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Well, I was fixing my roommate's laptop. He had over 40 trojans on it and rootkits and windows errors. Anyways, I fixed it, it's running really well now and somehow when I was about done my fingers slipped and I accidentally downloaded Folding@Home Console client, installed it as a service and set it up under my name. Mind you, my fingers just slipped, it just happened so fast. His laptop is dual core and he is my roommate and all he does is word processing and AIM. Should I leave it, or should I say that I forgot to do something and take it off or say that I forgot something and then put F@H on the other core, too using 70%.

Please Help!
 
Don't borg without asking. It's the right thing to do. Ask him. People usually agree.
 
just tell him that you put it on there and not to touch it....thats what i do

I call it force acceptance ;)

(but if he does say no, then it is over, or just try [H]arder ;))
 
Getting permission is the right thing to do, although you could play the "I fixed it, do this for me" card. Or just explain it to him outright, and maybe he'll come around to the cause. :)

 
Tell him the charge for doing the repairs is volunteer his spare CPU cycles for 1 month and watch the folding video.
 
[BRO]Alaskan said:
Tell him the charge for doing the repairs is volunteer his spare CPU cycles for 1 month and watch the folding video.
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I'll do that ;) Thanks.
 
No one has come out and said it straight, NO it is not the right thing to do. I'd tell him fast because he is going to find out when his laptop gets all hot and the fan spins up more. It's better if you tell him then when he looks in task manager and thinks F@H is another trojan eating 50% of each core.

 
No, he's dumb lol. He had 75 processes and still didn't know why his internet and computer were running so slowly. I told him that his computer was a zombie and was probably sending spam and DoSing sites.
 
Ask him before you even install - that's the rule of thumb here. Tell him now what you have done, and ask him if he does want to keep it running or not. Whatever he says - comply with that.
 
p[H]ant0m said:
Or just explain it to him outright, and maybe he'll come around to the cause. :)
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Didnt someone do this and it ended up his roommate bringing in more borgs?
 
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