tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311425.post3072566007693486022..comments2024-03-27T00:13:35.570-07:00Comments on Editorials from Theslowlane: Living in a room without a million dollar view, but contemplating astronomical thingsTheslowlane Robert Ashworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082164332880198884noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311425.post-29309122961812946752008-01-21T21:21:00.000-08:002008-01-21T21:21:00.000-08:00Good suggestion. I've heard about this and other ...Good suggestion. I've heard about this and other distributed computing projects.<BR/><BR/>Maybe not for me as living in my room the lights often go out when my neighbor across the hall plugs in too many things. <BR/><BR/>I shut down my computer while away. <BR/><BR/>Also, for folks leaving the computer on all the time, good idea to check the CPU fan every once in a while. After a friend of mine had their CPU fry, they opened up the case and found the CPU fan clogged with dust. <BR/><BR/>Good idea to clean out the dust every so often.Theslowlane Robert Ashworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10082164332880198884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311425.post-83113152917094987092008-01-17T15:50:00.000-08:002008-01-17T15:50:00.000-08:00If you're interested in the LIGO project, you migh...If you're interested in the LIGO project, you might want to sign up for Boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Internet Computing). You can participate in the search for gravity waves and a variety of other interesting projects with Boinc including SETI and AIDS. It's a screensaver that crunches research data for these projects when you're not using the computer, or optionally even when you are using it. There are around five million participants which makes it the most powerful distributed supercomputer in the world. The LIGO version is especially interesting because the screensaver shows a real-time map of the sky and you can see where the elements of the telescope at Hanford and in Louisiana and Germany are aiming at any given time. Check it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com