21 May
1999
21 May
'99
6:58 a.m.
In a message dated 5/21/99 1:49:05 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com writes:
Here's a thought.
If you've got classic computers you'd love to run but can't think of
anything
to DO with them, (and they speak unix) go to
http://setiathome.ssi.berkeley.
edu
and make your computer's idle cycles part of the SETI search for
extraterrestrial life. They download you a chunk of data from the Arecebo
radio telescope and your computer spends its idle time running analysis on
that chunk, then sends the results back.
I believe distributed.net has a similar premise where just about any computer
could help crack some encryption algorithm.
They had client software for many operating systems including my favourite,
OS/2. Even xt based machines could help out by running dos based client
software.
david