Alright, I have been reading MacRumors for quite a while now and have seen plenty of signatures stating they are members of the Folding@Home team. So today I read about this Folding thing and decided that I have plenty of extra CPU cycles to donate to a good cause. Now I have downloaded and installed the OS X GUI client AND the screensaver client. Set both to the username Davew135 and the Mac Rumors team number. Now comes my questions for you:
1) I am running the GUI client, is the screen saver going to work WITH it or AGAINST it? Should I keep them both or just pick one or the other?
2) I put my computer to sleep every night / whenever I leave the house for more than 15 minutes. Will this practice make it impossible for me to be a help? Will all of the work my computer has done be lost each time I decide to go to sleep?
3) I have a Dual G4 867 w/ 1.25 gigs of RAM, will I still be able to play Warcraft 3 on BattleNet without quiting the folding ap, or will I notice a lot of performance hit?
I want to be a help to this program, so any information would be great. If I can't fold from this machine because of my above stated practices I will install the application on my 'print server' a Windows 2000 machine with just about the minimum specs to run that OS
1) I am running the GUI client, is the screen saver going to work WITH it or AGAINST it? Should I keep them both or just pick one or the other?
2) I put my computer to sleep every night / whenever I leave the house for more than 15 minutes. Will this practice make it impossible for me to be a help? Will all of the work my computer has done be lost each time I decide to go to sleep?
3) I have a Dual G4 867 w/ 1.25 gigs of RAM, will I still be able to play Warcraft 3 on BattleNet without quiting the folding ap, or will I notice a lot of performance hit?
I want to be a help to this program, so any information would be great. If I can't fold from this machine because of my above stated practices I will install the application on my 'print server' a Windows 2000 machine with just about the minimum specs to run that OS