[Coco] Re: off-topic, space program

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Correct Gene 

Using WIN98SE.

I have toyed with the idea of loading Linux but have not really 
decided on which distribution. Got 40 Gig free on the Hdisk. 

james


On 14 Jan 2004 at 21:17, Gene Heskett wrote:

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> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 19:23, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> >Jim
> [...]
> >My slow K6-2 450MHz peeeceee is running Set at home screen
> >saver. Takes about 130 hrs to process a block. But better than
> >nothing.
> >
> >james
> 
> Huh?  My 500Mhz K6-iii is doing one in about 18 hours.  And this
> machine is doing about 4.25 units a day.  Old slow Athlon...
> 
> Oh, I get it, thats a windows box and it only runs as a screensaver. 
> Here, its 24/7/365 as a background task at nice=20.  Running linux. No
> gui in it, but I do have an independant gui snooper program that can
> monitor it and show me results when I get curious.  Its called
> ksetipsy-5.2.
> 
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