You can help find the treatment for advanced stage Anthrax

Praetorian

Please donate your spare processor power here:

http://www.ud.com/cust_part/customers/anthrax_proj.htm

I'm running it on my Athlon 1800Xp it's honestly not noticeable...nothing slows down at all.

Same story on my 2nd pc an Athlon 900.

If you need 100% of your cpu cycles then you can easily just turn it off with two clicks. It automaticly runs again at your next reboot it resumes where it left off. Alternatively you can have it running just as your screensaver!

Intel are officially backing the project so I'm positive its legit

Boston

when an irish man dies from it, then ill care enough to run that program

PhilipMarlowe

Run their cancer one instead... & join the Boards.ie team
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scipio_major

Personally I'd prefer to go looking for aliens.

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Hobbes

Anthrax is only really lethal in military grade form.

I'd say stick with the Cancer one.

bonkey

Isnt this a commercial company, asking for free public donations to help it cut research costs for a commercial product to combat a disease which we're not likely to ever contract?

If you ask me, this is cashing in on the Sep 11 attacks.

If it was a generally prevalent disease they sought to combat (like the cancer research) I might be temoted, but not this.

jc

WhiteWashMan

this has been going on since before 9.11

amp

As Licksy said there's a boards.ie team already set up for this and it's been running for a good while, although it's only recently (and temporarily) switched from cancer to anthrax.

To join the team click:
http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=7B148F5C-3FAD-4BD1-AD50-24D74B6EA65F

You can opt out of the anthrax project and just do the cancer one.

To quote http://members.ud.com/projects/anthrax/


Also like the cancer research, this is a public good project—United Devices will not sell, retain rights to, or profit from the project results. Whatever results are uncovered will be made available to the United States government and other friendly governments, who can use them to further develop a drug therapy in a lab. The goal is to develop a drug that can be used in the advanced stages of the disease—currently anthrax can only be treated with antibiotics in its earliest stages.

Once completed, United Devices will return its focus to the cancer project. As per United Devices Member Policy, Members who want to commit their computing cycles exclusively to cancer research can do so.


I always find actually reading the website currently involved in a discussion most helpful.

Yeah and I know the "other friendly governments" is a little worrying but at the end of the day making Anthrax curable will save peoples lives and if the spare cpu cycles on my PC's contributes to that then well I personally don't care.

Besides even if they are riding the 9/11 hysteria, who cares? If they recruit more people through it then ultimately the cancer project will still benefit.

Yeah, searching for aliens is a great thing for the human race, what do we do when we find them? Think of the lag people, think of the lag!

Pinging alpha.centauri [31.216.169.82.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 31.216.169.82.1: bytes=32 time=330years TTL=109
Reply from 31.216.169.82.1: bytes=32 time=311years TTL=109
Reply from 31.216.169.82.1: bytes=32 time=300years TTL=109
Reply from 31.216.169.82.1: bytes=32 time=301years TTL=109

So join me and Licksy and Dev and the rest of the boards.ie team you whinging biyatchs. It won't slow your Q3/CS/donkey pr0n.

http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=7B148F5C-3FAD-4BD1-AD50-24D74B6EA65F

(Phew.... Humanities makes meh fingers hurt)

Hobbes

Actually there are people working on TCP/IP for connecting to other planets.

amp

I know. Stupid isn't it? What's the point in adapting tcp/ip to a network that would only conceivably be up and running in at best 20/30 years for mars/moon colonies that may never happen.

That said it'd be pretty cool to ping some deep space probe.

heh.. I said "ping some deep space probe"

Shinji

Heh, I got an email today congratulating me for hitting 500 units in SETI@home. I'd entirely forgotten that I still had it installed on all my colleagues machines in work

Typedef

I used to have about nine machines in gateway running the seti@home client. That was kind of cool all the same.

Ermm while we are on the subject does anyone have knowledge of a local proxy that will do ntlm proxy server authentication so that I can get UD or S@H running on my nt/linux box behind a ntlm challenge proxy?

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