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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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02-15-2006 06:32
Remember the SETI@Home project? (I only say that cuz it wuz a bit of a fad for a time but now no one seems to participate
 )Well, there is a similar sort of initiative in conjunction with the BBC to use our spare computing power to number crunch data related to forecasting climate changes. If, like me, your pc's are often on but doing little, maybe you would consider offsetting all that electricity you're wasting by donating some of your unused CPU resource to http://climateprediction.net/?  |
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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02-15-2006 06:56
Runs pretty well on my machine. Even let me play FarCry without anything but minor hitches.
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AJ DaSilva
woz ere
Join date: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,993
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02-15-2006 15:27
I would, but my spare processing power's too busy generating pretty pictures. Sorry Earth, I guess you're gonna have to flood an' stuff to get rid of us after all.
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Garnet Psaltery
Walking on the Moon
Join date: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 913
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02-15-2006 15:35
Ah yes, I signed up for this yesterday but so far I appear to be too stupid to get it to do anything.
Hmm. Maybe I'll do a reinstall?  _____________________
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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02-15-2006 15:57
Ah yes, I signed up for this yesterday but so far I appear to be too stupid to get it to do anything. Hmm. Maybe I'll do a reinstall? Perhaps download the BBC's version? It's essentially the same thing, but a custom version of the BOINC project client, which self installs, registers and downloads your packages, and has a prettier interface anyway http://bbc.cpdn.org/ |
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Teddy Wishbringer
Snuggly Bear Cub
Join date: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 208
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02-16-2006 07:01
Hmm.. leave your computer on, to consume more electricity, to help the environment..
Oh the irony of it all.. |
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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02-16-2006 07:04
Hmm.. leave your computer on, to consume more electricity, to help the environment.. Oh the irony of it all.. Well, that was what I pointed out in my original post. However, if my pc was truly doing nothing else, it'd be off. But since it's hosting a necessary but largely dormant server, it's on and doing little. So the ideal scenario to be doing this project |
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Garnet Psaltery
Walking on the Moon
Join date: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 913
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02-16-2006 07:34
Perhaps download the BBC's version? It's essentially the same thing, but a custom version of the BOINC project client, which self installs, registers and downloads your packages, and has a prettier interface anyway http://bbc.cpdn.org/ Thanks, that was indeed the site I used . It turns out that something got lost during the download and the tool was left constantly seeking some further part of itself .. which never arrived. I put the thing out of its misery until I have more time to play._____________________
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Introvert Petunia
over 2 billion posts
Join date: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 2,065
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02-16-2006 08:01
Hmmm... a computer with with its monitor turned off dissipates about 300W, which given transmission inefficiencies probably left the generator as about 600W which was generated likely by the burning of a carbon fuel (methane, oil, coal) which dumped a corresponding amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which I'm too lazy to calculate, plus the aforementioned 600W of waste heat.
And this is doing my part for the environment how? (sorry, just being silly, it's a thursday. never could quite get the hang of 'em  ) |
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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02-16-2006 11:09
Annoyingly, it was all running fine, until I restarted the computer and it restarted the project. *DOH*
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Sally Rosebud
the girl next door
Join date: 3 May 2005
Posts: 2,505
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02-16-2006 11:15
(sorry, just being silly, it's a thursday. never could quite get the hang of 'em )Yeah, Thursday's are hard... I think the point is, if the computer is gonna be on anyways wasting all those resources, it might as well do something useful as well! _____________________
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
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Lucifer Baphomet
Postmodern Demon
Join date: 8 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,771
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02-16-2006 11:40
The reason [email=SETI@Home]SETI@Home[/email] went quiet is because five years ago, my PC found the Vrin'ch'hi Mothership's hailing signal.They are currently heading for earth, and expected to arrive late 2008.
Apparently they have intellignce linking us to the Djakkarra attack on the Twin Moons, the financial centre of their star empire. However the real reason they are coming here is for our genitic material, as fresh genetic data is what drives thier economy and industry. Apparently this is where Bush got his ideas. _____________________
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Cartridge Partridge
Noodly appendage
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 999
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02-16-2006 14:36
Hey! I am still working on SETI@home!! Am i like that japanese soldier on that desert island thinking the WW2 was still going on after years?
 Being serious, i tried to find, download and install SETI@home a few months ago, and i found it embedded in a larger project called BOINC _____________________
aku cinta kamu sepenuh hati, rinaz sayangku.
My short term memory died about 10 years ago. It's the last thing i remember. Did i tell you already? |