It saddens me that there is no Metafilter Folding@Home team.

December 11, 2005 6:53 AM

It saddens me that there is no Metafilter Folding@Home team.
posted by knave to MetaFilter-Related at 6:53 AM (26 comments total)

It's a good cause, and having a team representing our site would probably inspire a little camaraderie and competition amongst ourselves. What do you think?
posted by knave at 6:53 AM on December 11, 2005

I think I'm not going to participate but who really cares what I think? Why don't you just start one instead of asking about it, and the people who are interested will do it.
posted by grouse at 6:54 AM on December 11, 2005

Make one and I'll join it. Screw those fark losers.
posted by ph00dz at 6:55 AM on December 11, 2005

Ok then.
posted by knave at 6:55 AM on December 11, 2005

Team number: 48034

Put that into your client to join our team. :)
posted by knave at 6:58 AM on December 11, 2005

I think this means I'll lose my current position, but oh well.
posted by knave at 7:04 AM on December 11, 2005

Meh. Do it for the Greater Good, rather than "inspire a little camaraderie and competition amongst ourselves". It's disheartening to see noble causes like distributed bioinformatics reduced to dick-waving contests. While I realise a lot of that behavior is tongue-in-cheek on other sites, there is a definate level of one-upmanship in terms of how many clock cycles were offered to a project. The world deserves better, and I say that cynically. ; )
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:15 AM on December 11, 2005

The very first thing I said is "it's a good cause". But look at it however you like, even if it's a "dick-waving" contest, it's accomplishing something good.
posted by knave at 7:24 AM on December 11, 2005

Since when is dick-waving a bad thing?
posted by Eideteker at 7:58 AM on December 11, 2005

Sorry, most of us are already signed up for Metafilter's DickWaving@Home team.
posted by TimeFactor at 9:00 AM on December 11, 2005

I just downloaded and joined the team! Go me!
Actually, posting because I'd prefer to use the console version, but can't figure out how to minimize is to the tray instead of keeping it on my open-windows group.
posted by jmd82 at 9:24 AM on December 11, 2005

noble causes like distributed bioinformatics

I do bioinformatics for a living, and that made me laugh. I can't wait to show it to the guys in the lab.
posted by grouse at 9:31 AM on December 11, 2005

Since when is dick-waving a bad thing?

it seems to be frowned on at the neighborhood elementary school.
posted by quonsar at 10:02 AM on December 11, 2005

how about the AIDS one? Fight AIDS at home
posted by amberglow at 10:07 AM on December 11, 2005

Taking AZT ain't much fun
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won

I needed money cause I had None
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won

Just one bad trick and then you're done
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won
I fought the AIDS and the AIDS won

(with apologies to Bobby Fuller)
posted by atrazine at 11:08 AM on December 11, 2005 [1 favorite]

Smart Dalek: "The world deserves better, and I say that cynically. ; )"

So getting gang members to work every day at soup kitchens because their rival gang is working there three times a week is a bad thing? Whatever happened to "The ends justify the justification"?
posted by Plutor at 12:39 PM on December 11, 2005

wow, this thing just wails on my CPU. 99% usage constantly. sending my fans into a frenzy. i'm not sure i like this...
posted by quonsar at 2:16 PM on December 11, 2005

well, apparently the CPU usage on linux is an issue of some contention. i was able to download fahlimit and am happily folding away without frying my CPU.
posted by quonsar at 3:23 PM on December 11, 2005

It saddens me

What's this about inspiring cameraderie? This post could sure go a lot further if that's the intent. How about creating a team, posting the instructions on how to join, telling people why it's a good cause, throwing in a little pep talk, and tracking new signups here for the next couple days? If yer gonna lead the charge, lead the charge.
posted by scarabic at 4:24 PM on December 11, 2005

oh, none of them work on a mac? that sucks.
posted by amberglow at 4:48 PM on December 11, 2005

I'm doing climateprediction.net instead.
posted by matildaben at 5:15 PM on December 11, 2005

i count 3 different clients for Mac OS X.
posted by quonsar at 6:22 PM on December 11, 2005

but when i try to join the grid, their page just takes me to the pc download page.
posted by amberglow at 6:58 PM on December 11, 2005

ok, i think i'm on that team #48034. (i'd rather do the aids one tho)
posted by amberglow at 7:24 PM on December 11, 2005

I did F@H for a while with FreeDC, but kinda thought that leaving a hundred lab machines crunching all night was kind of a waste of electricity for what you get. They just get shut off now each night for 8 hours. Does anyone else feel it's wastefull?
posted by parallax7d at 8:58 PM on December 11, 2005

I'm doing climateprediction.net instead.

Excellent.
posted by gramschmidt at 10:53 PM on December 11, 2005