Wednesday, November 03, 2004

When Cosine was young and stupid

OK, so a little over a year ago, when I started at my present job, I began using Standford's Folding project to stress test PC's at work. After a while I added folding to several work PC's in my rack full time, a bit after that I started adding it to every PC I could get my grubby hands on, soon it was on dozens... hundreds even. The way I saw it the folding was good cancer research, the folding was a background operation that would only run when the PC was idle and the whole thing was transparent and would never affect the end user in any way. Meanwhile my ranking grew and grew. Soon I was the fastest rising star on my folding team and was putting up some major production numbers.

Then I got caught.

Actually my bosses were pretty ok about it, they weren't happy that I had done it but figured that as long as I tracked down all the machines that were folding and removed the software and didn't do it again then no harm done.

So I have spent the past 8 months tracking down machines that are folding and removing the software, the reason I am writing this post now is that I have managed to track down every PC except one, one little PC somewhere around here is still folding it's little heart out and I cannot find it. It has become the bane of my existance, the thorn in my side, every PC I come accross at work I sit down at and check for the telltale signs but nope, nada, nothing, nil.

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