I have been a F@H member for years in the tweakguides.com team, I haven't been folding much for a while now, so I thought let's see if LFS had a team and I noticed this topic, but sadly I see that this team is dead with no production for a long time. I also noticed that many of us are a little bored of LFS atm, so I thought lets start an healthy competition with all that unused CPU/GPU power on F@H while waiting for the next patch....

I have setup a new team so that everyone can start at the same time, but before we do that I like to ask a mod if I am allowed start a clean topic to advertise this new little competition for a good cause? (also noticed an other dead topic on the subject which could be removed I think http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... ;highlight=folding%40home )

If not I will post it here....

Also I like to ask the guys who have folded before if they would resume their work in this new team?

New topic proposition:

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Folding@Home LFS Community team (competition for a good cause)

I noticed that many of you were bored of LFS, so that means that a lot of processor power is wasted during those times you’re not playing, so I thought let’s start an healthy competition to make use of our CPU’s or GPU’s when not playing…

Don’t know if many of you knows about Folding@Home, it a project which consist in using unused CPU power to fold proteins which play an important role in disease like Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. The idea is to offer scientist a way to realize projects which they couldn’t do with a super computer by using 100.000’s CPU’s around the world

What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

More here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science

This is not new and it plays an important role now, check the result page here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

Personally I have been folding for years for the Tweakguides.com team and I have folded a total of 21.921 WU (work units or projects) or 410774 points. In the good time we’ve managed to get in the top 100 teams for weekly production of WU’s (top 100 today would need 19.000 points a week now http://folding.extremeovercloc ... eam_list.php?s=&srt=6 ) which was really special for such a small team considering that some had 1000’s of members…..and I believe LFS community would do even better...
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi ... age&username=Framaris
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cg ... eampage&teamnum=50446

Each WU are different and will take different amount of time to realize, so different amount of points will given function of difficulty. So since we all like competition and we all have our PC running most of the day doing close to nothing, I thought it would be a good idea to create an LFS community team.

We will compete as team in the middle of 1000’s of others and as individuals for the general stats and inside our team, so if you care to join me, here are some useful information’s:

Team F@H page: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Team number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Installation guide: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Guide
FAQ: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ
Downloads: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
High performing beta clients downloads: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Check user name: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download#ntoc2
Get Passkey: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getpasskey.py

Handy stats websites (team was just created so it is not there yet):
http://kakaostats.com/
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

To participate in this competition, some work will be required on your part, there are different clients you can use (single CPU, multi core CPU’s, GPU’s and even PS3), some of those will be less easy to use but will produce bigger rewards in compensation….care to compete for a good cause?

Happy folding!

THX in advance for answering!

PS: I know Folding is not a competition, but competition is always a great motivation and that's how we got in the top 100 with the tweakguides.com gaming community.....
If no one is interested in competing for this, I'll probably join the team Arco created....

Well I wouldn't take part in anything which could damage LFS, but I wish ppls would realize that our servers are not a part of what they bought with LFS, our servers are an expensive and time consuming service we provide for free and I don't see why we have to take all that bull….???

hahaha that's an idea , though I would not give up on my hobby for a couples of ungrateful guys!

But we could make them all private and give the pass to the lfs lovers exclusively! lol

I’ve been a bit busy with the Stressmas period and a bit lazy too I must admit , so here I resume posting info's about the series....

On Wednesday GEN event we will be on LX4/AS3R and next Monday TBO event will be at AS7R.

And don't forget you need a copper license to be allowed to participate to the series, so if you want to race the events make sure you do some laps on the combo before them....

December driver of the month was quite a fight between R4R Matty and myself, I came 100 points short, congratulation to him!!

Happy racing!:eclipsee_

What amazes me is the amount of public servers still running today, when you see the amount of complains in this forum (mostly unfounded) and the amount of work needed to run those servers, I am really surprised there are still guys around willing to organize things…

LFS is the most ungrateful community I ever saw and I am a hard core gamers for almost 20 years, so go on like this and the next thing you will complain about will be ‘’why is there almost no servers left in LFS?’’

Feedback is always the problem, ppls seems to think that they should report only the bad things and I know negative feedback is necessary to improve things (when constructive), but constructive positive feedback is also greatly appreciated and will also allow us to improve/maintain things. Think about those guys who can’t race because they have to admin the careless drivers all the times, their only reward is to see happy racers!

Too many ppls spend more time complaining than racing and when you see them driving you ask yourself ‘’WTH was that about on the forum???’’

I always wonder what ppls think when they discover the great sim lfs is and then read this forum??

