You can be helpful and keep your sanity, too, by setting up a desktop control program, like Netmeeting, so you can actually do something, or demonstrate something at a distance.
(I don't mind helping out, but doing it blind via a phone call is really hard and very time consuming.)
Palmisano pointed out that businesses already have excess capacity. IBM is willing to go in and turn a business's computers into a grid. It could operate as an intra-grid. But it could also sell excess cycles to other grids. Thus, a business could conceivably pay for IT equipment by renting it to others.
This is not just about paying the meter. It is about utilizing all the wasted CPU cycles.
Haven't found a way to do automated indexing using OpenOffice. My wife is writing a book. Word allows us to have a master list of things to be indexed. It then will search all the chapters and place index entries on each page. This builds a beautiful index from the entries, even though the chapters are spread out, one file per chapter. For this, we had to go back to Word.
But we have OpenOffice on both computers for kids' school assignments. Nothing, so far, they are required to do that OpenOffice can't do.
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(I don't mind helping out, but doing it blind via a phone call is really hard and very time consuming.)
This is not just about paying the meter. It is about utilizing all the wasted CPU cycles.
Haven't found a way to do automated indexing using OpenOffice. My wife is writing a book. Word allows us to have a master list of things to be indexed. It then will search all the chapters and place index entries on each page. This builds a beautiful index from the entries, even though the chapters are spread out, one file per chapter. For this, we had to go back to Word. But we have OpenOffice on both computers for kids' school assignments. Nothing, so far, they are required to do that OpenOffice can't do.
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