Introduce Yourself

Hello everyone,

We've had a lot of new members sign up lately, and everyone may not know everyone, so I thought I'd create an introduction thread.

My name is Jeff. I am 20 years old. I turn 21 on July 4th. I have been married to my wife, Adrian, for almost 3 years. We live in Clarksville, TN. I am going to school at Austin Peay State University for a bachelors degree in Computer Science. I work for the United States Postal Service in Nashville, TN.
I have 3 computers at the moment: A Dell laptop, an AMD 3700+ and an AMD 2700+. I am the owner of amdusers.com and one of the admins.

Everyone feel free to introduce themselves! :icon_mrgreen:

Jeff

Well then... to those who don't know me yet :)

My name is Jorge and I've recently turned 27 (June 14th). I'm single, and live in Setubal, Portugal. At the moment I'm the only active portuguese member on the forums.
I entered college and started IT Engineering, but due to varied events in life, I end up suspending the studies halfway and got myself a job, as a software programmer on a small company developing software for Telcos. (Ever heard of "To-Be IT Solutions"?)
I joined AMD Users back in 2003 a little while after discovering SETI@Home, and since then I got devoted to Distributed Computing. Saw this Team grow from a relatively small Team to one of the top 10 teams Worldwide as it no doubt is nowadays. :)
I organize the AMD Users yearly contests, for the last three years. Right now the 2007 competition is taking place.
Got few machines at my reach, only one truly mine (AMD AthlonXP 2000+), the others belong to relatives or at work, but I squeeze every last spare cpu cycle out of them all.

Oh... and I'm also Moderator on the forums. I help keeping things clean around here, delete publicity posts, kick out advertisers, and all that.

So, who's going to introduce itself next? :)

Okay looks like I'm next.

My name is Richard, and I'm 26 - 27 on January 12th. I am a Service Manager for a company that manufacture and repair landfill gas analyzers, based out of Colton, CA.

After going through school I finished up with a HND in Computer Science.

I'm currently engaged to my fiance Emma, with a wedding date set as 4th October 2008. I'm currently living out here in SoCal, but I will be returning to the motherland (UK) before the end of this year.

As far as PC's go I have an X2 6000+, 3400+, P4 3ghz and a P3 1.7ghz (work PC)

My name is Kyle,and I am 21.
I live in a little town called Lynden (~ 10,000 peeps)

I just graduated from Bellingham Technical College this last March with an AAS degree in computer network technology.

Starting on the 2nd of July, I will be working AT Microsoft through a staffing firm called VOLT. pretty much 90% of my job should be Hardware/borging :D

As far as computers go, I have a 3700+, 3500+, ML-28 and a 2.7ghz celeryon.

Edit: haha Beerknerd! both posted the same minute :D

My name is Jason and I am 27 years old. I will be 28 on August the 14. I am also 1 of 3 of the Moderator/Admins here at AMD Users. I am a Computer Operations Analyst for a small Insurance Company. I have been with them going on a year and a half.

I recently graduated college in March of 2007.

I am unfortunately single again after a recent separation from my wife. We will be getting a divorce as soon as we can afford an an attorney. October 6, 2007 we would have been married for 5 years.

I am currently living in Fort Worth, TX, but will soon be moving to Grand Prairie, TX to start my single life.

I am not currently running DC projects due to the separation, but hope to return to crunching soon.

Well guys I guess I'm the Grand pappy of all you young Whipper Snappers because I just turned 65 this month. My name is Leon. I am now a retired accountant but I still run a tax preparation business here in this small town of 14,000 the first 4 months of the year.

I have been married to the same women for 43 years and have four daughters (all grown now).

I have been playing with computers since 1992 when I bought my first which was a 80286-12 with a 40 meg HD. Now I build my oww of which are (2) AMD X2 6000+, (1) AMD Duel Core FX-60 and (1) Opteron 180 duel core, All with 2 gigs of memory.

I love crunching and started in 2001 with Seti. BTW my other love is Western Movies (old ones )

I gues I'm one of the young ones as well. I'm Frédéric, 20 years old and from Belgium. I am a medicine student and momentarily my courses are piling up above my head because I have exams. I used to play drums 12 years ago, and as I discovered today, my "skills" are extremely rusty. I am single momentarily. I also love Australia heheh :icon_mrgreen:.

