Page 1 of Time to think about cancer again...

It`s fair to say that most of our Forum regulars will have their lives touched by cancer in some way - often to disasterous effect.

DVD Reviewer supports the United Devices Distributed Computing Cancer Research project. If you don`t know about this project, you can help AT NO COST. Please have a look at my column, or the site FAQ for more information.

I just wanted to raise the issue again, because I`m sure we have lots of new regular readers who might not have heard about the project before, and even lots of people who used to contribute, but perhaps have bought new PCs, or reinstalled their systems, and not reinstalled the UD client. I also wanted to thank some of our particularly prolific team members, and point out that we are beating the DVD Forum`s Thinkers team !!

Big props go out to our most number-cruching members - ALL HAIL THE TOP TEN TEAM MEMBERS!!! :

rudgej
Sean McKeown
Paul Hodgson
J Eric Cooper
reeder
John Willis
fightthefuture
Daniel Bates
sgninnej.ttam[at]ku.ca.xo.cjs
Robert John Shepherd

It has to be said in particular that Rudgej, Sean and Paul have especially large totals - leading the rest of the pack by a minimum of 3 YEARS computing time !!

Despite the Reviewer Team having less than HALF the members of the Forum`s `Thinkers`, we generated more points and returned more results. It just goes to show that quality, not quantity, is most important :) :D

The stats are:

Reviewer v Forums

Current members: 67 / 147
Computing time: 73:266:20:17:44 / 68:009:23:21:35
Points generated: 7,779,378 / 7,352,533
Results generated: 62,552 / 56,163

YEAH BABY - Stick it to the Forums ! Keep crunching that data, and let`s see that lead extend and really contribute to the cause. Who knows, maybe one day we`ll really see a world which considers cancer to be a 100% curable, or even preventable, ailment.

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DanB
DVD Reviewer

This item was edited on Wednesday, 19th November 2003, 17:01

Realised I hadn`t got this on my new PC. So it`s now installed again and I`ve joined the team. I`ll be in the top 10 soon, you watch - my PC is on 24/7 so I`ll be king of points! :D

By the way, how many people are there on this forum in total Dan?

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"The Internet is a communication device that allows people the world over to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another."

On mine as well now. As you may know, I am particularly affected by this bastard of a disease. :-(

A word of warning - make sure you do change the settings to cancer, as it seems to default to smallpox. :/

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Thanks for the reminder Dan - just checked, and I`m set to smallpox not - grrr. Can`t work out where to change it back to Cancer - Rik - can you point me in the right direction? [EDIT - found it...]


Just realised I have another PC that`s on 24/7 I can run this on - sadly it`s a P133, but better than nothing...

This item was edited on Thursday, 20th November 2003, 10:13

I am downloading the program now, but I may have to uninstall it later because our computer isn`t that good. I hope it`s OK because my Dad died of cancer, and the aniversary of his death is coming up in a few weeks time.

Mine is set to smallpox, how do I change it to cancer?

Here`s a simple guide:

- Open your UD application from the taskbar;

- Click on the `Tick` option (third from right);

- Select `Modify Device Profile`;

- Enter your login details;

- Select `Profiles`;

- If you have more than one profile, chose the one you want to check/change;

- On the My "Device Manager: Device Profile" screen, at the bottom, there are tickboxes for "United Devices Cancer Research Project, Phase II" and ""PatriotGrid running the Smallpox Research Grid Project". You can select which ones you want your UD cycles to work on.

There - crunch only the data you want to crunch, and let`s keep fighting !

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DanB
DVD Reviewer

Also, worth mentioning that it doesn`t really matter if your PC is not that powerful - every little counts !! (You`ll also score okay for hours spent crunching data, even if you don`t return that many results !!)

I have salvaged an old PIII-400 simply as a dumb terminal crunching station which sits in the corner of my office. It doesn`t even have a keyboard, mouse or monitor attached - I simply VNC in to check it`s still running from time to time :) It tends to return a result about once every 24-28 hours... Slightly longer than the 4-5 hours my main PC takes !!

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DanB
DVD Reviewer

This item was edited on Thursday, 20th November 2003, 12:33

I looked at this a while ago. I know my cousin has his computer working away. A couple things...
Does it slow down the pc at all...
and will it work on someone on aol... :/

No, it won`t slow it down. If you are on XP, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and look at the Performance tab. Now, when you are browsing this forum, probably 5-10% of your processor is being used - which means about 90-95% is left idle. All the program does is to use that idle slice of your processor`s pie...without affecting performance. However, when you do something that is stressful on your CPU (watching a DVD, editing multimedia et al), I advise you disable it.

I am on AOL, and it works fine. The only time it needs an Internet connection is when it has finished all of the tests and wants to (quickly) send the results to UD`s main server.

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