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FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:54 pm
by toTOW
FAH-Addict, the primary source of information about the Folding@Home project. Our goal is to provide :
- latest project news
- tutorials for installing or optimizing clients and OSes
- hardware reviews
To connect to the site, 3 urls are available :
www.fah-addict.net is the universal access which detects your browser language and it will redirect you to the version which match your language.
en.fah-addict.net direct access to the English version.
fr.fah-addict.net direct access to the French version.
We also have
a Twitter account to announce the news or article releases.
Your remarks, suggestions, contributions or support are welcome, don't hesitate to post your opinion
Re: FAH-Addict going international, the schedule of the next 36H
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:55 pm
by toTOW
The redirection script is in place on www, please report any issue you might get.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:17 pm
by toTOW
English version is live!
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:47 pm
by MtM
toTOW wrote:English version is live!
It's about time
Checking atm
Edit: please, please let people use shoutbox and polls without having to need to register!!
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:00 pm
by John Naylor
The requirement to register is to prevent cheating on the polls and to prevent spam in the shoutbox... we feel it is a necessary evil, but a shame. Sorry!
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:05 pm
by MtM
You can moderate shoutbox, put up filters and time out's though I admit it will not always work it mostly would.
I don't mind registering, but I think it will discourage some people who don't feel like signing up to yet another site I think you know what I mean. But it's your call and I can understand the reasons why one would choose to have this in place.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:02 am
by ChelseaOilman
I went to the English site and tried to register.
I was presented with this:
Registration Agreement Terms
Vous vous apprêtez à vous enregistrer sur le site. Nous vous demandons d'être poli et courtois dans vos interventions.
Merci, l'équipe du site.
What does it say?
The English site should be in English!
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:23 am
by jrweiss
...except in France...
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:25 am
by John Naylor
No idea how we missed that
"You are about to register on the site. We ask that you be polite and courteous in your posts.
Thanks, the site team."
And I shall see about getting that changed now
EDIT: or not... I don't have permission to do it :S welcome to the confusing world of being an administrator. It will be fixed tomorrow
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:02 am
by chrisretusn
John Naylor wrote:"You are about to register on the site. We ask that you be polite and courteous in your posts.
Thanks, the site team."
Couldn't resist, I passed the French through Google and got this:
"You get ready to record yourself on the site. We ask you to be polished and courteous in your interventions.
Thank you, the team of the site."
Gotta love Google Translations.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:47 am
by kiore
Um, tried to visit the English version, had already registered on the original.. English version says no member with that name???
Do I need to set up an account in each language?? Can I not switch from one to the other? Or just some teething problems.
Pseudo is same as here..
Good work though, have been enjoying the site in French also keeps me in practice, was able to have a reasonably complex discussion on gpu's /cpus/alimentation with the sales guys on the rue Montgallet yesterday
Merci FAH-Addict!
kiore.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:55 am
by John Naylor
Due to the content management system we use the two sites are in fact completely seperate... it does not play nicely with two language versions under one login so you would need to register individually for each version.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:31 pm
by toTOW
We also assume that *most* readers from one version won't read the other version ... but there's might be some exceptions
And those who don't want to register on FAH-Addict can still post their opinion in the actual thread
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:32 pm
by MtM
Warning, error found in article optimisations.
Original text:
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NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY is used to set the affinity of the core. It is not normally set up, unless you have trouble with program conflicts (performance degraded by sharing a CPU core with another program). Acceptable values are 0 to 15 (numerical values) ... this is actually a binary mask such that each bit represents a CPU: CPU3, CPU2, CPU1, CPU0. A value of 1 allows access to the CPU in question, and a value of 0 prohibits access. A numeric value 0 is the default: it allows access to all cores, letting Windows manage affinities, or it locks all the cores on the latest CPU, the following option enabled in the advanced settings of the client. If you use this variable in a custom configuration, it is recommended to enable the client option "do not lock cores to specific CPU" in the configuration.
I think this is auto translated,
A numeric value 0 is the default: it allows access to all cores, letting Windows manage affinities, or it locks all the cores on the latest CPU, the following option enabled in the advanced settings of the client.
It's also wrong ( if I understand the entire sentence correctly ).
First off all, the gpu client with locked affinities using built in options do not all use core3 on a quad, the first gpu client uses core3, the second core2 and I imagine this goes on like core1, core0, core3, core2 ect.
It's dynamic, not staticly bound to the last core.
Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:23 am
by toTOW
This is something I always had trouble to understand ... I don't know exactly what 0 does for this value (I think it's full access to all cores like a value of 15 ... but I'm not 100% positive).
P.S : there's might still be some missing translations (I just found one, even if I don't know when it is displayed
) ... so please report them if you catch one.
P.P.S : error report by ChelseaOilman is no yet fixed ... by we're working on it
(where is this f****** variable ?
)
edit : it was right behind our eyes, so we didn't see it
... it should be fixed now