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YETI@Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clients-for-every-imaginable-operating-system dept.

Dark-Helmet writes "YETI@Home, the search for the missing link? Or something else? Anyway, a very good parody of places like SETI@Home." One thing lacking on this site is Team Slashdot's ranking. We spot strange human-like creatures all the time (usually in our mirrors).

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  1. what is this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    I no understanding "yeti"? Is joke? I new to this country. Back in home we not having yeti. Is qake level? Is BSD? I am run BSD at home, if yeti is BSD then is good to have at home.

    I no understanding pictures of hair people. Back in home we have plenty of hair people, but none know yeti. Am thinking people are mistaking two? Please to help!!!

    1. Re:what is this? by JustShootMe · · Score: 4

      As opposed to Burt Reynolds, a large, hairy creature, last seen in the Wilds of Hollywood. Rumors abound that he has appeared in a film but has never bveen seen in his natural habitat - Loni Anderson.


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  2. I just had a bright moment... by arnoroefs2000 · · Score: 3

    or maybe not...

    For all you people that think that SETI@Home and Distributed.net is actually quite useless, listen up.
    I imagine that CPU cycles are actually wordt money, don't they? So wouldn't it be possible to set up some kind of system that runs like SETI@Home but actually does useful work?
    You could sell the CPU cycles collected by all those computers, and...here comes the catch...do something useful with the money. For instance supporting The Red Cross, or Greenpeace or whatever.
    There could be voting on what could purpose would be supported, and...and...well I see alot of possibilities.
    Ofcourse I can also see a few problems...but would it be possible?
    Anyone wants to share his opinion on this? Am I being very naive or might this actually be a good idea?

    Arno

  3. Don't hate me just because I'm hairy by Ogre332 · · Score: 3

    I wish those people would stop taking pictures of me frolicking naked in the privacy of my own backyard.

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  4. A serious problem with this client by Denor · · Score: 3

    You know what?

    Yeti@home is using inferior, close-sourced clients . Reports have already shown that people with "hacked" clients get two to three times better performance. Clearly, there are ways to improve the yeti@home client so that it can make better use of people's CPU cycles! This is a call to the slashdot population - I'd like you all to join me in demanding that yeti@home be open-sourced! Only then can we-

    What? Yes, I do see the icon by the story. A foot, kinda like the Monty-Python one.

    What do you mean, 'Think about it!'

    Oh.

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  5. *cough*rippoff!*cough* by Manuka · · Score: 3

    This is old news. There has been a YETI@Home at evilinternet.com since mid-1999.

  6. Re:what is this? (explanation) by Coyote · · Score: 3

    Hello, international friend.

    I understand your pain and confusion. "Yeti@home" is a parody of the American desire (dare I say NEED) to make everyting do something at all times. It is a bit of an obsession with us, because we want to be #1 again, and to do so we must charge blindly and patriotically down every avenue that will let us overcome the lead cureently held by The Republic of Gates.

    Perhaps if you visit these similar web sites, you will gain an understanding:

    http://www.spaghetti@home - the client offered at this site steals unused time between microwave oven beeps to create a tasty pasta salad.

    http://www.betty@home - in the black screen time between channel changes on your TV, searches a tape in your VCR for the famous lost Flintstones episodes.

    http://www.confetti@home - like yeti@home, this client feeds video from Times Square in NYC to your computer, but this client uses the idle time during "Server Error 425" messages to scan for bits of paper left over from New Year's eve and directs Legos robots with brooms to clean them up.

    http://gritty@home - this site is on every slashdotter's bookmark list; a heavily modified IRC client is scripted to search /. reader comments during the time between the user's refrigerator door opening and the time the light comes on to scan comments and adjust the threshold to a level that assures no comments with the words "hot grits" will be seen.

    I hope this helps you, international friend. I tell you this in hopes it will increase world harmony and peace.


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