Sad news at MaximumPC

We at MaxPC received sad news from one of our teammates, Gordon Smitheman (folding as gsmitheman). Gordon has been our Motivator in Chief for years, doing many things to draw and keep interest in our forum and folding in general, and he has acted as our Captain for the Chimp Challenge in the past.

Gordon posted late this week that his wife, Rose, has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Read more here. http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/view...?f=32&t=126023
If you wish to leave a comment on his post, I'm sure he would be touched by the sentiment.

Many people in our forum cite Gordon's posts as a reason for being drawn into and staying with folding. His one goal has been to keep people folding, no matter what team you choose.

My thanks to all of you for folding.

I am saddened by this news. Please convey my thoughts and prayers to the family as my lifetime ban prevents me from doing so personally. Also let me know if I can get into the Fold-a-thon for Rose.

Be good and stay strong.

I created an account and posted over on MaximumPC.

Hope to see you there Full_Taoer.

I saw you were logged in just a little bit ago as I was checking back in. The post hasn't shown up yet, but it should once the moderators OK it. They only have to do that for the first post to help reduce spam. Welcome!

If you wish to fold in tribute to Rose, you would be most welcomed to do so. Just use the following:

Username: Rose
* case-sensitive

Team #: 11108

yodap, I'll send you a PM with a passkey we are currently trying to get qualified if you want to do SMP folding.

Truly sad news, please convery my well wishes to thoes affected....makes me wish I had a huge farm of computers to Fold like crazy for her.

I'm off folding for Rose until further notice. Any points and wu's should be considered a donation from our entire team.

FBF

EDIT: Things are starting to take off over there.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=572060

I'm not complaining, just curious.
I posted my 3rd post and it still said must be moderator approved?
In the rules page for folding it says and I was wondering why;
2) You should not be actively folding for any other team. (100% of your controlled folding hardware should fold for team 11108) If for some reason, you do have machines on another team, please pm Satchboy to discuss the situation. A quick pm, to explain the circumstances may be all it takes.

I am up and running 1 rig in Rose's name now and after tzc can add 2 servers.

Don't get marked as spam or you might get the permanent ban. I got it after 1 post.

Maybe someday in some way they will figure out the big picture. Folders tend to stick together and help each other.

In my mind I'm folding for Rose and her family, not there team.

Sorry about that, Tanner2. If I could do anything to expidite the process, I would. The mod for the folding forum probably hasn't checked in to OK the posts from first-timers. That process was put in place after a rash of spam posts earlier this year. Once your first post is approved, subsequent ones shouldn't need to go through moderation.

BTW, I think the quote from the rules pages is regarding access to the team-only sections of our forum, not the public part where the Rose post is.

*edit* the mod has OK'd your posts. They are showing now.

It certainly is heart warming to see what's happening over there. A 570,000 point update at noon. Fantastic job from all.