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"Help save the world."

You see this is an appeal for you to join www.find-a-drug.co.uk You might have heard about SETI@home, you know the thing where a program runs in the background using your unused processing power to scan data from a satellite dish.

Well FAD is similar in operation, except that instead of looking for aliens it looks for molecules and proteins that can be targeted for further research and stuff in finding a cure for cancer.

I have been running distributed computing projects for over a year now.
It doesn't require much effort, you download a small program and a work unit (WU). Then the program runs in the background just processing. When it finishes that WU it moves on to the next in the queue of 2 or 3 that you download every so often from the net. When it is finished it gets sent back to FAD.

The program doesn't cause slowdown, it only uses unused power, as whenever you do anything else like type a letter it lets you do that and then starts processing again. After all other than in video editing or really high powered games you only ever use an average of 10% or so of your computers capacity. So why don't you donate it to a good cause?

FAD has several ongoing projects. Currently these are cancer, HIV, malaria, multiple sclerosis, SARS and bio terrorism antidotes.

If you do decide to join, I have now created a Special Reserve team. The team number for entering on the setup screen is 2072. So come on join up. So far there is 13 of us in the team. Out of 147 teams, Special Reserve is ranked 54. There is even a linux version now.

One day our efforts could make a difference. Imagine the lives that could be saved. In Britain, 1 in 3 people get cancer. Over a million people a year die in developing countries from Malaria, 3 times as many as AIDS kills. Even so, HIV is at epidemic levels and kills 100,000s a year all around the world. 40 million people in Africa have HIV, and in time it will kill them all.

This project doesn't require anything much of you, all you have to do run the program in the background. You can help to make a difference. It all builds up, just from lots of people running this. So far nearly 4,000 years worth of computer time has been spent scanning 27.62 billion moleculules.

There have been successes in finding growth inhibitors on several occasions in several areas. So come on, join us and help save the world.

sod that, did anyone ever complete indiana jones and the fate of atlantis? now that was a pain in the horse/donkey crossbreed

Pandaemonium wrote:
> "Maniac Mansion" was virtually impossible. I *never*
> completed it...........

I know. These kids with 24 hour access to gamefaqs.com don't know how lucky they are.

unknown kernel wrote:
> I was playing DotT the other day. You know how you can play the
> original game on that guy's computer? Well I got stuck and couldn't
> get back to the actual game. I hadn't saved for ages so I was well
> cheesed off and just gave up.

"Maniac Mansion" was virtually impossible. I *never* completed it...........

the exact same thing happened to me, although the last time I played DoT was years ago.

great game though.

I was playing DotT the other day. You know how you can play the original game on that guy's computer? Well I got stuck and couldn't get back to the actual game. I hadn't saved for ages so I was well cheesed off and just gave up.

Well, as Bernard said, in the classic LucasArts adventure 'Day of the Tentacle' :

[I]"If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs."

Just a wee update folks, the Special Reserve team has now passed one million points in the last update.

Well why don't you join us then?

I had been doing one of these a while ago for a couple of years.
Don't really know why I gave up to be honest.

Felt it time to pop this and to give you an update on the total for the team statistics wise.

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Time:

0:343:4:3:17
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Jobs:

676
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Molecules:

6,678,336
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Hits:

24,224
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Points:

891,018
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