Main folding rig down. After powering it back up from the power outage it was running fine. Went to go to bed and it was in the bios. Looked at it this morning and it appears the new ssd has gone bad. **** during this contest.
 
EDIT: Did a quick check and found the sata power cable unplugged. Back up and running total time lost is about 14 hours.

We was told you can be blamed for everything.
I should be ok as of now. Everything back up and running. Just took a 8 million point hit.

To quote fast and the furious........ You never had a chance.

Sorry that I haven't been able to get my folding rig up and running - things have been more than a bit crazy here. 
 
Good thing it seems like Eastern doesn't miss my tiny contribution on its way to crushing the rest of the time zones this go round. 

troy8d
Sorry that I haven't been able to get my folding rig up and running - things have been more than a bit crazy here. 
 
Good thing it seems like Eastern doesn't miss my tiny contribution on its way to crushing the rest of the time zones this go round. 

On their own they have always been a force to recon with being that most Folders here are from the East Cost.

bcavnaugh
 
On their own they have always been a force to recon with being that most Folders here are from the East Cost.

Yes, when Zerran2001 created the first TZC I think there were actually more folders (or more folding points at least from team evga) in Central and for the first few years Central won a relatively close race with Eastern.  Eventually as word spread and more people signed up for the contest, the larger population in Eastern gave it a insurmountable advantage in a straight race.  At one point quite a few years back I was going to use population density to balance TZC points, but I guess I never actually implemented it.  We all know the mountain men are legendary for big points from a much smaller contingent.  This year's dominance, however, is unprecedented and we all know that it is clearly yodap's fault. Secondarily, you can blame notfordman as he was the one spreading the word this year (the first time ever that I didn't send a single PM!) and getting all those Easterners to sign up.  

troy8d
Sorry that I haven't been able to get my folding rig up and running - things have been more than a bit crazy here. 
 Good thing it seems like Eastern doesn't miss my tiny contribution on its way to crushing the rest of the time zones this go round. 

I'm sure you have your hands full troy. Thanks for all you have done to get things going. 
 
 
 

troy8d

bcavnaugh
On their own they have always been a force to recon with being that most Folders here are from the East Cost.

Yes, when Zerran2001 created the first TZC I think there were actually more folders (or more folding points at least from team evga) in Central and for the first few years Central won a relatively close race with Eastern.  Eventually as word spread and more people signed up for the contest, the larger population in Eastern gave it a insurmountable advantage in a straight race.  At one point quite a few years back I was going to use population density to balance TZC points, but I guess I never actually implemented it.  We all know the mountain men are legendary for big points from a much smaller contingent.  This year's dominance, however, is unprecedented and we all know that it is clearly yodap's fault. Secondarily, you can blame notfordman as he was the one spreading the word this year (the first time ever that I didn't send a single PM!) and getting all those Easterners to sign up.  

Time to Join CMP and make a new Time Zone ChaMP CoolAlex5500GTX would make a great Team as well

Want to wish everyone a bright and Happy New Year! Keep folding hard please. 

notfordman
Want to wish everyone a bright and Happy New Year! Keep folding hard please. 

Torell

notfordman
Want to wish everyone a bright and Happy New Year! Keep folding hard please. 

This all day!   Happy New Year

Indeed To All

The last parts I need to get the last two rigs are now up and running.   Not sure what my PPD boost will be but, it'll be a 2060 and 2070.  I'm guessing another 3 million PPD roughly.  

thanks d, for all the support over many years

Always a pleasure, folks!  Just feels so weird that I can clearly, somehow (I was on some preeeeeety rough medication recovering from my 2nd back surgery - Valium and Codine. My neurologist did NOT mess around.) I clearly remember working through a way of providing hourly updates to the Chimp Challenge contest of 2010 along side of Zerran2001 which I somehow evolved into an Excel macro.  From there, I got curious about what it would take to get the team's stats more directly instead of a massively kluged excel spreadsheet.

I still USE parts of the macro from that first spreadsheet today, but only so I can keep a local copy of all the data I provide up to the Google sheet that Troy and I share for processing and display purposes.  In between, I have a custom VB program I wrote and rewrote a couple of times, that probably needs yet ANOTHER rewrite to make sure I've got as much functionality as it really deserves (Directory choosing, custom paths and the such)
 
I just get weirded out that it was back in 2010, not just a few weeks ago. *laughs*
 
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Happy New Year yall