For those interested, the Windows 7 Beta is up and online after a period of crashiness yesterday.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...../dd353205.aspx

Go get your keys. I got mine. Running Windows 7 64-bit on my desktop and 32-bit on my laptop.

NOTE: I have 10 spare keys (5 32-bit, 5 64-bit) spare that I'll give out if the beta runs out of keys. So if the beta ends and you don't get me one I'll provide some keys to try.

Direct ISO Downloads from Microsoft:
Windows 7 (32-bit)
http://download.microsoft.com/downl.....FRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Windows 7 (64-bit)
http://download.microsoft.com/downl.....FRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Fur Affinity has a Folding@Home team dedicated to helping Stanford University process proteins. By uniting our combined efforts, as a team we can help lead to breakthrough cures for many of the diseases which will affect us for generations to come. Join today, and help Furry put an end to cancer!

The FA Folding@Home team was founded by Silver R. Wolfe, a former FA admin, and continues continues to this day. We need more folders to join our ranks and help push the FA team to the top! Join the Fur Affinity team (#60091) and help fold for the cure today. As a community, you helped improve Fur Affinity through donations... now help the entire world by putting your computers and PlayStation 3 at work to fight cancer and other diseases.

FA Team ID: 60091
FA Team Site: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=60091

Join team the Fur Affinity team (#60091) and help fold for the cure today. :) As a community, you helped improve Fur Affinity through donations... now help the entire world.

I myself have two PCs folding almost 24/7.

What is Folding?
Folding@home is a distributed client computing effort by Stanford University. It is intended to help analyze the nature of which proteins fold (cell replication) or misfold (leading to mutations, etc.).

Many serious diseases are related to the mis-folding of proteins, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Mad Cow Disease and several forms of cancer. By donating your spare CPU cycles, you are contributing to an effort to understand how proteins fold, which is the first step to understanding how basic proteins work and how we might treat these diseases. When you are not using your computer, the processor will run simulations of different proteins and the way they assemble to better help scientists understand why they do what they do.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Learn more about Folding@home from the Stanford University website:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

What You Need
Folding can be done by a CPU (Intel or AMD), GPU (Nvidia GeForce 8 Series or higher, ATI Radeon 2000 series and higher) or by Playstation 3.

CPU Folding
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pande.....ystray-620.msi

GPU Folding
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pande.....ystray-620.msi

PS3 Folding
The Folding client is built into the Playstation 3. Simply download the client, join our team and you are good to go!

NOTE: Folding on Nvidia cards requires the latest drivers (177.79) available from the Nvidia website.

177.79 Windows Vista 32-bit drivers and
177.79 Windows XP 32-bit drivers.

Windows XP
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvis.....7.79_beta.html

"So, I bought Fur Affinity today..."

Today, Alkora and I came to an agreement and inked the deal. We have officially transferred ownership of Fur Affinity to me. It's been a long road, and Alkora and I have weathered quite a lot together side by side, and will continued to do so well into the future.

The site's had a long road since early 2005, and in two years time has gone from a small website borne of duct tape and good ideas. It's not been perfect, but damn has it been worth it. With time, we've improved dramatically, and still are - there's a LOT going on in the background!

Hopefully, I'll have more news to share in the coming future. Until then, I'm going to sit back and sip some green tea. I've got a lot more to announce soon, and I think you'll all be rather pleased.

Dragoneer,
FA Lead, Owner

This is the first unofficial announcement for FA: United 2008 (aka, FA:U2). We've just signed our hotel contract, and we're lockin' and loadin' up for our second coming!

FA:U2 will arrive August 1 - 3 in Newark, NJ at the Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott. The new hotel is ten times nicer than our last, and better yet, is located at the airport itself - making travel to and from a breeze whether by car, boat, plane or gyrocopter! And given its location, it makes access to food and other conveniences that much more easier!

