[Gloucs] Seti@home tweaks??

[Francis Barton]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 11:35, Guy Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:02, Paul Cooke wrote:
> [snip]
> > I just wonder how many computers have been worn out before their time from 
> > having seti run on them while "idle".
> 
> http://www.bitenbyte.com/seti/setifaq.html#Section_2.18
> 
> Although having posted that link, I seem to remember a story in the
> press about a year ago of a sys admin sacked because he ran seti on all
> the company machines in the night. They argued that the admin had
> reduced the life of their machines and was using company power. Seem to
> remember I got the impression they were just upset that he hadn't asked
> permission first.

last month:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/11/seti_man_sacked/
also:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/18/distributed_computing_case_ends/

> If I was going to do anything like that it'd probably be one of the
> medical related research clients, like the cancer related ones or the
> virus dna unfolding clients.

Having run seti for years i have recently started running foldingathome instead.