On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:21:46PM -0700, Mr O wrote: > >Help! I'm working on a very twisted project which some will >laugh and some will groan about. My goal: bring Windows 98SE to >it's knees as fast as possible without actually doing anything. >How you say? Will so far I have: >Gator, Date Manager, Precision Time, Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire, >Weatherbug, Comet Cursor, & Bonzi Buddy. > >What other spyware/adware/crapware is there that I can put on >the system. I'm shooting for things that run in the background >when you boot the machine. So Limewire and Kaaza aren't really >started but I got the free stuff that they come with. > >Now the system isn't quite a slouch. It has an XP1600 with 512MB >of RAM to try and keep it afloat. Maybe in a couple weeks I can >try the same thing with XP. Currently system resource top out at >about 35% on Startup. I know I can do better/worse than that :) > >Oh yeah, no antivirus or firewall programs either. >
Not exactly crapware, but i've managed to suck up a lot of disk, RAM and cpu all at once by simultaneously running dnetc (http://www.distributed.net) running as a Windows service, and Electric Sheep (http://www.electric-sheep.org) running inside dnetc's screensaver multiplexor. These might violate your requirement about "not doing anything" as they may produce useful output for someone. You could also install a Freenet node. Do you have IIS for your Windoze? -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
