Re: Ocupation to my computer.




: I have decided to leave my computer on all time and when I go to
: school it doesn't do anything for a while. Is there anything that 
: doesn't require user input that I could have him doing. It can't
: be anything that requires network because I have a dialup account
: and I don't want to pay for those communications. But it could be 
: something that after it was finished would mail the results to the 
: web or generate a file that I could attatch to a mail. 

http://www.distributed.net/

The client will download "blocks" which it can crunch while you are
offline, then uploads the results the next time you are connected and
retrieves more blocks.

If RC5 cracking doesn't interest you, you could see if SETI has a
Linux version of their radio-wave analyzer...

	  - A



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