Comments on: How much good work does your computer do?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:57:20 +0000

Hmmmm. Something boggled on my machine. I’ll deal with it another time…

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0000

A long time ago I did the seti@home thing (being an astronomer as well as an artist it made perfect sense). But then I upgraded something on my machine that somehow made seti@home incompatible and I stopped. I’ve since changed locations, rebuilt my computer and have access to my mother’s. Like someone else here, my mother doesn’t use hera a lot. And I work with graphics and not really enough memory. So, what I plan to do, is get my mother’s machine going on the folding@home (both those illnesses have shown up in my family) and my machine on the other when I’m not using it.

It’s nice to be able to do something positive even when one is financially embarrassed.

By: Alia Denny

Alia Denny — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:00:52 +0000

Just got signed in and loaded tonight before a meeting, and will have plenty of idle time in the next few days to run stuff. I’ve also let the other computer users in my house know about the project, and may get a couple of the other three systems running as well.

By: DrakNet

DrakNet — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:56:34 +0000

It’s actually not - the text is black, and the visited link is navy blue. I’m looking on FF on XP Pro, and I’m able to see the differences in color…

By: Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little

Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:46:22 +0000

I wonder if you could tweak your blog’s CSS so that the vlink color isn’t indentical with the text color? I keep coming back to this post in order to find the link to World Community Grid, and it always takes me a while because, now that I’ve clicked it, the link is indistinguishable from the rest of the text. Not that having to reread the post is a *bad* thing necessarily, but it would be nice if the link stood out a bit!

(I’m running the latest Firefox on Windows XP Home, if that helps to know.)

By: DrakNet

DrakNet — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:20:23 +0000

I’ve actually already finished two work projects, and am on my next two. In about a week after we all turn some in, I’ll post the widget for the team on the project page.

By: Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little

Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:11:19 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have signed up, joined the DrakNet team, and begun running the software on both my laptop and the household desktop. Plenty of cycles to spare!

By: Marilyn Dillon

Marilyn Dillon — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:31:01 +0000

This is wonderful. Thanks for letting us know about this. I’m member #3 of Team Draknet.

With three computers in our house, and only two people, there’s always a computer with nothing to do, so the Grid will get a lot of processing time from us.

Hm, my mom does next to nothing on her computer. I’ll set it up on hers next time I’m there.
Jen, you rock! and Go Team Drak!

By: Janice Schwarz

Janice Schwarz — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:47:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. It’s something I’ve been meaning to look into for a long time, but I keep getting sidetracked. You also just saved me a lot of research. You bet I’ll join your group.