Thanks Eric. Now I have an excuse for getting OS X. I
am struggling with YellowDog 2.0. It seems you need a
lot of upates (and more - how to install them) just to
use TCP/IP. The user-group I subscribe to is really
geeky. You are using command line interfaces with OS
X, eh? Back to the future or what?
Cheers
George
beige G3 233 desktop, 768 MB.
PS: also an excuse for getting the OWC G3 ZIF @ $59.
--- "Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I've always found the SETI@Home project
> interesting but a tad useless
> (partially b/c I find the search for
> extra-terrestrial intelligence to be a
> rather nebulous pursuit in light of a complete lack
> of evidence to suggest
> its existence (though, I guess that's not an
> argument against analysis... my
> priorities are a little more low-key), but also b/c
> I find astronomy to be a
> snore (well, aside from looking at the stars...
> that's neat)).
>
> The following is called Folding@Home and what they
> do is model the
> configuration of proteins (unlike SETI@Home this
> project has the potential
> to have implications for understanding biology and,
> especially for
> developing new drugs (or understanding of the mode
> of action of drugs)).
>
> They have a Mac OS X client (& Windoze 95+, Solaris
> & Linux)
> <http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm/>
>
> You've got to fire up Terminal, cd (change
> directory) into the folder and
> execute the command:
> ./fahclient.exe -config
>
> enter an e-mail address, type yes or no where
> appropriate and then it will
> configure itself.
>
> Next, type the following to run the app:
> ./fahclient.exe
>
> And, if you want you can open up another window in
> the Terminal and execute
> "top" to display the CPU cycles (my dynamic.x runs
> at 60+% when nothing is
> happening).
>
> L8r, Eric.
>
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