From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ1KR-0006NZ-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:45:19 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (ldavis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5C5jJxm095306 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:45:19 GMT (envelope-from ldavis@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (ldavis@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i5C5jJDu095303 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:45:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: ldavis owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:45:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Luke Davis To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040612004035.GA2802@dalek> <20040612010523.GA31852@beavis.lkwnny.adelphia.net> Organization: "Tacticus Communications, Inc." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Computers don't make any sense X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:45:19 -0000 They've also got one working on the human genome project, and on cancer. I don't have the latter organization's name off the top of my head, but think the former is "folding at home". (This is if you want to use your extra cycles, for something to help the human race in the near future, instead of searching for an entity as devanced as us (who would still be using lightspeed EM for communications).) On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Setiathome is a program you run on your computer and it uses spare > clock cycles of your processor to process data record by an > astronomical telescope to help look for exterestrial intelligence. If > it is osmething you think you'd be interested in you could sign up and > run a daemon on your computer and you could collect the point/time for > yourself or for the speakup project we have one or as my project. If > you are interested check out http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- "For the last few years, he saw through a glass darkly; but now he sees his savior face to face." - G. W. Bush, about Ronald Reagan