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Grex Science Item 77: Distributed computing projects and you
Entered by russ on Tue Jan 29 12:05:33 UTC 2002:

So, what worthy cause have you devoted YOUR screen-saver CPU cycles to?

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#1 of 10 by gull on Tue Jan 29 14:15:21 2002:

SETI@home, at work.
At home, distributed.net's OGR and RC5-64 challenges.  (Though those 
are getting *all* my spare clock cycles, not just the ones when my 
screen saver is running.)

#2 of 10 by tsty on Sun Oct 27 00:38:14 2002:

it;s been a good 3.239 years ....
  

 Name (and URL)                         toasty  
 Results Received                       3297
 Total CPU Time                         7.710 years 
 Average CPU Time per work unit         20 hr 29 min 08.3 sec 
 Average results received per day       2.79 
 Last result returned:          Sat Oct 26 23:59:07 2002 UTC
 Registered on:                         Sun Aug 1 18:03:39 1999 UTC
  
 SETI@home user for:                    3.239 years
                                    
 Your rank: (based on current workunits received) 
 Your rank out of 4051695 total users is:       34486th place. 
 The number of users who have this rank:        11 
 You have completed more work units than        99.149% of our users.

#3 of 10 by gull on Sun Oct 27 01:40:49 2002:

Since I made my post, RC5-64 has ended.  Some guy in Japan found the correct
key.

It took nearly four years to find the key.  This suggests that, while RC5-64
is plenty good enough for in-transit encryption of time-sensitive
information, it's unsuitable for keeping things secret that you'll still
need to be secret several years from now.

#4 of 10 by rcurl on Sun Oct 27 05:43:34 2002:

SETI@home. I've done 128 units, and they are going at 10-11 hours each.  I
run it in background. Does anyone know how to make it start on bootup on a
Mac G4? For most of what I do I notice no slowdown by running SETI in
background.

#5 of 10 by tsty on Sun Oct 27 10:25:03 2002:

there are some mac utilities (see add-ons at seti site) which not
only kick things off at startup, but also run in ram disk and also
pre-load several work units so you don't have to cnnect twice
a day (or so).

#6 of 10 by rcurl on Sun Oct 27 18:06:34 2002:

I couldn't find one among the add-ons that would launch SETI on startup.
Which is it? SUM does not support this (and SUM is itself no longer
supported).

#7 of 10 by rcurl on Tue Oct 29 20:40:16 2002:

I have searched alt.sci.seti on usenet (via. google groups) and found
that other have asked how to set seti to be launched on startup on
a Mac, but no one answered the questions. I also sent e-mail to the
SETI people asking the question, but got no response. 

By the way, item 48 is SETI@home item. It hasn't been active recently,
however.

#8 of 10 by tsty on Fri Nov 1 09:15:16 2002:

for some reason (probably a flood) the seti ppl don't answer much email.
  
i'l have to go look myslef, again. whatever it was that i started
to use (but no longer) might have been   sum ... i dunno. i just kick
it off from teh menu bar now (as before).
  
it's some sort of scripting thingie as i remember it.

#9 of 10 by rcurl on Fri Nov 1 19:29:46 2002:

Someone that knows how to program a Mac should be able to write a script
to put in the Startup Items folder. The problem is that SETI for the
Mac isn't an extension. It is just a Control Panel, and starting that
bring up a dialog but doesn't start the application. How does an item
get into the menu bar? There isn't a menu bar folder. I presume it is
in the application itself.

#10 of 10 by tsty on Fri Nov 8 22:54:35 2002:

my presumptoin also ....

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