F@H Spotlight #4

TollhouseFrank · 12-17-05, 02:22 AM

This is the 4th in the series of T32 Spotlights! I'll continue to interview members when given a chance. The interviews will appear in a spotlight every now and then as long as the nominations keep coming in! For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

Well, it's time for something completely different. When it comes to questions asked, support given, and bein' an all around good guy to have around, there ain't many out there better than him. I want you all to give a good hearty T32 Welcome to.....

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TIS

First off, to get it out of the way, I wanna thank ya for letting me interview you.

No problem - this is kinda neat, ive never been interviewed online like this before.

Do ya know about when you joined the Team?

I joined in November of last year, maybe it was October - so i think ive been folding for a little over a year now.

If there was something recent in your life that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?

Hmmm. Well, TIS stands for Trinity Insurance Services. I am the IT Manager for Trinity. And since we were hit by Katrina pretty hard being in Mandeville LA (about 30 miles directly north of New Orleans) my production suffered for a bit. But now that we hired a number of temporary staff and additional insurance adjusters to deal with the extra claims, I have easily made up for the time I wasnt folding.

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?

EOC Stats

Ok... now for Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego... Whereabouts ya live at?

Mandeville, LA - about 30 miles North of New Orleans. Just across lake Ponchartrain.

How did you initially hear about F@H?

From the main page - you guys put a call for folders out at the time and it looked intresting - besides, I knew I could climb the ranks quickly with the computers that I maintain.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?

Well, I had both grandparents on my dad's side taken by cancer. Seemed like the right thing to do.

What do you do for a living?

I own a computer repair shop and have just hired my first part time employee to help me with the overflow. So things are picking up business wise. Trinity is just my biggest client. I have a degree from LSU in psychology, but obvously don't use it for anything.

What do you do for fun?

Well mosty gaming - I have a sweet rig at the house (Athlon X2 4800+, 2GB, Radeon 1800 XL) Right now im working on Serious Sam 2, but I just finished Quake 4. I also like to target practice with handguns. I used to be a firearms instructor before I got into computers.

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?

Spending time with my wife and kids - (4 boys and a girl) they keep me pretty busy. Fortunately, I really, really, enjoy working on computers. Ive had other jobs that were tedious and I hated them. Even though I dont make as much money in computers as I did before, the job satisfaction is way more important. So even in my spare time im always fixing up computers at my house or my relatives houses.

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?

Well my main folding rig is probably mine at the office, I dont fold at home cause the home computers arent on long enough per day to make much of a difference. But my main folding rig is an Athlon X2 4400+ with 1 GB of DDR 400. I have replaced almost all of the machines in the office with Athlon XP's mosty, but lately I have been getting Athlon 64's. Before I came along at Trinity, the fastest machines they had were celeron 1100 MHz socket 370's. I think maybe we have 3 left (but of course they are still folding) My main rig at home is my favorite - the stats are Athlon X2 4800+, 2 GB, Radeon 1800XL. At the house I game, email/surf, and video encode (my home rig eats video encoding for breakfast) - at work my rig is used mosty to fix other computers, surf, and burn disks mostly (and of course to fold...)

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)

Its nor realy a farm, and im not actually having to convence anyone to let me fold on them since I control them. Most of the newer ones have 512 meg, the old cellys only have 128mb, there are a few with 1gb, Like I said - Im AMD all the way. Not that I wont work on an Intel, I see them all the time. I just dont think they are of the same calibur as a fast Athlon 64. Call me a fanboy or whatever but ill match my 4800 against a P4 anyday and wipe the floor with it.

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?

Well, seeing my business continue to grow is always a good goal. I would like to help as many people to learn about Christ as possible while im here. Also I would like to raise my children to become productive and well adjusted members of society. I dunno, i guess i havent thought about that as much as i should.

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?

All I can say is keep folding - its not like your computer was going to do anything with those spare cycles anyway. Might as well fold.

Oh yeah, for something uber-special this time, we have something new! Pictures of the member and rig!

TIS, if you wanna add more, youa re more than welcome. I edited your pics for file size a bit (from 2mbs each down to about 600K each).... they look a little grainier than the ones you sent me, but still convey the message... you have one awesome setup.

tenchi86 · 12-17-05, 03:04 AM

Another fine job, thank you both.

Nexus Realized · 12-17-05, 04:36 AM

Great interview you guys

nahmus · 12-17-05, 05:42 AM

Nice to meet ya TIS!

veryhumid · 12-17-05, 09:44 AM

Hi TIS!

pscout · 12-17-05, 10:13 AM

Yes indeed ... very nice to meet you TIS and happy to have you as a fellow folder.

And good job Frank,

FOLD ON

LandShark · 12-17-05, 11:01 AM

nice to meet you TIS!!! Fold on!!!

TIS · 12-17-05, 01:53 PM

Thanks guys!

ghettocomp · 12-17-05, 01:55 PM

Another Fine Folder frm T32. Keep It up!

Misfit138 · 12-17-05, 02:28 PM

Good job, Frank, and great folding, TIS!

