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I'm pumping packets when I get the chance, but ever since we got broadband, dad's über paranoid about leaving the computer on... Like someone would want to h@x0Rz my system to get at his tax files... He's like Fox Mulder with a jar of oil. (You'll have to think wayyyy back to get that one, kiddies)

 

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"If they could get a washing machine to fly, our Nitro could land it!"

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While that'll give me peace of mind, it won't do much for my dad... He doesn't realise that anyone with enough skill/time to hack through a firewall, ISN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO US!

 

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nitro.gif Ryan "Nitro" Cole nitro.gif - The man who can fly anything with wings... And some things without...

 

"If they could get a washing machine to fly, our Nitro could land it!"

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I just thought of solution 3: Pull the cable out at night! Nobody can hack a system that isn't connected to the net. I do this from time to time when running defrag. I shut down all my programs in the background including anti-virus and firewall so it will go faster.

I just pull the eithernet cable out of the network card so I'm not vunerable.

 

It might be worth a try running it past dad.

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Well I am now down to 2 PCs. I just removed it from my folks over the weekend. They have been having problems with their PC so SETI only ran for breif periods of time anyway so I just decided to delete it. Now I'll just see if I can get to 4000 before tagt passes me. frown.gif

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Hey, how many people here are still doing this?

It seems to have fallen out of popularity. :(

 

I just checked our results at the XWA Seti page and it seems there's just a handful of us left pumping out packets. And what happened to Gunner's and Rogue9's (not Nine) results? I think they left us.

 

Bummer. And here I was thinking that maybe we should expand to try to get everyone from the entire Lucasforums network interested,.. perhaps starting a new LF group.

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The ECCp-109 is a code-breaking challenge, where a discrete logarithmic problem has to be solved. The DPC currently holds the 1st place in the stats of this project. I joined them to help to keep the 1st place, and for the prize money of course :)Here 's some more info.

 

The Dutch Power Cows is a clan of (mostly) Dutch teams competing in distributed computing projects, like Seti@home, RC5-64, ECCp-109, Genome@home and a few others.

 

Info on the various projects: http://www.ductchpowercows.org

DPC forum: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_topics/5

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