A geek need!

[Andrew_C]

Re SETI. Didn't someone get fined $billions for installing is on a school network? Just a thought...

[SYNACK]

Re SETI. Didn't someone get fined $billions for installing is on a school network? Just a thought...

 

That was an american school district and it was running over thousands of computers possibly without permission. Its difficult to know the exact details though as everyone seemed to be looking for a scapegoat.

FAQ and comments about the Higley School District controversy

Edited March 31, 2011 by ZeroHour

[Rydra]

WTB: Job that pays me $1.6m to uninstall Seti@home from 5,000 computers...

 

(yes i know that their reporting on this subject doesn't necessarily say that, but it's funny to assume it does, and it's just as likely as half of the rest of the things they are claiming!)

 

lets see, say 10 minutes work per machine, 50 machines per day... 100 days work, that's 20 working weeks...4 months give or take a bit for a single person to uninstall it one machine at a time, and that's being lazy.

A cheap/reliable IT contract worker is about £10 ph or about £100 per day. So cost just to pay someone to uninstall it all manually is gonna be £10,000, which i think is about 15,000 dollars at current exchange.

[Guest theeldergeek]

Spotlight on Windows looks incredibly cool. Pretty graphs, spining data wheels, pulsing usage points all you could need! oh and freeware!

 

Shame the licence expires after a year; wonder what that's all about? Oddly enough, if you go to their UK web site, it isn't listed as available?

[glennda]

How about top in terminal on a linux box (or putty to a linux box) makes anybody that sees the one on my screen monitoring the virtual hosts ocasionaly think its really geeky!

[Guest theeldergeek]

How about top in terminal on a linux box (or putty to a linux box) makes anybody that sees the one on my screen monitoring the virtual hosts ocasionaly think its really geeky!

 

Regretfully, no Linux boxes into which I can any of the above.

[glennda]

vm? just to look geeky! there has to be a really old machine hiding n a cuboard somewhere which can be installed with it then burried somewhere at the far back corner of a cuboard!

[Guest theeldergeek]

vm? just to look geeky! there has to be a really old machine hiding n a cuboard somewhere which can be installed with it then burried somewhere at the far back corner of a cuboard!

 

With the budget we can anticipate over the coming months, we'll be rejuvinating anything with a CPU and RAM in it, bunging Windows98 SE on and shunting them back out to classrooms - nothing will be going spare!

[TwoZeroAlpha]

Just knocked up this, so download and install python (if you haven't got it already) and paste this

 

loop=1
import random
while loop==1:
   foo=random.randint(0,2345674323)
   print foo,

 

into a new file and run it.

[Pyroman]

have downloaded and installed python, pasted the script into the IDLE, how to you get it to run?

 

Complete newbie!

[TwoZeroAlpha]

In the IDLE, click "File > New window"

 

Paste the script there and hit F5

[TechMonkey]

Shame the licence expires after a year; wonder what that's all about? Oddly enough, if you go to their UK web site, it isn't listed as available?

 

Probably like free AVs, keeps an eye on who is using with the possibility of turning them into a paying customers. After the year just renew.

[Domino]

vm? just to look geeky! there has to be a really old machine hiding n a cuboard somewhere which can be installed with it then burried somewhere at the far back corner of a cuboard!

 

Surely a copy of VirtualBox running locally is less labour intensive than setting up a physical machine!

 

free, and less power intensive too...

[LeMarchand]

Been looking for something similar myself. The best i could find was a screensaver that is a bit fugly.

 

Thinking about looking at Rainmeter/skins.