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The SHREK@HOME thing, that is. Saw it again at boingboing this morning, while in Windows listening to Air America; can't get their stream to work with Real for Linux, for some reason. Installed the FightAIDS@Home client, the screensaver kicked in causing Windows to fall down go boom, and in disgust I went back to Linux. Which doesn't currently have a FightAIDS@Home client, so I tried installing the Windows one using Crossover Office, and. . . yeah.

Currently running Folding@Home instead:

Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

And having a look at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders, which isn't quite the same thing, except for the distributed model, if ya squint a little. . .

Anyway, if you're trapped in Windows, poor bastard, I'd suggest the program up top as a nice way for your computer to while away the cycles that you're not doing anything. But that's just me.

Readers are very, very strongly advised to refrain from mentioning S*T*@h*m* in comments.

No, those sorts of warning never work. . . take that shit someplace else, I know about it, I ain't interested, and my opinion of you will fall a wee bit if I find out you are. That clear enough?

Hell, given a choice between that and the Shrek thing, I'd go for the movie. . .

Luckily, it ain't between those two (the latter, in fact, is just an idle notion at the moment), and many, many more projects are listed at the Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects page.

Including that one thing you do not want to mention here.