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| | | (...) turned my SETI@Home off for a couple of weeks. Once they release 1.1, I'll try that out. Steve (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Nope, I just put up with it. Since most of the computers I have running it are not in front of me it doesn't bother me. On thing I have noticed - on the same hardware, the Linux version STOMPS the Windows version. On my P2-450 it takes me (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) Unfortunately, none of my machines can be allowed to connect automatically, so I have to deal with connection failures. (...) I'm guessing they developed the software under Linux, then ported to Windows. And haven't changed optimization to (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Yeah. My Celeron Mendocino 450 Win98 takes in the order of 26 hours or so as well, but it definitely varies a lot with the particular unit I'm running. Jasper (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that. One thing I'm going to regret is having to stop the SETI thing from running on my full-time Linux box at home. That's where I plan on running the EveryAuction script for a good while, and I don't know of (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) As far as I can tell on my windows box, it only uses the not-needed-right-now cycles. Linux should _easily_ do that, as process prioritization is built into it. I know the linux rc5 client is permanently niced to 10, or something like that. (I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: SETI@Home? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I might see if it can play nice for a day or so. 'Course, bandwidth is more of an issue for me than processor power if the SETI client CAN play nice. But since I checked out (URL) last night and setup a website with CGI capability, I may (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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