An interesting use of this concept would be what SETI is doing on a lot of
desktops. SETI sends out data sets to my my desktop which crunches it when I
am not on the computer. They have amassed probably 40 million years of
computer time with this stragety.
Perhaps we could create a server that would download computational programs
to volunteers that would crunch numbers, while we are not using the system,
and send results back to the server. Use FTP or sockets for the
communication medium, but it doesnt really matter. Don't you know there
would be a lot of interest from the scientific community to have millions of
computer hours per day to crunch.
Maybe we could do something like calculate a new digit of pi or find the
next Mersenne prime.
Just a thought,
Tom Schaeper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: [REBOL] REBster
>Just a quick thought on a do-able REBOL-based replacement for Napster
>(a.k.a. REBster):
>
>1. User A uses a REBOL client to send a list of shared files to a POP
>address, including an authentication code.
>
>2. A server running a REBOL server checks the POP address periodically for
>new mail and downloads new mail.
>
>3. The REBOL server authenticates each e-mail and stores User A's list of
>shared files and User A's e-mail address in a database.
>
>4. Using a REBOL client, User B browses to
>www.sharemyfiles.com/rebolrocks.r and a REBOL-based CGI operation
>dynamically generates a page of links to shared files, which includes links
>to User A's files. The links to User A's files are a GET operation which
>include User A's e-mail address and the name of a shared file.
>
>5. User B clicks on a link to one of User A's files.
>
>6. The REBOL server generates an e-mail, sending it to User A including an
>authentication code, the name of the requested file, and User B's e-mail
>address.
>
>7. User A's REBOL client periodically checks its POP account for new mail
>and downloads any new mail.
>
>8. User A's REBOL client authenticates each e-mail and then generates an
>outgoing e-mail to User B including the attached file.
>
>Now the question is: does such a file-sharing model get around the legal
>improprieties brought to light in the Napster case? There is no continually
>active connection between User A and the server nor User B and the server.
>The server only posts a list of files another person says he or she would
>like to share and then sends an e-mail requesting the share. You could even
>have it so that when User A receives the request, he or she must click on a
>button that confirms the share.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Ryan C. Christiansen
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