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How to help others when you're not using your computer

kosstr12 @kosstr12 (245) • United States 28 Mar 11

Let's face it, most of the time when leave for work or school in the morning, we forget to turn off our computers. The only thing their doing all day is using power, and checking for updates from Microsoft every once in a while....

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distributed computing

get paid for idle computer time

get paid for processing

wasted computer

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Locking a computer

TheNightFox @TheNightFox (235) • New Zealand 16 Nov 09

I run a program on my computer most of the time, BOINC. My computer turns on at 2am (long story) and automatically runs BOINC. Problem is, I want to be able to lock my computer and have it continue running. However, if I add a...

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Distributed Computing

thundercat @thundercat (505) • United States 15 Dec 06

Join the BOINC community boinc.berkeley.edu. Download the software then sign up for projects and put your computer down time to helping find cures for disease, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, modeling climate change,...