There is no reason to wait for AMD because Intel isn't! I don't have a quad. I have two dual core Intels @ 2.0 GHz in my herd which belong to friends of mine. It is amazing what I can get people to do when I promise free support in exchange for their CPU cycles. One of the computers (Gateway) is seven months old and the other (HP) was purchased about two weeks ago. This evening, I partitioned the HP hard drive using Vista Home Premium, set it to do automatic backups to the new partion, and created a full backup and restore image.

If you install BOINC on a Vista computer, install to C:\BOINC and not to C:\Program Files\BOINC.

I have two computers at home now. One is an Intel P4 (Northwood) @ 2.8 GHz and the other is an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) at 2.2 GHz. My son runs a Thoroughbred XP 2600+ @ 2.083 GHz, but he is taking a break during the hot weather. I didn't want him to run it at 55 C or more. I may get him a Thermaltake CL-P0295 RT like mine to replace the massive CoolerMaster that I previously ran on my computer. Mine is running 49 C right now because the house is at 81 F to make Johnnie happy. I've seen 41 C in the winter, spring, and fall.

All computers are running well tonight, but who knows what the "12 o'clock flashers" can accomplish in one day. I expect about 8000 points tomorrow.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be driving Shannah (granddaughter) and a friend to Atlanta to meet another friend of theirs so they can go camping. I should arrive in Atlanta at rush hour. Vrrrrooooommmmm...

Am I from down South? Many of my colonist ancestors were born in North Carolina before the Revolution. Others migrated by way of Lancaster, PA, through Virginia to Rutherford County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, and arrived in Union County, GA, about 1830.

I was born in Baltimore because my Dad was laying out steel in Bethlehem Steel's shipyard at Sparrow's Point. We moved back to Piedmont, SC, and Dad joined the Army six weeks after I was born. Because he and the Third Division single-handedly won WWII, I decided that I couldn't compete with his Army record so I enlisted in the Navy five days after graduating from High School. When I saw my birth certificate, I laughed at his job title: Layout. "What was you Dad's job, son?" "Layout, sir." More seriously, he read Liberty ship blueprints and marked steel for cutting. Not bad for a guy with a fifth grade education who left home and started to work in a cotton mill when he was 14. He quit the cotton mills when he was 38 after attending a two year GI Bill course in carpentry at night. He learned geometry and algebra on his own. By 1961 when I joined the Navy, he had worked on the St. Lawrence Seaway's Barnhardt Dam, the Eisenhower locks of the Long Sault Canal, and Hartwell Dam (GA/SC). He died at 77 in 1991. Mother is still living and she is 88. They both stressed to me that an education is "something no one can take away from you". The Navy sent me to the University of Washington {Seattle) and to Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.

I lived in South Mississippi when in the Navy and returned to work at Ingalls Shipbuilding for almost 8 years. We lived in Ocean Springs in the St. Andrews community, but I wish we had moved to Mobile, AL, instead. I left the shipyard's Engineering Department when I got "too well to work in Mississippi". That meant I didn't have to breathe the foul air, endure the miserable heat and bugs, or run from hurricanes anymore. My former home was washed through and destroyed by hurricane Katrina. I haven't had a real job since returning to our hometown, Anderson, SC, in 1991.

The destroyed house was in Ocean Springs (St. Andrews community/golf course). This is my old neighborhood after Katrina.

[edit] I left in 1991 and Katrina was in 2005. [/edit]

It took me a long time to realize that I "don't play well with others" as the old report cards listed it. I know that I became more ornery as I grew older and I never liked bosses. I am fully retired, but I can earn money without giving my Social Security back after I turn 65. My biggest problem right now is keeping what I already make without giving it all back in taxes. If grandchildren were tax deductible, I'd have it made.

To avoid answering the "Are you retired?" question, I carry business cards for a PC repair company that I "own". Aun Be Computers has no income, no expenses, works on lots of computers for free, gives me new friends, and keeps me learning. It doesn't get any better than that as long as I live indoors and eat regularly.

I am a recovered drunk and joined Mensa after getting sober eight years ago. I didn't know I qualified until I was googling for "depression intelligence". I'm glad I joined because I always took a lot of criticism for the way I think. Now I know why I think differently, and, no, it isn't because I'm totally nuts! My conclusion after looking at depression and intelligence is that it is very true that ignorance is bliss.

I found this information about HFA in WIKI:
I am especially familiar with "There is often an enhanced learning ability, although this often is not applied to subjects they are uninterested in."