My advice to admins is don’t do only what worked in the past or what works on other servers, be creative and bold enough to try new things... The ambiance on the server is the key to its success...

The trackers we use (Airio or Lapper) are great tools build to feel a need requested by server admins, in no way they are the culprit here!

Personally I am still here because I love racing, LFS still has one of the best online experience and it feels like a big family, and luckily there are still some ppls like me around…
Are you one of us?

And one important thing to close this, don’t go to servers you don’t like, every popular server starts with one racer liking it, don’t spend time trying to change popular servers to your liking, we are all different and we all like different type of racing…if you don’t like LFS plz just leave and let us have fun with our favorite sim….if you stay, spend your energy in a positive and constructive way!

Last edited by Framaris, Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:07.

After a long week with GTR cars and the LFS Endurance Series on KY2, here is a little update:

Dailycious continue with GEN server on FBM/SO6 for the event planned for wednesday, TBO's event is tonight on SO6R...

Good Luck!

Many and with the one I couldn't I make them a deal, I bought the license for them and if after 3 months they are still playing they will pay back, small risk since they all get addicted...

Hi,

Things have changed a bit and we now have one server set to change combo's every week, as you may have seen in the announce and rules many weeks haven't been programmed on GEN server.
For those combo's we are going to start votes in the forum, so if there is any combo you would like to see, this is the right place to post them.
I can't promise we will play them all since the part 2 of the series will take 12 weeks, but each votes will contain 3 or 4 choices, so I can promise that we will look to this topic before creating the votes.

So let's see what you want to race!

Please post you requests here: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... mp;t=418&p=2477#p2477

THX for you help!

If it was to happen again which I hope not, plz post in this subforum: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10

If it is an incident during the dailycious series post here: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=533

Like that if one of us has a replay, we'll know faster...

I will talk to masai, maybe he has one, but knowing him he probably forgot already....

Sorry this had to happen marsaz, I have checked our ban list and you are not on it any more, so it may have been a 12h ban.
For the story Masai has been too nice till now, since day 1 he has only banned 2 drivers which is very little compared to my score, lately I have pressured him to be more present and to sanction careless driving.
That said at Ready2Roll we believe that bans are only effective when short and drivers learn not to repeat the same things when they come back, nothing personal I can insure you...

If you have a replay of the action, I'll be happy to look at it...

Quote from james12s :

when trying to connect i just get a tcp error, and the log file says my p activly refused the connection. windows firewall is turned off (xp), and im doing everything in the order above but no luck

Got the same error when I tested it first time, after looking for a solution on the port side and loosing much time, I found that I had created in the past an undedicated server which was passworded, I removed the password and aonio was working perfectly.

If you don't have the same problem, try it with a fresh install of lfs, if it works it probably means that something was messed up in lfs config...

Good Luck!

@EQ: Great stuff mate, I love the last updates!!
And the cfg offers some nice customisation options, I am thinking of making some rock n roll sound files for cars coming from behind and maybe some meditation music for what's in front...lol

Welcome to Ready2Roll Dailycious series part2!

In this second part of our series we have tried something a bit different, first major change is that the GT2 server will become a general server (GEN) where we are going to race different cars and tracks, second there will be only 2 events a week with 3 races each, on Monday TBO and on Wednesday GEN. The 3 races will have different race length from 10min+1lap No Pit, 20min+1lap Pit (free work), 30min+1lap Pit (free work), there will be only one quali of 15 min before race 1 and to reward consistency and racers who always finishes, race 2 and 3 will use the results from the previous race, others will be able to join in the back. The server will remain public during races which will allow racers to join the second or third race if they were a bit late. No mid race join will be allowed and during races no rejoin, we hope that everyone will respect the code of no chat (check the communication part of the rules if you want to use private messaging during race).

One thing which doesn’t change is that we want keep this series half way between serious and friendly, so it is still be open to everyone without registration needed. Of course it is always useful to register to our forum and present yourself, we are a community of friends, so join and be one of us!

TBO server will have a race calendar planned long in front and to be more interactive for the community, we will vote weekly on combo’s for the GEN server. So make sure you are registered to the forum to be able to vote...

Race format for both servers will be as follows:
19:40 UTC / quali 15min
20:00 UTC / Race1 10min+1lap no pit
20:20 UTC / Race2 20min+1lap with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R1)(others can join in the back)
20:50 UTC / Race3 30min+1lap with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R2)(others can join in the back)
21:30 UTC / end.....

