Folding at Home troubles

I'd been using the Folding at Home client supplied in the Ubuntu repository for a while. It was a little flaky. Nearly every update (especially a kernel update) would disable my graphics card. Usually just stopping it and restarting fixed the issue but sometimes I'd have to remove the application and reinstall it.

Not this time.

Ubuntu has removed the FAH client from the repository. I understand: it was a 7.6 version and they've moved to a 8.4 version. Quite an upgrade. So I downloaded the new client in the bzip format. If failed to launch. Then I downloaded the .deb version and that seemed to work... somewhat. It managed to lock up my system so I had to do a hard shutdown. I deleted it and reinstalled it. And... nope. Failed to launch.

Finally I went into Synaptic and searched for both 'folding' and 'fah'. Apparently, there were both an fahclient and an fah-client still stuck in the system. I deleted both, reinstalled the new client and I'm folding again.

I'm keeping a watch on it. I don't think it likes having any other graphics heavy programs running at the same time. I usually pause folding when I go into Second Life but sometime I forget.

It was wet but there was a lot of people there

My first rally in decades.

HANDS OFF!

We're a small city place that's sort of red. Yet, in the rain there were at least 100-150 people. Not bad for a rainy Saturday. Mixed crowd - skewed towards older folks. All they had was a bullhorn when they really needed a PA system.

I actually have bits and bobs that could be cobbled together to form a PA system - I just don't know if any of it still works. No speakers though. I could get some cheap but they're a pain to move around.

Update - it seems they had a PA but it was really weak. News reports reported the crowd at around 500. A village half an hour away had 150!

I was told there would be signs provided at the rally = there weren't. I'd best get busy making signs for the next one.