RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Darts

["Brent Deterding" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

hehe I wasn't the Seti guy - that was Byron. I took his idea and wrote scripts
to use distributed.net. Did some limited testing and they didn't work. Wrote
better scripts and tested them and they worked. Asked and was told maybe. Ran
them anyway and got caught not because they broke anything but because Greg
happened to stumble upon them running in the UNIX class.

What was funnier was that Greg was my boss at the time and I was the grader for
the UNIX class.

Ehh . . . I've done stupider things. I sure was stupid back then . . . live and
learn though.

-- Brent

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ryan Woodsmall
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:12 AM
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Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Darts


you don't have to petition for anything; all you have to do is ask.  it's
not like someone running, say, a completely unauthorized seti at home
client on all of our machines in the labs and then getting their account
turned off and the computer police knocking at their door.  i allowed
stephen to run the darts client on the linux machines in gcb because it
was interesting and he asked politely.  that's all you have to do: if you
have a distributed computing project that might be able to utilize some of
our underutilized lab machines, by all means, just ask.  the worst thing
we can  do is turn you down.  the only time i get worked up is when
someone *doesn't* ask...  then bad things happen.

        ryan woodsmall
            EMAIL:PROTECTED
            http://web.missouri.edu/~rbwa44

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Brent Deterding wrote:

> I would petition open systems to let you run a distributed client on their lab
> boxen next time around. Run it with a bunch o failsafes and only at night or
> something; there's a reasonable solution that makes everyone happy.
>
> -- Brent

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