Join us in the Grid Team PC911 & PCQandA recruiting drive to fight cancer! Do it NOW!

We need new members to help our team with the distributed cancer research project on your home computer.

To date I've donated over 10 years of computer CPU time to this project. The United Devices Cancer Research Project is asking you

to volunteer your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford

in England and the National Foundation for Cancer Research. Join the 1.2 million members
running the project with over 376,673 years of CPU power donated!

Now you too can add your personal computer to this historic distributed computing project

Many of us have been, or know someone who has been, touched by cancer.

This is one small way we can all help fight for life.

What is the United Devices Cancer Research Project?

United Devices is a provider of distributed computing services. This means
 they combine the computing power of tens of thousands of computers from all
 over the world by using the idle time and unused processor cycles to work
 on big computing projects that would normally take enormous amounts of
 time.

One of the projects they work on is the search for a cure for cancer. The
 idea is to check certain chemical molecules against certain proteins that
 are thought to be key elements in cancer growth. However, there are
 millions and millions of combinations to check, and doing this on only a
 few computers in a lab would take a very long time.

This is where regular computer users like you come in. By installing a
 small program on your computer UD will send your computer a work unit to
 complete. Your computer will work on it when it is idle, using only unused
 processor cycles, not interfering with anything you do on your computer.
 When the work unit is completed, it uploads it to the UD web site and
 retrieves the next unit to work on.

You probably get the idea. With thousands and thousands of computer users
 across the planet installing the UD software and donating their free unused
 computing time, processing can be distributed over many computers to help
 speed up the process.

LINKS:
 Three easy steps to join the Grid Team PC911 Cancer fighting team:

1. Download the small United Devices install program:
http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm
  Brief instructions:
    a. download the installer, noting the file name and location on your PC.
    b. when the download is complete, open Window Explorer and simply "double-click" on the 'ud_agent_setup.exe' file
    (in the location where you chose to save it) to begin the installation.
    c. follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.
    d. if the installer asks to reboot the computer, along with the UD LOGIN window, choose restart.
    e. upon restarting the computer, the UD LOGIN window will again appear. Think of a good user name and password.
    e. fill it out, press submit, and your UD agent will make a secure connection to the UD server to download your first work unit.
    g. go about your normal business while crunching on!
If you have any difficulty downloading and installing this software, please review the install help and FAQs.

2. Now Join our Grid Team PC911!:
http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=8BE7082D-C894-4BC1-9B00-71204C6D7F7E

3. Then register and join us in our very own Grid Team PC911 Lounge and forum! Its a small, and very confortable place for your comments, questions and concerns:
http://www.pcqanda.com/
We are a vibrant community!

Others have written about UD better than I:
Crazygerman's PCNineOneOne UD page
   Crazygerman is the founder and Captain of our team.
Dubber's UD page
  Dubber maintains quite an extensive website of tutorials and info.

Why we do it?:
Dubber's eloquent testimonial, and other team members speak: Testamonials: Why we run UD (post #8 bottom page).

Full links to above from our help forum (from which I copied verbage and links!):
PCQandA UD help forum

www.PCQandA.com, (formerly PCNineOneOne.com) is one of the best communities for general computer related help I've seen.
Computer help that is very newbie (and advanced) friendly. We ALL have been there too!

Runs under Win98, NT, 2000, XP and above.
Unfortunately, Linux and Apple are not supported.

 What about Security ?

I, along with United Devices, believe in the security of this client on a properly configured computer.
I am one of the more paranoid people I know.

Of course bullet-proof security only happens if you never connect to any network, especially the World Wide Web.

This application does not significantly add to your risk. United Devices has taken every reasonable measure to ensure security of
this as a stand-alone Java client application and 900k people daily watch it closely. Read more about it on the links below.
There are numerous applications that can be added to ensure, and reassure, your piece of mind while running your computer and this application.
Ask me if you wish!

Prevent the UD agent from connecting without your supervision, in addition to the agent device configuration button:
UD Monitor

BBT's great installation and configuration help  page.

One of the best free firewalls for all PCs:
ZA freeware, or CNET downloads.

The project software cannot detect or transfer anything on your machine but project-specific information.

If you need any install or sign up help, sign on to the PCQandA UD help forum for help.

Grid Team PC911 Avatars and Badges are posted here:
Member UD images

Our Grid Team PC911, in 25th position, is closing in on the next team, Team USA in a couple of weeks!

 No pressure, if you decide not to do this DONT WORRY, we'll still be friends but I MAY hound you!






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This guy is all bad news: Rich Konish of Winter Springs, FL.
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Send all spam his way to pwrguru@yahoo.com
Spam bots will pick that up too!