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#1 2002-12-11 8:06 am

DerekCarrillo
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How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

I'd like to know how we all got here (folding), so please take a moment and compleate the poll.


Folding@home, for team MacAddict4Life!

http://folding.stanford.edu

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#2 2002-12-11 8:41 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Heard about it in the Seti Forum.....

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#3 2002-12-11 9:33 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Hi Tony,

I could not wait to try out a poll any more.
Forum polls are cool.


Folding@home, for team MacAddict4Life!

http://folding.stanford.edu

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#4 2002-12-11 10:22 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Yeah it's nice that we have a "better" forum system now, that UBB was a pile  wink

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#5 2002-12-11 8:20 pm

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

I was a member of the MacAddict Seti team until I heard that there was a Mac client for folding@home.  Been folding ever since. big_smile

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#6 2002-12-11 11:10 pm

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

I had been going to these forums for a while, and kept hearing about these things called "folding" and S.E.T.I.. I had no clue what they were.

Folding@Home was mentioned on the MA frontpage. I followed the link to the team website and clicked on "About Folding@Home" which had an explanation about what Folding@Home is.


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#7 2002-12-11 11:11 pm

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

When recruiting new members, I always said the same basic thing. Writing it down repeatedly got old real fast. I thought, "Why not make a thread of it on  the MAF?" The idea was for team members to bump it every day so that people could follow a link to it and find out what Folding@Home is.

TonyPrevite didn't like the thread's name,  so he deleted the thread, and reposted it under his username as "The Benefits of Folding!" as it is now called. I made a promotional flyer for members to print out and distribute.

Jkahless got the idea to use stats (as opposed to uninformative bumps) to keep the thread linked to on the main page.

When the new forums were made public, I started the thread on them.


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#8 2002-12-12 10:28 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

I was a member of the MacAddict Seti team until I heard that there was a Mac client for folding@home.  Been folding ever since. big_smile

Ditto. I still have a few really old slow clients running SETI for me.


http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=37269

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#9 2002-12-12 10:29 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Jkahless got the idea to use stats (as opposed to uninformative bumps) to keep the thread linked to on the main page.

And now you can just make a sticky message without having to worry about basic bumping or stats bumping.


http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=37269

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#10 2002-12-12 4:32 pm

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Jkahless got the idea to use stats (as opposed to uninformative bumps) to keep the thread linked to on the main page.

Now you can just make a sticky message without having to worry about basic bumping or stats bumping.

How do I make a sticky message?


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#11 2002-12-13 10:36 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Looks like Tony needs to enable Sticky permissions for REG on our forum. Or Tony needs to create it himself.


http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=37269

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#12 2002-12-14 8:45 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Ah....yes I can do that....good idea big_smile

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#13 2002-12-15 8:34 am

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Just a test to see if my avatar works on this forum...


I hear and I forget. I <BR>see and I remember. I <BR>do and I understand. - <BR>Confucius

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#14 2002-12-15 4:18 pm

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Re: How did you hear of Team Macaddict4Life

Just a test to see if my avatar works on this forum...

I guess not...Mine works though  big_smile

Anyone wlse love the Simpsons...too bad you can't watch it skeeball

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