Audioaficionado · 12-17-05, 02:32 PM

Nice case TIS

The only problem with windowed and acrylic cases is that the wire management has to be more rigorus. Also it seems that when you finally get around to tidying up your wires, you end up ripping it all out the next week because of an upgrading cycle

Hopefully your city had the good foresight to build above sea level

BTW what ACER LCD monitor model is that?

nahmus · 12-17-05, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Audioaficionado

Nice case TIS

The only problem with windowed and acrylic cases is that the wire management has to be more rigorus. Also it seems that when you finally get around to tidying up your wires, you end up ripping it all out the next week because of an upgrading cycle

Hopefully your city had the good foresight to build above sea level

BTW what ACER LCD monitor model is that?

ya that is a nice case tis. Been thinking about getting one of those.

TIS · 12-17-05, 09:47 PM

yeah the case is a pain in the butt to change parts out in - so i figured get the best then you wont have to change them out - when this gets outdated im selling the whole thing as is and starting over... the acer monitor is a 19 inch model AL1914 with a 12 ms response time - no ghosting. Ive bought about 20 or so for various customers and 2 for my shop one for my son's rig all from Acer - 1 dead pixel out of all of them.

btw - mandeville is about 15 feet above sea level or at least thats what im told. we had no flooding except along the lake front.

TollhouseFrank · 12-21-05, 10:05 PM

quick bump before a new spotlight on the 23rd.

12-17-05, 02:22 AM	#1
TollhouseFrank Hairy Foot Fetish Senior Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michel Delving	F@H Spotlight #4 This is the 4th in the series of T32 Spotlights! I'll continue to interview members when given a chance. The interviews will appear in a spotlight every now and then as long as the nominations keep coming in! For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD. Well, it's time for something completely different. When it comes to questions asked, support given, and bein' an all around good guy to have around, there ain't many out there better than him. I want you all to give a good hearty T32 Welcome to..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIS First off, to get it out of the way, I wanna thank ya for letting me interview you. No problem - this is kinda neat, ive never been interviewed online like this before. Do ya know about when you joined the Team? I joined in November of last year, maybe it was October - so i think ive been folding for a little over a year now. If there was something recent in your life that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? Hmmm. Well, TIS stands for Trinity Insurance Services. I am the IT Manager for Trinity. And since we were hit by Katrina pretty hard being in Mandeville LA (about 30 miles directly north of New Orleans) my production suffered for a bit. But now that we hired a number of temporary staff and additional insurance adjusters to deal with the extra claims, I have easily made up for the time I wasnt folding. What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? EOC Stats Ok... now for Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego... Whereabouts ya live at? Mandeville, LA - about 30 miles North of New Orleans. Just across lake Ponchartrain. How did you initially hear about F@H? From the main page - you guys put a call for folders out at the time and it looked intresting - besides, I knew I could climb the ranks quickly with the computers that I maintain. After starting, why do you continue to Fold? Well, I had both grandparents on my dad's side taken by cancer. Seemed like the right thing to do. What do you do for a living? I own a computer repair shop and have just hired my first part time employee to help me with the overflow. So things are picking up business wise. Trinity is just my biggest client. I have a degree from LSU in psychology, but obvously don't use it for anything. What do you do for fun? Well mosty gaming - I have a sweet rig at the house (Athlon X2 4800+, 2GB, Radeon 1800 XL) Right now im working on Serious Sam 2, but I just finished Quake 4. I also like to target practice with handguns. I used to be a firearms instructor before I got into computers. Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? Spending time with my wife and kids - (4 boys and a girl) they keep me pretty busy. Fortunately, I really, really, enjoy working on computers. Ive had other jobs that were tedious and I hated them. Even though I dont make as much money in computers as I did before, the job satisfaction is way more important. So even in my spare time im always fixing up computers at my house or my relatives houses. 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? Well my main folding rig is probably mine at the office, I dont fold at home cause the home computers arent on long enough per day to make much of a difference. But my main folding rig is an Athlon X2 4400+ with 1 GB of DDR 400. I have replaced almost all of the machines in the office with Athlon XP's mosty, but lately I have been getting Athlon 64's. Before I came along at Trinity, the fastest machines they had were celeron 1100 MHz socket 370's. I think maybe we have 3 left (but of course they are still folding) My main rig at home is my favorite - the stats are Athlon X2 4800+, 2 GB, Radeon 1800XL. At the house I game, email/surf, and video encode (my home rig eats video encoding for breakfast) - at work my rig is used mosty to fix other computers, surf, and burn disks mostly (and of course to fold...) Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) Its nor realy a farm, and im not actually having to convence anyone to let me fold on them since I control them. Most of the newer ones have 512 meg, the old cellys only have 128mb, there are a few with 1gb, Like I said - Im AMD all the way. Not that I wont work on an Intel, I see them all the time. I just dont think they are of the same calibur as a fast Athlon 64. Call me a fanboy or whatever but ill match my 4800 against a P4 anyday and wipe the floor with it. What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? Well, seeing my business continue to grow is always a good goal. I would like to help as many people to learn about Christ as possible while im here. Also I would like to raise my children to become productive and well adjusted members of society. I dunno, i guess i havent thought about that as much as i should. 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? All I can say is keep folding - its not like your computer was going to do anything with those spare cycles anyway. Might as well fold. Oh yeah, for something uber-special this time, we have something new! Pictures of the member and rig! TIS, if you wanna add more, youa re more than welcome. I edited your pics for file size a bit (from 2mbs each down to about 600K each).... they look a little grainier than the ones you sent me, but still convey the message... you have one awesome setup. __________________ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing. The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm.

