F@H Spotlight #77

LandShark · 12-02-07, 12:23 PM

This is the 77th in the series of T32 Spotlights!!

NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

This time, I'm honored to present you one of our newest Powah Folder......

Now please give a warm welcome to..........................

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Flexy
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Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you.

When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date.
ExtremeOC says my first WU was 1/1/04 which sounds like a good day.

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?
I flew on a B-24 (I think one of the last if not the last flying) about a month ago and found it to be one of the most awesome and scary as hell experiences. If ya get a chance to...do it!

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?
EOC

You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice)
Fayetteville, GA

How did you initially hear about F@H?
Couple buddies of mine back in high school had mentioned about it (though they were folding for [H])

So it was a running contest to see who could pump out the most points between us.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
My aunt battled cancer for a good while (she passed away in 2005) and my grandmother has Alzheimer's so it's for them and everyone else's family who has had to go through such events in their life and to hopefully prevent or if anything help contribute in the ways that I can.

What do you do for a living?
Field Support Technician (I fix desktops, laptops and such) for a local school system

What do you do for fun?
Play with my kids and on the weekends have some beers and socialize.

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
Taking my kids to the playground

Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for?
Main rig is an AMD64 3200+ 2.5GHz(10x250), 1Gig OCZ Platinum Rev. 2, MSI K8N Neo2, BFG 6800GT OC

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)
At the moment around 200 and hopefully expanding that to 1000 or so (I hope). Most are 2.8/3Ghz P4 w/1gig memory and now adding in the new rigs which are E6300 w/1gig of memory as well.

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
Right now I want to finish my BA in History in the spring and from there we'll see where it goes. Accomplishments would be raising my kids and being able to take them to all the cool places in the world that I've had the chance to visit.

If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are?
I just want to thank everyone for the great community we have here and if anyone has a way of bringing SWG back I'll set some boxes up under your name and praise you forever. God I miss those days. Oh and Stanley Kubrick is the best director ever. Period. Thanks for the interview...didn't expect to get one but I'm flattered to have one.

harlam357 · 12-02-07, 01:07 PM

Great to meet our newest Powah Folder!

So what is SWG anyway? I'm always looking for some extra ppd.

Mark620 · 12-02-07, 02:52 PM

Wave as you fly by....

cuda340 · 12-02-07, 03:35 PM

Good to meet you

golfingtigger · 12-02-07, 08:33 PM

Great to meet you Flexy. I don't post often, but I am always putting numbers up for Team 32! I see that you bumped up your contribution SUBSTANTIALLY recently, must be those 6300's you were talking about. Good work. And I gotta concur with you, this is a GREAT community.

Side note: I gotta update my sig. I got a new PSU, new memory, and finally got my Q6600... Yeesh

traldan · 12-02-07, 08:57 PM

Woot, nice to meet ya Flexy.

NedClocker · 12-02-07, 09:07 PM

Hi, Flexy.

What is SWG? I can't bring it back if I don't know what it is.

AlabamaCajun · 12-02-07, 10:50 PM

Good to meet ya. Have one on me

and

for the kids!
Holy snapping arsoles look at that PPD

Flexy · 12-02-07, 11:00 PM

SWG...Star Wars Galaxies - probably one of the greatest experiments of MMORPGs that fell short when SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) had some misdirection in terms of expanding on it(Jedi and holocrons) and basically watched it die in front of them as they tried to salvage it with revamps and overhauls (aka CU and NGE).

However, there is a light in the darkness. SWGEmu was created to bring back what was there before it all went to hell. A group of programmers and such came together to create the server side from scratch in order to play nice with the client that everyone already had. Lineage II and WoW have similar such emulated servers. So hopefully one day the SWG community will be back and get to have the good times that were in a galaxy far, far away.

Anyways, thanks again for all the help and support along the way and getting to know everyone and being part of the best F@H team around. Oh and I apologize to LandShark for the delay on sending this in since he sent me the PM back in like September with the questions

ihrsetrdr · 12-03-07, 12:06 AM

Awesome folding Flexy, glad to meet you!

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Originally Posted by AlabamaCajun

Holy snapping arsoles look at that PPD

Yea, I had one of those when his ppd zoomed right past mine!

jonspd · 12-03-07, 12:15 AM

Nice to have meet you and find out more about one of our members

dfonda · 12-04-07, 05:11 PM

Great to find out more about one of our Powah folding members.....kids and family first.

benbaked · 12-04-07, 05:46 PM

Hi Flexy, nice to meet you and glad to fold with you and the rest of the fine Team 32 folks.

Nice PPD!

but one thing I just noticed, when did ChasR hit 74k PPD?

zim? is that you?

