Consider yourself lucky that you have rice to eat everyday, and you do not suffer from any incurable diseases. But some people do, instead of sitting down and say, "I will donate to them when I have the money", why don't you do something while surfing the net, since that is what most of you are doing, especially those after SPM, surfing around people's blog or looking out for chicks on the net.

 

These are the two things you can do.

 

1) FreeRice - It is a program supported by online advertisers and the proceedings would go to the poor children in the form of rice. In the whole world, it is estimated that around 20,000 (yes, twenty thousands) people die everyday because they did not have anything to eat. So, you go to this website, and you just have to answer some English vocabulary questions, they would give you some words, and choose the best word that matches its meaning from the multiple choices given. While you are answering those questions, there would be some advertisements showed on the page, and if you answer those questions correctly, you would donate twenty grains of rice to the poor. Each time I play, I would donate around 2000 grains of rice, enough to feed a children for a day, at least I have done my part. What about you? For your information, the freerice program is sponsored by advertisors who put their advertisements on the website. After all, you get to kill two birds with one stone, to improve your English vocabulary and to help feed the poor children.

 

2) Some of you love to keep your computers on day and night while downloading things or running some gaming bots. I wouldn't encourage this as this would consume electricity, we should be conserving electricities now that the world is facing energy crisis. If you are so persistent and still wants to leave it on, at least let your PC do something useful.

 

The useful thing I am talking about here is Folding@Home. This is how it works. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project. Click here for Wikipedia entry and here for FAQs . Distributed computing means splitting the computing job to multiple computers can combine their processors and finish off a job faster. So what distributed computing (DC) job that Folding@Home does? Folding@Home is a project to simulate protein folding. When protein folds properly, it forms complex structures, but when protein folding goes wrong, you get diseases like cancer and Alzhemier.

 

In the past, supercomputers are used to simulate protein folding, but this process is way too slow, if you have all the slow computers in the world combined, it can easily surpass the performance of supercomputers in protein simulating. So what you do is to download the Folding@Home software, and set it up according to instructions found here .Join the folding team 2999 (Team Folding@Malaysia) and we (all other folders in Malaysia) would be working on the same batch of project. The best part is, you can watch the protein fold in realtime, it would also make a perfect screensaver. Better still, you can give the software the lowest priority so it would not affect your gaming, or any heavy processing work. Hell, I even forgot that I have installed it and running it for so long. The Sony PS3 Cell's processor is very powerful and capable of simulating protein folding even better, because of that, the latest PS3 firmware have Folding@Home firmware integrated, give it a try if you have one.

 

Some screenshot to get you started with,

 

 

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That's all for now, shall you have any questions, please post a comment, I would answer your questions. Let's do our part to make this world a better place for all. 

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