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08 Feb 2009, 12:11 pm

How many of you on this forums is using Boinc on your computer at home or at work?

( Boinc homepage: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ )


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08 Feb 2009, 12:30 pm

Looks cool, I'll be adding my spare computing resources to that soon.


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08 Feb 2009, 1:13 pm

I don't use it nor do I have much use for it. Do you use it khelben1979?


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08 Feb 2009, 1:35 pm

Dokken wrote:
I don't use it nor do I have much use for it. Do you use it khelben1979?

It's not intended to be useful to you, it's intended to be neutral to you and beneficial to others. I remember back in the day when SETI was running on everyone's screensaver. We all thought it was pretty cool, but I'll probably contribute my comp downtime to a more useful project.


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08 Feb 2009, 2:04 pm

It looks very interesting.


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08 Feb 2009, 2:09 pm

Have been processing SETI:home since it went to BOINC in a number of machines still haven't found the Borg collective yet :(


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08 Feb 2009, 2:19 pm

Orwell wrote:
Dokken wrote:
I don't use it nor do I have much use for it. Do you use it khelben1979?

It's not intended to be useful to you, it's intended to be neutral to you and beneficial to others. I remember back in the day when SETI was running on everyone's screensaver. We all thought it was pretty cool, but I'll probably contribute my comp downtime to a more useful project.

I know, that's why I don't have much use for it :wink:


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08 Feb 2009, 2:25 pm

sorry, I've never heard that definition of boinking...;)



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08 Feb 2009, 3:44 pm

I've just started up BOINC again, exclusively working on The Clean Energy Project. If i'm going to use a hundred watts of electricity crunching numbers, it should be for more efficient solar panels.



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08 Feb 2009, 5:26 pm

Dokken wrote:
I don't use it nor do I have much use for it. Do you use it khelben1979?


Yes, I do. :-)


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08 Feb 2009, 8:57 pm

khelben1979 wrote:
How many of you on this forums is using Boinc on your computer at home or at work?

( Boinc homepage: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ )


Wait a second. I seem to have BOINC manager on my desktop. Does it come pre-installed on debian lenny or maybe I installed it a long time ago and forgot I installed anything.

Maybe I'll open and press some buttons to see what it does. :wink:


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09 Feb 2009, 12:44 am

I have BOINC running about a dozen of projects, LHC and SETI included.