Not to mention the new hotel has three separate restaurants in the hotel itself! Go take a photo tour, we think you'll agree there is a LOT to like. It's going to be bigger and better in every single facet.

FA: United 2008. Heed the call.

I hate to go there but I'm GOING to go there: instead of travelling the world in desperate attempt to bring Democracy to rival nations, can we, the United States, just come bearing deodorant?

My nostrils are at war with the Children of the Mongols, a people who generally carry the malefactorian scent of scuzz and man-gel strong enough to raise a week old goat from the dead. I'm pretty sure warring tribes will lay down their arms for a case of Right Guard. No doubt, AXE is all that's needed to bring a smile to the heart of the Middle East. China shall fall to the under the mighty imperical majesty of Old Spice.

Every time I go to a country like this I'm nearly assassinated on a daily basis by an armpit. Bombard me with 'pits and watch the magical transformation as I become the world's fattest ninja and backflip away to safety. I can not take it any longer. I am sick of being carpet bombed by unwashed moisture missiles loaded with FUNK (Fragrance of Unusually Negative Karma).

If you've ever smelled "con funk" you've only got a mere dose of odoriferous hurricane which makes up the aromatic bouquet of a deodorantless nation.

GOT B.O.? GET DEO!

CAUTION: Using TOO MUCH deodorant may have adverse results. It is prone to spawning prudes like Martha Stewart and Paris Hilton, Those Who Always Smell of a Daffodil's Ass.

Sometime tomorrow, Fur Affinity will no doubt breach half a million user-uploaded submission. That's right. 500,000. 5. Five zeros. Half a million. All in less than two years.*

THAT FREAKIN' ROCKS MY WORLD!

If I could, I'd go make a shout out to every single user's pages and just say thanks, but... y'know, you guys make this site what it is, and that's the best single aspect of FA. :)

But... thank you. All of you. Every last one of you.

I'm also happy to report that the donations for the servers has, so far, reached upwards of a lil' over $1,200! You guys are second to none.

* NOTE: There is no "kiriban" for hitting the number, so there's no point in trying to race to it. You won't get anything other than a bunch of people favin' your awesomeness, just like every other submission. =)

Pre-reg for FA: United is online and looking for bodies! Sign up and pre-reg while the spots are hot! Come out and chill with the FA crew this summer for one hell of a party (and our cocktail hour! BOOOOOZE!)

http://www.furaffinityforums.net/sh.....d.php?tid=5660

When? August 10-12, 2007 at the Ramada Inn Newark Airport in scenic New Jersey! Cost? We've got you covered! Registration starts at $30, and best of all, hotel rooms start at $79! United will rock the house and NOT leave your wallet broken. So c'mon, sign up and join us over in Jersey! And I promise, there will be no 502 errors at the con! =)

According to Alexa (www.alexa.com) Fur Affinity has finally become ranked the #1 furry site on the web for traffic.

YOU HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD

Despite all the drama, all the wakka wakka and the zip zop zoobity bop (POKEYMANS!) we have managed to get to first place. Now, I've never viewed FA's rival as competition, because I love VCL and Ch'marr is a decent friend of mine. =)

However, it's nice to be able to see that all the hard work paid off over time.

THREE FRAGS LEFT

But all this would be fruitless if I didn't have additional news. And I do! We are adding two new coders to FA to further progress on Ferrox, and hope to be able to take it to public beta by January.