I'm quite a newbie because I only started crunching about a year ago now (maybe a bit longer) I encountered this team at the BBC Climate change Experiment, and soon after, I moved on to QMC@home. My current project is DPAD/Muon1.

My personal computer is an Athlon64 3000+ @ 2.15 GHz. Also to my disposal are: 1 Pentium 3 1 GHz, 1 C2D laptop 1.6 GHz, 1 Celeron 2.4 GHz laptop, an AMD K7 550 MHz, 15 Pentium D 3 GHz, 10 Pentium 4 3 GHz and 3 Pentium 4 1.7 GHz. The Pentium D's and Pentium 4's will be at my disposal for about another year or so.

EDIT: LeBo, you state you've been married to the same women, a harem is always nice heheh

I made this thread a sticky, so hopefully everyone will see it!

I'm Stuart,

A 52 year young married IT consultant (mostly mainframes). I cut my teeth on IBM PCs in the early 1980s. Married for 12 years and have 2 kids.

I'm the stats man on AMD Users. You'll notice my daily stats (you'd better notice :))

I have a 4200+, 2800+, 2400+ and 2 laptops (3100+ and 3400) but I want more.

Steve here,

I'm a 62 year old Retired Auto Work, I worked for GM for 37 years at a variety of job's from Fork Truck Driving to being a Heat Treat Metallurgist and every thing in between ... :)

I live in Mid-Michigan, I moved here from Wisconsin some 42 years ago after I got out of the Service. I have been Married for the past 14 years after being single for 16 years prior to that.

I started out Processing the Seti Classic Wu's and have been with the BOINC Projects from the very beginning with the Seti Beta & Alpha Projects ... I will cross over the 10,000,000 BOINC Credit Mark I figure sometime late in July or early August at the very latest if things move along as planned ... :icon_mrgreen:

I am stricktly a Home Based Cruncher and it has become a Hobby for me I guess & I have 1 P4 Laptop, 1 Intel X6800EE Duo Core & 7 Intel Quad Cores, 1 of which right now has been dead in the water for most of the day ... :icon_lol:

I'm Clint

Now 46 years of Age and still single, no intention of frustrating my life with women interuptus (Wiley Coyote - super genius)! As you can see I have never really removed the fun of computers out of my mind.

Graduated from College in 1983 with a degree in Electronics and Computer Technology including a FCC General Radiotelephone license (able to operate TV and Radio Stations). I recently graduated from School in July 13 2006 from the last school I attended (New Horizons). I have gone to five schools and acquired 19 certifications in various areas of expertise (not just computers), I am a jack of all trades (literally).

I have no children so I substitute them with two cats, small, cuddly, warm, and fuzzy creatures, who need as much attention as I can give out.

I own a small Bio-Energy Consulting Business that is getting bigger daily it seems.

I have 2 AMD 4200+'s and have owned nothing but AMD since 1992, in fact my school in 1982 & 83 used nothing but AMD's to teach me the things I know now! The 8080 was my first processor! - Oh how I miss Keypunch!

Quotes from other mentioners of who we are; Leon Nice to meet you, Richard nice to see you too, Jorge nice to see you here, Kyle nice to make your acquaintance, Jason as your such a fixture here hope to see more of you in the future. And Stuart your Quote for this post is "But I Want More", don't we all ~!

And to the Future Dr. Brillouet; calling Dr. Brillouet your needed in Room AMD right away!

