[Coco] Re: off-topic, space program

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Thu Jan 15 00:00:59 EST 2004


??  how did this message aquire the off-topic subject line?  :)



At 09:50 PM 1/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>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:
>
>From:                   Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
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>         jdaggett at gate.net
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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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