F@H Spotlight #11

TollhouseFrank · 01-12-06, 04:22 PM

This is the 11th 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.

Hmm... Sometimes, being too simple can be a bad thing (especially when I try to write an intro for ya!). Today, this young man claims he is simple, yet for someone is into the complexities of Politics, how simple can he really be? Let's give it up and have a warm hand for one of the Bluesiest Seniors around....

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PLOAF

When did you join the Team?
This was a little surprising since I haven't really been very active with team activities, other than hosting the site(I'm still not sure that it's safe to put back online), or with the forums. But I joined in June 2001.

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?

Don't know. It's flat. I stopped folding for myself a while ago and now do it anonymously, sort of.

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

I can't really think of anything recent.

So where do ya happen to live at?

I live in NE Ohio near the PA border in a town called Struthers.

How did you initially hear about F@H?
I started doing SETI at another site and loved the concept. While searching for more information on distributed computing and cluster computing I discovered Folding@Home. It seemed like a worthy effort to spend CPU cycles on. I chose overclockers.com because of the help that I had received here. Folding@Home wasn't quite the same then as it is now. It really didn't work very well, they tossed out the initial FAH1 stats and started all over. The new client was awful. Any problems, if there are any, they may have now are nothing compared to then. Client works fine for me.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
Why not?
Like I said.... again with that simplicity stuff. Simple answers, simple minds I've always heard.

What do you do for a living?
I repair and install residential water treatment equipment.

What do you do for fun?
Plenty of things. Date, chat, cook, hang out with family and friends, engage in political debate. I'm not too complex.

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
I love to cook and make wine and share it with people. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's a disaster

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?
I only have one folding rig, my main system. I don't know the stats because I don't care about that anymore, but it's a dual 1.4 opteron so you could probably guess at its performance. I don't use my laptop because, well, it's a G4 powerbook and I don't think it's made to work under constant strain like that.

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they?
I did this at one time with the work computers. It never worked out because they used dialup and weren't very powerful. I had a personal farm that I built. I think at one time I had 14 cpus working, but that was a couple of years ago. Closest I had to anything respectable was Foldzilla , running Overfoldix, a Linux distro that David put together. It was a 5cpu system. The electric bill was murder so I eventually shut it all down and just went back to systems that I was actually using for something.

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with
your life?
I want to find a woman that can tolerate me for more than a few months and retire on a beach.
Don't we all? You'll find the right lady someday.

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?
Win. Like I said, I'm pretty simple. If anything I would say that I know a few people with alzheimers and it's really good to tell those caring for them that there are thousands upon thousands of people out there donating their computers to aid in research that could possibly lead to an effective treatment. It's too late for the ones that I know. They are too far gone, but it's great that so many people care.

Again, major thanks to Ploaf for putting up with me, and dude, if yer out there, here is your 15 minutes!

veryhumid · 01-12-06, 05:18 PM

hi Ploaf!

LandShark · 01-12-06, 08:31 PM

nice to meet you PLOAF!!

hope you'll be back to active duty as often as you could!!

Misfit138 · 01-12-06, 09:24 PM

fOLD On, PLoaf!

Nexus Realized · 01-12-06, 09:25 PM

Good to meet you Ploaf

AlabamaCajun · 01-12-06, 09:54 PM

Good to meet you, kind of makes me wish I have found this back when you have major riggage tearing up Wus.

Refold!

pscout · 01-12-06, 10:01 PM

Glad to meet you Ploaf

Very nice of you to host the team website ... and yes we are looking forward to it's return. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

walaka7 · 01-12-06, 10:16 PM

Sweet! He is far too honest though. He was at least partially responsible for a huge growth in our team in the beggining to late 2002. In fact he and a few of the motely crew got me into it after helping me with some issues on my first O/C project. He is good people and Imhonored to have met him.

Oric · 01-12-06, 11:03 PM

Hi ya there Ploaf it's great to meet ya.

WarriorII · 01-12-06, 11:43 PM

GO BUCKEYES !!!

Good to learn more about a fellow Ohioian.

Fold On !

godofgorks · 01-13-06, 02:13 AM

Nice to meet ya ploaf....

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarriorII

GO BUCKEYES !!!

Must resist.....

nahmus · 01-13-06, 02:43 AM

Hi Ploaf! been a while since i've seen posts of yours. I mist be slacking and not spending enough time here

FOLD ON!

ghettocomp · 01-13-06, 06:37 PM

Dropping by to say Hi, and fold on!!

Ploaf · 01-14-06, 12:31 AM

Go Bucks and Jim Tressel and don't forget the Penguins (who did very well under Tressel) and Steelhounds

Hey Guys. Nice to see everyone and also that things are going strong here and I even saw a thread where the team started outpacing OCAU, at least for now.

For AlabamaCajun - this is foldzilla - That brought me up to 14 cpus which also included a dual xp system, a p3 laptop (which died prematurely), a few systems that were nailed to a basement wall and Sampson, the #octeams irc bot and file server who has found new life in somebody else's home. it's hard to believe that was 3 years ago.

