Weasel Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Well, since people don't like "loook at my 5 gazillion posts!" threads, I would just like to mention that I have finally obtained First Place on the neowin cancer research team!! :D Seriously, right now the team consists of 139 members (ranked 123 compared to all teams), but has only returned 10,234 results (ranked 819 compared to all teams). Basically this means that our team is generally lazy, doing only 15% the ammount of work as other teams! :( I first started crunching work units three months ago, with two mid-range PCs (~900 MHz). Two months later I added two 200 MHz clunkers that I built out of closet parts two months later. The end result was that I am now in first place, which means that it doesn't take very much to go far in the way of rankings. I recommend that everyone download the utility and help support neowin and cancer research. Once you download the program go here and click "Join This Team" to become part of the neowin.net team. The program will run in your systray and will have a priority of Low. This means that when your computer is sitting idle the UD agent will take 100% of CPU resources, but if your fragging in Quake III, the agent will just about stop to give higher priorities the resources. I have never stopped running the agent and have never noticed a slowdown even when playing demanding 3D games on an 800 Mhz Dell. You can also run the agent in screen saver mode only, however I do not recommend this as it slows processing down by a factor of 10, because the screen saver drawing is utilizing all computer resources. If you have any questions about the program you can post them here and I'll be more than happy to answer. :) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 Bah, the stats just decided to go down, should be back up soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Dont worry weasel, we know your trying :) Good job on #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StimpyX Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Almost passed this one by as an April Fools' post :D -- Anyway, good work Weasel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 1, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 1, 2002 I'd run it if it weren't for heating issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 1, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 1, 2002 dutifully joined! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by timdorr I'd run it if it weren't for heating issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab1225 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 im already on there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewelzz Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Didn't know about but I'll be joining once I get home :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deryck Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I have just joined the team now and I hope I can contribute greatly to the team. I am not familier with the software but I have heard about it from it's beginnings. I am also known as (my real name) "Simon Pang". However, I was tempted to download the program for Alzheimer's disease though. You are actualy right, even though I look at task manager and see that this program is taking 100% of my CPU usage, I can not see any downgrade on performance. Just a wired question, can the program work if the computer is on "Stand-By"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab1225 Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 doubt it will work in standby, the reason you do not see any performace or negligible differences is because it is set on LOW Priority, so it uses up what is not being used :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab1225 Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Hey nice job being number 1! It is real fast i got to 19% in 15 minutes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 Good job Weasel. :) I would join, but I've been on another team for while now. But hey, its all for a good cause. For those that are worried about their CPU, you can set it to run as a screensaver only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildliquid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 i downloaded it and didnt use it but no if weasel feels so strongly about it i will use it again good work weasel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geronimo Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 D/L yesterday and running it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Thanks! :) Looks like we have 8 new members since yesterday :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 well- thats great... we all know its actually anthrax research now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 Ahh...cool, now that i have a better PC i'll begin this thing. Also people! don't forget to sign up for SETI@home :) We still don't have a team for SETI@Home, we could create one if people want one. Give you suggestions :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotrod Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I've been a member of the team for a while but haven't been running the app. but now that i have a PIII 800, PIII 866, and a PIV 1.8Ghz at my disposal, I think I'll play catch up :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted April 2, 2002 Administrators Share Posted April 2, 2002 Yeah me too, I just installed it again on one computer maybe I'll install it on some more :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 you seem to have dismally few posts now... :-0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Originally posted by Mr magoo well- thats great... we all know its actually anthrax research now... Anthrax research ended a month ago or more, now it's back to cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotrod Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Originally posted by timdorr I'd run it if it weren't for heating issues... must be running an AMD :evil: :dead: it's hard to imagine the guy in the lead has this app installed on over 1000 pc's. you would think that this would be me since I work at one of the biggest cancer research centers in the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deryck Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 I am glad that I am running this application now, now I can convince that people who question me on what I am doing :D. I have read about this application in new Scients a while ago however, I never downloaded until 2/3 nights ago. Bah! I have been running this application for a whole 2 days now (never turned off my PC in three days!) but I see some have now have more points then me and of only running it nearly the same time as me (no I am not jealous,by far, just currious). I have only one machine but what am I doing wrong? At least I am doing this for the good of humankind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted April 4, 2002 Administrators Share Posted April 4, 2002 Hi, I had forgot about this one, i've been running seti@home, but now im running both :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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