Don’t forget that the races are race length+1 lap, so on some track it can extend the race from 4 or 5 min, which means we will have more than 5 min rest period between races to change our sets and prepare for next race...Free work means that there will be no pit window and it is up to you if you do change tires, tank or repair.

The series will start officially on December 7th, 2009 and will end February 24th, 2010. Points will be attributed to every racers finishing races and will be accumulated till the end of the season, the stats will be displayed in 2 categories, TBO only, GEN only.

Points:
Race1=10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
Race2=20,18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
Race3=30,25,20,18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

TBO calendar:
Week1 AS2 -> Club
Week2 BL1R -> Blackwood reverse
Week3 SO6R -> Chicane Route reverse
Week4 FE3 -> Gold
Week5 KY2 -> National
Week6 AS7R -> National reverse
Week7 WE1R -> Westhill reverse
Week9 BL1 -> Blackwood
Week10 AS3R -> national reverse
Week11 FE2R -> Green reverse
Week12 SO4R -> City long reverse

GEN calendar:
Week1 AS2R XFR+UFR
Week2 KY2 GTR (fixed combo for LFS endurance series)
Week3 vote in forum
Week4 vote in forum
Week5 vote in forum
Week6 FE4 GT2 (fixed combo for LFS endurance series)
Week7 vote in forum
Week9 vote in forum
Week10 vote in forum
Week11 WE1 GTR (fixed combo for LFS endurance series)
Week12 vote in forum


We have prepared a special page for the Dailycious series stats http://www.ready2rollteam.com/r2rdailyrace/ and you will find the top 20 of the 2 leader boards (GEN/TBO) on the portal http://www.ready2rollteam.com.
Detailed rules: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=531
To check dailycious points on the servers, type !tbo or !gen.

A license lock will be applied just before the race to insure that lap time difference are not too important, the copper license will be required to race in dailycious. Licenses are achieved with driving certain lap time on our servers, to check the lap time required for copper license, go on track and type !lcs (LCS) in the chat. Also note that admins have been very indulgent and many ‘’second’’ chances have been given, the quality of races has now considerably improved we are going to be more demanding as it keeps doing so.

Our system is fully automatic and will not allow manual results changes in its early version, none the less we want to make sure races stays fair for everyone, so you will find a dedicated topic in the Dailycious part of the forum where we encourage everyone to help us by posting reclamations. Guilty drivers will mainly be sanctioned by preventing them from joining future events and if really unavoidable a manual point adjustment will be done.

Make sure to read the rules well to learn all the ins and outs of our system. Our community consist of mature and clean racing friends and we suggest to everyone joining this series to become one of us.
Any infractions to the rules or anti sportive comportments will be sanctioned consequently…

This is a ‘’show up and race’’ kind of leagues which should allow for a maximum racers to participate, R2R team hopes that you will enjoy it like most of us did during the first part…

THX to the Team and Community for helping us building this new Series!
Without you guys this wouldn’t have been possible!

Now let’s have some fair and competitive racing, have fun racers!!

R2R team

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Communications
Not everyone has team speak or similar app and chatting during the race is not allowed, but Airio tracker offer you the possibility to chat privately, so it is recommended you configure your private chat list before the qualifications starts.
!pm +name (add racer to your private chat list, e.g. !pm +framaris, you can add nicknames or license names and as many as you want)
!pm -name (to remove a name from private chat list)
!pm chat text (to chat with your private group)
Get use to the function before the race so you don’t need to ask at the last minute, It is also nice to setup some keys to fast PM, e.g. !pm coming in pit next lap…

Also to avoid receiving too many Airio massages you can use the command !silent.

Next to Dailycious we wanted to have a competition for all those sprint races we do every day, so we have decided to start using the Champ points to nominate the best driver in the end of each month.
Those points will be reset the 1th of each month, we are also thinking about organizing a race with the top 32, but that's for later....

The top 32 champ points is on the portal for everyone to see: portal.php

Happy racing!

Last edited by Framaris, Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:35.

Tonight is the last test races for the second part of Dailycious, will be on Ready2Roll GEN Racing server with UFR+XFR on AS3.

Beta rules have been posted here: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=524

19:40 UTC / quali 15min
20:00 UTC / Race1 10min no pit
20:20 UTC / Race2 20min with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R1)(others can join in the back)
20:50 UTC / Race3 30min with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R2)(others can join in the back)
21:30 UTC / end.....

Part2 will start Monday on TBO server!

THX for participating and have fun!

Last edited by Framaris, Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:34.

Sounds good TVE, good luck mate!

