Do you want to put your system(s) to good use?

You are horribly lost. No, horribly is the understatement of the year. There just isn't a word that can describe how lost you are. But more pressing to the point, is what you've let yourself into.

Leave, quickly.

Yeah yeah. Fold into yourself.

Read the stickies you newbie troll.

I blame the current energy crisis completely on this folding nonsense. People just do not turn off their computers anymore. I am going to put Pike on your tail, if you don't go away now.

Try Distributed Computing, that's where everyone else posts about folding [/nice guy]

No, my computer is only used for evil and world domination.

Attention, folding@home screwball, attention, major life-changing data to be forwarded to your miniscule brain...

HOW IN GOD'S NAME (or mine, if you prefer) ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN AN ECO-FRIENDLY 'GREEN' ENVIRONMENT IF YOU SODDING POWER THIEVES ARE GOING TO RUN YOUR SODDING PC'S 24/7 TO CURE CANCER?

For God's sake, I'd only suggest running ANY of these '@home' clients (folding, SETI, prime, whatever) on network clusters belonging to large global corporations that have to be running 24/7 anyway - like banks. You will make a difference there.

My heavily overclocked home PC isn't on for more than 2 hours a day, if that. If I left it on 24/7 for Folding@Home, my power bill would go from being sane, manageable and practically fock-all to instant bankruptcy. It's a 600W PSU, you idiot! With a 230W secondary, AND it's running a 15W pump and 150W chiller. And according to the little meter attached to the plug, it pulls off 780W of the 995W total. This makes a HUGE difference on a monthly power bill. And how sad for me, but I don't live in my parents' basement, so my electricity is NOT for free.

Like the majority of people here (I hope) I am a working professional, so I have to work my arse off for a paycheque at the end of the month, and I'd like to spend that paycheque on things I WANT to spend it on - not on trying to find a cure for cancer that most of the major pharmaceutical companies are going to SQUASH the moment it becomes available anyway. And I definitely do NOT want to spend money on a power service provider that provides power surges/dips/spikes/noise/blackouts/incompetence.

Furthermore, a LOT of power is generated by coal/oil-fired power plants, which have this nasty habit of dumping CARCINOGENS (cancer-forming agents) into the atmosphere. Does anyone else see the irony in this?

RUNNING YOUR PC 24/7 ENLARGES YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT, YOU FLOON!

I put my PC to use for a good cause - entertainment or accumulation of personal wealth, depending on whether I'm at home or at work.

And yes, I am perfectly aware that I am a selfish bastard, and I am proud of being a selfish bastard, because I know damn well what happens to people who aren't selfish bastards. They get taken advantage of.

Now, someone please kill this polluting energy waster. I'm done with this.

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Mugz, hopefully one day you will find something in life to make you happy. You need a friend. Change your attitude and you will get one soon.

Your wasting precious energy sitting here on this website typing a response that is neither saving power or making you wealthy. If trimming your power bill is so important then dont reply with foolish responses like that and turn your pc off.

If theres a known admin around, plz move this thread to the proper location before more knuckleheads have a heart attack.

To the other more reasonable ones posting here, sorry for the stupid response I had to give just now.

I know what would make us all happy, let alone Mugz, is you fcuking off you folding tosspot.

Dear englandr753

Your avatar offends my sense of good taste. In fact, you offend my sense of good taste.

Also, I did not forget the [/rant] tag, you floon.

As for my "needing a friend"... what's wrong with the ones I've got? Most of 'em are good people, know how to have a good time, are honest, decent, civilised, polite, and intelligent. Some of 'em even have degrees, like me. ALL of them have tertiary education to some extent at least. Which means that ALL of them have been to university, college, or similar. Sorry, I guess you don't qualify to be my friend.

Oh, and in case you are not prepared to get to know your audience before commenting based on your perception of them and their habits, I work from about 9 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, in a heavy industrial environment, as an industrial engineer (M.Eng (Ind)). In fact, my door has a nice plaque on it that reads 'Industrial Process Automation Engineer'. If you'd take the time to read back through my posts and their times since I first joined this forum in 2006, you'd notice that I always post between those two times. From work. And since 90% of my time here is programming PLCs, designing processes (not 'processors'), and several other things, I have five minutes here and ten minutes there (and 45 minutes right this minute) to wander around online talking to yet more people.

This is why I don't need fluff like the crap you posted. There are THREE stickies at the top of this forum section: one of them you can probably skip, and two of them you HAVE to read BEFORE you can post ANYTHING in this section - not because we're draconian freaks with a rules obsession, but because this section is dedicated to anything and everything EXCEPT computers/information and communication technology/electronics - and we insist that every newcomer (n00b) that enters this section read the stickies so that we DON'T have to repeat ourselves to EVERY IDIOT that thinks that our lives will be positively impacted by (for example) having our PCs waste power while we're not sitting behind (i.e. using) them by folding proteins.

