[Gloucs] Seti@home tweaks??

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Francis Barton wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 11:35, Guy Edwards wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:02, Paul Cooke wrote:
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>>>I just wonder how many computers have been worn out before their time from 
>>>having seti run on them while "idle".
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>>http://www.bitenbyte.com/seti/setifaq.html#Section_2.18
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>>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.
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>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/
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>>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.
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>Having run seti for years i have recently started running foldingathome instead.
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