THX to everyone for participating in yesterday's test which was quite OK for a first test, tomorrow (Monday) we'll have an other test event like this on TBO server at AS2r.

19:40 UTC / quali 15min
20:00 UTC / Race1 10min no pit
20:20 UTC / Race2 20min with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R1)(others can join in the back)
20:50 UTC / Race3 30min with pit (free work)(start grid=finish order R2)(others can join in the back)
21:30 UTC / end.....

Happy racing!

Looking at a rainy evening at home?
http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=524

OK guys the first part of Dailycious is finished, thank you to all participants, it was fun racing with all of you and we hope to see you all in the second part!

Here are the results for each classifications, you will also find downloadable pdf's with all results:

TBO winner R2R B!K3R: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=513


GT2 winner PLZ MaxNorris: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=516


GT2+TBO winner R2R B!K3R: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=517


Dailycious stats: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/r2rdailyrace/
Dailycious part1 topic: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=372

Next week will be test week with 2 events to try out the new dailycious system, stay tuned....

Last edited by Framaris, Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:10.

Just did something I normally never do, but since it is the last week and no one had driven on GT2 server yet, I have changed the track to WE1 like it was requested by MoE drivers and the community.
Sorry for this last minute change...

This week's tracks:
Monday: dailycious tbo/WE1
Tuesday: dailycious gt2/WE1
Wednesday: dailycious tbo/WE1
Thursday: dailycious gt2/WE1

Last edited by Framaris, Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42.

Sorry guys, the flue got me and I am late announcing next week's calendar, this will be the last week for the first part of dailycious and the tbo and general classifications are not decided yet.
Nothing will stop maxnorris from taking first place in GT2...Congrats to him!

This week's tracks:
Monday: dailycious tbo/WE1
Tuesday: dailycious gt2/FE3
Wednesday: dailycious tbo/WE1
Thursday: dailycious gt2/FE3

There will be many changes for the second part (3 months) which will start next week, but that's a surprise, stay tuned...

Happy racing!

Dual boot: Win Vista Ultimate 64bit / Win 7 Ultimate 64bit

We are trying to race as much tracks as possible (easy, hard, long...no racism :razz, when you race in RL, you don't do only the ones you like, the quality of a racer is to adapt and achieve the best result possible, even when he doesn't like the track.
We love LFS for its Sim character, so no compromises...

TBO/BL1R was week3 of the series...
if you want to check what tracks we have already done, go to this link and click on track calendar: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/r2rdailyrace/

We are thinking to call the Dailycious winners every 3 months and restart the series fresh, so that would mean (if it happens) that end November the first part of dailycious will end and restart in December (maybe with some changes), which will allow us to race the popular tracks again... so stay tuned!

It was a great week for TBO with the easy AS2 which we have bookmarked on everyone's request, we had a special feature in the first corner which seems to have prevented the classic T1 divebombs.
GT2 was a bit slow last week with AS4r, so next week TBO will get a hard track with SO6r and GT2 a popular one with KY2r.

Our compliments to most of you last week, we've seen a lot of great and fun racing, the ambiance was great and it makes you forget those inevitable bad races.....
Also we have seen many new faces, it was nice to meet you guys!

Next Week
Monday: dailycious tbo/SO6r
Tuesday: dailycious gt2/KY2r
Wednesday: dailycious tbo/SO6r
Thursday: dailycious gt2/KY2r

Dailycious topic: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=372
Dailycious Stats: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/r2rdailyrace/
Dailycious replays: http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=402

Have fun and good luck!

PS: To those we sadly had to ban this week, don't take it personal, we are just trying to keep the place clean for all of us. We believe that bans works only if the racer change after it, so most bans were short, if you decide to come back, remember to be friendly, clean and respectful, we are all friends, so be one of us or don't come......(to check your ban length, just login to our servers, a message will be displayed)
PS2: If you are a beginner (we all were at some point in time), plz try to train when the server is less busy to avoid crashing races and getting banned, the community is very friendly, if you need ask for help and I am sure someone if not many will help you with setups and advises...say hello in our forum, so that we know who you are and what you are trying to achieve... http://www.ready2rollteam.com/forum/portal.php

Don't want to go on this subject which never ends, but there are ppls thinking about alternatives to monetary system, like the resource based economy ( http://www.thevenusproject.com ... gn/resource-based-economy ) from the venus project: http://www.thevenusproject.com/

lol..someone sent me the topic on msn...probably to show me the two old guys's picture in the first port ...and i thought it was recent...I'll just take an other aperitif if you don't mind..

That's how much I care about wr's...