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Distibuted computing a crime?

Yeah that's the old RC5-64 case. It made the news and rounds back when it happend. That's why you'll almost always see us say "make sure you have permission to run the clients on a network you don't own" Plus it's just being polite to ask. :)
 
As CIWS said, it's old news, but a good reminder.
Installations where you do not have permission can cause you a lot of trouble, and reflect badly on the team.
 
Anyone know how it turned out for the guy?

Not that it would matter....the rule of asking permission still applies regardless of the outcome.
 
relic said:
As CIWS said, it's old news, but a good reminder.
Installations where you do not have permission can cause you a lot of trouble, and reflect badly on the team.
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Even relic had to have "permission" this time ;)

Fold on dudes :D

BillR
 
BillR said:
Even relic had to have "permission" this time ;)
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What I needed was a locked, soundproofed room behind a steel door <wife-proof rating of 8 hours> with it's own AC unit.
(Cot and beer fridge optional)

Borging a LAN would have been less work. ;)
 
I'll attest to this... *cough* I once snuck distributed.net onto my school's network since I was a network admin as well as a student. Instant 400GHz computing power! It took around 8 months before someone noticed. They didn't know what it was though but I instantly sent out the failsafe network command to flush all buffers, shut it down and delete all traces of itself from the systems... It was a close call though. I know I shouldn't have done it but the temptation of 400GHz being on 24/7 at almost idle (the most it was used for was word processing and some limited web browsing by students) was too great.

Asking would have been the right thing to do... but honestly, put yourself in my shoes and think about what you would have done. I asked and was told no, so I sneakily slipped it into the ghost image. "sneakily" being relative... The other sysadmins all knew I was doing it and was aware of it; they ran their own distributed programs on the server machines. They didn't mind me doing it and gave me a hand, so long as if any trouble came from it then I would get all the blame.

But the penpushers in the office, they were the ones who didn't want the software on... I still don't know why - they said no because it would apparently use up too much bandwidth in the packet uploads/downloads. I calculated it would cost at max $10 a month which I would happily pay myself or even not have it connect to the server but to a proxy which I flushed daily from my home internet connection, but they still refused. :rolleyes:
 
Wow, I feel you're pain man. Tried getting the experts (we have 7 IT's) at my work, to look at folding as an option, at least during non-peak hours, and they flatly refused.Toured they're "system" last week. Holy crap, I have a faster rig with greater capacity and speed, than the company I work for. With a couple of configuration adjustments, My bedroom rigs would outperform a billion+ companie's server. That is just so wrong, on so many levels, I'm ashamed to work there.
 
It's how it goes...

I have 42 seats, 6 file servers all 48 at 3.0 or more, 1 866x2 server and three twin 2.4 servers where I work. I have 15 new 3.4's in storage...

I'm the assistant SA... I work for the Government... and i cannot run the application at work. Period.

However... I run it without fear if I'm specifically load testing a problem computer


Thats 211 Ghz and change You dont think thats tempting ?!?
 
They don't know what to do with the power, may as well use it for something useful :rolleyes:
. Get you'reself some points, and maybe save some of they're sorry butts in the process.

Vast majority of world's population would be incapable of showing you Task manager/processes, even if paid to do so. Borg the crap out of that system, and enjoy the points. I really gotta learn how to hide F@H , so as not to interfer with customer experience, I will get permission in every instance, but a well tuned system is barely aware of 100% cpu usage by F@H.
 
Leadman584 said:
They don't know what to do with the power, may as well use it for something useful :rolleyes:
. Get you'reself some points, and maybe save some of they're sorry butts in the process.

Vast majority of world's population would be incapable of showing you Task manager/processes, even if paid to do so. Borg the crap out of that system, and enjoy the points. I really gotta learn how to hide F@H , so as not to interfer with customer experience, I will get permission in every instance, but a well tuned system is barely aware of 100% cpu usage by F@H.
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read the FAQ's, they tell you how :)
 
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