12-02-07, 12:23 PM	#1
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	F@H Spotlight #77 This is the 77th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD. This time, I'm honored to present you one of our newest Powah Folder...... Now please give a warm welcome to.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flexy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you. When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date. ExtremeOC says my first WU was 1/1/04 which sounds like a good day. If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? I flew on a B-24 (I think one of the last if not the last flying) about a month ago and found it to be one of the most awesome and scary as hell experiences. If ya get a chance to...do it! What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? EOC You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice) Fayetteville, GA How did you initially hear about F@H? Couple buddies of mine back in high school had mentioned about it (though they were folding for [H]) So it was a running contest to see who could pump out the most points between us. After starting, why do you continue to Fold? My aunt battled cancer for a good while (she passed away in 2005) and my grandmother has Alzheimer's so it's for them and everyone else's family who has had to go through such events in their life and to hopefully prevent or if anything help contribute in the ways that I can. What do you do for a living? Field Support Technician (I fix desktops, laptops and such) for a local school system What do you do for fun? Play with my kids and on the weekends have some beers and socialize. Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? Taking my kids to the playground Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for? Main rig is an AMD64 3200+ 2.5GHz(10x250), 1Gig OCZ Platinum Rev. 2, MSI K8N Neo2, BFG 6800GT OC Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) At the moment around 200 and hopefully expanding that to 1000 or so (I hope). Most are 2.8/3Ghz P4 w/1gig memory and now adding in the new rigs which are E6300 w/1gig of memory as well. What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? Right now I want to finish my BA in History in the spring and from there we'll see where it goes. Accomplishments would be raising my kids and being able to take them to all the cool places in the world that I've had the chance to visit. If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are? I just want to thank everyone for the great community we have here and if anyone has a way of bringing SWG back I'll set some boxes up under your name and praise you forever. God I miss those days. Oh and Stanley Kubrick is the best director ever. Period. Thanks for the interview...didn't expect to get one but I'm flattered to have one. __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! How many GHz of Intel + Nvidia folding power? Dunno! Lost count! \| F@H Vista Sidebar gadget \| F@H Yahoo Widget \| F@H iGoogle gadget \| \| My Heatware \| My New HTPC 3.0: Server/Client setup + Better energy efficiency \|

12-02-07, 01:07 PM	#2
harlam357 Senior Fold-a-holic Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: @Home... Folding@Home	Great to meet our newest Powah Folder! So what is SWG anyway? I'm always looking for some extra ppd. __________________ Q9550(C1)@(450x8) 3.6GHz 1.28v \| Gigabyte EP45-UD3P v1.0 F8 bios \| 2x2gb G.Skill@DDR900 5-5-5-15 2T 2.05v \| EVGA GTX275 \| Antec P180 - Corsair 650TX \| WD740GD - WD3200AAKS \| Samsung 2433BW FOLD32: 2xGTX285@1548MHz, GTX275@1566MHz, 2xGTX260-216@1458MHz, Yorkfield Q9550@3.6GHz, 3xKentsfield Q6600@3.4~3.0GHz, Wolfdale E8400@3.0GHz HFM.NET - Client Monitoring Application for Folding@Home \| I'm a Team 32 Folding Mentor - Ask me about Folding \| Team 32 Folding@Home Intro \| Team 32 F@H FAQ \| Folding/Gaming Room Project \| H's HTPC Build \| Heat (39-0-0)

12-02-07, 02:52 PM	#3
Mark620 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spencer Mountain, TN	Wave as you fly by.... __________________ Fold for Team32 On May 20th, 2008, the names of >31,000 scientists (>9,000 are Phds), who refute man made CO2 is causing global warming, was released. Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth.

12-02-07, 08:33 PM	#5
golfingtigger Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Hampton Roads, VA	Great to meet you Flexy. I don't post often, but I am always putting numbers up for Team 32! I see that you bumped up your contribution SUBSTANTIALLY recently, must be those 6300's you were talking about. Good work. And I gotta concur with you, this is a GREAT community. Side note: I gotta update my sig. I got a new PSU, new memory, and finally got my Q6600... Yeesh __________________ Fold for Team 32!:clap: About me Diablotek LED Case Antec TruePower 1000W PSU ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Wifi/AP Motherboard 2 x 1024 OCZ Dual Channel PC6400 DDR2 800MHz 2 x 1024 Crucial Ballistix Dual Channel PC6400 DDR2 800MHz 2 x HIS Radeon X1950 Pro IceQ3 Turbo Crossfire 2 x Western Digital 80GB Hard Drives (WD800BB)RAID 1 RAID 1 Intel Q6600 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF

