I've been recieving ancient Seti@home units for weeks. They keep sending out the same units over and over, from January 1999 through March 1999. When you work on it, you notice that it just keeps looping. You hit a February unit, then a March unit, then a January unit, etc.
Maybe they've set it up to analyse the units in that strange order, but I doubt it seeing as they have enough computing power to encode several thousand years of MP3's per day... using BLADEENC!:)
What the Seti@home project needs is a way to better manage the data that they're being sent. It would also be nice if they'd optimize their client so we could run it for the same amount of time, but have it take up less CPU. It really is intrusive when it's not running in screensaver-only mode under windows, and without -nice 19 in Unix.
How do you get Windows98 SE to perform NAT functionality? That would be very useful for me since I'm the firewall machine, but I dual-boot into Windows98 sometimes to play games, and when I do, my brother gets mad.:)
I have a lot of problems with Microsoft praising open source software, then saying they'll be adopting open source, then saying that Apache is better? It doesn't make sense! What are they trying to do, confuse us into writing bad software?
I know they're up to something. I suspect that either Microsoft will reveal some evil move very soon, or they'll flip-flop completely on the issue.
It makes more sense to me to use bytes as the transaction unit because people like to have 24-hour net access, so they can just type in an url and get it to come up. People aren't actually USING the net unless they're actively transferring data.
It would make for a much simple tracking system. I know the Linux kernel can do data accounting, but there isn't much in the ways of TIMING a connection. It just sounds fishy to me. You get charged by the AMOUNT of electricity you use, why not the AMOUNT of data you transfer?
Of course, by timing it, they'd make lots of money... especially during prime time when everyone is lagged.:)
Could someone put the PDF file up on their web page for me, so I could have a look at it? It sounds really interesting, because I thought right from the start that the open source model had some problems with it.
The only way I figured it could work is if computer communism was established, where tax dollars went to the government to pay the software developers, and everyone got free software.
I don't know... Like most revolutionary advancements in technology, it seems to have been developed by two different people simultaneously. One, a huge company, the other, a freaking genius who has been building them since he was 16. If it turns out to be baloney, then so be it. But stranger things have happened before.
This definitely sheds light on what Transmeta has been up to, however, and why Linus is working for them.;)
Yes, get some big corporation that will take up ALL your possible ad space. Then, maybe strike up a deal with them to pay for your bandwidth. Getting sponsored by someone who provides bandwidth is probably the easiest.:)
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I've been recieving ancient Seti@home units for weeks. They keep sending out the same units over and over, from January 1999 through March 1999. When you work on it, you notice that it just keeps looping. You hit a February unit, then a March unit, then a January unit, etc.
:)
Maybe they've set it up to analyse the units in that strange order, but I doubt it seeing as they have enough computing power to encode several thousand years of MP3's per day... using BLADEENC!
What the Seti@home project needs is a way to better manage the data that they're being sent. It would also be nice if they'd optimize their client so we could run it for the same amount of time, but have it take up less CPU. It really is intrusive when it's not running in screensaver-only mode under windows, and without -nice 19 in Unix.
How do you get Windows98 SE to perform NAT functionality? That would be very useful for me since I'm the firewall machine, but I dual-boot into Windows98 sometimes to play games, and when I do, my brother gets mad. :)
Thanks.
I have a lot of problems with Microsoft praising open source software, then saying they'll be adopting open source, then saying that Apache is better? It doesn't make sense! What are they trying to do, confuse us into writing bad software?
I know they're up to something. I suspect that either Microsoft will reveal some evil move very soon, or they'll flip-flop completely on the issue.
It makes more sense to me to use bytes as the transaction unit because people like to have 24-hour net access, so they can just type in an url and get it to come up. People aren't actually USING the net unless they're actively transferring data.
:)
It would make for a much simple tracking system. I know the Linux kernel can do data accounting, but there isn't much in the ways of TIMING a connection. It just sounds fishy to me. You get charged by the AMOUNT of electricity you use, why not the AMOUNT of data you transfer?
Of course, by timing it, they'd make lots of money... especially during prime time when everyone is lagged.
Could someone put the PDF file up on their web page for me, so I could have a look at it? It sounds really interesting, because I thought right from the start that the open source model had some problems with it.
:)
The only way I figured it could work is if computer communism was established, where tax dollars went to the government to pay the software developers, and everyone got free software.
Of course, that wouldn't work.
I don't know... Like most revolutionary advancements in technology, it seems to have been developed by two different people simultaneously. One, a huge company, the other, a freaking genius who has been building them since he was 16. If it turns out to be baloney, then so be it. But stranger things have happened before.
;)
This definitely sheds light on what Transmeta has been up to, however, and why Linus is working for them.
Yes, get some big corporation that will take up ALL your possible ad space. Then, maybe strike up a deal with them to pay for your bandwidth. Getting sponsored by someone who provides bandwidth is probably the easiest. :)