Hey walaka7. (He's kidding. I paid him to say nice things.)

Fold On and have one on me

AlabamaCajun · 01-14-06, 01:13 AM

Ah man

that is/was freaking sweet

fzzzt *~;.....

Ok got another keyboard. Where is Foldzilla? (what a name

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BTW: Enjoyed the travel back in time there to see that, Thanks.

Don't know if you were in here before XMas but this is what I cobbled together http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=427481 for a little farm. Still working to get them to boot headless and diskless. I have 3 layers about ready to go.

Ploaf · 01-14-06, 05:02 PM

Looks like a nice start.
Foldzilla is gone now. I gave most of the parts away. The electric bill became unaffordable, coinciding with a temporary drop in income.

If I were going to do it again I would do it this way > http://overclockix.octeams.com/How_t...lding_Farm.htm

the foldzilla setup used to lose everything when the power went down, which is sort of rare, although it happened a few times while I was running it. Go figure. power hasn't went out here in like a year now with nothing running. well- main sys is on a UPS.

Ducker · 01-14-06, 06:09 PM

Good to meet you, I eco many of the things that others have posted. And yea, I'm a Buckeye fan too. Go Buckeyes!!! Great to here from guys in the midwest.

Fold on!!!

belorsch · 06-28-06, 11:07 AM

Catching up on these interviews and must chastise myself for not giving Props earlier. Ploaf was the guy that helped me with all my early questions no matter how stupid. If it wasn't for him I would have mostly likely left F@H during all its growing pains.
My personal Thanks to you Mr Pickle!
Also Thanks to TH and LS for this interview series. Good Stuff it is!

WarriorII · 06-28-06, 11:49 AM

PLOAF just had a Birthday this week too.

01-12-06, 05:18 PM	#2
veryhumid Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Hampshire	hi Ploaf! __________________ < FOLD! < Heatware < EVGA X58, 920@3.8, TRUE, 6GB Corsair, 2 x EVGA GTX 285, Enermax Revolution, Velociraptor, Vista 64-bit

01-12-06, 08:31 PM	#3
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	nice to meet you PLOAF!! hope you'll be back to active duty as often as you could!! __________________ ~~~ 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 \|

01-12-06, 09:24 PM	#4
Misfit138 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dallas, TX <-> New York City	fOLD On, PLoaf! __________________ archlinux: Power in simplicity.

01-12-06, 09:54 PM	#6
AlabamaCajun Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Selling of all Intel HW.	Good to meet you, kind of makes me wish I have found this back when you have major riggage tearing up Wus. Refold! __________________ 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"

01-12-06, 10:01 PM	#7
pscout Senior Newbie Cannon-Fodder Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto	Glad to meet you Ploaf Very nice of you to host the team website ... and yes we are looking forward to it's return. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help. __________________ 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

01-12-06, 04:22 PM	#1
TollhouseFrank Hairy Foot Fetish Senior Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michel Delving	F@H Spotlight #11 This is the 11th 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. Hmm... Sometimes, being too simple can be a bad thing (especially when I try to write an intro for ya!). Today, this young man claims he is simple, yet for someone is into the complexities of Politics, how simple can he really be? Let's give it up and have a warm hand for one of the Bluesiest Seniors around.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PLOAF When did you join the Team? This was a little surprising since I haven't really been very active with team activities, other than hosting the site(I'm still not sure that it's safe to put back online), or with the forums. But I joined in June 2001. What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? Don't know. It's flat. I stopped folding for myself a while ago and now do it anonymously, sort of. If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? I can't really think of anything recent. So where do ya happen to live at? I live in NE Ohio near the PA border in a town called Struthers. How did you initially hear about F@H? I started doing SETI at another site and loved the concept. While searching for more information on distributed computing and cluster computing I discovered Folding@Home. It seemed like a worthy effort to spend CPU cycles on. I chose overclockers.com because of the help that I had received here. Folding@Home wasn't quite the same then as it is now. It really didn't work very well, they tossed out the initial FAH1 stats and started all over. The new client was awful. Any problems, if there are any, they may have now are nothing compared to then. Client works fine for me. After starting, why do you continue to Fold? Why not? Like I said.... again with that simplicity stuff. Simple answers, simple minds I've always heard. What do you do for a living? I repair and install residential water treatment equipment. What do you do for fun? Plenty of things. Date, chat, cook, hang out with family and friends, engage in political debate. I'm not too complex. Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? I love to cook and make wine and share it with people. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's a disaster 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? I only have one folding rig, my main system. I don't know the stats because I don't care about that anymore, but it's a dual 1.4 opteron so you could probably guess at its performance. I don't use my laptop because, well, it's a G4 powerbook and I don't think it's made to work under constant strain like that. Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? I did this at one time with the work computers. It never worked out because they used dialup and weren't very powerful. I had a personal farm that I built. I think at one time I had 14 cpus working, but that was a couple of years ago. Closest I had to anything respectable was Foldzilla , running Overfoldix, a Linux distro that David put together. It was a 5cpu system. The electric bill was murder so I eventually shut it all down and just went back to systems that I was actually using for something. What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? I want to find a woman that can tolerate me for more than a few months and retire on a beach. Don't we all? You'll find the right lady someday. 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? Win. Like I said, I'm pretty simple. If anything I would say that I know a few people with alzheimers and it's really good to tell those caring for them that there are thousands upon thousands of people out there donating their computers to aid in research that could possibly lead to an effective treatment. It's too late for the ones that I know. They are too far gone, but it's great that so many people care. Again, major thanks to Ploaf for putting up with me, and dude, if yer out there, here is your 15 minutes! __________________ 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.

