folding???

have anyone heard about folding before?

Well, folding could refer to a lot of thing, fold a paper, fold newspaper, or folding a certain things, but actually this word is pretty famous in scientific environment. Folding simply refer to protein folding.

The main purpose of researching folding is to learn the result of the folding proccess itself. To learn about misfold that causes serious diseases for human being. Folding in research is commonly computed by supercomputers. But now, folding can be take place in our own home. For example, Stanford school of medicine have made a very good software that everyone having a computer anf internet connection can help folding. By this method, folding will be faster with the unlimited resources from all around the world. This software called folding@home.

I myself pretty confused about this word. i found this word from the only forum i joined, chip forum, and i didn't pay attention at all. After read the related thread, at the momment i touched and decided to take part. Then i download the software and give it a try.

This software is very good, since it don't need a lot of resoure of your computer, when you want to use your computer for high performance computing like playing games, rendering video, this service or application will paused for a while, allowing other application to take place. Then, after the proccessor is idle, the service will continue its folding. So, this service don't disturb our computer very much.

Sharing experience in Googling

A week ago i found this problem in my office network.

My office's computers is connected through a hub without a server. All the computers are connected only for sharing files or printers, and all the computer in this network are using Microsoft XP as the Operating System. There's a computer used by a financial staff having important data to be shared. But when i tried to connect this computer into the network, this computer was not showing in my workgroup computers.

So first i start to take a look at this computer setting, and i think all the setting is no problem. There's nothing different from other computer. So that, i tried to search a help in "help and support" provided by windows. I search using the keyword "Network computer" in order to understand how the system work. But i got nothing

So then, i search the same keyword in google, and i found some little help in this problem, then, i change my keyword into "displaying computer in workgroup" Then this keyword gave me some links into forums that give me a little thing like

1. Measure the subnet of all the computer is all same.

2. check whether the firewall is blocking the file and printer sharing

But this all is correct in the computer.

Finally i post this problems at chip forum (Indonesia). And I got a reply that makes me aware about what i should search. So i take the new keywords "hide computer in network" then i got this link. Then it solve my problem.

From this experience, i think that when we are going to solve a problem, the easiest way to solve the problem is by finding how can we make the problem. So that we can find a way to solve it.