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Re: [New Members] How did you hear about TD?

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I've known about "crunching" for a while, I think the first one I heard of was the SETI one. I've been spending a lot of time here at BBR since I was first checking out Fios last March. I built a nice PC, and I have a fast broadband connection both of which sit idle about 20 hours a day. I picked UD because I've lost some friends and family to different kinds of cancer and I have friends and family who are cancer survivors. My 76yo Mother-in-law is just now finishing a chemo regime for non-hodgkins lymphoma, her 5 year outlook is good... This just seems like a good thing to do.

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Saw it right here at BBR...

Just assembled a *DEDICATED* Cruncher! (Dual P3-733 Server board), that will (hopefully) be Crunching 24/7 @ 100% CPU for UD...

-Tursiops_G.
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Never knew about UD till i was a memeber of DSLreports.

Right now its running on the kids computer but that computer has about 18 hours of idle time so i thought i would give it something to do.

Next year i plan on building its own server details will be coming later.

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~bump~ for our newer members

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I have been aware of the distributed computing thing for some time. I thought it was a very useful thing. Just recently, mrspipur and I replaced our ancient P3s with new Dell dual core XPS 410s, so we had two old, but useable, computers just sitting around. Now the old P3s are happily crunching away!
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Descided to see what the clubs were all about. then joined the best one.

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~/www.dslreports.com/Computing Clubs/Team Helix/TD
I had visited the BBR site for years, but only to use the "Tools" the site provides, then I did something very strange....I decided to start giving back.

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~lil~ bump for our newest members

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I've been on BBR for awhile and heard about these teams .
So I thought I would look them up and see what they did.
When found out about ~TSC~ did I had to join.

I have juvenile diabetes.So crunchin' for a cure Just seems like a great thing to do.
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I wandered over from Team Helix and decided to kick back and stay awhile!
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That's okay. I'm F.I.N.E.!

I've known about crunching for years. Decided to use my new pc w/Vista and have it 'do' something...I don't do photos or gaming, etc...so I have plenty of RAM available, and since I have RoadRunner access... 'meep meep' as he says always!
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Found out UD was going by the way side, and well, things happen

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I have been a member of BBR for quite a while and have noticed there were teams crunching so when I got this new puter with enough horse power to run it I jumped on board

I found out about you guys by just looking in the forums here at this great site.

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I found out about it by randomly searching around in the forums.

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~lil~ bump for our new members

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I'm not new, but what got me to join was: First I wanted to know what the story was to those cute spinnas, but what hooked me was that some of the guys I admired most in the hardware and other forums, were crunching (and folding) and I realized I wanted to be like them. When I found out what it is about I knew I just had to do it.

Now if only I can get a few more systems built for it, heh...
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signmeuptoo tied me up and dragged me over to the "good" side.

»What to do with my pc?

I decided not to be selfish.
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