May 6th, 2006 by Ray in Auto Events | Tags: cars, photo, rally | Comments Off
IT’S BAACK!! The Maine Forest Rally is happening July 20 – 22nd, 2006! I am going to be there, prepared and ready to take more pictures than before. Not only that, more people are tagging along with me, and they have cameras as well…more pics for all 
The Auto X season has started back up as well. I will not be participating until I grab myself another set of tires. I can not afford to run on my street tires anymore (yeah, it wasn’t smart to do the first season anyways). I’m also looking forward to grabbing the SVT-style suspension kit, which will probably throw me into a higher category (beh) but I have not read this year’s SCCA rule book (yet). I really do not want to go into a higher class than STS at the moment…we will see.
May 6th, 2006 by Ray in Computer Related | Comments Off
Folding @ Home, distributed computing to find the cure for cancer, alzheimer’s disease, huntington’s disease and a few others, is a fan among many geeks alike…the reason? Technology, a good cause, and just having fun with competition. If you want more info, check out the folding website at: http://folding.stanford.edu/
The point of a folding diskless farm is to get folding at home running on a “cluster like†network. At this point in time, folding is not supported on a real cluster enviornment, so we revert to installing the client on as many computers as possible. The easiest way is to create a server/client enviornment where computers will do a network boot, pull an OS image and automatically boot and begin to fold. Yes, this has been done before…err…it has been many times before. The reasoning for our write ups is to update these walk throughs for the people who want to replicate our setup(s).
We have successfully installed a diskless farm on both Windows 2003 and Fedora Core 5 running the LTSP project. Our write ups, and a lot more explanation can be found here: http://whitebox.sytes.net:8080/~folding