12-02-07, 08:57 PM	#6
traldan Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Folding in Maryland!!	Woot, nice to meet ya Flexy. __________________ .:Bliss:. .:Q6600 G0 3.0Ghz - Ultra 120 Extreme/Ultrakaze 120mm (130CFM!) - possibly dead? .:Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R - RMA'd, refurb now .:4GB (2x2) G.Skill DDR2-1000 .:Sapphire X1900XT .:Sparkle FSP550PLG-SLI .:160GB Hitachi Deskstar, 500GB Maxtor .:Hyundai L90D+ Folding 24/7 for TEAM 32 Q6600 SMP (above), Q6600 SMP (questionable uptime), Pentium 4 531

12-02-07, 03:35 PM	#4
cuda340 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	Good to meet you

12-02-07, 09:07 PM	#7
NedClocker Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Sep 2001	Hi, Flexy. What is SWG? I can't bring it back if I don't know what it is. __________________ Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returneth, Was not spoken of the soul. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still archieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12-02-07, 10:50 PM	#8
AlabamaCajun Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Selling of all Intel HW.	Good to meet ya. Have one on me and for the kids! Holy snapping arsoles look at that PPD __________________ Main Rigs Developement -Phen2-940 AM2, DFI790FX-M2R,Corsair-PC6400 CL4 HD3870,3750XF CDs, Labels, Printing etc- 5000BBE, GA790FX, Wintec 800 4G.HD2600XT Rendering Server- 4x Barcelona 8347s. Tyan S4980 Quad, 16G (2G Kingston per socket). Folding, Testing- Ubuntu and WIN7 - 5600X2 Windsor, Agena 9600, Brisy 5000BBE INTEL "All your x86 are belong to us"

12-02-07, 11:00 PM	#9
Flexy Member Join Date: Feb 2003	SWG...Star Wars Galaxies - probably one of the greatest experiments of MMORPGs that fell short when SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) had some misdirection in terms of expanding on it(Jedi and holocrons) and basically watched it die in front of them as they tried to salvage it with revamps and overhauls (aka CU and NGE). However, there is a light in the darkness. SWGEmu was created to bring back what was there before it all went to hell. A group of programmers and such came together to create the server side from scratch in order to play nice with the client that everyone already had. Lineage II and WoW have similar such emulated servers. So hopefully one day the SWG community will be back and get to have the good times that were in a galaxy far, far away. Anyways, thanks again for all the help and support along the way and getting to know everyone and being part of the best F@H team around. Oh and I apologize to LandShark for the delay on sending this in since he sent me the PM back in like September with the questions

12-03-07, 12:15 AM	#11
jonspd D11 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: F@H in Atlanta, Ga	Nice to have meet you and find out more about one of our members __________________ K9A2\PII945@1.5-------------------------------------------UD3P\q9450@1.3v 18.5x200\2.2=NB\1.8k=HT------------------------------460x8\True@40c\58c 2x1gb@800@4-4-4-15--------------------------------2x2gbpi@460-5-5-5-15 2405fpw\2xEvgaGtx260sc--------------------------------2005fpw\2x9800gx2 CorsairHX1000\74gbRaptor----------------------------FSP1010\150gbRaptor CreativeX-Fi-Plat\DvD-rw\Win-7---------------------------------DvD-rw\Win-7 3dMark06=17,650-3dMark05=23,908-Aquamark=216k-Wprime32=10sc-Sandra=11kmbs My Heat---------------------------Folding@Home@Team32-----------------------My WebSite

12-04-07, 05:11 PM	#12
dfonda Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Folding for Team 32 in the Keystone State	Great to find out more about one of our Powah folding members.....kids and family first. __________________ #1WinXPGPUFolding eVGA 260GTXAsus P5bDBios1226RoseQ6600 #2WinXP GPU2Folding8800GT'sRoseE6600 #3Win7RC64GPU2FoldingRoseE66009800GX2 & 9800GTX+ Evga780i Folding for Hrstrder's wife and Pete_Scout

12-04-07, 05:46 PM	#13
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington State	Hi Flexy, nice to meet you and glad to fold with you and the rest of the fine Team 32 folks. Nice PPD! but one thing I just noticed, when did ChasR hit 74k PPD? zim? is that you? __________________ Maximus Formula SE \| QX6700 \| 4 GB ECC DDR2-800 \| Dual HD4850 in CFX \| TX750 GA-EP35-DS3R \| QX6700 \| 4 GB DDR2-800 \| 8800GT \| FX700-GLN GA-965GM-S2 \| E6600 \| 1.5 GB DDR2-533 \| 9800GT-U \| AX500-A msi CR600 \| T4300 \| 4 GB DDR2 \| 8200M G \| 320 GB HDD PowerBook G4 12" 1 GHz \| 1.25 GB DDR \| 160 GB HDD HEATWARE \| my quads \| OCF's first Folding/SETI/Rosetta triple millionaire (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) do you BOINC?