In fact, one of my coworkers here is a folding@home freak, and one of the server clusters here has a F@Home client running on it. Which is okay, since the thing also does DNS, DHCP, active directory, file serving and exchange serving. So it's running permanently anyway, folding or no folding.

If I am sitting behind my PC, I am using it. It makes no odds whether I am surfing the web, watching anime, killing things in Unreal Tournament, designing a concrete brick compactor plant with a conveyor belt input and stacker output, or even listening to music - I am using it. I am physically in the computer's proximity. The power it is consuming to perform its tasks is not being wasted.

There are NO tasks my PC cannot perform while I am NOT present - the days of the 80386 are looong gone, so I can now defrag a hard drive in 10 minutes while working in openoffice, rather than leaving the machine running overnight.

As for the time issue, I'm right now waiting for an instruction set and a wodge of C code to compile and write to a set of EEPROM chips, which normally takes about 45 minutes with this equipment, so I've got 45 minutes to kill at work. Delightful. DO YOU WANT ME TO SIT HERE AND STARE AT THE WALL WHILE I AM WAITING? Oh, you do? Sorry, not gonna oblige.

Exit this thread. Read the stickies. Don't even bother coming back to apologise. You'll be a better person for it. Oh, and please, do yourself and everyone else you'll ever meet this one favour - familiarise yourself with the rules of a place before you start making your presence known there. It'll cut out a lot of embarrassment, pain, and unpleasantness.

Or you can carry on as you have up to now, in which case arseholes like myself are regularly going to come along and tell you exactly how much of a useless genetic reject you are.

Hope this helps

Disregards
Mugz (resident caffeine addict)

Top quality rant. Well done, that deity.

I would not dare moving this thing anywhere else

and yet you post.

"When your one weapon is words, you must shoot with precision." [/+5 Lyrics]

- Tom should be able to get that one.

+12 Pedantry for Jef. I also note that the Llama should also get a +1 there for an earlier post.

As for the idiot:

Englandr753. The first thing ANYONE does when venturing onto a new forum is to read existing threads/posts FIRST, before posting anything, to discover what kind of people you're dealing with. If there are ANY stickied threads there is generally a wealth of IMPORTANT information therein, up to and including the Terms&Conditions, rules, requirements, et cetera. This simple rule ALSO APPLIES to whenever you venture into a different section of the forum that you haven't been into before, since it's quite common for some people to only post in a certain section(s). Exempli gratia: I've only been seen in Hardware, Other, Case Mods/Power Supplies, 3D Chips, and Cooler/Heatsinks. Yet there are LOTS of other sections as well, and BEFORE I'd post in ANY of them, I'd familiarise myself with what is going on.

My first post in this section (the notorious Other) was completely divorced from technology, in fact it was a termination of contract letter from God to Satan, and I got torn to shreds.

I did not complain. Instead, I rolled with it, gave back as good as I got, and am now an accepted entity here. You are not going to find acceptance here, not now that you've reacted so childishly to the standard initiation process.

All I can say is, is if some member of your family manages to perform the right 'favours' for some dean of admissions at some college somewhere, don't consider joining a fraternity - you'll balk at the initiation.

And if you ARE a member of a frat, or were at one point, then why are you complaining at the kind of treatment we dish out to newbies here?!?

And if you didn't want a flame war to begin with, why did you post again - and again - and again?

Is it that twat Eminem?

My system is used well, for my search for the perfect set of breasts.

I'd donate CPU cycles to that cause!

I've modified face recognition software and employed Google Earth to search the planet for the perfect set of tits.

What shall we search for next? Perfect pint? Perfect bar? Perfect ball park? *cough*WrigleyField*cough*

Stella.

I like Miller Genuine Draught. It's one that I can abuse all night long. Stella, just as nice, but it does the same as what Amstel does to me - I get bloated fairly quickly. Dunno if they both are fermented in the same way. i usually go and buy 24 beers, 12 of which are Miller or Castle and the other 12 a mixture of whatever Costa the greek could get his hands on import wise. Erdinger I also like.

Locally, I'm on Castle. That stuff I devour quicker than a work sponsored buffet.

Jeez, I sound like an alcoholic. But I love beer. Boobs beat it, but only just.

I drink to make everyone around me interesting.

turkey breath

Mugz your 3rd post is just f*cking genius man.

love it.

oh if you go off what i had last night to celebrate my flatmate getting a 1st,

3 pints, Carling
4 sex on the beach
3 glasses of Razzputin (some sort of cocktail with a pint of vodka in it(its a jug)
2 flavoured shots
3 double vodka's and coke

i had to drink 6 bottles of water before work this morning, just to beat myself into shape.

i had some "sex on the beach" last night...very unusual for me.