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cygnussphere
12-16-2002, 10:41 PM
ToolBar Borging!!!
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Put your idle computer time to good use
Google would like to request your help on Google Compute, a new feature for the Google Toolbar. By turning on this feature, you can allow your computer to work on complex scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. The work it does is automatically sent via the Internet to researchers who combine it with information sent by thousands of other users.

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:swear:

I e-mailed them asking who was getting stats credit

shifted
12-17-2002, 01:35 AM
Would be nice, but in their infinite wisdom, they decided to only release it for one, and at that, proprietary, web-browser that i can't run on most of my machines, because the company that makes it doesn't make a linux version.

Paratima
12-17-2002, 05:47 AM
Thanks anyway, Google.

I decide what projects get my CPU time.

Darkness Productions
12-17-2002, 12:59 PM
Chill people. It's not enabled by default, and you have to actually visit the website to apply. Yes, google gets the stats, but think about it this way. They're putting to use machines that otherwise would sit and do nothing the rest of the time. I for one would like to thank google, for helping out F@H so much.

cygnussphere
12-17-2002, 08:56 PM
If I had paid any attention I would have looked at this first.

http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/searchteamstats.

I'm sorry if I left the impression that I was mad about this. Of course if they can get massive boxen coop this way good for them and what ever projects they take on. This kind of exposer could give Ars a run :D .

This just struck me as Ironic that someone who has been trying to borg every puter I can get was getting a borg request :D
I don't know how long that "new" button was on my Google bar before I actually clicked on it.

shifted
12-17-2002, 11:15 PM
Originally posted by cygnussphere
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/searchteamstats.

It should be http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/searchteamstats; watchout for the forum's parser. It can't differenciate between ending punctuation and punctuation that is part of the url. You can get around this by using the "http://" button.