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04-25-2010, 05:46 AM
[SC2]Sano

Hey Rise,

I really enjoy your commentaries and definitely have the CPU cycles to spare. Just submitted my first work units and am looking forward to submitting loads more. Keep up the great work.

~Sano
04-25-2010, 07:12 AM
Kronixx

went out of town for the weekend to find my account activated finally. So hello all 4 pages of others who joined and hello Rise, signed myself up and told my buddy to sign up as well who also plays with me and watches your channel. If you quit commentating, i'll uh, not sure what but it won't be pretty.
04-25-2010, 07:15 AM
SleepyDragon

Thanks for doing this Rise. I lost a very close friend of mine to cancer almost 5 years ago (he was only 18), and it's good to know that I can actually do something to help out.
04-25-2010, 07:37 AM
Rise4SC2Presdnt

Hey!

Well you deserve this Rise of course signed up for you! You are the biggest entertainment in concern to internet/series I get in my daily life just so much enjoyment even just listening to you, very genuine and just an awesome guy overall thanks for all you're doing for the community!
04-25-2010, 07:57 AM
HolyHeeroYui

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir Ad

We need to know your identifier to do that, the second part of your account name. PandaWooper.?????. Also, what region are you on, US, EU or Asia? I believe you can only play with and befriend players on your own region, so EU peeps can't play with US folks and so on.

And I too am crunching 100% while playing. The only time I have to pause crunching is when I do live streams, seems like my computer can't handle both the stream and the number crunching at the same time and crashed when I tried to do both.

What do you stream? Starcraft?

I might watch just because I'm generally bored with nothing to do.

Although I haven't had any problems with crunching and streaming. I used Ustream for that. What site do you use? You could always try Ustream to see if it crashes there.
04-25-2010, 09:35 AM
czesiu

Hey all :)

I've just joined this type of project for first time thanks to that SC video :)

also, one thing from tutorials looks really outdated
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=12
WCG recommends that the maximum paging file size should be at least 2 or 3 times your real memory size, and should preferably be at least 512MB, whichever is greater.
I would iamgine this changed since 2008 :)
04-25-2010, 09:57 AM
Hanzwurst

hey Rise!
i heeded your call.
i did share my cpu time with SETI@home, but it's better used fighting cancer instead of finding obscure alien signals.
i really appreciate you using your popularity for a good cause.

oh an keep on the great work!

CHEERS!
04-25-2010, 10:03 AM
v0dka

I'm very much impressed by this thread. Welcome all! :welcome:
04-25-2010, 10:36 AM
[XC] serlv

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rise

For those of you who are already part of the team, the point of this thread is for me to [hopefully] welcome my starcraft friends/fans to the XS crunching train. I made a video telling them my story and so here is my thread to high five them and welcome them aboard!
:welcome::welcome::welcome::welcome::welcome:

HELLO SC2 PEEPS!
This thread is the place for everyone who watches my starcraft videos to hopefully check into. Basically, I’m going to give you guys some links that will get you up and running quickly and that will basically answer everything you might be wondering from XS and World Community Grid to who crunches and why they do it. You’ll see if you look around here, everybody is rowing in the same direction for the same goal.

The first thing you guys need to do is sign up at xtremesystems.org (here) and make an account. If you want to show you’re an SC2 guy/gal feel free to throw [SC2] in your name, if not, that’s cool too :)

Next, go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org to join WCG and click the “Join Today!” buttons that are around the home page. Follow the instructions here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=224817 to make an account, and join the XS team!

For any other questions you might have about WCG and XS, a thread already exists to answer pretty much anything you can think of here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=230613

Of course if you have any other questions or just want to talk, feel free to post in this thread. At the very least, be sure to post and say hi to let me know you joined!

Thanks for joining us!!!!!
-rise

for anyone wondering, the original video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egU2MyA3Pbk

Didn't just join, Rise. As you probably ( or not ) know I've been a team member for a while. However, I just wanted to say what a great "video"! And, oh my God, what a fantastic response. Well done. And of course, a big welcome to all the SC-XS guys!

I'm sorry to hear about your Mom, Rise, she was my exact age now, when you lost her. I know it is hard, as I lost my Dad to lung cancer in 2001. I so hate cancer! It turned me into a cruncher, though. Perhaps the one good thing I can say about it.

Anyway, awesome job. Thanks for sharing your story and your pain. You' are not alone. And being so effective in doing so!
04-25-2010, 11:19 AM
jie900

Hi all! Software running.
04-25-2010, 11:20 AM
[XC] serlv

Welcome!
04-25-2010, 12:14 PM
Lasersqrrl[SC2]

Hey Rise,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention and keep up your fantastic commentaries!! It must have taken great courage to make this video.

Quote:

My vulture play is well described by the free electron model. Free roaming, seemingly random motion of individuals that when viewed as a whole is rather simple and predictable...

Wow im making physics based jokes about starcraft...is that like Geek^2 or something?

