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    Bad address email on file John R's Avatar
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    Is your computer sat doing nothing for a while ? Well why not put it to good use and help find a cure to cancer :D Found this site thats a bit like the seti setup but looks for a cancer cure instead of life out there.
    There is a team option so i decide that as a trade the optical world could help big time :D to to join this team please use the link below... http://members.ud.com/services/teams...A-8F80FFB102BD
    So come on what are you waiting for get clicking and help fight something that affects all of us one way or another.

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    Looks interesting; I'll give it a go.

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    Bad address email on file John R's Avatar
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    Come on folks there must be more than Jo that have a computer sat doing nothing for a while.. This project does not slow your computer down as it will only work with free resources. You may be like me and not bother to turn it off either so it could be doing something all night.
    Please help it could help to save a life Yours maybe..

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    I would love to do this but my computer is getting old and has been slowing to a crawl lately. Therefore I'm holding off adding new programs and processes until I can afford a new one.

    Nonetheless this looks like a great idea. At one time I was doing something similar for the SETI project (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). I had to take it off bacuse of the aforementioned performance problems on y computer though.

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    Bad address email on file John R's Avatar
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    Crier Come on folks

    Come on out of 700 + members only 2 sign up me and Jo. There are some out there who leave the puter doing nowt for a while. This program does not slow your puter down it only takes what resourses are free...
    Stats up to press are 0:030:19:41:27 years, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
    Come on it could be your life it saves

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    Speaking of United Devices. When our team info updates again our score should go up. My own stats are higher than those listed under the team so I am going to figure the team isn't caught up yet.

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    Bad address email on file John R's Avatar
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    Thumbs up ah

    Jo team stats are updated once a its 00.30 Utc time. ? and guess what that is ibased on its GMT :D

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    Sorry John :(

    Sorry John, United Devices only wants PC's....my imac was too advanced for their system.I tried but didn't make the system requirements cut :(

    Great idea however, the disease has affected everyone I know....and it is time to kill cancer!
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    Crier 6,659

    Thats our position in the stats league.
    Now come on maybe some of you new members would like to join and help fight the bigC

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    John,

    I would love to help but my compter is pretty much out of space. I have to delete temporary files once or twice a day just to keep running.


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    Wave :idea: Help Steve ???

    I'll add this to the ""Lets Help Steve List"" :D
    Any one got a spare Hard Drive they can donate to Steve...
    I'm thinking maybe 20 gig or so should do....
    Had i not just used my old one for the sprogs puter i could have sent my spare over to you (2.1 gig) :hammer:

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    Thanks John! Good idea, but I think I fixed one major problem. Unbeknownst to me, Outlook Express was keeping a log of all email transmissions. It turns out that this file had grown to 782 MBs in size - a substantial portion of my 2 GB primary drive!

    Even considering the fact that I get and receive about 150-200 emails a day, I was still astonished to see a log this big. I've now turned off the logging, deleted the file and my comtuter seems happy again! :)


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    Wave huh

    Dont you just luv microsofts products for eating up disk space...
    Must remember never to email anything important then :hammer:

    Have a nice day now...

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    Smilie

    i joined2 anything to help .oneday maybe this curse will be beaten.
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