From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #92 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, August 26 2006 Volume 11 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fighting cancer ["Leslie O." ] Re: Fighting cancer [Brian Lochlaer ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:17:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Fighting cancer > I think Brian's idea is a good one - to use > distributed computing. I > have the worldcommunitygrid running on my computers, > and I can say that > it works and doesn't slow down fast computers much. > I don't run it on my > Digital Audio Workstation, and wouldn't run it on a > video production > computer, but on one used for word processing, web > browsing and the > like, you won't notice the program running. I don't think mine will work for something like this- apart from being a laptop and sleeping often (the programs have to run continuously right?) all it's power is being eaten by Adobe CS. Crap. - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Just when you expect jaunty jazz-coated melodies, 'Cruising For Bruising' kicks Side One off balance with a thunderous slab of mean-mutha rap metal spat from the very bowels of Hell itself." NME review of London Warsaw New York, 2/24/90 . . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:05:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Lochlaer Subject: Re: Fighting cancer Usually, programs like these kick in as a kind of screensaver when the computer is idle. But, yes, if your computer goes into sleep mode when not active, it wouldn't work. Cheers, - -Brian* "Leslie O." wrote: > I think Brian's idea is a good one - to use > distributed computing. I > have the worldcommunitygrid running on my computers, > and I can say that > it works and doesn't slow down fast computers much. > I don't run it on my > Digital Audio Workstation, and wouldn't run it on a > video production > computer, but on one used for word processing, web > browsing and the > like, you won't notice the program running. I don't think mine will work for something like this- apart from being a laptop and sleeping often (the programs have to run continuously right?) all it's power is being eaten by Adobe CS. Crap. - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Just when you expect jaunty jazz-coated melodies, 'Cruising For Bruising' kicks Side One off balance with a thunderous slab of mean-mutha rap metal spat from the very bowels of Hell itself." NME review of London Warsaw New York, 2/24/90 . . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V11 #92 ***************************