I participate in over 25 Boinc & 6 non-Boinc DC Projects ( Not all at the same time)

I'm Joe, 51 this June and a Licensed Electrician for 33 years. I run a small Tool Repair business at the local Nuclear power plant, Dominion's North Anna Nuclear power plant, and I am employed full time at a elevator controls business where I wire guess what...elevator control panels. I am a three time motorcycle drag racing champion ( yearly points ) on a 72 Kawasaki H-2 three cylinder two stroke, and a Nationally ranked #7 drag racer in Super Gas ( 9.9 seconds quarter mile ) in 1991. I also ran a motorcycle engine performance shop here at home for 5 years, my specialty being 4 stroke head porting and two stroke cylinder porting.
I have been married for 26 years and have two grown kids now both out of College.
I am waiting patiently for North Anna to start construction on the new Nuclear Unit 3 where I hope to repair tools full time again and work that job until I retire :) it is 20 minutes from my house instead of over an hour drive to my regular job.
My first love in DC work was Seti and I guess it still is, but I have devoted my computers power to real science work hoping to help find a cure to some disease and help humanity.
My computers include a X2 4200, XP 3200, XP2500 times 2. All on Asus boards and home built.
I came to Team AMD USERS from Team Virginia Tech because while they had a fair number of crunchers, there was no team home page and no real interaction between members...I find this rewarding to be able to communicate with you all and there are so many different people with so many different job skills that it makes it fun to just be here.
I crunch folding@home and rosetta mostly and some seti now and again for fun.

I'm Chris, a 20 year old student at Leeds University in the UK. I'm studying Fire and Explosion Engineering. I've just finished my second and will be starting my third in September.

I've recently taken up Archery as a hobby and I also airsoft. I enjoy modding items to provide a non standard function. I've modded my Xbox to allow me to run it as a media centre and have also modded a Linksys NLSU2 to run as a webserver and DynDNS updater. I do enjoy gaming and aim to buy a Xbox 360 soon.

I'm only a forum member as I crunch for Team Phoenix Rising, an international team like AMD Users but with a more British focussed userbase which up until recently, met regularly at one of the members pubs.

I have owned a few computers but after some recent poor results and a lack a of money, I sold off some of my rigs and built myself a smaller one. I now own an AMD 3200+ system I put together myself and a Intel Core Duo 1.6Ghz laptop. Only 3.6Ghz of power (well 5.2Ghz really if you count the core duo as 2x1.6Ghz..). I'm a linux user and run linux on my main desktop but not yet on my laptop. (wait for warranty to expire)
Recently been tempted by a Mac Mini but must resist.

I started crunching on SETI classic but moved over as soon as I found BOINC. After a while I crunched Folding@Home for a year before heading back to BOINC after I felt single core CPU's were no longer welcome at F@H. I now crunch Riesel Sieve and CPDN.

I'll refer to this thread... :)
http://amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4006

Best Regards
Bo Eriksson

I am a 53 year young, somewhat retired, IT guy. I started computing in college and have never had a job that was not computer related. I have done the rise in the corporate world thing (the higher you get the less interesting the job), tried the academia thing (moves too slow), owned a software company (pretty fun when you have good customers and a good team) and have done independent consulting (not enough patience). In all of this I have been deemed something of a cowboy always working, pretty successfully I might add, on the ragged edge of the industry.

I found an increasing emphasis by customers on the process of building software rather than the production of working systems so I decided it was time to do something else for awhile. I bought a trashed, repossessed house a couple of years ago and am doing most of the work myself. It is nice to be able to touch, or kick, what you make for a change.

Have no idea what I will do next. I have recently got pretty hooked on sailboat racing as crew on a friends boat. Maybe I will get a boat and just sail away.

Obviously my name is Steve. I am 47 years of age and my birthday is on the 26th of August. Born to a dirt-poor family, as I was growing up I worked from the age of 10 as a farm worker through high school. In my Senior year in high school I took the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) test and achieved the highest score in the county's history (only missed 1 answer on the entire test). Consequently I joined the US Navy's Submarine service as a Nuclear Missile Technician after High School. On my own I also received cross-training as a Fire Control Technician, a Navagation Electronics Technician, a Torpedoman and was about half-way through my Sonarman training when I left the service. This was where and when I was introduced to computers and programming. After my 6-year stint in the Navy I went to work for Alcoa and have been there for the last 23.5 years. I started off pushing around a grease buggy and doing clean-up, worked my way through Maintenance Mechanic and Maintenance Technician, now I'm the facilities' Maintenance Planner. Presently I am in school to get my Maintenance Journeyman's certification + card. I was taking flying lessons to get my pilot's certificate but had to stop just prior to the solo to take the Maintenance course.