Perfect combination!! (I am also a physics undergrad)
04-25-2010, 01:31 PM
[SC2]Ravel

Hey Rise! (and hey you xtremeguys :) )

As most of the guys in this thread, I've been following you for I don't know how long, forever? and am of course going to give something back to you. Also, I didn't know about this and it seems to be a good cause, so thank you for that! I have no idea how this works, I just see that my machine is doing some computing and that obviously I generate poins, so I hope I'm doing it right :>
04-25-2010, 01:43 PM
shoota

as long as you joined XtremeSystems when you installed the team will be getting the points added. big thanks go out to all you peeps that just signed up!
04-25-2010, 02:16 PM
SC2_Requisition

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir Ad

To all of those who wonder what Starcraft is, you could always watch couple of Rise's Awesometaries. For starters, I can provide an easy access to my favourite episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_10L...os=OJuz9ACH2_M

I still remember that game. It is definitely a Rise classic.
04-25-2010, 03:39 PM
Otis11

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKcOlNu

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9399/starcraft.png

:rofl:

I'll take two... And can I get that without the guy? :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by qvae_train

For Rise! Team [qvae] requests more drunken commentaries.

http://i39.tinypic.com/21zjv4.png

Quote:

Originally Posted by lkiller123

Make sure you set the processor time to 100%:)

Just wanted to restate what Ikiller123 said - if your processor can handle the heat, make sure you guys pump it up to 100% processor usage. Just go into preferences, processor usage, and make sure the bottom two are both 100

Great job Rise, and thanks for everyone who joined!
04-25-2010, 03:51 PM
lkiller123

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otis11

Just wanted to restate what Ikiller123 said - if your processor can handle the heat, make sure you guys pump it up to 100% processor usage. Just go into preferences, processor usage, and make sure the bottom two are both 100

Great job Rise, and thanks for everyone who joined!

Also, don't forget to change "While processor usage is less than ___ percent" value to 0.:)
04-25-2010, 04:08 PM
siaukia

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_10L...os=OJuz9ACH2_M

Ah yes, back in the day when people actually casted BW, so sad to see the game forgotten like an old dog :'(
04-25-2010, 04:25 PM
Sir Ad

Quote:

Originally Posted by HolyHeeroYui

What do you stream? Starcraft?

I might watch just because I'm generally bored with nothing to do.

Although I haven't had any problems with crunching and streaming. I used Ustream for that. What site do you use? You could always try Ustream to see if it crashes there.

I generally stream whatever I happen to play. I just started this streaming business about a week ago, so far I've done e.g. Starcraft, Dragon Age and F.E.A.R. among a few others. I tried out different sites, Procaster was the only software I could get to capture full screen games so at the moment I'm stuck with livestream.com even if I don't really like the site.

Quote:

Originally Posted by siaukia

Ah yes, back in the day when people actually casted BW, so sad to see the game forgotten like an old dog :'(

I have to admit that after getting my hands on the beta I've barely touched the first game at all anymore myself.
04-26-2010, 02:31 AM
mekilledjason

shields up and weapons online my good rise, except for that on a power level in starcraft that my latop would be an scv and my pc would be a zergling. but hey a million zerglings can make a difference in the tide of battle right? hope my pieces of crap computers help.
04-26-2010, 03:23 AM
thinkb4uact

Hello from Bulgaria, Rise. Thank you for the awesome commentaries and analysis of all the SC2 games so far. They are all amazing!
And thanks for bringing this up. This is quite extraordinary network of ordinary people trying to make a difference and I'm glad to be a part of it =D
Keep up the good work!
04-26-2010, 04:10 AM
bjwang08

For sure!

Did it. Yes, my mother had breast cancer. She survived. I understand some of your feelings, but I can't relate to you on losing your mother. I am very sorry :(

Good luck with your life! :)
04-26-2010, 04:38 AM
Rise

wow, i didn't get a chance to log on to XS over the weekend (was busy casting some epic games :p:) so I was very surprised to come here this morning to see 5 pages of new replies :shocked:

thanks to every single one of you who joined & of course thanks to the awesome guys at XS for being so receptive, as expected :) it really is, in my mind, one of the greatest ways for us to contribute to beating the crap out of cancer. I know we will be a large factor in the success of a cancer researcher one day typing out "GG" at the end of his paper detailing his cure for this beast and we'll hopefully all be here still to cheer as we see the message "cancer's base is being revealed" :yepp:

I'll have a video up for all of you guys who joined by this saturday to give you a verbal thanks in the best way I can think of - while commentating a game of SC2. I'll have to find an epic match for it to give me enough time to include everyone's name :up: it's a good problem to have.

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to all of the XS guys who said thanks - i need to say thanks to you guys first as you're all the reason I ever started crunching in the first place and this is the least I can do to try and give back a little. i tried to make that video about a year ago, but i just couldn't articulate what I felt at that point time because my head was still pretty clouded. it still hurts to talk about it but it's worth it if i can help spread the word of how others can help, especially since so many people are affected by it, every day.
04-26-2010, 04:44 AM
JohnLeRouge

Hey Rise. Thanks for all your videos, especially the "charity" one. I was always sad when I saw my cpu barely used even while playing... Now it's at 100% all the time for a good reason :). Keep up the good work!
04-26-2010, 06:32 AM
[SC2]Oblivion

Hey Rise gotta say thanks for all that your doing to try and find the cure for cancer (been a member of a folding@home team for about a year) hope that we will be eventually sucessfull in our endevour. Joined up for the XS team and have it set for all 3 of my computers now.

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