12-17-05, 03:04 AM	#2
tenchi86 Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Smoky Mountains, NC	Another fine job, thank you both. __________________ "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." -Bernard Mannes Baruch Mobo: MSI Neo2-V CPU: 2.8a Prescott @ 3.2 PSU: Blue Storm 500 Watt GPU: Geforce 6600GT HS: Zalman 7000 Ram: Kingston HyperX 1024mb 3200

12-17-05, 09:44 AM	#5
veryhumid Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Hampshire	Hi TIS! __________________ < FOLD! < Heatware < EVGA X58, 920@3.8, TRUE, 6GB Corsair, 2 x EVGA GTX 285, Enermax Revolution, Velociraptor, Vista 64-bit

12-17-05, 10:13 AM	#6
pscout Senior Newbie Cannon-Fodder Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto	Yes indeed ... very nice to meet you TIS and happy to have you as a fellow folder. And good job Frank, FOLD ON __________________ Main Rig - p5b-d, E6600@3.15 Folding rigs - usually linux-64: 2xQ6600 B3 @3.0, 3.1 p5w64, DS3 4x Q6600 GO @ 3.1-3.3 on p35-DS3R/DS3L, p5k 4x x3210 B3 @3.0-3.1 on DS3 rev 3.3 x3220 B3 @3.0 on g33-ds2r 3x E6600 @2.8-3.5 on p5b, ds3, p5w64 E6320 @ 3.15 on ds3 1x930 c1 @4.0 on p5wd2-E Folding for OCF Team 32 as pete_scout

12-17-05, 11:01 AM	#7
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	nice to meet you TIS!!! Fold on!!! __________________ ~~~ 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 \|

12-17-05, 04:36 AM	#3
Nexus Realized Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: FL	Great interview you guys

12-17-05, 05:42 AM	#4
nahmus Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Sailing the Azure seas	Nice to meet ya TIS! __________________ Shame on the night..... for places i've been and what i've seen... For giving me the strangest dreams - Dio

12-17-05, 01:53 PM	#8
TIS Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mandeville, LA	Thanks guys! __________________ Intel Q6600, 4GB Dual Chan DDR2 800, Radeon x3450, 500GB HDD

12-17-05, 01:55 PM	#9
ghettocomp Master of teh Ghetto Mods Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Choosing between two evils, I might pick the one I've never tried before.	Another Fine Folder frm T32. Keep It up!

12-17-05, 02:28 PM	#10
Misfit138 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dallas, TX <-> New York City	Good job, Frank, and great folding, TIS! __________________ archlinux: Power in simplicity.

12-17-05, 02:32 PM	#11
Audioaficionado RRT Med Neb Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Medford Orygun USA	Nice case TIS The only problem with windowed and acrylic cases is that the wire management has to be more rigorus. Also it seems that when you finally get around to tidying up your wires, you end up ripping it all out the next week because of an upgrading cycle Hopefully your city had the good foresight to build above sea level BTW what ACER LCD monitor model is that? __________________ .....................................My Heatware MyFAH Stats .......................Folding is a marathon, not a sprint © audioaficionado Asus Commando, 8GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, Q6600 @3.0GHz >2xSMP+GPU2 FAH 24/7 Gigabyte DS3, 3GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6400 @3.0GHz >GPU2 FAH 24/7 Iwill DH800, 2GB OCZ4002048PFDC-K 2.5-3-3-8-1t, Dual 2.4 M0 Xeons 1.5v/880/3300 Abit NF7-S v2.0, KHX3200A/512, Barton AQXEA 0331 XPMW 1.7v/200/2000 ►You have over 101 posts and Can't see the classifieds???Click This Link Want to make God chuckle? Tell Him your plans. Anyone we catch cookie stuffing at this site will be banned on the spot!!

12-17-05, 09:47 PM	#13
TIS Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mandeville, LA	yeah the case is a pain in the butt to change parts out in - so i figured get the best then you wont have to change them out - when this gets outdated im selling the whole thing as is and starting over... the acer monitor is a 19 inch model AL1914 with a 12 ms response time - no ghosting. Ive bought about 20 or so for various customers and 2 for my shop one for my son's rig all from Acer - 1 dead pixel out of all of them. btw - mandeville is about 15 feet above sea level or at least thats what im told. we had no flooding except along the lake front. __________________ Intel Q6600, 4GB Dual Chan DDR2 800, Radeon x3450, 500GB HDD Last edited by TIS; 12-17-05 at 09:52 PM.

12-21-05, 10:05 PM	#14
TollhouseFrank Hairy Foot Fetish Senior Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michel Delving	quick bump before a new spotlight on the 23rd. __________________ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing. The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm.