Re: SETI@home (history)

John Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.killerbs
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Alberto Monteiro
<[email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC, there was a story somewhere that the SETI@home software
> included a bug (like a crippleware) that would make it run
> _much slower_ than it could run, because there was not enough
> data for the millions of computers that would process this
> data.

I do not know if that is true, but if it is true, I would call it a
feature, not a bug. If there is no useful SETI data for my computer to
crunch, I'd rather have the CPU cycles available for something else.

Or did you mean that it consumed CPU cycles doing something useless,
like calculating digits of PI repeatedly?
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