Climate Change Experiment
"Team 101"
Welcome! Wherever you came from, you're welcome here. Especially regulars on alt.fan.landrover - UK-LRO and the 101 crowd on yahoogroups :-) 
Land Rover owners are currently the focus of much 'anti-4x4' rhetoric, often ungrounded, often based upon misinformation or incorrect reporting in the popular media, frequently supported by misguided political posturing and spin. The emphasis is clearly a diversionary and divisive focus upon just how environmentally irresponsible we are. The truth is, Land Rover owners care as much about our environment as anyone else - often more so as the Land Rover may often be the vehicle of choice for those working in environmentally friendly industries. Many of us take great offence at being branded eco-terrorists for driving a vehicle which is 'blamed for a name'. This page, for "Team 101" will help enable you, whether a Land Rover owner or not, to participate in the largest ever experiment to assess climate change - without actually having to do any real work :-) All you need is a computer running Linux or Windows 2000/XP. It's a three step process to joining Team 101 and setting your computer to work... 1 - GET THE SOFTWARE Linux users' can download the shell script here. Windows users' can get the software from here. 2 - Install it and sign-on 3 - Join the Team 101 The other way to join Team 101, once you've installed the software is to select "Your Results" from the menu (or button on the left for Windows users in the BOINC Manager), then from 'My Details' select "Advanced users: options and web pages" (usually at the very bottom of the page), then "Teams - create or join a team", then Search for: 101 Our team is simply called... 101 From the search results, click 101 then "Join this team"... 
That's it! Whenever your computer isn't really doing anything else it will be participating in the largest ever experiment ever conducted to do with climate change and analysis. It's safe and free. See the info at theBBC. Now the good bit... If enough people join Team 101, we could possibly get some positive publicity (for a change). Regardless of this, you can at least rest comfortably knowing that you are a part of something rather special - and something that may eventually be of benefit to us all, our children, and their children. Technical stuph... Be warned, building a climate change model for 160 years (1920 to 2080) takes time. Even a reasonably fast computer will take a good few months to build the model and analyse the data - this is why the experiment is run on a distributed platform. If you're using a Windows based machine and you get 1 percent per day, you'll be doing pretty well. Linux platforms seem to work a bit better. I'm running two teams at present, one for a hobby (Team 101) to which I've devoted some of the office machines running Windows - and another team (closed, work related) running one single Linux box. At present the Linux box is ahead of any of the office Windows machines! Having said this, it is a higher specification machine and this, essentially is what counts. Don't be put off taking part and joining Team 101 even if you only have an older machine - it doesn't matter as ALL data is important to the good folk at ClimatePrediction and Oxford University. When you've started the analysis you can continue to use your computer as you normally would. You should not see any impact on performance, you don't need to leave it turned on any longer than normal and you certainly should not leave it on just to run the software (this would actually be contributing toward climate change!) - the software works when you're not doing anything else and will automatically resume next time you turn your computer on. Sad techies, and those of us who've contributed toward SETI@home for all these years will be interested to know that this experiment is running under 
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