I was married for 9 years and have two fine and healthy sons. I have been divorced for the last 17 years and have not dated since. For six years after my divorce I worked for Simutronics (http://www.play.net/gs4/) on the development team of their GemStone product as GameMaster Romulus - mostly developing and writing code for the Sorcery profession - for practically no pay, but it kept my mind busy and too tired to be depressed. My personal best achievement there was in writing much of the early code for handling arrays, especially 3-dimentional arrays - sorting routines, cell editing/modification code, etc.

Last fall I purchased 640 acres of land in northern Washoe County, Nevada - where I intend to move to when I retire to become a gentleman farmer in 12 years, 1 month and 18 days (as of this writing - but who's counting?). The land is 8 miles from the closest neighbor. After 8 months of effort I have finally secured a Right-of-Way/Right-of-Access from the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to actually drive to my property and an address. Part of the contract with the BLM requires that I maintain the 3-miles of roadway to my property. Since then I have purchased a Ford 850 dump truck and a 12-ton trailer. I am in the process of purchasing a road grader which I will fly out to look at from the 13th through the 22nd of July (07). The equipment will also be handy when I cut out a 3,000' air strip before I purchase a Cessna 280 in about 10 years.

Generally I live a very frugal life and save much of my earnings. I'm big into recycling and reading up on technological improvements, especially those which will make us humans more effecient, or get us back into space or out into the solar system where I think mankind belongs.

wow Steve, I'll have to say that you are a bit of an inspiration to all of us, well, me at least. looks like you learned how to manage your income! (I am really bad at that) sounds like a dream with all that acrage though! wow

As with everyone; early in my career it seemed to take everything I could earn just to get by. One of the big differences between my ex and myself is that I feel no significant need to one-up anyone else, nor do I particularly care what others think concerning how I should live. I have found that people's expectations (wants) get them into far more trouble than their actual needs.

The trick is to assess your situation and your expectations, modify and review as needed, make a plan, figure out how to work your plan and then stick to it. I was unable to do so while married, hence the "not dated since" part of my previous post.

Hello.

My name is Antonis. I am 20 years old, from Greece.

I have just one pc running boinc, with a 3200+.

Welcome Antonis,

Nice having you around. Ask whatever you want, crunch whatever you want.

That's our motto, well it wasn't, but it could be lol.

Heh, guess I should finally introduce myself, even though I did it a couple years back when I joined. :lol:

I'm Johnathan and I'm going to be 16 in 2 days. :)
As lot of the senior members known, I used to have a AMD Athlon XP 1700+ which is now given to my brother. I'm currently using a P4 3.0GHz and that's my only computer running BOINC. I have yet to install it on my brothers, just been too lazy lately.

Hi everyone :icon_wink:
I´m TSone, 25 years old and german...occupational management assistant in office communication...I´m running BOINC with an AM2 X2 4400+ @ 3,2GHz, S754 XP-M 2800+ @ 2,5GHz and S754 Sempron 2600+ @ 2,5GHz :icon_wink:
At the moment, ther is only my 4400+ running, guess it will hit about 1100 average credits for riesel...
So if U want to know something about me, just raise me :icon_mrgreen:

myspace.com\royaltsone

I perform german rap so check it out :icon_razz:

Welcome to our forum Tsone. Enjoy crunching with some guys that love it. :wav::icon_thumright::icon_thumright:

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At the moment, ther is only my 4400+ running, guess it will hit about 1100 average credits for riesel...

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Welcome aboard Tsone and I congratulate you on your choice of project. RieselSieve is my favourite too. :icon_thumright:

There are plenty of others we are pushing on also so read all the forums and enjoy yourself. Happy crunching ... BOINC'ing. :icon_razz:

Thx guys :icon_wink:
Lets crunsh that stuff...peaze :)

We have some new members. So I thought I would bump this thread.

Good idea, Jason.

Hello, I'm Dory.
Hello Dory.
i-i- well, I don't think I have ever eaten a fish!

.... Good on ya mate! you're an inspiration to all of us!

