SMP Guide

SiriusB · 19 Jun 2007 at 15:51

Ladies and Gentlemen, the SMP Guide Website

www.aeternum.co.uk/smp/smp.html

Just a few notes about the site:

1: It isn't quite finished. There are still a few tweaks to make here and there. Mostly little things and most people probably wont notice.

2: The current design is not permanent. Although for the aesthetic types among us it may please you to know that the current colours are all complimentary to each other. I am not sure what the new design will look like but I will make sure it is still easy to read, clean and sexy

3: The Links link doesn't work yet. Will make a page with all SMP related links.

4: I will be adding a new section "Windows SMP". It may shock you to learn it will be about the WinSMP client and its quirks.

5: I haven't seen this in Windows IE yet. So if it doesn't look right... get a better browser!

If there are any IE-related issues it will have to wait until next week. I am busy getting ready for my trip tomorrow.

For those who want to follow the guide offline then this is the link for the new PDF.

http://www.aeternum.co.uk/smp/SMPGuideVer1.0.pdf

As always if you find something wrong let me know.

[I have edited the original post too so the link is at the start of the thread

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shadowscotland · 19 Jun 2007 at 17:08

If one of these small 'things' was part1/page2 etc - I noticed

tbh I don't think it needs the 'partX' in the title.
Also the white text, and yellow (on mouse over) on the navigation bar is a little iffy.... might just be the use of bold, not sure - but do like the colour change as a concept, understated but slick. :cool:

But over all its looks fine in IE

Might want to add the WinSMP before the linux version (don't want to scare people off) and the batch file is below.

Open Fah directory
New - text doc
Paste in code below
save as smp.bat
Rightclick new icon file
create shortcut.
Move shortcut to desktop (or location of choice)
Double click shortcut to start.

Ctrl +c to close, answer yes when asked, to close batch file.

Code:

@echo off
echo Starting FAH for the first time
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\Folding@home\WinSMP\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
:restart
echo.
echo Restarting FAH
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\Folding@home\WinSMP\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
goto restart

Hope that helps and enjoy your trip

SiriusB · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:36

I could change the yellow mouseover but it really isn't worth it since the whole lot is going to get a makeover in the near future.

The Part X in the title is from the original guide document. Probably isn't needed so will change that if I get time tomorrow morning.

Thanks for the WinSMP batch script. Will put the WinSMP section at the beginning of the pdf but it will likely go at the end of the website. Saves me the hassle of messing about changing links about and such.

Thanks for your input. More comments are welcome!

SiriusB · 20 Jun 2007 at 16:52

Just been thinking. Dangerous I know!

At the moment I am unsure as to what design, or even colours, to go for with the SMP Guide site. I have one or two ideas but I have had no time to explore them today.

So, Team 10, any ideas/suggestions/opinions are welcome. Crazed sketches with the froth stains and dripping with effort are expected, as are links to "examples". I will never directly copy a site so don't just link something and say "do that". Bits of website you like are OK

An odd request I know but I thought since the guide is a community effort it might as well have a website with input from the community.

I will be back on Tuesday to wade through all of your fevered rantings.

Snapshot · 25 Jun 2007 at 07:48

Right, I finished my bin-end PC yesterday and it's finally running native Ubuntu (once I found that any overclock screwed the disk access). I've worked through the on-line SMP guide and SMP F@H is running on the PC. I found two errors in the Finstall section which have been corrected in the PDF:

1. The > in sudo apt-get update> causes a syntax error.

2. 'Make finstall executable' is in the same blue as the surrounding commands so looks like it should be typed in.

Apart from that, it worked well. Excellent job, young S-B.

I think it would be helpful to include the instructions for sharing the folder so it can be monitored by FahMon on a Windows PC. I found the instruction for doing this, courtesy of Cob, and it works:

"Or you can access you stats from within Windows by downloading and unpacking the FahMon.zip package, and then going into Ubuntu and right-clicking the foldingathome folder and selecting 'Share folder'. Then select 'Share through Windows Networks (SMB)' and download the necessary files.

After that's finished, open a terminal and type

sudo smbpasswd -a "your username"

Enter your Ubuntu password 3 times, shut down Ubuntu and restart Windows.

Once that's done and you've restarted Ubuntu, you should be able to access your foldingathome folder through Windows FahMon. It can take a good few seconds for FahMon to find the foldingathome folder, but it will do."

SiriusB · 27 Jun 2007 at 17:42

Thanks for that. I read your post early yesterday but I had been without Internet since then. I will try and get around to updating the guide tonight.