I don't know for sure what the cost of the electricity is, but the heat difference on my CPU is visibly apparent on my hardware sensors. I could run SETI@home and see my core CPU temperature around 155 deg F, and then terminate the process and watch the temperature drop to about 140 deg F. As soon as I restarted SETI, the temperature would shoot back up, usually within about 30 seconds.
OTOH, consider other (possibly more immediately) beneficial programs that use distributed computing. Cancer and Alzheimer's genetic research, for example, can be found through Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer. You donate your cycles, pay some extra for your electric bill, and let them have some computing power that they may not be able to afford directly.
Clothes that do something conventient (like change color for coordination) are only a step away from clothes that do something inconvenient (like tell the police where you were two hours ago, no need for a search warrant). I warned about this almost a year ago.
--Software created with Qt Free Editions is governed by the terms of the GPL and QPL.
--The Free Edition licenses do not allow the development or distribution of commercial software."
The LGPL allows you to use libraries, as long as you supply the code for those libraries, but your own code can remain closed. There is no such option for the GPL/QPL versions of QT.
Sergio Aragones, the famous cartoonist for Mad Magazine, didn't speak English when he interviewed for that job. His knowledge of Esperanto was the only thing that enabled him to communicate with anyone at the publishing office.
Yeah, it's horrible, not like in Australia, where IIRC voting is mandatory. Never mind that it was in the USSR, too, plus every tinpot dictatorship in Central America and Africa.
Back in the days of ancient desktop systems, my school had a few TRaSh-80's. One "feature" of these machines (Model III's with built-in displays) was a choice between 64- and 32-character lines. Thanks to some research and bribery, I found out which I/O port controlled this, and it just happened to be the same port that controlled the motor on/off on the cassette storage.
I hacked up a quick test in TRS-80 BASIC to toggle the 64/32 bit, and it ran fast enough to create four scrolling bands on the display. Cool. If I toggled the entire byte, it also flipped the cassette motor on and off rapidly, causing the internal relay to click loudly. Double-cool.
So, thanks to a Z-80 programmer's guide (also from Radio Slack), I turned the whole thing into assembly, hand-assembled it, turned the hex codes into decimal bytes, and then punched it in with a rudimentary program. (It gave me a great appreciation for Altair programmers and their bootstrap process.) This program did something simple: present a totally faked boot-up screen, wait for a keypress, then go into an infinite loop, doing the same toggle. But, in machine code, it ran at CPU speed (1 MHz), not BASIC interpreter speed. The toggle in this mode was fast enough to cause the CRT circuitry to lose horizontal sync, resulting in nothing but lots of "static" on the screen. Beautiful.
I got everything into place, ran my code, and went to another machine to watch. Lo and behold, my first and only "victim" was the instructor. She sat down at the machine, looked at it, pressed the correct key (Enter), and jumped a little bit as the screen went haywire, while the cassette motor relay started snapping wildly. She looked at me, saw that I was watching, then reached down and pressed the orange reset button.
I was kicked out of the lab for the rest of the day. I suppose she had to do something, but it was worth it.
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The Comment Queue died two days after I installed it. So, I'm trying out Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist.
OTOH, consider other (possibly more immediately) beneficial programs that use distributed computing. Cancer and Alzheimer's genetic research, for example, can be found through Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer. You donate your cycles, pay some extra for your electric bill, and let them have some computing power that they may not be able to afford directly.
"End of the World Tomorrow! Women and minorities hardest hit"
She has an entire entry about comment spam, and what to do about it. For myself, I installed her Comment Queue Script/MT Hack. Works like a charm.
Clothes that do something conventient (like change color for coordination) are only a step away from clothes that do something inconvenient (like tell the police where you were two hours ago, no need for a search warrant). I warned about this almost a year ago.
"Restrictions:
--Software created with Qt Free Editions is governed by the terms of the GPL and QPL.
--The Free Edition licenses do not allow the development or distribution of commercial software."
The LGPL allows you to use libraries, as long as you supply the code for those libraries, but your own code can remain closed. There is no such option for the GPL/QPL versions of QT.
Perhaps it's best to turn off both 80 and 135. And 20, and 21, and 8080, and and and....
What a left-handed (or is that insulting to south-paws?) complimentary review. I laughed from start to finish!
Sergio Aragones, the famous cartoonist for Mad Magazine, didn't speak English when he interviewed for that job. His knowledge of Esperanto was the only thing that enabled him to communicate with anyone at the publishing office.
Yeah, it's horrible, not like in Australia, where IIRC voting is mandatory. Never mind that it was in the USSR, too, plus every tinpot dictatorship in Central America and Africa.
I'll take freedom to ignore the system any day.
If I type in "Arnnold", will it pop up "Arianna" as the one it thinks I should be voting for?
Back in the days of ancient desktop systems, my school had a few TRaSh-80's. One "feature" of these machines (Model III's with built-in displays) was a choice between 64- and 32-character lines. Thanks to some research and bribery, I found out which I/O port controlled this, and it just happened to be the same port that controlled the motor on/off on the cassette storage.
I hacked up a quick test in TRS-80 BASIC to toggle the 64/32 bit, and it ran fast enough to create four scrolling bands on the display. Cool. If I toggled the entire byte, it also flipped the cassette motor on and off rapidly, causing the internal relay to click loudly. Double-cool.
So, thanks to a Z-80 programmer's guide (also from Radio Slack), I turned the whole thing into assembly, hand-assembled it, turned the hex codes into decimal bytes, and then punched it in with a rudimentary program. (It gave me a great appreciation for Altair programmers and their bootstrap process.) This program did something simple: present a totally faked boot-up screen, wait for a keypress, then go into an infinite loop, doing the same toggle. But, in machine code, it ran at CPU speed (1 MHz), not BASIC interpreter speed. The toggle in this mode was fast enough to cause the CRT circuitry to lose horizontal sync, resulting in nothing but lots of "static" on the screen. Beautiful.
I got everything into place, ran my code, and went to another machine to watch. Lo and behold, my first and only "victim" was the instructor. She sat down at the machine, looked at it, pressed the correct key (Enter), and jumped a little bit as the screen went haywire, while the cassette motor relay started snapping wildly. She looked at me, saw that I was watching, then reached down and pressed the orange reset button.
I was kicked out of the lab for the rest of the day. I suppose she had to do something, but it was worth it.