Abe...what's this thing you do with seti? It sounds really interesting.
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
> it actually takes about a minute. I've got a duron 600 machine with 256M of
> ram.
>
> It takes my machine 23 hours and 19 minutes to process a data block for seti
> but I only run seti in windows at the moment. Presumably it will be quite a
> bit faster in linux.
>
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>
> abe
>
> >===== Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> >> you have my condolences Ozz. But hey, you can take your linux box
> >with you
> >> where ever you go! I have to sit at home in front of my desk to use
> >it.
> >> That's a definately worth it trade off.
> >
> >How long does it take you to boot StarOffice? I can go make a coffee
> >while it loads on mine (seriously!).
> >
> >It is actually quicker for me to shut down X, reboot into Windoze and
> >load Office97 than it is to load StarOffice from within X.
> >
> >To me, that is pathetic.
> >
> >Laptop Specs:
> >AMD K6-2 @ 380Mhz.
> >64Mb RAM
> >6Gb hdd
> >
> >So as you can see, it's not a bad machine - it'll run two Seti@Home
> >clients and still process work units in under 20 hours!
> >(StarOffice performance figures are WITHOUT the likes of Seti running -
> >Seti makes it even worse!)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ozz.
>
> Jesus saves,
> Allah forgives,
> Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
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