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Great job everyone! My office is weirdly quiet now without my GPU fans spinning at nearly full blast.... At least I have my CPU fans to keep me company still (for the next 1.59 days, anyway--must have picked up a big WU).

With helicopters, counter-rotation also serves to cancel out the torque on the helicopter (that normally must be cancelled out by tail rotor, increasing drag with no benefit to lift) and eliminates the need for a tail rotor, improving efficiency (though some will still have a small tail rotor for steering).

Yeah, looks like you're right about the board's model number. There's not a lot of info online about it apparently, but what I have found seems to indicate that there's no built-in graphics. He'll need a discrete GPU (even an old one will do) to use as a "display adapter." Luckily it's not too old, and has PCIE, so a modern GPU should work, though be careful about power - I don't think I'd trust that PSU with very much.

This is literally what PCIE is for. For example, my desktop MB didn't come with WiFi, but I needed wireless networking. I had issues (due to placement/interference) with USB dongles. So I installed a PCIE WiFi card. Bam, rear I/O updated with external antennas using a modular card. Another computer, I needed more SATA ports. Added a Host Bus Module (PCIE storage adapter, basically), and got four extra internal SATA ports. This is better than being able to only update the external I/O as you suggest, since I can add either internal or external (or both - I've seen USB cards, for example, with both internal and external ports) I/O. And yes, you can use the same modules for years. The HBM mentioned above went into a PC from 10 years ago. the WiFi went into a brand new build last year. They're interchangeable - I could swap them with each other, if I wanted to.

Yeah, same here. Finished a mega-WU early this morning, now I've got this: (Already marked as "finishing" since I know it's not gonna get done before the deadline.) I might ramp it up to 12/12 threads after deadline tonight, after my GPU finishes. (I keep 2 threads free to feed the GPU, of course.)

I've thought about that, but with my setup I haven't seen any benefit beyond turning off two threads. (I have a R5 3600 with a GTX 1650S. I fold with the GPU and 10 of 12 CPU threads, and that seems to be my best balance normally.) On the other hand, I realized this event goes through Sunday night, not just tomorrow, so I'll just barely squeeze in this mega-WU sometime early Sunday morning (GMT). Here's hoping for some small WUs on Sunday.

My CPU picked up a monster WU a day or so ago. It has 1.59 days remaining. I don't think it's gonna get in on time... Feels like the last couple days were wasted. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. (And this is on my R5 3600 too, not my crappy 10-year-old CPU. Curse you, project 18425!)

Time for my 2 cents, too. I notice you have a Cause Preference set. I'm wondering if maybe that's causing it to wait for long periods at a time between WUs, waiting for a COVID WU to become available? Have you tried changing that to Any to see if it makes a difference?

Wow. That's basically my total PPD between both CPU and GPU (on Windows). But with just your CPU. Impressive.

I mean, you saw my screenshot, right? I have my "server" folding at just over 1300 PPD. In case you didn't see it, here's a clip: Now sure, I also have my desktop (both CPU and GPU) folding at a total of 6-700K.... but that's not the point.

Woohoo, 79th on Day one! Last year I hovered around the 90s, so I'm happy so far. I also added some new hardware. I don't think it's going to make much difference though.... It's my storage server's CPU, a 10-year-old Athlon (and a GPU that I added in for Plex transcoding, though I haven't actually used it, and it's too old to be supported by F@H) running Linux. (It's a terrible CPU, but it's also a very lightly used server, so it does what I need it to, and it was free.)

Thanks! AOMEI worked, and I can browse through the files now.

So, I've been pulling data from old hard drives onto my new NAS, and I've come across an interesting file. Apparently, in 2013-2014, I used some sort of backup software to backup an old computer. Which is great, except that it saved the backups into a proprietary filetype. The files are called My Backup(1).adi (and it appears to be an incremental backup, since there's also a My Backup(1)1.adi, My Backup(1)2.adi, etc., that are much smaller). I've searched the filetype, and it comes up most often as belonging to Active@ Virtual Disk, which does indeed have a backup utility; unfortunately, I installed Active@, and it fails with "Error = 32." Unfortunately, I haven't been able to determine what error 32 means. I've also opened the files in a hex editor, and they have what appears to be a file signature of "BIFH" (that, is the first 4 bytes are 0x42, 0x49, 0x46, and 0x48). Unfortunately, a search for that file signature also came up fruitless. I'm at my wits end. I have no idea what's in this backup (or whether I already have the contents somewhere else), but I'd really like to crack into the contents if I can. Any suggestions for what software might be able to crack this nut?

There are solutions that provide KVM over LAN, but they are expensive. Steam link, as @jaslion recommends, would work if you're playing Steam games. (Note that you can add just about any game to Steam, though I don't know how well they'd be supported by Steam Link.) For a little money but more work, you could probably run a high-quality active (active cables have repeaters built-in that boost the signal to overcome cable length limitations) USB-3.2 cable alongside the existing ethernet, then put a hub behind the TV to provide KVM over USB. (Not sure how much configuration that would take to have your GPU output over USB instead of its own ports, though. If you have problems, you could run an HDMI cable with it, too.)