Thanks, guys! =)

1) We love cupcakes.
2) We'll invest the money into keeping the site alive, powered by it's ultra phat 100Mbit connection pipe.
3) If our current donation counter hits $1,000 by the end of July we will create an all new section on the site, a section devoted to myself (and possibly other admins) being humiliated in random, horrible ways. Ways that you, the community, will get to vote on.

it. So long as it's PG, of course. :)
4) The longer FA is alive the more reasons it gives me reason to yell at the coders to make improvements.
5) Our server's seeing eye-dog needs surgery.
6) We will send locusts to your house if you don't don't cough up a buck.
7) We REALLY love cupcakes.
8) We're obtaining more coders and working on revisions to speed, security and highly demanded features!
9) SHOW US ON THE DOLL WHERE THEY TOUCHED YOU!
10) Fender will be sad if you don't.
11) We need more gerbil feed to power the system.
12) Clinical studies have shown people who do not donate stand at higher risk to contract the deadly Motaba virus.
13) Because we didn't steal your bike that one time.
14) Servers are expensive.
15) One day, we'll cure the world of the dreaded gum disease GINGIVITIS using the power of furry smut.
16) Ants will bite you.
17) Failure to donate to FA may cause gravity to cease functioning.
18) If FA goes away, why... you'll never get to see me making up these stupid lists!
19) We want to start a tree farm and grow hard drives to expand capacity. It's true! Gigabytes do grow on trees.
20) Elephants will rampage in New Delhi. A fruit stand will perish in the ensuing chaos.
21) Men are from Mars, Donations are from Venus
22) We love each and every one of you.
23) The server is expensive and we want to make sure you don't have to see ads. You guys don't like ads, right?
24) Fender will sneak into your window at night and touch you in your happy place in an attempt to make you smile.

Note: You can not sue if you do not approve of this. It's in the TOS. Really!
25) Llamas of the world agree: Donating to FA is COOL!
26) Every time you donate an angel gets its wings.
27) Fur Affinity goes excellent with cheese and wine, and you want to enjoy that privilege now until forever!
28) To Affinity, AND BEYOND!
29) You'll enjoy watching Disney/Pixar sue us over 28), and the resulting drama will make for a most excellent mini-series (coming in 2008 on the FOX Network!).
30) We all love watching Family Guy.
31) Crayons taste like purple.
32) Donations are one click away!
33) We'll add groups! And multiple user icons! And more color themes! BUT ONLY IF YOU DONATE!
34) We swear, SWEAR... that if you donate we'll never pick your nose.
35) We'll never, ever attempt to bring back disco.
37) You can _____ if you want to, you can _____ your friends behind.
38) Did you notice 36 went missing? We've notified the police and are trying to track it down.
39) Fur Affinity fought bravely in the Vietnam War and hasn't been able to maintain a steady job since.
40) We will make every attempt to pet and snuggle all things cute.
41) Alkora will pierce my nipples with doorknockers if that donation button doesn't get a least a few clicks.
42) Life, the Universe... everything.
43) We'll add in community customizable 404 messages!
44) We may actually fix a bug or thirty! No, really!
45) FA vows to battle crime and injustice on the streets of Neo Tokyo and vows to put an end to the Yakuza through a series of seminars focusing on family values.
46) We will never, ever turn to the Dark Side.
47) We'll post pictures of Fender with $20 bills sticking out of his underpants and
48) We have a major, MAJOR upgrade to the entire system planned that will blow your mind, but we won't post it unless you donate.

Because we're mean like that.
49) Take me to your leader.
50) This is one long ass list, isn't it?
51) I will rewrite all the text on the site and make it kick ass. In fact, I'm already doing that right now! DONATE ANWAY!
52) FA will see to it every state outlaws fleas.
53) We'll ensure that New Coke never, EVER comes back. Even if we have to kill.
54) Every attempt will be made to locate Al Roker's fat and attempt to mold a newer, better Al out of what used to comprise his stomach.
55) Our host will get paid on time, and that will make hime a very, VERY happy ferret.
56) We'll scientifically re-engineer the digestive system and bowels so that all farts smell like warm, freshly baked cookies.
57) We will love you forever and promise to take care of you, feed you, buy you toys and take you out for walks.
58 to 50,000) We will make this the best god damn website the fandom has ever seen.

Well, it looks like we're back and everything is up and running.

Let's keep our fingers crossed! Mad <3 for Jheryn and Gushi. Mad <3>