Use for an old laptop?

[GNEP]

I have an old P133 (80Mb RAM) laptop running win95 that I have just managed to resurrect.

It has no direct internet connection (I don't have a PCMICA ethernet card lying around, so have connected with DCC over a parallel (laplink) cable) - DCC has problems with TCP/IP in win95, and so it's filesharing only with a machine that's then got broadband from the router.

What distributing project might be suitable/best? (And of use to MURC)? The laptop doesn't meet the minimum requirements of distributedfolding, and nowhere near for climateprediction (my two other current projects) - SETI maybe (I think I have another machine elsewhere sitting crunching WUs for me) - but how does this work with no direct internet access?

Any other suggestions?

It's not quick, but it's better to use it than not and it can be on 24/7 unlike my other machines (noise).

Thanks

Gnep

[Guru]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26488&highlight=old+timers

[GNEP]

Interesting. Actually looking at my own username that I set up on another computer elsewhere, if I do SETI I may as well bung it on there - it's got to 78 WUs in a year so I might push it to 100 with the P133

Any tips on working completely offline (ie even for the install of SETI)?

Or any other projects?

[Guru]

Originally posted by GNEP

Any tips on working completely offline (ie even for the install of SETI)?

Or any other projects?

There are many programs that do that but personaly I use a .bat file for it and upload manualy!

:start
c:
cd\
cd seti@home
cd 01
seti -stop_after_process
cd..
cd 02
seti -stop_after_process
cd..
cd 03
seti -stop_after_process
cd..
cd 04
seti -stop_after_process
cd..
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seti -stop_after_process
cd..
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seti -stop_after_process
cd..
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seti -stop_after_process
goto start

[GNEP]

Thanks Guru. I'll see if I get a chance to give it a go.

[Jon P. Inghram]

You could try distributed.net too, it supports sneakernet and is happy to run a lower end systems.

[Guru]

Originally posted by GNEP
Thanks Guru. I'll see if I get a chance to give it a go.

Remeber to download the wu's seperatly the first time!

Oh and with an old P133 there is now use in having a 70 WU cache 5 should be enough!

[GNEP]

Actually for a laugh I just copied over a distributedfolding folder from the machine I recently moved to climateprediction - and it seems to run (slowly, but it's running, with net access turned off)...

I'll see how that goes for a day or 2.

Thanks for the tips though guys.

[Guru]

Remember to turn off the "use extra ram" switch since the laptop only haves 80MB RAM!

[GNEP]

Oh don't worry I did. It's now doing about 1 gen every 2 hours (do I get the record for having the slowest DF machine?)