Folding at home

[ckuck at cts.com]

John H. Robinson, IV writes:

>no a ^C is a SIGINT (Interuppt Signal)

Got it.

>a HUP is a HangUP and that is what the shell gives to all owned
>running processes when you logout.

Ahh. Then "nohup" in this case is A Good Thing.

>but no one ever said what a Fold at Home thing is? i see it, and i am
>thinking origami.

Nope - think "proteins". The link below starts out with this:

"Understanding how proteins self-assemble ("protein folding") is
a holy grail of modern molecular biophysics."

http://folding.stanford.edu/using.html#goals

IMHO this is much more worthwhile than cracking encryption or
helping ET phone home... <g> Besides, as we used to say in the old
mainframe days when clock cycles were expen$ive:

"A clock cycle unused is a clock cycle lost forever."

-- Carl