells. It just takes the right carcinegen to have these cells turn into cancer cells. It's one of the curses of being human.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Topic Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Topics
Topic Topic Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Attention cth! rynprov The Anything Else Board 2 January 11th, 2009 05:32 PM
Attention please:: zipulrich Open Discussion 20 March 14th, 2008 10:07 PM
Kim's HJT log - needs some attention please :) Pyrastilia Malware Removal 10 August 28th, 2004 11:24 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:52 PM.