01-12-06, 09:25 PM	#5
Nexus Realized Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: FL	Good to meet you Ploaf

01-12-06, 10:16 PM	#8
walaka7 Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: el segundo, ca or caprock, nm	Sweet! He is far too honest though. He was at least partially responsible for a huge growth in our team in the beggining to late 2002. In fact he and a few of the motely crew got me into it after helping me with some issues on my first O/C project. He is good people and Imhonored to have met him.

01-12-06, 11:03 PM	#9
Oric Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The high cold desert of Nevada	Hi ya there Ploaf it's great to meet ya. __________________ "There is only two reasons to ever get into this field either as a hobby or a career, frustration or fascination. Unfortunately no matter which one has led you here today, I guarantee it will eventully lead to the other." "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" "If the women don't find you handsome, and I'm quessing they don't, they should at least find you handy."

01-12-06, 11:43 PM	#10
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	GO BUCKEYES !!! Good to learn more about a fellow Ohioian. Fold On ! __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII

01-13-06, 02:43 AM	#12
nahmus Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Sailing the Azure seas	Hi Ploaf! been a while since i've seen posts of yours. I mist be slacking and not spending enough time here FOLD ON! __________________ Shame on the night..... for places i've been and what i've seen... For giving me the strangest dreams - Dio

01-13-06, 06:37 PM	#13
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.	Dropping by to say Hi, and fold on!!

01-14-06, 12:31 AM	#14
Ploaf Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Struthers, OH	Go Bucks and Jim Tressel and don't forget the Penguins (who did very well under Tressel) and Steelhounds Hey Guys. Nice to see everyone and also that things are going strong here and I even saw a thread where the team started outpacing OCAU, at least for now. For AlabamaCajun - this is foldzilla - That brought me up to 14 cpus which also included a dual xp system, a p3 laptop (which died prematurely), a few systems that were nailed to a basement wall and Sampson, the #octeams irc bot and file server who has found new life in somebody else's home. it's hard to believe that was 3 years ago. Hey walaka7. (He's kidding. I paid him to say nice things.) Fold On and have one on me __________________ I hope this signature isn't offensive to anyone.

01-14-06, 01:13 AM	#15
AlabamaCajun Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Selling of all Intel HW.	Ah man that is/was freaking sweet fzzzt *~;..... Ok got another keyboard. Where is Foldzilla? (what a name ) BTW: Enjoyed the travel back in time there to see that, Thanks. Don't know if you were in here before XMas but this is what I cobbled together http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=427481 for a little farm. Still working to get them to boot headless and diskless. I have 3 layers about ready to go. __________________ 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"

01-14-06, 05:02 PM	#16
Ploaf Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Struthers, OH	Looks like a nice start. Foldzilla is gone now. I gave most of the parts away. The electric bill became unaffordable, coinciding with a temporary drop in income. If I were going to do it again I would do it this way > http://overclockix.octeams.com/How_t...lding_Farm.htm the foldzilla setup used to lose everything when the power went down, which is sort of rare, although it happened a few times while I was running it. Go figure. power hasn't went out here in like a year now with nothing running. well- main sys is on a UPS. __________________ I hope this signature isn't offensive to anyone.

01-14-06, 06:09 PM	#17
Ducker Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Dark Side of the Moon	Good to meet you, I eco many of the things that others have posted. And yea, I'm a Buckeye fan too. Go Buckeyes!!! Great to here from guys in the midwest. Fold on!!! __________________ FOLD!!!

06-28-06, 11:07 AM	#18
belorsch Folding Monk Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maryland	Ahhh! Catching up on these interviews and must chastise myself for not giving Props earlier. Ploaf was the guy that helped me with all my early questions no matter how stupid. If it wasn't for him I would have mostly likely left F@H during all its growing pains. My personal Thanks to you Mr Pickle! Also Thanks to TH and LS for this interview series. Good Stuff it is! __________________ Folding@Home! For Dad....and his sister My Heatware F@H Team 32 "The Little Team That Can!" For_Those_We_Lost subteam

06-28-06, 11:49 AM	#19
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	PLOAF just had a Birthday this week too. __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII