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Category Archives: Folding

Origami (previously folding.sh): Now In PPA!

20-Apr-08

Its been a while since I’ve blogged about my Folding@Home management tool, now called Origami.  There was a lull there in development for a while, but this last week I’ve done probably 20+ commits, which puts us up to version 0.6.6.1.  There are now also two branches being maintained on Launchpad (bzr).  One for [...]

Quick Poll Regarding folding.sh

27-Mar-08

I’m trying to come up with a more creative name for my folding @ home management tool.  I put up a quick poll on the Ubuntu Forums.  If you care to offer a vote or suggestions please take a minute and drop by.
folding.sh renaming poll

Project Update Announcements

21-Mar-08

I wanted to quickly toss something out there for all of you on the interweb.  I spent some time last evening cleaning up a few of my code projects.  If you have been using either of them you may want to update.
apturl for Gnome Do
I spent some time in the #gnome-do channel last nite seeing [...]

folding.sh 0.6.2 released

12-Feb-08

Minor update available for folding.sh. For those interested the download is available in the traditional location as well as on Launchpad. Still working on a package folks.

updated config file control, allowing commenting in the ~/.foldingrc
added ‘migrate’ function, easing transitioning to new hardware
added ‘version’ function as standalone (vs output via ‘help’)
misc cleanup

As usual, if [...]

Ubuntu Folding IRC Channel

29-Jan-08

A few of us from the Ubuntu Folding Team setup an IRC channel today for support and discussion of folding. If you’d like to join us drop by in #ubuntu-folding (freenode).
You can find support for folding.sh (my application) if I’m around, or discuss other methods for running the distributed computing client.
Links:
Download folding.sh
Ubuntu Folding Team [...]

Packaging Request For Folding

19-Jan-08

If you’ve followed this blog over the last six months you probably know I’ve been developing a little piece of software that facilitates in installing (and MUCH more!) the Folding @ Home distributed computing project on Linux machines.  I’ve had a great lot of fun writing and developing this software, and based on the number [...]

Folding 0.6.1 “Blizzard” Released

20-Dec-07

I know we just had a folding release earlier today, and it is still super-awesome, but I had a little time to think this afternoon and I added a little bit more to it.  I went with my wife to the doctor regarding the baby that is on the way and, well, you know how [...]

Folding 0.6 “Awesomely Awesome!” Released

20-Dec-07

Well, its time again for another folding.sh update. This release, version 0.6, is a MAJOR update from all previous versions. This is one that I’m really proud of and I’ve tested pretty heavily. To give you an idea, I installed Stanford’s Folding @ Home client to ten machines on my network–all different [...]

Folding 0.5.2.2 Released

17-Dec-07

I wish I was announcing the release of Folding 0.6 today but I made a mistake with some of the revisions I had and lost them.  Looks like I’ll be starting over on those additions.  Those are (for those that are curious), a local backup and restore utility and also a remote backup and restore.  [...]

Folding 0.5.2.1 “Regression” Released

28-Nov-07

Just three days after releasing 0.5.2 I’m repenting and reverting a bit with a 0.5.2.1 patch. This removes the renaming prompt at the main installer. Based on a bit more testing and user feedback I realize adding that feature at that point was not the best idea. In the future, installing as [...]