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[mj]

13th Labour Client: We Need You!

[ChalcoDoror]

Hmmm Your link leads to a blank page

[Muffin]

10 'Diggs' so far - and one of those by the suspiciously named 'danhon'!

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[Fuseunderground]

Just to note to anyone who hasn't been running the client before:

The client is extremely stable,
and can be easily started and stop should the need arise.

There are several optimisation methods
for various platforms described in the main thread.

So far we have 505 clients active, encourage everone you know to join in.

[Brian Morton]

I'd love to help but I am really computer ignorant. After I download the file to my computer does the number crunching happen while I'm logged off or are there certain hours that it runs on i.e. the middle of the night? Also, how do I report results of the computing? I'll give it a try anyway but I just want to be as efficient as possible. Any info would be great.
Bring down the Bourgeoisie of the 13th labour!
Brian

[mac_monkey]

[Scott]

The application is as simple as applications come. point and click and off it goes.

The only time you ever need to touch it or do anything exotic is the fFirst time you start it up, when you will need to give an email address and a username. fFrom there on, it works entirely on its own.

Sometimes it may report network congestion; that's ok, it will keep trying to connect to the mothership.

You really need not know anything at all about decryption. We're simply using your extra power cycles to run something neat.

Sample output looks something like this:

[Brian Morton]

Thanks for the info I'll install it right away and help out right after work. Excuse my stupidity on computing if it's not Word Perfect of a video game I'm lost, but Perplex City is changing that albiet me being a poor student.
Thanks again. You guys are cooler than the other side of my pillow!
Brian

[cruse4]

Scott - I'm not getting that code message you posted.

I'm getting something like this:

[--------------PROGRESS------------------]
[...................


every so often another dot will be added and the line of dots is ended with a flashing hyphen...and that's it...

am i doing something wrong?

[Fuseunderground]

[mj]

That's correct - I think Scott was refering to an older version of the client. With the latest version you'll get something like:

[cruse4]

ok cool.

I'm guessing i need to be online to do this...bit of a problem seeing as i'm going away for two weeks tomorrow and i'm not going to have internet access on my laptop for that time...

Still, every little helps, eh...

Now, all i need is a 13th Labour card...anyone?


EDIT: I'm doing one unit roughly every 15-20mins, is that fast enough?

[Rand0m]

[mac_monkey]

Yes you will need internet access and the client will just wait there until you reconnect- but it won't process any more Work units.

So for this reason it has been requested that Chimera adds a bit on to the client so it has a buffer of Work units to proccess while it's waiting to send the other one back..I think it's not on high priority at the moment though.