I agree with Tony.   I ran the Distributed.net client for a while, but
didn't feel like I was working towards an achievable goal.   I like the
Mersenne Prime search and some of the mathematical searches out there
though.

Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Hammitt <thammitt@kc.rr.com>

> I'll admit that I have lots of spare CPU cycles, but I am completely
> uninterested in helping out on some silly 'crack this string' or
> 'find the aliens' project.  I wish they'd get their OGR project back
> to working status, that was at least useful.  I'm a mathematician,
> not a CS guy.  Maybe I don't have the long view but it just doesn't
> seem important to break someone's encryption and last I heard, SETI@home
> was over subscribed and couldn't generate enough data for all of their
> volunteers to check.
>
> Just my opinion,
>
> Tony Hammitt
>
>
> Randy Rathbun wrote:
> >
> > Just thought I would mention this since I know there are quite a few
new
> > people on the list since I mentioned it back in November:
> >
> > KCLUG has a distributed.net team chunking out RC5-64 keys at an average
> > rate of 2.4 million keys/sec. We are ranked 4827. However, there are
only
> > two of us on the team, so I think we are doing pretty darn good!
> >
> > So, if you would like to donate your spare CPU cycles to this effort,
grab
> > the dnet client and join Mac Wisler and I!
> >
> > To get the dnet client, go here:
> > http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html
> >
> > To join the team (or see our stats) go here:
> > http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=17572
> >
> > Yeah, it ain't as sexy as seti@home, but we have a better chance of
finding
> > the key than of finding life in the universe.
>