(sorry, it is just one of the best movies EVER) :icon_mrgreen:

hiya

well my name is Jacob i live in sydney i am married with a daughter and i work as a twin tyne fork lift driver

i started playing computers with a TI Z80 many moons ago, hop skip and a jump now i have a couple of amd comps x2's and a phenom 9600

i started crunching for grid.org, when i got first dual core i found wcg which lead me to boinc

Welcome to the Team Jacob!

Thanks for sharing your Milkyway testing with us. There do seem to be advantages on some projects to running Linux...

Welcome aboard Jacob. :newbie:

Nice entry to the team with a #1 spot in the ABC@Home Project.
Half a million points; well done. :)

:wav:

thank you for warm welcome
@bender sometimes advantage swings to windows as well i basically started my experiments a few days ago these a lot of other projects i want to have a closer look at like abc@home i think windows 64 bit app runs faster then linux by 1 or 2% but i wouldn't mind having some actual facts to back up that statement

@vaughan thank you, *wonders* how long before poorboy notices :icon_lol:

Welcome to AMD Users Mike and Ady :icon_mrgreen:

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Welcome to AMD Users Mike and Ady :icon_mrgreen:

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Well hello there my little spotty pup :icon_mrgreen:


Well then - I'm a bit of a DC Prostitute floating around the DC world helping out teams with challenges and generally whoring myself like a cheap tart :icon_lol:

Currently helping out Crunchers Inc at POEM in their challenge with ArsTech - but anytime you feel the need for my services here just give me a shout :icon_wink:

Ady :)

Welcome Aboard Adywebb; You are very welcome here, we dually appreciate someone with the voice and willingness to speak up about what and where you are willing to crunch. Have you noticed we are involved in a lot of non-boinc projects? We could surely use your help in these as well as your mention your willingness to crunch for anyone!

Again Welcome to the Team of AMD Users Forum, and stay Awhile... :)

Thanks for the welcome Nflight - I tend to stick to medical/Biological projects that may have some worth to mankind, be it boinc or non-boinc......however I'm always willing to help out at other places should the need arise.

Maybe I can trade you some of my cores and crunch at a project you need some help with in return for some of AMD's at POEM to help Crunchers Inc in their challenge with ArsTech? Knocking them down a place will reduce their Vault points in your favour :icon_wink:

That is the clear difference with you and I, You are the consummate whore who will fraternize and affiliate yourself with different teams as I am committed to my Team AMD Users. I will not jump ship at a moments notice to help someone under my name: Nflight. If you wish I will organize a posse of members to sign up under a fictitious name to help those who ask politely!

I hope you are not offended, I only intend to help those who seriously need help and those who are serious of helping us when we need help ourselves. It is a matter of trust and be trusted. Some people have that seriousness of trust already in place. You need to seriously consider yourself on probation till we will trust your decisions. I sure hope you will place yourself in our position, you join our forum and with in the first 24 hours ask for help. Work with us, confirm your commitment to our forum that what you say and do, can be worthy of our understanding and commitment and we will help you when ever we can. Your starting off like a kid on a string of kite and the kite keeps getting farther and farther away from you, if you lose the kite what do you have left? Only the string you started off with, nothing more. Please don't look at this with evil eyes, look at this as a request you consider us potential friends, if you are friendly from today on.
We will be holding that string with the kite with you.:icon_wink:

Well wrote Nflight. I would never consider switching teams just to help them move in the points standings. There's more to being part of AMDUsers than that. We'd certainly accept and appreciate your help, nonetheless.

No problem Nflight - I've not taken any offence as I fully understand what you say and why you say it :)

Although I'm not known here, I am at many forums around the DC world where my word and actions are trusted and I hope that I can gain that here in time too.

My motives have probably been slightly misunderstood as I was not looking for help to move in the point standings as such, it is rather helping motivate the interest in projects by encouraging more work to be done - assisting with challenges such as these is one way to get teams to put more resources into them.

There is no personal gain for me, other than hoping that one day we will see a cure come from the work we do to help rid the world of some of the illness and disease that tragically effects so many lives, and also to make friends along the way.

Crunch on AMD Users and crunch hard!! :icon_biggrin:

hiya ady and mike

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i know you and i know what you have done for another team