Shoutbox

Cancer Fighting and other useful Research Tool

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Originally posted on demonoid.com

This was my quote for a long time (I lost 4 loved ones to cancer so I had been doing this [grid.org] for a while):
Did you know one in four of us will at some time suffer from cancer? The high mortality rate, the suffering experienced by patients from the side effects of existing treatments, and the high costs of treatment all contribute to making cancer a priority for drug research. Please help us Beat Cancer!

The only time I run this kind of program is when I am not using the computer IE: when at work, out with friends, sleeping, in jail, when I am seeding, ECT....

This program only takes the CPU cycles that aren't being used (idle cycles). It doesn't slow down the computer. It releases the cycles it is using when another program needs them. It doesn't create a bottleneck. I use it on my 2 comps 1-2800xp, 1 gig ram and 2-celeron 700 with 128Mb ram. Granted it runs faster on the AMD, but the Celeron gets more points because of it being a slower machine. I have it running as a system service, and they (the wife and kids) never know it is working. Theirs is the celery comp. and it only uses the internet when it is sending the work packet info at the beginning and end of a work packet.I think this is really great that we (Team Demonoid) are doing this cuz I look at it this way. most of the people out there as well as but not limited to Game servers, File hosts, Message boards, FTP's, P2P leave the computers on for days at a time, and if you are going to have it on for days at a time why don't use help out mankind as well?

Install Notes can be found here http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm
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I myself lost my mother to breast cancer in 2001, she was 39 (40 the next month) I was 11. I now have this program running 24/7 to help research.

I hope we have users on here who are willing to help out

To start helping out, you can download the software here http://www.grid.org/download/

Install the software + sign up (signup from within the software)

Then Join the Messenger Plus! Team here

http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=54...-92D6-1609C13850BC



Description:

The Messenger Plus! Team.

Are you a user of MSN Messenger?
Want to Enhance your MSN Messenger for FREE?
Then visit www.msgplus.net to download this great piece of software!

With its many features and ability to add Plug-ins, Messenger Plus! is by far the most recognised and probably most respected add-on created for MSN Messenger EVER!

Our aim is to help fight cancer and research into other extremely useful projects

HELP US ACHIEVE OUR GOAL, YOU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY BENEFIT FROM ITS RESEARCH ONE DAY!!!

Current Team Logo:


If this could be Pinned it would be great, Thankyou, hope to see you all in the team!

I Actually Lost my Grandma to cancer its a very sad time and ofcourse i will help out with pleasure


EDIT: i wonder if there is a thingy like the whatpulse sig to say how much uptime we have

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Originally posted by Pipish
I Actually Lost my Grandma to cancer its a very sad time and ofcourse i will help out with pleasure


EDIT: i wonder if there is a thingy like the whatpulse sig to say how much uptime we have

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if there isn't me or someone else could make a script to do that for you

I'm definitely joining for the fight for cancer...

Ill definatly joining.  I have cancer myself but i was very lucky as they diagnosed it at a very early stage, but I'll do anything I can to support this.

* Sunshine had a prestage of cervical cancer 5 years ago..

Needed two ops (was pretty close to actual cancer)....lucky me they found it tho...i wouldn't be here now if they hadn't

Also i've seen a neigbour of mine die from it beginnin this year..they didn't find it on time with her

Hip hip hooray for research and the summoning women to come for checkup every five years starting at the age of 30


Still i don't see how joining this will help =/

This helps because, the researchers send the information or cell structures to your computer, your computer then works out (maps the cell or whatever) See the page links i posted below


Much like the human GEnome Project was like (That was where they found out what every chromosone in each cell was for)

This project was completed in 2003 (i believe) now they have started teh Human Proteome folding project which will tell those scientists people what each protein does

well learn about it here http://www.grid.org/projects/hpf/

the cancer project page is here http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

Either way its going to a good cause, if it only cures one person. Its been a sucess.

I have joined It's a good way of using the time that my PC does nothing lol. And it's helping people.

i have joined up too

I am very happy that you have all joined up!

Now if only this thread became a sticky thread....


Just looked at our team stats....there is none...


maybe it has sumat to do with this

http://www.grid.org/help/faq_connecting.htm

i dunno what type of port it is that needs opening

I'm using zonealarm pro 5