I must be completely out of the loop

[Texasgal]

Because I STILL don't understand what this DU FOLDING@HOME thingy is.... color me lost! :shrug:

Am I the ONLY one?

[Kerrytravelers]

1. I have no idea, either.

[Texasgal]

2. Thank god I am not the ONLY one!

*sigh*

[KitchenWitch]

3. I am not doing it, but...

from what I understand, you download a small proggy, and what it does is use your unused processor cycles to calculate something having to do with DNA

[Texasgal]

5. Hmmm...

Sounds like something that I wouldn't want hanging on my PC...:scared:

[Redstone]

4. Send a PM to one of the people who starts those threads.

They'll be happy to give you all the links you'll need to understand how it works.

Redstone

[Texasgal]

7. It's more fun this way though!

:P

BTW- Congrats on your posting milestone!!!

[Redstone]

9. Thankee, Ma'am. Had no idea it was coming, since I'm oblivious

and hadn't the faintest idea what my post count was.

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

6. It's a distributed computing project

If you volunteer your computer uses it's extra processing power (all the time when it's waiting for you to tell it what you want and whenever you're not using it) to work on a small part of a much larger problem.

There are similar programs for SETI, etc.

[Texasgal]

8. It sounds weird...

I guess I am not computer savvy enough to understand it! :)

[LeftyMom]

10. It's not complicated to use

you download it and it runs in the background and does it's own thing. You don't have to think about it, once it's going.