[cobalt-users] Distributed.net client.

[Jeffrey Stein <jstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

For those of you that feel guilty 'wasting' your CPU cycles on your Cobalt 
products, I have a solution: Distributed.net! (www.distributed.net). It is 
a freely-available encryption key-cracking distributed computer program. 
See the web site for more detail. Basically it's a bunch of independent 
computers using their spare CPU cycles to compete in an encryption cracking 
challenge. Well, they have ported the client to MIPS/Linux-ELF. I just set 
it up and it seems to run fine on my Qube 2. From my experience the Qube 
2's speed is just like Cobalt says, equivalent to a ~200MHZ Pentium chip. 
If you're interested get the client from the dnet web site and follow the 
instructions. Installing on Linux isn't too hard, just remember to run 
'./dnetc' from the command line! I'm not affiliated with Dnet, but have the 
client on all my machines.

Regards,
Jeff Stein
jstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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